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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we are on the last day of 24 episodes straight of reading the entire Gospel of Luke. We're on Luke chapter 24 today. Congratulations to everyone who has read the entire Gospel of Luke with us. It's been a powerful, amazing time. I can't wait. to sum up the series.

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And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, these men said to them, why do you seek the living among the dead? He's not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you while he was still in Galilee that the son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.

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And they remembered his words and returning from the tomb, they told all these things to the 11 and to all the rest. Now, this is powerful. If Jesus had simply died and didn't resurrect, then there would be no power in Christ. But the fact that he raised from the dead and defeated death means that in him, we too can defeat eternal death and separation from him and have forgiveness for our sins.

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Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary and the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles. But these words seemed to them an idle tale. They did not believe them. So the women came back and were like, you guys will not believe what just happened to us. We saw two angels and they told us that Jesus had resurrected.

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And we remembered that Jesus had told us this, but we didn't remember it. But then we did remember it when he told us. You can't believe it. He's alive. And they're all like, you're kidding me. That's not true. And so they didn't believe him. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb, stooping and looking in. He saw the linen clothes by themselves and went home marveling at what had happened.

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And then next week, we have for the next Monday, we're starting back on our same regular schedule every Monday episodes. And the last Monday of the year, we're ending it off with a powerful episode with Pastor Carl Lentz. It's been amazing. It was such a good episode. Can't wait for you guys to see it. But before we get into the episode today, guys, January 19th at 6 p.m.

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That very day, two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all the things that had happened. While they were still talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. So Jesus was amongst them, but they didn't recognize him.

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And he said to them, What is this conversation that you were holding with each other as you walk? And they stood still, looking sad. They were sad about the death of Jesus Christ. And one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days? And he said to them, What things?

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And they said to him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet, mighty indeed, and word before God and all the people. And now our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

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Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb earlier this morning. And they did not find his body. They came back saying that they had seen a vision of angels who had said he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.

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And he said to them, O foolish ones and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Like, dude, he's like, dude, are you guys kidding me? The prophets have been speaking about this, the death and resurrection of me. Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?

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And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. So he went back and talked about Moses and all the prophets that had talked about the Messiah dying and rising again. Keep in mind that their eyes were opened when they ate a meal. And he vanished from their sight.

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They said to each other, did not our hearts burn with us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened up to us the scriptures. And they rose at same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the 11 and those who were with them gathered together saying, the Lord has risen indeed and has appeared to Simon. Then they told what had happened on the road. Oh yeah, sorry, I lied. That is him.

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That is him. He had breakfast with them. He ate food with them and he revealed himself to Simon Peter. Sorry, I lied about that at the beginning. Sorry guys, I just now realized that I read it again. Sometimes you read something the second time and you're like, oh my gosh, it did say that. I apologize.

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Verse 36, as they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, peace to you. But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. Jesus comes in and says, hey guys, and they all get scared. So funny. And he said to them, why are you troubled and why do you doubt to rise in your heart? See my hands and my feet that it is I myself.

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Touch me and see for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. Jesus has risen in his physical body and says, look, here are the wounds to prove it. Put your hand in there and feel it. And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they still didn't believe him, he showed them his wounds in the flesh and they still do not believe him.

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And notice what I told you to remember earlier. So everything in the major and minor prophets and the Psalms have been talking about me. Verse 45, then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. Why is it that at the dinner table, Jesus opens their minds to scriptures?

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here in Los Angeles, we got our first ever live podcast show. It's going to be awesome. I want you guys there. Go get your tickets at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Come out, join us. It's going to be powerful. And let's dive into Luke chapter 24. Last episode, I was talking about, you know, Peter having an encounter with the resurrected Jesus here.

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I think the dinner table is such a powerful place to have conversations about Christ and salvation because it's such an intimate place. You don't just eat dinner with random people. The dinner table is an intimate place. You don't just invite random people into your home. The dinner table is an intimate place. And we're about to watch here. They're about to have Thanksgiving together.

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Not the literal holiday, but they're having joy and Thanksgiving together. Thanksgiving doesn't just have to be a holiday. All right. Thanksgiving can be a heart posture. Gratitude is our number one weapon against sin and temptation.

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Verse 45, then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures and said to them, thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead and that the repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all the nations beginning from Jerusalem.

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You are witnesses of these things and behold, I'm sending the promise of my father upon you, but stay in the city until you are clothed with power on from high. So he's saying, look, I'm going to send the Holy Spirit, the promise from the father to you. And then he says, but stay in the city until I give you that power, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is going to come onto them

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like power from on high. Verse 50 to close. And he led them out as far as Bethany and lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy and were continually in the temple blessing God. Guys, that is Luke, the entire gospel of Luke.

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If you guys want to continue on the story and you're left on a cliffhanger, go read Acts. Because Luke wrote Acts and it flows right into Acts. It's powerful. Guys, this 24 days has been incredible. It's been challenging for me. It has grown me. It's stretched me. So grateful. It's been amazing. Guys, I pray that this series has blessed you. I want you guys to come back to this every year.

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There will always be here. There's new mercies for us in Scripture every day. And if you don't take notes from the commentaries that we give, we literally read through it verse by verse. And our episodes on average are 10 to 12 minutes long. So if you just listen to one a day, you can read the whole Gospel of Luke every year. Before Christmas, it's here.

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Guys, come join us January 19th at the live podcast show in Los Angeles, 6 p.m. JesusInTheStreet.org slash tickets. Get your tickets. Come out. And guys, be ready for our weekly uploads once again on Mondays. Last Monday of the year, episode with Carl Lentz. It's going to be powerful. Guys, we got some insane guests coming on in 2025. It's going to be amazing, amazing, powerful conversations.

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I love you guys. Pray that this series encourages you guys. Bless you guys. And I'll see you guys next Monday for our episode with Carl Lentz. Love you guys.

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And to my knowledge, when I was reading it this morning, I didn't see it. Um, and that's okay. Basically what I was talking about last episode was that Jesus like tells Peter that he's going to deny him three times. Imagine Peter beating himself up after he denied Jesus three times. Right.

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And then there's this encounter we have in the gospels where we read that Peter meets with the resurrected Jesus and Jesus tells him exactly how he's going to die. Why would he do that? He told him exactly how he was died, how he was going to die to encourage them that he would endure till the end that he would endure till the end for him. Now, let's read Luke chapter 24.

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today, by the title of the episode, you know we're going to talk about, does Jesus really care about you? How do you know if God cares about you? There's millions of people, billions of people, so many people have existed before and will exist after you.

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And when I say those words out loud and I reflect on my life of when I sinned, it breaks my heart to think that every time I chose sin, I was basically looking God dead in the eyes. I said, you're dead to me. That's what the son does to the father. He's looking at him and says, give me what's mine because I want this now before you die because you're dead to me and I can live this on my own.

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But let's read through each of these parables and we're going to explain them. We're going to go through them one at a time. It's going to be great. Luke 15 verse 1. Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them. All right, time out, time out.

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This son is motivated by foolishness and greed, often what people are motivated by today. It tells us what happens to him. He says he lost it all. Lost it all. Blew it on prostitutes. Blew it on food. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in the country and he began to be in need.

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Verse 15, so he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. Now this is important. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate and no one gave him anything. Are you kidding me? If you're a Jew listening to this or you're not a Jew, let me put this into perspective. Pigs are considered unclean in Jewish culture.

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And this Jew got so desperate. He was desperate enough to eat with the things that were deemed unclean in society because he was so desperate for food. Is that not crazy? He said, man, my culture, these pigs, I know they're unclean, but I'm so desperate to eat. I'm so desperate for food. I'm so desperate for help.

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I'm willing to be considered unclean for the sake of food, to quench my hunger, to quench my thirst. Here's what happens. And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

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And the son said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, bring quickly the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring the fattened calf and kill it and let us eat and celebrate for this. My son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.

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That's where we'll stop in the passage for today. But I really want to hone in on what's happening here. If you guys listened to the last episode with Judah, you know, he talked about this. And I can't get over this speech that the son has prepared. This is how he says, you know what?

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I'm so lost, but my dad, he goes, okay, my dad has these workers, and they're better off than I am, so I'm going to go to my dad, not to be his son, but to be a slave. I'm going to work for him. And so he creates this speech. Dad, I've sinned against you, whatever, whatever, just let me work for you. Is that not what society tells us to do today? Okay?

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Oh, you've wronged me work to give me your love work. And then I'll give you this work for this work for that work for this.

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And we live in this, we live in this world of a math equation where all of our love, which should be unconditional, which, you know, shouldn't be based on favoritism, which shouldn't be shown in partiality, which shouldn't be shown in conditions is because that's what society teaches us. And so when we look at the story, what Judah described as worthy world, let me work for my worth.

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The Bible is telling us that we operate out of a place of grace, what Judah called a grace land. And this rocked my world, man. It's like for some reason when we screw up, we still try to build our tower of Babel to God. And God says, look, look, look, to get to me, I've done the work. I've done the work on the cross to get to me.

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We got already in this book right now three types of sinners that have been described, all right? You got the rich sinners. You got the tax collectors, all right? These guys were like the Jewish tax collectors were people who would go to their own people. Imagine Rome, the government of Rome, would hire out these tax collectors, right?

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Your repentance, your obedience should all be a byproduct of your love for what I've done for you. And so when the son is coming home, now think about this. Established men never ran. The father runs to the son. He runs and meets him down there. Now think about this. This is how I view it. The father always looking down every day, maybe wondering where his son's at.

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You know what we oftentimes think is like when we're screwing up and we're making stupid decisions and we're rebelled against God, we think that God wants nothing to do with us. That's what our sin convinces. Our sin convinces us that God wants nothing to do with us. But in reality, the father is constantly checking out the window. Where's my son at? I miss my son. Is he here?

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And then he sees someone walking. So he runs and he runs down there and it wasn't his son. It was just a servant coming back. And so he turns around and walks back. And finally he looks and he sees the son and he notices that his son, because he's limp in that certain way his son used to walk. So he runs and he sprints. And I love the verbiage. It says, the father saw him and felt compassion.

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What is compassion? Compassion is putting yourself in the place of someone else, feeling what they've experienced and having a sense of love and grace for them. The father had compassion on the son. It was like, man, I just love my son. And so he goes out there and embraces him. And look, the son gives his whole speech.

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And do you notice that the father doesn't even acknowledge a single word he says? The son creates this lofty speech thinking that it was going to fix the father's perspective of him. And the father doesn't even listen to a single word of what he says. He just says, look, bring the best robe and put it on him. Do you know what the robe that he was bringing? He was bringing the father's robe.

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The best robe was the robe that the father wore. Brought that and gave it to him. When we're drowning and clothed in our sin, the father gives us his robe. His robe is righteousness, changes our identity, changes who we are. put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and brought the fattened calf and killed it and let us eat and celebrate it.

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This is my point when I share these parables with you and this is my point. It's crazy how we forget the words of Christ and we listen to what social media says sometimes and we listen to what sometimes our family and friends say or what society says and we lose all sight of how valuable we are. When I was 17 years old, I planned on taking my life because I thought my life wasn't valuable anymore.

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I thought my life wasn't valuable enough to take my life. I had depression and anxiety and I thought, man, I'm not going to push through the depression and anxiety because my life isn't valuable. And the music I was listening to and the movies I would watch and the stuff I would read on social media and the comments and all the bullies at school, you know, all these things.

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And these tax collectors would be Jewish people amongst the Jews. And they would say, hey, listen, look, you got to go collect these fees, but overcharge the fee. And whatever you overcharge, the amount that you add on to the actual fee, that's going to be your salary. And so that's why these guys were rich sinners was because they would take more than they needed.

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They would tell me who I was and I allowed it. And I thought I wasn't valuable. And then I read the words of Christ, who I believe is God, perfect, almighty, powerful. He says, Bryce, I think you're valuable enough to give my own life for. You know what society told me I was valuable enough for? Their own gain.

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Society told me I was only valuable if I gave them what they needed and then they would leave me in the dust. The bullies at school, I was only valuable to them if they were going through a life crisis and then once I gave them the answer to their problems and they would go back and start bullying me again.

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Or your depression and anxiety will make you reflect on your self-image and say, man, you're worthless, you're pointless, you're a piece of junk, you're a piece of crap, you're awful. Shame and guilt will make you want to hide and isolate and tell you that your life is worth nothing but dirt. And Christ says, no, no, no. I wish you could see how I see you.

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I wish you could see the love that I have for you. I wish you could see how it breaks my heart when you turn from me. Jesus tells us this. And I wish that you would just come home sometimes and live in this place of love. Because my son, my daughter, like if you could live in this place of love for Christ, then you wouldn't do these things anymore. And if you did do them, like there's grace.

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Are you valuable in God's eyes? Absolutely. Will you ever stop being valuable in his eyes? No. How do I know I'm valuable? I'm made on a purpose, on purpose, for a purpose. Yeah, but what does that even mean? Christ wanted you to live so bad. He laid his own life down. He took his own life for you. He yielded his life on the cross for you. Punishment.

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I just pray that these words marinate in your heart. Christ thinks you're valuable enough to lay his own life for you. We're valuable in his eyes. And we need to rely on him. Jesus, I just pray that you use this episode to touch our hearts, mend our hearts. Use us mightily, God. Thank you for who you are and what you're doing in our lives. God, use this episode. Minister our hearts.

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We thank you for who you are on the cross. We love you, Jesus. Bless you. It's in your name we pray. Guys, thank you so much for watching and tuning into these episodes. Guys, if you love watching and listening to these episodes, aside from following us along on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, I want to ask you guys, would you guys consider partnering with our ministry financially?

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And they were taken from their own people because Rome was hiring out Jews to take money from Jews for the government. It was crazy. So you got the rich sinners. Then he says you got the tax collectors and the sinners. Then he says you got the good old-fashioned sinners. And back in this time period, they would call them the Torah defilers, the guys that went totally against the law.

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Should I partner with them in prayer? Should I partner with them in finances? Should I partner with them in support? Whatever it may be, pray and ask God, how should I support Jesus in the street ministry? Love you guys. See you guys next week for the next episode.

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How do you know that you're valuable and God cares about you? We're going to talk about that, guys. We're going to be in Luke chapter 15 today. It's going to be amazing. And listen, the hard posture behind this was I started getting plugged into a church back in my hometown in Georgia. And Pastor James is just amazing. I want to have him on the podcast one day.

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And then you have the third people group. You have the self-righteous sinners. And the self-righteous sinners might actually be the worst one. Like when you think you know it all, you've already lost. When you think you're perfect in everything and you got it and you know it all, you've already lost.

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It's like the tiniest ounce of wisdom will make your head big and then you realize that you don't actually know anything when you learn that there's more. Does that kind of make sense? Like these guys were the self-righteous sinners. And they make a statement. They say, this man receives sinners and eats with them.

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Now, we may think that that's a stupid statement, but you have to understand the perception that the Jews had of the Messiah, what they thought at least.

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I mean, these Pharisees, they thought that the Messiah was going to be this holy, righteous, amazing person that came from a rich family, that came from a royal background, that was going to bring this government that was going to overthrow Rome, okay?

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And so when they look at someone that claims to be the Messiah hanging out with people that they don't think the Messiah would hang out with, that's why they make this statement. So sometimes we can look at a statement that the Pharisees make, like, this man received sinners and eats with them. And we go, oh, these guys are stupid. We make fun of the Pharisees and the Sadducees now.

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But back in this time period, it was kind of a valid statement to make. to say this man receives sinners and eats with them, how can he be the Messiah? How could this be so? Because they thought that Messiah was going to be someone who wouldn't even tolerate sin at all.

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They think that because Jesus is hanging out with the sinners and tax collectors that he's tolerating sin when in reality, how can sinners come out of their lifestyle of sin if we don't meet them where they're at? And this is what Jesus is about to tell them. He told them this parable. What man of you, having a hundred sheep,

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if he has lost one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open country and go after the one that is lost until he finds it. And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors saying to them, rejoice with me for I have found my sheep that was lost.

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Just so I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who need repentance. Okay, what is going on here? Jesus gives a picture, okay? Shepherd and sheep. He says, there's a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray. And if you think about it, if you're in a room of a hundred people, right?

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And one person leaves, you would probably count the cost. You probably wouldn't even realize that one person had left if you're in a room with a hundred people. You see what I'm saying? But in the story, Jesus says, no, the shepherd recognizes that one of his hundred sheep have gone missing. And he says, now look, most people would say, I'm going to count the cost and let that one go.

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But no, Jesus said, no, the shepherd in this story, he has to go get the sheep. And he goes all throughout the countryside and waters and this and that, and he finds the sheep. And when he finds the sheep, he doesn't scold the sheep. He doesn't yell at the sheep. He doesn't curse at the sheep.

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And man, Pastor James, when we did this series, this little series on Luke 15 at church, it rocked my world so much that this has been a passage that I continually go back on, reflect on, that I love talking about. And so today we're going to share it with you guys as well. So Luke chapter 15. Does God really care about you? Let's talk about it.

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He grabs the sheep of joy, puts it over his shoulders, comes back and rejoices for he has found the lost sheep. Now there's a couple of things we need to learn from the story, okay? Number one. We are the sheep. Jesus is the good shepherd, okay? And this is the second point we have to learn from this. Sheep are stupid, man. Sheep are the dumbest animals on the planet, all right?

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If sheep don't have a guide, they wander astray. They will get killed by animals. They will fall off cliffs. They will wander out. They will wander away from the pack so fast and not realize that they're wandering off and not realize the stupid decisions that they're making before they know what they'll die. And you know what happens when a sheep gets hunted by a wolf? They don't run away.

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They lock up, freeze and fall over. Okay. So it is no good business for a sheep to be wandering astray without a shepherd. And you know what happens like when we wander away, we don't let Jesus become our shepherd, but we allow other things to become our shepherd. So let me give you an example. It's, oh man, I don't feel God today. So God, you're not my shepherd.

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I'm going to let Netflix be my shepherd. I'm going to let social media be my shepherd. Oh man, I'm going to let money be my shepherd. In reality, we're just wandering off when we think we're giving these things control, allowing these things to guide us. But no, we're wandering off and these things don't satisfy and fulfill us and they lead us down a bad hole. Oh, more money.

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If I got more money, I'm going to be happier. Lie. If I'm going to have sex with all these people, I'm going to be happier. Lie. If I'm going to eat all this food, maybe it'll numb the pain. Lie. If I watch enough social media videos that are distracting my brain. Lie. You have to keep going back to these things and it leads you astray.

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And to recognize that we're stupid allows us to come to ourselves and say, I need someone outside of myself to help me. That's the purpose of the good shepherd. Jesus Christ is the good shepherd. And he says, I am the good shepherd. Let me guide your life. Let me guide your path. Let me teach you and show you the way. Because when we lean on our own understanding, we wander away.

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Proverbs says, there's a way that seems right to a man, but in the end, it leads to death. The way that seems right to a man means, let me go out of my own strength. Let me do things my way. And we wander off and we die. But Jesus Christ says, let me be your good shepherd.

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And Psalm 23 reminds us that even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, what happens when we have the good shepherd by our side? We fear no evil for he is with us. And then it says his rod and his staff, it comforts us. It means when we're leaning astray, but Christ is our good shepherd. He uses his staff. He doesn't beat us with the staff. He gently corrects us back in line.

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It's a powerful thing. So it's kind of like a funny jab that Jesus says when he's like, they're sheep, sheep are stupid. He's like, we're stupid without him. And here's the other part that we can recognize. He shows the 99 how important one is. You're valuable. Does Jesus care about you? Yes, you're valuable because the shepherd is willing to risk the 99, leaving the 99 just to come after you.

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And that's the perspective of Christ. If every human being in this world was perfect except you, and you were wretched and sinful and wicked, Jesus Christ would still come and live in this world and die for you, just for you. He would allow his sacrifice to be made just for you because you're valuable. So here's what we can learn for the first parable, right?

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We need to draw near to Jesus because we are the lost sheep and he is the good shepherd. When we draw near to him, we tend to live this life of change and live this life of righteousness and live this life of holiness for him. And here's another thing I want to point out. Verse 7, to close out that parable.

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Just so I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who need no repentance. He's calling them out. He's saying, you guys think you're good because you followed the law. The law, obedience to the law should be a byproduct of your love for me is what Jesus is saying.

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And there's gonna be three types of parables in Luke chapter 15. Parable of the lost sheep, parable of the lost coin, parable of the prodigal son. You guys might be familiar with them or may not. Don't wanna assume things, but here's the reality of parables. What is the purpose of a parable? You guys know, I've talked about this multiple times, but a parable is a sifting mechanism, okay?

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He said, you could be a good person on paper, but not turning away from sin. And what is repentance? Repentance is a change of mind that leads to a change of direction, a change of decision, a change of lifestyle. Okay, so he's saying there should be an outward expression of what God's doing in your heart.

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Like a repentance of turning from our ways, turning from our sin, a turn of direction, a change of mind that leads to a change of direction is a cause and an overflow of what God has done in our heart of faith and trust in him. Jesus is the good shepherd. We should draw near to the good shepherd. My favorite parable out of all these three might be this next one, okay?

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Verse eight, parable of the lost coin. Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.

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Just so I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. We can read this parable and recognize that Jesus looked for me and you because he thought we were valuable. Let's put this into perspective, okay? These 10 coins in the story, all right? What does it mean? One coin would be considered a day's wage, okay?

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Now, I'm from Georgia, and in North Georgia, the average salary per year is around $70-something thousand dollars, okay, in Northwest Georgia, okay? So a day pay would be like $200-something dollars a day. Now, imagine you lose $200-something dollars like that, boom, okay? Let me put it in more of a perspective. You lose your wallet. You lose your phone. You lose your keys.

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I know dang well if you lose your wallet, phone, keys, you're going to be sweeping the house, throwing the couch cushions, pacing around frantically, and you're not going to be doing it gently, all right? You're going to be frustrated. You're going to be saying some things. You're probably going to be using a little bit of extra language.

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You're going to be doing these things because you're frustrated and built up. You're trying to find your wallet because it's valuable. And then when you find it, it's, oh man, the sun really is out bright today. Oh, man, it's all sunshine and rainbows. It's like, no, we don't play it cool until we find it. I'll give you an example of my personal life. I had my wallet stolen about a month ago.

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Man, I did not handle that cool at all. I was not cool. I was frustrated. I was like, I got a flight today. He's got my ID. I don't really care about the money, but man, I got to find this wallet. And I got an air tag in and I spent two and a half hours tracking this wallet down. And you can ask my girlfriend. My girlfriend was with me and I was not handling it. I was freaking out. I was stressed.

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I was frustrated. I was upset at the guy that sold my wallet. And I found the wallet and when I confronted him, I got my wallet back and I got in the car and I literally go... Oh, man. And I acted like as if nothing had happened. And it was crazy because my girlfriend was like, what? She was like, we were just all so frustrated and flustered for two and a half hours.

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Then once you get it back, everything's calm and cool. And I say that to say that's what is being described in the story. This lady loses a day's wage. She's freaking out. She's trying to find this blah, blah, blah. This isn't that this is I'm finding it, finding it. And then she finds it. She goes, who rejoices. I found my lost coin. What can we know? We're valuable. There's a price on us.

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It's a sifting mechanism to see who really wants the benefits of the kingdom over the king and who really wants the king. Right? King Jesus. Do you want King Jesus or do you just want what he has to offer? And these parables were a sifting mechanism for Jesus to get his point across.

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Now, why are we valuable, okay? If you go to TJ Maxx, right? You're going to find a fur coat in TJ Maxx that is $19.99 that used to be on sale at Macy's for $100. Now, how did the Macy's $100 jacket get into TJ Maxx for $19.99? It's because people didn't think that jacket was valuable enough to pay $100 for.

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Basic economics says that the value of something is determined by the price you're willing to pay for it. And because people didn't think the jacket at Macy's was worth $100, it ended up being sold at TJ Maxx for $19.99. So what is the value that God puts on my life? His own life. God says that you're valuable enough to become a human and lay his own life down for you. That's powerful.

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The price God puts on you and me is his own life. Second point, we're made in the image of God. Now that may sound silly, all right? Some people don't understand that, but that means his imprint is put on you. He has made you on purpose for a purpose. So you might say, well, my parents didn't mean to have me. I was an accident or I was put up for adoption.

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So no one really cares about me and loves me. And just because my circumstances, listen, listen, listen, let's scratch that out. Like I understand it's heavy and you know, the things like that. But just because your circumstances may say you're an accident doesn't mean you are an accident.

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Because if you have breath inside of your lungs and you're listening or watching this, you were made on purpose for a purpose. You're valuable. And the value God places on your life is his own life. He says, man, I love my son and my daughter so much. I want to be with them and have friendship with them so much. I'm going to become a human. I'm going to live a perfect life in this wretched world.

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And I'm going to take on a death that you deserve for my son, for my daughter. And I'm going to stand on the cross, nails on my wrist, knowing that there might be a point where my son or daughter won't receive this sacrifice, but I'm going to do it anyway. Because I love my son, I love my daughter, and I want them to know that I care about them and the price I put on them is my own life.

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And the only way they can be set free from their sin is if I take it on myself. That's the price Christ puts on you, is his own life. If you're sitting here or listening to this and you're not valuable and down on yourself, I want you to look at the gospel. I mean, listen to these words. Christ values you enough to lay his own life down for you. That's why I love this parable.

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And for those that didn't want Jesus but wanted the benefits of Jesus, they ran away from the parables because they were like, this guy's a bozo. He doesn't know what he's talking about. But for those people that wanted to know more, they would go, hey Jesus, what did you mean when you said this? You can see an example of that in Mark chapter 4.

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He puts it into terms that society exalts right now, money, value. You want to know the value? There's no monetary value that can be put on you There's a value greater than money. There's a value more powerful than the amount on your bank account screen. It's a life. It's breath inside of your lungs because we only get one. And time flies like a vapor in the wind.

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And to know that God took his life and decided, what am I going to use with my own life? But to put it on the cross for you is powerful, man. That gets me fired up. You are valuable. What can we learn from the first two parables? We're stupid without God and we need him, but we're valuable in his eyes. Let's read the third parable. Prodigal son. And he said, there was a man who had two sons.

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And the younger of them said to his father, father, give me the share of property that is coming to me. And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into the far country. And there he squandered his property and reckless living. Okay, let's talk about this, all right?

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So father has a inheritance that he leaves to his children, leaves to his, that's something you do today. Like when people die, they leave money, they leave houses, they leave items, assets to people. Now imagine what's being said of this. You will receive an inheritance when someone important in your life passes away.

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So when the son comes to his living father and says, give me what's mine already, he's looking at the father and saying, you're dead to me. Do you know what happens when we choose sin over Christ? We're looking at God dead in the face and saying, you're dead to me.

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What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce and today by the title of the episode, you guys know we're going to be talking about how to overcome anxiety. This is something that's near dear to my heart and I want to share this before we get into this. This is the heart of every podcast episode we do, not just this one.

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Where am I going to go after I die? We're going to cover all of this. The first scripture I want to talk about right now is Proverbs 12, 25. where it's laid out pretty clear, anxiety weighs a man's heart down, but a good word makes him glad again. It is no doubt if you struggle with anxiety, I think we can all universally agree that it is wear and tear on your mental and physical.

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I mean, it is no doubt, it does something to you physically. When you're anxious, you don't wanna leave, you're worried, you're confused, you don't wanna make the wrong move, so it's like you just wanna stay in bed, you wanna rot, and it kinda can put you in a depressing mood, anxiety can, and then mentally, like it just drains you, man, you just get tired.

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Physically and mentally, and it's so draining. And Proverbs is right. Anxiety weighs a man's heart down. But I love the back half of this verse. It says, What could a good word be? There's no amount of self-help books that you can use to make your anxiety go away. There's no amount of alcohol that can numb the pain of your anxiety. There's no amount of drugs.

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I don't want you guys to ever think I'm preaching to you. Oftentimes the things I'm saying every time are stuff that I need to hear. So rather the podcast episodes, these are just an invite of things that the Lord is teaching me and things that I'm learning about myself and situations I'm going through. And so today we're going to be talking about anxiety.

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There's no amount of sex that can numb the pain of your anxiety. So what is the good word that's gonna make your heart glad again? The good word is the good news of the gospel.

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The fact that we have a suffering God that understands our anxiety, that understands our worry, because he lived in the sinful, wicked world that we did, except perfection humbled himself and became a human and lived a perfect life in this crazy, sinful, suffering, wicked world.

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And then he died on the cross, defeating our anxieties, defeating suffering, defeating worry, defeating sin, all on the cross. And then he resurrected. resurrected from the dead, defeating death, defeating sin, defeating suffering, defeating anxiety. The good word is that. It's the gospel. The gospel has this generational impact from old to new.

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It doesn't need to progress and adapt to society's culture, and it doesn't need to revert and retract or remove a little bit less. It has generational impact before us and after us to come. The gospel is good news every day. It's not something we listen to one time. We go, all right, I know this. I don't need it anymore. No, the gospel is good every day.

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And to be honest with you, the days that Bryce is having a sucky day, the days that Bryce is having anxiety creep on him, the days that Bryce sins the most, the days that Bryce is having a hard time is the days that Bryce doesn't preach the gospel to himself. I have to preach the gospel to myself every day. And this is a call to you. You've got to preach the gospel to yourself every day.

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The gospel is good news, and the gospel, love for Christ, love for what he did for us, should be our driving factor. Anxiety, fear about the outcome of something, fear that no one loves me, fear that I'm not valuable, fear that I'm going to do this, fear that this is going to happen to me, is all trumped by the fact that Christ handled it all.

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Anxiety directly correlated to fear, but this fear can be fizzled out when we know the truth of who Christ is and what he's done for us. It's powerful. And that directly correlates to 1 Peter 5 and Psalms 55, 22. What do both of these scriptures say in common? Cast your anxieties on the Lord. Cast your burdens on the Lord.

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What does it mean when the Bible says cast your anxieties and burdens on the Lord? It means give it to him. Here's a story from Luke chapter eight that I think correlates well with these verses. See, Jesus says to his disciples, hey guys, we're gonna go to the other side of this lake. They go, okay. They get on a boat. They start sailing to the other side and the storm arises. Jesus is asleep.

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This crazy storm arises. This is and that, blah, blah, blah. And they think that they're about to die and they wake up Jesus because they're like, dude, are you kidding me? You're asleep in the storm. What are you doing, Jesus? Do something, we're about to die. He gets up, he calms the storm and he looks at them and he says, why do you have little faith?

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Now, when we read this passage, we go, oh man, Luke chapter eight, man, why did Jesus, like, that's kind of insulting. Why did Jesus say, why do you guys have little faith? No, the reason he asked that question is at the very beginning, before they get on the boat, he tells them that they are going to the other side. He goes, hey, we're going to the other side.

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God set me free of crippling anxiety right when I was 17 years old, the moment I encountered the Lord. But I'd be lying to you if I told you that I don't have anxiety that creeps up on me. So we're going to look at scripture and what Jesus says about dealing with anxiety and look at a specific passage in the Bible where we see the disciples go through deep anxiety and what Jesus does about it.

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They get on the boat, the storm comes, and they're not even focused on the promise that Jesus has given them. They're focused on the storms and trials and the anxieties. I'm about to die. What's going on? And Jesus says, no, no, no. It doesn't matter how hard the storm gets. It doesn't matter how hard the trials get, how hard you suffer. If I've made you a promise, I'm going to fulfill it.

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I'm going to fulfill it. And so when the Bible tells us to cast our anxieties on God, Psalms 55, 22, cast our burdens on the Lord, it's saying give it to him because he's already handled it. God, thank you that you're a promise keeper. Thank you that you got this under control. And thank you that you answer my prayers and my situations, whether I like the answer or not. God, you've handled it.

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Thank you for who you are. Thank you for the cross. I love you, Jesus. That's what it means to cast your anxieties on him. Matthew 11, 28, Jesus says, come to me, all who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest. The reality of anxiety and pressure is that you were never meant to build the pressure. The reality of this is that you were never meant to handle the pressure and anxiety.

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So give it to him. Jesus' yoke is easy and light. That's the crazy thing is the yoke was a farming tool that you put on. It was like a heavy farming tool. And whenever you're trying to carry this anxiety, carry the burdens of your life, carry your sin, whatever it may be on your own, it weighs you down.

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But when it says take on the yoke of Christ, the yoke of Christ is actually removing the burden of anxiety and sin and suffering and giving it to him. That's the yoke of Christ. Putting on Christ's yoke is actually giving him all your junk. And that's what gives us rest, knowing that he's handled it.

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Knowing that he is a perfect almighty God that humbled himself and came down on this earth so that he could bear the burden because he did on the cross. And we got to give it to him. Why are we still carrying something that was killed on the cross? Why are we still carrying this junk that was killed on the cross and defeated when he was raised from the dead? Philippians 4, 6 through 7.

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I love this verse. We're going to break this down. Paul writes, now keep in mind where Paul is writing this from. Philippians is considered the book of joy, and he's writing this from prison, okay? He says this, do not be anxious about anything.

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in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to god stop right there before we read verse seven what is he saying he says do not be anxious about anything but in everything okay not just anxiety but with everything prayer and supplication there's a call for prayer and supplication and importance of this we made an episode on the power of prayer a while ago you guys can go check it out but not just for anxiety prayer praying to god and asking god to do something specific about your situation

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But specifically with anxiety, he's asking us to pray. Pray to God. Talk to an all-knowing God. There is an action step on us. Yes, God knows exactly what we're going through, but he wants us to go to him because it's personal and there's a relationship. Go to him. Pray to him. What does supplication mean? Supplication literally means to ask God to do something specific about your situation.

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God, I'm anxious about this. God, do something about it. I'm your child. You said you would take care of your children. Do something about my situation. And then the back half, with thanksgiving. When we make requests known to God, we do it without grumbling or moaning or complaining about our situation. Despite the outcome, whether it's what I want to hear or not, God, thank you for who you are.

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It's going to be super cool. I'm going to end the episode in a unique, different way, but I'm going to pray into the episode just asking God to move in our hearts today as we listen to it. So Jesus, thank you for today. Thank you for who you are. Thank you for the cross. God, thank you that. All of our anxieties and worries, you've handled it.

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Thank you for what you've done for me. Thank you for the cross and thank you that you've handled it. I love you, Jesus. Amen. Let your requests be made known to God. Then verse seven, this is what I love about it. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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Jesus Christ will give you a peace that does not make sense to your brain, but will totally flood your heart with love and peace and tranquility and contentment. The peace of Jesus Christ will totally offend your brain. It does not make sense to your brain. but it calms and soothes your heart and makes your heart glad. I have a deep fear of flying, okay? I hate flying. I have deep plane anxiety.

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Daniel, Josh, Dylan, they all make fun of me. They crack jokes at me because we fly all the time and I have deep fear and anxiety of planes. It's like the moment I get in the airport, the day before the flight, when I'm on the flight and I was flying back from North Carolina to LA with Daniel and And we were on the plane and we had really bad turbulence. And I'm not gonna lie, I was freaking out.

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I was gripping the seats on the handles. I got my eyes closed. I'm shaking a little bit. Maybe it might've shed a couple tears if I'm being completely vulnerable. And Daniel's cooling on the flight and I'm freaking out, all right? I'm freaking out. Now, why am I freaking out? It's because I'm afraid. I'm afraid of something that I can't control. I'm afraid of the outcome of the situation.

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And I'm talking to myself right now, like, man, Bryce, I really need to hear this. And then there was a moment on the plane There was no self-help book. There was no amount of facts. It was safer to fly in the air than it is to be on the highway. There was nothing that was helping me in my situation. And I literally go, I need my dad. I need my dad. I need my dad. God, I need you. God, I need you.

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God, I need you. And then all of a sudden I wasn't shaking and I wasn't gripping the thing and I was calm. And my tears went from tears of fear and sadness to tears of joy and gladness of Wow, God, thank you that in the middle of this thing that feels unconquerable, God, thank you that you give me this peace. And that was the moment. It was the peace that surpasses all understanding.

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The peace that just does not make sense to my brain because Bryce is deathly afraid of planes, but I'm super calm and composed, not out of my own strength, but I'm calm out of the strength of the Lord, knowing that despite the circumstance, I can't control it. God's got it under control. And God loves me and he'll give me a peace. And all I had to do was just call on to him. That's a crazy thing.

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It's like when we go through things and hard times or trials come, it's like, oh, let me call my friend or let me call my mentor or let me make a post on my private story on Snapchat about this to gossip about it. It's like we want to do everything first other than I need my dad. I really need my dad. When anxiety comes, like go to your dad, go to Jesus. God, I need you. God, this sucks right now.

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Do something about this. Man, this is awful. I mean, really, how many hours do you add on to your lifetime by worrying? You don't add any hours. It's like you lose time, you lose willpower, you lose strength. And the reality of it is there's no amount of worrying that will do anything about your situation. When are we going to understand that worrying doesn't do anything?

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Whether we like the outcome of it or not, you've handled everything. So God, thank you for that. We love you. Allow this episode to impact my heart and strength and my relationship with you alongside everybody else listening and watching. God, we love you. Thank you. Praise you. It's in your name we pray. Amen. Guys, we're going to read into the Bible about how to deal with anxiety.

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Like Bryce, when are you going to understand, Bryce, that worrying doesn't do anything about your situation? Oh, where am I going to go when I die? Christ has paid the price. It's in him that we find eternal life. What am I going to do about money this month? God takes care of his children. Don't be greedy. Just trust in him that he's got it. God, I'm losing my friends.

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What am I going to do about friends? Find friendship in me. God, God says find friendship in me. Look for friends that love me. Good company. I will give you new friends. I will mend your friendships. God, what do I do about my family? My family's broken. I can't do this. God, I got this for you, my child. I got you. That's why I want to close with Matthew chapter six. I'm not going to explain.

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I'm not going to break down what each word means and the Greek of this and that, whatever, like we did in Philippians. Instead of praying to close, I'm going to read this passage. And if you're watching this or listening to this, whatever you're doing, I want you to stop right now and let the words of Jesus Christ comfort you in the midst of your anxiety.

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Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life. what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on? Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

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And which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his life span? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

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But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what shall we wear? For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

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But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. To close this episode, I just want to say,

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But what exactly is anxiety? Anxiety is directly correlated to fear. And anxiety, I would describe it as the fear of an outcome of a situation, of a person, of something. So anxiety could be correlated with something like, I don't have money to pay my bill. Anxiety could be correlated with, what is this person going to say about me at school? Anxiety could be correlated with,

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For someone personally that has struggled anxiety for a long time and even had crippling anxiety for a portion of my life, I always thought God was mad at me when I was anxious. And so whenever I heard the words, don't be anxious, don't be anxious, I thought God was shunning me for being anxious. But God isn't mad at you when you're anxious.

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When Jesus says, don't be anxious, he's not shunning you or scolding you. He's actually saying, you don't have to be anxious. You don't have to worry. I've got this under control. So to you, my friend that struggles with anxiety, like you don't have to be anxious. You don't have to worry. Trust in the unwavering and the firm foundation of the words of Christ. He's got it under control.

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I love you guys. Pray this episode to encourage you guys. Be looking forward to next week's episode. We've got an amazing guest coming on. I love you guys. Subscribe to us. Follow us on everything Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Bryce Crawford Podcast. I love you guys. Pray this to encourage you guys. See you guys in the next episode.

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Luke Series Chapter 17 (EP 71)

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What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver podcast. I'm Bryce and today we are on Luke chapter 17 of the 24 day Luke series. Guys, we're getting so close to the end. I pray that this series has blessed you guys. It's been a blessing to me. I'm super excited about this chapter 17. It is so powerful. I'm really excited to dive into this with you guys.

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He's like, look, if you throw the hook in front of someone's face, fat rebuke, don't do that. Like, scold you. And then he says, it would be better for the person who leads someone into sin to literally tie a millstone, a heavy weight around their neck and then jump into deep waters and drown. It would be better for that person. Meaning like, meaning like judgment will come your way.

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Like it would be better for you to suffer an awful death, a very gruesome, awful death, than to lead one of the children of God into sin. That is a big weight in gravity Jesus gives here about sin. There's a heavy weight to sin. Then he says, pay attention to yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him. Meaning if you know someone that sins, correct him, correct him.

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And if he repents, forgive him. But if he turns from it, forgive him. That's so beautiful, meaning we don't hold grudges against people. There's grace. And repentance is actively changing a lifestyle. Like when we hear repentance, we often just hear, I'm sorry, Lord. But it's more than just an apology. Like there's action, turning from one lifestyle and going towards another.

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And Jesus is saying, look, if someone sins, correct them. But if they repent for it, forgive them. Don't hold it against them. And if he sins against you seven times in the day and turns to you seven times saying, I repent, you must forgive him. Meaning don't withhold forgiveness from people. And I mean, it's just a practical thing. It's like a health fact.

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Before we get into it, guys, January 19th, 6 p.m. in Los Angeles. We've got our first ever live podcast show. It's going to be insane. It's going to be powerful. I would love for you guys to come out, be a part of what we got going on. It's going to be exciting. Moses is going to be there. Moses, come here. Come here. My dog won't jump up.

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Like even if you withhold forgiveness for people and you hold bitterness in your heart, like it will kill you. Like it could stop your heart and you could have a stroke. So like the physical aspect of it is like, don't hold bitterness in your heart.

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But the spiritual aspect is like, man, offer forgiveness because the measure of mercy that we show to people, God will show that same measure of mercy to us. Let's go to verse five. The apostles then said to the Lord, increase our faith. The apostles recognized that they needed an increase in their faith. But he says something very important here.

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If you had faith like the grain of a mustard seed, the tiniest ounce of faith, you could say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea and it would obey you. Mulberry trees were recognized to be one of the strongest trees that they had some of the strongest, deepest roots that they could have been planted for 600 years. They could last. That was the rumor.

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And Jesus is saying here that if you have the tiniest ounce of faith, that the deepest sin struggle that seems to have the fattest root in your life could be immediately uprooted if you had just the tiniest ounce of faith. That if you had the tiniest ounce of faith, that the deepest trial and tribulation that you're going through that seems unmovable could be uprooted.

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And just like a mulberry tree that could be planted and lasted for 600 years, a generational curse that seems to have never left your generation. If you had a faith of a mustard seed, you could break that generational curse in your family.

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It's so powerful for what faith can do, and faith is persistently pursuing God despite our circumstances, saying, God, you know, my circumstances in this finite world says it's not possible, but you're a spiritual being that has no limit and ultimate authority. God, you can do it. You can do it. That's faith. That is faith. Verse seven, Jesus is about to talk about serving him here.

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And it's powerful because oftentimes people like to do things with a motive of getting things in return. But we're about to listen to this statement here from Jesus saying like, man, we're in an unmeasurable amount of debt to God in the sense that he's done something so grand for us that we will never ever be able to repay him with our actions.

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So our actions of servanthood isn't trying to get even with God because he died on a cross and resurrected. But our actions of servanthood towards him are, we do it because we want to, because we love him. We're not trying to get even with God. We just do things because we love him. Here we go.

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Will any one of you as a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, these hard tasks, manual labor, come at once and recline at the table? Will you not rather say to him, prepare supper for me and dress properly and serve me while I eat and drink and afterwards you will eat and drink? Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? So you also.

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The one time I called Moses to get up here, he doesn't come up here. But come on. Look at him. Come on. But then every time we're naturally filming, he'll jump in my lap without me wanting him here. Hey, there we go. There we go. Yeah, he'll be there. He'll be chilling because I feel like every podcast, he's always with me. So for the live podcast show, he's going to be in my lap.

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When you have done all that you were commanded, say, we are unworthy servants. We have only done what was our duty. Man, we will never be able to get even with what God has done for us. But the humility, there's humility in understanding, okay, Jesus Christ has done something that I couldn't even do for myself. So in return, I give him my life. In return, I serve him because I love him.

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His unmeasurable amount of love for me has caused me to love him back with my life. caused me to love him back with my life. Verse 11. On the way to Jerusalem, he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by 10 lepers who stood at a distance.

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Notice that lepers were outcasts of the city, so they were out of the city, but they would often congregate together because no one else would hang out with them, but they could hang out with each other because they were deemed unclean. And lifted up their voices saying, Jesus, master, have mercy on us. When he saw them, he said to them, go and show yourselves to the priests.

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Now, with faith comes obedience. Jesus is testing their obedience here. And he says, go see the priest. And as they went, they were cleansed. So Jesus healed them. But he said, look, go show yourself to the priest. If you go show yourself to the priest, you'll be healed. And they did. And as they went, they were cleansed. Then one of them,

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When he saw that he was healed, he turned back, praising God with a loud voice, and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, Were not ten of you cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found in return to give praise to God except for this foreigner, this only one returned to give me praise? And he said to him, Rise and go your way.

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Your faith is what made you well. Jesus is recognizing a lack of gratitude that people often have towards him. How often do we say, God, just do this thing for me. And then once you do it, then I'll love you. Then I'll serve you. And then he does it. And then we still don't love him or serve him. We have a lack of gratitude in our lives.

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Yet if we understood that gratitude is the number one weapon against temptation, because if we were constantly grateful, we wouldn't be turning to other things than Jesus. And Jesus is saying, stop, like understand that every good gift that comes from heaven comes from me, like be grateful. Understand that I am the reason for good gifts. Be grateful.

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Verse 20, now we're about to read about the coming of the kingdom of God, and we're going to close here in chapter 17, starting in verse 20. Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, the kingdom of God is not coming in the ways that can be observed, nor will they say, look, here it is, or there, for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.

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When Jesus said the kingdom of God is in the midst of you, he's saying the king was among them. He is the king. He's amongst them. And he said to the disciples, the days are coming. when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see him. He's saying that people are longing to see Christ return for the second time. They will say, do you look there or look here?

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It's going to be awesome. But anyways, let's dive into chapter 17. This is so powerful and I'm super excited to read this. Let's start in verse one. It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. Jesus is saying something very important here.

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Do not go out or follow them. People that say, here's the date and the hour that Jesus is going to return a second time, don't listen to them. Because the Bible teaches us that even the Son of God, Jesus Christ, doesn't even know he's going to return. Only the Father does. For as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

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But first, he must suffer things and be rejected by this generation. So the first time Jesus came, he came in humility and submission to the will of the Father. The second time Jesus is going to return, he's going to return in glory and in power. to cast judgment over the earth. Because there's this curse in the earth called sin, there needs to be a great judgment for justice to be served.

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Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage until the day when Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. It's just going to be like normal. He's just going to return. Like we're not going to know. He's just going to return.

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There's going to be signs, but he's going to come like a thief of the night. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planning and building. But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all. So it will be on the day when the son of man is revealed.

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On that day, let the one who was on the housetop with his goods in the house not come down to take them away. And likewise, that the one who was in the field not, turn back. He's saying, man, don't try to save your possessions, your earthly possessions. Don't store your treasures on earth. Find your treasure in Christ. Find your satisfaction, significance, and security in Christ.

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Remember Lot's wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken in the other left. There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken in the other left. This is a reference back to what he said in Matthew. And he said to them, where's the Lord?

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And he said to them, where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. That statement's intense. Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. He's just saying when the judgment is ripe, it will come. Jesus gives a firm warning about the end times, saying, look, I'm going to come when it's least expected.

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So every day we should live a life in full submission to Christ's Lordship in preparation for his return. It will be a joyous thing when Christ returns and gives judgment on all the earth, serving justice, and we get you reunited with him. Guys, I pray Luke chapter 17 was incredible. I love you guys. Guys, go get your live podcast show tickets, jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. I love you guys.

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See you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 18.

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He's like, temptations to sin will always be there. Notice how he doesn't say you're always going to sin 24-7, meaning that when temptation is thrown in front of your face, there's nothing you can do about it. He doesn't say that. But he says temptations will always come your way. But then he rebukes the one who sets the hook.

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Luke Series Chapter 10 (EP 64)

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we're on Luke Chapter 10 of the Luke Christmas Challenge Series. Guys, thank you guys so much for following along. And listen, it's been amazing. We got a powerful chapter today. But before we get into it, guys, January 19th, 6 p.m.

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when it's like someone looks too scary to talk to. But Jesus says, actually, there's a lot more people out here that are ready to give their life to me. So there's a really extreme chance that the scariest person ever in your school, in your workplace, or on the street, there's a very high chance that they're hungry and searching and open to Jesus Christ.

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Therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Now, Jesus isn't saying that as an excuse to not preach the gospel. He's saying, look, go preach the gospel. He's saying also pray. Pray for more harvesters to come walk in boldness and actually be sent out in places that you can't go because there's only one of you. There's only one of me.

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So he goes in a little bit more detail, but basically what he told the 12 disciples in the last chapter. Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick in it and say to them, the kingdom of God has come near to you.

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at Brea Improv, we got our first ever live podcast show ever. It's going to be insane, guys. It's going to be an amazing time of worship, fellowship. God's really stirring up a word in my heart for that night. It's going to be powerful. So if you guys want to come, go get your tickets at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. It's a way to support our ministry.

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But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into the streets and say, even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless, know this, that the kingdom of God has come near. I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that own town. That is a very bold statement. We're about to break that down here in a second.

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But I love... That Jesus is like, man, wipe the dust off your feet. Because it's not up to us to save people. And I think that's, again, another comforting thing about preaching the gospel. It's not up to me. The Holy Spirit does the work. We plant the seeds. We water the seeds. But God brings the increase. And so it's like, look, if they don't receive it, it's not your fault. You did your job.

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You told them the gospel. Okay, keep moving. There's other people that need to hear it. And I think it's just a powerful statement. Now we're about to understand what Jesus is saying. He says, Now Tyre and Sidon were known as just insanely unrepentant cities. Like they were just totally wicked cities.

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And he's saying, look, if I had done the same things that I've done in y'all cities and their cities, these unrepentant cities, these cities that are doomed to judgment before God, they would have repented a long time ago is what he's saying. He says, but it will be more bearable in the judgment day for Tyre and Sidon than for you. That's crazy saying these insanely unrighteous wicked cities.

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It's going to be less of a harsh judgment on them than it is for you because you're rejecting the new covenant is what he's saying. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. The one who hears you hears me and the one who rejects you rejects me and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.

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The 72 returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name. Now this just probably encouraged Jesus so much. And he said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. What an encouragement. He's already been defeated. That is an encouragement to you and I. Satan's already been defeated. He's a loser. Satan's a doo-doo butt. He ain't got nothing on us.

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He's already been defeated. And Jesus saw him fall like lightning. You guys know how fast lightning strikes? That's how fast he fell. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and all over the power of the enemy and nothing shall hurt you. So not only did he see Satan fall, but he gives us as believers. the power to conquer the enemy, conquer the devil.

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The spirit of the God gives us strength to say no to temptation. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Then he says, look, listen, at the end of the day, don't become prideful that spirits listen to you because they're actually not listening to you.

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It's actually going to fund our ministry. And Lord willing, in Jesus' name, we would love to do these shows across the country, which would be powerful. And so we don't just want to do them in Los Angeles, but if you guys want to be a part of the very first one ever, historic night, come January 19th at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Get them today. Now, let's dive into Luke chapter 10.

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They're listening to the name of Jesus, listening to the spirit of God. And he's like, look, don't get prideful. Just be glad that your names are written in heaven. That's what we should rejoice in at the end of the day. And I think that's such a powerful statement. Jesus rejoices in the Father's will. Now, he takes a moment. It says in that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit.

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He just takes a moment with God and says, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. So the will of the Father is that his children, that the people of God recognize that he's the Christ.

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And he's saying, look, in this time period, those that understand I'm the Messiah, I grace be to God because it's your will that your children know that it's me. He says, He says, He said, I tell you that many prophets and kings desire to see what you see and did not see it and to hear what you hear and did not hear. He says, look, there are so many people that anticipated the coming of me.

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He's like, praise be to God that you guys are the ones that get to see me. I mean, look at even the Luke chapters one and two. When we saw that promise where God promised was Zacharias, I think. Let's flip there really quick. God promised, I think it was Zachariah. Zachariah, I believe. Let's see. Um, yes, he. Oh, sorry. Simeon. God promised Simeon that he would see the Messiah before he died.

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Think about that. All the prophets of old have been prophesying about this Messiah, and Simeon here is thinking, all right, I'm doing the purification rituals for newborn babies at the temple and everything, and he holds up the Messiah, and the Lord reveals to him that he's seen the Messiah, and he goes, now I can depart in peace. You guys remember that in Luke chapter 2? It's powerful.

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He's like, look, there's so many people that have anticipated this, and you guys get to lay your eyes on the Messiah. Now we're about to close chapter 11 with this long story here, but it's powerful. And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test saying, teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, what is written in the law? How do you read it?

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So the lawyer says, man, what does it look like to have a life that's honoring to God? And Jesus says, well, what does the law say? And again, Jesus summed up the entire law, 613 laws and 10 commandments with this statement that the lawyer is about to repeat.

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He says, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself. And he said this to him, you have answered correctly. Do this and you will live. He's like, that is a life honoring to God. But he desiring to justify himself to Jesus said, and who is my neighbor?

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She's like, love your neighbor as yourself. He's like, who's my neighbor? Who is your neighbor? Is it someone that just is always kind to you 24-7? Is your neighbor someone that always does favors for you? Is your neighbor someone that you owe a favor back to? Is it like that's the only reason you're kind to them? Or is your neighbor only someone that's the same ethnicity as you?

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No, actually, we're about to learn this here in the story. Jesus says a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and he fell among robbers who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now, by chance, a priest was going down that road, a priest, someone who was practicing religion frequently. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side, ignored him.

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Now we're about to see Jesus send out the 72. So you have the layers of Jesus's circle is John, the disciple whom he loved, probably his best friend, right hand man. Then you got Peter, James, and John. Then you got the 12. Then you got the 72. Then you got a few hundred. Then you got the masses, okay? He's talking to the 72 here.

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So likewise, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine, and he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

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And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I'll repay you when I come back. Which of these three do you think proved to be the neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers? He said, The one who showed him mercy. And Jesus said to him, You go and do likewise. It doesn't matter what walk of life people come from.

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It doesn't matter what ethnicity they are. It doesn't matter what their past looks like. It doesn't matter what religion they are. Jesus says, man, show no partiality to him. The Bible teaches us that the goodness of God actually brings man to repentance. So when we show the heart of the Father to people, it's actually going to motivate people to go, man, what's different about you, man?

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Why are you different? Why are you treating me like this? And that's when we get to share the love of Jesus. 1 Peter 3.15 says, Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks for the hope inside of you. People are going to ask, man, what makes you so different? But do it with what? Do it with gentleness and respect, 1 Peter says.

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Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him, saying, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me.

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And I think in today's day and age, we can often busy ourselves with work.

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with things that are perishing and it's not to say man you know i believe god calls us to work hard at the things before us at school at work and things like that but he's like look sometimes we can distract ourselves with these things but he's like man you're so anxious and troubled about just serving but he's like man you would really be tending to your heart right now if you prioritized my teachings

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And I think in today's day and age, when we prioritize the Lord and his teachings and his love, we will naturally serve others. Servanthood and serving others doesn't have to be burdensome. Oh, where's my help? Where's my help? Because when we actually love the Lord and listen to his teachings, it's all overflow. Guys, I pray that Luke chapter 10 blessed you guys. I love you guys.

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Come to our live show, January 19th, jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Come join us. I'm looking forward to meeting all of you guys. To get a Luke PDF printout that you guys can track that you're listening to these episodes and reading on your own, jesusinthestreet.org slash Luke. I love you guys. I'm praying for you guys. And I'll see you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 11.

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After this, the Lord appointed 72 others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, in every town and place where he himself was about to go. He sends them out in twos. Sends them out in twos. And he said to them, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Jesus says, the issue isn't that people aren't ready to give their life to me.

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He says, there's a lot of people that are ready to submit to me and my teachings. But there are very few people telling people about me. So we need more laborers. And that's a call to us today is like Jesus says, like, there's so many people out there that are ready to give their life to that are ready to submit to me. And I think that's like that helps me overcome the fear of man in my brain.

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what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the bryce crawford podcast i'm bryson today we're on the third day of the 24 day luke challenge series where every day of december we're going to read a chapter of luke so that by the time we get to christmas eve you will have read the whole story of luke if you guys want a free printout or picture that you can track that you're both reading it on your own and listening to these verse by verse breakdowns go to jesusinthestreet.org luke enter your email and you will get access to download the free pdf it's going to be powerful

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So he's setting the scene here going, it's extremely corrupt. And he went into all region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. So John the Baptist's message here is one of repentance. John isn't preaching feelings here. He's not preaching, say sorry and keep doing what you're doing. Because that's not repentance. That's abusing God's grace.

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And a lot of people do that today. They go, oh, well, God's going to forgive me so I can do whatever I want. And then when I feel sorry about it, I'll say I'm sorry, God will forgive me, and then I can keep doing what I'm wanting. No. The message of repentance that John is preaching is this. You're walking towards sin.

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And you finally get convicted and realize that the lifestyle of sin that you're living is one that you weren't originally designed to make. You were designed in the image of God. And this lifestyle of sin is not your original design. You fall on your knees out of conviction. You cry out to the Lord and you say, God, I repent. Forgive me of my sins.

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After you ask for forgiveness, you do a complete 180. You turn around from walking towards sin and you start running and chasing after the goal of Jesus Christ. Because that's the goal of repentance. Changing you from your old way of life and giving you a completely new way of life in Jesus Christ, your original design.

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Verse four, as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah, the prophet, the prophecy of John the Baptist and Isaiah, the voice of the one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make his path straight. Every valley shall be filled. Every mountain and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall become straight and the rough places shall become level ways.

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So Isaiah is actually prophesying what Jesus will do. There's no valley low point in someone's life that Jesus can't heal. There's no extremely high extreme point in people's life that Jesus can't mend or heal or be there for. He's actually going to do everything. Jesus has the ability to heal every heart. And then in verse 6 it says, And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

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Salvation isn't just for people who go to seminary school. Salvation isn't just for people that say how holy they are. Salvation isn't just for the Israelites. Salvation is for all people. And that's what John the Baptist is preaching here. And that's what it's prophesied that he will preach. Verse 7.

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And therefore, he said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, you brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? So John the Baptist is giving his first big message here. Imagine the president giving his first big speech in front of a crowd. And he looks at the crowd that are all there to support him. And he calls them a group of snakes.

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He calls them a bunch of snakes. This is John the Baptist's big moment here, okay? And he says, John the Baptist in this context is actually speaking to the religious leaders at the time. He says, He says, He says, And he says, look, I don't care about what you're saying. You're a bunch of snakes. He says, you talk about how close you are to God, but your actions are far from it.

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But Luke chapter 3, we've got some interesting stuff here. We're about to see the lead up to Jesus' ministry. We're going to look at John the Baptist walking in his calling. We're going to look at Jesus briefly getting baptized. And then there's a genealogy at the end of Luke chapter 3. And we're going to identify the importance of the genealogy. Why is there a genealogy in Luke chapter 3?

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He says, bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And you can tell someone, you can tell the legitimacy of someone's faith based off the fruit they bear. That's how the Bible tells us we identify false teachers. That's how the Bible tells us that we identify true believers and followers of Jesus Christ is the fruit they bear.

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And one of those fruits being love, which these Pharisees had little to none inside of them. They cared about themselves, their perception of themselves. And Jesus is giving a call here. Through John the Baptist. I mean, John the Baptist is preparing the way. He says, you brood of vipers, bear fruits and keep them with repentance.

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And then he says, and don't begin to say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our father. Because these Pharisees, who were so focused on keeping the law, had all of their salvation and hope in the merits and laws of Abraham. And that's what he's saying. He says, don't even begin to start off with saying, Abraham, we have Abraham as our father. Because Abraham's merits can't offer salvation.

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Only Jesus Christ can. He says, for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree, therefore, that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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And we're about to see, I'm about to explain that verse later on in verse 16 when we get there, what that verse means, because John is going to explain the role of Jesus, one of the roles of Jesus Christ in a minute. So the crowd then goes now mixed into these religious leaders, all regular people, but he's calling the religious leaders a brood of vipers.

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So now these regular people, they go, what shall we do then? And he gives him very practical advice. Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise. Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said, Teacher, what shall we do? He said to them, Collect no more tax than you are authorized to do. Soldiers asked them, And we, what shall we do?

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He said to them, Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages. John the Baptist is giving commandments of integrity. The commandments that John the Baptist is giving... serving, having a sharing heart, having integrity. These are characteristics that adults teach their children.

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And I think it's very important to recognize because Jesus says, let the children come to me. We're all children of the Lord. And these are not just elementary principles. I mean, these are things that daily human beings forget to do. And John the Baptist says, you want to walk this thing out? If you have food, don't just tell someone to get money to get food. Be the solution. Share. Give food.

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Let's get into it. In the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee and his brother Philip, tetrarch of the region of Euteria and Trachonitis and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene. During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

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He's giving a call to integrity here. And as the people were in expectation, and all were questioning their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ. Now this is important. People mistook John the Baptist because they thought he was the Christ. But he was not the hope. He just had the hope. And oftentimes in today's day and age, we have the hope.

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And people can look at us and can glorify man and think that we're some awesome holy people group. But no, don't be mistaken, my friend. You are not the hope. Don't let people put their hope in you. You just have the hope. And that's the purpose of our life is to live a lifestyle of one that honors God so that we can point people to Jesus Christ based on our actions.

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Verse 16, this is going to answer that verse before where it talks about every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. John answered all of them saying, I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming. The strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. This is important.

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John is now saying, look, I'm just baptizing you with water, all right? The thing that I'm doing for you guys is an outward expression of an inward heart change. It is symbolism that you're going down old and coming up new. But he says, look, he who is mightier than I, the Messiah, the one that I'm preparing the way for, he goes, the strap of whose sandals I'm not worthy to untie.

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A rabbi in that day and age would teach their students and disciples to do everything except untie the shoes of the rabbi. Because that was such an embarrassing act to do. It was the dirtiest part of the body. And no disciple would do that. It just wasn't taught. But John the Baptist is saying the thing that isn't taught...

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The thing that's the most embarrassing thing to do, the dirtiest part on the Messiah's body. I'm not worthy to touch. That's how holy he is. And then he says he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. So he says this is the promise of the new covenant covenant. You get a helper to bring conviction and teach you things, the Holy Spirit. But then the baptism of fire is one of purification.

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That when we actually receive the Holy Spirit, He convicts our lives and changes our lifestyle. He purifies us from the inside out. He changes our actions and motives and our desires to align with the Lord. And those that don't have a pure heart, actually, it's either like purification. You take the purification and you walk it out. Or you can't handle the heat. You get out of the kitchen.

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You leave Jesus Christ. He's calling us to a lifestyle of change. His winnowing fork is in his hand, verse 17, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

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So with many exhortations he preached good news to the people, but Herod the Tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done, added this to them all that he locked up John in prison. So John gets arrested by King Herod. Now this is important, we'll find out later, but sexual sin is what kills John the Baptist.

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Not that he fell into it, but that spirit of Jezebel, sexual sin, came upon Herod, and it's a reason that John the Baptist was beheaded. We'll find out in a couple chapters later. But it says in verse 21, it says, look, he got arrested. But listen, now, when all the people were baptized and when Jesus had also been baptized, he baptizes Jesus.

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And it says, look, and the Holy Spirit descended on him and bodily form like a dove and a voice came from heaven. You are my beloved son with you. I am well pleased. So Jesus gets baptized in water and then he starts his ministry. And I think this is important to recognize because before Jesus did any miracles in any ministry,

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Luke is painting the picture of both the governmental corruption and the religious corruption at the time. Caiaphas was the high priest at the time, But Annas actually had the religious influence at the time.

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God the Father looked at Jesus and said to him, without you having to do anything, you're my beloved son and I'm pleased with you. And I think that's the lesson that you and I can learn today. And sometimes we look at God and we think, oh man, I've got to earn your love. I've got to do this to work for God's love. But no, before you do anything, he's pleased with you. He's made you in his image.

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He loves you for who you are. You don't have to do anything to earn his love. He's freely given it to you. He's pleased with you without you having to do anything for him. But the reason that we do things, the reason that John the Baptist says, show me the fruit of your repentance, he's not saying good works is what get you into heaven.

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But our actions and good fruit is how we can identify the genuinity, the genuity, I don't know how you say the word, the genuineness of someone's faith. It's through their fruit and through their actions. You can tell someone really believes something that they say when they act it out. If I told you I loved you, but I kept punching you in the face, you probably wouldn't think I loved you.

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But if I told you I loved you, you would recognize I loved you based on how I treated you. And I think that's important for us to recognize. Before we've done anything, he's pleased with us. Now look, I'm not going to read this whole genealogy, but it's verses 23 through 38. But I want to highlight where he starts and where he ends because this is important.

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Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about 30 years of age, being the son, as he was supposed, of Joseph. And in the very end it says, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, and the son of God. This is important. Matthew's genealogy, in the beginning of Matthew, is more of a legal genealogy. One that would be seen as a government document to link Jesus to his father Joseph.

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And if you look back in history on both these religious figures and over the government figures that we see, Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate, I mean, Pontius Pilate was known towards his kind of hard heart towards the Jews. So, I mean, you've got Luke displaying the corruption in both areas of life at this time period. because he's preparing the way of Jesus Christ to heal all things.

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But Luke takes a different perspective here. When he says, "...as was supposed of Joseph," he's implying here Mary's lineage, the real lineage, which hints at the virgin birth, which affirms Jesus' deity here.

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And the reason that we need to recognize the last verse of Luke 3, where it says, "...the Son of Adam and the Son of God," if it connects Jesus Christ all the way back to Adam in the garden... then we know that Jesus Christ, like it said in the prophecy of Isaiah, salvation is for all people. Jesus came to all people because every human being is linked back to Adam and Eve. So the reality is this.

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Jesus Christ is about to start his ministry here in Luke chapter 4. We're about to see some amazing things that Jesus does after John the Baptist is prepared the way. But look, the reality is that Jesus Christ came for all people. He actually calls us to a lifestyle of change and repentance.

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And the inward heart change of repentance doesn't come out of one of striving and one out of a place where we have to earn God's love. But we do things not because we have to. We do things because we love Jesus Christ. And that's why we are motivated by it. I pray that this Luke series is blessing you guys. And I can't wait to see you guys tomorrow to break down Luke chapter 4.

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Luke Series Chapter 19 (EP 73)

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we are on day 19 of the 24-Day Luke Christmas Challenge, where every day we're reading a chapter of Luke, so by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole Gospel of Luke.

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Notice how Jesus just isn't in the business of converting him and then keep it on his way. He's interested in building a relationship with Zacchaeus. So he hurried down, came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all grumbled. He has gone in to be a guest of a man who is a sinner.

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If you're watching it and not listening, and my nose starts bleeding, it's because I just shaved and I cut my nostril. So if we start bleeding, you guys got to let me know so I know to stop it. But the reality of that statement is, is that I won't be able to hear you guys tell me if my nose is bleeding because I'm recording this right now.

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So people were frustrated that Jesus, once again, was hanging out with a tax collector who was deemed a sinner and an outcast. And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will restore it fourfold. So now Zacchaeus, through the power and conviction of Jesus Christ, he has repented.

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And he said, You know what? I'm going to give away half of my goods, and the other half I'm just going to restore everyone I've ever done wrong. And Jesus said to him, today salvation has come into this house because he has recognized the repentant heart of Zacchaeus, since he also is the son of Abraham.

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These Jews hated him so much, they probably thought that he wasn't a Jew, but he's like, no, he is a Jew, both by genetics and through Jesus Christ. And then it says, for the son of man came to seek and save the lost. Jesus is saying, look, listen, I came for people like Zacchaeus. I came for sinners.

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I came for people that are wicked and need to recognize that they need someone greater than themselves. That's who Jesus came for, and that's what he's saying he came for. He came for him. That's the type of person he came for. It's such a powerful moment. Now we're going to read the parable of the ten minas.

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As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. He said, therefore, a noble man went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minutes. And he said to them, engage in business until I come.

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But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him saying, we don't want this man to reign over us. Now, this parable that he's telling here is going to be specifically to the disciples. He's talking about when he returns, how are the disciples, how are we as believers going to have handled the resources that God has given us in the time being when we wait for him to return?

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When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him that he might know what they had gained by doing business. So he called them back and said, look, I want to figure out what you guys did. The first one came before him saying, Lord, your minna has made ten minnas more.

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And he said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant, because you have been faithful in very little, you shall have authority over ten cities. And the second one came and said, Lord, your minna has made five minnas. And he said to him, And you are to be over five cities. Then another came saying, Lord, here's your minna.

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which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow. Now, this is someone who was afraid to figure out what to do with the manna, so he hid it. Didn't know what to do. He was afraid to risk, so he did. That's disobedience being described here in this parable.

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Disobedience with the resources the Lord leaves us when we wait on Him to return. And he said to him, I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not. So why then did you not put my money in the bank? And at my coming, I might have collected it with interest.

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But before we get into it, guys, January 19th, first ever live podcast show, 6 o'clock at night. Go get your tickets at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. I want you guys to come out. It's a way to support our ministry. It helps fund our videos. But it's going to be a powerful night. I'm hoping to do these more in the future. But this might only be the only one we ever do. Don't know.

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And he said to those who stood by, take the minute from him and give it to the one who has the 10 minutes. And they said to him, Lord, he has 10 minutes. I tell you that to everyone who has more will be given. Now we're about to read about the triumphal entry. The week before Jesus is going to be crucified, Jesus rides through the city, and in a triumphal way, the people glorify him.

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So we're about to read what this is like. Moses is sitting on my lap. He's currently blocking everything right now on the video podcast, if you guys aren't watching. Come on, lay down. Lay down. Lay down, buddy. Come on, he will not lay down. Uh-oh, the other dog's coming here. Nalu's coming in here. Hey, Nalu! Yeah, come on. Sorry, guys, we're taking a quick break here.

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Maybe you guys need to stretch while we're waiting to read the second half of chapter 19. It's going to be awesome. All right, Moses, come on, lay down. He's laid down into the microphone now. It's okay. Alright. Let's see. This is so funny. Verse 28. And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

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When he drew near to Bethpage and Bethany, at the mouth that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, saying, Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, Why are you untying it? You shall say this, The Lord has need of it. Now,

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The second time Jesus returns, he's going to return in glory and power on a white horse. But the first time Jesus has come, he's coming humbly in submission to the will of the Father, riding humbly on a donkey. Okay. So those who were sent away and found it just as he had told them. And as they were untying the coal, its owner said to them, why are you untying this coal?

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And he said, the Lord is need of it. And they brought it to Jesus and throwing their cloaks on the coal. They sat Jesus on it. Did you guys know that on the back of a donkey, there's stripes on the back of a donkey? One going down and one going up or across in the shape of a cross. So on the back of every donkey, there was like a cross and Jesus is sitting on this.

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Think about it, riding a week prior and then a week after he's riding on top of the cross of this donkey, he's going to be nailed to a wooden cross. Verse 38, saying, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory in the highest. He's being worshiped and some of the Pharisees in the crowd have said to him, teach or rebuke your disciples.

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And he answered, I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out. Creation naturally worships Christ. We see this in the Psalms. But he's saying that they don't have to cry out because these people are glorifying me. But even if they didn't, the rocks would cry out. And that should be a hard posture for us in today's society.

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But would love for you guys to come out. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be a powerful night. So come on out January 19th at 6 p.m. here in Los Angeles. Get your tickets at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Now, let's jump down into chapter 19. See what we got going on. He entered Jericho and was passing through, and behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus.

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It's like, man, everything that we do should be worshiped towards the Lord so that creation doesn't have to cry out on behalf of us. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem. Now this next few verses, when Jesus is weeping over Jerusalem, he's not necessarily weeping over Jerusalem in the sense of his crucifixion that he's about to go through.

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He's weeping over the punishment Jerusalem is going to go through that we read about a few chapters ago. Come on, sit down, Moses. He's blocking the camera again. He likes to do this. Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace. The phrase on this day comes from the prophet Daniel.

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It comes from the prophet Daniel, and it was prophesied in Daniel about a specific day. And this is, according to the Hebrew and Greek translation, this is supposed to be the same day that the prophet Daniel was prophesying about. But now they are hidden from your eyes.

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For the days will come upon you when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you and on every side. He's prophesying what the Roman Empire is going to do to Jerusalem. And tear you down on the ground and you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you because you did not know the time of your visitation.

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Now to close out chapter 19, we're about to see Jesus cleanse the temple. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, saying to them, It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers. That is quoted from Isaiah. And he was teaching daily in the temple.

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The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on to his words.

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So when Jesus is cleansing the temple, the reason that he cleansed the temple is because nobody could go in there and pray to the Lord because they had made that entire area to seek the Lord in prayer a marketplace. That's why it was called a den of thieves. Because no one could even seek the Lord in prayer because they were doing nothing but buying and selling. So he kicked them out.

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He said, you will not make the house of the Lord a den of thieves when it was made to be a house of prayer. Quoted from the book of Isaiah. Guys, chapter 19 was powerful. We're getting ready to read chapter 20 here. Where we're about to set up Jesus. He's going to have a plot to kill him in the chapters to come. We're going to see the authority of Jesus challenged in chapter 20.

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And see some parables told, guys. I pray that chapter 19 has blessed you guys. I love you guys. Go to JesusInTheStreet.org slash tickets. Get your tickets for the live podcast show. I will see you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 20.

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He was a chief tax collector and was rich. Now, it seems to me that Jesus was going out of his way into Jericho just for Zacchaeus. And he's not just any tax collector. He's the chief tax collector. He's the big dog. He would be the most hated tax collector in the entire city. because he's the chief tax collector, and he was seeking to see who Jesus was.

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But on account of the crowd, he could not because he was small in stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. Now, Zacchaeus risked embarrassment to climb up in this tree to see Jesus. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said, Zacchaeus, hurry up, come down, for I must stay at your house today.

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Luke Series Chapter 12 (EP 66)

What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce and today we're on Luke 12 Day 12 of the Luke Christmas December challenge every day We're reading a chapter of Luke by the time you get to Christmas Eve. You would have read the whole gospel of Luke guys It's powerful. We are halfway through.

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Or maybe it has swollen or spread, right? Hypocrisy spreads. It causes other people to be hypocrites. It swells. It causes corruption, just like leaven does in bread. So I think it's powerful for us to recognize. And then he says, therefore, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light. What happens with hypocrisy is it causes people to operate in the dark.

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But he says at the end of the day, no matter if it's an on earth or heaven, at the end of the day, all of things will come to light before God, who is the ultimate righteous judge. He says, have no fear. I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, saying, don't be afraid of persecution. And after that, have nothing more than they can do. But I will warn you.

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whom to fear he says this is who you should fear fear him whom after he is killed has the authority to cast into hell he's talking about his own martyrdom he's talking about himself being martyred for the sins of the world he's saying you know be afraid of me you know you can kill humans but i'm god in the flesh i'm going to raise from the dead and judge the earth for the sins of the world

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I pray that this series has blessed you guys already already See you guys. You guys are asking me do more series do more series. Maybe in the future. We'll do one It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be powerful guys before we get into it January 19th, we got our first ever live podcast show in Los Angeles at 6 p.m. Go get your tickets, guys. Jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets.

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Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why even the hairs on your head are all numbered? Fear not. You are more value than the many sparrows. He says, get right with me. You're so valuable. You're extremely valuable. I know the amount of hairs on your head. You are worth more.

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He says, are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? This is you're worth more than you can ever imagine. Acknowledge Christ before men. Now, Jesus is about to talk about acknowledging him before men. This is talking about faithfulness versus faithlessness here. All right. We're going to see what this looks like.

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And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the son of man also will acknowledge before the angels of God. The faithful people will acknowledge God before men. But the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God, and everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. Now Jesus is about to hint at the unforgivable sin here.

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But the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. What is the unforgivable sin? What is the only sin in the Bible that says cannot be forgiven? It is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. What is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit? What does it mean to blasphemy the Holy Spirit? It means to have an ongoing heart rejection towards the nudging of the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit may be tugging on you, may be nudging your heart to give your life to Christ. And in this lifetime, if you reject the working of the Holy Spirit in your heart, you are denying the work that the Holy Spirit is trying to do. Then when you stand before God on judgment day, there's nothing else you can do. You've blasphemed him. You've said no to him.

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And because God gives us free will and allows us to choose him, whether in this lifetime or not, he grants that wish and it breaks his heart. But if we deny Christ on this earth, if we deny the working of the Holy Spirit in our heart, then we've blasphemed the Holy Spirit. So often people that say, Bryce, I'm so afraid I blasphemed the Holy Spirit. Have I done it?

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If you're worried that you blasphemed the Holy Spirit, you did not. Those that blaspheme the Holy Spirit don't care about God. And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what to say. Parable of the rich fool.

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Someone in the crowd said to him, Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me. He's coming to Jesus with a financial issue. All right. And Jesus's response isn't one where he doesn't care about justice. But the reason this man is talking about a financial dispute, he's like, hey, tell my brother to give me some of his inheritance. He's not saying it for a justice aspect.

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He's saying it because he's coveting something that he doesn't have. And Jesus is using this as a teaching moment, both for in this man's life and in the crowd's life about covetousness. He says, man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you? He said, take care and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

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It's going to be a powerful night. I want every single one of you guys there. It's going to be our first ever live podcast show ever and more to come in the future in Jesus' name. But right now, I don't know if we're going to do more, but this is the first one that's going to be in L.A. Would love for you guys to be there. January 19th, 6 p.m.

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And then he told them a parable saying, the land of a rich man produced plentiful. Meaning this man was successful, he was rich, and he thought to himself, what shall I do for I have nowhere to store my crops? He said, I'll do this. I'll tear down my barns and build larger ones. And there I will store all my grain and goods.

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And I will say to my soul, soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years. Relax, eat, drink and be merry. So he's like a lot of people in today's day and age. They do this thing where they say, you know what? I'm going to, you know, live a happy life. I'm working at this life and this is everything in their treasures here on earth.

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But God said to him, fool, this night your soul is required of you. The things you have prepared, those will they be. So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God. This man, because he didn't give his life to God, he owed his life, his livelihood, and his wealth to God. But above all else, he owed his soul.

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And we can see that the passionate request for justice on the lawyer's part, sorry, on this man's part, as for inheritance, it actually had a low motive for justice and an increased motive for covenants. And he's like, look, guys, don't keep your eyes on the earth here. Like your real treasure is with me. And we're going to find out where he says, where your treasure is, where your heart is also.

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It's like whatever you treasure is where your faith and trust is. And a lot of people have put their faith and trust in this earth and it will pass away. And he said to his disciples, therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, and what you will put on. Anxiety and anxiousness has plagued this generation.

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And many people read this passage and they say, man, God is hating on me when he says, don't be anxious, don't be anxious. No. When Jesus Christ is saying, do not be anxious about anything, he's not mad or scolding you or shaming you if you get anxious. He's actually encouraging you, saying, you don't have to be anxious. He says, look at the ravens.

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They don't work for their food, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the ravens? And then he says, look at the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil or spin. And even Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven. How much more will he clothe you? Oh, you have little faith.

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God has in store for you so much more. And he says in verse 25, And which of you, being anxious, can add a single hour into his lifespan? He's saying you don't have to be anxious. You don't have to worry. God takes care of his children. Verse 29, And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.

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For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom and these things will be added to you. So, man, focus on the kingdom of God. God takes care of his children. Now, Jesus Christ is not saying, look, hide in a rock, hide under a rock and never go get food, never do these things.

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Go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets and get your tickets now. Let's go into Luke chapter 12 and see what Jesus is saying. Jesus is actually about to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees is what it's called. What does this mean? Leaven is going to correlate to the hypocrisy that the Pharisees have.

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He's like, no, but so many people worry about these little things that at the end of the day, when they pass away, it's not going to matter. Seek the kingdom of God first. God will take care of you. God will give you wisdom in your practical life and in your spiritual life. Fear not, little flock, for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

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Sell your possessions and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with money bags and do not grow old with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Now Jesus is about to give a warning about his return here, okay? And he says, stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning.

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And be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, saying, as Christians, we look forward to the return of Jesus Christ. so that they may be opened to the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes.

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Truly I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at the table, and he will come to serve them. He's hinting at the marriage feast of the Lamb. That once the judgment of the earth is passed, we will all feast with Christ. So when Christ has the Last Supper,

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That is the last time that he will take communion before he is with all believers at the marriage supper of the Lamb. He's hinting at this, saying when he comes and returns, he's going to get those who have put their faith and trust in him. And after the judgment of the earth, we're going to sit down, recline at the table and feast with God and rejoice in all of perfection of heaven.

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If he comes in the second watch or in the third watch and finds them awake, blessed are those servants. Be awake, be watched. Jesus is giving a warning to those of you who say, man, you know what? I'm young. I've got all my life to give to Christ. So you know what? For now, I'm going to live for myself. Maybe I'll go drink and get drunk. Maybe I'll go do all these things.

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Jesus is actually giving a warning to you guys. saying, be awake, be on watch. You're not promised tomorrow. Those of you who say, I've got a long life ahead of me, so I'm going to live like I can now, and then when I get older, I'll give my life to Jesus Christ. You're abusing the grace of God, and you are not promised tomorrow. He's saying, be awake.

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When we submit ourselves to the commandments and lordship of Christ, we are preparing ourselves for the return. Say, you know what, you could come tomorrow, next month, years from now, or maybe after I've passed, you won't return until I'm dead. But you know what, I'm going to live my life in full submission to your lordship and waiting on the return of you.

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Because I don't know when you're coming. And there's so many friends that I have and so many people that I know that say, you know what, I'm going to get older. I'll give my life to Jesus then. But Christ could come back tomorrow and he's going to judge those and judge the people that it doesn't matter what situation you're in, what circumstance you're in.

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It doesn't matter what sin cycle you're in. If he comes tomorrow, he's judging you where you stand. It's what Christ says. But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. That's what he's saying. He's saying, look, if we all knew what day Jesus Christ was coming back,

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In the meantime, when so many thousands of people had gathered together and they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed or hidden that will not be known.

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then we would live how we wanted to up until that time. But he's like, look, Christ isn't asking us to live the way we want to and then when it's time to give his life to him. He's like, no, give your life to me now. Submit to my lordship. The best life we live is the Christian life. The best life one human being can live is one that is submitted to Jesus Christ.

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And he says, you also must be ready for the son of man is coming in an hour you do not expect. We don't know. Any prophet that tells you a month and a time that Jesus is coming back, don't listen to them because scripture tells us that even Christ doesn't know. Christ doesn't know when he's going to return. Peter said, Exactly what I just explained. Exactly what I just explained.

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People that say, you know what? I'm going to give my life to Jesus later because I've got a lot of life to live. He's like, no, don't do that. And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating.

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Everyone to whom much was given of him, much will be required. And from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more. You guys don't understand.

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Every time you go to church, every time you hear a Christian TikTok, every time you read your Bible, every time you hear a preach, every episode that you've listened to and learned more about Jesus Christ, the more knowledge you've gained about Christ, more than is required of you. Do you know the weight of the fear of the Lord that gives me?

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Knowing that the more I learn about Jesus Christ, the more that is required of me in faithfulness and submission to Him. So there are some of you guys that are listening to this, watching this, or that watch Christian TikToks, or that will listen to sermons that go to church every Sunday, and you're not submitted to Jesus Christ, but you're in far more...

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for a worse judgment than the person who has barely learned anything about Christ because you know knowledge about Jesus Christ and have done nothing with it. Not peace, but division. I came to cast fire onto the earth and with that it will already be kindled. That fire is interpreted in many different ways. The fire of the Holy Spirit, judgment, one of purification, a purification fire.

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Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops. Listen, hypocrisy is like leaven because it spreads, it swells, and it sours the flavor of things, right? Imagine the amount of people that have decided not to follow Christ because of a hypocrite. It has soured the flavor of Christ.

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Whenever you purify gold, you put it through the fire. I have a baptism to be baptized with. We are baptized in the suffering. Christ didn't suffer just a little bit. He was in full agony, complete agony. We are baptized into that. And how great is my distress until it is accomplished. Do you think that I have come to give you peace on this earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

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Jesus Christ is about to explain to us that following him can cause division. amongst people that want to live for themselves versus people that want to live for Christ. He says, for from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three.

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They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law, saying, look, there's going to be division against people who don't want to live for me and people who do try to live for me.

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He also said to the crowds, when you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, a shower's coming. And so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say there will be scorching heat and it happens. You hypocrites. You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?

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He's saying, look, you guys know how to see the weather. But there have been prophets for hundreds of years that have prophesied at the time that we're in now and the Messiah that is standing before you. And how can you know the weather that is to come and interpret that weather?

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And you're looking at the Messiah right now and you don't realize that the prophets of old have been talking about the person that's in front of you right now. And he closes out Luke chapter 12 with this. And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

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As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, making an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge and the judge hand you over to the officer. The officer put you in a prison. I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid every last penny. The beautiful thing about Jesus Christ is our sin separates us from him and we're in extreme debt to Christ.

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And the only way to pay for a debt this large for an imperfect human being is to have a perfect sacrifice. And Jesus Christ is perfect, took on flesh, lived a life exactly like us, experienced every emotion, every temptation that we've been through.

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And he lived a perfect life and he died on the cross, a death that you and I deserve paying for this saying, look, if you put your faith and trust in me, I'll wipe your slate clean. But if you don't put your faith and trust in me, you're going to be held accountable for every action and every wicked word that you've spoken. Guys, I pray that Luke 12 has blessed you guys. I love you guys.

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I pray this bless you guys. Go get your tickets. January 19th to the live podcast show here in Los Angeles, jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Love you guys. See you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 13.

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what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the bryce crawford podcast and today we are on luke 5 it's december 5th of the 24 day luke series challenge every day we're in a chapter of luke so by the time you get to christmas eve you will have read the entire gospel of luke and today We got some juicy information here.

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It's a it's a beautiful time of celebration He's saying you're not gonna fast right there and he says the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will fast in those days and And he also told them a parable. No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new one and the piece from the new will not match the old.

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Now we're about to get the catchphrase. New wineskins. Here we're about to explain what that means. He says that no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst. The skins. And it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into new fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new. For he says... The old is good.

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Now look, this is what Jesus Christ is saying. He's saying, look, I'm not coming to abolish the Old Testament law. He's like, you're trying to hold a cage of rules over here. You're trying to hold a cage of religion around these guys. He says, look, I'm the new wineskins. I'm not coming to abolish it, but I've come to fulfill it.

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When I die on the cross and resurrect, Jesus Christ is going to fulfill all the Old Testament law. And now there's some new commandments. And here's the new commandments that Jesus is going to give. We're going to see later on. to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself.

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Because when Jesus Christ actually fulfills all the Old Testament law through his death and resurrection, and he commands people to love the Lord your God with your heart, soul, mind, and strength, by loving Jesus with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with all of your strength, you're actually going to naturally submit yourselves to the teachings and commandments of Christ.

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Not because you have to, to follow some strict cage of religion rules. No, you do it because you love him. And you do it because you've watched the supernatural life of Jesus transform yours, and you want to listen and obey everything that he has to say.

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What a powerful chapter there in Luke 5, where we watch Jesus mobilize in his earthly ministry, calling some disciples, healing the sick, healing the paralytic, and actually confronting the Pharisees and saying, hey, look, listen, you guys are old wineskins, but I'm actually about to bring and fulfill the kingdom of God here. I'm going to fulfill the law. I'm not abolishing it.

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So now we're looking, Jesus is being pressed. There's such a big crowd. People are probably flooding Jesus. They're saying that they want to hear the word of God. They want to hear his teachings, but there's also people that are filtered in there that just want the healing of God. They want the benefits of Jesus. They don't want him as their king.

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I'm going to fulfill it. And look, I am here now. He says, there will come a time where they need to fast. But right now, the bridegroom, which is me, he's saying, I am the bridegroom. I'm here. I'm here with them. And they're going to spend time with me because there's going to come a time when I'm taken away from them. And when I'm taken away from them, they will fast on behalf of people.

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They will fast to meet with me. But while I'm here in person, they will dine with me. They will feast with me and they will get to know me. And I love the picture of the dinner table. We're going to see this in Luke chapter 24, but there's power at the dinner table. where Jesus in Luke chapter 24 actually opens the disciples' minds to the power of Scripture because he had resurrected.

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It's going to be amazing when we talk about it. Guys, I pray Luke chapter 5 has encouraged you guys. I can't wait to be with you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 6. Guys, go to jesusinthestreet.org to get your live podcast show tickets. I love you guys. See you guys tomorrow.

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They just want the benefits of the kingdom, the gifts and not the giver. They're pressing him. So he's got to get in a boat to make space so he can actually teach them. And he gets into Simon Peter's boat and Simon Peter allows him in. So we're about to watch Jesus basically show Simon Peter a favor here.

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It says, when he had finished speaking, he said to him, he said to Simon, put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. And Simon answered, master, we toiled all night and took nothing. So Jesus is asking Peter to do what in his eyes is the impossible. They've been up all night. They've been fishing and haven't caught a single thing.

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And then he goes, but at your word, I will let down the nets. But Jesus, I mean, but Simon Peter's, but Simon Peter's, but I'll try, I'll do it for you, is showing Simon Peter's humility and ability to submit to Jesus Christ. He's like, but I will listen to you. Your Lord, I will listen. And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.

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But before we get into it, guys, January 19th at 6 p.m., I'm going to be doing our first ever live podcast show here in Los Angeles. I would love for you guys to pull up. It's going to be an amazing, powerful night. We're going to have worship. and then we're gonna do a live podcast.

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They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled the boat so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees and said, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. He's saying, man, Jesus, I was wrong. I was wrong. I'm acknowledging that you're right. He's calling him Lord. It's like you're the Christ.

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For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of the fish that they had taken. And so were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. So James, John, and Simon Peter were all fishermen. That was their job. They were fishermen. And Jesus said to Simon, do not be afraid for now on you will be catching men.

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And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him. I love this story because now we see Jesus call just regular old fishermen. What was just known as like a bum job back in the day, like these just regular bums, Joe Schmoes. Jesus calls them to follow him. He says, look, You thought that this was your calling was to be a fisherman all your life?

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Yeah, you are going to be a fisherman, but this time you're going to be a fisher of men. I'm going to call you to actually bring the fish to me, bring the lost sheep to me. I think it's so powerful, just practical. Jesus calling the disciples. Now we're going to watch Jesus heal the leper. And I love this passage right here. It's short, but it's beautiful.

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While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. A leper was someone who was extremely sick. There was no hope for improvement for this person. The lepers would hang out outside of the city. These guys were outcasts.

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They would oftentimes have bells on their staffs or bells on them so that when they were walking, they could warn people that they were coming so people wouldn't get near them. Because if you touch someone who was a leper, you were deemed unclean because lepers were deemed unclean. These were outcasts, unclean people, no hope for improvement.

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And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean. He doesn't touch Jesus because he realizes if he touches Jesus, he's going to now make Jesus unclean according to the law. And so he's like, look, I'm going to fall before him, keep my distance, say, Jesus, if it be in your will, please make me clean.

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And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, I will be clean. Jesus Christ touches the very man that would deem him unclean. Why does he touch the quote unquote unclean man? Jesus is showing compassion on the leper. Jesus could have healed the leper without touching him. He could have said, be healed in Jesus name. Then he would have been healed.

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But no, Jesus Christ shows compassion on the leper by touching him when no one would. I wonder when the last time this leper has felt the touch of a loved one. When's the last time this leper has gotten a hug from a friend or a hug from a family member or someone shook his hand? No one would touch this man. He was an outcast. Everyone wrote him off as he'll never get better.

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And each podcast live show that we do is gonna have a different topic that is prayed for and considered for according to each room. Just been praying and asking God, God, what do you have for this room? And it's gonna be such a special night. And so if you guys feel led to show up or come, you can go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets and get your tickets.

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And Jesus Christ leans down and touches him. and says, I will heal you, be clean. And immediately the leprosy left him and he charged him to tell no one. But then he says, go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing as Moses commanded for a proof to them. This was a law in Leviticus 14 that if lepers got clean, they had to do this purification law.

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But here's the beauty of it. It was such a rare practice to occur that if Jesus the leper showed up to the priest to perform this law in Leviticus 14, this leprosy law, that it would be such a miracle to be seen because if you were the leper in a city, everyone knew you were the leper. Everyone knew that you were the sick outcast that no one could go near.

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So if you showed up to the priest and showed them that you were clean and did the ritual, did the practice in Leviticus 14, it would just be a miracle in itself to see the leper healed. And they would probably ask what happened. And we often know that when Jesus tells people not to say anything, they end up saying stuff.

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But now even more, the report about him went abroad and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities. But he would withdraw to the desolate places and pray again. We see Jesus like the crowds are coming for him. And instead of Jesus running to the crowds, he's running from the crowds to be with the father. I love this. Now we're going to see Jesus heal a paralytic.

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I mean, these are some amazing, amazing, amazing stories. So now we're seeing the religious leaders who claim that Jesus is a blasphemer. Yeah, these guys, they're showing up and they're watching him because they're trying to catch him up and trip him up. Maybe some of them are curious.

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And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus. Now listen, when we read this story, I want you guys to pay very close attention because I believe God has something really in store, powerful about this story that we overlook oftentimes.

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But finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. So now they come here, the crowd's so big, they can't even get the paralytic man in the crowd. But these guys, they don't give up. And he let them down through the roof. They climbed up to the roof.

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There's often a staircase at that time to get up to the roof. They get up to the roof and they lower him down through the roof. And when Jesus, when he saw their faith, he said, man, your sins are forgiven now. And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone? Now listen. Let's stop right there.

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This is what I want to highlight here in this passage. I want you right now to think of someone in your life, a family member, father, mother, brother, sister, a close friend who seems to be so far gone, who's so lost, lost in their sin, lost in their addictions, lost in their struggles. I want you to think of that person right now.

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All the tickets actually help fund our ministry, create the podcast videos, produce the videos, produce the evangelism videos. So it's a way to support our ministry and come for a powerful night with the Lord. Our first ever live podcast show in Los Angeles, January 19th, 6 p.m. Get your tickets, jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Now, let's get into the passage.

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Why is our initial instinct as followers of Jesus to write them off like society wrote off the leper? Why society wrote off the paralytic? Because they think, oh, in the natural, there's nothing God can do. There's nothing. Why is it that we write the closest people to us off when they're so far from God? Yet in the passage of the paralytic, the paralytic's friends, they didn't give up.

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They said, well, just because we can't get to Jesus in front doesn't mean we can't get to him. There's got to be a way. And it was through the friend's faith that moved Jesus's heart to heal the paralytic. How can it be so that it's through our faith that we can see the Spirit of God transform our lost family members, our lost friends, our lost brothers and sisters in Christ?

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Why is it that we write them off? Why is it that we hand them off and say, you know what? God can't do anything about it when James says the fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Why isn't it that because we've been transformed by the love of God, we can't show that love of God to our brothers and sisters who are struggling and lost in their ways in such a way where we submit ourselves

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to a lifestyle of prayer on behalf of these people because prayer moves mountains and we're watching the faith of friendship actually move the heart of God to heal the paralytic. Their persistence in pursuing Jesus despite their circumstances, their faith and trust in Jesus' healing power and his lordship. They moved past the practical sense of, oh, there's too many people, we can't get to them.

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No, they were willing to do anything for their friend because they believed that Jesus Christ could transform their life. And if you believe that your friends are so lost and Jesus Christ can transform their life, then why don't you pray for them? Why don't you bring them to Jesus no matter the cost? Why don't you meet with Jesus and say, God, save my father, save my mother, save my friend.

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God can do it. And we can learn that from the faith of the paralytic friends. That man, even though the natural says, oh, he's paralyzed, there's nothing you can do. And even though the natural says, oh, there's too many people, we can't reach him. That didn't stop them from persistently pursuing God on behalf of their friend, despite their circumstances.

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I think that's such a powerful thing in the scripture. And then after that, it says that the scribes and Pharisees says, who do you think you are? You speak blasphemy. You can't forgive sins, but God alone. And they're right. Only God can forgive sins, except this time, Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. And when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them.

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Why do you question in your hearts which is easier to say your sins are forgiven or to say rise and walk? For men, the power of healing and the power of forgiveness is hard. But for Jesus Christ, the power of healing and forgiveness is like easy peasy to him. Verse 24, but that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.

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And he said to the man who was paralyzed, I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home. He not only forgives the man's sins, proving that he's Jesus, he's God in the flesh, but he heals the paralytic man and he gets up and walks home, something he couldn't do before. Now I want to highlight this title that Jesus has, the Son of Man.

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Now, a lot of people will say, especially Muslims, they say, show me in the Bible where Jesus says that he's God. Where does he say that? Well, that's foolish. Jesus doesn't literally say, I am God. Okay, he's not talking to Americans. Jesus limits himself in his human ministry to just the Jewish people. Jesus couldn't be in Texas and Israel at the same time.

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Now, we got a couple different things going on here, but we're about to watch Jesus move in his earthly ministry. And I'm excited for these next few passages here in chapter five, because this is awesome. We're now watching Jesus walk out his earthly ministry.

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He came to minister specifically to the Jewish people, but salvation is for all people. And while he's in his earthly ministry to the Jewish people, he's going to speak in a language that is undeniable to the Jewish people where they know that he's the Christ the way he's talking.

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And when he calls himself the Son of Man, he's referencing to Daniel 7, a prophecy about the Messiah to come that references the Messiah as the Son of Man. Jesus also says before Abraham was, I am. A title that many Jews would recognize from the Old Testament, I am is the title of God. So when people say, oh, where does Jesus say he's God?

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Well, he's speaking very clearly to the Jewish people at the time in a context and a lingo that they can understand that he's claiming to be God. On top of that, Jesus Christ receives worship and moves and miracles and powers that only a man sent from God or a man who is God could be. In which this case, Jesus Christ is both man and God.

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So to any other religion, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, anyone that says Jesus doesn't claim to be God. This is a prime example that we see in scripture that Jesus here is stating that he's God. He references himself. He says, I'm the son of man. I'm the title that is given to the Messiah in Daniel 7. That one, that's me. And these Jews at the time would know exactly what he's talking about.

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And immediately, verse 25, Now we're going to move to another passage here, which I love. Jesus is about to call Levi. Levi is Matthew the tax collector. And we're about to see this passage. It says, After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi. We've watched Jesus just call some Joe Schmo fishermen. We've watched Jesus call a leper and heal a leper. He's healed a paralytic.

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He's messed with the Pharisees. And now he's about to call on someone else that people hate, a tax collector. Everyone hates a tax collector. They often took more than they were supposed to. They were nasty people, dealt with money. He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. And he goes, follow me. He says, follow me. And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.

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And Levi made him a great feast in his house. And there was a large company of tax collectors and other reclining at the table with him. So everyone that society deemed as a sinner, everyone that the Pharisees said, hey, You guys are awful. Yeah, they were all sitting at the table with Jesus.

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Chapter five, verse one, on one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the words of God, he was standing by the lake of Genesaret and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land and he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

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And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at him, at his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? And Jesus answered them, Those who are well have no need of a physician. But those who are sick, I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to me. Repent. Man, what a beautiful calling from Jesus Christ. Why would someone refuse?

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Why would someone refuse the healing of a doctor? Well, number one, they probably wouldn't think that they were sick. And that's what sin does to us. We convince ourselves that we're okay, that we're not in need of an outside source to help us. But blessed are the poor in spirit means that we recognize that we're spiritually bankrupt and that we can't help ourselves.

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We need someone greater than ourselves to help us. And Jesus here is saying, look, I didn't come for people who were prideful, who thought that they were helpful. Like I came for those who were recognized that they are in need of me. I came for those who are spiritually bankrupt and those who want to put their faith and trust in me.

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And then we're about to end this passage with a question about fasting. And then they said to him, the disciples of John fasted often and offer prayers. And so did the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink. So now they're saying, oh, look, we fast. And some other people's disciples fast, but you're not fasting right now. He's saying this because they're at dinner. The Pharisees are.

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And Jesus said to them, can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? Now he's pointing it. He's making this specific to the time period here He's saying look when you look at a wedding feast, right? No one's fasting the feast is a specific Declaration and expression of joy when you're eating and dining with the bride and the bridegroom.

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we are on day 22 of the Luke Christmas series, chapter 22 of Luke, the last three chapters coming to a close right now. Super excited. Before we get into it, guys, January 19th, 6 p.m., our first ever live podcast show is happening here in Los Angeles.

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because he is fully responsible. Now, when we go back up to verse 2 really quick, it says that the chief priests and scribes feared the people. Notice how they didn't fear God. They feared the people because they wanted to find a way to kill Jesus in a politically correct way because they didn't want to offend the people at the time. Verse 7 says,

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Then the day came of unleavened bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John saying, go and prepare the Passover for us that we may eat it. So he's giving them just clear instructions on what to do for the Passover supper. They said to him, where will you have us prepare it?

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He said to them, behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. That's kind of abnormal because normally that was a woman's job, but there's a man carrying a jar of water. Follow him into the house that he enters, and tell the master of the house, The teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?

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And he will show you a large upper room furnished. Prepare it there. And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. Now we're about to learn about the Lord's Supper. is when all believers are gathered with him after judgment has taken place in Revelation. Jesus will return, bring the iron fist, cast judgment on people.

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I want you guys there to go get your tickets. Go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Get your tickets right The website says 21 and up, but it's not 21 and up. All ages can come. I don't care what the website says. That's what they told me as well. It doesn't matter if you're 21 or not. All ages can come. So if you're under 21, get your tickets. If you're over 21, get your tickets.

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Those who have put their faith and trust in Jesus will be united with him in eternity. And all believers in heaven will have a feast. It's called the marriage supper of the lamb. And at this feast, Jesus will partake in communion once again. Take this and divide it amongst yourselves, for I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God has come.

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There again he repeats himself. And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. And likewise the cup after they had eaten it, saying, This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant of my blood. So we have to understand what communion is. The Greek word for it is koinonia.

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This is the most intimate thing you can do in partaking with Jesus. This may be an intense word, but the word koinonia literally translates to intercourse. Why is that? It sounds weird, but it's powerful. Because intercourse is the most intimate thing you can do with someone on this earth, binding yourself to them.

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This means that communion is one of the most intimate things that we can do in relationship with Jesus Christ. Partaking of the bread, representation of the body that is broken for us, his suffering and agony that he takes in sin. And then his pouring out of the blood, the cup, wine, represents the blood of Jesus Christ, the new covenant that wipes our sin clean, giving us new life in him.

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It's a beautiful picture. Then he says in verse 21, but behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. Now he's saying, who's going to hand me over and going to betray me and send me into suffering? That guy sits at the table. For the son of man goes as it is, for the son of man goes as it has been determined. But woe to that man by whom he is betrayed. Woe to that man.

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Again, Judas is fully responsible for his own sin. And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this. So again, he's not calling us to be childish. He's calling us to be childlike. For who is the greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I'm among you as the one who serves.

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This is so interesting. So he's like, wouldn't it be so that me sitting here is the greatest among you? And then he says here, but I'm the one serving you as well. He's like, I am the greatest at the table, but I'm also the one serving you. So now he's making a distinction here.

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Those that are greatest in the kingdom of heaven aren't the ones who puff up their chest with pride and say, look, I'm the greatest. I've done all these great things. The greatest in the kingdom of heaven who does things out of humility and serves out of humility, out of a heart posture for loving the king. Those are the greatest.

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And he says, those who serve me out of love and humility, those are the greatest. It's so interesting. And then he says, you are those who have stayed with me in my trials, and I assign to you as my father assigned to me a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in the kingdom and sit on the thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Now Jesus is about to foretell Peter's denial.

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I got a woman bringing her baby to the show. So everyone come January 19th, jesusindustry.org slash tickets. Get your tickets now. Let's dive into Luke chapter 22 here. We're about to watch Jesus. have the last supper with the disciples and then get delivered up for crucifixion here. Now the feast and unleavened bread drew near, which is called the Passover.

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Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers. Peter said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death. Peter's like, there's no way I'm going to betray you. I'm here with you to the ends of the earth.

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And Jesus says, I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day until you deny three times that you know me. And then he said to him, when I sent you out with no money bag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything? They said nothing. So he's talking about when he sent them out in twos and then he sends them out again in 72. He sent the 72 out after he sent the 12 out at a time period.

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And when he sent them out, he says, don't take anything with you. Don't take any food with you. So he's saying like, when I sent you out, did you lack anything? They said, no, we didn't lack anything you provided. Now he's saying, but now let the one who has a money bag take it and likewise a knapsack and let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.

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For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me. And he was numbered with the transgressors for what is written about me has his fulfillment. So now he's saying, look, now that I'm going to leave you guys in a sin in heaven, use your common sense. Like if you need money, sell the things to get the money. Like if you need to bring stuff with you, bring it on your journey.

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The thing that he was doing when he sent the 12 out without anything, he was teaching them to lean and trust on him. And he's not telling them not to lean and trust on him. He's saying, now look, I've given you common sense and I've taught you to trust in me. So trust in me, but also use your common sense. It's powerful. And they say, look, Lord, here are two swords.

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And he said to them, it is enough. Jesus is about to go on the Mount of Olives to pray. And I love this passage because it's so encouraging to me. And he came out and went, as was his custom to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. And when he came to the place, he said to them, Pray that you may not enter into temptation.

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What a powerful understanding that to avoid temptation, one of the weapons against temptation is to pray. And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw. So he didn't go too far. And he knelt down and prayed, saying, Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. Jesus is not trying to avoid the will of God.

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Jesus actually wants to do the will of God. But in his physical body, he's feeling the agony and the suffering that he's about to take to the cross. And he's just asking, God, if there's another possible way out of this, let it be so. But if not, I'm cool with it. I'm cool with it. And there appeared to him an angel from heaven strengthening him. As Jesus is praying, what happens?

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The will of the Father is that he be crushed for the sins of the world. So he can't avoid it. But he sends angels to strengthen Jesus. Powerful. And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. His sweat became like drops of blood. Why did it come this way?

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My interpretation of the sweat becoming like drops of blood is I believe Jesus is actually feeling the weight of the sins of the world, past, present, and future that he's about to take to the cross. And his physical body is sweating drops of blood. And when he arose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow. Instead of praying, they were sorrowful, they slept.

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And he said to them, why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation. While he was still speaking, there came a crowd and a man called Judas. One of the twelve was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him. But Jesus said to him, Judas, would you betray the son of man with a kiss?

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And the chief priests of the scribes were seeking how to put him to death for they feared people. The feast of unleavened bread was just the Passover. It was coming. So you got to keep in mind, there's an extra amount of Jews in town for the Passover. Okay. Not like normal. Cause there's a holiday here. We're celebrating.

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It's kind of ironic because Jesus is saying, it's crazy to me how you can come up to me and kiss me and embrace me and betray me at the same time. And when those who were around him saw what would follow, they said, Lord, shall we strike with the sword? And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut his right ear off. But Jesus said, No more of this.

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And he touched his ear and healed him. Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and the elders who had come out against him, Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs? When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour and the power of darkness.

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Verse 54, then they seized him and they led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house. And Peter was following at a distance. When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light, looking closely at him, said, this man also was with him.

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But he denied it, saying, woman, I do not know him. A little later, someone else saw him and said, You also are one of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not. And after an interval of about an hour, still another insisted, saying, Certainly this man also was with him, for he too was a Galilean. But Peter said, Man, I don't know what you're talking about.

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And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. And the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times. And he went out and wept bitterly.

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Luke Series Chapter 22 (EP 76)

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Now, I don't know if it's in chapter 23 or chapter 24, but there's going to be a moment where the resurrected Jesus is going to meet with Peter, and he's actually going to tell Peter how he's going to die. Really intense. Imagine being alive and knowing how you're going to die. I would not want to know that at all. But we're going to find out why he does that in chapter 23. I believe it's in 23.

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Verse 63, now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking him as they beat him. They also blindfolded him and kept asking him, prophesy, who is it that struck you? And they said many other things against him, blaspheming him. They just start beating Jesus, mocking him.

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Verse 66 to close, when the day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, And they led him away to their counsel and they said to him, if you are the Christ, tell us. Now listen carefully to Jesus' response here. If I tell you, you will not believe. And if I ask you, you will not answer. Why does Jesus say this?

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He's saying this because they've already made up their mind. He's already on trial. He's already convicted. They're not going back. They've already found what to convict of him and take him to jail. So there's nothing that they can do at this point. There's nothing that they will do to let him free. They're not going to let him free.

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And because there's an extra amount of people, there's a lot of people that probably respected the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Messiah. Verse 3, Then Satan entered into Judas, called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them. and they were glad and agreed to give him money.

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So that's why he says, if I tell you, you're not going to believe me. He's saying, it's not going to matter if I tell you or not, because at the end of the day, you're still going to crucify me. He wasn't avoiding the question. He's actually jabbing them back. But from now on, the son of man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.

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Jesus is saying, look, once I'm crucified, I'm going to go sit at the right hand of the Lord. And I'm going to be next time I return, I'm not going to return humbly in submission. I'm going to return in power and glory. So they all said, are you the son of God then? And he said to them, you say that I am. Then they said, what further testimony do we need?

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We have heard it from ourselves, from his own lips. We're about to see in Luke chapter 23, Jesus get beaten and crucified on a cross for the sins of the world, past, present, and future. We've seen Jesus pray in the garden. We've seen the last supper occur. We've seen him begin to be beaten and mocked. the picture of Jesus Christ. I saw this podcast clip and it just strikes my heart.

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This podcast clip of this man, he said, man, Jesus would have loved to be crucified the way that the passion of the Christ crucifies him. The passion of the Christ is a movie about the crucifixion to Jesus Christ. And it's the most accurate movie that we have of Jesus being crucified. And it's so gruesome, such a gruesome thing to watch.

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And it's kind of, it's kind of like a fear of the Lord sitting on your soul thinking like, man, Jesus would have loved to been crucified that way. Like he was beaten so bad that his bones and organs were hanging out. His face was beaten so bad that he was unrecognizable that he was alien. Like he was alienated, looked like an alien.

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I mean, we're about to witness the most gruesome murder and crucifixion ever recorded in history in Luke chapter 23. Guys, I pray that today's episode in Luke chapter 22 is powerful. Tomorrow's going to be incredible. I can't wait to be with you guys tomorrow. Go get your live podcast show tickets at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. I love you guys. See you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 23.

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So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of the crowd. When it says Satan entered into Judas, it means that he prompted him to do this. Judas is solely responsible for his sin against Jesus. He can't take responsibility for fulfilling prophecy that Jesus could be crucified. That's why Jesus later on will say, "'Woe to him who hands me over.'"

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Luke Series Chapter 15 (EP 69)

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we are on day 15, Luke chapter 15, of the 24-Day Luke Christmas Challenge, where every day we're reading a chapter of Luke, so by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole Gospel of Luke. Guys, pray for me, brother. I'm sick as a dog right now.

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Those with pride in their heart are the ones that actually push Jesus away. This man receives sinners and eats with them. So he told them this parable, what man of you having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open country and go after the one that is lost until he finds it. And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing.

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And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors saying to them, rejoice for me, for I found my sheep that was lost. Now, when we look at the story of the hundred sheep, this is saying like Jesus going after seeking the one lost person here. And when the shepherd leaves the 99 sheep, he's not telling the 99 sheep that they're less important.

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But he's telling the one sheep how important and valuable one sheep is to the 99. He's sending a message to 99 sheep to show them how important one sheep is. And to show the 99 that each of them is of equal valuable importance. So that's powerful for us to see here.

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And then Jesus says in verse 7, just so I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who need no repentance. He's saying, look, I'll draw them, I'll capture them. But as I've called someone and captured them, I'm calling them to repent and turn from the way in which they were lost in. Now we're gonna look at the parable of the lost coin.

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So pray for your boy, but no sickness is going to stop us from pressing on in this series. Just got a combination of lots of sleep and ibuprofen that's getting me through this podcast. It's going to be late. Guys, before we get into it, January 19th, I'm going to be healthy. And January 19th, 6 p.m. in Los Angeles is our first ever live podcast show. Guys, I want you to come out.

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Or what woman having 10 silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until he finds it? Now it's saying, look, now you have a big scale of 100. Let's go down to 10, just 10. You had 10 things and you lost one. It's still of equal importance. You turn the light on and sweep the house diligently until she finds it.

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And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the coin that I had lost. Just so I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. Again, that light, the lamp that he turns on or that the woman turns on to go find the ten coins is like the lamp of the Holy Spirit, the light of God.

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And then this house is like the church. And we look at how the church, through the power of the Spirit of God, seeks diligently to bring those in and disciple them and fellowship with them. And I think that's important in today's society. Like, man, there's a love for the local church that we need to just reinvent. here.

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Like I feel like so many people have put the bride on the back burner when in reality like Jesus has left us the system of the church to actually use for our spiritual heart to grow and to aid others. And we're going to see like how this light, this lamp is actually the Holy Spirit and how God can use the church to actually help people grow.

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Now let's read the parable of the prodigal son here and I've loved reading this this morning because it's just so amazing. So let's go. And then he said, Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country and there he squandered his property and reckless living.

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And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country and he began to be in need. Now, it wasn't because of his reckless behavior that a famine came about, but because of a famine, he just reaped like an awful harvest there. I mean, he's got no money and then a famine hits and he just gets the awful repercussions of this famine.

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So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country who sent him into the fields to feed the pigs. And he was longing to be fed so bad with the pods that the pigs ate and no one gave him anything. Now this would be awful in that time period for someone who was a Jew. Because in the Jewish culture, pigs were deemed as unclean.

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The swine were deemed as unclean in Leviticus 11 verse 7. So, when you look at this, this Jewish man was such in desperate need to be hungry that he would even be deemed unclean with the pigs if it meant that he would be fed. He was so hungry. But when he came to himself, he said, "...how many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger?

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I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants." So the son says, look, I can go back to my father, but I'm not going to ask for a handout. I'll just be a hired servant for the rest of my life because that's what I deserve. I get what I deserve.

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An eye for an eye is what the son says. And he actually practices this rehearsed speech of like, this is what I'm going to tell my father. And notice how when the son goes home, like he's going to go home to not only his father, but to the land and to the house. But he thinks of his father. And I think that's very important. He's not worried about something earthly now.

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Jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Get your tickets. Go. Come out. It's going to be a powerful night. We're going to have worship. God's preparing a word for the room that night. There's going to be some merch. It's going to be awesome, guys. I'm super, super excited. Let's dive into Luke chapter 15. I'm really excited about this chapter because it's just straight gospel.

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He's just like, man, I need my father. And I think in today's society, we just need our father. We just desperately need him. And through the father's love, we will find that security, significance, and satisfaction that we saw in the world. Whether it was through greed, whether it was through foolishness, whether it was through a sin, we find that in him. And he arose and came to the father.

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But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion and ran and embraced him and kissed him. Now imagine like every day, this is how I picture the story. The father, every day, is just looking down the road, waiting for his son to come home. Nothing. Every day, asking his hired servants, hey, have you seen anyone? No, no.

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And then imagine the day that he looks down and he sees someone coming, not knowing if it's his son, and he runs and he goes to see if it's his son from far off and it's not his son. And then he goes back and he's waiting, waiting, and finally this day comes when where he looks off and he sees someone far off in the distance and he runs and has compassion.

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He comes and he sees his son and he embraces him and he's looking past all of the foolishness, all of the greed, all of the wickedness that the son has done. He's just like, man, my son, you're back in your home. And the son said to him, father, I've sinned against heaven and before you, I am no longer worthy to be called your son.

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But the father said to his servants, look, I just, I don't care about that. You're home. Bring quickly the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring the fattened calf and kill it and let us eat and celebrate for my son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found and they began to celebrate.

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The father brings things to the son that were not of a necessity. He brings things to honor him. He's just glad he was home. For he was dead in his foolishness and his greed. But now he was home and is alive in his father. It's such a beautiful picture. And that's the beauty of the gospel. It's for such a long time. I thought I myself was so dirty.

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was so broken and there was nothing that I could do. Like, man, I had to clean myself up before I came to God, but I couldn't even do a good enough job to clean myself up. So I prolonged this time period of coming to God because like, man, I don't want him to give me a handout. Like, man, I got to fix myself. And then what I found when I finally had the courage to

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When I finally had the courage and when us as believers, like when we're lost and we finally have the courage and we just start taking steps, you realize that it's not about how quickly we can clean ourselves up, but Jesus has done the work.

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That he who knew no sin, he who knew wickedness, knew nothing but perfection, became every bit of agony and wickedness on the cross to cleanse you and I. So when he sees someone who is lost and dead in their trespasses, Coming home, maybe walking home in shame, he quickly runs and embraces you and I and says, look, forget the shame. I'm just glad you're home.

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You've recognized that you've done some awful stuff. Man, I don't even care. I'm just glad you're home. Like, thank you, but man, I'm glad you're home. And it's such a powerful moment that through the blood of Jesus Christ that we can be forgiven and seen as if nothing has happened. And it's not up to us to clean ourselves up. But when we come to Jesus, man, he just cleans us.

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Jesus is going to give three parables. You've probably heard these parables before. One in particular, I would say, is the parable of the prodigal son. And we're going to dive in and just hear the gospel and watch the gospel purely displayed here. Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to him.

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Such a beautiful picture. Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard this music and dancing and he called one of his servants and asked what these things meant. And he said to him, your brother has come and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound. But he was angry and refused to go in.

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His father came out and entreated him. Now we're watching the son, the older son, deal with bitterness. Bitterness will kill you. Bitterness will harm you. And it says in verse 28, but he was angry and refused to go when his father came out and entreated him. But he answered his father, look, these many years I've served you. I've never disobeyed your command.

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Yet you gave me a young goat that I might celebrate with my friends. This is a heart posture of the Pharisees. Like, man, we've done everything. We've followed the law. We've done this. We've done that. But like the Pharisees, our heart was far from God. But when the son of yours came who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.

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And he said to his son, son, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours. He's saying like, look, I'm not overlooked that my son, like, thank you. I'm so grateful and everything I've ever had is yours. I haven't withheld anything from you. But he said it was fitting to celebrate and rejoice and be glad for your brother was dead and is alive and he was lost and is found.

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Like, man, when we become alive, Jesus celebrates with us. And he doesn't forget that. Everything that is his is ours. But now when others come and they've been dead and now they're alive, we don't have to have bitterness and go like, man, where's that been? Man, I've been here for years. It's like, no, like, I'm so glad you're here. But man, he was dead. He has just come. Like, let's celebrate.

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That's so beautiful. That was chapter 15 of Luke. Man, what a powerful picture of the gospel. How powerful it is that we see the power of the cross that draws people to him and draws people to repentance. Man, we have so much to learn from these parables. Man, just Jesus, I never want to forget the power of the cross, the power of your blood. Man, Jesus, I just want to hold fast to this.

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God, I just want to seek you and know you and you make me more like you. God, let me never forget this. Jesus name. Amen. Guys, thank you so much for watching and listening today. If you guys enjoyed Luke 15, we'll be here tomorrow for Luke chapter 16. Go get your live show tickets for the podcast. January 19th, jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. I love you guys.

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See you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 16.

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And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them. Now I love how it says that the tax collectors and sinners were drawn to Jesus because it seems to me that those that are poor in spirit, that are spiritually bankrupt, those are the ones that draw near to Jesus. And then the Pharisees, on the other hand, they think they got it all made.

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Luke Series Chapter 8 (EP 62)

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What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce and today we're on Luke chapter 8 of the 24 day Luke Christmas challenge series where every day we're reading a chapter of Luke and by the time you get to Christmas Eve you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. Thank you guys for following along. You guys are loving the series.

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And I just want you to know that you can be clean. And he looks at me and he says, Bryce, no matter what you've done, it's as if you've never done it because of my blood. The thing that made the woman unclean is where Jesus' blood makes you and I clean and wipes our slate as if nothing has ever happened. Guys, I pray Luke chapter 8 has blessed you guys.

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So I think it's super powerful, just shows the humanity of Jesus Christ here. We're about to read the parable of the sower, and I'm going to break it down using the scripture below it. Oftentimes, this is a beautiful thing. I love getting to preach the word of God, but oftentimes, to understand scripture that Jesus says, we can just read some verses afterwards, and he tells us what's going on.

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So we're going to do that today. The parable of the sower. And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, a sower went out to sow a seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot. And the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock. And as it grew up, it withered away because it had no moisture.

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And some fell among the thorns and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew and it yielded a hundredfold.

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as he said these things he called out he who has ears to hear let him hear when jesus whenever jesus says let anyone who has ears to hear let him hear he's saying if any of you are humble enough to listen to the teachings and apply it to your life then do so now some might say well what does that parable mean we're about to jump down into it but why does jesus speak in parables if you guys remember i made a podcast about this earlier but it's a sifting mechanism it separates the people that just wanted the benefits of the kingdom without the king

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We're already a weekend. We're starting on week 2. Guys, this is amazing. We got a lot of good stuff in chapter 8, but before we get into it guys, January 19th. 6 p.m., first ever live podcast show in Los Angeles. Get your tickets at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. It's going to be a powerful night. There's going to be a word I believe God has stirred in my heart so specific to the room.

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and it separates the people that wanted Jesus for the king himself, who wanted deeper intimacy with him. Because those of them that showed up to Jesus, that just wanted healing, that just wanted to experience him for a moment, and he spoke in a parable, they would go, oh, whatever, and then they would walk away.

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But like the disciples, they would go, hey, Jesus, what did you mean when you said this? They wrestled with him. We're about to watch him say that. It says, And when the disciples asked him about this parable, he said to you, it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God. But for others, they're in parables so that seeing they may not see and hearing them in understand.

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Now, the parable is this. The seed is the word of God. So Jesus is saying this is what's going to happen when you preach the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts that they may not believe and be saved. There is a spiritual battle going on for someone's soul.

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So the seed that was sown amongst the path and it was trampled underfoot and the birds came and devoured it, Satan immediately took that seed that was taken. Like, man, there's a war for that soul.

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And that just makes me go, man, I wonder how much damage that person's going to do for the kingdom of God when Satan can't take that seed and it's just going to plant and water and grow in that person's life. Then it says, and the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, they receive it with joy, but these have no root and they believe for a while.

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And in the time of testing, they fall away. I remember at church camp, I would go to church camp in the summer and I was giving my life to Jesus every summer. I was at the altar every summer. Your boy was at the altar every summer. And it was because at church camp, you went a week of just a super hyper emotional environment, malnourished because of the food.

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And the last night the music was hitting just right. And I was out there giving my life to Jesus and I was receiving it with joy. But it was like, take it back to your schools. And I was like, no, I will not take it back to my school. No, I will not share Jesus with people. It's like, look, you receive it with joy. But when times get hard, the time of testing, they fall away. It has no depth.

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I think a lot of us fall for that. He's saying, look, that's going to happen to a lot of people. And as for those that fell among the thorns, there are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of the life, and their fruit does not mature.

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Saying, look, those that get distracted by riches, the love for money, those that get distracted by sin, their faith is actually going to choke out. They're going to stop producing fruit. And then he says, as for that in good soil, that's those who hear the word, hold fast in an honest and good heart and bear fruit with its patience.

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That's when the seed falls on good soil, it waters and produces fruits. Beautiful thing. Verse 16, no one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand so that those who enter may see the light.

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Man, when have you ever been changed by the goodness of God and thought, I'm not going to tell anyone or thought, man, I'm just like, I'm going to not do anything or not going to be bold. Man, our boldness, our love, the reason we forgive our servanthood, our actions are the byproduct of.

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of the light that lives inside of us if jesus is the light and the light lives inside of us that means everywhere we go we are a light and it is accessible to anyone there's the spirit of wherever the spirit of the lord is there is freedom and if the spirit of the lord lives in you then freedom is accessible to anyone anywhere at all times that's powerful

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I'm super expectant. Got a lot of faith for that night. So show up January 19th at 6 p.m. Go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets to get your tickets. Let's go into Luke chapter 8. Now we're going to see Luke open up chapter 8 here with talking about women accompanying Jesus. He said, And the twelve were with him and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities.

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For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. Everything comes to light. Take care then how you hear. For to the one who has, more will be given. And from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away. Jesus' mother and brothers. I love this passage.

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Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd. Who would have thought, you know, in their right mind, most people think, oh, well, it's his mother and his brothers. They would have had special treatment because they're mothers and brothers. But even Jesus' family, he shows no partiality to. Man, he's just a man of his word.

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And he was told, your mother and your brothers are standing outside desiring to see you. But he answered to them, my mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it. Those who are followers of me, those who obey my word, those are a part of my family. Those are the people are part of my family. So that's encouragement for you.

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Like the reason we obey his word is not because we have to, but because we want to, because we love him. And those that obey his word are a part of his family. Jesus calms a storm. I love this story. Man, you guys need to be encouraged with your faith, man. we got to understand Jesus is a promise keeper. He's faithful.

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That's why in the covenant with Abraham, God is the only one standing in the place of the covenant because he's like, you're a man, you're going to fail, but I'm God. I can't fail. God is a promise keeper. If he speaks something to you through scripture over your life, he's a promise keeper. It will come to pass. So I think this story is a testament to our faith in Jesus Christ.

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And at this time, the disciples are still trying to figure out who Jesus is. They've seen him do some miracles and they're like, we've never seen anyone like you before. One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, Let us go across to the other side of the lake. So they set out, and as they sailed, he fell asleep.

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And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. And they went and woke him, saying, Master, Master, we are perishing. And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm. He said to them, Where is your faith?

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As they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, Who then is this that even he who commands the winds and waters, they obey him? Why does Jesus tell the disciples, where's your faith? It's not because he's trying to scold them or because he's being petty. It's because before they went on the boat, he said, hey, we're going to the other side. It's not, hey, we might be getting there.

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It's no, it's a guarantee. We're going to the other side. What he spoke is true. And so he's trying to tell the disciples, listen, if I tell you guys something's going to happen, it's going to happen. It doesn't matter the storms of life that come your way, the trials that come your way. If I speak something that's going to happen, it's going to happen. He says, you've got to trust in my word.

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And so when Jesus speaks something into your life, no matter the trials and the storms and the hard times that come, if Jesus has spoken something through his word, it will come to pass. It will come to pass. So Jesus is saying, trust in my word here. We got two final beautiful stories here in Luke chapter 8, I believe. Yeah, two final stories is powerful. Jesus heals a man with a demon now.

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And he says, then he sailed to the country of Gerasenes, which is opposite of Galilee. When Jesus had stepped out on the land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. So this man sought Jesus out. Then Jesus asked him, what's your name? And the demons said legion for many demons that are in this guy had multiple demons in him.

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But they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss. What is the abyss? They're talking about referencing Revelation 9 11. And this is the bottomless pit that Satan and his demons are destined to. When Jesus returns a second time, he's like, guys, please don't send this here. Please don't.

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Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. Then the demons came out of the man, entered the pigs. The demons have to obey Jesus Christ in the name of Jesus. They tremble at his name. And the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.

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The response of the pigs, because the demons entered them, shows the destructive nature of demons. The demons enter the pigs, and they run down a hill, and they drown themselves. It's intense, but it shows the destructive nature of these demons. He says, So he got into a boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him.

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But Jesus sent him away saying, return to your home and declare how much God has done for you. So now we see a different stance where instead of Jesus saying, hey, don't tell anyone about this. He goes, actually go home and tell people about this because Jesus is now in his earthly ministry. And he went away proclaiming through the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

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Now we're about to enter the final story here in Luke chapter 8. Let's prepare our hearts here because I think this story is so powerful and can teach us a lot about hungering for the things of God. Jesus heals both a woman with a bleeding disease and a man named Jairus' daughter. Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him for they were all waiting for him.

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Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out. Joanna, the wife of Chusa, Herod's household manager, and Susanna and many others who provided for them out of their means. Now, this is interesting that Jesus is traveling with some women as well, because he had a different perspective of women than the religious leaders did at the time.

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And there was a man named Jairus who was a ruler of the synagogue. A man of esteemed respect.

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high authority and high power this guy's at the synagogue and he has a daughter who is sick and is 12 years old okay and he falls at the feet of jesus he implored him to come to his house so this man of high respect high authority and a jew a ruler in the synagogue a synagogue wasn't just like a place of worship i mean this would be like a central point for the people

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He falls down before all these people who are trying to figure out who Jesus is and goes, Jesus, you're the Christ, come help my daughter. For he had only one daughter about 12 years of age and she was dying. Keep in mind the age of this girl. As Jesus went, he was going, the people pressed around him and there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for 12 years.

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This woman who had a bleeding disease for 12 years had the bleeding disease for the same amount of time this child had been alive. She had spent all her living on physicians, and no one could heal her. She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased. She thought that if she could just touch Jesus Christ, that she would be healed.

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That's beautiful faith. And Jesus said, who was it that touched me? Now, you've got to keep in mind, Jesus is crowded and being pushed by so many different people. But because of this woman's faith, and she experienced the healing power of Jesus Christ by his touch, he knew that power went out of him. When all denied it, Peter said, master, the crowds surround you and are pressing on you.

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But Jesus said, someone touched me for I perceived the power had gone out for me. And you have to keep in mind, this woman also did this in secret because she would have been deemed unclean. Like if people knew about her bleeding disease, they were not allowed to be touched by her because they were like, she's got blood on her. She's bleeding. She's unclean.

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So she probably did this in secret too to protect Jesus because she's like, man, people think I'm unclean. If they know I touched Jesus, I would have made him unclean. But I know if I touch him, he's going to make me clean. And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling and falling down before him in the synagogue in this public area that all these people are going to see.

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And the presence of all people was she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed. And he looked at her, someone that people had written off as unclean, gross. He looked at her and said, daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. And while he was still speaking, someone from the ruler's house came and said, Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher anymore.

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So keep in mind, the second the woman gets healed is the second that Jairus' daughter is pronounced dead. Okay, isn't it crazy? For 12 years, this little girl's been alive, and for that same amount of time, this lady has had the bleeding disease. And the second that she gets healed is the second that his daughter is pronounced dead. Isn't it interesting? Your daughter is dead.

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Do not trouble the teacher anymore. But Jesus on hearing this answered him, do not fear, only believe and she will be well. Because even death is like no match for Jesus. Even death can't conquer Jesus. Jesus conquered death, both in his earthly ministry, raising people from the dead and on the cross. He defeated it. He defeated the very thing that is our punishment that separates us from him.

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Sin and death separate us from him. And he came to the house. He allowed no one to enter with him except Peter and John and James, his closest friends, and the father and the mother of the child. And all were weeping and mourning for her.

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Alongside that, it also says that many others who provided for them out of their means. So this is saying that Jesus could have produced as much money as he wanted, as much food as he wanted because he was God, but no, it shows him in his humanity relying on the servanthood of others to provide for the ministry that they're accomplishing.

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Now, keep in mind, oftentimes in this time period when someone died, they would literally have professional mourners like outside of someone's house mourning for them. And Jesus is probably confused. He's like, why did you tell them to come here? I told you I was coming. Like, think that, like, why are they here? And he says, he literally tells them, do not weep for she's not dead.

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She's just sleeping. And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. But taking her by the hand, he called, saying, Child, arise. And her spirit returned, and she got up at once, and he directed that something should be given to her to eat. And her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened. What a beautiful chapter in Luke chapter 8.

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We see many things, and I love how it closes out with this, because it shows us that even death is no match for Jesus. And that even comes down to our spiritual health. Man, before I knew Jesus, I was spiritually bankrupt. I was probably the lost ever. I was lost in myself. I was lost in the world. I was doing things I shouldn't have been doing. I was just on a quest for love.

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And I remember being on this quest for love and filling my heart with everything but Jesus and feeling so lost and so dirty and thought I was never good enough for Jesus. And yet my spiritual bankruptcy was no match for Jesus. Because when he died on the cross, he's sitting there on the cross going, man, Bryce, I'm thinking about you. I love you. I'm for you. And I'm going to die for you.

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What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce. And in today's episode, this is the first of 24 back to back to back podcast episodes for the Luke Christmas challenge. The whole month of December, we were reading a chapter of Luke every day on the podcast, whether you're watching or listening verse by verse breakdowns.

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And so the angel Gabriel is saying, no, this is a God thing. This is going to happen. And the glory of the Lord will protect you, will be over you, will overshadow you. The child will be born. He will be holy, the son of God. Jesus Christ will be the son of God. He is the son of God. Verse 36, and behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son.

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And this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. So he's saying, look, I'm going to even take it up a notch. I'm going to show you the proof and the pudding here. You're not the only one I've approached. He says, I actually approached Elizabeth, one of your relatives, and you know her. She's not able to have children in the physical realm. But guess what?

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In the first two verses, Luke is mentioning the prior accounts of Jesus Christ, particularly the book of Matthew and the book of Mark. And he's saying, look, the reason I'm writing this book myself, Luke here, he acknowledges that Matthew and Mark have written accounts. But he says, look, I'm about to write the most comprehensive gospel that we have on account.

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God has chosen her to bear a child, John the Baptist. who's actually going to prepare the way for the Messiah that you're going to bear. And not only that, but he's answered their prayers of wanting a child. Verse 37, for nothing will be impossible with God. And Mary said, behold, I am the servant of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.

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Man, what a beautiful picture here. Verse 39, And those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country to a town in Judah. She entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. Look, now Mary goes and visits Elizabeth because she has heard the news. She is having a baby. She's holding Jesus Christ in her belly. But then she also hears that Elizabeth is having John the Baptist.

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And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leapt in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

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John the Baptist could feel the presence of God through the belly of Elizabeth and understood the assignment so much so that because of the Holy Spirit being filled inside of Elizabeth and being filled inside of John the Baptist in the womb, he was able to leap with joy for the assignment that was about to come into the world, which is Jesus Christ. And she gives a blessing.

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She says, blessed are you among women. Blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leapt for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord. Now, Mary's song of praise, the magnificent.

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So from verse 46 through 56, you guys can go read it yourself. But Mary sings a song to the Lord. This isn't just any song that she made up again, because Mary is a righteous woman, a faithful woman of God. who is a woman of the word. She's actually quoting like 12 different scriptures here when she's singing the song, including a good portion of it from 1 Samuel.

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And so when we read the scripture, we know, hey, look, Mary is able to have this heart posture because she's a woman of the word. But she's releasing a song to the Lord out of praise, saying, look, this is coming from my heart. God, I love you. This is beautiful. The Lord is so cool how Mary is able to worship the Lord through song from scripture. Beautiful.

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Verse 57 is now the birth of John the Baptist. Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth. She bore a son, and her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they would have called him Zachariah after his father.

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So normally when children were born, they would name them after the child, but Zacharias and Elizabeth knew that the Lord had already given a name for the baby, John. So they had to go with it. But his mother answered, No, he shall be called John. Verse 61, And they said to her, None of your relatives is called by this name.

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I'm going to write from the announcement of John the Baptist, from the announcement that that Elizabeth and Zacharias get from the angel Gabriel up until Jesus's ascension. He's writing the most comprehensive gospel that we read today. And then we have to understand what's going on in Luke.

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And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he wanted him to be called. That's so funny because they treated Zacharias as if he was deaf, but he could hear everyone. He was just mute. The Lord silenced his mouth. They're doing sign language to Zacharias as if he can't hear them, but he can hear them. He's just mute. The Lord only punished his mouth.

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So just like Gabriel promised, his tongue was released once the child was born. And now we're about to watch Zechariah close out Luke chapter 1 here with a prophecy. Now that his tongue was released, it says that Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit in verse 67. And he says,

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to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our father Abraham to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear. In holiness and in righteousness before him all of our days, and you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways.

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to give knowledge of salvation to his people and forgiveness of their sins because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet in the way of peace.

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And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel. Now what's happening in Zachariah's prophecy? He's just prophesying exactly what Jesus Christ is about to be. Jesus Christ, look, let's substitute him in these verses. Jesus Christ has visited and redeemed his people. He's going to do that.

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Jesus Christ is the horn of salvation for us. Jesus Christ is going to show mercy promised to our fathers. He's going to remember the covenant with the Father. He's going to deliver them from the hand of their enemies so that they can serve him without fear. Jesus Christ is going to give knowledge of salvation to his people and the forgiveness of their sins.

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Jesus Christ is the tender mercy of our God. Jesus Christ is going to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death to guide their feet in the way of peace. And then verse 80 closes out saying that John the Baptist grew up, he became strong in spirit just like the angel Gabriel promised, and he was in the wilderness until it was his time to prepare the way for the Lord.

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Man, what a beautiful scene to understand the context of Luke chapter 1. We understand what Luke's about, why he's writing. We understand the context of who John the Baptist is, where he came from, the history of his family, the history of Mary and Joseph, what that encounter looked like with Mary, the difference between questioning God out of unbelief

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is one of the most interesting when it comes to the roles of women, children, and social outcasts concerning people and Jesus. It's one of the most interesting Gospels when it comes to prayer. There are seven different references of Jesus and prayer throughout this Gospel. This is also one of the most emphasizing Gospels on the Holy Spirit and joy.

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And questioning God out of trusting him through logical understanding as we see with Mary. And now we're about to enter into a whole new storyline in Luke chapter 2. And watch the story of Jesus Christ unfold. Watch his ministry unfold. And the covenant of God come into a full circle moment. And into full picture.

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Guys, thank you so much for listening and watching the first episode of the Luke series. I pray that the series blesses you all month. Like, subscribe, follow us on all platforms, Bryce Crawford Podcast. And I'll see you guys tomorrow for tomorrow's episode of Luke chapter 2.

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It has a huge emphasis on preaching the good news as well. It's so interesting in the book of Luke, the term good news referring to the gospel, preaching the gospel is used 10 times in the book of Luke, where it's only used once in every other gospel. And then that term is also used in the book of Acts like over 15 times.

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And a lot of people read the book of Luke and then immediately the book of Acts because they flow right together. I mean, you've got Jesus' ascension and then boom, Acts 1. It's such a beautiful flowing of Luke from a gospel to Acts. I think it's beautiful. But we have to understand what we're about to read here when we read Luke.

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We're about to read a lot of interesting things about the life of Jesus. Okay, so this is what Luke's saying. He's like, look, I'm writing this to give you a comprehensive gospel to understand the life of Jesus here, is what he says. Here we go in verse 5. In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah of the division of Abijah.

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And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. But they had no child because Elizabeth was barren and both were advanced in their years. OK, so we need to understand something here really quick context.

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So by Christmas Eve, you will have read the entire book of Luke. It's amazing. And guys, if you go to our ministry website, jesusinthestreet.org slash Luke, you can actually download a PDF for free or you can put it in your photos and it's just a calendar with the days and you can check off that you read Luke for yourself and that you watched or listened to the episodes here.

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Again, this is going to be important to understanding stuff. Zacharias was a priest back in this time period. There were about 20,000 priests that existed. OK, there were a whole lot of priests. So it is they. So the reason that they cast it a lot to find out who would serve on which days is because they had 20,000 priests.

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OK, so we see that in verse eight says now while he was serving as a priest before God, when his division was on duty. Verse nine, according to the custom of the priesthood. He was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense. And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside of the hour of incense.

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OK, so there was a lot that casted to find out who was going to burn the incense, who was going to do the offering of the Lord, because there were literally 20,000 priests that existed. OK, and this lot, if you got chosen to be the person to burn the incense. This was like a maybe. Not every priest was promised this. This was a once-in-a-lifetime event, okay?

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So the fact that Zacharias got chosen to burn the incense, this is like the biggest day of Zacharias' entire life, is that he gets to stand before the Lord in the presence of the Lord and offer something to Him, okay? Not everyone got to do this, and... If we understand here, 20,000 priests, priests have done this before him. There's probably a thing where Zacharias is nervous.

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It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I just have to put myself in his shoes. Maybe he asked other priests what happened when you burned the offering. Maybe he's talking to them and going, hey, what happens when you go in here? What happens when you offer the burnt incense? What's going on? But the fact that he got chosen to offer the burnt incense to the Lord is a big deal, okay? And

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Here's the thing about the incense. The incense was offered to God on a golden altar every morning and every evening of every day. It was a part of the law of Moses as we read in Exodus and Leviticus. And there were three different lots that were casted for this. The first and second lot were important. But they weren't like the big roll.

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The first lot was cast to see who cleansed the altar and prepped the fire. The second lot was cast to see who would kill the morning sacrifice and sprinkle the altar, golden candlestick, and the altar of incense. But the third lot that was casted, the one that Zacharias won, the important one, was the person who offered the incense. one who would actually go before the presence of the Lord.

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And this was the most privileged duty that anyone could ever get. Again, we need to emphasize this. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a priest in this time period to get to do this for the Lord. So this is important. Alright, we just have to understand here. Imagine Zacharias asking other priests what exactly went down when they went before the Lord and offered the burnt incense.

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And then he's praying and he opens his eyes and then there's an angel of the Lord standing before him. All right. This again isn't normal. He's probably like, they didn't tell me that this happened. This is not common. And it says, Zechariah, fear fell upon him, all right? We have to understand, an angel appearing before someone wasn't this like romantic, beautiful thing, all right?

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But basically what we're going to do is we're going to read through each chapter of Luke verse by verse and we're going to break it down. What's going on in Luke? What's the context? What is happening? We're going to do it. Before we get into it, guys, visit JesusInTheStreet.com to get you some lovely merch and some hoodies for the holiday season. Now, let's get into it. Now, this is beautiful.

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This was a supernatural being that no human being has comprehension in their brain to understand that's standing before him. And he's probably freaking out. It says that fear fell upon him. And just like any other angel has to say to any other human being that comes in contact with him is do not be afraid. He says, do not be afraid, Zechariah.

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For your prayer has been heard and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son and you shall call his name John. And we have a lot to learn from this really quick. But let's let's let me emphasize something really quick. He says, do not be afraid, Zachariah, for your prayer has been heard.

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Anytime a priest would go into into offer the burnt incense to the Lord, they would often pray for Israel at the time. They would often pray for the people of Israel and they would oftentimes have a prayer list, but it would be particularly memorized in their brain.

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And Zachariah, having this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, is probably thinking about that prayer in his brain that he was wanting to pray for Elizabeth to have a child. They're advanced in years. They're old. And Elizabeth's barren. She physically, in the physical realm, in this earthly realm, would be written off. You can't have kids.

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So in the back of his mind, before Zechariah's going in, he's probably thinking, oh man, this is important to me. But because it's a civil duty as a priest, he probably thought, man, this is selfish of me to bring up in the presence of the Lord. So he's probably only praying on behalf of Israel. So for the angel Gabriel to be like, hey, yeah, the Lord's answered your prayer.

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You're going to have a son. He's probably a little bit confused because he's in there praying on behalf of Israel. He says, your prayer has been heard and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son and you shall call his name John. and you will have joy and gladness and many will rejoice at his birth.

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Man, when I read that and I think about, man, the Lord revealing to Zachariah and saying, hey, man, we heard your prayer and the Lord is going to answer your prayer. Like how often do we offer up prayers to the Lord and we get impatient and And we don't get an answer right away. And we think as if that God doesn't show his love and care for us anymore because we didn't get an immediate answer.

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And this is living proof that even though it was a long time of prayer being offered up to the Lord for a child on behalf of Zachariah and Elizabeth, it shows that he actually does extend his love and care to his children. He cares about the desires on their heart. He cares about the desires on your heart. And so it's easy for us to become complacent and not get an immediate answer from God.

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But this is living proof that man, God does care about what we pray for and he will give us an answer here. He says in verse 15, for he will be great before the Lord. He must not drink wine or strong drink and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb.

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The reference to not drinking wine or strong drink is just in reference to a Nazarite vow that from an early age that John the Baptist is going to be set apart.

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before people that he has a duty to prepare the way for the messiah and he will turn many of the children of the is of israel to the lord their god and he will go before him in spirit and power of elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just and to make ready for the lord a prepared people so again here we go

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We need to understand the author of the book of Luke is Luke, okay? And he is a doctor. Now, we're going to find out what exactly, why he's writing it, what is his purpose of, what's going on in Luke, and then we're going to break down the substance of it, okay? So let's read the first couple of verses here. He says, Okay, so we learned a couple things here.

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He's being consecrated, set apart early. God has destined a role for John the Baptist, has given him a name before he's even been like conceived. And he says, look, he's got a role for the Messiah. This is going to be powerful. It's going to be amazing. Okay. And he's going to prepare the way. And Zacharias says something crazy here. He says, how shall I know this?

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For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years. He questions the angel Gabriel, but he questions him out of doubt because he is looking at it from a carnal perspective of saying, man, I'm old in years. My wife's old in years. There's no way we can have a kid. He's looking at it from a carnal mind and he questions God in doubt. And the angel says, I am Gabriel.

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I stand in the presence of God and I was sent here to speak to you and bring you this good news. So where Zachariah is feeding his doubt by reminding himself of a carnal perspective, Gabriel reminds him who he is and what authority he stands on. Gabriel says, I'm an angel of the Lord and I stand in the presence of God. I came here on behalf of the Lord to tell you that he's a promise keeper.

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He's going to answer this. And then he says, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place because you do not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time. So the punishment for Zachariah having disbelief is the fact that he can't enjoy the promise of God.

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Just because Zachariah had unbelief, that doesn't mean that he took away God's promise because God is a promise keeper. But Zachariah didn't get to enjoy the longevity of anticipating this blessing from God because he gets punished for his unbelief. And this is this is so crazy in verse 21. It says the people were waiting for Zachariah and they were wondering at his delay in the temple.

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Because normally the priests going in and out of the temple was clockwork around the same time period. And normally, if it took a little bit longer than normal, the people get worried because they thought maybe they messed up in the ritual. God struck them down because they did something incorrect. So they were a little bit worried.

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But Zechariah walked out and he was unable to speak to them and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple and he kept making signs to them and remained mute. And when his time of service was ended, he went to his home. Zechariah came out and the people were relieved and they knew because he was mute that he had some encounter with the Lord in there.

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But man, what a beautiful comfort to know, man. Zacharias didn't die. He didn't mess up like in the presence of the Lord to be struck down out of the ritual. But man, he encountered the Lord and it was beautiful.

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Verse 24, after these days, his wife, Elizabeth, conceived and for five months she kept herself hidden, saying, thus the Lord has done for me in these days when he looked upon me to take away my reproach among the people. So Elizabeth conceived John the Baptist. They walk out in action what God had promised them. They're in a covenant relationship. Elizabeth conceives John.

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It says that she hid herself. Now, we need to understand this. Elizabeth didn't hide herself because she was embarrassed of her pregnancy. The phrase she kept herself hidden was saying she hid herself for five months with the Lord. She wanted to be in secret for the Lord to just bathe and thank the Lord for this blessing and thank the Lord for him being a promise keeper and hearing her prayers.

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Now in verse 26, we transition into the birth of Jesus being foretold. So the assignment of Gabriel isn't done. He doesn't just go to Elizabeth and say, see you later. It says in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent to a city named Nazareth, to a virgin named Mary who was betrothed to a man named Joseph. Now, there were three stages of marriage back in that time period. You had engagement.

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You had betrothment, betrothal. I think I could be saying that wrong. And marriage. Betrothal was just a vow of promises that you made exactly a year before marriage. And Mary is betrothed to Joseph. And here's the thing. It was very shameful in that time period to have sex outside of a covenant marriage. This was a very rare thing. So we're about to see something unfold here.

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And Mary was a virgin. And Gabriel came to her and said, Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you. But she was greatly troubled at the saying and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, Again, do not be afraid, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. Okay?

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He will be great. He will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David. and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom, and there will be no end. Okay, this is beautiful.

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When it says that she was greatly troubled at the sight, trying to discern where she was going, and the angel says, do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. The angel Gabriel is complimenting Mary for her righteousness and faithfulness to God. She has been chosen because of her righteousness and faithfulness.

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And he actually, because Mary is a woman of the word, she recognizes that the angel Gabriel is quoting Isaiah 7. When he says, behold, you will conceive in your room and bear a son and you shall call his name Jesus. So she knows unmistakably what is going down here. This isn't just some normal Jesus. This is the Messiah that they're talking about. She understands this.

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And Mary said to the angel, how will this be since I'm a virgin? Now we need to understand something. Mary asks the very same question that Zacharias asked, but why isn't Mary punished for her question? Zacharias asked out of a heart posture of unbelief. Mary was a woman of the word. She understood what was going on in this conversation with Gabriel.

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Her question came out of a logical understanding. She goes, how can this be because I'm a virgin? She goes, how can I bear a son if I'm not married yet? How does that work? This is a logical question. She's abiding by the law. She's not going to commit adultery. The Lord's not going to tell her to go out of the law that he set before mankind. So she's asking out of a logical understanding.

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How can this happen if I'm not married yet? How is this going to work? This is why she isn't punished. She's thinking well here and honoring the Lord. The angel answered her in verse 35, the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow you. Therefore, the child to be born will be called holy, the son of God.

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That term in verse 35, where it says the power of the most high will overshadow you. You see this in Exodus. It's called the Shekinah glory, but it's basically this visible cloud of the presence of God that would hover over a place or hover over someone like Moses to show that, man, this is ordained by God. This is a beautiful thing that is orchestrated by God.

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Luke Series Chapter 21 (EP 75)

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we are on Luke chapter 21 of the 24-day Luke Christmas Challenge, where every day we've been reading a chapter of Luke. So by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole Gospel of Luke. Moses has jumped in my lap once again to block the camera.

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See, so quick to just understand these little tidbits. Like, man, there's so many just small things that we can just understand very quickly here. Now, the rest of this chapter 21 is going to be mirroring what goes on in Matthew chapter 24 about the end times. Now, there's a complete picture in Matthew chapter 24, but there's some stuff here that we can still learn in Luke chapter 21.

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And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, So right now, Jesus is prophesying something that's going to happen in A.D. 70. where Rome is basically going to surround the city of Jerusalem, and then they're going to level Jerusalem.

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I think approximately at this time, like 1.1 million Jews were killed during this thing that happened in AD 70, that Jesus is actually prophesying is going to happen. But when they went through and leveled Jerusalem, they took out the temple as well. And keep in mind, in Acts 6, we see that speaking against the temple could have been marked as blasphemy.

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This is his favorite thing to do. I think like, you know, I have a curse of... moses blocking the camera i have a friend of mine carl he has the curse of the leaf blower where every time he does a podcast a leaf blower goes off before we get into chapter 21 guys january 19th 6 p.m here in los angeles we got our first ever live podcast show moses will be there He'll be there. I'll be there.

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So this is a very bold thing that Jesus is doing, but he's prophesying that like, hey, this thing's going to happen. The temple's going to go down. And it actually does happen in AD 70. And they asked him, teacher, when will these things be? And what will the sign when these things are about to take place? So he's not just talking about the temple.

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He's going to talk about the end times here, but he's also talking about, look, what's going to happen here and then soon when Jesus Christ will return a second time. See that you are not led astray, for many will come in my name saying, I am he and the time is at hand. Do not go after them. Many people have come now and said that they are Jesus and they have not been Jesus.

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Many people have come saying, oh, this is the date and the hour in which Jesus is going to return again. That is a lie. No one knows except God the Father. Even Christ doesn't know. Only God the Father knows. Now Jesus is going to foretell wars and persecution. Then he says, and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

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But before all this, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake. This will be your opportunity to bear witness. The Bible teaches us that those who endure till the end will be saved. And in Revelation, it actually talks about there being a great falling away.

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Why would people fall away and leave the faith? Why would people do that? Well, for one, it might be the persecution. Because we're about to read here later on in verse 16 about who will be delivering people up for persecution. So sometimes persecution, people can't handle the heat, so they get out of the kitchen, they leave Jesus, they denounce the faith, maybe because of other different things.

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But he's like, look, when you're getting persecuted, this is the perfect time to bear witness. And then he says, settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. So he's saying the Holy Spirit will give you the strength and the words to speak at the time period.

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Verse 16, who's going to deliver you up for persecution? You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends. And some of you, they will put you to death. You will be hated for my name's sake, but not a hair on your head will perish. By your endurance, you will gain your lives. He's saying, look, even the closest people to you might deliver you up for persecution.

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This is what's going to happen in the end times. We believe in a great falling away. The people are going to leave the faith. But he's like, endure to the end. Endure to the end. Endure to the end. That's what we're learning. Now in verse 20. He's going to expound on the thing that he prophesied here in verse 6 about the temple being destroyed.

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But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart. And let not those who are out of the country enter it. For these are days of vengeance to fulfill all that is written.

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Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days. For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people." They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. So AD 70, this happens.

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The Romans conquered Jerusalem, and it is. And for a time period, the Gentiles were running Jerusalem. And then if you look in Daniel, I believe it's chapter 9, you see the seven-year time period in which the author here, Luke, is saying this begins after all that happens.

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Verse 25, And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars and on the earth distress of nations and perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is to come of the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken, and then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

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It's going to be a powerful night. I want you guys to come out. Go get your tickets at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets to come join us. It's going to be a powerful night. It's going to be awesome. I want you guys there. And the funds actually help support our ministry. It actually helps us create the videos and mobilize us to go to these dark places in America and share the gospel.

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Now, when these things begin to take place, straighten up, raise your heads because your redemption is drawing near. Jesus is going to bring justice when he returns. Justice and judgment with the iron fist. He's coming down and declaring righteous judgment. It's powerful. And I love like this. It's going to close here. We're not done yet. We've got quite a few more verses.

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But when he closes Luke chapter 21, I love it. He's like, look, stay awake, like be prepared at all times. Like when we learn about the end times, it's not a scary thing. It's scary for those that aren't right with God, but it's a warning to always be ready. Always be ready. It's like a, hey, don't wait to get right with God. Get right with God now. Because tomorrow isn't promised.

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Jesus could come raining down on a white cloud with power tomorrow. So be cautious, be cautious. Then he gives them the lesson of the fig tree. Look at the fig tree and all the trees. As soon as they come out and leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near. So you look at the blooming of a fig tree and you know when it's ripe and ready for harvest.

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So also when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all is taking place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. Jesus is giving us signs, saying like, look, here's signs that the end will come, but no one knows the day or the hour, but here's the signs.

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And you know what the beautiful thing about the end times is? We've always been in the end times. The end times is just the time period in which we wait for Jesus to return a second time. So imagine how terrified these people were after they saw Jesus Christ crucified in the veil tour, and then he resurrected three days later, and they're like, oh my gosh, he really is going to return.

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And then imagine how they felt in 70 AD when 1.1 million Jews were killed in Jerusalem by Romans and they take over Jerusalem. Imagine how they thought that Jesus was about to return the next day. We're here 2000 years later and we don't know when it's coming. I'm not saying that as in to be passive in your faith. I'm saying that is you don't know when. There are signs that tell us.

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Now we're closing out chapter 21 with this encouragement. But watch yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life. And that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. Like it's going to come like a thief in the night. Like don't fall to the temptations of the world, drunkenness and cares of this life.

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For it will come upon all who dwell in the face of the whole earth. But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to stand before the Son of Man. And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.

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And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him. There's a lot of end times talk there. We can learn a lot from Luke chapter 21. Be encouraged, my friends.

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As believers, there's a weight and a fear of the Lord of going, okay, if I'm right with God, but there's other people that aren't, then I need to do everything in my power that I can to tell people about Jesus and allow the Holy Spirit to bring the increase in their life, to draw people near to him for salvation. Guys, I pray that Luke chapter 21 was a blessing to you guys. I love you guys.

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Go get your live podcast show tickets at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. And I'll see you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 22.

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So it's going to be good. Now I got to scoot Moses over because we are, oh, he does not want to scoot over. There we go. Scoot over. Scoot over. All right. There we go. All right. Chapter 21. Let's read what's going on here. First, we've got a widow's offering and we're going to see a story of some Pharisees tithing versus a widow.

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Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box. And then he saw a poor widow putting two small copper coins. And he said, truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. He said, not just one of them, more than all of them combined. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.

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What is this saying? That the spirit behind the giving is greater than the amount we give. That if our heart posture behind giving is to destroy the gates of hell, is to see the kingdom of God expanded versus to flaunt our money or because it doesn't hurt our pocket, there's a big difference there. Now we're about to jump into verse 5. See, isn't that so crazy?

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Luke Series Chapter 14 (EP 68)

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and in today's episode, we are on Luke 14, chapter 14 of the 24-day Luke series, where every day we're reading a chapter of Luke. So by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. Guys, still recovering. I got this sickness. It's not good.

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And he who invited you both will come and say to you, give your place to this person. And then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. Saying, look, you guys like to be seen by other people. You guys think you're the best in the room.

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And so what is it like if you show up to a party assuming you're the best in the room and the host of that party says, actually step down, I'm exalting this person instead. Then he says this, but when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place so that when your host comes, he may say to you, friend, move up higher. Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table.

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Now, Jesus is saying this. He's talking about humility and pride here. And he's saying, look, don't assume you're the best in the room, but actually go to the lowest place. He's like, you're not going to the lowest place as if you're worth dirt, but you're just content in where the Lord has placed you.

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And now you allow the Lord to place you where you're at, and you allow the Lord to exalt you and move you up. You don't move yourself up. You allow the Lord to exalt you and move you up in whatever time and place you're in. Be content in that season where God has you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

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But before we get into it, guys, a couple things. First off, January 19th. First ever live podcast show. It's going to be insane. I want you guys there. Please come. It's going to be powerful. For some reason, the website says 21 and up, but all ages are welcome. So if you guys want to come, go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets and get your tickets. Come on. It supports our ministry.

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This goes whether in this lifetime or when eternity comes and we face judgment. Those who have led an entire life of pride, they'll be humbled. And those who were humbled and listened, they will be exalted. Listen, Jesus, if you oftentimes read the Bible and Jesus says, those who have ears, let him hear.

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He's saying those who are humble, those who are humble enough to listen, listen to what I'm saying. The parable of the great banquet, verse 12. He said also to the man who had invited him, when you give a dinner or banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

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So Jesus is saying, look, why is it that you host these parties and you only invite people, you only honor people, you only allow people to come around that either owe you favors or that you're close friends? He's like, don't do that. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed because they cannot repay you.

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For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just. He's saying like, look, listen, we need to like, if you guys know about, I think it's in Matthew 25, I think it's Matthew 25, where Jesus said, for I was naked and you clothed me, for I was hungry and you gave me food, for I was thirsty and you gave me a drink, for what you do to the least of these you do unto me.

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We live a life not just serving those that we benefit from. We need to live a life that is glorifying to God that serve those, even though we may never get anything back in return. That's true humility. When one of those who reclined at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, blessed is everyone who will eat the bread in the kingdom of God.

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But he said to him, a man once gave a great banquet and invited many. And at the time for the banquet, he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, come for everything is now ready. So there's been a big feast prepared and all those that have been invited, the servant goes, hey, look, the feast is ready. Now imagine this, right? Jesus Christ has an original design for mankind.

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He's made you and I in His image, and He has an original design for mankind, but sin separates us and corrupts and perverts the original design. Now, Jesus comes to us and says, my son, my daughter, I have a feast for you. Let's dine. Let's spend time together. Come become more like me. Jesus's offers on the table. And you say, oh, you know what? Well, I'm too young.

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When I get older, I'll hang out with you, but I'm too young right now. So I'll do, I'll live my life. And then when I get older, I'll live for you. Or another person says, I'm too busy to hang out with you right now. Jesus, I got school. I got this. I got that. I got blah, blah, blah. And I'm too busy to hang out with you.

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Or the third person says, ah, you know what, Jesus, like I kind of want to, but my Sunday night football's on and I want to see this right now. And I don't care. I'll put you on the back burner. You're probably going to be there tomorrow. But Sunday night football is only here every Sunday night. So I got to go watch my Sunday night football.

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It's going to be a powerful night at the live podcast show here in Los Angeles. It's going to be awesome. But let's dive into Luke chapter 14. See what Jesus is doing here. We're going to watch Jesus heal someone on the Sabbath. And again, he's going to have the same response that he had to the Pharisees in Luke chapter 13. when he healed the woman with a disabling spirit.

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But then he's sitting here and he's like, look, listen, people are going to make excuses. And so Jesus is like, you know what, fine, if you reject me, it breaks my heart. But I'm going to go find people who are hungry and want what I have prepared for them. Jesus is going to look for those who want what he has for them, who wants freedom.

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He's going to look for those who want freedom, who want to look and become more like him, who want relationship with him. He's looking for those people. Then he says, the master became angry and said to his servant, go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city and bring in the poor and the crippled and the blind and the lame.

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And the servant said, sir, what you commanded has been done and still there is room. And the master said to the servant, go out to the highways and the hedges and compel people to come in that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet. So not only is he saying like, look, I want people to come and dine with me that actually want me.

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I'm not going to force anyone to. It breaks my heart that people reject me, but I'm going to draw those. And those who come to me at my drawing are those that come to me who are hungry for me. But he's also giving a rebuke to those who only invite those to the table that they're friends with or that they benefit from.

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Saying, look, my gospel, the gospel of my life, the life that I'm going to lay down for all of me, it's for everyone. It's for everyone of all walk of life. That's why it says they go out to the highways and the hedges and they tell everyone, they compel people. They say, look, there's this massive feast. It's for everyone. Jesus Christ is for everyone.

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Verse 25, Jesus is now going to talk about the cost of the discipleship. Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Who does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

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Jesus is asking people to come to him without reservation. That relationship with him is far greater than any other earthly relationship we have. Now, he's not saying respect these relationships, but he's like, look, if you have zero reverence and respect and priority for me, but you're prioritizing all of these other people, that's a no-go, man. Like, don't do that.

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You must be willing to serve me above all these people amongst the closest blood brothers you have, your mother, your father, and your friends. Like, this relationship you have with me is going to be far more greater than that. Because at the end of the day, all these people perish. But I'm eternal. I remain the same. I'm perfect. I'm flawless.

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Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. He says own cross. He doesn't say his cross. He says your own cross. Because every person's walk of life is different. The things that people have to set aside are going to look kind of different. People come from all different walks of life, different backgrounds, different struggles.

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So it's like, look, each person has a unique way of life, has a unique purpose. They've been through different things that other people may haven't. And that's okay. He says, put it aside. Pick up your cross. For which of you desiring to build a tower does not first sit down and count the cost? Following Jesus costs something. It's not free. A lot of people think, you know what?

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Well, I choose not to follow Jesus because I don't want to give up these certain things. Well, the best life we can live is one that's in submission to the Lordship of Christ. The best life we live is one that is in full obedience to the Lord. That is the most fulfilling life. I look at my life and I thought, man, you know, I was bitter at God for a very long time. And I was like, you know what?

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One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were washing him carefully. They were trying to trip up Jesus. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And when, and Jesus responded to the lawyers and the Pharisees saying, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not? Saying there isn't a commandment that says you can't heal on the Sabbath.

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I don't want to follow God too, because man, he's just going to make me change the way I live. And I like the way I'm living. But deep down, I didn't. Deep down, I hated my life. Deep down, I was still broken and flawed. And I was in need of someone greater than myself to help me. And finally, when I submitted to Christ and I thought that he was going to take away my fun, I found more joy in him.

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And the things I thought were fun were actually just detrimental to my soul. And so a lot of us don't understand that the things that we deem fun in this life are just worldly fleshly desires that lead to death. And there's no benefit from it other than it is just crippling our soul. And Jesus is in the business of renewing our soul and giving us new life and wiping our slate clean.

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whether he has enough to complete it. Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, this man began to build and was not able to finish. Or what king going out to encounter another king in war will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with 10,000 to meet him or come against him with 20,000, counting the cost again.

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And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation to ask for terms of peace. Therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. Saying like, look, got to count the cost. Following me costs something.

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we're going to close out chapter 14 with two verses here salt is good but if salt has lost its taste how shall its saltiness be restored he's talking about the fruitless christian here the one that's a christian who's grown a hardened heart who's grown numb who like claims to be a christian but isn't doing a lot He's saying like, look, the salt has lost its taste and it's only good if it's salty.

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It combats everything else that's comfortable. Salt's got a little sting, a little pizzazz. Like the Christian life is drastically different than any other life in this world because it's in whatever the world exalts, Christ is like, no. And whatever Christ exalts, the world is totally against. And the saltiness is described as like the true Christian life.

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It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. He says, anyone who is humble enough to listen to my teachings and accept them, do so. Man, we learned so much from Jesus here in Luke chapter 14. That was so encouraging in my heart, my soul. I'm so stirred right now. Guys, I pray that Luke chapter 14 blessed you guys.

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I love you guys so much. Go get your live podcast show tickets here for Los Angeles, January 19th. Jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. I love you guys. See you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 15.

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But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on the Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?

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And they could not reply to these things, saying, Look, if you're willing to help your son or an ox that falls into a ditch on the Sabbath, then how much more should we be willing and compassionate on those who are made in the image of God? Let's jump down to verse 7.

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Now he told a parable to those who were invited when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, Now look, we're about to watch Jesus rebuke people with pride here. He says, when you're invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down into a place of honor lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him.

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and in today's episode, we are on the seventh day of the Luke series. Every day we're reading a chapter of Luke, so by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. This is powerful. It's been going great. This is the first week.

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Our sin has caused a debt in our lives that no imperfect man could pay. And that's why God looked down on mankind and saw a debt that no man could pay and said, this is an incredible debt that no man can pay. And so there must be a perfect sacrifice for a debt like this. And God knew that only He, being perfect, could pay the sacrifice to wipe the slate clean.

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But he's about to recognize this Gentile's faith here and say, you have the greatest faith I've ever seen. So let's read on. After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now, a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.

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So He humbled Himself and took on flesh and took on the cross and died a death that you and I deserve, taking on the sins of the world so that you and I might be forgiven. It's powerful. Jesus Christ recognizes the debt in mankind and says, you can't pay it, but I can.

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And imagine if Jesus Christ got on the cross like you and I do often in friendships, relationships, then we get frustrated and he gets on the cross and he goes, I've had enough. I'm getting down. I'm tired. You wicked people. You're never going to listen to me. I'm done. Imagine if he said that, but he doesn't.

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He was led to the cross like a lamb to the slaughter, silent, for he knew that you and I, relationship with us, was the joy set before him, that Jesus Christ was silent on the cross, thinking about you and I, saying, I'm going to be silent and dying the death that you deserve because I just want friendship with you.

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I want relationship with you, and I love you more than anyone on the planet, and I would do this if you were the only person on the planet who had sinned. I would do this for you. That's what Jesus Christ does, and that's what Jesus Christ is displaying to this woman here, saying, look, you have a history. People may write you off.

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Society may write you off, but in my eyes, your repentant heart, you're forgiven and deemed pure in my eyes. And he says to her, then those who were at the table with him began to say among them, who is this who even forgives sins? Because he says, your sins are forgiven to the lady in verse eight. And he says to the woman, your faith has saved you. Go in peace.

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The reason she was able to love Jesus and serve Jesus is because she had faith in the Christ. She had faith that he is who he said he is, that he is the Messiah who came to save people from their sins, past, present, and future, wipe the slate clean. Luke chapter 8 is so powerful, and I'm so moved by that woman, the sinful woman who is written off by society.

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Because in today's day and age, if you've done something poorly, if you've done something wrong, you get written off. Don't listen to that person. Don't be friends with that person because they've messed up. Yet we're oftentimes more tolerant of our own sin than other people. And then when we're in the position of being written off, we are wishing that we had grace that we weren't dishing out.

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That's what happens often. But the beautiful thing about Jesus Christ, and he says, listen, mankind, you try to figure this out on your own. You think that you know how to serve people and show grace, but you really don't. I'm not going to tell you how to live my life. I'm going to show you how to live it and follow me as the example.

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And we can look to Jesus Christ as the author and perfecter of our faith and say, man, if I'm going to be like anyone, I want to be like Jesus. And if I'm going to be a fool for anyone, I'm going to be a fool for Jesus. I pray that Luke chapter seven today has encouraged you guys.

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If you guys want the free printout to track your plans, listening or watching the podcast and reading it on your own, go to jesusinthestreet.org slash Luke. You enter your email, you get a free download of the PDF of Luke. It's powerful. I love you guys. I'll see you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter eight and go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets to get your tickets for the live podcast show.

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Now, normally, if a centurion had a servant and the servant was becoming ill or sick, they had the right to kill their servant. OK, this is pretty intense. They had the right to kill their servant. But now this servant was loved deeply by the centurion. And so when the centurion had heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews asking him to come and heal his servant.

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Love you guys. See you guys tomorrow.

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And so he was too, the centurion almost felt unworthy of going in the presence of Jesus. So he said, I'm going to send some Jews to go before him and ask on behalf of me. Because in his mind, he's like, I'm a Gentile. Why would Jesus want to come talk to a Gentile?

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And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue. And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

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Therefore, I did not presume to come to you, but say the word and let my servant be healed.

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Before we get into it, guys, I want to remind you guys, January 19th, first live podcast show ever in Los Angeles, 6 p.m. January 19th. To get your tickets, go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets and get your tickets for the live show. Let's talk about Luke chapter 7 because we're about to see Jesus continually flowing in his earthly ministry.

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man the centurion understands the weight and deity of Jesus Christ here he's saying hey listen guys I he sent his friends before them to Jesus and he goes listen like I don't think you're worthy to come in here but I know that if you say he'll be healed he'll be healed so if you just say the words I know he'll be healed and I think that's so powerful

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Because in today's day and age, we say, God, I need you to strike lightning down in front of me to do this. God, I need you to physically be here with me. But then oftentimes, even if that were the case, we would often turn in rebellion to Jesus after we get what we want. But if we know that Jesus is perfect, almighty, flawless, and he's a promise keeper, then we don't have to demand him.

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And I'm so encouraged by centurion's faith. He says, Lord, do not trouble yourself for I'm not worthy to have you come under my roof. Therefore, I did not presume to come to you, but say the word and let my servant be healed. For I too am a man set under authority with the soldiers under me. So now he's relating to Jesus. He says, I say to one, go, and he goes. And to another, come, and he comes.

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And to my servant, do this, and he does it. When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him. And turning to the crowd that followed him, he said, I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. He's saying, not even to the people that I am devoting my ministry to have I found a faith like this before. And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well.

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Such a beautiful depiction of the power of Jesus here. Jesus just said the words and he does it because he's God. He can do it because he's fully God in the flesh. It's powerful. Now we're about to watch Jesus raise a widow's son. And I love this story as well. Again, beautiful story. But soon afterwards, he went to a town called Nain and his disciples had a great crowd that went with him.

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As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother. And she was a widow now and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. Now this mother, the only blood relative she had was her son and her son has now passed away. Now she has become a widow. And I love this.

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This is going to relate to James where it says true religion that is undefiled before the Lord is this to visit widows and orphans and their affliction. We're about to watch Jesus walk this out right here. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her. In this moment, Jesus is seeing this woman who is now becoming a widow, and he recognizes the depth and weight of the situation here.

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She has no more blood relatives. And he said, do not weep. Then he came up and touched the beer, and the bearer stood still, and he said, Young man, I say to you, rise. And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has arisen among us, and God has visited his people.

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And this report about him spread throughout the whole of Judea and all the surrounding of the country. Now this is very important here. Because for Jews, they recognize that only God could raise someone from the dead. Okay, so when Jesus Christ commands this dead boy to get up and walk when he's dead, they're carrying him off to be buried. And boom, he rises and walks.

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They recognize that he's sent from God. But not only that, this should ruffle some people's feathers. Because if Jesus Christ was the one to raise him from the dead, then that would confirm that he is God in front of all these people. Verse 18, the messengers from John the Baptist. I love this passage too, it's so beautiful.

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It's going to be powerful, and I love the story we open up with here when Jesus heals a centurion's servant. Now, before we get into the story, we have to think for a second. Who out of all of Scripture do you think has the most faith we've seen in the Bible? Some might say it was Abraham because God made the covenant with Abraham.

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Because now we're about to see, after you go from two big miracles, we're about to see John the Baptist who was preparing the way for the Lord, we're about to see him experience some slight doubt here, actually, about the Messiah, Jesus Christ. It says the disciples of John reported all these things to him.

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And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?

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So John is in a little bit of doubt here, and it's not confirmed why John is doubting John the Baptist, but one can only assume here a lot of people's perception of the Messiah to come was that the Messiah was going to free the Jewish people in a political kind of perspective, like the Messiah was going to come. And the kingdom that he was going to bring was one of political reign.

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And that's why the Romans were actually afraid of Jesus. It's because they thought that he was going to bring in this new political power and he was going to bring this new kingdom that was going to overthrow the political government at the time. And so one can just assume maybe John was doubting because he's in prison right now.

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He's expecting a new political government to come into place maybe as his assumption and nothing's happened yet. But see, I love that's how Jesus is because they're like, you guys are thinking in the moment. Like they're thinking for themselves in the moment, like we need a new political government.

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But Jesus is like, no, I'm bringing a kingdom that's eternal, that brings the forgiveness of sins, that unites you guys to me. It's so powerful. But one could say, hey, maybe that's why he was doubting. And he answered them, The lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up. The poor have good news preached to them and blessed is the one who is not offended by me.

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Many people were offended by Jesus because he didn't bring the political government that they were expecting. The Romans thought that they were going to get overthrown by the Messiah, but no. That's why he says, blessed are those who aren't offended by me. But this is powerful because he's reminding John saying, look, I am confirmed. I am the Christ. Look at my character right now.

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I'm doing things that the Christ was sent here to do. And all of those things that are listed here, the blind receiving their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed or all stuff that Isaiah prophesied that would be fulfilled by the Messiah and Isaiah 61, Isaiah 32, Isaiah 21. So, I mean, this is powerful here.

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He's even speaking to John saying, like, look, I'm fulfilling the very thing that Isaiah prophesied the Messiah would do. Powerful. When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John. Now, even though John the Baptist had doubted him for a moment, he's about to encourage John the Baptist. He says, What did you go out into the wilderness to see?

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A reed shaken by the wind? What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in king's courts. Now this is powerful because people's perception of John the Baptist is... Oh, he's got a demon. Oh, this guy's crazy. He's a woolly booger who eats locusts and honey. He looks crazy.

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Some might say it's Moses because Moses brought forth the Levitical laws and met with God for the Ten Commandments. Or some might even say it was Rahab, the prostitute, who's mentioned in Hebrews 11 as in the cloud of witnesses. for being justified by her faith. Some might even say it's Paul because he was transformed from Saul to Paul and it was this powerful thing.

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And he's saying he's not a reed shaken by the wind. He's steady. He's disciplined. He's a servant. And he's actually about to make a bold statement here in verse 28 about John the Baptist, but also something hopeful about me or you. Because he says, look, it is written here, behold, I send my messenger before your face who will prepare your way before you.

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He's saying, look, John the Baptist is doing the work that was prophesied. He is the one who's preparing the way for me. Then he says, I tell you, among those born of women, none is greater than John. Out of all the Old Testament prophets, John the Baptist is the greatest. Why? Because instead of him saying the Messiah is coming, John the Baptist's message is he is here. He has come. He is now.

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That makes him the greatest of the Old Testament prophets. But John the Baptist dies before the new covenant comes into fruition. So this next statement is powerful. He says, yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

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So then he says, even though John the Baptist is the greatest of all the Old Testament prophets, you and I are greater than John the Baptist because we get to experience the fullness of the new covenant that John the Baptist didn't get to experience. He was just preparing the way for it, which is so powerful.

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What an honor that you and I get to share that we get to experience the grace of the new covenant. that we don't have to follow 613 laws and 10 commandments to deem us righteous, but rather we actually are made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ that through his death and resurrection, we are forgiven, made clean and pure because of him.

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When all the people heard this and the tax collectors too, they declared God just having been baptized with the baptism of John, but the Pharisees and the lawyers reject the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him. To what then shall I compare the people of this generation? And what are they like? They're like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another.

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We played the flute for you, and you did not dance. We sang a dirge, and you did not weep. For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, he has a demon. So he's like, he's not normal. And so you call him a demon. And then he says, the son of man has come eating and drinking, doing normal things. And you say, look at him.

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He's a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. And the reason they say that about Jesus is because John the Baptist wouldn't have necessarily been a friend of tax collectors and sinners like Jesus would. Yet he says, yet wisdom is justified by all their children.

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Wisdom in this situation is accepting Jesus Christ and John the Baptist for who they actually are, who Old Testament has prophesied them to be, and who Jesus is according to his character and his teaching because he's living it out. He's living it out. And we're going to close chapter 7 with the sinful woman who is forgiven.

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One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table. So there's this Pharisee named Simon, and Simon the Pharisee invites Jesus in. And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner when she had learned that he was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house brought an alabaster flask full.

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Now we have to understand this woman was a sinner and outcast looked down upon by the Pharisees and Sadducees, the religious leaders of the time. And she brings something, an alabaster flask of ointment, which this alabaster flask would have been a year's salary worth. This had the value of a year's salary. Okay.

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But no, Jesus here is actually going to say that this centurion has had the greatest faith he's ever seen. And the centurion is a non-Jew. It's a Roman. The centurion is a Roman, is a Gentile. And Jesus came specifically in his earthly ministry, limited his power in his earthly ministry for the Jewish people.

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And standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now, when the Pharisee who had invited him saw him, he said to himself, if this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.

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And Jesus answered to him, saying, Simon, I have something to say to you. Now, this Pharisee is trying to embarrass Jesus here. He's saying, look, if Jesus knew what kind of woman this was, if she knew what kind of past she had, he would never let her touch his feet. He would never let her even walk into this house.

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And how often do we do that in today's society with friends, loved ones, or people that we know at school or in the workplace? Where someone has done something wrong or had a past, and we can't seem to forgive them in our hearts, so we judge them and justify our judgment based on their history and past.

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And he says, no, if this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is and who is judging him, for she is a sinner. And I can't imagine what the awkward silence was in this room. And to break the awkward silence, Jesus turns to Simon the Pharisee in a personal manner and says, Simon, let me ask you a question. And he answered it and says, say it, teacher.

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He says, a certain money lender has two debtors, one that owed 500 denarii and the other owed 50. When they could not pay, he canceled the debt of both. Now, which of them will love him more? He says, look, there's a really big debt and a really small debt. And if both are canceled, who will love them more? Simon answered, The one, I suppose, from whom he canceled the larger debt. Makes sense.

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If you had the larger debt and it paid you off, you would be way more grateful because you had the larger debt. And he said to him, You have judged rightly. Then he turned towards the woman and he said to Simon, Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

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You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in, she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Now listen, he is looking at Simon and saying, you denied me all the basic gestures that a host gives to a guest when they come into your home. You denied them to me.

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You didn't even give me the basic gestures for someone that is invited into a home. Yet this woman who has nothing, whose home this isn't, this isn't even her home. She has anointed my feet with an ointment that is a year's worth salary. She has wet my feet and cleaned my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair, all that she had.

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Her tears of joy and of love and of gratefulness is powerful. It's so powerful. And the reality of this is that Jesus is saying her character is far more greater than your character. Her character is far more genuine than your character. He says, therefore, I tell you her sins, which are many are forgiven for she loved much, but he who is forgiven little loves little.

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Her great love was a sign that she had been forgiven. Not she was forgiven because of her great love. The reason that we're able to love people well, the reason we are able to serve well is because we recognize that we've been forgiven, that our debt has been paid. Our debt has been cleansed. And because we've had a great debt, our sin has produced the greatest debt of all time.

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I have a huge announcement before you guys continue to watch this episode of the podcast. Guys, May 18th, we are doing our second live podcast show in my home state, Atlanta, Georgia. We're going to be at the Cobb Energy Center May 18th for worship and a powerful word. Guys, I am so excited to be back in the same city that God took me from death to life.

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Whatever it may be, pray and ask God, how should I support Jesus in the street ministry? Love you guys. See you guys next week for the next episode.

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So what does James mean in chapter one when he says pure religion is visiting widows and orphans in their affliction? What he's saying is he's saying that pure religion is doing. He says, pure religion isn't talking about how holy you are because that's what the Pharisees do. Pharisees are all talking. So many people are too tired of hearing people talk.

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They said, I want to see someone actually live it out. And that's what I love about Jesus Christ is he shows us that it is possible to live the gospel out, to live righteousness out. He doesn't just tell us how to do it. He shows us how to do it. He shows the Pharisees up in his actions.

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And in today's society, we can let our actions speak louder than words and show that we really believe what we say we believe. Now, Matthew 22, the context of the passage that we're going to be looking at, verses 37 through 40, is the Pharisees are trying to get Jesus to say that one commandment is greater than the other out of the 613 laws and 10 commandments.

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Because if Jesus says one law is greater than the other, they can arrest him for blasphemy and kill him. They're looking for a reason to get him tied up. And they say, okay, Jesus, which is the greatest? And this is what he says. He says, you shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength. And then the second is just like it. Love your neighbor as yourself.

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Jesus Christ does not say that the good life is more money, more fame, more status, more women, more boyfriends, more girlfriends. He says the good life is loving God and loving people. Now, the last solo episode we did, we talked about, does Jesus really love you? And he does. We went over that passage of loving the Lord your God with your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

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Now we're going to talk about how to love like Jesus. And then he says the second one is just as important as the first, loving your neighbor as yourself. Why does Jesus say loving your neighbor as yourself is important? Okay, well, first off, we know the Bible tells us that the goodness of God brings man to repentance.

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If you guys want to come out to the Hometown Live Podcast Show May 18th, go to Ticketmaster and search up Bryce Crawford and get your tickets today. Guys, I'm looking forward to seeing you guys on May 18th. Go to Ticketmaster, search Bryce Crawford, get your tickets to the live podcast show May 18th. Love you guys. Now enjoy the episode.

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When people see this unconditional, no strings attached to love that you show to other people, That can be the God people experience. Someone asked me, we've been doing a little side quest. We've been going around to college campuses and talking to students, and it's been a big blessing. And I had quite a few people ask the same question.

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They said, well, you know, my friend has been going through some side of suffering or experienced trauma or been hurt by the church. And because of trauma, church hurt, or X, Y, and Z, they say that they can't feel God and that God doesn't love them because they can't feel them. And this was my response to them. I said,

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Well, maybe they can feel God through you when you are the first to love them, the first to shoulder that they are there to cry on, the first one to serve them, the first one to check in on them, the first one to pray for them. The way people can feel and experience God is through the love human beings show because they love God and love people.

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Now, what does Jesus mean when he is saying, love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength? What does he mean when he says, love your neighbor as yourself? Jesus Christ is saying, when you see yourself the way that God sees you, then you begin to realize that he sees everybody else the same way he sees you, valuable, free, clean, and his son or daughter.

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And so because of that, you begin to love people with the same value insight that God sees you as valuable. which is so compelling and magnificent because in today's society, love is hindered. Like people don't love each other unless you do something back. Oh, well, I'll love you if you scratch my back or I'll do something for you if you do something for me. That's the sin of partiality.

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That's favoritism. And Jesus actually says in the gospels, how easy is it to do something good for someone when they've done something for you? And then he even gives us this example. He says, which one of you is going to give a stone to a little one when they ask for a fish?

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What he's saying is, if you're not even a Christian and people know how to give good gifts, then how much more good gifts does the God of heaven and earth know how to give? The point I'm making here is that when we see ourselves the way that God sees us, then we begin to have the same eyes God has for us for other people. And then we begin to love people unconditionally. We begin to serve people.

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We begin to serve people. we begin to sacrifice time for people. Now, when we look at the gospels and we look at Jesus Christ, so in the gospels and in the Bible, the body of Christ, the body of Christ being Christians, Christians are considered the bride of Christ, okay? And Jesus being the bridegroom. And when the Bible teaches us what it means to

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love the bride, the Bible tells us that we should love people, love our significant others the same way that Christ loves the church. So if we're supposed to love people the same way Christ loves people, then how are we supposed to love people? We're supposed to love people unto death. What does it mean to love someone unto death?

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That means no strings attached, no hindrance, no holding back, means I'm all in for people. People are valuable. Sacrificial love. The Hebrew word for God's love is ahava, which means to lay your life down for someone.

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what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the bryce carver podcast i'm bryce and today we are back with another solo episode talking about how to love people like jesus how do we love like jesus love now look before we get into the episode guys i pray and hope that the last few episodes have been a blessing we've had some amazing guests on the past three four episodes so guys

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And because Jesus Christ's faithfulness, because God's faithfulness has been shown to us, it's easier for us to be faithful to God and people because he has shown his faithfulness to us. And so because God has shown us that how much he loves us by laying his life down for us, that in return, we lay his life down, we lay our lives down for him.

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But because we're laying our lives down for Christ, that means we lay our lives down for other people. Because they're his children. Love the Lord your God with your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and then love your neighbor as yourself. Love people the same way God has loved you. All in. Let's flip a couple chapters later. Matthew chapter 25.

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The passage that I'm about to read, if you guys know Matthew chapter 24 and 25, Jesus talks about the end times, okay? And We've always been in the end times. Let me preface this, okay? We've always been in the end times. The end times is the period in which Jesus is supposed to return a second time. So the apostles were in the end times. Billy Graham was in the end times.

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We're in the end times, okay? So this is applicable today. This passage correlates to Revelation, not only, but this correlates to everyday life. Now, aside from us have always been in the end times, we can look at the world the past, you know, one, two, three, four years and say, Dang, it's been really crazy.

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And there's been a lot of suffering, and there's been a lot of birth pains, and a lot of craziness going on. Okay? And in Matthew chapter 25, Jesus gives this comparison with sheep and goats. He says, Okay? In Matthew chapter 25, Jesus is given this description where he's separating the goats from the sheep. And he goes to the people on the right and says, you are blessed by me.

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You inherit the kingdom of heaven. The people on his right are the sheep. And he says, for I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.

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Jesus says to the sheep, in every circumstance of my being, you've seen me and served me and loved me. You are blessed. You inherit the kingdom of heaven. And then it says that the other group, the goats, they say, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you or naked and clothe you?

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When did we see you sick or in prison or visit you? It says that Jesus will respond. As you do to the least of these, you do unto me. And the holy conviction that sets in when I read that scripture to think that today's society teaches us, oh, don't talk to the homeless man. All he wants is money. Oh, don't talk to the homeless lady over there.

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She's just hooked up on drugs and that's just who she is. And she's never going to get by that. Or, oh man, did you hear what Sally did last Friday and Saturday? Oh, she's awful. That's all who she is. Man, today's society labels people for their sin or labels people for their struggles. And Jesus Christ says, no, no, no, no, no.

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You see, you judge people because you thought they weren't valuable because you didn't think they were mine. But he says, what you did to the least of these, the least of these, those who are hungry, thirsty, naked, a stranger, the sick, the imprisoned, those people, Those people are mine. Why are they mine? Because they're made in my image. People are valuable because they're made in their image.

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Please let us know what episode was your favorite and why. We're super pumped, but I'm happy to be back with a solo episode. I pray this one is so specific to your situation, but today we're going to be in the Gospel of Matthew, two different sections, Matthew 22, verses 37 through 40, and we're going to be in Matthew chapter 25 here in a moment.

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Every human being has the same value before God's eyes because they're made in the image. They have his imprint on their life. And he says, look, listen, when you choose to show partiality to people because you don't think they're valuable because of their physical status, are you kidding me?

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Jesus says, what you do to the least of these, the way you treat those people is the way you would treat me.

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And the way I look at my life and think, man, all the people I've looked past because I thought they were not valuable because of the physical structure they offered or because of their physical well-being or because I thought they were too far gone because of their addictions or because of their struggles or because of their sins against the government and sins against the world because I thought that they were unvaluable because of the things that they've done.

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Are you kidding me? And then I reflect on my own life and I think, man, I'm just as bad, if not worse, than these guys. Like, sure, I haven't murdered, but Jesus says, if I'm angry at a brother, then I've committed murder in my heart. I'm just as bad. Or maybe he says, well, you know, maybe I haven't cheated on a significant other. I've never been unfaithful.

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But man, he says, if you look at someone lustfully, you've committed adultery in your heart. I mean, like, man, I'm just as bad as these people. But Jesus says, how you treat those people is how you would treat me. What does it mean to love like Jesus? It means to see everyone as Christ. To love like Jesus is to see Christ in people even if they don't know him because his imprint is on their life.

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To love people like Jesus is to fall at the feet of those who are in need and who are hungry and who are thirsty as if it is the feet of Jesus to say, I'm going to serve you and love you unconditionally because the love of Christ is I'm going to serve you and love you and be there for you even if you never return it back to me. I'm going to do it for you because that's what Christ has done for me.

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I mean, Jesus Christ loved people and offered his life for people that aren't even going to turn to him. Jesus Christ offers love to people that are going to say no and that have said no. Jesus Christ is on the cross in between two dudes where one dude is denying Jesus and the other dude is saying, no, Jesus, you really are who you say you are. And he died for both.

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We're going to talk about how to love like Jesus, and I think this is very important because so many people think, oh, what does it look like to have pure religion, pure religion? What does it mean to be a Christian? James chapter 1 does not say, Hey, pure religion before God is talking about how holy you are.

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And you know how well Jesus Christ loved? Jesus Christ loved his disciples so much and loved his enemies so well that they didn't know who was going to betray him until he physically passed the bread to Judas. To love Jesus Christ doesn't mean just to love like Jesus doesn't mean just to love people that love God. It means to love people who don't love God.

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To love like Jesus love means to love people who hate you. To love like Jesus loved means to love people who love you and hate you, to love people who are sick and healthy, to love people who are good and bad in quotations, to love all people. To love the Muslim, to love the Buddhist, to love the Hindu, to love the atheist is to love like Jesus would. But here's the catch, guys.

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This is how I want to close. Just because Jesus sat with sinners and loved them doesn't mean he endorsed their sin. In the same way, the love of Christ is going to offend people's brains to get to people's hearts.

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God is going to use you to offend people's brains to get to their hearts with the love of Christ shown through you so that they know that they're valuable, but it calls them out of their lifestyle sin, it calls them out of the deception, or it points their eyes to the real God of the universe. That's what it means to love like Christ. And so I want to close this podcast out by praying.

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But I want to pray that God gives us two things. Number one, the eyes to see Christ in all people, to see people the way that he sees us. But number two, I want to ask God to give us strength to love people unconditionally because we can't do it alone. Jesus, I thank you so much for today. God, I thank you that you love every human being just as much as you love me. God, we ask for two things.

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God, would you give us the strength to love people unconditionally because we can't do it alone. We can't. We need your strength, God. And God, would you give us eyes to see Christ in everyone, to see people the way that you see us? God, would you give us these eyes so that we could treat people with this unconditional love that they've been so lovesick for, that they've been desperate for?

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God, would you give us this strength in the eyes to see people that way? And lastly, God, let us not take for granted every opportunity to love people. Waiter, waitress, Uber, friends we've known for years, strangers we've never met. God, let us love everyone in our lives and everyone that we will encounter the same way. No strings attached. God, we thank you, love you, and praise you.

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In Jesus' name, amen. Guys, thanks so much for watching and listening to the episode. If you like it, subscribe. Follow us on everything Bryce Crawford Podcast. Appreciate you guys. Love you guys. And see you guys next week for the next episode. Guys, thank you so much for watching and tuning into these episodes.

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Guys, if you love watching and listening to these episodes, aside from following us along on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, I want to ask you guys, would you guys consider partnering with our ministry financially? Your guys' radical generosity is actually what continues to fuel and produce these podcast episodes and our evangelism videos.

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Jesus and the Bible does not tell us that pure Christianity is talking about how holy we are, how much good we do for God, how many devotionals we've read, how much of the Bible we read. The Bible does not say that is what Christianity is. The Bible says that Christianity is visiting widows and orphans in their affliction.

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So if you guys feel a burden to support this ministry, reach lost souls with the gospel through digital and in-person ministry, go to jesusinthestreet.org. pray and ask God, how should I partner with Bryce and their ministry and Jesus in the street ministry? Should I partner with them in prayer? Should I partner with them in finances? Should I partner with them in support?

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today, a very special guest. I'm super excited about this episode. Got Pastor Carl Lentz with us today. How are you doing?

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Wow. Well, I feel like I can relate to that because I feel like whenever I try to white knuckle my life, like I'm like everything crumbles like 10 times faster. And then there were even times like where for me, like I felt like as because I kind of was like you, like I got set on fire for Jesus. I immediately jumped into like telling everybody about Jesus. Like I was like right in there.

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And I felt like as I was growing, like I was seeing so many things, great things that are amazing. You know, people coming to know Jesus or reaching people. And it was great. But then having family struggles of my own at home, it felt like that the one cookie I didn't want to crumble was crumbling. And then I would go and I would try to white knuckle it and fix it myself.

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Like if people looked at me for everything I'd done wrong, then I don't know. Like I wouldn't be sitting here, you know, but I think there's a lot of cool. I've been so encouraged by you for years. I've been listening to you for a long time. I became a Christian when I was 17. And when I was 17, I was listening to a lot of you. I was listening to I read this book.

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And I would make it 10 times worse because I was like trying to do it out of my own strength. And kind of what you're saying, micromanaging in my heart. Um, so when you talk about the end of the period at Hillsong, what, like, I, I don't, I don't want to like highlight it too much, but what, you can talk about any, which way you want, my brother, it's, it's whatever helps. What happened exactly.

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And then I want to know like what it was like for your wife and your kids and, and just understanding what it looked like, the healing process for you guys. Um,

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Yeah.

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Oh, thank you. Thank you.

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I remember when I first became a Christian, I read this book called Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem. I became a Christian on Christmas Day. And then I listened to some sermons that you preach that whole song. And I listened to, um, I'm forgetting last name right now. I'm blanking right now. Who was I listening to?

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That's so encouraging. I was so encouraged when you said that you said when I got caught, it was a chance for me to get honest. And I know like when I reflect on my own life, like there are so many times that I'm like where I feel like if I get caught, I'm in too deep. Like I got to keep digging and digging and digging. And I feel like that's just the honest train of thought.

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And I'm so encouraged that that's your first reaction. Like it's just a chance for me to cut, like get the clean slate. And I'm also so encouraged by you not even trying to fix the tiny details. Like you're just letting people throw shots at you and your family. And you're just like, yeah, I did it. Now it's time for me to heal and time for me and my family to heal.

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TJ's no I wasn't listening Francis Chan Francis Chan I was gonna go like with the spectrum so yeah there's like so many different um John Piper just kidding but I was listening to you Francis Chan and reading the same book systematic theology I was super encouraged um but I want to go back to like when you were we I heard a little bit of your story but where'd you grow up yeah did you grow up in the church have you been how long have you been a Christian following the Lord

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Well, I want to talk about like just redemption, like just redemption from sin, because I feel like. if when people are in that place of it's come to light and they, I even do this with myself. Like I beat myself up so much and I can't get out of my own head sometimes. Like I'm my own worst enemy and I, I show myself no grace.

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I think put a pressure on myself like I'm I feel like sometimes like if I like I'm 21 you know like I'm just a kid but I feel like so many people are looking at me and there's like swords pointing at me and I'm like I'm like I'm just 21 I'm just trying to learn you know what I mean yeah how how do you learn to sit in God's grace when

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when something comes to light like that, how are you able to sit in that and not let shame and condemnation creep in? Um, cause I think that's such a hard, I feel like so – I mean, I struggle with that so much. I'll go to my brothers, my friends, my roommates and be like, hey, you know, I messed up here. I messed up here in this area of my life.

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And even after I tell them and they come around me and show me that love and grace, like I'll be alone in my room. And I can't show myself the same grace that they're extending me. And it's like I can't get past that sometimes, you know.

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Yeah. I think like the, one of the main things I struggle with is like the people, like particularly my family, like my parents, man, my parents and my brother, they know how to push my buttons. Like, you know what I mean? They know how to push my buttons and people always say like, Oh, you know, I love how gracious you are to people when you talk to them in the street. You're so kind.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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You're so awesome to them. And that's what people will say. And then I'll go home and they just push that button. You know, they push it and I get frustrated or angry, upset, or I feel like that they're not listening to me. And this isn't that blah, blah, blah. And something that God has been using me to do lately is be the bridge for my family. Hmm.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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and and men my and like just be like a like a stronghold for my family and i feel like when i do that i'm not that person for them and then and then on the back side of that from the perspective of other people they say oh look at how awesome and kind you are to people yeah and i'm like i can't even be gracious to my own family right now right and uh i'm not gonna put the excuse that they know how to push my butt it's like i'm not gonna label that

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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And so I'll go home and even it could be too, like, I just, I just got back. It's been maybe five days from being home. And the night before I left, like my mom and I, I got frustrated at my mom because I felt like she wasn't listening to me and I still think about it. Hmm.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Yeah, I think that would be the number one fear, like almost like he would be tired of me, like I just keep screwing up.

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Yeah.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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So what does healthy, what does like healthy grace and accountability look like then? I guess when you're navigating through problems, like, like how do you have a healthy, like, okay, there's a problem.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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I need to hit this on the head.

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But also be kind to yourself.

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Right. Well, that's super encouraging to me. Thank you.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Like?

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Thank you. That's that is encouraging. Um, thank you. I, uh, this question means a lot to me that I'm about to ask and we can close with this one. And I don't take dating advice from anyone that isn't married. I'm really encouraged by your marriage and I just want to learn how to be a better boyfriend. I'm 21. I've been dating an amazing girl for almost a year.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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She challenges me, encourages me, helps me grow. Um, How can I continue to lead her well? How can I be a better leader? Any advice across the board about dating? Because I feel like the Bible does it. It's like you're either single or married. And I'm like, this is like awful advice being like a young adult like trying to navigate.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Thank you. That's the best advice I'll probably receive from anyone across the board. Give me dating advice. That was super encouraging. Thanks for coming on.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Thank you so much, guys. Go check out Carl's podcast, Lights On. It has been encouraging me. I've been listening to quite a few episodes, and I've been so encouraged. I mean, it's him and his wife, and they are just breaking down everything across the board, their life, inviting you into vulnerability.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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And I believe that being invited into vulnerability shows, is able to help transform other people's lives. So I've been super encouraged by Lights On. Guys, go watch Lights On. And January 19th, we've got our first live podcast here in Los Angeles. Go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets and get your tickets. Love you guys. See you on the next episode.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Really?

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Oh, thank you. Thank you. I'm glad you're here. I'm super excited. I want to like, well, first, I want to talk about your story, but I don't want that to be the highlight of the podcast because I feel like. And I just want to hear from your perspective because there's so much stuff out there. But I don't want that to be the main point because I feel like it's everything that people always ask you.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Wow. Well, I think you hit something nail on the head. I feel like a lot of people are more tolerant with their own sin than, than other people. You know, it's like, it's like, like we're, people go through the same things. Like Satan's got no new tricks. There's so many people that deal with all across the board, the same stuff.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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And there's more to you than that. You know, like, like, yeah, it's like, I don't know. When I look in today's society, I feel like just with anything in general, when Jesus says, I love your neighbor as yourself. Nowadays, across the board, I feel like I'm always asking, where's our neighbor? Like, we just never care about our neighbor. We never love them. We just can't look past the things that

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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And it's like, we want to throw shame and condemnation on people when like behind closed doors, we're like hurting in ourselves. And so like,

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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what you're saying how people frame you they're like I ain't caught a scandal explosion or whatever like and my perspective like I'm like that's my brother and like I love I love him like that's my brother like and I love him and where's our neighbor when we need him but like oftentimes people are just more worried about their perception of themselves and I'm I'm even more encouraged by just

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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I mean, today, your family, even stronger than before. Yeah, for sure. And you guys are just, oh, I can't even imagine. I want to dive into that, what that looks like. But for a second, I mean, you guys, when you guys started Hillsong in New York, I mean, when I think about making a digital mark of ministry, I mean, you guys were some of the first.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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I mean, putting the worship sets online, on YouTube, putting the sermons on there. There's like a select few churches that I could say, wow, you guys really had a digital impact. Yeah. you guys were really reaching hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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that people have done. And then like, even, even before that, like I'm reading scripture this morning and Luke six, and he's like, he's talking like, yeah, like, you know, you guys want to return evil for evil. You guys want to judge people. And with that, when you got a log in your own eye and I'm just like, man, what are we doing? Like, there's more to us than just the faults we've done.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Did you feel, like, a lot of pressure, I guess? Like, I'm not necessarily saying, like, oh, I have a platform, so I've got to, you know, stay, like, I got to... What you're saying a lot of people do, like, hide it. I mean, more so just in general from people, like, to deliver to people. Like, as Hillsong's growing, you guys are, like...

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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accessing Instagram, YouTube at a very, like no one's really doing it. Everything's growing. Did you feel like a pressure from people to like be there for them? Because I feel like whenever you're in a position of authority, people are always grabbing at you. They're always grabbing at you.

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Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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And it's just like, how did you navigate the pressure to stay in your lane and still have intimacy with Jesus despite people grabbing you on a rise?

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I have a huge announcement before you guys continue to watch this episode of the podcast. Guys, May 18th, we are doing our second live podcast show in my home state, Atlanta, Georgia. We're going to be at the Cobb Energy Center May 18th for worship and a powerful word. Guys, I am so excited to be back in the same city that God took me from death

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Man, I'm so encouraged. I think you hit something spot on about mental health struggle that I think a lot of people don't really realize is it's the small believing the immature thoughts that lead to it. And you're saying that, and I'm like, you're telling me

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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how i think i'm a big over thinker and before i was a christian i was people pleaser to another level because i said man if i can get everyone in my school all these friends every sports team i was doing three different sports because i was trying to figure out who who was who and who was who was bryce but i was yeah i wasn't even bryce i was everybody else around me and i was different person and it was draining

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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And, and ultimately, you know, you know, my story outside of people pleasing and I had depression and anxiety for years crippling. And I was planning, I had the same thought of, I want to make an irrevocable decision with my life because I don't think I'm valuable.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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And, uh, went to take my life one night when I was 17 and I had a supernatural encounter with Jesus inside of waffle house on a waffle house.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Like, like, I feel like Waffle House is the only, like, dude, motorcycles on fire in the parking lot, you know you're at home. You know what I mean? Like, it's awesome. But that was like my favorite restaurant, last meal. Had a supernatural encounter with Jesus. And so my first experience with healing

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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And the way I grew up, I grew up in the South, deep roots of like, I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, nothing against that at all. But the way I was raised, I thought that that wasn't possible. I thought God didn't heal. And that's what I thought. And my first moment of healing was me going, okay, God, if you're real, take away my anxiety and depression. Right.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Because this feels like an incurable disease. And so I'd be lying if I said I don't have moments of anxiety, moments of sadness, moments of depression. But my crippling anxiety and depression, God took away. Wow. And that was my first sign of, okay, God, you love me. You see me. You really do care about my soul. Yeah. And then as I grow...

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I do those things where I, then it was me starting to step out, pray for the healing. And man, we were seeing crazy stuff too. I mean, torn ACLs completely reattached, God opening blind eyes, opening deaf ears, crazy stuff. And then, you know, then it was, the challenge was my close friends and family that struggled with crippling anxiety and depression. I would pray the same prayer.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Sometimes me feeling like I had more faith than I did that night in Waffle House and nothing would happen. And I remember I was approached by someone really close to me who said, Bryce, I don't know why God isn't taking this away. And I remember it was like Holy Spirit spoke so clear to me.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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It was like, man, maybe sometimes the healing of God is God giving wisdom to the doctors to prescribe the right amount of medication so that somebody can get it under control. Or maybe the wisdom and healing of God is God supernaturally removing it. Or maybe this, that, and the other. I'm like, man, like...

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Well, I love that. I mean, just from talking off camera, I mean, hearing about your kids, when you talk about your kids to farm, I love that you're a family man. I respect that a lot. And I think we need more... We need fathers, present fathers and present families. So I appreciate that you care about your family and it sounds like you steward it well.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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god does care yeah whether it is god literally supernaturally healing mending the muscles dissolving the metal you know things or maybe it is literally god giving the doctor the wisdom and It blows my mind how God is still moving like that and active.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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But to take that all the way to the thing that you're saying about mental health and even those moments, like the high moments, which I think is so spot on. I think people picture depression as like you got to be at your lowest low. And you're saying, no, but it was hitting me when I was at the high. I mean...

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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how do you yeah even now after learning that and navigating through these because i i feel like even me i i could say man like i said earlier god healed me my crippling anxiety and depression but i still have moments of sadness i still have moments of anxieties how do you navigate those situations when it creeps back up yeah i mean so many things um but i i would say like you know when you're

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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So I appreciate that about you and everything you're doing. Thanks for coming on, man. I'm super honored to be here, dude. Um, I gotta, I just gotta, I gotta break the ice and ask what shampoo you use.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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That's right.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I have no idea why. Mom, you did good?

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Yeah.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Dude, there is no way.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Yeah. I feel like you're just speaking my language, man. I mean, this is something that I've been trying to learn or that I have been learning. So I went through this like six to eight month time period of... Busy. Good busy. I mean, you know, you were just talking about earlier, you know, good busy.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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It's not that things are bad, but I love John Mark Homer has a book called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. And he says, if the devil can't make you sin, he'll make you busy. Keep you distracted. And I was just busy, busy, busy with good things. And I felt like I couldn't feel God. Yeah.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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And it's not all about feeling God, but you know, it's nice to know that you recognize that he's there and you can feel his presence. And it's not always going to be like that, but it's nice. And I'm going through this drought and then I'm listening to this sermon and the man says, how can the most beautiful flower be buried in a forest so deep where no man or angel will ever see this flower?

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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How does that flower give glory to God? And I paused it and I couldn't answer the question because Because just like you said earlier, I was deceived by the fact that, well, God loves me because I'm doing all of this stuff right now. And he sees it. And so he loves me. Couldn't answer the question. I play it. And he said, the reason that the most beautiful flower...

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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buried in the deepest forest where no man or angel will ever see it. The reason that flower gives glory to God is because God sees the flower. Wow. And for the first time in my life, I recognized it breaks God's heart to see me doing all this ministry and see me tired. Yeah. And when you're telling me about how...

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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slowing down getting on the tractor spending time with family like like your goal man i i just want to know the 80 people at my church man i'm like i i like that and i'm learning that and and it's that awkward space of i love people too you love people too you're so kind and hospitable the way you've been treating us this whole time it's amazing and it's not that you hate people but you know we're

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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We get tired. We get exhausted. And I'm learning this lesson that God has been speaking to you for years right now. I'm in the fresh stage of, holy crap, I can slow down. And it doesn't matter because I was literally sacrificing my own soul for the sake of other people. And it was hurting me.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Dude, I was not expecting that. You know, I was definitely not expecting you to say, like, a two-in-one or a three-in-one because your hair is way too, you know, good for that. But I was maybe a Pantene. You know Trevor Lawrence, the football player? Yes. He uses Pantene, and he's got pretty nice hair, so I assumed that you were more on, like, the Pantene.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Shout out.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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to life if you guys want to come out to the hometown live podcast show may 18th go to ticket master and search up bryce crawford and get your tickets today guys i'm looking forward to seeing you guys on may 18th go to ticket master search bryce crawford get your tickets to the live podcast show may 18th love you guys now enjoy the episode what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the bryce crawford podcast i'm bryce and today i have a very amazing special guest today we've got brandon lake brandon what up how are you doing man

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Because it has changed my perspective a lot significantly on what it means to praise the Lord. Because the days that I'm having a hard time throwing up my hands, and then I do, I realize that God sees it. And it is praise, even when it's hard. I think that song...

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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spoke to so this is what I love about this Christian revival that's happening in America is because it's not flashy it's just real it's just real like that song is so real gratitude is so real they're all real because it's just you're looking at it like I'm a human being and I think that was my biggest issue growing up was thinking that this Christianity thing was always perfect and then as I'm growing up

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Man, life's not perfect, but thinking that if my life wasn't perfect, if I was trying to seek Jesus, and it was this weird thing, and then even after I became a Christian, I kind of fell into this trap of like, okay, well, if my life isn't going good all the time because I'm following Christ, or if I'm struggling, that means I'm doing something wrong. But... No, that's the world we live in.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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We live in that broken world. We struggle, and it's hard. Can you tell me the heart behind it? What's the heart behind that song? Gosh.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I like that.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I like that. How do you maintain it? Do you have a thing, a system?

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Right.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I mean, I love, I think that is the direct that I think it's 1000% worship. That's how worship should be for, to introduce people because people don't know you're right. Like one of the challenges that we found when we were like telling people about Jesus in the street was like, we could say the, and I, I call it Christianese too, but like I could say something like repentance, um,

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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And they're like, what does that even mean? What does that mean? And it's like, you got to teach them. They have to understand, like, why would someone want to, quote, repent? Well, it's because they don't even know who Jesus is and this man and, like, this simplistic understanding Jesus isn't doing mental gymnastics with Bryce. Yeah. So, like, this, like, simple get my foot in the door.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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And I'm so stupid, so I'm still, like, you know, I got to have it fed to me on a spoon, you know, kind of thing. But I think there were no –

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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thank you for writing that song hmm and they're that people don't like fake and you're authentic and you can feel the passion you can feel the heart and there wasn't a bet there's no better person to put on that song the jelly roll yeah who is also extremely authentic yeah passionate and has a heart. I appreciate you guys for that.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I want to see that.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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That'd be insane.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Yeah.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Yeah, thanks for that encouragement. That means a lot to me. One way we like to close... The way I like to close out my episodes with my Christian friends that are married is asking for some relationship advice. Because... I have an amazing girlfriend and I don't take dating advice from anyone that isn't married.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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And so I really appreciate the way that you talked about your wife and your the good moments, the bad moments that just in this conversation, the recognizing the faults and things like that. And I do want to preface one of my favorite things about Maddie. I find myself like as a dude, I'm saying sorry all the time. Oh, well, that doesn't end. It's like just getting started.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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But she still draws near to me even though she sees every flaw in me. That's my favorite thing about my girlfriend. But if you could give me, what's the greatest piece of relationship advice that I could take home?

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I like that. Dang, I was not expecting that. No shampoo, okay. No shampoo. It's bad for my hair. I like it. Well, thanks for telling us about that. Man, as I was praying and figuring out what I wanted to focus on today, I really want to talk about two main things. Worship, but I really want to hone in on mental health.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Nice.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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The way, yeah, the way that... The Office, we like pickleball. I'm not good at tennis, so we like pickleball. Basically, it translates. Dude, that is so funny. I love that. Thank you. I think that's so good. I love the practical stuff like that. That's so good. Would you close this out in prayer? I would love to pray. Actually, sorry, one more thing before we pray.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Do you have any new projects coming up?

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Guys, please go to brainlink.com. I had one of the most beautiful encounters ever with God during your worship set, Passion 2023. No way. Yeah. Wow. At nighttime. Yeah, it was a beautiful encounter. I was at the very top. Dang. I was at the very top. Closer to heaven. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And man, it was so powerful, beautiful, and it really is.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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One thing I appreciate about you is your openness with your struggle and openness with... in your music about what it looks like to actually be a human. Sometimes I get intimidated by Christians that come across as like juggernaut Christians that are like, oh, superhero. And I remember like growing up feeling like,

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I just love the authenticity and the way that you... not to throw the Christianese out there, but like the way you lead people into God's glory. I got convicted because I felt like I always pray for God's hand, but most prayed to see God's face. And I really feel like the way that you lead worship at these places, concerts or at these events is you're really leading us to see God's face. Yeah.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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So please guys, like go to brand lake.com, give your tickets to the tour. Um, we'd love for you to pray us out. Please pray us out.

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feeling intimidated or not loved because I felt like, well, I struggle and these guys don't look like they're struggling. And so kind of invite me into that. I want to know more about that.

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Amen. Brandon, thank you so much for coming on and sharing your heart. Guys, please go to BrandonLake.com. Get your tickets. Get ready for the new record. Thanks for coming on.

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Let's rage. Let's rage, baby.

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Thanks for coming on. Appreciate you. Thank you. Guys, thank you so much for watching and tuning into these episodes. Guys, if you love watching and listening to these episodes, aside from following us along on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, I wanna ask you guys, would you guys consider partnering with our ministry financially?

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Your guys' radical generosity is actually what continues to fuel and produce these podcast episodes and our evangelism videos. So if you guys feel a burden to support this ministry, reach lost souls with the gospel through digital and in-person ministry, go to jesusinthestreet.org. Pray and ask God, how should I partner with Bryce and their ministry and Jesus in the Street ministry?

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Should I partner with them in prayer? Should I partner with them in finances? Should I partner with them in support? Whatever it may be, pray and ask God, how should I support Jesus in the Street ministry? Love you guys. See you guys next week for the next episode.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Yeah.

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And I'm like, yes.

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Yeah, that is what they call it over there.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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I go to Disney World.

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The Brandon Lake Interview (EP 93)

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Right.

The Bryce Crawford Podcast

Conviction VS. Condemnation (EP 81)

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today, listen, normally we're having a lot of guests on. We're gonna start having more guests on, but you know what? Thought it would be good to start the year off with a classic podcast, because you guys love it when we dive in the Word of God, talk about things.

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That's a beautiful thing. But in order to receive that, you have to receive it. And I think that's awesome. And something that my roommate encouraged me with, he said, he was like, man, we don't pray for forgiveness. We pray from it. We pray from forgiveness because on the cross, death was defeated and we were forgiven. So we say, God, thank you for forgiving me now, blank.

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And I think that's beautiful. But let's talk about conviction and condemnation. Here's the difference between conviction and condemnation. Conviction is from the Holy Spirit. It leads to repentance. It offers forgiveness. In conviction, the movement of conviction in your heart actually allows you to run to Jesus for grace. Whereas condemnation, it's from the devil. It leads to self-hatred.

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It offers guilt and you run from God and shame. I mean, look in the garden, in the garden of Eden. You have Adam and Eve who blatantly disobey God and their response of disobedience is, let me hide from him. Now, if you go to second Corinthians, I'm flipping there right now. Second Corinthians 7.10 says, for godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret.

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By the title of this video, we're gonna be talking about something that is really near and dear to my heart, and that's the difference between conviction and condemnation. I believe that we have to understand the difference between the two, because it's important. And a lot of us end up living in shame when there's actually a lot of freedom for us. So I'm really excited about today, guys.

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Whereas worldly grief produces death. Worldly grief looks like this. Worldly grief looks like this. God is coming, so I'm going to run away. Godly grief looks like God is coming, so I'm going to run to him. And that's a beautiful thing about conviction, because when we are convicted by something, it says, God is coming. I need to run him.

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We run to Jesus for grace and condemnation says, oh, gosh, God is coming. I need to run and hide. It leads to self-hatred and offers. You know, it was crazy about self-condemnation is that oftentimes self-condemnation leads to actual more sin and regret. We say to ourselves, oh, I can't tell anyone. I've got to hide.

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Someone's going to look at me differently, or this isn't that, or God doesn't love me, or things like that. This isn't that. But no, it leads to actual more sin and regret in our lives. when we don't come to the Lord for confession and we don't come to the Lord and say, God, I need help. This is an area in my life I'm struggling with.

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Then we're actually giving the devil license to use our own sin against us. And it allows us to come up with excuses to send more in that area. And not only that, but when the devil uses our sin against us, it actually convinces us that what we're doing is okay. It's okay to hide it.

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And when we're walking around, we're convinced that everybody else knows what we've done, even though they have no idea. And so when we hide in the dark, we're giving the devil the license to use our sin against us. Here's the reality. Satan knows our name, but he's called us by our sin. He always calls us by our sin. That's condemnation in your head.

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Satan knows your name, but calls you by your sin. But Jesus, he knows your sin and calls you by your name. Because whenever we sin, it's actually like whenever we sin and God brings conviction in our lives, it's actually God's way of showing us that we've behaved in a way that isn't consistent with our identity as a child of God.

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And so conviction is actually a beautiful thing because it leads to more joy, peace, and freedom. Whereas condemnation leads to sin and regret. And the Bible actually tells us that if we confess our sins to one another, that God is faithful and just to forgive us. What is the purpose of confession? Confession is for you. It takes the weight off of your chest. It keeps the sin in the light.

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It keeps you pure, righteous, holy, joyous, and free. That's what confession is for. And let me tell you something. When you confess to God, you're saying, God, I acknowledge what I did is wrong. I own my decision. And this is what I was saying at the beginning of the podcast. When you pray from forgiveness, say, God, thank you for forgiving me. Now what? Now what do you do?

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Now, this is what my roommate was encouraging me with. He's like, whenever you sin and you get convicted, he says, you pray from a place of forgiveness. You say, God, thank you for forgiving me. Now, God, show me active, practical ways that I can cut blank sin out of my life. And I think it's such a beautiful thing.

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Because the confession is coming into agreement with God, his character, his law, who he is, the original design for my life confession. And here's the thing. And this is what I love. Like I've noticed about confession being a beautiful thing is that my brothers that I have in my life, If I sin and I confess to my brothers that they come around me with a lot of grace and a lot of truth.

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Also, thank you guys for the encouragement on the Luke series. I'm so glad you guys are super blessed by it. It's going to be amazing. But listen, we're just going to dive right in and talk about conviction and condemnation and talk about what the Bible says. What freedom is there? What does this look like? So let's dive right in.

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And I think that's a beautiful thing. If you're confessing to someone that weaponizes your own sin against you, they're not a brother and they don't know the love and grace of Jesus Christ.

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Because if you're confessing to someone and their response is to use it against you and manipulate you and to weaponize it against you, then they themselves haven't received the free gift and grace of God for themselves. And so it's a good thing to root ourselves This is why Paul talks about bad company corrupting good morals. And we have to be careful who has a voice in our life.

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Because the people that have a voice in our life, their words mean a lot to us. And if they're the people that understand the love and grace and truth of Jesus Christ, then they will actually be able to display that to you, encourage you, show you grace, help you grow and hold you accountable in the scenarios of your life. And that's what I love about my brothers and sisters.

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Here's a scripture I wanna read from Micah 7, verse 19. He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all of our sins into the depths of the sea. Micah 7, it says that God takes our sin and drops it in the sea of forgetfulness as if it has never happened. I used to work on a boat dock.

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And when I worked on this boat dock, this lady was getting on the boat and she dropped her wedding ring with her massive diamond into the ocean. And she goes, Bryce, I need you to jump in and get it. Jump and go get my ring. It just fell in the ocean. And I said, lady, I can't do that. It's already gone. The second the ring hit the water, it was gone. Why?

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Because as soon as it drops down, the current is swashing it around from the original place it hit. The sand covers it up. It's buried in the sand and all these things. And it's immediately gone. The second it touches the water, it's gone.

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And when I take that picture of that wedding ring and that incident that happened when I was working, and I compare it to what Jesus does with my sin, it's so encouraging. It's not that Jesus is shoving the sin under the rug, it's that he's paid for it. It's already canceled. It's gone. It's gone.

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And so when we operate out of a place of forgiveness and saying, God, I know what you've done for my sin. God, I recognize that I acted outside of my character as your child. God, I'm asking, like, God, thank you. I'm asking for practical advice on what to do. And God, thank you for forgiving me because I'm your son and you love me. That's who you are.

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Because what Satan's going to do is that the Bible says that we've been baptized into death with Jesus Christ and raised in a new life. And Satan will try to allow your old self to creep up on you. Satan will try to allow our old self to creep up on you guys. Moses is growling at me. And what he's going to try to do is he's going to try to convince you that that's who you are.

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That's not who you are anymore. You're free, clean, and forgiven in him. That's who you are. Free, clean, and forgiven in Jesus Christ. The last scripture I want to read is one that my roommate brought up to me. And it was so encouraging. I think it's so applicable to conviction and condemnation. This is a Psalmist David.

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If you guys don't know who King David is, King David is a man after God's own heart. Someone that the Bible and God knew as a man after his own heart. And he was the same man that slept with another woman and killed her husband. And this is what David has to say about confession and sin. And I'm going to read this over to you. The same that my roommate once did with me.

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I think the first thing we can always do, which this is always positive advice that I have for everyone, everything can always be pointed back to the cross. And so I think it's a beauty of it. Before you get into what the definitions of conviction and condemnation are, all of these things, we have to understand the purpose of the cross. What is the purpose of the cross?

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For those of you who feel condemnation. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.

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I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Therefore, let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found. Surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach in. You are a hiding place for me. You preserve me from trouble.

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You surround me with shouts of deliverance. David says something very beautiful here at the very beginning. He says, your sin is already forgiven. And then he says, not only is blessed is the one whose sin is forgiven, but then he says, blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity. And David actually can relate to us, which you might feel this way.

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David says in Psalm 32, 3, for when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. Like I said earlier, when we keep our sin in the dark, we give the devil license to use it against us. We walk around. We think that everyone knows what we've done in the dark. We feel shame and guilt. We want to hide. And we say, oh, I'm going to hide. I'm going to hide. I can't tell anyone.

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I can't tell anyone. But he says, when I keep silent, it crushes me. Your sin is crushing you. You're not meant for that weight. That's why Jesus came. He died on the cross and bore all the sins of the world, past, present, and future.

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Even if you were the only person to exist in the world that was sinful, Jesus would still die for you because that would be a debt that you couldn't pay except for your own life. But Jesus laid his life down so you could live in him. It's a beautiful picture. He says, for day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. My strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.

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He said, when I kept my sin inside of me, that it was just beating me up and it was so heavy and I just couldn't do anything about it. My strength was gone and things like that. And he says, but I acknowledged my sins to you and I did not cover my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. And he gives a call to all Christians.

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Therefore, let everyone who is Godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found. And then he says, you are a hiding place for me. You preserve me from my trouble. This is a beautiful picture. The Bible also tells us that if we sin, know that there's an advocate to the Father named Jesus Christ who's praying on our behalf.

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Man, if we knew that Jesus was praying for us at all times, would we make the same decisions that we make? Probably not. But the beautiful thing about it is, is if you sin, know that not only can you surround yourselves with godly community that will lift you up in grace and truth, challenge you, hold you accountable, but Jesus Christ himself is praying for us. It's a beautiful picture.

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I want to end with this. This is your encouragement, my friend, not to live in shame, not to condemn yourself.

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wages of sin is death but the free gift of god is eternal life and the beautiful thing about conviction is it's a joyous thing conviction is joyful it challenges our actions and purifies us to be more like jesus it's such a beautiful picture it's deeper than just it's it's deeper than hiding let us not hide anymore god calls us out of this lifestyle

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The purpose of the cross is to pay the debt in which we condemn ourselves for. The purpose of the cross is to wipe our slate clean in which our sin puts us in an unpayable debt with God. And the only way for us to pay for it is with the death of our own life. But because Jesus has compassion on us, he takes on the punishment that we deserve for our sin in which it unites us with him in eternity.

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And more and more each day as we grow in the Lord, as you begin to grow closer to Jesus, the more you realize you need him. The more you realize you need his strength. The more you realize you are thankful for his forgiveness. The more you realize you're grateful for conviction because it challenges you and allows you to grow. The more you realize that you just need soul reliance on him.

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I'm going to pray for us before we close and just ask that God heals your heart, challenges you, shows you practical ways if you're struggling with sin areas in your life. Not only that, but that you just bathe in his love and forgiveness because it's freely given. You just have to receive it. Oh, Jesus, I thank you so much for this day. God, I thank you that you love us.

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God, thank you for conviction. Thank you that you give us the Holy Spirit to teach us, challenge us, offer us grace, forgiveness, truth, love, and tune our heart. God, I just rebuke self-condemnation, self-hatred. God, thank you that you remind us that we're made in your image, that you've made us fearfully and wonderfully, that you love us.

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God, I just pray right now that every human being, if they're experiencing any self-condemnation, God, that you would just change that from condemnation to conviction, that you will shower them in love and peace and truth, that they would recognize that guilt is not from you because guilt makes us run from you, but that conviction is from you and it makes us run to you and turn to you and allow you to tune our hearts.

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So God, thank you for conviction. Thank you for love. Thank you for truth. God, thank you for the cross. Thank you that you've already forgiven us. Thank you that we operate out of peace and forgiveness. God, we love you. Thank you and praise you. It's in your name we pray. Amen. Guys, thank you so much for watching and listening to the episode. If you like it, subscribe to us.

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And how, what was the highest month that you had ever had?

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And that was like, was that a consistent number that you were seeing every month?

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Oh my gosh. And like, I guess like another question I have is, you know, they're requesting all of this stuff. You have no grid for anything going on. You're just kind of listening to the people.

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how like where like they're requesting bigger stuff all right you're you're selling nude pictures they're like they're wanting you to do porn all this other stuff i mean like i guess my mind is like how how did you even get into that realm of it when you didn't even already know what you were doing first like were people reaching out to you or like

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How many months into OnlyFans did they find out?

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And how?

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But the person that she claims to be in love with says, dang, if I was your age, I'd be doing the same thing.

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Did he ever say any more stuff to you encouraging him? Or maybe like, did you...

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Yeah.

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So aside from him helping your siblings and asking for money, like, did he have some sort of addiction that he was feeling with the money? I don't know.

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So intense. So how long did you do OnlyFans for? Five years.

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five years, and in total, how much money did you make over the course of it? $14 million. $14 million.

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And what was the appeal to move to California? I mean, what was out there for you?

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Yeah. That's so intense. Five years, $14 million total without anything taken away from it. Now you have an amazing husband. I do. He's awesome. So at what point in those five years did you guys meet and how did that go down?

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Thanks for coming on. Wait, is that your real name? Yeah. Nala. That's super cool. She's going to be sharing her testimony. You guys have probably seen her before on the Internet, maybe sharing her testimony. So powerful. I already know it's going to be powerful. I don't know her story because I've been avoiding the podcast. So it's fresh to me. I'm super excited to talk about it.

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So what was your dad's behavior before the original divorce? And then afterwards, like did when he, when your mom and dad got married, was he like getting into Christianity when that, or like, did he just come back out of the blue out of two years? And he was like, Oh yeah, by the way, I'm a Christian. I'm about to do ministry.

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Yeah. Was it Fearless Church? Then downtown, downtown LA. Yes.

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Whoa. Well, I mean, first of all, like, dude, that's awesome. I mean, I think I think like you being able to pursue Nala and friendship and speak life over her is such a powerful thing. And then it turned into more than your initial intentions. That's super cool. But that's lit.

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And I think it's so cool, too, because I can't even imagine, you know, that night in December that you're staring at the fireplace, how you viewed yourself. You're like, man, I was numb because I was a pot smoker. But I'm also, too, thinking like, how numb were you to the way you viewed yourself? Because.

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I mean, you said it like, yeah, I liked attention, so I was getting compliments, but those were, you know, those were not good compliments. So I can't even imagine how numb you were to viewing yourself, loving yourself, not of a prideful way, just like seeing your own value.

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Rich old woman.

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2024.

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Comes around. So what does that look like now? You're saved.

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Well, because in your mind, he's like, you came back to our family as a pastor. But now you're telling me to stay on OnlyFans. In reality, maybe he was trying to look like the savior of the family, providing all the bread on the table because you're sending it to him.

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Oh my goodness. That's really intense. I mean, what an attack from the enemy to just be like, Oh, you became a Christian. Let me split your family.

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that is so intense it was a rough boy but like how do you i mean what i mean i gosh that's so intense what was it like leaning and trusting god i mean thankfully you have you know jordan and his family but i mean you're a fresh fresh believer little baby and you're getting hit with some of the hardest practical problems i mean some people might be thinking money on a small scale but you owe the government

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more than a quarter of a million dollars get in a car accident gotta pay for that maybe insurance goes up now your family's getting divorced and then your dad gets arrested i mean what did that look like trusting god in that it was hard but you know what was crazy i saw so many blessings through that like i knew at that point in my head that was the enemy

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Right. Absolutely. So you guys start dating in January. You said you got married in.

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No way. Yeah.

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Oh, so it wasn't like super random.

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Oh, cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.

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That is so fun. And that's so amazing. There's a, uh, so there's a specific, the only thing I've ever seen about you on the internet is there was this one video clip and, um, I, I'm going to probably misquote it, but it was definitely when you were in only fans, you were on the whatever podcast. And I think, um, they were grilling you about OnlyFans.

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And in return, you said something, you might remember what it was. You said something along the lines of like, no one would cheat on me. But do you know what I'm talking about?

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Yeah. So how does that make, like to you now, that was you before. And now you're obviously not that way. You're happily married. I mean, how cool is that?

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So, well, I think that, I mean, I, I think that clip seeing that clip now and knowing who you are now, so encouraging to me because whether like eat, cause I just think like, that's laughable. Now you are. But I mean, it's like what you said, whether you meant it or not, you were saying those things.

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So even if you didn't necessarily do the things you were talking about in that video clip, maybe that's the way that you viewed yourself. Like, I mean, it came out of your mouth. Like the Bible says that out of the mouth comes the abundance of the heart. And I'm like, maybe it's not necessarily what you were doing, but it's how you viewed yourself.

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Interesting. Well, one of my friends, I don't know if you guys know Todd White, but he was sharing his testimony with me one time and he was talking to me about how his wife was trying to leave him at one point. And so he would say to his kid at the time, oh yeah, go tell mommy I'm a Christian so she'll come back to me.

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And now you're in an amazing marriage and it's so beautiful. And that's so cool. Right. And I think that's, I think that's so sweet. And I think that's true redemption of just like everything that you ever thought of yourself to never happen. God's like, I'll show you something like, yeah. Like I have this for you. Like it's beautiful.

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Yeah. Dang, that's crazy. That's so that that's so real, though. I mean, like so many people like just want to feel loved. Yeah. And they'll say whatever they do.

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I mean, I would people please in high school, you know, definitely not like a degree of saying anything. Yeah, but. You know, in high school, I would be two totally different people to two different people in my high school in hopes that if I get both of them to like me, then I'll feel better about myself. Yeah. Obviously didn't work.

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And obviously in your case, you recognize that it didn't even work on a grand scale. And it was that's intense. So. Okay. So last thing I want to talk about is your company, the nonprofit that you guys are starting to start, because I think it's super cool. And I mean, you guys are, I mean, I think it fits in the name. I mean, you were radically changed by God.

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You're being the change in an industry that doesn't see a lot of pushback. And I mean,

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Ew.

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That is not okay.

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but he wasn't really a christian yet and so that's why i asked that question because i feel like so many people so are in like a position where maybe someone want like their parents or someone in their life will say oh yeah i'm a christian like i'm good like someone might be even in a dating relationship right and they're like oh yeah i'm a christian like we're good and then they're they're not really so that's why i asked if there was like some sort of i don't know hidden motive but

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Yeah.

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Whoa.

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That's so powerful.

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That's so powerful.

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So you guys are so your heart is just to encourage people to not only like say no to the lifestyle of sin, but then begin to walk it out and be a part of the change and bringing people into that lifestyle. Yeah.

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to you guys.

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So, well, I think it's very beautiful heart behind the organization, everything you guys are doing. Thank you. testimony is powerful it's first time i've ever heard it so super encouraging thank you for sharing and tell me about y'all's marriage as well it's super encouraging and can't wait to hear more about it later at hibachi let's go that'll be fun love hibachi but uh Yeah.

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Thank you so much for coming on. I really appreciate it. And thank you guys for watching. If you guys are enjoying the podcast, we're on all platforms, Bryce Crawford podcast, like subscribe guys, check out Nala and their organization. Be the change. We love you guys. And we'll see you guys next episode.

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Whoa. And that went on from eighth grade through high school he was pastoring churches?

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Okay. So what was high school like for you then? I was homeschooled. And homeschooled. So I guess you didn't really have like a crazy high school experience.

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And then we're going to talk about, I'm not in my merch, obviously. We're in Nala and her husband's new clothing brand. We'll talk about y'all's organization too towards the end and y'all's heart. Because when you were telling me a little bit about it on the phone last week, I was super encouraged.

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What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce. And in today's episode, have another amazing special guest, Nala.

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So you go through 18 years old, all high school, no friends, nothing really. When you're transitioning out, like you said something that was really important to me. You were like, I want to leave my environment. Do you think that was the call?

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Like that over time feeling was from all the church splits, like seeing how people were reacting, the Christians were reacting and your dad and mom feeling like you had to play church, all those things. Was that kind of like the ongoing, maybe hardened heart towards

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I'm super excited. But let's like, let's talk about what it was like growing up. Where did you grow up? What state? What was your family like? Did you know about Jesus? Kind of like tell me a little bit about that. Yeah.

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Yeah, I can definitely understand that feeling of, I mean, there are things definitely in my life that I totally wish I was different. And then at the same time, like there are these small moments that I have with people or in circumstances that I go, I don't know if I would have reacted that way if those bad things didn't happen to me. Wow.

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you know what i mean like yeah i'm like second guessing things yeah yeah like i don't get me wrong i definitely have those moments i'm like dang i wish that never happened or like i went through this awful thing like why did that and then but then there are those like small moments or the people that normal people can't reach but i can reach because i went through it right and that feels so powerful

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So it's hard. Yeah. So were you not really close relationship wise to your dad or mom because of that?

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Whoa. Oh my gosh. So, okay. So you're 18, graduate high school, homeschool. Did you attempt to go to college?

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Where'd you go to school?

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And how long did that last?

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Well, I feel like an orthopedic job. Like you, I mean, you just said it yourself. You're like, I got an orthopedic job. I stopped college because my job was good and it had benefits.

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So most people would be like, yeah, I'm just clean living.

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Yeah. Like I don't, I don't have to do anything. Were you, were you making pretty good money?

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And where did that come from? Where did that opportunity come from?

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Oh, my gosh. You made more. You probably made double like two years of your orthopedic salary in a month.

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That's intense. And so was this guy like, I mean, I know like a little bit about like, I don't know anything like you do about that side of industry, but I know when I first moved to LA, they're like OnlyFans managers. Is that who DM'd you?

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Gotcha.

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Gotcha.

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unlucky for him he lost out on a lot of money whoa so okay so first month eighty something thousand dollars that paycheck hits your account right is that what motivated you to do more like do you and not even do more but like i was like oh i can stick with this so

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today, I have an awesome guest on today. We have MTV Jesse on. How's it going? That's the only thing I really know how to call you by, MTV Jesse. What's your last name? Sebastiani. Sebastiani. Yeah, super Italian. Wait, so what's your Instagram handle, MTV Jesse?

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And that's when I would get to really know who Jesse is. So I was like, well, maybe I don't really know who God is. And so I kind of freaked out because I had this weird supernatural encounter, spiritual moment. And I kind of ran to my car and I'm crying. And I said, OK, Jesus, if you're real, take away my anxiety and depression, because this is the whole reason why I want to take my life.

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So if you really care about me, take this away. I haven't had anxiety or depression since that day. And so that was my entry point into Christianity. Okay, I didn't ask Buddha. I didn't ask Allah. I didn't read a self-help book. I didn't do any of that stuff. I specifically asked Jesus to take it away, and he did. And so that was my entry point.

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So I think people believe things not only for emotional evidence or experiential evidence, but also for logical evidence. And so through that entry point, I began to look at who's this Jesus guy, not just from like, oh, I'm trying to pass a quiz or test in my Bible class in my Christian school.

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I was like, okay, I'm actually looking at this because I want to know if this guy really is who he says he is. And that's when I went into the entry point of like researching his teachings and his life and if this guy really was who he says he is.

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Like nowadays you don't really hear, like, I mean, you do kind of hear like, oh, Jesus wasn't a real person, but it's kind of a foolish thing to say because outside of the Bible, there's so much historical evidence that he was a real guy. So the issue wasn't now is, oh, was Jesus real? It's, is he God?

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That's the whole foundational thing about Christianity is, was this man who walked the earth really God? Because if he was really God, then it kind of demolishes everything else and everything. And then it means like it's the cornerstone of our belief. Like, was Jesus really God? Did he raise from the dead in his physical body? If that happened, then he's the truth.

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If Jesus did nothing but die, then he's no different than you and me. So it's interesting how like you're.

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So let's take what you called the sign from today. Don't waste your time. Don't waste your time. Don't waste your time. Take off the headphones. Trainer's like, hey, don't waste your time. Starts the class. Okay, great. Well, let's just take it from the Christian POV right now because I'm a Christian.

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What if this whole conversation is finding out that you're valuable and that you have a purpose and it's time to stop wasting time? Yeah. What if? What if that? What is that? That is nothing. Like no one directly said, don't waste your time with Jesus. But what if that is directly correlated to that? You never know.

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That's why I'm not denying that, you know, there could be a truth that signs are coming from. But then you even acknowledge, I don't even know where these signs are coming from, what it could be. God can use signs. God can use people. God can use conversations. God can use words.

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you can look at a flower and go, how does this flower have a system called photosynthesis that keeps it alive and healthy? Who did that? Like you can't just look at this house and go, oh, it wasn't here yesterday, but today it's here. You'd be like, are you kidding me? There was a maker. Someone intelligently created the plan design for this house. And then people came and built it.

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So it's like, you can look at everything and go, who did all of this? And it's so perfect. Everything's so complicated, but so many specifics. If we were an inch, if we were a mile closer to the sun, we'd be scorched to death. If we were a mile further from the sun, we would freeze to death. So everything's so perfect and orbit and balance. It's like, man, that conversation is the one that.

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I can't be offensive about this stuff. If you're curious, you know, that's what, yeah. Okay. There's no way to be offensive about it. If you're curious. Yeah.

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You're in your own way a little bit. Yeah. But I don't know. Yeah. I'll never encourage anyone to follow religion. Like when I say like I'm a Christian, I'm like, it's like there was this one time this guy got angry at me. He's like, man, you're just religious. And I was like, I'm not religious. And he's like, what? And I get what people say when they mean, oh, religious. I get it.

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Yes, Christianity as a label is a religion. But I love how Jesus takes on this aspect of following him. Because you have him in this time period in history where the...

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there are these guys called the pharisees and the sadducees they're the religious people so the religious people that are waiting for this messiah that jesus claims to be they thought that this messiah was going to be a guy who was just like them who came from this royal rich family who just despised sinners who despised people that were awful people and was kind of be like you ever seen those street preachers that got like pitchforks and signs that are like turn or burn

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They just assumed that the Messiah was going to be like that guy. That guy that came from a rich family, wanted nothing to do with sinners and everything like that. Then you got this Jesus guy who was not born in a rich family. He was born in a horse-feeding trough. He was born in a horse-feeding trough. And he comes from this town, Nazareth. And everyone's like...

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Yo, anyone that comes from Nazareth is a fool. The people from Nazareth are stupid because he was a Jew. So in this Jewish culture, he's like people are like anyone that comes from Nazareth is a nobody. And then any time that these religious people would come around, he would almost tell them, you've got it wrong. and he's always hanging out with the sinners.

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So they had the tax collectors, which were the rich sinners, were essentially people that took advantage of their own people for more money. So selfish gain. And the regular sinners, which was, there was a law, like a moral code, and if you didn't follow the law, you were a sinner. They called you a Torah defiler. That was the name of the law, was the Torah.

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They were like, you're just a good old-fashioned sinner. And Jesus would spend time with these guys. And the religious people hated it. And Jesus looks at them and says, the healthy don't need a doctor. The sick do. What he's saying is, when's the last time you've been healthy and called your doctor and go, hey, bro, I'm doing great, man. Yeah, I'm feeling good.

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I need to come in and see you because I'm feeling great. No one ever does that. Call the doctor when you're in need. And he's like, the only way these people are going to know to stop doing what they're doing is if I meet them where they're at. So when Jesus is spending time with them, he's not endorsing what they're doing, but he's saying, look, I love you.

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This is not how I created you to be like, come out of this lifestyle. And so whenever these religious people come around, Jesus was never the type of guy to go, oh, shoot, where's the back door? Let me get out of here. I can't be seen with these guys.

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No, he actually loved spending time with them because he knew, like, the only way to show these people that the way that they were living and the things that they were doing was wrong was if he spent time with them and actually showed them how to live it. So, like, yes, there is a law. There is this moral code. But there's this moment.

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This is why, like, I think this is my main reason why I love Jesus is, like, these religious guys are like, Jesus, what is the greatest law? there were 613 laws that these people had to follow to be considered righteous good people. And if you didn't follow one, you were unrighteous and you had to sacrifice an animal to basically pay for the sins.

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And so people were just in this constant state of having to sacrifice animals because there had to be a payment for wrongdoing. It's kind of like the justice system. If you murder someone, there has to be a punishment. For sin and wrongdoing, we deserve death, but the animal would be the payment for death instead of your own life. Does that make sense? Yeah.

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So like these guys challenged Jesus, they're like, which is the greatest law? Because they knew if they could get him to say one law was greater than the other one, that that would be a no-go and they could kill him for it. And Jesus responds to them by saying, you shall love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

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And then they don't do anything about it because Jesus summarizes all of these laws, 613 laws, 10 commandments under this one truth of, if you love me with your whole heart, you will naturally obey me. So now it goes from the standard of shooting at like an archery target. Like I've got to be this good person. I've got to be this good person. It's like, no, I'm going to love Jesus.

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And because I love Jesus, I'm going to naturally obey him the same way I listened to my dad. I don't listen to my dad because he's got a gun to my head. I listened to my dad because I love him and I want to listen to him. Yeah. And in the same way, I give up certain things and don't do certain things because I love Jesus. And I really believe he's the truth.

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And if I love Jesus, I'm going to not do certain things. And I am going to do certain things because I care about him. And I think he's beautiful and magnificent. He's amazing. And he's who I want to be like. And he calls people to be like him. And so that is like... That is why Christianity offers something that's not like a structured religion. It's this relationship.

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Jesus is like, hey, follow me. What he's saying is like, spend time with me. And when you spend time with me, you will become more like me. So almost like how you look up to an idol or a big brother or like, yeah, like you're just or even your friends. Right. Yeah. Like who you surround yourself with is often who you become.

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And so, like, I don't know, you know, if there are times in your life when you were hanging out with the wrong crowd, you were doing wrong things. You can go, OK, well, maybe they had a big part of it. OK, well, when I spend time with Jesus and I read the Bible, I'm like, OK, I'm more like him.

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And sometimes the Bible is intimidating and I'm like, I'm not going to understand this whole thing and things like that. And I feel like that. And then I have to remind myself like, okay, this Bible is a love letter God wrote to me to show me how he intended me to live. And to show me the knucklehead mistakes other people have made.

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and how to steer away from those mistakes, and to show me how to live my life, and it's been a beautiful way to perceive the Bible instead of this rule of cage. It's like, all right, Jesse, if you don't do this stuff, you're a bad human being, and that's it. Like, okay, sure, but there's also this aspect of, that's not encouraging at all.

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I think in the Bible, the book in the Bible that I love the most is the book of John. So there's four gospels. Like a bunch of people think this Bible is like the spiritual book. It's a, it's, it's like a history book. Like it's stuff written in there is legit history. Oh, so it's just like what happened? There's a lot of that.

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There's a lot of like, so then you have like Psalms and Proverbs, which is like Psalms is a guy named King David where he writes like prayers and songs to God, Proverbs, the wisest guy ever lived, King Solomon, he's writing wisdom.

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So there's an aspect of that, but like there's a lot of Old Testament stuff that's like history of like, okay, like Moses came and did this and Moses got the law and this is where we got the law and commandments. God gave it to Moses, then Moses, like there's history in there. But the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are four POVs

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of Jesus, his teachings, his life, what happened on the cross, him rising from the dead. And it's not that they contradict each other, but it's almost like having like CNN, Fox News, CBS, and like, you know, whatever, another news station recording the same story. You know, CBS might give an extra detail that CNN didn't know, but it doesn't mean that it's wrong.

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They just had a different perspective. But I love the book of John because John was like Jesus' best friend. And he was at the foot of the, like he was right in front of the cross when Jesus is dying. So I think his perspective is super amazing, easy to understand, things like that. So I think like that in the Bible. And that's just a piece in the Bible?

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Yeah, so the Bible is like a compilation of books. So it's 66 books in total confined into one leather bound book.

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like i never knew that yeah yeah so it's like all like all this um like it's just like a bunch of like history and the gospels and then so it's like before jesus came jesus came and jesus is coming a second time and so like it's um or it's like it's like before jesus came jesus came explaining why jesus came and then he's going to return a second time and it's uh Bro, the Bible is so helpful.

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So like a lot of people complain, they're like, man, God's not speaking to me. But we have the Bible. And it's super helpful. So like a lot of people's problems and like issues are like firsthand or I need help advice here. I need this and that. Like the Bible answers a lot of that. Yeah. And there's also stuff that it doesn't cover because, you know, it's not going to cover everything.

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But it covers everything that we need. But like there's sometimes we go through things where like, well, the Bible's not super clear cut on like I'm having this issue, specific issue right now. But there's things in the Bible that can aid to that. And then on top of that, The Bible tells us that as Christians, we have the Holy Spirit, which is God's spirit that lives in us.

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that was encouraging for you because that was your passion and not a lot of people in your small town like that.

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And that can actually give us strength to stop doing certain things or to do certain things or to comfort us. And I think like even to like Jesus, they call him the Prince of Peace. And the Bible says that Jesus can give us a peace that surpasses all understanding. So this is helpful because I used to struggle with anxiety. Anxiety is like in your head and you're feeling crazy.

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Well, Jesus would give me a peace that did not make sense in my brain, but would make sense in my heart. So I'd be in super high intense anxious situations and I would be super peaceful. And how so?

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How would you pinpoint that? I think it can be both. I hate flying. I have bad plane anxiety because I think the planes are going to go down.

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yeah especially with all the stuff in the news it was like freaking out it's been kind of crazy yeah so i was freaking out and i was on the airplane flying back and i was freaking out we had like turbulence for like an hour straight it was bad and i'm like grabbing onto the seat and freaking out everyone's pretty cool but i'm freaking out i'm closing my eyes and then all of a sudden i'm like

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God, I really need you right now. I really need you. I really need you. I really need you. And I'm praying. And then all of a sudden I start feeling peaceful. And as I'm feeling peaceful, I begin to think, I'm like, okay, I can't control what's happening in this plane. Yeah. But. But Jesus, in the Bible, he's our protector, our comforter, and our peace.

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And if I really believe that, God, please give me peace right now in the midst of this, it's not making sense in my brain. And then I slowly start calming down. It's not making sense because I'm still thinking about what's going on. But for some reason, I start calming down because I'm asking God, God, help me, God, help me, God, help me. And then I start thinking about the Bible.

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Scripture also helps me comfort me because we believe that it's the truth. So if the Bible is telling me something that contradicts how I feel, then it's like, what am I going to believe? This feeling? Feelings can be very misleading, too. It's like, oh, you make me angry, I'm going to murder you? Well, that's not a good feeling. I really shouldn't feel that way. This is how I feel, right?

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But I shouldn't act on that. In the same way, this truth of Scripture, where Jesus has this beautiful passage in Matthew 6. Jesus' words himself. He says, Do not be anxious about anything, what you will eat, what you will drink, what you will wear, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Yeah. Dang.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Was, was any sort of like God or anything in the picture when you were younger too, or not really, you just kind of like,

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Thank you. Thank you.

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And then he looks at it and he goes, okay, there has to be a payment. There's gotta be a blood payment. These people are sacrificing animals. There's a name that Jesus has called the Lamb of God. They would sacrifice lambs to pay for sins. Jesus is considered the Lamb of God. So think about this. As I'm telling you this, I want you to think of all the crap you've ever done in your life.

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All the crap that you think is not worth you being loved, all the crap that you think is not worth people being friends with you, all the wrong you've done friends, family, people, bad decisions you made, imagine that. I know when I imagine that, there's a scroll that is endless of the amount of things I've done wrong. Said, done, thought, felt, everything.

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And Jesus, if Jesse was the only person that had ever done anything wrong in the world, Jesus would come, live that perfect life, and the ultimate display of love is Jesus dying for you. That's the important thing, is how do we know that God loves Jesse? The value that Jesus puts on Jesse is his own life. He says, I'm willing to die for Jesse so that we can be friends. Think about that.

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And then that's like you murdering someone, going on trial. They say, you're sentenced to life in prison. And then someone randomly walks in the courtroom and goes, I'll do your sentence for you, Jesse. Go and live your life. That makes absolutely no sense. And it does not make sense. And Jesus says, I'm gonna die for Jesse. I'm gonna defeat the very thing that separates him from me, sin and death.

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So he defeats sin by dying on the cross. He kills sin on the cross. And then he defeats death by raising from the dead. He defeats it by conquering it. He raises from the dead. And so knowing that Jesus loved you enough to lay his life down for you is very important because he's God. So when he was on the cross, I want you to picture this. He's stripped naked in front of everyone. Humiliating.

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That's why we wear clothes. No one walks around naked because it's somewhat humiliating. He's stripped naked in front of people. He's mocked. They whip him 39 times.

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Why did he do that? Yes. So, well, the Bible tells us that it, like I said earlier, like there has to be a payment for sin. So it was in God's will that Jesus died for humanity because there needed to be a payment. But how it led up to that point,

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was um the religious people were trying to catch jesus for talking bad about god blasphemy like saying another law is greater than another law or doing things and so they were trying to arrest him well anyways they decide to arrest jesus one of jesus's own close followers handed jesus over betrayed him okay betrayed him got him arrested and every year these jews jesus was a jew they had a holiday

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where they would release one prisoner from Rome. The Roman government reign, and they would release one prisoner. And the guy in charge at the time, Pilate, they're like, we need to kill this Jesus guy. And he's like, I don't see anything wrong with him. He didn't even do anything wrong. So I'm not gonna kill this guy. He's not on my hands.

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So then he goes out to the crowd of people for the tradition. He goes, all right, guys, we can release one prisoner. You got Jesus, Pilate, who's the son of God, claims to be the son of God. And all Jesus has done is he's like healed people, opened blind eyes, opened deaf ears, pulled people out of a crazy lifestyle.

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And then you have this other guy named Barabbas who was arrested because he was a rebel against the Roman government. He was a murderer. Some documents say this guy was a rapist. This guy was the worst of the worst. And crucifixion was like the electric chair. It's like the death penalty. The worst of the worst. Get this. If you got crucified, you were the worst of the worst.

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Yeah, it wasn't just like this randomly happened to Jesus. It was like ultimate punishment. And you were put on display in front of every people to be like, look at how bad these people are.

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Yeah, literally kind of like that.

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Crucifixion was the ultimate humiliation and was the ultimate punishment for wrongdoing. So if you got crucified, you had to be the worst of the worst. And so Pilate's like, all right, who do you guys want to release? And it's basically like, do you want to release this Barabbas guy who was a literal thug and a murderer and potential rapist and a rebel?

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Or do you guys want to release this Jesus guy who really has done nothing wrong?

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Now, a week before this trial happens, these people in the crowd were literally worshiping Jesus. And a week later, they're in the crowd and they go, kill Jesus. Kill him. We want the rapist, the murderer, and the rebel guy. We want you to release him. Kill the guy we were just worshiping last week. That goes to show how the opinion of man changes so fast.

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People's feelings and opinions change so fast.

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Well, you know, people, we have free will. We can choose to do things. So the people chose in that moment that they wanted the rebel, the murderer, the potential rapist released. They wanted to arrest Jesus. They could have been convinced of different things. You got the religious leader shouting, this guy's blasphemous. He needs to be killed.

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So, you know, you have a bunch of different factors in, right? Mm-hmm. But we have to understand there's also this human aspect. Jesus is God in the flesh. So if he's really God, he could stop all this from happening. But Jesus didn't say silence. So this is why I think if someone accused you of something wrong, you'd be like, yo, I didn't do that. That's not me. You'd plead your case.

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I didn't do that. I didn't say that. I didn't do this. They're accusing Jesus of stuff he never did, and he just doesn't say a word because he knew that there had to be a payment. This is deeper than him being accused. To him, this is deeper. He says, I've gotta do this for, to make it personal, Jesse. Gotta do this for Jesse, because I love him.

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So I'm just not gonna say anything, because I really love Jesse. So they take him in the public, they strip him butt naked, they throw him on the ground, and they beat him with a whip 39 times, called a cat of nine tails. It was a whip that had strings attached to it that had shards of glass and rock and nails. So when they would throw the whip down, it would kind of wrap around your back.

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And when they pulled it off, the nails and stuff would grip your flesh and it would rip the flesh off your back. He got beat 39 times. He had no flesh on his back, bones, muscle, tendon showing. The Bible and historical documents say that Jesus got beat so bad that he looked like an alien. He didn't even look like a human. He was unrecognizable. It was unreal. They called him the king of the Jews.

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They were mocking him that they created this crown of thorns and they pressed it into his skull to make a skull bleed. And they made him carry this 300, 400, 500 pound cross up a hill. made him carry his own electric chair. Now, think about this. He had just gotten arrested. So if you got crucified, you would have been in jail. You would have been preparing your own cross.

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So Barabbas, in his instance, he knew he was getting crucified. He would have made his own cross that he was going to get nailed to. So whose cross did Jesus take? He took Barabbas' cross. He took the one that Barabbas prepared for himself. And he's basically carrying Barabbas' cross. That's what our sin does for us. We're preparing our own death punishment with our sin and wrongdoing.

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And Jesus says, I'll take it for you. So he's carrying this cross. They drive nails through his wrists, nails through his feet, and they hang him on this cross. And in this moment, he's being humiliated, naked, bleeding, mocked, can barely breathe, looks unrecognizable to man. He's not the only one hanging up. There's other thieves hanging up. There's other criminals hanging up next to him.

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All right. And there's this moment. There's this moment that these thieves have. There's two, one on his left and one on his right. And one-on-one shoulder goes, dang, dude, if you're really God, get us down from here. I'm tired of this. This sucks, man. Get us down. If you're really God, do it. And think about that. I mean, that's like Jesus, like what he could have done.

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He could have stopped everything right there, but he's not because he's thinking of Jesse. He's like, I got to do this for Jesse. This is deeper than that. And then you got the other thief who looks at Jesus and he goes, oh my goodness, this guy really is God. And he looks at Jesus and he has a different response. He says, Jesus, I'm sorry. I messed up. I screwed up.

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I had some really bad stuff, obviously, because I'm here right now on this cross. And he's like, I don't deserve anything from you. Will you just remember me when you get to heaven? He doesn't ask for a favor. He doesn't ask to get down. He doesn't ask for a handout. He goes, God, would you just remember me? I'm sorry. And Jesus looks at that guy and he says, today you will be with me.

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Now, there's this pause here because it's like, oh man, what is going on? Why does Jesus need to die? He needs to die because there has to be a payment for our wrongdoing. Someone has to pay for what's been done wrong. And because Jesus is perfect, he can cover the payment for everyone. But there's this Bible verse that says we look to Jesus Christ as the perfecter of our faith.

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who, it says, for the joy set before him, he endured the suffering of the cross. So Jesus suffered this brutal punishment in his flesh because there was a joy that was greater to him than his own needs. There was something that was keeping him on the cross to go through this punishment that was greater than him getting down for himself.

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There was something that Jesus was thinking about, imagining, feeling in his heart that was greater than this guy on his right that's like, yo, get us down from here. You can do it. You're God. What kept him from biting into that? It was picturing friendship with Jesse. It was picturing friendship with Bryce.

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And when I think about that, that Jesus was willing to suffer so bad just because he wanted to love me. Unreal. Like, come on. Like, all these other religions. Oh, work your way. Work your way up. God will like you if you do enough of this. Or you'll achieve ultimate enlightenment if you do enough good. But if you do enough bad, karma's going to come against you.

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And it's a bad, bad day for you if karma comes after you. Yeah. Where Jesus is like, uh-uh. Done with that baloney.

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He didn't have to. He chose to. Love's a choice. And that's why the love's genuine. Sorry to cut you off. No, keep going. But be like Jesus. Like in that. Yeah. If Jesus forced you to love him, it wouldn't be genuine.

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That's like a dictator. Yeah. Like in North Korea, Kim Jong-un forces everyone to love Kim Jong-un. Yeah. Whether they feel like it or not. That's not love. That's a dictatorship. Apparently it doesn't poop either. Yeah. It's not love. No. And yeah. I mean, that's just it. It's really like love. Motivates everything and makes it genuine. And God just respects the choice that we make.

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Yeah, absolutely. Like the faith. If you really believed in Jesus, like if you tried to be like Jesus. Yeah. You would have faith that he really is who he says he is. Yeah. So why would you listen to Jesus over Mother Teresa? Or why would you listen to Jesus over Gandhi? Or why would you listen to Jesus over this guy or this guy or this guy or your own feelings? Yeah.

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Because there's some part of you that kind of has faith that he really was God. Yeah. And that his way is better.

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What do you think happens when we die? like zoom out from like no bias, what have you believed? What do you think happens when we die? You're not gonna like it. You don't like it?

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That it goes all black? Yeah. A lot of people believe that. Yeah. It's called nihilism. That's the fancy word for it. But it's just, like, it all goes black.

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And... Like, again, I have so many friends that aren't Christian. It doesn't offend me when people have different perspectives, but all my friends that are like, yeah, it just goes all black. I'm like, well, then like life has no ultimate purpose if it goes black.

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So if that is true, right, if life goes all black, then it doesn't matter if you murder someone or rob a bank or whatever, because then it's like, where did morals come from if it just goes all black? Who sets the moral standard? And then some people could say, oh, well, I'm a good person. And people have their own truth. Everyone's truth is true.

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Well, it's like, well, if we're getting really intense, some people think it's okay to go to Taiwan and have a nine-year-old prostitute. And they think it's cool. And other people would be like, heck no, that's not cool. Well, if everyone's got their own morals, you can't tell anyone that they're wrong. You see what I'm saying? So it's like, where does morality come from?

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Where do these things... These are the questions that I asked when I first became a Christian. What do I think happens when I die?

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There has to be a standard for morality. And if it goes all black, then you have this thing called the fertilizer pit where everyone goes under the ground. That means that Mother Teresa and Hitler are in the same place right now.

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that's weird to think about yeah because we're like yo hitler was a bad dude well this is another belief of what happens no no this is if we if you stay consistent like if if everything goes all black yeah then hitler and mother theresa are in the same place yeah hitler and abe lincoln are in the same place ted bundy murderers the worst of the worst are in the same place as

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Abe Lincoln, Mother Teresa, all these things. So then it's like, then that also makes people kind of feel weird. Because then when you think of a guy like Hitler, you're like, well, that dude obviously needs to be held accountable for mass genocide and killing a bunch of people and being wicked. And it's like, okay, all right. So it's like sometimes we have to take things to the extreme

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of understanding like what we believe, like when we get down to it, because some people are like, oh, you know, like, oh, like, I think everyone's good. And it's like, what do you think murder's wrong? Do you think rape's wrong? Do you think theft is wrong? Okay, there's people that don't think it's wrong. So it's like, where do we get all this from?

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And so like with God, he's like, God is both a loving God and he's a just God. So God is loving where he sends Jesus to pay the price. but he's a just God in the sense that heaven and hell are a justice system and a choice. So as Christians, we are justified by going to heaven because Christ made the payment for all of our wrongdoing. So it wipes our slate clean as if we've never done it.

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Jesus makes us righteous, not our own works. Bryce can't work his way to heaven. Jesus makes me righteous. Now for the people that say like, I don't want to believe in God, nothing to do with it, blah, blah, blah. It breaks God's heart. but he respects the choice in the sense that you chose not to be with me. So hell is separation from God. So it's like, you chose not to be with me.

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It breaks my heart, but I respect your decision. I'm not going to force you to follow me. It's there. But hell is also a justice system. It's for those that need to be held accountable. So one day the Bible tells us, and I believe that we're all going to stand before God.

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And there's no words that I can say. There's nothing I can hide from God. My actions, my words, my thoughts are going to testify against me. Everything I've ever done. And in that moment, it's like, why should I let you in, basically? Why should you be in heaven? Why shouldn't be?

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But Jesus did everything for me, and I believe that he's the way, the truth, and the life, and I believe that Jesus Christ has wiped my slate clean. I have faith and trust that Jesus Christ is really God. Praise God. And heaven is just being with God for an eternity, an infinite amount of time. And when I chose to live for Jesus now on this earth, I stopped living for myself. I live for Jesus.

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That's the number one thing that's. Yeah, keep going, keep going.

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Yeah.

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No, no, no. It does. I think like, let's take God out of the picture and let's talk about being a good person. At some point it gets really draining because the only thing that's making you be a good person is your own willpower. And that's awful. That's hard. That's draining.

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Cause then you're going to wake up some days and be like, dang, I don't really feel like being a good person because it's out of your own strength. And that's where like the whole be like Jesus comes from.

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So, so like, is that a, so then that's, that's like every religion's POV of eternal life. So like is be as good as you can. And maybe, Be as good as you can and maybe it'll be enough. So when I talk to my Muslim friends or my Hindu friends or my Buddhist friends that are working to enlightenment or working to please Allah, they never know if they're doing enough. They never know.

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And that's the ultimate goal. You can never do enough. So I will never do enough that's going to make God love me. That's why it's like our good works, the Bible says, are like filthy rags to God. Meaning you can't make me love you more just by doing good stuff. You do things for me because you love me.

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Yeah, like Jesus himself, he makes us worthy. It's such a hard thing to comprehend. I have a hard time comprehending it sometimes because we live in a life where everything's a mathematics equation. We live in this constant state of worthiness where it's like, I'm only worthy if I do X, Y, and Z. And if I don't do these things, I'm not valuable. So that is transactional.

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Whereas God offers this new thing called grace. Grace is a gift that isn't deserved. So it's like Jesus is offering this lifestyle where he's like, okay, I'm going to give you something that you don't deserve. My own love. You don't deserve it. I'm perfect. You're not. You don't deserve my perfect love, but I'm going to give it to you because I love you.

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And now I do good things, not because I'm trying to make God love me more. I do things because I already love him. And that's my motivating factor. So then Jesus becomes my strength. And so becoming more like Jesus is because, oh, well he did it. And man, I love Jesus. So I want to do what Jesus did because I love him.

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It's like people that look up to you, Jesse, like people don't do things because they think that, oh, if I do the things that Jesse does, then Jesse's going to love me more. It's like, you love people when they're their self. And they do the things that they love. But the reason that someone would be like you is because they actually love what you do and they share the same passions as you.

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So they would maybe do things differently or they would look up to you or maybe kind of chase a similar dream because they're doing what they love. They're motivated by love. Do you love doing your clothing brand? Yeah, of course. Okay, you do it because you love it. Exactly.

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Like it's the same reason why you show up to work every day, why you wake up and why you get fired up about your clothing brand. It's because you love it. And you love the work environment and you're actually doing something you love. Right. And I mean, all the time on college campuses and a lot of my friends that go to college, like I'll go, I'll go and like see some of our friends.

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I'll be like, man, dude, I wish I was doing what you were doing. Like, well, where are you studying? I'm studying business. I mean, it's cool. But like, you know, I wish I was doing what you were doing. And I'm like, dang, that's hard to know. And even from a broad standpoint, it's like, okay, I'm motivated by love. But how can I be motivated by love?

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Well, I know that God loves me because he died for me. I don't know anyone that's ever died for me. I've never been in a position where someone's laid their life down for me. So I'm trying to wrap my mind around this thing. But God has displayed to me that he loves me. So that's the truth. So now I can be motivated by love, knowing that he loved me first.

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And now that I love him, I'm going to seek him and follow him and do those things.

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It's a historical fact.

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Yeah.

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What is your purpose? What gives you satisfaction, significance, and security in your identity? Where is your identity? So right now you could say, well, maybe my identity is in my work, my friendships, my family, things like that. Okay. Well, all those things, no matter how much your family, friends love you, they're going to let you down at some point. Yeah. Yeah.

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god forbid you could wake up tomorrow and your clothing brand doesn't exist anymore that could fail okay well those foundations are going to be hard things to put your identity in then you're never going to be satisfied unless those things are doing good in your life does that make sense that's then yeah if you measure your life that way your life can fall off or it can Yes. Yes.

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So then it's like, where, where is our satisfaction, significance and security? Well, Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow and forever. So he's not going to change what his Bible says, what the word says is not going to change. So that's a foundation I can build off of. So then it's like, okay, Jesse, if you didn't have the clothing brand, you had no friends, you had no family.

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It was just you. Would you be okay? if we're being honest.

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It's like a staple.

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Sure. There can be some truth to that. But then you have studies where it's like people that come from alcoholic families and backgrounds, they either choose alcohol or they don't. Yeah. And so it's like, well, you could say, well, that's a product of their environment. Well, what about the person that grew up in an alcoholic family that didn't choose alcohol?

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Then those moments didn't lead to that decision in the sense of they followed in those footsteps. You know what I mean? Yeah.

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You know? Like, if there is no God, it does not matter what we do. Morals go out the window. Yeah. And then, like, ultimately, like... like to make it personal living for your dad your dog your business does not matter yeah it just does not if there is no god it's just for your experience yeah so it does not matter like if there is no god yeah i can go rob a bank right now i can go kill someone

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I can go do whatever. And sure, like some people, the U.S. justice system would say that's wrong. This isn't that. But it's like, oh, well, in my eyes, it's not wrong. I got no purpose. I can do whatever I want because there's no repercussions at the end of this life. So I'm just going to take every chance I get and do what I want and live how I want. And, you know, selfish, selfish, selfish this.

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And so like when we zoom. But it will affect your experience in this life. Sure, sure. But then when this life's over, right? There's no, yeah. Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that I killed people. It doesn't matter that I did this or did that. So then it goes, okay, if there is a God, why am I here? Why do I do the things that I do? And look, work is important. Family is important.

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Your dog is very important. But if you didn't have those things and your satisfaction, your significance in life, your security in life is in those things, all of those things that you just mentioned, we'll all disappear at some point. Business, family, whatever. All those things are perishable things.

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Yeah, it's like too good to believe.

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So then it's like, what can sustain me that does not waver, does not change, that is imperishable? The only thing I can think of is a supernatural God that created me that does not change, that does not waver, that is sustainable. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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yeah i mean by the way also i'm like actually really excited to like talk to you like really yeah and uh and because it's like a conversation i haven't had and i think i think that's what life is like all about so i think thanks man i'm pumped to talk to you too this is all super helpful stuff to understand because it i think uh we have to like be able to set a foundation for like what we think so you believe in signs you grew up around your mom was spiritual and things like that and yeah you know we can dive into all that um

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Do you like that?

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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all that, that's going to be fun. Do you feel like, I don't know, I guess I don't know how to word it. Like, do you feel like it may be hard to believe because people have treated you transactionally? Like, I was talking to Adam about this. He was like, yeah, it's just hard for me, and I feel like you can relate, and I hate throwing these words around, but I'm trying to paint the picture.

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It's evident that you became famous. What I know about you is I think you were largely associated with NELC and you guys exploded, and now you have a clothing brand, which you graciously gave me some stuff. Thank you so much. Of course, man.

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Someone just put all the mechanics in a box and shook it up and throw it in the forest. And that's like, what? No way. And that's what I love about you saying I'm very logical because God's not trying to do mental gymnastics with us. He's not trying to make this a super hard thing for us to wrap our minds around. He is very logical. He's very intentional, very specific.

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And that's why I think it's intellectually dishonest for people to say, oh, all this stuff came from nothing. The only thing that comes from nothing is nothing.

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something has to create something yeah and so so it's like who did it and we believe that it's god and out of everything and that's enough to believe in god yes to start the to start the train of thought the snowball effect someone created this who did this

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I mean, people are always asking for more. People are never satisfied. I mean, like even in the Bible, like you got Jesus who was walking on earth that's done tons of miracles already, who has done more than enough to prove that he's God. And these people go, Jesus, give us another sign. We just want to make sure. Give us another sign after he's done a bunch. And he's like, you guys are crazy.

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He calls them a wicked generation. You wicked generation. And he says, the only sign you'll get is the sign of Jonah. I don't know if you know the story of Jonah, but it's like this guy got swallowed by a whale for three days and then got spit back out.

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But but like feeling like when you have that and you're famous and you know, you're in the eyes of a lot of people and things like that, then people begin to treat you transactionally. Yeah. Like they want stuff from you and you give me what I want and I'm not going to scratch your back unless you scratch mine and this kind of thing.

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And he's like, just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, so will the son of man be in the belly of the earth for three days and rise again. So Jesus said, the sign that you'll know that I really am who I say I am is when I rise from the dead. When I die and the rest from the dead, it's what he says. And they don't understand because he uses this like unique way of displaying it.

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But that's what he says. And it's like, you know, what the heck? But even that's not enough. And that's like today. It's like, well, I'm having a hard time believing in Jesus. And it's like, well, you know, and this is just you. This is a lot of people. A lot of people are this. Well, Jesus revealed himself and claimed to be God. And that's still not enough for people. And God's not mad at that.

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he's revealed himself through design, intelligent design, through the Bible, through history, through Jesus and all of these things. And it's like, okay, like, man, I'll never fully, like, I can't prove again. I can't prove that God is real, but it's like, where does the evidence lie? Where's the overwhelming evidence?

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And, and there's a lot of like non-Christian historical evidence that talks about Jesus. That's just so reliable. And yeah, So fascinating and so profound and magnificent. And to be honest, like we'll never understand everything about God. It's a supernatural being. We're finite, limited in our brains. We won't be able to fully wrap our minds around everything.

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And so like, I honestly think this is kind of like my last thought. It's like the Bible says, if you lack wisdom, ask God and he'll give it to you.

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And Jesus says, blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. So I think if we are genuinely our hardest hungry and we're desperate, say, God, I'm lacking wisdom in this area. Give me wisdom. Help me understand. Help me understand. Reveal yourself to me. Help me understand that he will. And if we draw near to Jesus, the Bible says he will draw near to us.

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And so the fact that you're curious and have an open heart and an open mind is like the first step. That's like the first entry step. And even if we fully don't understand the, there's still things I don't fully understand. I don't know everything. And that's just like the open mind. Okay, God, I'm going to try this and I'm going to continue to seek you and make it known and things like that.

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And so I think.

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It's okay to not have everything figured out.

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And so do you think that's why it could be hard for you to believe is because there's something on the table where it's like you don't have to do anything to take it?

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I mean, are you really ever going to have anything fully figured out? I mean, society progresses, adapts. No. So then it's like we have to be kind of comfortable with like not knowing everything, which is OK. And to be honest, that makes God more holy to me. The fact that I don't know every I can't fully understand everything about him. Yeah.

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but i can understand enough that makes me go okay you really are you say you are you really are the god of the universe i'm going to love you and trust you even if i don't fully agree with it because we're born into a word world where we prioritize our own feelings and thoughts and our own beliefs over the truth and that's where like god sets the standard so like i'll give you an example like

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Now society is like, sleep with whoever you want, have as much sex as you want, do it. Whereas the Bible would say, hey, sex is a beautiful gift. It's amazing. It's a beautiful thing. But God designed it for a man and a woman in a marriage covenant. And so it's enjoyable for that. And it's an act of worship when it's in that. And anything outside of that would be disobeying to God.

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Okay, well, society would be like, well, you know, you can go sleep with whoever you want. That's fine. And then it's like, well, God had this original design. And so I think that's like, what God is like bringing back to us. God has an original design for creation and mankind, but because of sin, we've strayed away from this original design.

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So when we're listening to Jesus, we are trying to turn back to how God originally designed us. So where society would say, sleep with whoever you want, and you could have someone who has sex, a sex addict that has sex three times a day.

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And then if they put their faith in Christ and they look at the Bible and they see what this is and they would go, okay, well, if I really believe that Jesus is God, then I'm gonna stop having sex three times a day, and I'm gonna wait to commit myself to someone, and then when I marry them, I'm gonna save sex for that. You see what I'm getting?

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There's a standard, I just use that as an example because That is what Jesus will do to you. He'll change what you thought was right to what actually is right because God has a design and an intentional purpose and origin and things like that for his creation. Yeah. Yeah, if that makes sense. It does, yeah.

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I think... Yeah, I have a lot of respect, and I think it's very noble that you're willing to be open and talk about things that you're working through.

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Guys, thank you so much for watching and tuning into these episodes. Guys, if you love watching and listening to these episodes, aside from following us along on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, I wanna ask you guys, would you guys consider partnering with our ministry financially?

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Your guys' radical generosity is actually what continues to fuel and produce these podcast episodes and our evangelism videos. So if you guys feel a burden to support this ministry, reach lost souls with the gospel through digital and in-person ministry, go to jesusinthestreet.org. Pray and ask God, how should I partner with Bryce and their ministry and Jesus in the street ministry?

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Yeah.

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Should I partner with them in prayer? Should I partner with them in finances? Should I partner with them in support? Whatever it may be, pray and ask God, how should I support Jesus in the street ministry? Love you guys. See you guys next week for the next episode.

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Well, I felt bad because I didn't know your last name. But then I was like, everyone knows you as MTV Jesse, not Jesse Sebastiani. Now we know now. So I kind of felt bad. But I'm glad that you think it's cool. So that makes me feel better. Well, thanks for coming on. Dude, of course. I'm pumped. I was super stoked when you said you would come on the pod.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Does that make any sense? No, no, no. That makes sense. Yeah. I think so. Something I struggle with is being an overthinker.

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I will sometimes overthink things to the point where I talk myself out of things or believing in something or circumstances and things like that. So, you know, I guess when it comes to like God and Christianity, like I can't fully prove that God is real, but I can look at the evidence.

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And I think that out of everything, there's more overwhelming evidence that the God of Christianity is the truth than anything else. And that's why I believe in the God of Christianity more so other religions or not believing anything at all. Because I just think that there's too much evidence that supports it. outside of that.

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So even when I overthink sometimes, because I'd be lying if I said I don't have doubts when life gets hard. Sometimes I'm like, okay, God, where are you at? This feels like you're not here, things like that. And there's been many famous Christians in the past that have doubted. I mean... There was a guy in the Bible named Thomas.

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They call him Doubting Thomas because he literally doubted that he doubted so much throughout the Bible. You can see it. And there was even a point where he was a believer and then doubted it. Yeah, he was a disciple. He literally followed Jesus when Jesus was legitimately in front of him.

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And so when Jesus had raised from the dead in his physical body, it's recorded in the Bible that Jesus appeared to the disciples and And Jesus is standing right in front of him, being raised from the dead. And Thomas still doesn't believe. He has to put his hands in the pierced marks where Jesus was pierced, crucified to, in order to believe. That's how bad he doubted.

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He's looking at him in the face. And he's like, I still don't believe. I got to feel it. You know what I mean? So I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to have doubts. Sorry to cut you off, but is it the...

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Yeah.

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So I had I had. To long story short, I mean, I grew up in Georgia, went to church growing up, we stopped going to church, and then I went to a private Christian school. There were a lot of people in these Christian communities that were like telling me how to live my life, but they were living the total opposite. And so I just, a bunch of hypocrites.

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And so I was like, this God guy can't be real if they really don't believe what they say they believe. I had just a bitter taste in my mouth about God and had broken family and all this stuff. And anyways, I developed depression and anxiety in like the eighth grade and had this crippling depression and anxiety that was a hidden battle no one knew about for years.

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And then when I was 17, I was going to take my life because I thought it was the only way to get the depression and anxiety to stop. Yeah. And the night I was going to take my life. I've never hear that, man. Oh, dude. Well, I wouldn't be here today if this never happened. I mean, yeah, this build up of everything. And I've never done drugs or alcohol before.

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I'm just pumped to learn about you and talk about some things. So I think it's going to be good, but I just want to know like where you're from, how you grew up, how you were raised, which, what were some challenges you faced growing up? Things like that.

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So I, I, I say that to set this up like I knew what was what had happened to me wasn't like a trip or like I was drunk. I went to have my last meal at a Waffle House and I had a supernatural encounter with Jesus when I was in there. that stopped me from taking my life. And this was the mindset of being your last supper? Yeah, I was going to literally like have my death row meal.

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It was like my death row meal, like I'm going to eat at my favorite restaurant one last time before I take my life. You had that thought going there? Yes. And I went there and as I'm eating, I have a supernatural encounter with Jesus. And so basically what that looked like was I was eating with this guy and he had nothing to do with Christianity. He wasn't a Christian. And he was a grown man.

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I was 17. He was complaining to me about, there's like a bar area. I don't know if you've ever been to a Waffle House, but like right next to the cash register, there's this like low table bar area. I'm sitting there and this guy's talking to me, complaining about how his wife's divorcing him and he's losing the kids. You met him there randomly. Yeah, yeah, randomly.

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And he's like complaining, complaining and In my mind, I'm thinking like you're dumping your issues on me while I'm coming here for an escape one last time. I'm like, this guy has no idea what I'm about to do. And he I didn't really hear much of what he was saying. But this one thing it was like he said, I love my wife, but she does not feel the same about me.

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There's no growth in a relationship if the love isn't mutual. And when he said that statement, it was like all of time stopped. And all these Bible verses that I had learned in school from my Christian school, that I'd learned in church growing up, were flashing in my brain, that these things were making sense and kind of clicking.

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And then I kind of paused and it was almost like, maybe I don't know God loves me. Because I haven't given myself a chance to love him back. Because I haven't attempted to love him back. Because my perception of him is how people have displayed him to me.

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And it was almost like this understanding of, okay, like I can, you know, your friends, family, and people that know you can fill in the picture about Jesse. Some good things, some bad things, right? But if I really want to know Jesse, I would hang out with you right now. We would talk. We'd get meals together. Maybe, you know, play basketball, whatever.

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what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the bryce crawford podcast i'm bryce and today i have a very special guest i'm so excited for this episode we've got pastor judah smith on judah how are you doing so good thanks for having me on bryce yeah i'm excited i want to start off with a completely honest confession okay okay um uh tanner was telling you earlier about how he watched jesus love and barabbas yeah when he became a christian yeah

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And I'm talking about something that I believe. I'm talking about something I have faith in right now. And I'm passionate about it because I think it's true. But then when I cut the camera off, it's not that all those things are wrong, but it's at that one piece that I so desire. This intimate, you're real, you're embraced. It feels like it hasn't been there.

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And it partially feels like it's my fault. You know? Yep. And that's why I really wanted to talk about this love of God today, because that's that's I feel like part of my part of my issue is I feel like my perception of God's love is kind of warped right now, if I'm being honest. And so I'm just going to I mean, selfishly, this episode's about me today.

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I'm like, you know, I want to talk about myself and things I'm going through. Sounds good to me. So it's selfishly about me, but I feel like that God's going to use this for a lot of people. I feel like a lot of people are feeling this way. I feel like that's the truth. You know, like you feel like no one understands how you feel and then you share it.

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Okay, perfect. Well, this is good. But I want to learn a little bit about you, too. I mean, where are you from? How did you come to Christ? How long have you been a Christian? Those kind of things. Yeah.

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And then you're like, actually, everybody feels the same way that I'm feeling right now. Just no one's saying it. So thanks for just ministering to my heart today and letting God use you. My privilege, man. Truly. Yeah. So what is the definition of God's love?

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If you could summarize the definition of God... Which, again, is hard. I mean, you got 1 Corinthians and all this other stuff and things like that, but if you could summarize the love of God in a definition, how would you package it?

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Dang. I feel like when I look at society, everyone defines it as love is sex, love is drugs, love is this or love is the butterflies. And then if you don't feel it and it's been so weird to invite you to my personal life this week. literally this entire week I've had close friends, um, family, um, people that are super close to me texting me all across the same issue of, of,

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this relationship or this thing is falling apart, friendship, relationship, whatever it may be, even things in my own life where it's, I don't feel, this person's not making me feel excited or I don't feel this butterflies. And so it's like, oh, because I don't feel this thing, I'm going to quit. I'm going to give up and I'm going to stop. And I'm going to do this.

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I had so many people text me, call me this week. And it was weird because it's like, I'm... These people are calling me saying like, Bryce, like this person in my life, they're not making me feel excited. So because they're not making me feel excited, I'm going to leave or I did decide to leave. And I don't know if I made the right decision.

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And I'm talking to them on the phone or I'm texting them like, man, you know, we choose to love. We choose to love. And when we choose to love and we show up despite the conditions, it stirs our affections for them. And then I'm sitting here telling these people on the phone and then I'm hanging up the phone and I'm going, dang, I don't even feel God's love right now.

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I'm in the dry and thirsty land right now begging for a drop of something. And I'm telling these people what to do and I'm having a hard time showing up. And I'm having a hard time, to be honest. And that's what makes me feel like the hypocrite. exactly what you described. God, I'm going to give you everything. And 48 hours later, not everything's there. And I feel like I'm saying that too.

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I'm getting convicted. All right, God, I'm going to do this thing. And then I halfway do it. And I'm like, man, am I just human? Or am I a piece of junk? Should I even be talking about this guy? All of these things, I feel like, and again, I believe it. I have so much faith that this guy really is who he says he is. But I'm just kind of sick and tired of my faith being nothing but knowledge.

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My whole faith in 2024 was how much knowledge can I gain? And that's a crummy way to have faith is how much knowledge can I learn about this guy? What was the surpassing moment for you to where it wasn't just in your head, but it was in your heart too? What got past that barrier for you? Yeah, I mean, I think...

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So Tanner was the one that introduced me to this video a year ago, and I've never heard the gospel communicated in that way before. So I took it and ran with it. So if someone tells me to give a 10-minute gospel presentation at a church, I quote you word from word. So I just want to tell you it has impacted me. I have to make a confession.

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Let's go. Thanks for giving me your time. So I guess for you, you came from a long line of Christianity, I guess you could say. So how did Jesus become real to you and not like a pressured thing?

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No, that was... Really, really what I need to hear, because I feel like I have been living in worthy world. I feel like that cartoon character that's got the cloud that only rains over him, you know, like I just got to be honest, because it's like I want to wear the robe. I want to wear the ring.

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But then I feel like that if I had a screen over my head that had every thought, feeling, emotion, action I'd ever done, that it would just be, and I am unqualified. I am the last guy that needs to have a microphone. I'm the last guy that needs to be talking about this guy. And all I want to do is close my eyes and picture this man that I have so much faith in.

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That drives me to share Jesus with people and have conversations. And all I can picture when I close my eyes is swords pointed at me from every direction of pressure, of you got to do this. And I just keep falling to the pressure.

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If I got to be this perfect guy, I got to have it all together. And then Bryce makes a knucklehead decision or, or, or Bryce is just, I'm a consistent knucklehead 23 hours and 50 minutes of the day. And, and as I'm being a knucklehead trying to, to manufacture this, this, this love that I'm, I'm wanting so bad, I feel like all I'm getting is the sword. And I, I,

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Yeah, I wear the robe and then it's like somehow it comes. It's not all me anymore. I take it off. And then I got the rain cloud over my head and I can't. I feel I so desire this. Like I was sharing with you, like I've always been passionate about Jesus. Ever since a moment, I surrendered my life to Jesus. And last year, there's no doubt.

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I don't know why God keeps having a bunch of people listening to me. I mean, I got tattoos all over my body. I had some dude call me. He goes, dude, why are you preaching, bro? You look like the total opposite of a preacher. And I'm like, I am. I don't know why I do that.

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And then there's so many people listening and I feel like I did fall to the opinion and the pressure and the, oh man, I gotta do this. And I don't want to feel like that. I really don't. I don't think anybody wants to feel like that. How do you handle the pressure?

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I guess that is how I've been feeling because... And it's so crazy that you brought that up. You're like, man, like you were talking about like the public, you know, people that you know about public falls and things like that. And I would look at that and I would go, I'm going to take every step possible to not even crack a door open to whatever a fall looks like. And, you know, I'm doing this.

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I got a five minute screen time on my Instagram and TikTok. Yeah. I don't even follow girls. I have five friends. I can count on my hand how many friends I have. I've got 2,000 unread text messages. I've got nine voicemails I haven't listened to. I'm so like, oh my gosh, I want to do this. I want to do this. I just want to love Jesus and Jesus.

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I just want to make sure you're my priority and this and that. Sure, it's like maybe you don't understand that Navy SEAL pressure or I don't understand your pressure and you don't understand my pressure and Even I look and I'm like, dang. And there's like a part of me and I'm not even trying to be like, oh my gosh, look at me when I say this. It's like, you just care about people.

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And it's like, oh, I want to have the energy and capacity for every person I see. And it's like, I want to tend to their garden. And then my garden's a sloppy mess. And I'm like, you know, it's like, it's like, I want to, I want to help if I can. I want to like do this, you know, oh, you're hurting. Like, how can, can I just give you a hug?

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You know, something that I just want, I'll have an empty glass and like try to drop my last drop. And somebody else's, you know, just trying to like make, like see like, oh, you know, how can I be the light for this person? And I think that's why when I close my eyes, I see nothing but pressure because

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And it's like, I can shut off all the doors and windows and put the shutters and close them and tent all the windows of where every bit of pressure. And it's like, even what you said, even the nice comment, like someone will say something nice to me and I'm just like, thanks. And then I'll like sit on it and I'm like, I don't feel like that's true.

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Like, thank you, but I just don't feel like that's true. Or yeah, it's just like, I don't know. I don't want to stop because I love this guy that I'm so obsessed talking about and I really do. I just want, for some reason, I feel like this knowledge that I'm carrying has calloused my heart to this feeling of like feeling God and his love and I also feel like

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I have an amazing family, you know, I have an amazing family, but I would lie to you and tell you that my family doesn't have brokenness and my family wasn't broken and hasn't been broken for a long time, you know, and so I definitely know that there is also a perspective where I'm viewing God partially on. I'm viewing him wrongly.

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I'm viewing him like things I've seen or things that have happened to me or things like that. And I want to be able to get over that. I want to, it's like I want to kill that part of me. I feel like this is the one thing that's holding me back is receiving this love that is so clearly displayed and so on the table and it's packaged with a bow on top. And it's like, oh, Bryce, like, here you go.

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And I'm like holding the gift. I'm like, hey, guys, look at this gift I got. And I feel like, you know, there's part of me that's like, I've got this gift. I know I got it. It's in my hand here. Check it out. And then I'm like, don't. Sometimes it's it's all the knowledge that's driving me.

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And I don't want that. I would drop all the knowledge right now if I could just know the person and his love. And I know I do. But this dry season, whatever dry, thirsty land of just nothing but swords pointing at me, and I'm still trying to micromanage this. Like, let me keep cutting off all these branches to get in the way. I can't. It just makes me feel weird. You know, like it's weird.

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why do we do this why why do why do we like try to micromanage those questions every day like i i don't i don't know i i don't know i get i guess you make me feel normal wow um thank you you don't make me feel crazy because i feel like i talk to a lot of people that um That kind of tell me that you have to be some type of way. And I don't feel like I match up to that at all. Wow.

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I've been trying so hard to... receive this love. And I feel like I'm held back by this knowledge. And I feel like every time I'm like, I got to read this book. I got to do this. I got to do that. Because everyone I talk to is 10 times smarter than me. And they seem so much more closer to Jesus because they know so much more than me. And I feel like I'm just trying to catch up.

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But I'm just at my wits end. I don't even care. I just want to... I want to feel this love again that I felt when I was at Waffle House.

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And I know there are people out there that feel like me, and that's why I'm willing to talk about it. Because I know I'm not worthy. I'm not perfect. I'm broken and unqualified. I mean, shoot, I'm supposed to be an adult, but I can't grow facial hair that doesn't make me look like a creep. I want to say I got it all made, but I don't. And you make me feel normal. Thank you. Thank you.

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And I want to I just want to be that son. I want to feel like his son. I don't want to feel like I'm going to be another statistic one day. And I don't want to feel like I'm just this strong man. Let me strong man. I'm tired of trying to like do it on my own.

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That makes me encouraged. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. That's all I can really say. Thank you. Thank you for who you are and being you and making me feel normal. It's nice. I want to transition into a question that has to deal with different kind of love that I ask all my amazing married guests. Yeah. I listened to my amazing friends on your episode with Girls Gone Bible.

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So I'm going to ask you, you have to give me a different answer. And I'm going to force one out of you. I'm not married. I'm in an amazing dating relationship. My girlfriend's amazing. So I always ask married friends, what is their best piece of dating advice that they would give? And I'm going to quote you on what you said. You said... I can't give good dating advice.

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My wife's way better at that, but I'm going to shake you down for dating advice. I'm always trying to be better.

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So in that nine-year-old time, did you ask for that encounter or did it just kind of happen?

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When you're married, right? You knew that was coming. Amen, amen. I appreciate you. I feel like that is really practical because I feel like the most loved when people ask me questions. Even when you came in here, you have nothing but, where are you from? Or, dude, no way, that's so cool. Or, why do you do this? Or things like that. And I'm like... Oh man, like that is, that is awesome.

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Like, you know, it makes you feel seen. It makes you feel seen. And so it's cool because you walk out the very thing that you're telling us to do. So thanks for doing that. Thanks for being that awesome example. And thanks for you doing that.

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Really? Is that a good thing? Well, it's not good when I walk outside. The sun, like, blinds me, and I'm like, oh, my gosh.

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Yeah, yeah, it's really weird. Like, I thought it wasn't a real thing, and then I started noticing how bad my eyes hurt when I'm in the sun. My girlfriend does like my blue eyes.

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Thank you. Well, normally I try to have good eye contact. And then when I met my girlfriend, I was so nervous I couldn't look at her in the eyes. I was like looking everywhere else but her in the face, like looking up at the sky, looking down at my feet, looking at my friends. How long has she been dating? A year. Oh, baby. Yeah, a year.

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Well, you know, I had a crush on her all throughout high school. I knew who she was in high school, but she didn't know who I was. And I had a crush on her, like a digital crush. We knew who pretty girls were in the surrounding high school areas. This is unbelievable. It was like before I was a Christian, I knew who she was, and I always thought she was beautiful.

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But I never, yeah, she didn't know who I was, became a Christian, You know, Jesus found me. I found God super cool. We're awesome. We're friends. And then, you know, in 2023, Tanner that you met from Washington, he runs a Bible study. She walks in my apartment and I almost crap my pants. I'm like, there is no way this girl is in my apartment for a Bible study.

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Yeah. This is how I introduced myself. I go up to her and I go, hi, I'm Bryce. Nice to meet you. She goes, hi, I'm Maddie. I said, I know. That's what I said to her. You think I didn't blow up that moment right there? I know. She's probably like, what? She's like, excuse me? Like, you're a weirdo. And I'm like, but I didn't drop the ball.

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And then a couple days later, me, Tanner, Maddie, and her roommate drove through the night to Phoenix, Arizona to the closest Waffle House restaurant.

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to la and all four of us true god waffles yeah yeah and that's on that drive i i was driving and and maddie was in the passenger seat so we were able to talk and tanner would say are you tired bro and i'm like no dude no i can drive us the whole way but it was just because i wanted to get to know maddie so i was pounding energy drinks so i could stay awake just so you get to know me and you really did the whole night yeah the whole there and back i drove i did not let anyone else drive because i didn't want to stop talking to maddie tell me love doesn't work tell me right now

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But yeah, that was so crazy. Yeah, but now we're together and she knows who I am now.

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She's slightly older than me by a few months. Same.

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Yeah. Wait, when were you born? What's your birthday?

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I was going to save you. I was going to save you.

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October 22nd. Oh, we're October babies? Yes. October's the best. And then Maddie's birthday's in July.

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That's Maddie's birthday.

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You promise me? I swear.

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Bring in the camera.

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I'm sweating profusely right now.

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This is wild because when you said that, I was like, there's no way. But you look like you were born in October because you're a good-looking dude. Thank you, bro. You're welcome.

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Yeah, they're the best.

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Yes, yes.

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Yeah, this is great. But that's kind of how we met. Whoa. But yeah, I was super nervous. I could not look her in the eyes. Super nervous. How long has it been right now as we talk since you've seen her in person? Like when was the last time I saw her? In person. Last time I saw her in person was yesterday. She lives in LA.

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So she moved to LA and I'd already been living in LA and she moved in with that roommate who was already living in LA. And then her roommate was like, you want to come to this Bible study? She's like, sure, let's go.

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She shows up to my apartment and I almost poop my pants because I'm like, there's no way this girl that I thought was so cute since I was a freshman in high school is in my apartment right now.

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I would totally do that.

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Yes.

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I'll pay.

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Maddie. Her real name is Madeline. Oh. But she goes by Maddie. You're going to love her. She's amazing. Bro, Madeline? She's the best. My favorite part about her, and this is why she has shown me God's love in a perspective I've never seen before because... You know how when you get close to someone, I think you'll be able to relate because you're married.

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I have taken your sermon from 10 years ago and ran with it super hard. So thank you.

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But the people closest to you, they see the nastiest, worst of you. So being that version of myself in front of someone I'm deeply in love with is scary to me. But Maddie's seen every flaw in me, and she still draws closer to me. And that's why I just love her because I'm like, dang, you just see all my junk. Like, if I need to rant about something, Matty's the first person I call.

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Like, you will not believe what just happened. I had my wallet stolen two weeks ago, and it had an AirTag on it. And we're tracking the guy that's got my wallet, like, on Find My Phone and stuff. And I'm, like, not the awesome, gracious, loving, like, amazing, sweet Bryce that everyone sees. I am losing my cool. I'm like, this dude's got my ID. I'm flying in five hours. I need my ID.

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Yeah. What is like the most recent way that you feel like God has shown up in a magnificent way in your life or in your friend's life?

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I don't even care about the money. I just need my ID. Like I got all this, this and that. And man, he's just sitting there in the car. Oh, come on. Just trying to be calm, calm, cool. we show up and I confront this guy, get my wallet back. It's so crazy. And then it's like, once I get my wallet, I'm like, man, man, life's good today, man. Like, you know, the sun's out.

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Like I acted like I just was not cool for two and a half hours. And, uh, and, and she, and I just loved it because she was so loving to me in the moment. And then, you know, later on, she's like, Hey, you know, like, I love you, but that that's not cool. You know, next time maybe, you know, play it. Cooler, better, you know, maybe be a little bit more.

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And that's what I love because it's like you can have those hard conversations, but I'm just bragging about Maddie because I don't get to do that often.

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She's the best. She's the best. That's a great story about finding your wallet. How long ago was that?

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two weeks ago like literally this was like not that long ago it fell out of my pocket and this guy just um took it and like like what an idiot like take the air the air tags on the front like dude just pop the air tag out like toss it or just take everything out of the wallet and toss the wallet out but this guy yeah he had it and i was telling maddie like we get there i'm in the parking lot of this this facility

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And it was his work. They were working on a Sunday because we were getting ready to go to church. And I realized I lost my wallet and I'm freaking out. And I'm like, all right, Matty, we got to go find this. And so I'm in the parking lot and I'm getting amped up. I'm like, Matty, I haven't been in a fight since the eighth grade. This dude's about to get it.

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I'm like telling, I'm like hyping myself. I'm like, if I see this guy, I'm going to fight him. And he's going to get it. And this and that. And we're in the parking lot and I see this guy. And it was crazy because we saw this guy's car earlier. And I was like, maybe it's him, but we knew it was him because his car was there. And I'm like, dude, this guy's going to get it.

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And I get out, and he rolls the window down, and I go...

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hey bro you you crazy like there's totally the opposite of what i said i was gonna do and uh and he was like he was like laid off like oh yeah i was gonna he goes oh yeah and he's like patting his wallet he's like patting his pants and then he reaches over and grabs my wallet and you know what was so crazy was like i don't carry cash on me i carry like yeah my credit card my debit card my id and then i have all these letters that maddie has written me that are my favorite and

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in there and so he had just like i knew he'd looked in it because my stuff was in different places you know what i mean but he probably was like this is the most boring wallet i've ever stolen and was like here you go bro like but but uh but did you still go to church no we didn't because it took forever it took forever so we were because if you still went to church i'd be like wow bro you really are a saint but no i'm the worst because we didn't go to church afterwards no i i think we we got some food after because i was so pumped but like

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I didn't even know like you could lock your card. I didn't even know that was a thing through an app. Anyways, but that was like pivotal moment of like Maddie loving me despite my atrocious breakdown of like somebody's got my wallet. I'm about to rip his vocal cords out. And then I get there and I'm like, oh, hey, bro. Awkward. It says my wallet is in your car right now.

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Yeah, you definitely don't. You didn't give me a weird look when I got out of the car to talk to your boss because you totally didn't know that that was my face on my newly updated ID that I got maybe two months ago. So it looks exactly like me and not like the prepubescent 16 year old getting his brand new license. Like, so yeah, that was crazy.

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I look forward to the date night. That's going to be fun.

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If I have any to give, sure.

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Dang, I appreciate you. Thank you for giving me your time, for speaking of my heart, man. Like I never cry. So I was bawling my eyes out. I love crying. But that felt good. That was good. And I'm really grateful you helped me process a lot of moving through. And I know this is going to impact a lot of people. So thank you.

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Thanks for what you do. And I appreciate you a lot. I love you, man. Thank you. Yeah, guys, thank you so much for watching the episode. Guys, please check out Judah and everything. I'm going to link in the description that Jesus loving Barabbas sermon because when you listen to it, then you guys are going to start preaching verbatim what he's done because I've been doing that and it's amazing.

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So love you, Judah. Thank you so much for your time. Love you guys. Subscribe. See you guys in the next episode.

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No, no. It changed my life kind of in a similar way. Like there was a period of time where, I don't know, for me, I guess when I became a Christian, my faith was very emotional and Jesus was real. Right, right. And then something happened where he came very like logical and it was all like facts. Like how much can I know about Jesus to outsmart someone or things like that?

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Yeah. No, I feel like God reveals himself to me when I'm in the shower. Yeah. So it's not weird. You know, it's like it just happens. But yeah, well, I had like my first encounter when I was 17. I don't know how much you know, but I had like an encounter with Jesus in Waffle House. No way. I love Waffle House. Dude, it's amazing. It's amazing.

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It's amazing. I wish we had. Yeah, yeah. I just like how they can sneeze on your food, and it's just good.

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Yeah, yeah. This is great. It's like an extra seasoning. Strong ingredients. Yeah, or like a motorcycle's on fire in the parking lot, and you're just like, yeah, I'm at home. I like that. But yeah, I was going there because I was taking it super intense right now. But long story short, I had struggled with depression and anxiety for years.

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And I came to a moment where I thought my life wasn't valuable. So I was gonna go to Waffle House for my last meal and I had a supernatural encounter with Jesus that stopped me from taking my life. And that's when I made my ask of God, if you're real, take away my anxiety and depression. And he did. I haven't had crippling anxiety or depression for years, which is amazing. Praise God.

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But that was my introduction was kind of like a moment too. And so I can kind of relate to that. I guess for someone like me, I guess something I'm having a hard time with is I feel like lately... I haven't had an encounter in a while. And I know that faith isn't based on encounters and stuff like that. It's nice to have those intimate moments with Jesus.

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And so it makes me... I feel like some people think I don't get in my head and I'm not a human being because I...

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i have a podcast and everyone's like oh you've got a podcast you got everything made up or whatever but the reality is like i'm actually 10 times more broken than people think yeah 10 times going through it as well like everyone and so you know what what do you do when when those moments come when you feel like you're in a drought of you you feel like you can't feel god because everyone wants to feel god and i feel like i'm in that right now absolutely

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And then Tanner had shown me Jesus loving Barabbas and I would listen to it every day and I go hunting. So I'd be hunting and I'd have my AirPods and listening to your sermon on a repeat because it made Jesus so real to me. And so that's kind of what I want to talk about. I want to talk about God's love because I feel like that's something I'm still struggling with today. Wow.

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Is viewing God as a loving Father, viewing God as God's love, receiving God's love. So I really want to talk about that today. Sounds good to me.

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Yeah. That speaks to my soul. I feel like whenever, I don't know, it's kind of hard because there's The fuel to my passion is Jesus, just what he's done in my life and who he is. And I guess sometimes it does make me feel like a hypocrite when I'm talking about Jesus. And I'm just like, man, I'm like, cut the camera off. And I'm like, dude, I can't even feel this guy.

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Luke Series Chapter 23 (EP 77)

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we're on Luke chapter 23 of the 24-day Luke Christmas Challenge. Guys, second to last day. We're almost done. This is insane. This is by far the most powerful chapter that I think we're going to read in all of Luke. I mean, it's a crucifixion of Jesus. Before we get into it, guys...

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Then he rang him in splendid clothing. He sent him back to Pilate. And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day. For before this, they had been at enmity with each other. Pilate then called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people and said to them, you brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you,

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Behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him. So keep in mind, Pilate's making it very clear. This guy's blood is not on my hands. That's what he's doing. He's like, I did not find anything wrong with him. I didn't find him guilty of anything. So if anyone's going to condemn him to crucifixion, it's not going to be me. Neither did Herod.

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Herod didn't find it either, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him. I will therefore punish him and release him. But they all cried out, away with this man and release to us Barabbas. Barabbas was a rebel, the leader of an insurrection against the government of Rome. Rome did not like Barabbas, okay? They did not like him.

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And the people are asking, the same people that were praising him just a week ago, were like, release Barabbas. There are some writings, not all, this isn't a confirmation, some even said that Barabbas might have been a rapist. So this is a very intense man.

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A man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection, started in the city, and for murder, insurrection is just another fancy term for rebellion. Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, but they kept shouting, crucify him, crucify him. A third time he said to them, why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death.

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January 19th is our first ever live podcast show. I want to see you there. All ages are welcome. It doesn't matter what the website says to get your tickets. All ages are welcome. Go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets and get your tickets. Now, let's dive into Luke chapter 23.

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I will therefore punish and release him. But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed. So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will.

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When I read this passage and I see Barabbas, a rebel, the leader of an insurrection, a murderer, possibly a rapist, the worst of the worst. And in his place, Jesus, perfect, has never done anything wrong, is about to die the death that the wicked man Barabbas deserved. And here's the thing, back in that time period, if you were destined for crucifixion, you prepared your own cross.

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So keep in mind, Barabbas probably had no idea he was getting released, prepared his own cross, getting ready. And then all of a sudden, this guy named Jesus, who's done absolutely nothing wrong, takes the cross that you've prepared and dies on the cross that you prepared for yourself. And I look at Barabbas and I say, I am Barabbas.

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I'm the man that's done incredibly wrong, that's failed so many times, that's extremely flawed, that's wicked, undeserving of death, and my sin and my actions I'm solely responsible for. I've prepared my separation from God. I deserve hell. I deserve death. The cross that I've prepared for myself, I've prepared for myself.

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My own sin has crafted my own cross that I deserve to be nailed to and die that death. I deserve that. And then I look at Jesus, innocent, king of the Jews. All he's done is healed the sick, opened blind eyes, opened deaf ears, poured into the Jews of that time. And he's going to come in and take my cross that I prepared for myself?

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And him being innocent is going to take the punishment that I deserve, that I've crafted for myself. And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country and laid on him the cross to carry in behind Jesus. So this man named Simon is carrying the cross for Jesus. There's some details left out here.

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I'm going to set the scene really quick for you guys so that when we read some stuff, it's just going to kind of make sense when we read through it. All right. So every year there was a tradition that where they would release one prisoner on Passover. Okay? So keep that in mind when we read about Jesus and Barabbas.

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You guys can understand Jesus was whipped 39 times with a whip called a cat of nine tails. And this cat of nine tails had strings on it. And at the end of the strings, it had glass and nails and rocks. So when you would get hit, It would wrap around your back. And when they would rip the whip away, it would rip your flesh away. They beat him 39 times.

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40 was the legal limit, but they beat him 39 times in case they miscounted. So imagine infinite splinters going into your muscles, in your arteries, in your veins, because you have no flesh on your back and you can't carry your cross. So you got to have somebody else carry it for you. You're beaten under recognition.

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And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. But Jesus turned to the people mourning for him and said, daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. He says, don't weep for me. Weep for the people that reject me.

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For behold, the days are coming when they will say, Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed. Normally, you would think Jesus prays to motherhood and children, and he does.

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But the reason he's saying, Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore, he's, like, again, prophesying about the things that's going to happen in AD 70, where Rome comes and levels out Jerusalem and takes down the temple and kills a bunch of Jews. Then they will begin to say to the mountains, follow us into the hills, cover us.

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For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry? When Jesus says, for if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry? Jesus is saying, if this is the fate of the innocent, then I can't even imagine what's going to happen to the guilty. If this death that Jesus is dying is the fate of an innocent man,

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then what will happen to those who reject him in this lifetime? Two others who were criminals were led away to be put to death with him. Sabbath was the next day, so they needed to kill him before Sabbath. And when they came to the place that is called the school, there they crucified him and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

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And Jesus said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Once again, just a humble heart posture of Christ. Forgive them, they don't understand. Then they cast lots to divide his garments, mocking Jesus. And the people stood by watching, but the ruler scoffed at him, saying, He saved others, let him save himself. If he's the Christ of God, his chosen one.

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The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, saying, If you're the king of the Jews, save yourself. There was also an inscription over him. This is the king of the Jews to mock him. Now, I love this next part. One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him saying, are you not the Christ save yourself and us?

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But the other rebuked him saying, do you not fear God since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds. But this man has done nothing wrong. And he looks at Jesus and says, Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. So one of the thieves is saying, look, Jesus, just save me. I'm tired of being punished like this.

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But every year there was one prisoner that would get released every year on Passover. It was tradition. Verse 1, And Pilate asked him, Are you the king of the Jews? And he answered him, You've said so. Then Pilate said to the chief priests in the crowds, I find no guilt in this man.

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If you're really Jesus, you can do it. And the other one says, listen, no, we deserve this. He's the one that doesn't deserve it. And he looks over at him and he says, Jesus, I'm deserving of this death. I'm not worthy of being in your presence. So all I ask is just please remember me. And he said to him, truly, I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise.

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So then that brings up the question. What about someone like Jeffrey Dahmer? who's murdered so many people, who's done awful, nasty things. He claimed to have received Jesus into his heart before he died. Is he in heaven? I don't know. I don't judge hearts. Only God does. But the reality is, is it doesn't matter about your past.

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If you have a true heart posture of receiving Jesus Christ, believing in him, putting your faith and trust in him, it doesn't matter how much time left you have in this life. You'll be saved. Verse 44, it was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun's light faded, and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.

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And Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. When Jesus dies, the veil was torn on the temple, meaning that Jesus' intimate relationship with God, experience the presence of God, the Spirit of God, wasn't just for specific people. It's now for everyone through the new covenant. And having said this, he breathed his last breath.

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Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God saying, certainly this man was innocent. Notice how it takes till he dies. They all go, oh my gosh, he really is who he says he is. That's so silly to me. But then I can't really say that because I don't know how I would have reacted. I can't say, oh yeah, I would have never rejected Christ. I don't know how I would have reacted.

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I would want to think I wouldn't have. But man, it's like once he dies, you're like, oh, he really is the Christ. And all the crowds that had assembled from the spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things. Verse 50 to close.

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Now there was a man named Joseph from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man who had not consented to their decision and action. He was looking for the kingdom of God. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Do you know who else brought Jesus' body to be buried? Nicodemus.

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If we don't know who Nicodemus is, think about John 3, verses 16-17, the most famous verses in the Bible. Who is Jesus talking to? Nicodemus, a religious Pharisee who in this lifetime had the chance. He was curious about Jesus when Jesus was alive and had the chance to follow him, but did not. And then he witnesses the crucifixion and he does nothing but submit him like he buries Christ.

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That's powerful. It's powerful. It's powerful. We're getting ready for chapter 24, the final Luke series. We just witnessed and read about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, this gruesome death. Gruesome, but necessary to be united with him in a relationship. We're about to watch Jesus defeat death and appear to the disciples in Luke chapter 24. Guys, I pray Luke chapter 23 has blessed you guys.

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This has been my favorite episode yet. Go get your live podcast show. Tickets at jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Los Angeles, January 19th. I love you guys. See you guys tomorrow for the finale and last episode of the consecutive 24 day Christmas challenge. Luke chapter 24 tomorrow. Love you guys.

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But they were urgent, saying, He serves up the people, teaching throughout all Judea from Galilee even to this place. So when Pilate had heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean. And when he learned that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time.

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When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him. So he questioned him at some length, but he made no answer. Jesus did not respond to Herod's questioning. The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accused him, and Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him,

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All right, what's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce. And today I got a very, very special guest with us today. We got Dwight Howard with us. Dwight, how are you doing, man?

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It seems like you knew your calling from a pretty young age. I feel like a lot of people, especially when I go, we'll go to college campuses and talk to students. A lot of people are like, how do I know what my calling is? How do I know? I try to encourage people. God gives everyone gifts. I'm not good at graphic design. A lot of people are. You can use that to glorify God.

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A lot of people are good at athletics. You can use that to glorify God. But you seemed to have a grip at 10 years old. You're saying, I know. I know I'm supposed to go to the NBA. For people, especially in athletics, that have a... desire, an awesome desire, like athletics, NBA, or maybe the NFL, maybe the MLB.

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Well, congrats on being in the Hall of Fame. It's huge, man. It's huge. What is that like? How does that feel?

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How did you keep your eyes on God as like the main priority while also putting in the work for the NBA without making it an idol in your life, if that makes sense?

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To be honest, okay, this is what it feels like. Imagine. When we leave this earth. Well, before you leave this earth, you get a call. And when you look at the phone, it's Jesus on the hotline. And you say, my son, guess what? For all your hard work, dedication in life, being a disciple of Christ, you and your name has been put in the Lamb's book of life. You will be forever in the kingdom of God.

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You graduate high school, going to the NBA, you're playing, everything, like you're living the dream in that moment. You're like, this is the thing that I've been praying for. This is the thing I've been working hard towards. You're in the moment. There have been moments in my life where right before I became a Christian, I thought I had everything I wanted.

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Now I was 16 at the time, you know, there's very limited, but I thought I had everything I wanted and I was still, I don't know, sad.

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how in that daily rhythm of being in the NBA, things like that, because let's be real, professional athlete, working out all the time, games, traveling, and then outside of the regular season, if you're going to the playoffs, you got more games, and then off-season, and then you got other stuff, and then outside of basketball, you got business stuff you're doing, then you got this.

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I really believe if the devil can't make you sin, he'll make you busy and keep you staying. Not saying that all busyness is a bad, but distractions. How did you keep your eyes on Jesus in the midst of those distractions? How did you create space for Jesus in the midst of a busy schedule?

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And how did that affect your daily life?

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Because anytime I take my eyes off Jesus, chaos erupts in my life.

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Literally everything.

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Billy Graham, he's like a famous preacher. He said something. He said that he was arguing with his mom one time because he said he couldn't feel God. And his mom said, oftentimes when we can't feel God, that's when he's the closest to us. It's because we're running off of pure faith, believing in that. that marked me.

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I went through like a big season of like this recently six months of just like, man, I couldn't feel God. And I was almost deceiving myself a little bit because I was like, oh dang, well, I guess if I can't feel God, then that means my faith is trash basically. But in reality, that wasn't true. It was, I had to constantly remind myself, okay, maybe I can't feel God, but man, I'm still praying.

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That's how that felt for me. Like hearing Jesus call me home because of all the hard work, dedication, effort, energy, um, sacrifice, love, so many things had to come with making it to the NBA. And to see it finally, actually at the end of it, I'm getting honored to be in the Hall of Fame. It's just nothing but God, me knowing that he is absolutely real. And it's only because of my experience.

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Or I can't feel God, but man, I'm still picking up my Bible and I'm trying to bear my cross and I'm trying to do these things. And That really encouraged me. Who do you feel like when you 18 years old in the NBA access to money, access to everything who came into your life? That was a big role model of like, Hey, be smart. Do this.

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Um, was there someone like in the league or someone not associated with the league that was like, Oh man, this is, here's some good advice.

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us to have his mindset this worldly mindset of wanting things to happen right away um so and the wrong things to happen right away yep i agree there was a proverb that says there's a way that seems right to a man but in the end it leads to death and i love and that's just like the story of my life anytime bryce thinks bryce has got it it all i chaos like i said earlier chaos arises and

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I love how you said that. We need the mind of Christ. Like we've got to change the way we think because you're right. We are wicked people at heart and we got to think like him. Yes. Because if we think like him, then we start living out the will of God. We start walking, walking smooth. And we have, we're listening to the presence and the Holy spirit and let him guide our steps.

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I think that's so good, man.

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You know, everybody has had many different experiences in life. And so through my experiences, Ending up in the Hall of Fame, man, it was amazing. I probably cried. I haven't cried so hard of happiness my whole life. I didn't know it was possible to cry of happiness like that. I literally was...

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Man, that's just so encouraging because I feel like I love hearing stuff like that because so many people think, oh, well, if I'm going to be a Christian, then that means I got to become a pastor. And I'm like, yeah, we need pastors. But we need people in the NBA. We need people in the business places. We need that. And we needed that. We needed you in there.

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Dang, what was it like for your, man, all I can think about right now is what was it like for the people in the NBA that knew you, right? Let's say the first two years when you said, okay, I got in fresh, 18 years old, distracted by money, you know, I'm not going to lie, I think that happened to anyone.

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And then you go from that, right? You go from that, and everybody, you know, you're right. Everybody's got eyes on you. You're number one pick. You're fresh in. You're fresh meat. You got, you know, whatever. And then you go from that, and then you're walking in this calling, and I know your actions are going to look different now. And you're like, oh, shoot, what did the teammates think?

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like hand on my knees down like thank you jesus like i can't believe like tears is flowing i cried so much that i didn't have no more tears left in my eyes like my body had let everything out yeah and it was all for happiness yeah which is just insane

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What did the people think around you? Were they encouraged? Were they like, man, Dwight, you're a buzzkill?

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Well, I appreciate everything you've done for basketball and just being like a hero, role model for, like the same way you looked up to Julius Ervin, there's so many people that were looking up to you. I mean, dude, you were on my door when I was a kid.

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Man, I like how you worded that too about like, you know, the mess ups because the expectations, it's hard. You know, we weren't meant to have access to everyone. Being someone in the spotlight, it's hard having everyone's eyes and opinions on you. But I think that's a good way to put it. It's not that you're willingly saying, oh, I'm going to go screw off.

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But it's like, I like that verse in Proverbs where it says the righteous man falls seven times. Sometimes making mistakes is a part of the process. You're not trying to make mistakes. But you're not perfect either, and sometimes you mess up.

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But, but. I want to go into kind of like, because I think it's important to talk about faith and sports. Because I know there's a lot of young people that try to understand how faith correlates with sports. So I want to just kind of backtrack a little bit and start back to what it was like growing up for you and how faith is intertwined with sports. I mean, you were raised in Atlanta, right?

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Amen.

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What?

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No light. What in the world?

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Dude, thanks for coming on. I was so happy.

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I feel like I always lose sight of like the small things I'm grateful for until I get like a sore throat. Then I'm like, dang, I'm grateful for the days I don't have a sore throat. I'd be grateful for a sore throat. Really?

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Yes, sir.

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You grew up, you went to a Christian school?

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Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy. Shout out to our school, soccer. I started playing basketball at a very young age. And basically my whole life is a faith story. And I would say that because before I was actually born, my mom lost seven children. Wow. And I was supposed to be one of those kids that did not make it, the eighth child. I was supposed to not be here.

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I like that shift. That was going to be my last question about Jesus with you before I shifted to a couple of just regular questions I had for you. I think in the same way we can experience the top of the mountain with Jesus, those high spiritual moments, I think another great way that we can really get close to Jesus is in the suffering, in those hard times. Yes.

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What is a peak moment of suffering or trial that you experienced? And how did that bring you closer to Jesus?

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And there were prayer warriors from my church, Fellowship of Faith Christian International Church in East Point, who prayed for my mom and my dad, prayed with them every day, prayed for me to enter into this world and for me to get here.

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Paul writes in 2 Corinthians, he talks about a thorn in his side. This is what makes me think of. And he's like, kind of annoyed at first. He's like, this sucks. And then he says, but I like it because it keeps me humble and reliant on God. And I'm just encouraged by that in your story. I hear both sides of it. It's like, okay, like, you know, these people say they don't want me in the natural.

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took so much strength and faith because so many of my brothers and sisters before i made it here didn't make it yeah so just to get to be born uh was the faith of my parents the faith of the people in my church the faith of everyone around me who had this idea that there was going to be a child that was going to be born yeah that was going to be a miracle Baby to the world.

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So you're like, there's two things I got to do. I got to lock in with God. And then I also got to put in the work as well. Because I believe that is true. Proverbs talks about it. There's times where you got to get right with God and you got to also put in the work.

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You got to.

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I'm encouraged by that. I got a couple questions that aren't spiritual. They're just side questions. First one is, dude, I think one of the funniest things that ever happened was the Taiwan meme you were doing on Twitter. Oh, come on. When someone would do bad, you would at them on Twitter and then tell them to come play in Taiwan. I thought that was the funniest thing ever.

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They can ride in the cloud car.

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That was so funny. I thought it was hilarious. That's crazy. I had to bring that up because I thought it was so funny. What? So I want to ask you this. You got to be around Kobe for a little bit. And I think that's super encouraging. Did you ever learn something specific about it? What was that experience like being around Kobe and how did that affect you just as a human being?

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That's encouraging. I feel like it's such a good teammate or role model to have it at least be around in a circle. It matters who you surround yourself with. So I was just curious.

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And December the 8th, it happened. I was born. And it's just so ironic that my mom lost seven kids and I would have been the eighth child. And I was born on December the 8th. The eighth day of the 12th month. And the 12th month, number 12 means wise counsel or counsel. Jesus said, how many disciples? Twelve. Twelve. Yeah, so just...

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The stench.

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Yo, that's wild. That's so wild. That's crazy.

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Who's your favorite team you've played for?

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Gotta be.

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I mean, that was a given, but more than just the pick. Come on, why do you love the Magic?

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I like that. So, yeah, yeah. You're an Orlando magic legend.

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I love it. I love, like, dude, I love your basement. I like looking at all the stuff. Like, that slam poster back there is nuts, dude. That one back there is nuts.

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Oh, yeah, that was actually, that one had to be my first or second year in the league.

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Yeah, that one's fire. Wow.

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What? You got to get those custom made? Actually, these, it's not a 17 right here. These are 12. But these shoes right here are one of my first shoes. My first signature shoe with Adidas. I had eight pair of shoes. This is one of my first pairs.

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Nuts.

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So, you know, I always got to give a shout out to Adidas. Come on. For giving me a shoe, man. I remember being in high school playing NBA Live. See, everybody played 2K now. But back then we had NBA Live. That's a throwback. So I wanted to be on the cover of NBA Live. I just remember sitting at home and saying, man, it'd be crazy if I was in the NBA. It'd be crazy if I had my own shoe.

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Like, God, what if I had my own shoe? And God said, Dwight, if you are faithful over the little things that you have, I will bless you with so much more. So I ended up having two shoes in school, two pairs of pro wings, a white and blue pair and an all black pair. I wore those two pairs of shoes until they had holes in the bottom of them.

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And because of my faithfulness, because I was able to be patient, again, this is where patience comes in, and suffer long God bless me to now where I have so many shoes that I don't know what to do with I've had my own pair of shoes so you know that's why it's like Being faithful, being committed, seeing the goal all the way through to the end, no matter how difficult it may get.

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Going from being born to now actually going to my school and my church. My church, the whole motto of our church was faith and learning. Faith mixed with learning. So our minds, our faith in God and learning the word of God, learning everything that come with being on this earth.

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You're faithful over the small things. God is going to bless you because he knows that you have the capacity to hold it. But if he knows he's going to give it to you and you're just going to use it, then why? Why would I give this to you?

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Yeah, shout out Adidas. Yeah, shout out to Adidas.

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What was your favorite thing? Last question. What was your favorite thing?

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Yeah, I didn't think you were going to. You hit me back really quick, and I was like, dang.

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That is a lot.

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Yeah, listen up here, brother. Next time you want to come to the place that you want to try me, I'm going to take you. I'm going to pull you out. And I'm going to take your throat, take your Adam's apple out, throw it on the ground, and I'm going to step on it.

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I like that.

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I like that. See, yeah.

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And you just wasted one. Well, that was not a waste. That was... That was good. That was nice. I like that.

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That was great. That was a good clip farm. We needed that.

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I'm moved by your prayer as faith, man. I feel prayer is, I'm not going to lie, prayer has been something that I've been challenging myself with recently, trying to get in that healthy rhythm of like always praying. I used to be the guy that would only pray if I needed something. And then now I'm trying to make it this consistent rhythm of like,

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This dog has aura.

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Yeah, that's right. Satan's stupid. Yeah, that's right.

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bro i appreciate you so much you're the man thank you for letting us come in your house thanks for coming on guys thanks for watching and listening to the episode dwight you're the man i appreciate you this is like legendary interview i'm just thinking back right now to like third grade me having you on my on my door and now we're getting to sit down and chat together so thank you so much i appreciate you guys thanks for watching we'll see you guys next week for the episode love you guys and see you guys later

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dang god i can't believe that happened or like thank you god or man i'm angry like make that a prayer life and there was a verse that literally when you were talking i just can't stop thinking about it of your parents it's in james 5 verse 17 it says the fervent prayer of the righteous man conquers much yes and all i can think of is all those people in your church and your family praying praying and now you're here and after the seven children that didn't make it and

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Even in the same way, like, you know, Abraham and Sarah, you know, Sarah wasn't able to have kids as Isaac and impacts nations through Isaac. And so in that same way, like, you know, you're your mother's kid after seven missing. Yes. And the way you get to be a role model now for millions of kids that want to grow up and and.

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and chase their dreams of using their athletics for the glory of god and using those things i think is so encouraging that that i could hyper fixate on that the whole time i think that's so powerful and it's just so crazy how prayer actually works you know so a lot of times we get twisted like what is prayer prayer is it's a long time with with god How do you want things to happen in life?

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How do you want your faith to match your works? Because the Bible states in Mark 2.26, faith without works is dead. So your faith and your works have to match. Your faith is what you believe because it's what? The evidence of things. What is faith? Faith is the evidence of things hoped for. So this is something that, You are hoping to happen, but you got to have a belief that it will happen.

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When I was 10 years old, I told my dad I was going to the NBA. And he said, how do you know? I said, I know it. I believe it. And I know that I'm better than all the guys I just saw play. And now this is my time. He said, well, if you want to make it, you have to sacrifice. And I said, Dad, I'm ready to sacrifice whatever it is to make it to the NBA. And mind you, I was 10 years old.

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Thank you. I appreciate you.

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I was just telling Dwight when I was in third grade, I had a subscription, Sports Illustrated Kids, and my first magazine came to the mail. Well, there was two I remember. There's one of you dunking in the Orlando Magic jersey. It's like a side angle picture. But the poster that I told you I had in my room was you and the Superman.

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How many 10-year-olds believe and know at 10 that they're going to make it? to the NBA or to professional sports. I did, I just had this strong sense of faith that anything I put my mind to, I can do. And that's what goes back to prayer and how the trick of the enemy is to keep your mind

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distracted from everything in life keep your mind with a short mindset where just think about instagram and the reels and tick tock these are shorts everything is a minute long or 30 seconds because the enemy wants us to have this this mind that this monkey brain where we're all over the place yeah that's why a lot of times when people pray

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it's hard for them to pray yeah because they start going all over the place they get this monkey brain yeah and that's why you want to hear the steel small sweet voice of god you got to get alone you got to get away from the noise you got to get quiet why so your faith you can see it yeah it's implanted in your brain and now it's time to go put in the work

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I like that. I heard a quote the other day where this pastor was saying how a lot of people pray for God's hand, like God to give them something, when Moses was praying to see his face.

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Yes.

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And I was like, dang, that impacted my life because I'm like, man, I feel like if I can just keep my eyes on him, Everything else is just going to like fall into place. And I even love that about my prayer life too is because like you mentioned the word manifestation earlier.

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Like I feel like there were times in my life where when I think of manifestation, I think of like trying to like willfully force something to happen. Like I'm going to make this thing happen. And there are times in my life where I'm like, I'm going to make this thing happen. And I'm like, all right, God, give me this thing. And he doesn't give it to me.

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And I'm like, man, why are you giving it to me? And I realized it's because maybe he just doesn't trust me with it or maybe that thing's going to crush me or maybe that isn't good. And I love that about my prayer life too, because if I were to personally like get everything that I wanted, I would be crushed, angry, hurtful, rude, all that junk. But if I pray and go, okay, God, like,

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Is this for me? Is this really for me? And see what that looks like. Then, you know, maybe it, you know, maybe it's OK. Maybe this isn't because sometimes people think if they don't get what they ask for in prayer, that God's not responding to their prayer. Yes. I learned very quickly that God responds with a no.

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It was like the Orlando Magic Superman thing, and you had your hands on your hips like this. And I had it on my door when I was growing up.

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Do you feel like that your parents and your parents' prayer life, how they prayed for you and how they heard for you, do you think that impacted your prayer life today and how you pray?

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Because I remember being young and having Julius Irvin, his jersey. When I got in high school, that was the only jersey I had was Julius Irvin. And I met him so many times after that. And then he was one of the people that introduced me into the, inducted me into the Hall of Fame. So just circling back and now me and him are doing business together. He's here in Atlanta. It's crazy. Full circle.

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My revelation should be your foundation. And the things that took me five years to understand shouldn't take you that long. It should take you six months. It should take you one month, you know? And so I love that. I love that.

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So let's start at 10, right? So you're 10, you're praying for the NBA. You're trying to figure out who you are. I feel like that's a good age to say, okay, when you're 10 years old, you're starting to find out about yourself. You're starting to try to discover who you are.

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You know what I mean? Like that, that foot in the door of like, okay, who am I really? What are some hardships you faced? What was your childhood like growing up from 10 probably through high school?

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today I got a very special guest going on. My friends from back at home, they were telling me, like, Bryce, you gotta get this guy on the podcast. Gotta have a conversation with him. It's Mr. Dave Blunt. Dave, how are you doing today?

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then that lifestyle of turning into Jesus looks like becoming more like him and leaving things in the dirt, you know? All that junk in the past. What do you think it means to be a Christian?

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No, sure. I totally understand. I think all my life I thought being a Christian was trying so hard to follow the rules. And if I don't follow the rules, I'm a bad person. Because you were talking about how hypocrisy, like a bunch of hypocrites, kind of defined... You didn't let it define who God was, but it was a lot of the Christianity that you were around. Dude, same with me.

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And it gave me a bad taste in my mouth about God. And and they were the same people that were like, Bryce, if you don't do this with your life, you're a bad Christian, but you have to do this. And then I would see them doing the total opposite of what they were telling me to do. And I was like, this is awful. And so I agree with you.

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I think that my perspective of Christianity changed from being like a cage of rules to being a relationship with Jesus. Because, for example, like... We listen to our family when we're young and we're kids, not because we have to, but because we love our family and we love them and we want to listen to them.

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And I think with Jesus, it's, I don't obey his commandments because I have to, because I'm trying to earn his love. It's, I already love him, so I follow him because I love him. And I change my actions to align with him. I think that's super powerful. Where are you at with God personally right now? What does your relationship look like lately and just...

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A call center?

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Like you were taking calls on the phone? Like what kind of calls?

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Yeah, he was killing Christians.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, he became a Christian.

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And how did that happen? How did it blow up? What happened? Did the video go viral?

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Yeah.

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Dang.

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That's awesome, bro. And so do you feel like – so that was the moment where it blew up, everything was going good, and then – So do you feel like that, okay, so you said, sorry, you said that your relationship with Jesus was strong, everything blew up. What about now? Where do you feel like you're at with Jesus right now?

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Right. That's not good. And you feel like that may be, like, maybe that the rap and the fame and everything all happening at once could have been a muzzle at some point or maybe had blinded your faith a little bit. Is that what you're kind of saying?

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And it just got hard. Yeah, bro. I totally understand. I think it's a real human thing. That's hard. Do you feel like a lot of pressure?

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Like just from people, to be someone, to make people happy, do you feel that pressure because everything kind of came at once, like just an overflow of people looking at you?

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Yeah, man. Dude, thanks for your honesty, dude. I really appreciate that. I want to shift into a little bit of your rap music because I know you rap and stuff like that. Do you rap out of personal experience and things that are happening in your life that are really true?

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So every song that you write is like personal experience, struggle, raw. You're writing from a place of like, this is really who I am. And this is stuff I'm dealing with.

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like a metaphor, just something that sounds good.

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Yeah. So there's this one lyric, there's this one lyric I heard. You said that you pop Percocet like Tylenol. Was that like more of a joke or was that more of like a real thing that you struggle with?

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um I don't do perks anymore but amen at the time that's something that I went through yeah yeah and that was like a little bit last year going through a hard time maybe or just yeah last year yeah yeah and I think I read somewhere because I want to learn more about this perp that you got on your that you got on your shirt here and stuff like that perp and lean I've never heard of it what exactly is that like what what is lean or perp I've never really heard of that before

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It's like a drink?

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What's in it? Is it like an alcohol?

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It's cough syrup? Yeah. What is the purpose of drinking lean? I'm just curious. I've never heard of this before. Why does someone drink lean?

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Get high? Okay. Oh, so it's like, oh, I see what you're saying. The cough syrup and it gets you high, things like that. And that's something that you drink a lot and that's something that you do a lot. Is that correct? I read somewhere you drink lean and stuff like that. Yeah. And... And I know that like when you were going through – so you performed at the Juice WRLD thing and things like that.

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You were really close friends with Juice WRLD, right?

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You never met Juice WRLD? No, no. Oh, so you were just performing at his tribute.

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Okay, gotcha, gotcha. So do you feel like that the lean and maybe at one point, like we said, the Percocets, like Tylenol, things like that. Yeah. All that stuff. Was that more of an escape for you because you were going through a hard time? Do you still feel like that you turn to lean per se as like an escape to try to maybe numb feelings or feel better or things like that?

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Okay. I want to take a step back really quick. She said something really interesting. I want to kind of dive into you say you grew up without a father figure in your life. How long? How long did you? When was your father absent? When did that start? And what was how hard was that growing up?

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Yeah. I, cause I, when I, before I moved to LA, I, I, the reason I asked before I moved to LA, I worked in Florida on boats and I had a coworker and his name was Mitch and he was like 36 years old and I was like 18 at the time and every day he was doing every drug in the book. Like coming to work, doing it at work, drinking all the time. And he was just numbing his pain.

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Let's go, bro. Thanks for coming on, man. I really appreciate you. I'm super stoked to just dive into your story. I know you make rap music. Yes, sir. I'm from a small country town, so I never really grew up on rap, so I'm excited to dive into your story, how you got into it, and learn more about you as a human. You said you were from Iowa, right? Yes, sir.

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And even though there was a double the age difference between me and him, I'm 18, he's 36. We were like best friends. We got along so well. And he would call me all the time. And even when I moved out here, he would call me all the time and just...

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he would talk to me about how he was just going through, how he was just always going through something, but he was using, you know, whether it was cocaine or alcohol or something like that, some sort of drugs to numb the pain.

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Well, in early in 2024, I was going back to Florida to visit my friend Mitch and I was calling him and he wasn't answering the phone and he struggled to pay his phone bill sometimes. So I just thought that he forgot to pay his phone bill. So I was calling his friends and stuff like that. And I found out that he had gotten a bad bag of cocaine and he had overdosed and passed away.

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And me personally, like I've never drank alcohol before. I've never done drugs. I was always like really scared. And because of experiences I grew up with, I chose to stay away from that personally. So I don't know what it feels like to even be high or drink alcohol. I don't know that at all.

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But for having a close friend like Mitch and watching him try to escape his problems and things like that, it gave me a really big heart for people that try to find an escape and stuff like that. And so... And I think I, I think I read something earlier that you like, or at the end of 2024, you were throwing away your purple track suit and you were gonna like give up.

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What, what was all that about? Like it had, it had a correlation with lean, like giving up lean or something. Is that right?

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And what does the purple suit even symbolize?

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Just the color? Yeah. So when you say perp, you just mean like the color purple? Or is perp something else?

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Oh, it is the color lean. Oh, so that's like the whole correlation, like purple and lean.

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Oh, okay. Oh, okay, gotcha. That makes so much sense. Dude, I'm so out of the loop. I don't know any of this stuff. It's so interesting to learn.

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No, I understand. And do you feel like that the suit gives you superpowers? Because I feel like you're saying you didn't feel right without the suit. You feel like it's got some powers? What do you think about the suit?

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Like you made the suit, you custom made it.

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Oh, that's cool.

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And so, you know, it's purple, color of lean. Lean and purple is kind of like your whole thing. So when you look in the mirror, do you feel like you identify, like your identity is in the suit and in the lane basically? Because that's kind of like who you are, that's your persona. Like when you look in the mirror, who is Dave Bluntz when Dave Bluntz looks in the mirror?

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No, no, no. I don't mean like that. I mean like when you look in the mirror, do you see your identity as like, oh, the way you view yourself? Do you feel like you aren't yourself unless you have the lean and have the suit?

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So what was that like? I mean, I feel like eight years old and like you lose your dad at Christmas time. And then as you're going on a life, I mean, from eight years old until now, especially let's even forget now, just like the crucial teenage years, like your body's changing, you're growing, you get middle school, high school, people start gossiping, opinions matter, things like that.

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Gotcha.

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Interesting. So it went from black and gray to black and purple, purple being the color lean. So why do you, I know, I know you said you drink lean, but why do you drink lean? What's it, what's it like? What mode, like what motivates you to drink lean? You just like the high or the escape or. Why does Dave drink lean?

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Yeah.

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You think you wouldn't drink lean if you felt like that you didn't have to escape from feelings, reality, hard times, and things like that?

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Well, you said that you drink lean for the escape.

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And you're trying to escape something, right? Whether it's a hard time, feelings, things like that. So do you feel like that if you weren't trying to escape anything, you wouldn't drink lean or maybe turn to another substance or things like that because you wouldn't need the escape?

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How was that weighing on your shoulders trying to navigate life and not having like that father figure to like, pour wisdom into you and encourage you and love you. Well, how did that affect your perception of love or maybe even your perception of yourself? How did you see yourself when you were growing up in middle school and high school?

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Always throwing temptation in our face. Yeah, I love the story in Matthew 4 where Jesus himself, he's in the desert and he's fasting and he's being tempted by the devil. And the very first thing he tells Satan is what he tells us to do. He quotes scripture to Satan and says, man shall not live by bread alone. And he's doing the very thing he's telling us to do. He says, don't live by bread alone.

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Like quoting scripture helps where you're saying like one of those armor pieces in the arm of God is the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. It's our weapon against that temptation. And I want to be able to relate to you because I know I said I've never, you know, drank substances before, done substances. But when I was younger, I was really I felt really lovesick.

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I was on this quest for love. I had this broken heart. I really wanted to feel love. When I was in the fifth grade, I actually got exploited to pornography. What do you mean by that? When I was on the beach, someone showed me pornography when I was really young. Like when I was super young, just out of nowhere on the beach, some random guy showed it to me.

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And because of that, I developed this addiction to pornography because I was looking for love and I thought that that was love in reality. But then when I had that encounter with Jesus and Waffle House years later, Jesus, he became my definition of love. Whereas porn for me before I was a Christian was an escape, was me trying to find love.

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When I became a Christian, I was like, oh man, I don't have to go to these things to escape because it was like every time I went to that thing, it never worked. But it was the only thing that I knew to go to kind of. Does that make sense?

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And so it kind of like makes me relate to where you were like, I used to smoke weed, but I stopped because it made it worse. It made my depression worse. And I think that that's the challenge for like anything in life, whether it be a substance, something like porn, pride, anything, anytime that we partake in sin, it's just because like we're going out, we're trying to fix it ourself.

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You know what I mean? We're trying to strongman it. Do you think that you'll ever put the lean down? You think you'll ever put the cup down?

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Heck yeah.

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That's super cool.

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Cause you were looking for love.

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Dang.

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Yeah. Man, thank you for saying that. I really want to encourage you. For someone like yourself, you mentioned at the very beginning that you lost your dad at a very young age. And just having that father's love and not having it there can be very hard. And I know you've heard this. I know you know this. You grew up in church, man. But I just want to encourage you, bro.

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There's a father who loves you and sees you. And you don't have to pay for his love because he paid it for you with his life. And I think that's powerful for someone who knows what it's like to lose a father and To literally lose your father and know the reality of death. To know that Jesus Christ took on one of the scariest things known to man.

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Because in our physical body, it's hard to comprehend death. And he did it for you. And it's so beautiful. Like I think about it like this. Dave, if you and I were crossing the street and a car ran a red light and it was about to hit you. but I shoved you out of the way and the car hit me and I died.

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Dude, we've known each other for less than an hour and you would leave that situation going, dang, Bryce really loves me.

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Because I laid my life down for you. I just want to encourage you so much, man. Like, I love you so much, dude. I appreciate your honesty. Like, we can't get anywhere in life unless we're not only honest with ourselves, but honest with other people and honest where we're at in our lives, because we can't grow as human beings and grow in the Lord.

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If we can't even be honest about where we're at, transparency leads to transformation. Um, I think that's super important. I really appreciate that about you, dude. You're just such an honest down to earth guy. I really appreciate that about you. Um,

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One of my favorite people I've talked to, bro. I can't lie. Last thing I want to talk to you about, I just want to check in on you. I saw, I believe it was at the Juice WRLD show, you were on oxygen and your health. How is your health right now? How are you doing?

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Was that scary for you? Like, do you feel like... No, no, no. Not the oxygen, but like, or the situation. I just mean like the health issue, was that scary at all? Or was that like more of a routine thing?

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You recorded in the hospital? Yeah. How many songs have you recorded in the hospital?

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didn't i didn't i just had fun in high school i didn't care about class work or any of that yeah so dang man yeah that's hard what do you think your definition of love is because it's hard like growing up without a father figure you know at a young age losing your father and then being in a position where you're hurting inside and no one knows you know so what what is your definition of love or

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Dude, you can record six songs in the hospital?

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No way. That's insane, dude. Well, it's obvious that you're passionate about music. It's obvious that you care about people. You're a really kind guy and I appreciate you and I just appreciate your honesty. I think you're awesome, bro.

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I've really loved talking with you and I'm super glad that you live nearby because I feel like I got a new friend and someone to come hang out and I just really appreciate you. What do you need prayer for, Dave? This year, I feel like you've communicated that towards the middle and end of 2024 that it was harder in your faith journey to keep up in your faith and things like that.

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We'll pray for that. What do you need prayer for? Do you need prayer for your health? Do you need prayer for

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Yeah. Yeah. You care if I pray for you before we end out? I would love to just pray for not only just your relationship with God, but also like even with the – I'm just so passionate about this particularly because I try to find my value and escape in so many other things than Jesus.

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Just that this 2025, God would show you that you can solely rely on him and you don't need things like lean or things that you've done in the past.

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yeah you know but it's it's one of the fleshly wants right you know it's like that battle in the flesh it's like your spirit knows i don't need it but your flesh yeah sure yeah let's pray for that let's pray that god gives you the strength to overcome that yeah jesus thank you so much for my brother dave god thank you for a great conversation thank you for just allowing us honesty and transparency god we just ask for more humility in our lives god that you give us strength that you speak to both dave and i

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God, we just ask for you to draw near to Dave. God, we thank you that he just loves you and that he desires you and he wants more of you, Jesus. Would you speak to him not only in dreams and visions, God, but would you give Dave a fresh hunger to pick his Bible back up more often and to speak to him through the scriptures?

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God, would you give him strength not only to lean in more of you, but actually to overcome things, the sinful desires, because our sin, it feels so good to our flesh, God, but not only him, but me, God, like the things that I struggle with. Would you just give not only Dave, but me strength to overcome our flesh in times where our flesh feels so strong?

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And your word says where the flesh is weak, your spirit is willing. God, would your spirit give us strength to overcome these? God, thank you for a great conversation. Thank you for Dave. God, I love you so much. You love Dave. I love Dave so much. God bless him. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Dave, bro, I appreciate you so much. You're a beast. I appreciate you. Thanks for coming on. No problem.

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Guys, thank you so much for watching this episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. Like, subscribe, keep tuning in. Guys, Dave, thanks so much for coming. Dave Bluntz, appreciate you guys. Love y'all. See you guys on the next episode.

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You know, that's wild. Actually you say, cause I feel like a lot of people smoke weed to escape the depression, but you're saying like right now you're saying like, yeah, actually when I was smoking weed, it made it worse.

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Born and raised, and you said you just moved out here in June?

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Dang, man. I feel like that's really powerful, really encouraging. Thanks for your honesty, man. Yeah. So what is like, I know you said you struggle with depression and anxiety. You started rapping and things like that. And I want to dive more into a little bit of your story. The things I know, bits and pieces, hear more from you and learn more about that.

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What was it like growing up in Iowa?

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So when did God just become an ideal to you? You said you were always going to church when you were growing up.

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Yeah. So so right now, like like if you God forbid right now, if you died and you were standing before the pearly white gates and God says, Dave, why should I let you in? What would you what would you say to God? I'm going to be honest.

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I mean, I think that's real. Because I feel like when I talk to people and even myself sometimes, you know, because we live in a world that's so transactional and love, it's like, oh, if you scratch my back, I'll scratch your back. But it's like, I only love you if you do something for me. And Jesus is teaching us the total opposite.

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He's like, actually love everyone, despite whether they scratch your back or not. And, you know, when I talk to a lot of people, they always, I always hear like, well, it's because I was a good person or because I was doing this stuff.

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And for me personally, like I struggled with depression and anxiety for years when I was in middle school and going into high school, it was just like a hidden battle. Kind of what you were saying, you know how you're saying you covered up your depression and anxiety with comedy, trying to make people laugh. I try to cover up mine with people pleasing.

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So if we knew each other in high school, like I would be someone different to Dave than I would be to Josh, but I would do it because I was trying to get your approval to make myself feel good. And then after I made myself feel good, I thought it would make me feel better about myself, the whole of my heart. And it just never did.

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But I found myself doing what the world teaches us to do, which is work for everybody's love and just work, work, work, work, work. And to me, that's so draining, right? Because you never, you never fill that hole. And so that's what I loved about Jesus.

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Okay. And you went to high school. After high school, what did it look like going after high school? What was your decision making? When did you start making music? Was that before you graduated or after you graduated?

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So when I was 17, I don't know if you know anything about my story, but I was going to take my life when I was 17 years old on Christmas Day because my depression and anxiety was getting really bad. And I thought it was the only way to make the pain go away. And so I went to Waffle House for my last meal and had a supernatural encounter with Jesus where Jesus stopped me from taking my life.

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And so in that moment, I cried out to Jesus and I said, OK, Jesus, if you're real, take away my anxiety and depression because it feels incurable. It feels like a disease and I can't get rid of it. And I haven't had an anxiety or depression since that day. It's been over four years. And so that was my pursuit of Jesus. That's why I was really interested in Jesus.

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But to circle back to the heaven thing. That's what I love about Jesus because I knew from trying to work to fix my broken heart, I never could. But with Jesus, it wasn't about what I could do for him, but it was about what he did for me. I mean, you say yourself, he died for our sins. He died on the cross. And it's like, man, he was perfection.

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He died on the cross because I'm wicked and I'm sinful and I suck. And I needed someone outside of myself to save me. And so I think that's my favorite encouraging thing about you is And I actually really want to encourage that to you, Dave, because like I feel like we live in a world and we'll talk more about it. But we're like people probably use you. They try to use you.

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They just want you for what you can offer them. And then when you give them what they want, they leave you. No one cares about your heart, man. But I want to tell you right now, you don't got to work for my love. You don't got to work for Jesus's love, man. That's true. We do things because we love him, bro. So I want to encourage you with that.

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But I want to talk about a couple things that I was learning about you when I was reading on the Internet and kind of hear your perspective and share what that did to your heart and things like that. The first thing I want to talk about, I think there was a clip I saw on the Internet of you talking about a past girlfriend recently, and you went through a rough relationship.

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Can you tell me a little bit about what happened and how that affected your heart?

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I think it was the most recent one. It was a clip with Neon. You were talking about how this girl, I think she cheated on you and things like that.

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Okay.

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Like, let's scratch the viral stuff. Let's scratch, like, the, like, public image of it. Like, how did it affect you? How did it make you feel?

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Wow.

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And does that make you feel like you have trust issues with people now?

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And just like hard to know who really cares about Dave for Dave and not about what they can get from you?

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Sure. What do you think are those things that, because we're all human, everyone has things that they struggle with surrendering to God. What are some things that you have a hard time giving up to God or some things that you struggle with personally that you just like need help from God for?

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Dude, there's a scripture in Luke eight where Jesus is getting in the boat with the disciples and he says, Hey, we're going to go to the other side of this body of water. They get in the water. Jesus takes a nap and the craziest storm comes on this boat and,

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and the disciples think that they're going to die, and Jesus is still asleep, so they go wake him up, and they're like, dude, what the heck's going on? And Jesus calms the storm, and he looks at them, and he says, why do you have little faith? And I always looked at that passage, and I was like, dang, that's such a weird passage. Like, why would he say that to them?

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You know, they thought they were going to die and all this other stuff.

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For real, yeah.

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And he was talking to them because he's like, he told them at the very beginning before they got on the boat that they would go to the other side. He said, we're going to go over there. And it doesn't matter what the storms and trials come. It's like, I'm God. I'm a promise keeper is what Jesus is saying to them. And that just came to mind in my heart. Like, no, I want to encourage you, man. Like.

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In a world where people sway in the wind like a reed, people are so crazy. Jesus was crucified because people misjudged his character. People were claiming that he was blaspheming. The same guys that crucified him on the cross a week before, they were praising him and calling him the Messiah and laying palm leaves down on his feet and those same things. And I just want to encourage you, man.

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And Jesus sees you, loves you.

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and he thinks that dave is valuable not because dave has a lot of followers on the internet jesus doesn't think dave's valuable because he can get something from you jesus thinks you're valuable because he's made you in his image and your son and he just loves you for who you are and i think that's a beautiful thing and so when we know that jesus loves us for who we are and and no matter what junk we've done and that there is forgiveness he's already offered us forgiveness and we thank him for forgiveness and

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all right what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the bryce crawford podcast i'm bryce and today's episode is fun i'm so excited i don't you've never been on a pod have you been on a podcast before i did one but it's like this is like i feel like we're debuting right now yeah for sure this is like

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I love that. Cause I feel like people don't think prayer is like something that you can do in the moment. I feel like people are like, Oh man, I just got to wait till I'm alone. But you're like, I would be talking to someone and then just be like, God, please help me right now. This is hard. Yeah. And then going back to doing what you're doing.

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I think, I think that's so powerful because people look at prayers. It's like,

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like just you got to use fancy words you got to approach God and Shakespearean language and then you know maybe if you say enough fancy words God will hear you quicker and like for your like Lord he's like he's like my best friend and and pal going through it so okay so another question for you what was the reconciliation moment like for you and your family I bet now in that moment

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when you're quitting that stuff, was it hard to still approach them because you had felt shame for the stuff that you had just quit? Or what did that look like getting to go see your parents first time in a long time? Did you tell them what you had been doing and what your change had happened? Like, what did that look like?

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know how to explain it like yeah explaining this right like no no i think i think you are like at least for me it was just like a label kind of yeah but but in my life like did you ever stop going to church when you were growing up because when i was growing up we stopped going to church at one point but did you ever was there ever a moment where you stopped going to church and you're like oh maybe that was the moment where i started straining way more or was it just everyone around here is a christian so i'm a christian with my mouth but

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Like I'm forever grateful, you know? Do you think that's why you have like, do you think that's why you have a big heart for intercession and prayer? Because when we were talking like before we started, you were like, yeah, I have a really big heart for this. Do you think it's because you saw the power of prayer in your own life from loved ones? Yeah.

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Well, that doesn't shock me. I mean, the Bible talks about the gifts being given without repentance. I mean, there's so many people out there today that, like, operate out of gifting than they do just intimacy with Jesus. Yeah. But just from our interactions, like getting ready and hanging just for a little bit, I can tell, like, Jesus is a lifestyle for you.

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And at least me personally, I've been really encouraged from our quick moments now because— I can feel Him in you when we're hanging out and when we're talking. And it's just joy in the laughter and in the jokes. It's just all pure. And I think that's such a beautiful thing. God's made you so pure. Okay, so you had reconciliation with your family.

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What does it look like for you now in this time now? How long has it been since you had that moment? Hmm. Or how long would you say you've been faithfully following Jesus now? Probably two years.

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It is awesome. Yeah, that's so cool. How has marriage changed your perspective in relationship with Jesus?

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Yeah. That's so cool. Well, I don't, I don't normally take, uh, I don't take dating advice from anyone that isn't married. You're married.

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So I'll ask this for myself, but for other people, what would, for like young people that are in relationships, what, what, what advice would you give them concerning dating and treating, whether it's a girl and like thinking about their boyfriend or a guy like me thinking about their girlfriend, what would you, what would you tell them?

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Yeah. No, I like that. I feel like that's just pure lock in with the Lord. Because I find that at least in my, this is not dating advice, by the way, because I never give out dating advice because I don't take it from anyone that isn't married. So I just don't give it out myself.

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But I know in my relationship, the days that I don't read my Bible first or prioritize time with them is when I'm like easily frustrated or quicker to speak or, you know, things like that. And the days that I'm seeking Jesus, I'm like, man, I just am able to, love my girlfriend the way that God sees her. And like, man, it's, that's his daughter.

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And he's like, I'm like, I feel like I had to ask God for permission to date my girlfriend because it was like, yo, he's, it's his daughter and he's giving me his heart. That's pretty cool. Yeah. That's not advice again. I gotta be clear. I gotta be, I just don't want to like, I'm just not a hypocrite.

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Like I don't want to, I don't want to dish out advice if I'm not taking it, but that's just, I just know that personally in my own faith journey, that's helped me a lot.

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You can't be patient enough, I'll tell you that. What is the lesson that God's been teaching you recently in your faith journey or something that you've been learning that's on your heart? Just be obedient quickly.

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Like, how old were you? Hmm.

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Yeah. That's crazy. I've been learning something similar because I've been bad at procrastination. And it's not that I'm not doing the thing that I'm doing. I'm just putting it off. And I felt the Lord speaking to me that delayed obedience is disobedience. And I was like, dang, what can I do in my life? And I was kind of like in the same boat.

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I was like, I'm almost like overthinking it a little bit just to make sure it was God in my head. And I was like trying to figure out, I just want to make sure that every decision I do is like for, like it's from him. I don't make anything out of my flesh. So I've been kind of in the same boat. I feel like for me, I kind of came to this literally yesterday.

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I went to college. I forgot.

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I was thinking, I was like, maybe it's not so waiting to figure out it's his voice, but making the decision

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just like making the decision as if it's his voice and if it was the wrong decision he has a grace for me yeah because he loves me and i wasn't making the decision out of my opinion it was like oh i'm consulting god i think this is him telling me to do it that's how i'm gonna do it yeah and i literally just learned that last night actually while i was driving to the hotel because i was like that's so crazy because i've been learning something super similar

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that's awesome that's why you just helped me for real dang yeah well you said help me hey this is lit this is lit dang is there anything that's been heavy on your heart like you wish you could that you've been like that's been burning on your heart that you want to say i do want to say that everybody's walk is going to look different um

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Yeah.

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Dang.

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Yeah.

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Whoa.

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No, that's lit. I feel like so many people have that mindset too. Like for me, like I was trying so hard not to do things. And then I found myself doing them the most when I was trying hard not to do them. And then like, there's a passage in Romans where like Paul actually kind of describes what you said, where he's like,

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yeah in the old testament he's basically like the law is over your head so you're aiming at it like a target because you had to follow 613 laws 10 commandments to be righteous if you mess up once you better go sacrifice an animal and it's like you're aiming at it like a target and that's what i was doing and i that's like that's where the extreme shame and condemnation came for me was i was trying so hard not to do it and that because i was doing i was messing up more

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Like there was even more shame in my head. And then, but Paul's like, now because of Christ, the law is in your heart. So now it just manifests through your life because you love Jesus. And I'm like, dang, that's so easy. That's so. It was very freeing when I just, yeah. So simple. Everything's so simple. And we like overcomplicate it for ourselves. Yeah. I think that's super cool.

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Dang, I think it is important to notice because like the night that I had in Waffle House, I had an encounter with Jesus and I asked God to take away my anxiety and depression. And he did in the moment, but breaking from other sin habits, it was like a process of like what you're saying of like, and I feel like that's where like people kind of like fall away kind of when they...

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They have this, like, radical encounter with Jesus, and then they expect everything to disappear. Yeah. But then the fact that they had that moment with Jesus and they're attempting to seek him is when Satan is, like, throwing more junk in their face. Oh, yeah. Trying to get them to quit. I heard this.

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story from a pastor where he was saying that he was in his prayer closet one morning and he was praying and he had a vision where he got taken down into these like underground tunnels and he was like there in this vision and there was four tunnels north south east and west and then all these demons come through these tunnels into this center point and then satan appears right there yeah and it was right after jesus had resurrected from the dead

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And the demons are talking to Satan. They're like, are you kidding me? You lied to us. You told us that we had him. You told us that we got him. And now he resurrected from the dead. Now humankind is going to have freedom in Jesus because he just defeated you. And they're like getting upset at Satan. And he says in this vision, Satan goes, he just makes them all silent.

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And he goes, the truth may be that people have freedom in Jesus, but we can blind people from not knowing that freedom. And so he was like, so make the different denominations angry at each other that they disagree so that they don't come under unity and that they disband and make people frustrated. And, oh, throw temptation here and do this, just these slight changes.

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And he was looking at it like, oh, make the new believer extra tempted when they're coming so that they think that Jesus isn't really real. And I was sitting there thinking, man, that's so true. Because I felt like that moment, like, dude, when I became a Christian, I lost all my friends. A second. And I went to a private Christian school. And I lost a majority of my friends. And it was hard.

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Because it made me want to leave. Because it's like the world that's unifying people right now. But then... Like I'm now I'm so grateful that I am because right now, like I feel like we've, dude, it was, it's been amazing getting to hang with you so far. I know we're going to hang later, but like, like have a new friend, new brother.

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And it's like fun and there's joy and there's actually like freedom and the fruit of friendship is just more joy and peace and accountability. And like, just like, yeah. And I think that's such a beautiful thing.

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i think that's so important and that when i heard that story it changed my perspective on anything i was like satan knows the freedom that people have so he's just trying to distract people from the fact that they don't have to live the way that they're living anymore like they don't have to be bound yeah i think that's so powerful yeah i mean that's what happened to me literally and like i was blind and then i could see myself you know day in my kitchen day like

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Let's go. The first real one. Well, today's guest, you guys already know, we got Chandler Hallow. Did I say it right? Yeah. Hallow here. I'm super excited. We've been texting back and forth for a little while now, and it's cool. We're finally getting to meet and get cheeseburgers later. Yeah, we will. Which will be good. We're just going to dive into his testimony. It's going to be great.

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For someone that doesn't understand what you mean when you say the Lord was telling you, to the people watching or listening to this, how is God speaking to you personally saying, hey, keep going? For me, it's like a thought in my brain. It's like a thought comes in my brain and I'm like,

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all right like if if I'm like looking if I'm walking down the street and I see someone as I go pray for them I have to remind myself like it's a thought I would never selfishly want to go pray for someone you know what I mean so is it like a thought are you hearing something are you or is it like just like a feeling you're getting in your spirit what does that look like for you

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Right.

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That's encouraging. Dang, dude. Thanks for sharing your story on here.

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This is lit. Thanks for having me. Yeah, dude. That was awesome. Definitely have to have you on again. That'd be so cool. Dang. Well, guys, thanks for watching the episode. If you like the podcast and want to keep following along, follow us on everything. Bryce Crawford Podcast. You guys love the merch. Go get the merch at jesusinthestreet.com. He's repping it. Come on now.

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And yeah, we'll see you guys next time.

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yeah so so you went to college was high school kind of hard for you too or not really because you were still in the house and had like the structure from your family because you said that you had like your mom and dad's faith so would you say high school was still kind of the same just label christian because my parents are christian yeah i mean i think so but like definitely like i would pray like i would

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but no high school was great i mean i had no issues or anything like that i didn't get in trouble then i just started like smoking and drinking until i got out of high school yeah on my own like alone yeah so well i feel like a lot of people are in the same position like i feel like a lot of people think that everyone has this crazy story where it's like oh i was like for me like i struggled with depression and anxiety hated my life and i feel like a lot of people think that that's the extreme so it's just like nope

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had a loving family they were christian i grew up great high school experience like and i feel like that there's a lot of people that live like that but they're just not vocal and i feel like dang i feel like something on my heart is just like so many people believe that if they don't have some wild story to tell yeah that their testimony is not powerful Yeah.

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But I think that there's more beauty and power in the fact that like people grew up around Christianity and then really come to know Jesus at some point in their life because like I went to a private Christian school and everyone said that they were Christian. But Christianity was like nonchalant for them. Like the Bible was boring. Prayer was boring for them. Worship was boring.

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And so I think there's so much power in people that grew up around Christianity that actually come to Christ because now Christ wasn't this. Christianity isn't like this boring thing anymore. It's like it's real to people versus like people that are believing in one extreme. They now meet Jesus and they're like, oh, my gosh, he's real. He's true. This is it. Yeah.

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I think there's so much power in like just. Because I think there's so many people in your position right now. Oh, yeah. A lot of young people.

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But before we get into it, guys, just want to let you guys know that the whole month of December, we're doing an episode a day. We're going to be breaking down the entire book of Luke so that by Christmas Eve, you'll have read the entire book of Luke.

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Right. Yeah. And so what was the first year of college like? Like, how did you I know you said you were like drinking and smoking, but how did you even get introduced to that? Because you said you didn't even do it until college. So, yeah, well, I mean, what did that look like and how?

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I guess from my perspective, to someone that's never really did that stuff before and then you go into that, how did that sin entice you almost? I almost want to look into what that was like falling away before you met Jesus.

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Right. Dang. So it was initially just like fit in.

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Dang. So before that's crazy. So before I became a Christian, there was like a two month period. I never really went to parties in high school and I've never drank or done drugs. But there was a two month period for me where I was looking for friends and I started hanging out with the people that did party. And I went to two parties back to back weekends in a row and I was surrounded by alcohol.

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And I never did it, but I understand what you're saying because in my position, I was like, I just want these guys to like me. I'm like, maybe if they like me, I'll feel better about myself. And then it just never worked. So then do you think that you would, once you started doing those things, obviously I feel like we're able to recognize in our own personal walk that it wasn't working.

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So if you guys go to jesusinthestreet.org slash Luke, you guys can download the free Bible plan just so you guys can follow along and have something to track. Yeah, let's get into it. That's cool. Super simple. So, dude, have you lived it? So you told me you lived in North Carolina all your life. Yeah. And what's your relationship with Jesus been like? Like, start from when you were young.

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yeah like do you think you recognize that wasn't working and you continued to turn to those things because it was familiar like you didn't really know any other option so you kept going back to those things do you do you know what i'm saying like oh yeah yeah yeah i mean i can see the moment and like when i'm doing it like as you're speaking you know like i'm imagining it because i did it you know

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Do you remember anything? Because you said the enemy would attack you and speak things over you. I remember when I was trying to figure out life for myself before I had my encounter with Jesus. Every night, I was just being accused of things that I had done, even though I wasn't a Christian. I was still having accusations thrown my way, and I was drowning in shame and condemnation.

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Do you remember anything that you felt like Satan was attacking you with personally when you were in those moments alone after college?

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Yeah. What, so what was the turning point? So you had, you were in college and then you said that you were living on your own for two years. You're to my knowledge, it sounds like it was like a daily thing. It was, I was doing this all day. And then at nighttime I acknowledged my hopelessness, but then, you know, went back to the same thing next day. What was the turning point?

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Like what happened to intervene into your story?

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Like, did you grow up in church?

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Yeah.

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Dang. Yeah. In that moment, whoa, that's crazy because I feel like

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like i think dang because so many people i think have that opportunity i think there's a lot of people that have moments with god where they get real with themselves whether it's an encounter like god speaks to them or maybe they're so hopeless they're sitting there and they're just going like what am i doing yeah but they don't take the action step to do something about it and so yeah like whether it's like oh maybe they're like drowning in drugs they're like what am i doing with my life

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But then they go, oh, I'll throw the drugs away tomorrow. And then, then they wake up and they see them on the counter and they're like, maybe like one more time. But for you, you were just like, I'm throwing this away right now.

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well i feel like that's even me with like when i when i'm struggling to read my bible i remember when i was in high school starting my faith journey i would like wake up in the morning and i'd say oh i'd read my bible later then i'd go to school i'd get done with school and then i'd be like oh well i'll do it after i do homework yeah and homework well i'm gonna eat dinner i'll do it and i was like i'll do it when i before i go to sleep and then i'll just tomorrow never came for me and then i remember and then i like i've watched some like motivational hype video where it's like

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tomorrow never comes to it today. And that kind of like changed it for me. Would you say that after that moment, so God stopped you in your tracks, you throw the track, you throw it in the trash. Was it like you quit everything cold Turkey in that moment? Yeah.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I feel like a lot of people are kind of in that circumstance, like even happens with me sometimes, like if I say something and you say, oh, like trust in God, rely on God for you personally, when you were quitting those temptations. what did relying on God look like for you?

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Like what did trusting in God look like for you when you throw all that stuff away, but the days to come, maybe one morning you wake up and the cravings for nicotine feel really strong. What did trusting in God look like for you to overcome that?

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Luke Series Chapter 16 (EP 70)

What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce and today we're on Luke chapter 15, day 16 of the 24 day Luke challenge where every day we're reading a chapter of Luke. So by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. Guys, we're getting so close to the end. It's been such a fun podcast.

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The love for money is Jesus is very clear. The Bible is very clear that greed, the love for money is evil. Not money itself. Money inherently isn't evil. It's a very neutral tool. And so there are a lot of things in this world that are quote-unquote neutral that can be sinful, but also aren't necessarily sinful in itself. And so we're watching Jesus talk about it here.

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And he says, "...one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much." I've found that when we can be faithful with little in our finances in times where, you know, things may be tough, like when the Bible says to give back 10% of our money, like that, that's a no brainer. Like we automatically do that.

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Like we must do that. That's just a commandment from the Lord. And then everything else we hold open handedly and we give generously. We're radical givers. Right. And I think when we look at this story and I've known from personal experience, when, like when, whenever, uh,

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Before we get into it, guys, January 19th, 6 p.m., first ever live podcast show. Go get your tickets at JesusInTheStreet.org. It's in Los Angeles. I want every one of you guys there. So come out. It's going to be a fun time. It's going to be awesome. But we're going to dive right in to Luke chapter 16 here.

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we are able to handle our finances and very little whenever we are able to trust God trusts us with little and he sees that we're good stewards of that little then he can take us from a place of little and as we start growing he watches us steward much more and so if you can be trusted with little you can be trusted with much because money can corrupt people

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Money is a neutral thing, but the love for money can corrupt people. And it is corruption. The love for money is. I mean, Jesus below here is going to say, we're going to see in verse 13, one of the most popular verses about money. But man, the love for money is such an interesting thing because money is a tool that God uses to calibrate our heart.

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And so if God can trust us with little, then he can trust us with much. And if we can be faithful and steward the little, then when he can trust us with much, we can be faithful and steward much. Verse 11, if then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust you to the true riches?

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So then Jesus is saying, look, if you couldn't even be trusted with earthly riches, steward that well and not let it sit on the throne of your heart, then how can you be trusted with things that are not of this earth? That is very heavy, very heavy. And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that as which your own?

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He's like, okay, now, if you had a job to do and you couldn't even be faithful and steward what was someone else's and that was your job, then how can you be responsible and steward your own? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

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You can't have two things sitting on the throne of your heart. Like God doesn't split rent on the throne of your heart. The Holy Spirit doesn't share a bedroom of rent in your heart. Like God wants all of your heart. And if God has all of your heart, then the things that are below us, like money, which is a neutral thing, will be stewarded and honored well. Because we honor God with it.

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But if money sit on the throne of your heart, then it's all you care about. You live and breathe the money. You die for money and none of it will go to the grave with you. And then when you stand before God, you'll realize that all of your effort was, was in toil was for nothing. And it was worthless. The Pharisees who were lovers of money heard all these things and they ridiculed him.

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And it's so interesting how the Pharisees love everything that Jesus is in total opposition to. Like they, they hate the tax collectors and sinners. He loves them. They love money. They have a love for money. God hates, God is like, no, no love for money. It's just so interesting. And he said to them, verse 15, you are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your heart.

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He doesn't look at the outward expressions. Like, yes, like we need to clarify something here. Like oftentimes what we believe, the Bible says out of the mouth comes from the abundance of the heart. So oftentimes our actions are a byproduct of our heart and what we believe.

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We're going to read a parable and we're going to listen to a couple different parables here. And it's going to be powerful. So let's read this first parable together. He also said to the disciples, there was a rich man who had a manager and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, what is this that I hear about you?

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But there are also times when people do things for show, do things for the approval of man, do things, well, it's just because I'm supposed to do it. But God says, look, I look past all of this willy-nilly action stuff, and I look at the heart. And from the heart, I can tell if your actions are true. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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This is just confirmation that everything that the world exalts, God is totally against. Like the world exalts sex. The world exalts drowning away in alcohol and drugs. The world exalts fame and status over being known by God.

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Like, let's go back, you know, like, you know, a couple few chapters before now when Jesus is looking at the 72 after they've come back here in Luke and they're like, yo, they got to listen to you, Jesus. And he's like, look, like, it's cool that the demons listen to you, but rejoice over the fact that your name is written in the book of life.

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And he's like, man, these people on this earth, they're more worried about making themselves known than just being known by the one who created them, the one who instilled breath inside of their lungs, the one who will write their name in the book of life, who knows the amount of hairs on their head. That's the deal.

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The law and the prophets were until John, John the Baptist saying the law and the prophets were up until John the Baptist. Since then, the good news of the kingdom of God is preached and everyone forces his way into it. He's saying, look, now people are trying to make their way into it.

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But look, the way you get into the kingdom of heaven is by believing in Jesus Christ, putting your faith and trust in him. But I love this. He's saying like, look, the law, the prophets, John the Baptist was the last of his here. But now you have me, who is the good news, who died and resurrected, who doesn't abolish the law, but I've fulfilled it.

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Like there's this first part of God's plan, which is great and wonderful. And then the second half of this plan is Jesus Christ fulfilling it. And I love how he closes this out. He says, but it's easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the law to become void. So he's not neglecting the law. Like a lot of people think that Jesus disregards the law and contradicts himself.

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He doesn't. He actually says like, look, the law is important, but by loving me, and treasuring me, obedience to the law of my commandments naturally come. That's why Jesus says the greatest commandment is loving the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. He sums up all 613 laws and 10 commandments into this one that says just love me and you'll obey them all.

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And then he says this, everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. Now this is like laws about divorce, but it's not just sort of randomly placed in here. He's giving an example here saying like, sometimes the Pharisees give excuses for divorce. He's like, no, they've stayed the same.

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And like, look, I'm telling you, they've stayed the same. This is coming from me because I am the good news. I haven't abolished it. Like the divorce laws are the same, but listen, I fulfilled it. I have fulfilled it. And now we're about to hear a story here to close out chapter 16. He says, there was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

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Purple linen, purple cloth was one of royalty. Okay, so this man was rich and of high status. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus covered with sores who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. I mean, he's just taking what he can get. The crumbs, the leftovers. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

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Turn in the account of your management for you can no longer be the manager. And the manager said to himself, what shall I do since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.

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It's like it was so much so he couldn't get any attention from anyone that the dogs would come and lick his sores to try to heal him. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. So although in this lifetime, this poor man Lazarus had nothing, barely had any food, no attention, or even the animals would lick his sores, yet his treasure was in heaven.

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His heart and faith and trust was in Jesus. He suffers not anymore. The rich man also died and was buried. And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. Jesus is giving a clear warning here not to put your faith and trust into the earth. Now, things of the earth, like we said, money is inherently neutral.

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It's not necessarily sinful, but the love for money is. And when we allow things of the world to sit on the throne of our heart, that's when they're evil is when they're on the throne of our heart. There are many things in this world that are simply tools that we can enjoy. But if God is on the throne of our heart, then we're good.

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But this man had everything else on the throne of his heart other than God. But he looks up and he sees Lazarus, who was physically broke, had nothing in this lifetime, but was spiritually flourishing. And on the other hand, you have this rich man who is physically flourishing, but spiritually bankrupt now. And he doesn't recognize it until he's in the position.

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And he called out, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in the water and cool my tongue. He's like, look, Lazarus was out there. He was in need of help. You never gave it to him, but now you're asking Lazarus for help. But Abraham said, child, remember that in your lifetime you received good things in Lazarus and like man are bad things.

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But now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you, a great chasm has been fixed in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able and none may cross from here there to us. So he's saying, look, there's nothing we can do anymore. Like you had your chance. And that's the scary thing about hell.

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Like, yes, there's this depiction like hell is suffering, but hell is suffering for the most part because you're in separation from an eternal glorious God. And so this guy, this rich man who's not really rich is in hell suffering because he's separated from this eternal God. And he said, then I beg you, Father, to send Lazarus to my father's house. Like, resurrect him.

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So summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, how much do you owe my master? He said, a hundred measures of oil. He said to him, take your bill, sit down and write 50. Then he said to another, and how much do you owe? He said, a hundred measures of wheat. He said to him, take your bill and write 80. The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness.

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Send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers that he may warn them, lest they all come to this place and be tormented as well. He's like, look, make Lazarus rise from the dead. Send him there. They'll know he was dead. They'll see him resurrected. Then they'll believe him so that they don't have to torment like me.

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But Abraham said they have Moses and the prophets let them hear them and he said no father Abraham But if someone goes to them from the dead they will repent He said to him if they do not hear Moses and the prophets neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead The story tells us like man we have enough evidence from just what the prophets of old and from Moses have foretold about the Messiah and

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But this is where like we get now in today's society after he closes in Luke chapter 16, where you have people who say, you know what? If Jesus is real, he can appear before me in all belief. Well, Jesus came and took on flesh and the same people that he came before the same people that nailed him to a cross. Okay. So it's not the fact that, oh, if he comes in front of me, I'll believe.

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Like, no, the evidence is here. Jesus is who he says he is. He lived a perfect life, became agony, died on the cross and resurrected. And if we put our faith and trust in him, we'll be saved. Guys, I pray that Luke chapter 16 was a blessing. Can't wait to be with you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 17. Love you guys. Follow us on all platforms.

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Get your tickets. Jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. I love you guys. See you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 17.

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For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth so that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal dwelling. So right now, Jesus is giving a parable about money. OK, now, when we look at money from a biblical standpoint, money isn't inherently evil.

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Why Is It Called "Good Friday"? (EP 91)

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I have a huge announcement before you guys continue to watch this episode of the podcast. Guys, May 18th, we are doing our second live podcast show in my home state, Atlanta, Georgia. We're going to be at the Cobb Energy Center May 18th for worship and a powerful word. Guys, I am so excited to be back in the same city that God took me from death to life. If you guys want to come out

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And, you know, even though God's done something good, sometimes we see the sweet temptation or hear the sweet temptation of sin or the devil. And we go, oh man, I got to go after that. And we turn our back on God and we turn our back on God and we turn our back. And we've done it so many times that we're so worthless and we're not worth anything.

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But Jesus Christ is looking at us and sees value in us. And says, no, no, no, no, no. Look, look, I buy you back. You were a slave to sin, but I don't buy you back as a slave to sin. But today you will be faithful to me. Because of my faithfulness to you, Gomer, now you will be faithful to me. Because of God's faithfulness to you and me, it gives us strength to be faithful to him.

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I mean, in my opinion, that's not even that good of a day. That's a pretty dark day. I mean, if you read the Gospels, if you look through history, non-Christian historians, I mean, they would tell you that that was a pretty dang bad day. I mean, a dude had all the flesh of his back ripped off. His face was beaten so bad he didn't even look like a human being.

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Why on earth would I follow someone that doesn't care about me? Why? No reason to. But God has proven his love to us. God has proven his faithfulness to us by doing something he didn't have to. By paying a penalty that he doesn't have to pay.

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The Lord is Hosea, but he buys us back with his life and says, but today you will no longer be called by your sin, but you will be called my own.

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It's so good. Good Friday is so good. Not because Jesus was having a grand old day pinned onto the cross. It was Good Friday because Jesus knew the goodness to come when after it was finished and he uttered his last breath that three days later he would defeat the very thing that separated me from him, that separated you from him, and that is sin and death.

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last thing I'll share to close is, um, when, when I was, uh, when I was in high school, I got the chance to babysit for, uh, two boys that lived down the street from my neighborhood. And unfortunately, um, I was a babysitter was very short lived, but I got a babysit for them for a little bit. And, you know, a couple years later, house fire, and one of the boys had passed away in the house fire.

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He was in the fourth grade. And He went to the private Christian school I graduated from, and he took a Bible quiz. That was the last quiz he took in school, and it was a Bible quiz. And for his thing, he had to explain this Bible verse from John 11. And I love the simplicity of it. He says, yeah, if I believe in Jesus, even though I die on earth, I won't die in heaven.

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I'll be with him forever in heaven. And I look on Walker's life and his childlike faith, his easy grasp of, man, if I receive this good gift that God has so freely given me, then I actually don't die. This thing, sin and death, it actually doesn't really happen. I mean, it's just like a moment. I'm a pilgrim. I'm there, but I'm there.

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That this week may be sobering, leading up to Good Friday, understanding what's going on. I mean, thinking about the Garden of Gethsemane, thinking about the crucifixion, thinking about the resurrection, that God did the thing that makes him different than any other human being. He defeated death.

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He was stripped naked in front of people. He was accused of saying and doing things that he didn't even do. And then he carries a couple hundred pound wooden cross up a hill and gets nailed to it, pinned to it by nails in his body weight, sagging through the nails, ripping holes deeper and deeper and thicker and wider into his skin. And people call that Good Friday. Why do they call it Good Friday?

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God, I just ask, would you keep us sober and aware to understand the weight and gravity of what you've done? I mean, God, every time I close my eyes to pray, every time any viewer or listener watching closes their eyes to pray, may we be able to picture your body, your face ripped apart, beaten to unrecognition.

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Can we just be able to picture this love that you have so desperately and graciously shown us, God? Thank you. Let us be able to feel it and understand it. God, we love you. I want to continue to love you. We want to continue to love you. God, keep us sober. Help us feel the weight of this. God, help us feel what you felt. Help us feel the emotions you felt. Help us understand.

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God, we love you, thank you, and praise you. Jesus' name. Guys, thank you so much for watching and tuning into these episodes. Guys, if you love watching and listening to these episodes, aside from following us along on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, I want to ask you guys, would you guys consider partnering with our ministry financially?

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Your guys' radical generosity is actually what continues to fuel and produce these podcast episodes and our evangelism videos. So if you guys feel a burden to support this ministry, reach lost souls with the gospel through digital and in-person ministry. Go to jesusinthestreet.org. Pray and ask God, how should I partner with Bryce and their ministry and Jesus in the Street ministry?

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Should I partner with them in prayer? Should I partner with them in finances? Should I partner with them in support? Whatever it may be, pray and ask God, how should I support Jesus in the Street ministry? Love you guys. See you guys next week for the next episode.

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Well, it obviously wasn't a good day for Jesus in the physical. The reason we call it Good Friday is it's a good day for you and me. Good Friday is called Good Friday because it's the day that you and I had a chance to be set free from the things that keep us bound and separated from God, our sin.

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The reason it's called Good Friday is because for the first time in any pinpoint of history, any human being can accept this free gift called friendship with the God of the universe that offers them a clean slate from the sins and rebellion that they've done against God. That's why it's called Good Friday.

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I mean, it was God's will that Jesus Christ would be crushed and crucified and beaten and die for the sins of the world. Like, I mean, if you were to be real with yourself, it's not good. Like to say that Jesus was having a good day. I mean, the Bible is very clear in Hebrews 12 that it was the joy that was set before Jesus that he endured the cross. Meaning there was pain. There was agony.

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There was suffering. And the thing that held him up against the cross wasn't, oh man, I'm having a good day. The thing that held Jesus on the cross was the fact that he was thinking about you and me. So when we celebrate Good Friday, and we celebrate Resurrection Sunday, and we celebrate Palm Sunday, we have to understand that the goodness aspect of the crucifixion of Christ

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is for us that's why we call it good friday now the first story i want us to talk about is a story in the old testament about our friend abraham abraham seemed to be the father of many nations and when you read the story in genesis 22 and 23 about this guy named abraham you see god had told abraham that he would be the father of many nations through a son that he would have with this lady named sarah which was his wife now sarah in that time period she was barren she couldn't have kids

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So in the natural, what happens is Abraham goes, oh, shoot, well, I'm not going to be able to have a kid. He begins to doubt God. And so he does what was culturally appropriate at the time. If your wife couldn't have kids, you slept with the servant lady. So he slept with a servant lady named Hagar and had a kid named Ishmael, and God went silent for 15 years.

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Because Abraham doubted God's promise that he would have a son with his wife, Sarah, who naturally couldn't have kids, but through the strength and the power and the miracles of the spirit of God could, he just doubted. 15 years go by. Then God comes back and says, no, you're going to have a son with Sarah. It's going to be Isaac. Isaac.

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And when Sarah's like freaking 90 years old, she has this son named Isaac. So God's a promise keeper. And I want to pause here for a second. I love how God is still a keeper of his promises, even when we screw up and turn our back on him. How many times has God spoken something to me and Bryce has gone, no, that can't happen because I'm looking at it from the natural lens.

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I'm looking at it from a natural perspective. But what we don't understand is that God conquers the natural. We're believing in a supernatural God, an infinite, all-powerful God to do something in the natural. How many times have I said no, yet God doesn't go, oh, promise revoked. And that happens all the time in today's society.

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I think back to all the times before I knew Christ, the times I neglected him, the times I sinned, the times I continuously turned my back on God, the times I blamed God, the times I did this and every time I did that, it wasn't like Jesus goes, nope, all right, that was it. That thing that you said, Bryce, all right, it was done. Now you're never getting it. You're never, nope, off the table.

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Or that time, Bryce, when you were 15 and you got mad at me when your grandfather died and you thought I was killed? Nope, that was enough. Salvation revoked. It's not even an option for you on the table. It doesn't do that. Jesus Christ loved his enemies so well that even the disciples didn't know who would betray him until he physically passed the bread to Judas.

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I mean, Jesus Christ is on the cross thinking about you and me and during the suffering, and he knows who's going to say no. He knows who's going to say no, but he still dies for them. Unconditional love, even for those who will reject it. And so as Abraham and Isaac grow up, and you know, God proposes something to Abraham. He goes, all right, Abraham, you got to kill Isaac. Super intense.

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Because you got to sacrifice Isaac. Now I want you to think about where Abraham's at. Doubted God one time, but understood that God's a promise keeper. And in this dialogue that God has with Abraham, God promises to provide a lamb for Abraham. And so Abraham, understanding that he's doubted God before, he goes, look, all right, now I know God's made me a promise.

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I'm Bryce, and in today's episode, by the title of this podcast, you know, it's coming out a few days early, but I wanted this podcast to be the summary of this Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter thing. So the title of today's podcast is, Why is it called Good Friday? Okay. Why is it called Good Friday? I'm going to highlight three stories from the Bible that I believe exemplify the gospel.

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My son, Isaac, I'm going to be the father of many nations through this son. So either he's going to spare his life or he's going to raise him from the dead. Either way, I am going to listen. And so what happens is Isaac, he takes his son Isaac, and he's got two servants with him, one on the left and one on the right.

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He makes them stay down on the mountain, and they go up on the mountain, him and Isaac, and he lets Isaac sit on wherever they kill children. It's not normal. And as he gets ready, right before he strikes him, God stops it. And he looks, and there's a ram in the thicket bush.

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they sacrifice the ram and praise god now why is the story imagery of this so-called day good friday well think about it abraham riding up to the mountain with two servants one on each side symbolism of christ in the center and two thieves on the side And the same mountain that Isaac was almost sacrificed on 2,000 years later is the same mountain that Jesus Christ was sacrificed on.

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Now, wait, wait, hold on a second, Bryce. I thought you said God was a promise keeper. Maybe he's a liar because he told Abraham that he was going to provide a lamb. But then after, right before he sacrifices Isaac, he provides a ram in the thicket bush. That wasn't a lamb, it was a ram. Did God misquote it or did someone write it down wrong? No.

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2,000 years later, the Lamb of God that the Father provides is Jesus Christ on that mountain to take away the sins of the world. This beautiful imagery of Good Friday. Do you think Abraham thought riding up to the mountain after he had finally been given this gift that wasn't able to be obtained in the natural, a son, his only son?

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Do you think Abraham for once in his mind goes, dang, this is a great day. I'm feeling so good about this. You're right, God. I need to kill the son I've been begging for for decades. Think he's thinking of a good day? You think so? I don't think so. And the next story I want to go to in chronological order would be Leviticus 16.

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Now, some of you guys might say, oh, dang, that's a pretty boring chapter or book, book of laws. But I want to hint at something. I was a few weeks ago, we were on the road and I was in Texas and And I got the opportunity to drive up to Waco and sit down with a pastor friend, mentor of mine. And he showed me this in Leviticus and it blew my mind.

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Now this one actually kind of correlates back to the gospels. You know, in the gospel of Matthew, the gospel of Matthew is the only gospel that we understand Barabbas' full name. Did you know that Barabbas' full name was Jesus Barabbas? And Barabbas actually translates to son of the father. So when Pilate is standing on a stage in front of a bunch of Jews, you got two people sitting on that stage.

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You have Jesus son of the father and Jesus son of the father. Pretty crazy, right? Now remember that. Now let's go back to Leviticus 16. In Leviticus 16 on the Day of Atonement, on the Day of Atonement, they used two goats. The first goat, they would pin all the sins of the world, the sins of mankind on this goat and release it into the wilderness as the cleansing of sins.

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That the sins are being released and the scapegoat would be released into the wilderness. And then the second goat would be sacrificed for the atonement of sins. Now, does this look similar? Two goats. One, released into the wilderness for the sins of mankind, and the other one, atoned, sacrificed for the sins of mankind.

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When you look on this stage, Pilate, and you have Jesus, Son of the Father, and Jesus, Son of the Father, Jesus Barabbas is actually released into the wilderness. Jesus Barabbas is the personified version of you and me. Jesus Barabbas is you and me. The ultimate, ultimate exemplification of sin. It's you and me, rebellion, sin, murder, all of it combined.

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And he's taken and released back to the people. And Barabbas thought that the people wanted him free, but it was the love of God that set Barabbas free. He's the scapegoat from Leviticus 16. Jesus Barabbas is the scapegoat. And as he walks off this stage, set free with all the sins of the world, I mean, you've got to understand when he's barren, I mean, he was supposed to be crucified.

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I mean, this guy, Jesus Barabbas, I mean, he was a murderer. He was a thug. He was a rebel against rummies, the worst of the worst. He built the cross. He deserved the crucifixion. Not only that, some people said he was even a rapist back in that time. This guy is sin, literally, all on paper, and he gets released into the wilderness. the scapegoat, Jesus Barabbas.

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And they all happen to be from the Old Testament, which is, I think it's going to be so amazing. So if you guys have your Bibles, we're going to be flipping to three different stories in the Bible. And before we get into these, I do want to preface something really quick. And That is the title, Good Friday. Why do Christians call the day that Jesus Christ was crucified Good Friday?

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And then who is it that gets sacrificed? The other one, Jesus Christ, who did absolutely nothing wrong, but wanted to die this death that Barabbas and I deserve because of love, because of Hebrews 12 too, because of the joy that he was thinking of and looking at you and me.

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And when I read Leviticus 16 and I look at that scapegoat, the first goat that gets pinned and blamed for the sins and released into the wilderness, I'm like, that's me. I'm the goat that was spared. I'm Barabbas. I'm Jesus Barabbas.

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And you know what's crazy about Barabbas being literally named Jesus, son of the Father, is that when we receive the free gift of salvation, we become adopted into the kingdom of God. So now I am a son of the Father. John 8 says a slave is temporary, but a son is forever.

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You and I, we become a son or a daughter of the Father because we've been released and set free from the penalty of sin that the second goat in Leviticus 16 takes or that Jesus Christ has taken. Because there's one of two ways our sin can be paid for, with our own life or his.

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But even when his life is paid for our sin, the least we can do is return our life and give our life back to him and live for him. That's the richer, fuller life. That's the second story in the Old Testament that I believe exemplifies Good Friday. Last is the... The book of Hosea. I love this book of Hosea.

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Basically, to sum up the book of Hosea, which I think is one of the greatest, greatest stories of love in the Old Testament. You know what? Before we break it down, a lot of people ask me, well, is the God of the Old Testament not loving? I mean, I'm looking at all these instances in here, and I'm like, dang, this is love. But Hosea, you see, Hosea,

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The Lord told Hosea, the book of Hosea, this is what happens. God told Hosea to marry a prostitute named Gomer. So Hosea marries this prostitute named Gomer. And every night, Hosea and Gomer would fall asleep in their house, happily married. But every night, Gomer would hear music coming through the window of their house from the city.

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And so Gomer would get up and sneak out of the house and go and prostitute herself in the city. And every morning, Hosea would wake up to an empty bed, knowing that Gomer had rebelled against him. And he would go into the city every day and find Gomer beaten, bruised, and abused.

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Probably a little haze and a daze could barely see because she was beaten and abused physically and sexually the night before prostitution. And every day and night, the same thing happened. Hosea goes to sleep, probably hoping and praying because his life was so loving and devoted to Gomer. This is the day that she is loving back to me. But every night she would leave, rebel against Hosea and go.

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And then finally one day she sold into the slave market, meaning that everyone in the city thought she was so worthless. She was, for lack of better terms, ran through. Nobody wanted her. She had no value. Now she's on the slave market. She's only good enough to be bought as a slave. So what does Hosea do? Let's stop right here. What does Hosea do? Yeah, you deserved it, Gomer. You suck.

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Yeah, you got what was coming to you, Gomer. There's no record of that. Rather, Hosea goes to the slave market, buys Gomer back off the slave market, and goes, this time I buy you back, not as a slave, but you will be my faithful wife to me from this day forward. You and I are gomers.

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God's so faithful to us, but we oftentimes turn our back on him and substitute ourselves in the place of God and we sin or we prostitute ourselves for God or we're not fully satisfied. So we turn to sin. So we hear the sweet music of sin through the window. And then we say, oh man, I got to go. You know, the eyes and ears are the windows to our soul.

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I have a huge announcement before you guys continue to watch this episode of the podcast. Guys, May 18th, we are doing our second live podcast show in my home state, Atlanta, Georgia. We're going to be at the Cobb Energy Center May 18th for worship and a powerful word. Guys, I am so excited to be back in the same city that God took me from death to life.

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He lived in a monastery off the mainland in the middle of the ocean. And listen, Brother Lawrence was so respected by world leaders around the globe that world leaders would hit up Brother Lawrence back in the 1600s, you know, whatever they did, send a pigeon to Brother Lawrence. And they would say, hey, Brother Lawrence, we respect you. We need your help making world-altering decisions.

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And Brother Lawrence said this. He said, listen, guys, I want to help you, but I can't leave this monastery because I promise work before the Lord. So if you want help, you can come to me and I'll help you navigate through your world-altering decisions. while I'm doing my work before the Lord.

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So world leaders, very important people back in the 1600s to travel all across the globe to come meet Brother Lawrence at the monastery because he told these people, man, my work before the Lord is so important that if you come to me, I'll be able to help you. They come here. The work before the Lord that Brother Lawrence did was just mop the floors of this monastery.

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It was important to him to serve his brothers at the monastery and to serve the Lord by just simply mopping and cleaning the house of God. And so my prayer for us today is two things. Number one, God, we need to pray that God will give us a fresh conviction and a fresh heart and a fresh weight for the local church.

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I love how they look to the early church and go, how did the early church, how did these dudes that were around right after Jesus' death and resurrection, the disciples and the disciples of the disciples, how did these guys accept things and treat the early church? Was it important? And what is it in today's society? And, you know, Should you be going to church, local church?

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But number two, God, would you give us a desire to serve the way Brother Lawrence served his local brothers and sisters? God, Jesus, we thank you so much for today. God, we thank you for the church. God, we thank you that community is real and accessible and that we can gather with like-minded believers, brothers and sisters in Christ to worship you, challenge us, and work through problems in life.

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God, we ask firstly for a fresh conviction and wait for the local church. Would you give us a desire to show up in person, submit ourselves to leadership in the church, submit ourselves to church authority, submit ourselves to the teachings of a shepherd, God, to help us through our soul.

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And secondly, God, would you give us a desire to serve in our local communities and churches the way that Brother Lawrence did. God, we thank you for who you are. We thank you for the cross. We love you, God. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Guys, thank you so much for watching and tuning into these episodes.

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Guys, if you love watching and listening to these episodes, aside from following us along on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, I want to ask you guys, would you guys consider partnering with our ministry financially? Your guys' radical generosity is actually what continues to fuel and produce these podcast episodes and our evangelism videos.

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So if you guys feel a burden to support this ministry, reach lost souls with the gospel through digital and in-person ministry, Go to jesusinthestreet.org. Pray and ask God, how should I partner with Bryce and their ministry and Jesus in the Street ministry? Should I partner with them in prayer? Should I partner with them in finances? Should I partner with them in support?

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Whatever it may be, pray and ask God, how should I support Jesus in the Street ministry? Love you guys. See you guys next week for the next episode.

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Absolutely, you should. We're gonna be diving into why the local church is important. What is the church? Well, there's two definitions for the church, okay? You have the universal church and then you have the local church.

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The local church would be a physical church building with four walls and a roof where people gather regularly to worship God and love people and learn about the Lord and dive into scripture. Now, the universal church would be the body of Christ, okay? The church is the body of Christ. Christians all around the globe.

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So as a born-again believer, you are a part of what is called the Universal Church, which is believers all around the globe united under one truth, worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ. And then you have the local church, four walls and a rooftop gathering to worship the Lord and learn about scripture. So the local church is important. And I'm not just talking about the Universal Church here.

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I'm talking about the importance of the local church should you be attending. And I used to be one of those people that says, no, you don't really need the local church. It's all about just you and your relationship with God, and then you'll be set in stone. I'm going to be completely honest.

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That mindset that I used to have was a mindset that wasn't grateful and that was overlooking the importance and weight of the local church. And so... We're going to be in Acts chapter 2 today talking about where this whole thing started. Where did the early church start? Now, I want you guys to read Acts chapter 2.

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I'm not going to read the entire thing right now, but let me just give you an idea of what happened. Pentecost happens, the Holy Spirit comes, falls, tongues of fire, this, that, and the other. Then Peter, the apostle, gets up and points his bony finger at a crowd of 3,000 people, and this is what he says. He says, "'You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead.'"

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So he begins to release one of the most powerful gospel presentations I believe ever recorded in history. And this is the response of the 3,000 people. The 3,000 people, they go, holy smokes. We need to put our faith and trust in this guy. What do we do? And so when you read Acts 2, what happens is Peter preaches the gospel to 3,000 people. They get born again. They get baptized.

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They receive the Holy Spirit, and they pray for boldness. So when you read Acts 2 up to Acts 5, you're going to see the birth of the early church. You're going to see the birth of the first Christians. This is super important. God trusted Peter with the church, the local church, the physical church. He trusted Peter with it.

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Now, you know what I think is so crazy is a man, the man that denied Jesus Christ three times and claimed, oh, I'll do anything for you. Peter was like, Jesus, I'm your ride or die. Nothing's ever going to happen between me or you. Oh, I'm never going to leave you this, that, and the other. And then he denies Jesus three times before the rooster crows in the morning.

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Oh, wait, Peter, aren't you that guy with Jesus Christ? No, that's not me. No, that's not me. No, that's not me. And if you read the gospels after Jesus raises from the dead, there's this thing that happens, I believe is recorded in the gospel of John, where Jesus has breakfast with Peter on the beach, essentially. And this is super intense, but he tells Peter how he's going to die.

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Now imagine you knowing when, sorry, not knowing when, imagine you knowing how you're going to die. You would be anxious probably all the time anticipating it. And so when I read that passage of after Peter had denied Jesus three times and Peter repents to Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ begins to tell Peter how he's going to die, I thought, man, that's pretty cruel.

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Why would Jesus tell Peter how he was going to die? The reason Jesus told Peter how he was going to die is because he wanted to show Peter that he would endure till the end. If you guys don't know, Peter gets crucified, but he gets crucified upside down because he believed that he wasn't worthy enough to be crucified the way that the Messiah was crucified. But he shows Peter, hey, bro,

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I recognize that you screwed up. Thank you for your repentance. But let me just tell you something, Peter, you're going to endure to the end. And not only, but you're going to be the rock that I found this church on. So Peter starts a church by preaching this gospel message to 3000 people. They get born again, baptized, and they pray for boldness. Now, this is how the early church is born.

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Acts chapter two. And then you get up to Acts chapter five. And I believe Acts chapter 5 addresses something that is important with the church that I think a lot of people say. A lot of people go, well, Bryce, I don't want to go to church because the church is wicked. Or I hate the church. I've been hurt by the church. Or people get molested in the church.

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Or people abuse people for money in the church. Or people manipulate people for selfish gain and ambition in the church. Okay, I'm not saying that those things don't happen. Those things do happen. But you also have to look at the net positive of the church. You have to look at the overall benefits and the positive of the church.

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Although there are people that manipulate a church congregation for money, although there are people that manipulate the church for selfish gain and fame, although there are people in the church that abuse their power for sexual desires and things like that, we obviously see in the gospels that Jesus' heart is in total contradiction to the behavior that people manipulate the church for.

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Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and in today's episode, we're going to be talking about should Christians go to church? What is the church? Should you be going to church? The reason I want to talk about this is because this is something I've been getting convicted on since about December of 2024.

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I mean, Jesus goes into the synagogue, and the one time that we witness Jesus being righteously angry is when he's flipping the money tables in the church. Why was he flipping the money tables in the church? Jesus was flipping the money tables in the church because he saw that the synagogue was taking advantage of new believers by trying to make a quick buck off of them.

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The synagogue was going, oh, shoot, all these new converts, this, that, and the other. Let me make a quick buck off of them. And Jesus says, listen, you don't get to use my name to make a quick buck off of people. You're manipulating people. Jesus' character was in total opposition to people manipulating his name or God's name for money, fame, status, sexual desires.

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He's actually in total opposition for it. And Acts chapter 5 is a prime example for it. So we see in the book of Acts, these 3,000, they sell all their belongings. They become sold out for Christ. Now, when you read Acts chapter 5, you have these people named Ananias and Sapphira. They sold everything, but they weren't honest. They lied.

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They only gave away some of the money, and then they kept some of the money secretly. Now, when you read this part, this is the importance of it. Although there is wickedness and human beings are sinful and they abuse their power, they abuse their status, they abuse their position in the church sometimes. Sometimes people do that for their own glory.

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There is still purity and a necessity for the local church. There is still goodness in the local church. There still is purity and an importance and a weight to it. If God didn't care about the early church, then he wouldn't have killed Ananias and Sapphira.

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In Acts chapter 5, the believers are told to sell everything, and Ananias and Sapphira, they sell everything, but they don't, they aren't honest, they lie, they don't give away all the money that they sold, they kept some. And so God killed Ananias and Sapphira. Now some people say, oh my gosh, well why did God kill Ananias and Sapphira? He was catechizing the early church.

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He was purifying the early church. He was making sure that the beginnings of the early church were purified, just, and holy. That's why he had to kill them off. We have to understand that any decision that God makes, he is a just God, and we have to trust that his judgment is just and righteous. So in Acts chapter 5, God doesn't care about the weakness of the church. Yes, he absolutely does.

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And if God doesn't do something about it in the moment, on the day of judgment, every knee will bow, and everyone will be held accountable for every action, thought, emotion, and manipulative thing that they've done in their life. And God will do something. The Bible tells us that vengeance is the Lord's.

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God cares about the local church and there is a weight placed on pastors and teachers that they will be judged more harshly, not only for their words, but for their actions. So man, the only thing I can think of is pray for our local leaders and pastors. Instead of watering seeds of condemnation on the church, why don't we pray for our leaders and pastors?

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That God continue to burn on their heart, that the fire on their heart may be burned and that they may burn for the Lord Jesus Christ. And that they can continue to seek after him, seek holiness and seek righteousness. Now, when you continue to read the book of Acts, let me just tell you the importance of this stuff. You have a guy named Paul, right?

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Okay, Paul in Acts chapter 13 and 14 visits Antioch, the churches of Galatia in Acts 13 and 14. That's where the churches of Galatia are formed. Then in Acts chapter 16, the church of Philippi is formed. Then in Acts chapter 18, the church of Corinth is formed. And then in Acts chapter 19, the church of Ephesus is formed. Why is this important?

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about the local church and the importance of it is it important i was one of those people that was always like oh no it's just me and my relationship with god i don't really need the local church the local church isn't important this and the other and i went on a bachelor trip for my buddy's wedding and we were all talking about the local church and on the early church and how important it is and so

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Then in Acts chapter 21, we find out that Paul is arrested. And when Paul's arrested, what does he do? He writes most of the New Testament in prison. We see he's in prison in Acts chapter 21. Who does he write these letters to? The church of Corinth, the church of Ephesus, the church of Galatia, the church of Philippi, the book of joy written suffering in prison.

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Most of the New Testament was written in prison to these churches that were founded before Paul ever made it to prison. And Paul founded these churches so that people could have community. Why is it important for community?

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Man, look, one of the main reasons that the local church is important is because when you go through junk, when you go through crap, there is a community and fellowship of believers around you that will come around you, pray for you, serve you, and love you unconditionally because they are reflecting Christ. They are his body. They are his bride. They are going to be a reflection of Christ.

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One of the greatest things I've ever done is submit myself to a local church or pastor. Greatest things I've ever done. Because not only is someone being placed and trusted with the authority to shepherd my soul, but I have a community of believers to come around me. I mean, you guys don't even know, we have our live podcast show on May 18th.

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And my local church from my hometown is supporting our event by giving us volunteers for a prayer team. That is powerful. The help, when I've been going through junk, I'm able to call my pastor, go get breakfast with my pastor. When I'm in Los Angeles, my home church in Los Angeles, the church that I'm submitted to in Los Angeles, I'm able to contact my pastor. I'm able to fellowship.

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I'm able to have community. People come around me and pray for me. It's a beautiful thing. And when I reflect on my life from when I was 17, I became a Christian when I was 17, and I'm 21 now. There are people that I met when I was 17 years old that were claiming to love Jesus, that were preaching about Jesus, and I met a bunch of Christians when I was 17.

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And now that I'm 21, half of them don't even follow the Lord anymore. And I'm not saying that this is the only reason that they don't follow the Lord, but I think one of the main reasons is because they had a weak perspective of the local church. They did not... have an importance and a weight and a gravity of how important the local church was. They weren't submitted.

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They didn't care about the local church. And I think that is one of the main reasons why people deconstruct and leave the faith is because they don't have a community of believers to actually work through problems and talk about these things too. I mean, the Bible is very clear. The book of Acts is all about the birth of the early church.

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And not only that, when you're trying to tackle theological issues, yes, we need to look into Scripture, but we also need to look at the early church. We need to look at how they accepted things. We need to look at how they treated sacraments. We need to look at how they treated Jesus Christ.

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I mean, you have to understand, the early church was so important that God killed Ananias and Sapphira to purify the church. If God didn't think that the local church was important, then it would have gone extinct.

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Now, the unfortunate and sad reality is that there are some churches and some pastors out there that do things for selfish gain, like we said earlier, that do things for money gain, that do things for sexual desires, that manipulate their power and things like that. And that ultimately breaks my heart. And you think that doesn't break God's heart?

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The manipulation of the local church that people use for their own selfish gain, their sexual desires and their money actually breaks God's heart to death. It breaks his heart. Jesus Christ didn't die for people to use his name for sexual desires in their church authoritative position. Or Jesus Christ didn't die for the fact that the church was going to use it for a money gain or money grab.

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Should you go to church as a Christian? We're going to be answering that today. And before we get down into the scriptures, we're going to be in the book of Acts today, bouncing around. We're going to be hyperfixating on Acts 2 and Acts chapter 5, and then I'm going to highlight some key scriptures after that that are important.

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Jesus Christ died so that people could become more like him, could be united with him, so he could pay the debt of sin and that people could know the weight and the glory and love of Jesus Christ and God the Father. That's the importance of it. And without the local church, we wouldn't be able to know more about scripture, know more about community, know more about fellowship.

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I mean, community is so important. That's why Paul visited Corinth, Ephesus, Antioch, Philippi, all these places and founded the early church because he recognized that in order for people to sustain their faith, they not only need the spirit of God, they not only need the word of God, but they need the local church. We need community. It's so important.

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And I'm going to be honest, like, you know, praise God for live stream to church. But man, let me tell you something. If your only reason for watching a live stream church is because you don't feel like getting up in the morning and go to church, let me ask you, I pray that the conviction of the Lord may hit your heart.

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And that just because you wake up and go, I don't feel like going to church, man, I pray that the Lord... put some faith to your feet and you start moving towards the church door. Because I used to be that same guy that would blow off the local church because, oh, I'm too tired. But man, we can never be too tired for the presence of God.

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And the second we convince ourselves we're too tired for church is the second we think that church is about us. We don't go to church to get, we go to church to give to God. We go to church to worship God. We go to church to learn more about the father because when we learn about the father, we give more glory to him. We're not going to church just to gain, gain, gain, gain, gain.

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We're going to give something to Christ. We're going to give it all to him. We're going to serve him and worship him. Learning about Christ motivates my heart to worship him. Thank you, Jesus, for the early church. Thank you, God, that we have amazing pastors and leaders in today's society that steward us and lead us into your throne room. God, thank you, Jesus, for the local church. We need it.

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Man, you know, I don't want to totally turn on online church because, you know, it is a beautiful thing. When I'm on the road and when I'm traveling, sometimes I fly on Sundays. I'm able to actually stay consistent in the church series with my hometown church by watching online and things like that.

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Or if I'm sick, I can watch online so I don't get my brothers and sisters in my local church physically sick either and things like that. But if our only excuse, if our excuses for watching online church is, oh, well, it's convenient or, oh, I don't really feel like going in person. Let me tell you something. There's something so powerful.

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with being in a physical community in person worshiping the lord with like-minded people it's so powerful community is important i'm so grateful that we got to talk about this because man guys the church is important your local church and and plug in and serve the church isn't just about us getting we need to give We not only need to give our worship to God, we need to give our finances.

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One of my favorite things about my Greek Orthodox brothers and sisters and my Roman Catholic brothers and sisters is the importance of the church and the weight that they hold to the church.

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We also need to give our actions. We need to serve. We need to come around each other, man. Serve at your local church. Stack chairs. Mop the floors. One of my favorite people, to close this episode out, one of my favorite people ever in the Christian faith was a guy named Brother Lawrence. He has a book called Practicing the Presence of God. Brother Lawrence was a Christian monk in the 1600s.

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what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the bryce crawford podcast i'm bryce and in today's episode we're going to be talking about fasting what is the biblical view of fasting why should we fast what happens when we fast is going to be an amazing episode this is something i've been learning and trying to implement more into my life as a christian but before we get into it i want to give a big thank you guys first of all because for a week

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And so I'm excited to see this year, the people that want to stick with it and do a verse by verse breakdown. It's Let's talk about fasting. Let's talk about what fasting is and how we can apply to our daily lives. Fasting is something that I've seen drastically transform my life. And, you know, the basic definition of fasting is saying no to some form of worldliness or harmful fleshly indulgence.

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So you'll see a lot of people, especially around the time of Lent, people are like, oh, I'm going to fast from chocolate because I got a sweet tooth. Or I'm going to fast from coffee because I've got a coffee addiction. Or I'm going to fast from this or I'm going to fast from that. You know, a lot of people fast in generality.

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Some people fast from their phone, social media, because things are starting to become idols in their lives. And I think that's great. That's a beautiful thing. I believe that we should truly fast from things that are starting to take over the throne of our heart.

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but what a biblical fast is is to go without food for the purpose to seek god earnestly in prayer so fasting yes is saying no to some form of worldliness or fleshly desire but a biblical fast is strictly saying no to food for the purpose of seeking god in intimacy and through prayer and so why would we just go without food what does that exactly mean we're going to talk about scripture

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But fasting is God's appointed way for us to cry out to him in special and specific needs. I mean, in Matthew 7, Jesus says, ask, seek, knock. And I truly believe that this scripture goes hand in hand with fasting because when we starve ourselves physically of food, it actually sharpens our mental focus into what we're fasting for.

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And so we begin to hyper fixate on Jesus, who he is in his character. There's no distractions because I'm going to be real. Gluttony is the one sin in today's day and age that we just don't talk about much. That is like a hidden killer, a silent killer. Like we idolize food way too much.

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And this isn't always about the idolatry of food, but when we starve ourselves physically for the sake of seeking God intimately, it just does something in the spiritual realm and it sharpens our focus on God's character and our relationship with him intimately. And it's so powerful.

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And we should resort to fasting out of a deep sense of our weakness and a need to seek God in a more heartfelt manner. I mean, this is like a beautiful picture of true surrender. I mean, fasting is so specific. You know, so many people nowadays, they're like, oh, I don't need to fast. This is an Old Testament thing. No, no, no. I mean, the Old Testament, it did happen a lot.

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But I mean, Jesus Christ calls us to a life of fasting. Look at Jesus in Matthew chapter four. When Jesus Christ is fasting for 40 days, what is he doing? He's fasting for 40 days in the purpose of seeking God in solitude. Through prayer and fasting, Jesus Christ grew in relationship with God the Father on earth. And so even Jesus Christ lived a lifestyle of fasting. But what are reasons to fast?

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Why should someone fast? Well, the Bible shows us that people fast for national emergencies. Deliverance from danger, protection, help in sickness, special guidance, humbling ourselves before God, seeking deliverance for the oppressed, and seeking revelation from God. And you actually see these things all throughout the Old Testament.

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On the Day of Atonement, the Levites would literally fast as a sign of humility and repentance from Israel. So the Levites would come together and they would fast in a humble heart posture before the Lord and out of a repentant heart before the Lord. And so we see even in the Old Testament on the Day of Atonement, they would fast. We see this in Leviticus.

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They would fast on behalf of humility and repentance for Israel. Moses fasted 80 days. on Mount Sinai to receive divine revelation about the 10 commandments and to spend time with God. So Moses himself fasts for 80 days straight on the Mount and receives divine revelation from God. So you may be someone that is fasting on behalf of revelation from God.

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Whenever we fast, it sharpens our mind into the spiritual realm and we actually get to access the mind and wisdom of God because we were so hyper fixated on intimacy with him because we were starving ourselves physically. And then when you look at that passage in Leviticus where it talks about the day of atonement fast, man, that was out of a heart of repentance.

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Man, sometimes when we confess our sins, we need to fast to overcome temptation sometimes. Man, sometimes temptation is so strong that we need to starve ourselves physically to seek God in such a deep, spiritual, intimate way that it does something in the spiritual realm to actually just rebuke the temptation coming our way.

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Daniel does a partial fast, we see, to receive revelation on aspects of Israel's future. How do we apply that to today's life? Man, if you're in need of a decision, man, I don't know which job offer to take. I don't know what to do after high school. I don't know what to do with our life.

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Whenever we fast, we're actually putting decisions in the hands of the Lord and saying, God, I'm starving myself physically again to seek you intimately in a spiritual form to ask you for a specific answer about a specific area in my life. Because we're saying, God, the situation's in your hands. I put it into your hands.

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I can make a decision out of my flesh, but I really want to hear your voice specifically on a situation. God, while I'm fasting, I'm not going to stop fasting until you give me an answer. Daniel did a partial fast to receive revelation about the aspects of Israel's future. Then you look at someone like Hannah in the Old Testament who was barren and desperate for a kid. She fasts. What happens?

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She has a child named Samuel. If you don't know who Samuel is, Samuel is a prominent leader and figure of the Old Testament. And the reason that she got to have Samuel was because she sought God out of a fast. She says, hey, listen. The physical world, my barren self, the physical world says I'm barren and I can't have a child.

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But God, I believe you're greater than what the physical world can say about me. So I'm going to seek you in a fast to see if a child is something that you have in store for me. And who do we get? We get Samuel, a prominent Old Testament figure. Esther called for a fast among the Jews to prevent their impending destruction from the government at the time. That is fasting for a national emergency.

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And right now, as we're filming this podcast, it's election day. And we're about to find out the results of an election. And some people are putting their faith and trust in the Republican Party or in the Democratic Party.

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But if we really care about the outcome of our country, we would seek the Lord in fasting and prayer and say, God, regardless of the outcome, you sit on the throne, Jesus, you reign. But man, God, I'm going to seek you in fasting and prayer that if it be your will, this be the outcome of an election. a national emergency, a heart posture of prayer.

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And outside of emergencies, like we don't need to just treat God, treat fasting the way that a lot of people treat prayer. We don't need to treat fasting the way a lot of people treat prayer. And that's if, oh, we only do it in case we need something. Like, sure, we fast on behalf of things, but I believe that the Bible is calling us into a lifestyle of fasting.

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Like, man, if we really care about someone, if we really care about a situation, if we really care about God's opinion, we'll turn the plate down. We'll actually starve ourselves physically and say, God, look, I'm down to turn the plate down. I'm down to turn the fork down to hear your voice and see what you have to say.

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I want to know you deeper on an intimate level, God, and I need to hear your voice. We must learn to fast and live it as a lifestyle of prayer. God also received Nineveh's fast when they were literally wicked. Jonah goes to Nineveh, he preaches the gospel, and they fast on behalf of their wickedness, and God receives their repentant heart out of a fast.

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And then Jesus fasted in preparation for his public ministry and to conquer the devil's temptations. Jesus' number one defense in his fast for 40 days was his prayer and intimate time with Jesus through the scriptures. He quotes scripture and through his fast he was able to overcome temptation. And Jesus actually calls us in Matthew 26. He tells the disciples, pray lest you fall into temptation.

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So we see a big correlation between fasting and prayer. Fasting and prayer is a deadly combo to overcome temptation. Because when you're praying, you're in direct communication with the eternal one. And fasting starves ourself physically so that we sharpen our focus spiritually and say, God, I need to hear your voice. God, I'm relying on you. I'm not relying on food.

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And all you have to do is you can enter for free. You literally just got to go to jesusinthestreet.com and put your email in the website. And then you get a free entry. And then on top of that, every $10 that you spend on the website, you get an extra five entries into the giveaway. We're giving away AirPods, Xbox, and PS5. It's going to be insane.

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I'm not relying on my own circumstances. I'm not relying on my own strength. God, I'm relying on you. So why should we fast today? Those are examples in the Bible of what fast did and why people should fast, but why should you and I fast today? It humbles ourselves before God as we see in Psalm 69 and Psalm 35.

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Man, so many people, the number one sin that happened in the garden, the number one sin people struggle with today that they don't know is pride. We oftentimes think we know it all. There are moments where I think in my faith journey, I know everything. But in reality, I don't. I need to rely on Jesus Christ. And we hear his voice more clear when we fast.

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And if we fast, we humble ourselves and say, God, I'm not trying to make a decision out of my flesh. I'm not trying to make a decision without consulting you. God, I just need to hear your voice. God, I just love you. God, I've got this friend, he's struggling, and I just want to fast on behalf of him. You know, our battle's not against flesh and blood.

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So man, God, I'm just fasting on behalf of my friend. We need to humble ourselves. We need to humble ourselves. Luke 2 shows us that fasting is worship. It's a part of our life to God. I mean, this is a lifestyle. It's an act of worship because we're saying, God, I'm doing this for you. Man, no one fasts for themselves.

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I mean, sure, nowadays you've got someone like Joe Rogan or people that talk about the benefits of fasting. But from the Christian perspective, or just in generality, no one genuinely wants to not eat. No one genuinely wants to starve themselves. So fasting is a form of worship. It's a part of the Christian life. In Matthew chapter 4, fasting can be an expression of sorrow and repentance to God.

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God, I'm sorry. I need you. Or if you're struggling with sin areas, fasting and saying, God, give me clarity and strategy to conquer this temptation. Fasting is the Holy Spirit's vision, guide, and empowerment in our lives. As we see in Acts 13. And then it's to seek deliverance for the oppressed. In Isaiah 58.6 we see. Man, you can fast on behalf of your friends. See breakthrough.

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A lot of people want to see breakthrough for their friends, want to see breakthrough in a scenario of your life, want to see breakthrough in your family's situation, in your parents' marriage, in your relationship. Fast. It does something in the spiritual realm. Now when fasting, look, I have a major warning for fasting. I want you to avoid these two things when you fast.

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Spiritual pride and legalism. Spiritual pride can sneak in when fasting because you might think you're better than other Christians because not a lot of people fast. And that is not what we do. If you fall into spiritual pride because you think you're better than yourself and your chest gets big, which is like, oh, I fast and not a lot of Christians fast, you're the Pharisee now.

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So go to jesusinthestreet.com, get some merch, put your email in, get submitted into the giveaway. And then the second thing I wanted to announce is that the whole month of December, we're going to be dropping a podcast every day from December 1st to December 24th. Last year, we did a Luke series where I broke down each chapter of Luke every day until Christmas Eve.

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And the goal of fasting is actually to live a lifestyle of fasting that encourages other people to fast. Not turn them away from the heart of the Father. We need to encourage other people to fast. And the second is legalism. This isn't something that we necessarily do to get something in return from God. We're not fasting as like God's a genie in a bottle.

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Like, okay, if I fast, God's going to do X, Y, and Z for me. No, we do this out of a heart of purity. We do this out of a heart of humility. We do this out of a heart of love. The same reason we read the Bible, the same reason we pray, the same reason that we listen to the commandments of Jesus Christ is not because we get something in return. It's because we love Him.

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We do this out of a heart from purity. So avoid legalism. Avoid it as like this thing, it's like transactional with God. It's not. We just do this out of a heart of love. So what is the proper approach to fasting? It's unto the Lord.

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It's something we do for Him, for His glory, to seek Him out, deepen our intimacy with Him, and grow in relationship with Him, with the intention to glorify God in whatever the result of the fast may be. You may be fasting for something, and you might not get the answer you were fasting for.

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And if that's the case, we have to trust that the reason that you didn't get the response that you wanted is because God is protecting us from something, or it wasn't in God's will. Our heart posture in the fast should not be, God, give this to me now because I'm fasting, but saying, look, God, listen, I'm starving myself physically because I'm trying to seek you, Jesus, in this area of my life.

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And I pray that it be this outcome. I'm seeking you out for this outcome. But I pray that the outcome and the result of this fast may be in your will, God. And that should be our heart posture of the fast. And I really pray that fasting is something that you guys get to do today.

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Because I thought for a long time, all my life, I thought that fasting was just some ancient ritual that people did in the Old Testament. I thought it was kind of whack, to be honest with you. But this year, we've really tried to challenge ourselves with fasting in our ministry. And we've seen God do something in amazing ways.

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We did a five-day water fast before the Mardi Gras event that we went to and filmed Street Evangelism at. And what it did in the spiritual realm was insane. People were getting healed left and right. Drug dealers were getting encountered. It was amazing. We fasted three days before the Satanic Temple and saw God do amazing things in people's lives.

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I mean, the first night we were there, I truly believe that this was because of the fast. People were flocking to us. I've never had a moment where I went out to share Jesus with people and people just came up to me without me saying anything and immediately started a conversation with Jesus. I mean, people were coming up to me and being like, yeah, I'm so broken. My heart is gone. I'm lost.

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I've lost everything. I don't know what to do. And I would be like, oh my goodness, why did that happen? Because of the fast. Something happens in the spiritual realm when we fast. So fasting has genuinely changed my walk as a Christian. And I pray that you guys be transformed by fasting. Jesus, I thank you for this day. God, I thank you for my friends watching and listening to this.

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God, I just pray that fasting may become a lifestyle. Fasting may not be forgotten, God. Fasting is not some ancient ritual that you've just buried in the Bible. But God, you call us to a lifestyle of fasting.

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And if we care about our intimate relationship with you, if we care about the outcomes of situations, inviting you into decisions, God, and even care about our friends who are being oppressed by the devil and the sinfulness of the world, God, that we would just fast and seek you out. God, I thank you that fasting is an opportunity for us to seek you in deeper intimacy. God, I thank you.

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So you would have read the whole book of Luke, but we did it in a minute and 30 seconds. This year, we're going to be creating podcasts every day that give a verse by verse breakdown of the book of Luke. So that from December 1st to December 24th, if you follow along, you will have read the whole book of Luke by Christmas Eve. And it's going to be amazing.

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I bless you. And I just bless everyone watching and listening to this, God. And I just pray that fasting may become a part of their lifestyle and they will be able to grow in deeper intimacy with you, God, through fasting and prayer. In Jesus' name, amen. Guys, thank you so much for watching and listening to this episode.

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and in today's episode, we're on Luke chapter 9. Thank you guys for following along on the Luke Christmas series. Every day we're reading a chapter of Luke, so by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole Gospel of Luke. We're literally reading it verse by verse on the podcast.

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And then we can use like God will give us the ability to use the supernatural to solve people's hearts or to set people free and to show them that the gospel is true. It's powerful. King Herod.

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Now Herod, the Tetrarch, heard about all that was happening, and he was perplexed because it was said by someone that John had been raised from the dead, by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen.

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So this is going to, we're going to see this here in a second in Luke chapter 9, where Jesus asks the disciples who the people say he is, because some mistake him as John the Baptist still. Some think he's Elijah, because if you guys know, Elijah didn't die. He got taken up to heaven in the Old Testament. And it says in verse nine, Herod said, John, I beheaded.

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But who is this about whom I hear such things as he sought to see him? So he knows, all right, John the Baptist got beheaded. You guys remember he arrested John the Baptist, didn't kill him because the people loved him. And then a couple of days later, someone did a strip tease for Herod and he beheaded John the Baptist because that lady wanted his head on a platter.

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So if you're at least listening to these... you would have read the whole book of Luke. It's powerful. Before we get into it, guys, first ever live podcast show, January 19th, 6 p.m. in Los Angeles. Go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets and get your tickets. Come out to the show. It's going to be a powerful night. I'm super excited. It's going to be awesome.

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So he goes, all right, this Jesus guy, I'm interested in him. Not because maybe not necessarily because King Herod was some spiritual guru in search for truth. It was more so probably because Jesus was famous amongst the people. Now Jesus is about to feed the 5,000 here. On their return, the apostles told him all they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida.

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And when the crowd learned it, they followed him and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing. Now the day began to wear away and the 12 came and said to him, send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions for we are here in your desolate place.

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He said to them, you give them something to eat? Now, here's the thing. The disciples had no way, shape, or form. They didn't have the supplies. They didn't have the money to feed 5,000 people. So Jesus is challenging them both in their faith and compassion. He's like, don't send them away. Like, let's serve them. But he's also saying, do you have faith in me? We can provide.

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They said, we have no more than five loaves and two fish unless we are to go and buy food for all these people. For there were about 5,000 men. Now, when you hear the story of the 5,000, it only counts for the men. Think about how many other women and children were there. And he said to the disciples, have them sit down in groups of about 50 each. And they did so and had them all sit down.

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And taking the five loaves and two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, 12 baskets of broken pieces. Again, he challenges them in both their faith and compassion for people.

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Trust in me to provide, but also have compassion on people. Don't just send them away. Now, we're about to see what I just referenced here. When Herod was perplexed, and he's in verse 18, he goes, Now it happened as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, Who do the crowd say I am?

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And they answered him, They think you're John the Baptist, but others say Elijah, and others that one of the prophets of old had risen. Then he said to them, But who do you say that I am? And Peter answered, the Christ of God. Peter gets a supernatural understanding that Jesus is the Christ, that he's not some Joshua. He's not just like a man sent from God. No, he is God in the flesh.

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It's powerful, powerful. And he strictly charged them and commanded them to tell this to no one saying the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised.

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Jesus foretells his death and I love how he says he must suffer like it is a guarantee he must suffer for the sins of the world in order that they be paid for. It's powerful. Now, I love how this is going to correlate with the next passage here. When he said to all, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me for whoever saves his life will lose it.

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But whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. He's saying, look, have the same intention. Like it's almost a guarantee. Like if you follow me, you're probably going to suffer like me. You're probably gonna be rejected by men like me. But listen, have that same intention, like know what you're signing up for. Have that same heart posture of being willing to suffer for my sake.

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For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words of him will the son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the father and of the holy angels. But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.

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And I think we're going to have some merch at the event that won't be on the website. So you guys should come. It's going to be awesome. I'm excited. Now, let's jump into Luke chapter 9. And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases. And he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.

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What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and yet forfeits his soul? There's no amount of drugs. There's no amount of sex. There's no amount of money. There's no amount of people pleasing that you can do that's actually going to save you. The hole in your heart will never be filled with anything of this world. It's all fading.

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But the only thing that could sustain us is something eternal, something perfect. My thought process is if I live in an imperfect world with a hole in my heart and I as an imperfect man can't fix the hole in my heart in an imperfect world, then how could I work to perfection? It's impossible.

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That's why we needed perfection to die on a cross for us so that perfection can fill the hole in our heart and make us whole and pure in his sight and righteous and blameless. The transfiguration. This is a powerful passage. This is probably what, if you guys watch the TikTok summary I do, this is probably what I've talked about on the TikTok summary because I think it's so powerful.

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I'm going to read through the story here and I'm going to highlight something. Now by eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, James, and John, and they went up on a mountain to pray. And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white.

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And behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. Now let's stop right there. In the Old Testament, God promised Moses that he would enter the promised land, that he would lead the Israelites into the promised land.

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Then at one point, Moses gets frustrated at God, and he strikes a rock, and God punishes him and says, oh, no, psych, and he dies before he enters the promised land. Now some might say, well, God doesn't keep his promises. Look, he told Moses he was going to enter into the promised land, and then he doesn't.

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But the same mountain that Moses and Elijah appear on and step foot on is the promised land. It's the modern day promised land in this time. So God is a promise keeper. Moses stepped foot in the promised land on the transfiguration. What a powerful moment. Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep.

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When they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, is it good that we're here? Let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, one for Elijah. Not knowing what he said, Peter don't want the glory to end. That brother don't want the moment to end.

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As he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. And a voice came from the cloud saying, this is my son, my chosen one. Listen to him. When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone, and they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.

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I don't know how else to describe the transfiguration other than Jesus glowing on a mountain. I don't really understand what's going on. It's just like he's glorified by God the Father, and it's powerful. Verse 37, on the next day when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.

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And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, teacher, I beg you to look at my son for he's my only child. And behold, a spirit seizes him and he suddenly cries out and convulses him so that he foams at the mouth and shatters him and will hardly leave him. And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not. Why they couldn't cast it out, I don't know.

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I don't know why they couldn't cast it out, but this is a learning lesson. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean it's a bad thing. It's a learning lesson for them. Maybe it was too strong. I don't know. But Jesus said, O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.

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Okay, so now Jesus is sending out the twelve disciples to go do some ministry here. And he's giving them power to heal the sick and cast out demons. He is equipping them. When God calls us, he equips us as well. Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money, and do not have two tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there and from there depart.

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While he was coming, the demon threw him down to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy and gave him back to his father. And all were astonished at the majesty of God. Verse 46. Verse 46. An argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. Look, the disciples getting prideful. Which one of us is the greatest? Can you imagine?

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I wonder how Peter felt, all right? He's like, I'm in the inner circle. I'm Peter, James, and John. I'm his close three friends. Like, I'm definitely the favorite. I wonder how they are competing. But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side. And he said to them, whoever receives this child in my name receives me.

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And whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you is the one who is great. It's actually the humble that will be exalted. And he actually calls us here to do something. He calls us to have childlike faith. Jesus doesn't call us to be childish in our faith, return evil for evil, be slow to speak. I mean, quick to speak, slow to listen.

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He doesn't call us to be childish. He calls us to be childlike. What does it mean to be childlike? When you have a kid and you tell the kid that the Easter bunny is real, you don't have to convince the child that the Easter bunny is real. Man, a child when they're young, they grab hold to every word you say as if it is 100% honest truth.

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Whatever you say to a kid when they're young, they just don't without a doubt, they believe you and they hold on to it and they fully embrace whatever you tell them. Jesus says, if you were to be childlike, you're going to fully embrace everything I say. You're going to receive me as if because I am 100% the truth. I am God in the flesh. You're going to receive me without a doubt.

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And you're going to embrace me like a child would when you tell him the Easter bunny is real. He's going to get excited about the Easter bunny to celebrate. You're going to get excited about me just like a child would. So powerful. John answered, Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name and we tried to stop him because he doesn't follow with us.

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But Jesus said to him, do not stop him for the one who is not against you is for you. He's saying, look, there's no competition for people who are all working in the kingdom of heaven. If they're casting them out in my name, let him keep casting it out because there's no exclusivity or partiality just because you're a disciple of mine is what he says.

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When the day is true near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem and he sent some messengers ahead of him. who went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make preparations for him. But the people did not receive him because his face was set towards Jerusalem.

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And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them? But he turned and rebuked them and they went on to another village. So just because the Samaritan village rejected Jesus, the disciples were like, yo, let's burn that place down. Let's burn it. And Jesus actually rebukes him as like, yo, have compassion on them.

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They just don't understand. And I love that perspective because it's like when people reject us because of the gospel, it's like sometimes we get frustrated. It's like, oh, we should get frustrated. They just don't understand. Have grace. They just don't know they're my best friend yet. They just don't know Jesus yet. They just don't know that they're about to be best friends with Jesus.

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Like, like, let's just understand. Let's close out chapter 9. As they were going along the road, someone said to them, I will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. He says, look, following me is uncomfortable. Following me is uncomfortable. There are some days that it's hard.

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And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet. It's a testimony against them. He's saying, look, don't try to convince people to follow this. He's like, just lay the truth on them. And if they receive it, bless them. If they don't, shake the dust off your feet, move on to the next people because there's people that need it.

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It's not this glamorous, luxurious life that even nowadays some prosperity preachers follow.

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paint the picture of that the life of jesus is is the is this glamorous luxurious life sometimes it's not sometimes it's hard there are times like it's it like things get hard you don't have access to resources and jesus is like look it's not going to be luxurious all the time to another he said follow me but he said lord let me first go and bury my father and jesus to him says leave the dead to bury their own dead but as for you go and proclaim the kingdom of god

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So he says, let me go bury my father first. And he's like, look, listen, this might be an ongoing, on long, indefinite process for this guy. And he says, look, you might be delaying this process to follow me. But he's like, look, the dead bury their own dead. We got people that are dying and that are sick spiritually right now. We need to save them.

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Yet another said, I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home. And he's like, look, now, instead of an indefinite, maybe long waiting period, like the second guy did, he's like, this last guy's like, this will be quick. Let me just go say goodbye to my family. He says, no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.

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When farmers would plow the field, they were so dead set and focused on the thing before them that it allowed them to plow the rows. And he says, look, the gospel is the goal. Preaching the gospel is the goal. I, Jesus Christ, send the prize, is what he says. I am the main focus. Let's keep our eyes on the prize. Guys, I pray that Luke 9, bless you guys.

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Guys, if you want to come to the live podcast show in Los Angeles, January 19th, go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets. Get your tickets. Love you guys. See you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 10.

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Jesus says that the harvest is ripe. He says, don't take offense, keep moving. And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. Notice that the supernatural isn't separate from the gospel. OK, oftentimes you'll see people, they separate the two. No, they go hand in hand like the gospel should be our leading leg.

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I have a huge announcement before you guys continue to watch this episode of the podcast. Guys, May 18th, we are doing our second live podcast show in my home state, Atlanta, Georgia. We're going to be at the Cobb Energy Center May 18th for worship and a powerful word. Guys, I am so excited to be back in the same city that God took me from death to life.

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If we lose sight of the free gift of eternal life and the free gift of relationship with God, then it allows idols to creep into our lives. If you lose sight of the gospel, lose sight of Christ, then you're going to prioritize other things over God on your heart. So I want to pray for us.

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I want to pray that God gives us a couple things, the strength to remove idols, the strength to deal aggressively with our idols, and the last thing, for God to reveal idols in our lives so we can cut them down. Jesus, I thank you so much for today. God, I thank you that you love us.

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God, I thank you that you sustain us, and I thank you that when we seek you above all these idols, above other faults, God, that you sustain us. that our joy grows in you, God, and that when we don't seek you, Jesus, that actually our sorrows grow, our sadness grows because these idols are fleeting and these idols won't sustain us. So God, we ask for a couple things.

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Number one, God, help us deal aggressively with idols in our life. God, number two, give us the strength to keep idols off the throne of our heart. And God, lastly, will you search our hearts? God, search my heart. Search each and every watcher, listener to this podcast. Search their hearts and go, God, help us know what idols are on the throne of our hearts so we can be fully submitted to you.

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God, we just want to be known by you. And idols keep us unknown from you. Idols keep us not relying on you and God. But when we rely on you, when we listen to you, when we trust you, that is the rich, good life. not the American dream, trusting you is the rich, good life. God, we love you, bless you, in Jesus' name, amen. Guys, thank you so much for watching and tuning into these episodes.

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And, you know, the Bible actually tells us that a house divided on itself cannot stand. Meaning when we sit on the fence, let's say we give God, say, God, here's 99% of me, but there's 1% of me that is devoted to this idol. We're still unknown by God. Because there's 1% we're holding back and giving this thing full attention to. So an idol is when something matters more than what matters most.

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So if you guys feel a burden to support this ministry, reach lost souls with the gospel through digital and in-person ministry, go to jesusinthestreet.org. Pray and ask God, how should I partner with Bryce and their ministry and Jesus in the Street ministry? Should I partner with them in prayer? Should I partner with them in finances? Should I partner with them in support?

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Whatever it may be, pray and ask God, how should I support Jesus in the Street ministry? Love you guys. See you guys next week for the next episode.

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Now, before we go into idolatry and what the verses say, what matters most? Jesus Christ. Now, why is Jesus Christ greater than money, fame, status, sex, women, all of these things, idols, or even false gods? Why is Jesus greater than that? Well, out of all religions, Jesus Christ is the only God that meets humankind where they're at because he recognizes that they're broken.

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Jesus Christ is the only God out of any labeled religion that doesn't say, get yourself together before you come to me.

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He's the only God out of all religions that comes down, meets humanity where they're at, shows them how to live it, and then displays the ultimate act of love and kindness by laying his life down for his wicked, broken creation so that the price can be paid, slate is wiped clean, and we're found free in Christ.

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The first verse I want to jump to about idolatry here is going to be in 1 John 5, verse 21. 1 John 5, verse 21 says, Little children, keep yourself from idols. This is how John the disciple ends his letter of 1 John. Now, I know it's a really big statement, but I want to bump up a few verses to 1 John 5, 10, because I believe 1 John 5, 10 says, really sets up verse 21.

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He says, whoever believes in the son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe in God has made himself a liar because he has not believed in the testimony that God has born concerning his son. And then verses later, he says, little children, keep yourself from idols.

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Sometimes we fall to idols and we submit ourselves to things other than Christ because we don't fully understand the freedom that we have in him. Maybe that sin you keep going back to feels familiar. You know it's going to let you down, but it just keeps, it's familiar.

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You recognize it, you understand it, and it's like, you know, I know this thing is hurting me, but I'm going to keep going back and back and back to it because it's the only thing I know of. And that was me for a lot of my life. I was the back half of 1 John 5.10. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar.

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When we don't put our trust fully in God, then we're saying, man, God, I don't really believe who you say you are. Because I don't believe in the testimony that God has done through Jesus Christ. And that's what sin is. Idolatry and sin is substituting ourselves in the place of God.

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idolatry is not only allowing something to matter more than what matters most, but idolatry is substituting yourself in the place of God saying, God, your ways aren't higher than my ways. When Isaiah clearly says, no, God, your ways are higher than my ways. Your thoughts are higher than my thoughts. So God, I'm going to trust you.

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And that's why the Psalmist David prays Psalm 139, search my heart, God, and know me. Because even David says, you know, I think I know myself good. God, you know myself way better than I know myself. So God, I need you. Search my heart, God, and reveal in me the areas of my life that are keeping me wicked. And so why would people turn to idols?

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It's because they don't fully believe the truth of Jesus Christ. They don't fully believe that Jesus really is who he says he is. Now I want to flip to Colossians 3. When someone surrenders themselves to Christ, we are born again. Our old self has died. Our new self has been given. Now, I love what this letter is. And to the church of Colossia, I always pronounce it wrong.

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But chapter 3, we're going to hone in on verse 5, but we're going to read the first few verses before. Colossians 3, verse 1. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

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So right here in chapter three, the first two verses, he's kind of referencing back to Matthew chapter six, where Jesus is like, don't store treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, where thieves break in and steal.

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Because when you believe fully that Christ is who he says he is and you're going to think like Christ, you're going to seek the things of Christ, you're going to seek first the kingdom of God and all things will follow. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death, therefore, what is earthly to you, sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desires, and covetousness, which is idolatry. This is very important. What does the writer of Colossians say idolatry is?

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Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today, by the title of this episode, we know exactly why you clicked on it. We're talking about idolatry. What does it mean to have idols in our life? How do we know if we have idols in our life? And what do we do about the idols in our life?

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Sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness all falls under the category of idolatry. Because when you prioritize sexual immorality, money, fame, status, passions, evil desires, these things take the place of God. You know what idols are in our lives? Idols are things that we think are better than our self-worth.

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So if we idolize women or men, we say, oh, that person's better than me. I can never get them. And we just chase it, chase it, chase it, chase it, chase it. Or money. Oh, money is way better than me. It's way more valuable than me. So I got to seek it, seek it, seek it.

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And the more money I get, well, if you're not satisfied with the amount of money you have right now, then if you doubled your bank account, you sure as heck would not be satisfied with the money in your bank account. So you just keep chasing, chasing, chasing. Idols in our life are things that we think are more valuable than ourselves.

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And Colossians says, look, if you have been born again, if your eyes are set on Christ, then seek the things that he loves. Seek his kingdom and put away the things that take you away from his kingdom. Idols take us away from a necessity of God. And that's why sometimes suffering is good. because these idols keep our gaze off of him.

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But when our gaze is on Christ, man, we just fall in love with who he is and his character. And it's crazy because these fleeting things that die and that perish, they don't satisfy us. But who God's character, in essence, sustains us when our eyes are on him. You know what blows my mind about Egypt is when royalty in Egypt would pass away their sarcophaguses, which are basically coffins.

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Boy, they'd pimp these things out, man. They put gold all on them, put some jewels on them, and then inside the coffins, they'd wrap the body in mummy cloth and burial cloth, and then they'd put some jewelry in there. You know what's crazy? It's all these bodies are still rotten today, but this gold, where did it go? It went nowhere. These idols, man, these idols.

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Last verse I want to flip to is in Psalm 16, verse 4, before we close out with the story from the Old Testament. Psalm 16, verse 4. The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply. The sorrows of those who chase after other gods shall multiply. Man, that breaks my heart. King David says, you'll never find what you're looking for.

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The more idols you have in your life, the greater your sadness will increase. And to be honest, man, if you're someone who's struggling with depression, maybe you're partially struggling with depression because you got some things sitting on the throne of your heart that shouldn't be sitting there.

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We're going to be diving into that, diving into the scripture, what a scripture says, and then I'm really going to highlight. We're going to be kind of like quote mining a few different scriptures about idolatry that are just kind of like basic statements about idolatry.

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Like I said earlier, idolatry is when we think that other things or people are more valuable than ourselves.

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And so if you're chasing that significant other right now and they're not giving you the time of day because you think that they're more valuable than you are, then whoa, whoa, whoa, you need to love your neighbor as yourself before you can love other people the way Christ loves other people or love other things or enjoy things the way that Christ enjoyed and loved things.

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You have to first see yourself the way God sees you. You know why idolizing significant others is so difficult in today's society? The number one, what am I trying to say? The number one idol I believe in America today is dating or romantic relationships. And the reason that idolatry and romantic relationships is so big right now in today's society is because it's a form of love.

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And today's society says, oh, well, you know, if you make me feel excited, if you give me the butterflies, then I'll decide to show up for you in the highs and lows. And then if you give me the butterflies and I decide to show up for you, then I'll choose to be faithful to you or not. Whereas Jesus Christ says, no, no, no, no, no. You choose to love me.

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And because you choose to love me, you show up despite the conditions. And when you show up despite the conditions, it stirs your affections for me. The number one idol in America today is romantic relationships because it's a form of love. It is deception sometimes to a point. Now I'm not saying romantic relationships are bad. That's not what I'm getting at.

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But what I'm getting at is sometimes we trick ourselves into saying that's love. But when our significant other becomes God on our heart, then we become extremely more disappointed. When the best love, the best relationships are when each significant other is trying to out-serve each other.

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But I really want to hone in on this one story in the Old Testament that I really believe that we as believers can fall into a trap or just we as human beings can fall into a trap with in idolatry. But we need to first identify idolatry. What does it mean to have an idol in your life? What is an idol? An idol is when something matters more than what matters most.

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And when each significant other's gaze is on Christ, then you guys begin to draw closer and closer and closer to each other, and that's the best way you can love each other. But if your significant other is sitting on the throne of your heart, then you're going to be extremely disappointed a lot, deeply saddened.

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You're going to be controlling, got to know their every decision, got to know their move. And if they're with you, then you're happy. But if they're not with you, they're not happy. And then you become controlling and manipulative because they're on the throne of your heart. And I love what King David says in Psalm 16.

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He says, look, if you're chasing after idols, your sadness is just going to increase. Or maybe it's not a significant other. Maybe it's Netflix or food. Well, how much food do you have to eat to numb the pain? Well, you fill yourself up, but then when the hunger comes back, you've got to keep eating, keep eating, keep eating. It's equivalent to an alcohol or drug addiction.

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You can't numb the pain unless the feeling's there, but you have to continuously go back to these things. And oftentimes, the more and more idols we have on our heart and the more idols we have in our lives and the more times we turn to things other than Christ, we become more depressed and our life becomes invaluable.

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And if I'm talking to you right now, if you've got idols in your life and you hate your life, then give your life to someone who wants it. If you hate your life, give your life to someone who wants it. Who wants your life? Jesus Christ. When I was 17 years old, I was going to take my life because of depression and anxiety. And I thought I wasn't valuable enough.

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And now that I'm reflecting on my life, I had so many things that were idols in my life. People pleasing, pornography, girls, money, fame, all of these things when I was 17 years old. And I kept going back to these things because it was familiar, even though I knew it was going to let me down. And finally, I came to the place where I was going to take my life because I thought I wasn't valuable.

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What is the value Christ puts on your life, his own? I was just watching a podcast clip today on TikTok and I loved how this guy explained it. He said, man, like Christ looked through the gap of time and space, saw how valuable you were and decided to die for you saying, even if nobody else gets it, if they get it, I'm willing to do it. And I loved how he worded it. It's so true.

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Now, the last story I want to share about idolatry I think is very prevalent in how I believe we oftentimes as believers can fall into idol. It's exactly like Israel does. So if you guys know the story about Moses, you know, Israel becomes enslaved to Egypt. They're in captivity. They're in exile. God uses Moses to set the captives free.

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And after the 10 plagues, you know, the Israelites are leaving Egypt. And, you know, sometimes we miss over this key detail. God allows the Israelites to basically loot Egypt. Okay, so they get to ransack that place. They get gold, they get jewelry, they get all this gold, and then they escape Egypt. They're like, hooray, man, God, you're awesome. Thank you.

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You let us escape and you allowed us to loot Egypt. This was lit. And then after they leave, Moses does this thing where he goes up on a mountain to get the 10 commandments. So he goes up there. Okay. Now, how many times in your life has God set you free from things? Or you've prayed so many prayers and finally you receive the quote unquote freedom that you've been praying for.

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Or you've asked for this thing so many times and finally you get it. And then Moses goes, he's like, all right, guys, you know, I'm going to be back. I'm going to go get these commandments and the law from God. And I'm going to be back. It's going to be great. I'm going to go talk to him. Then we're going to come back and game plan and strategize. We're going to have the law.

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The commandments is going to be great. Moses goes up on the mountain. They get impatient. This guy's taking too long. It's like you and me, man, God, why aren't you answering my prayers? You just did it. Or we live in a society that's immediate gratification. And we say, oh man, God, you didn't give it to me immediately. And so the Israelites said to Moses and God what we say to God all the time.

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The thing that takes your full captivity, your full control, and the thing that sits on the throne of your heart. Now, here's the interesting part, okay? Holy Spirit does not split rent. God does not split rent. What I mean by that is some of us say, oh, well, I want 50% of God and then I want 50% of this thing in my life because I can't choose it.

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We don't get immediately what we're praying for if we think God has, quote unquote, taken too long. Screw off, God. So all the gold that God gave the Israelites when they left Egypt, they take it to Aaron and say, hey, Aaron, make us a false god to worship since this guy Moses has taken so long. They build a false god out of the gold that God had graciously given them.

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And when Moses comes down from the mountain, he's like, what is going on? We just got set free. You just saw God do miracles. You just saw this. And now you're worshiping a false God made out of the very gifts that God has given you. We have to remember a couple things. Number one, God's timing is perfect.

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Number two, just because we don't get what we're praying for doesn't mean God didn't answer our prayer. That means it's a no. God answers yes or no. Number three, if God doesn't give us what we're praying for, that means maybe we shouldn't have it. Maybe it's going to crush us. But number four, a prime example of what idolatry does. Idols substitute God to sin.

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We substitute ourselves in the place of God. That's what happens. And Moses is so like, what is going on? Last piece of advice I would say to steer away from idolatry before we pray is In order for us to keep idols off of the throne of our heart, we have to continuously remind ourselves of the glory and goodness of Jesus Christ, and we have to continuously preach the gospel to ourselves.

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I have a huge announcement before you guys continue to watch this episode of the podcast. Guys, May 18th, we are doing our second live podcast show in my home state, Atlanta, Georgia. We're going to be at the Cobb Energy Center May 18th for worship and a powerful word. Guys, I am so excited to be back in the same city that God took me from death

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Whatever the general public would say about it, Christianity, what Christianity says about it, how to go about it. I think I think one of the first questions on my heart is so many people always wonder what it means to be equally yoked.

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What what what does it mean to be equally yoked in a relationship that's romantic?

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Whoa, I like that. I've never really thought about it that way. Yeah, because I just think about that. How do you do it? I guess something that I struggle with is because I know myself, you know yourself better than yourself. I don't know if we're just our biggest enemies and our biggest battle is our brain. Maybe I'm just too hard on myself.

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But how can I have a good, how can we as people have a good, healthy perspective of us acknowledging and being humble when we're wrong, but also not giving ourselves a hard time? Because then there might be someone on the other side of this listening that's like, dang, I'm the guy with the salvage title, the baggage, and then the self-worth, self-reflection on themselves.

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Not about how they view the other person. Their self-reflection is, well, I'm not good enough for this. I don't deserve it. How do we have a healthy perspective of ourselves in the midst of our brokenness?

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That's encouraging. So so in order to choose correctly, right? The ladies got to know what to look like look for in a man. Yeah, the men have to know what to look for in a woman. That's right. So for the women first, what does it mean to be a man according to the Bible?

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Yeah, I mean, even that goes back to that verse in Ephesians where it literally talks about the husband is going to lay their life down for the significant other, for their wife.

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And that strikes me. There's a weight to that. Totally. What do you think has caused this resurgence of, I don't know, I feel like it's hard to be a man sometimes, quote, unquote. Why do you think it is hard to be a man? Like are men hardwired to be protectors and providers? Or is that something that you have to teach yourself? Because I have moments of fear. I have moments of struggle.

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I have moments of brokenness. Does that mean I'm not a protector or provider? Or is that something I have to teach into myself? How do I build that, I don't know, beat that into my head? How do I get that in me, if that makes sense?

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to life if you guys want to come out to the hometown live podcast show may 18th go to ticket master and search up bryce crawford and get your tickets today guys i'm looking forward to seeing you guys on may 18th go to ticket master search bryce crawford get your tickets to the live podcast show may 18th love you guys now enjoy the episode what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the bryce crawford podcast i'm bryson today i'm with an awesome guest uh

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So why is there no verse in the Bible about dating?

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Hmm. I don't even know. The times I spend with her are amazing. And I love seeing her heart and I love seeing her character. And I also love the downtime moments where it's just like we're laughing about stupid stuff. Or like it's silly and things like that. I guess for me personally, not that we haven't had these conversations, but like what... Kind of almost like what you proposed earlier.

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I feel like the biggest thing for me is what are you attracted to about me the most? And what am I attracted to you about the most? I think that's a really healthy conversation to have.

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What about courting? Like, is that not the same thing? Basically, you're like, where did that come from?

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So I know a lot of people that, I want to get your thoughts on this. They see Paul say it's better to get married than to burn with passion, right?

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And something that I kind of try to understand, is it wrong to date for a long time or no? Yeah. Because to the people that say, oh, well, we got married because we were burning with a lot of passion. My question, not like trying to be like a butthole, but it's like, do you just not have self-control?

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Because self-control is the fruit of the spirit.

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So is it bad today for a long time if that fruit is bearing fruit in your life of self-control? And like to say that dating is this job application, like. what is the time limit on it? I know people that have gotten married in less than three months and they are so happy. And then I know other people that have gotten married in two years and they are incredibly happy.

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I'm using that as a broad label on it. I also know people that I got married quickly and screwed up. And then I also know people that have dated long and gotten married and they screwed up. I mean, is there like really a formula or can you just be like, it's all, it's all made up.

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So I hear sometimes people on TikTok say, man, they were my missing rib. You're my missing rib. Like you were my soulmate.

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Do you think God makes a person specifically for each person? Or do you think it's just kind of like free game, I guess?

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Dang, that's powerful. That's kind of like Hosea Gomer.

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Like literally.

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Crazy.

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How do we create healthy dating boundaries in relationships? Is that kind of like a Christian liberty kind of thing in a sense of what I mean? I label that as in do boundaries in dating. Is it like. if my list of boundaries is different than so-and-so's boundaries from like a broad perspective, does that make mine better or worse than theirs? Or how do you create that set of boundaries?

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Any sort of boundaries, physical, spiritual. Because sometimes people are like, oh, man, you shouldn't pray together when you're dating. And some people are like, oh, well, you should pray together when you're dating. And to me, I'm like, oh, I don't know. I don't even know. Like I, to me, I, when I hear that, like something like that, like you shouldn't pray together when you're dating.

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To me, I don't understand the, the, the wrong, why that's wrong.

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It has to be a, is that legalistic?

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Why do you think that society idolizes romantic relationships today so much?

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Dang.

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Whoa. So, dang, I had such a random thought and then I lost it for a second. It'll come back to me. I'm going to shift over to marriage really quick. Not necessarily about marriage. This is more so on the sexual side of things in marriage, which I think... I think a lot of people, these are the top two questions that I think a lot of people ask about anything sexual.

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Number one, in regards to marriage and sex, what leads to a healthy sex life in marriage if it's not about sex, right? Because dating is not about sex. Relationships are not about sex. But sex being a gift from God, what leads to that?

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yeah so when i guess when i think of like dating relationships like in high school i know people would date people if they were physically attracted to them is it wrong to be physically attracted to someone as a christian trying to pursue dating i feel like if in the world we live in right if you were gonna if you see a girl or you see a guy across the room right

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In marriage, can the bedroom become sinful?

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Yeah. That, that danger factor that you brought up with of like, Oh, erotic experience could be, you know, sleeping with your neighbor's significant other or outside of marriage. It reminded me, I think like Proverbs four or five or six, when it's like writing about the adulterous woman, like prepping the bed, like fine linen and the scent and, and, and don't worry, my husband's gone.

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Like this is going to be an elaborate experience. That's literally what my brain thinks about. Um, How can men or women love their significant other without giving their significant other power over them?

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I feel like my first thought is you're not going, oh, snap, man, their heart's awesome. You can't really see their heart, and you also don't really know them personally. But also, too, you get old and wrinkly, and my tattoos are not going to look the same in 30 years, and I'm going to look really old.

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When I say power, I mean like when they start to matter more than what matters most. Because that does sound like really intense. But I know it's easy in a relationship, I believe, because it's a form of love to label that person or that thing as... oh, yep, this is my everything. And then you kind of lose sight of yourself, who you are. Maybe you even lose your hobbies.

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Like one of the struggles I had, my relationship right now is like my first real long relationship. And I lost... I didn't know what hobbies I enjoyed after a little bit because I was so... thought Maddie was just amazing, which she is. She's absolutely amazing, but I didn't even know what I wanted to do. I lost myself for a second.

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Yeah, just like a Chipotle bag over here. I like a Chipotle. But I feel sometimes when I think about it, like with my girlfriend, I'm like, man, I love her heart. I love her character. But I also think she's so beautiful. Is it wrong for me to feel that way?

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Yeah, I like that. One thing I wanted to close with is... You're about your new book. I want to talk about it because I love you. It's about spiritual warfare. And I think I think the enemy attacks relationships the same way attacks our mind. Same thing. He attacks everything. You said you researched three years on spiritual warfare. Yeah.

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We just love you to talk a little bit about your story has a villain and kind of the heart behind it and where people can find it.

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Yeah. Where can, where can people find this book?

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Well, I'm excited to read it. Thank you for getting it to me. Thanks for dropping some wisdom on us about dating relationships.

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Yeah. Hey, you know, you already know.

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Thanks for coming on, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Guys, if you appreciated the wisdom we received from Pastor Jonathan, go check him out on social media. Love you guys. And see you guys in the next episode.

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Guys, thank you so much for watching and tuning into these episodes. Guys, if you love watching and listening to these episodes, aside from following us along on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, I want to ask you guys, would you guys consider partnering with our ministry financially?

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Your guys' radical generosity is actually what continues to fuel and produce these podcast episodes and our evangelism videos. So if you guys feel a burden to support this ministry, reach lost souls with the gospel through digital and in-person ministry, go to jesusinthestreet.org, pray and ask God, how should I partner with Bryce and their ministry and Jesus in the Street ministry?

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Should I partner with them in prayer? Should I partner with them in finances? Should I partner with them in support? Whatever it may be, pray and ask God, how should I support Jesus in the Street ministry? Love you guys. See you guys next week for the next episode.

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Pastor, Father, I would call you mentor of mine, Jonathan Picluda. How are you doing?

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Yeah, thanks for coming. Thanks for making the flight down. Dude, love it.

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Yeah, he's the best.

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Dang. I never even thought about porn having that much damage on people. But then, you know, I remember when I was in the sixth grade, I got exploited to pornography on a beach. It was like through a meme. But that was my introduction to pornography and then battled an addiction to pornography.

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He loves you. That's rare. He loves people, but he really loves you.

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And then right when I became a Christian, it was weird because there's some things that have stopped cold turkey and some things that haven't. That was actually one of the things that stopped cold turkey the moment I became a Christian.

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But I didn't realize how much it jacked me up here. Because then I had to rewrite my definition of love. My pastor told me one time, because I think this happens a lot today. We say love is the feeling. Like the butterflies. Oh, you give me butterflies? And so because you give me butterflies, then I'm going to show up perfectly.

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sorry, if you give me butterflies, then I'm going to choose to be committed to you. And then after I choose to be committed to you, then I'm going to show up for you.

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He likes that. Yeah, man. Well, I'm excited about today's episode. I've never done an episode on the topic of dating and what it means to be a Christian and finding a significant other, spouse, things like that. And so I'm super pumped to just pick your brand. I'm going to try to ask as many questions across the spectrum of dating as possible. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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yeah i i don't think feeling and i think you're communicating this to you i don't think feeling is a bad thing at all not at all but when it's first because when i look at the gospels jesus doesn't say oh well you make me feel awesome yeah he's like choosing to love us because despite despite the choice he knows that people are going to reject him even after he offers the greatest love sacrifice of all time yeah and then that choice because he chooses to love us he shows up for us in the highs and the lows

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because he walks with us through the valley of the shadow of death. We fear no evil. And he's with us in the highs. And I feel like the moments that I show up for my girlfriend, I make the choice to love Maddie because I do. I show up for her in the highs and lows. Even the low moments I show up for, it stirs my affections for Maddie. It like stirs that feeling.

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I guess something that I have a hard time understanding, I bet a lot of people are battling this right now about dating relationships, the charm aspect. You know, you can fake charm, you can't fake character. But how do you discern charm versus someone that has character but has flaws?

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Because I'm broken and every human being's broken and I find myself as a man in a relationship saying sorry a lot and making a lot of mistakes.

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How do you discern whether you're, oh, they're just faking it or they're just broken humans?

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and in today's episode, we're going to be talking about identity crisis. What do you have your identity in? What are you identifying as or with? And how does God see you? What's your identity in Christ? And what do we do about it? Super psyched about this episode, guys.

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So you know what your identity is before Christ? You're a dirty, rotten sinner. That's pretty crazy to think about. And you know what? We have to understand that and recognize that about ourselves first in order for us to need God. You know, that's the first beatitude in Matthew chapter five. He says, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Your identity before Christ is one that is broken, desperate, and in need of someone outside of themselves in order for saving. You need someone or something outside of yourself to save you. And why is that the case? How's that porn working out for you? How's that sex working out for you? How's the drugs, alcohol, the substances, or even how's the sexuality working out for you?

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Sorry I missed an episode last week. I was taking a little vacation break. We just got done with our live podcast show in Atlanta. It was an incredible night of worship and words. So guys, to those that came out to the Atlanta show, thanks for coming. More dates and cities soon. Coming soon.

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None of it's going to work. And the reality of sin and the reality that Timothy is describing in 2 Timothy is that it's going to be this endless pit of despair. You're going to be a lover of self. And when you go home and get real with yourself, you're going to be so depressed, so anxious and so lost and so confused and heartbroken.

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You're not going to know what to do with yourself, but you keep going back to that sin struggle because it's familiar. And honestly, that was the story of my life, man. Like I grew up, I've never done drugs or alcohol, but my vice growing up was porn. I got exported to pornography when I was in the fifth grade.

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And one of an outlet of frustration or an outlet for my depression or anxiety before I was a Christian was pornography. And what I realized when I was doing that was I didn't want to go back to pornography when I would get real with myself. But I kept going back because it was familiar because I thought, well, maybe it's going to work this time.

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Another vice I had when I was in school and high school was people please. And I thought if I could get everyone to like me. then I would feel better about myself. And to be honest with you, that was when I started to lose myself because I would be a completely different person to this person and a completely different person to that person and a completely different person to that person.

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And before you know it, I had lost myself in the opinions of other people. I didn't even know who I was in myself. I was so focused on being a completely different person. I would put someone else down to someone else to get one person's approval and then talk back behind the person's back I just got their approval of just to make the other person feel good.

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It never worked, but I kept going back to it. Why? Because it was familiar. Just because your sin habit or struggle is familiar doesn't mean it's beneficial. It could actually be the poison that's killing you. The vice, the sin struggle that you think is helping numb the pain is actually slowly killing your heart and your soul. And so who are you?

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I mean, Proverbs 14 actually tells us that there's a way that seems right to a man, but in the end, he leads to death. As sinners, right? Because we are born into a world of sin, we have this sinful nature. Our way leads to death. So many of us are living our life based on what feels good, what feels right, this, that, and the other. Well, feelings change like chaff in the wind.

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I mean, one week they were praising Jesus laying palm leaves while he's riding a donkey, praising him, wanting him to become king. And then a week later, they're chanting, crucify him, crucify him, kill him, the king of the Jews. So people's opinions change like chaff in the wind. What makes you think that your feelings aren't going to change?

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One week you might be totally against substances, and then the next week you might be so broken you're down to pick up the bottle for the first time.

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I mean, if you're not in the Word of God, if you're not founded on something that is sustainable, then you're going to be in your feelings, and your feelings are going to turn you and toss you like the waves of the ocean, and you're not going to know who you are. but we need something to build our rock on, something firm. That's the crazy thing about Jesus Christ.

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The most mind-blowing thing about the Bible and about Jesus Christ is that it is a timeless piece of not philosophy. It's not a timeless piece of just doctrine. It is a timeless piece of life. of who you're actually supposed to be.

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But let's talk about identity crisis because I think that this is something very important for us to dive into and kind of dissect because... What we don't understand is that a lot of people lose their identity in many different things. And one reason this was on my heart, we're filming this on June 1st. I don't know if you guys know, this is the first day of Pride Month.

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This timeless piece of Bible scripture, this timeless doctrine of Christianity has been impacting generations for thousands of years and hasn't needed to be altered or changed to impact and change people's lives. So the term of being saved is actually being born again, being born to who you were caused to be. Romans 3.23 says, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

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The fact is you and I are broken. We're born into sin. We're born with a sinful nature. We're born naturally rebelling against God. We're born naturally relying on our feelings. So no wonder we're going through an identity crisis.

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And this is the wake-up call of maybe it's finally time to realize, man, the bottle, the pills, the sexuality, the community, this, that, and the other, the stealing, the robbing, whatever you're doing, it's not going to work, it hasn't worked, and it won't work. But Jesus Christ, this timeless being who broke through the barrier of time and space, which his doctrine, his perfect doctrine,

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flawless, righteous doctrine has actually saved us from ourselves and is impacting generations before, during, and will impact generations after us. We don't need anything but Jesus. And because of our sinful nature, you know what? We deserve death.

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So your identity before Christ is a sinner, someone that deserves to be punished, someone that deserves to take accountability for the things that you've done wrong. But then there's this verse in 2 Corinthians 5. Where Paul is writing to the church of Corinth about the ministry of reconciliation, we have to understand what was going on in Corinth.

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Back at this time in Corinth, you had people who were lovers of self, lovers of money, who were involved in crazy sexual immorality. So if there's any crowd that needs to be spoken this message to, it's them. And this is the crowd that America needs to hear this message from. In verse 16 of 2 Corinthians 5, it says, From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh.

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Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. This is the verse. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come. Romans actually tells us that we are justified by the blood of Christ that was worked on the cross. So when you put your faith in Jesus Christ,

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what he did on the cross, that he really paid for your sin, that he paid for your wrongdoing, the nature that you have, the sinful nature, the actions that you do of sin, the condition of the world's sin, when you put your faith in Christ, that he has taken away and paid the penalty of sin, the condition of your soul, the condition of the world, the condition of your actions, when you put faith in them, it wipes your slate clean as if you've never done anything wrong.

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That's forgiveness. Forgiveness is canceling the debt someone owes you. We have this unpayable debt towards God with our sin, the conditions of our state, the conditions of the world, the conditions of your actions. We have this unpayable debt towards God that we can never pay in anything in this world. So we have to pay with our life.

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We've actually got a whole month's worth of preaching the gospel at pride parades and pride events and things like that coming up this month. But when we're at these pride events, we're noticing that people are identifying with their sexuality. Oh, well, just let everyone love what they want to love or just love this and that.

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But Christ loves us enough to pay the price that we deserve to pay with our own life by saying, no, I got this. And if you put your faith in me, that what I've done on this cross is sufficient enough for you, then you'll be saved and it'll wipe your slate clean as if you've never done anything wrong.

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And verse 21, it says, for our sake, he made him to be sin who knew no sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, became sin on the cross so you and I could become God's righteousness. What does that mean? The standard for heaven is perfection. You know yourself better than I do. You know the mistakes you just made in the past 24 hours.

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You know the mistakes you've made the past three months. You know the sin habit that you just can't shake free from. You know how broken you are. And you know, if you stood before God, just as if I were to stand before God right now, we don't deserve to be in his presence. The standard of heaven is perfection.

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But 2 Corinthians, Paul writes, he who knew no sin, he who was perfect, became sin, past, present, and future on the cross so that you and I could become what? Righteousness, perfection, the standard necessary to enter into heaven.

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The blood of Jesus Christ is this robe of righteousness that actually cleanses us from our sin so that we make the standard, so that we can stand before God, so that we can become united with Christ in relationship with him. It's powerful. John chapter one says, but all who did receive Christ, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. So what's your identity?

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Maybe you're identifying with money right now. Summer's up. You got a summer job. You're making a load of money. Maybe you're identifying with how much sex you can have with people. Maybe you're identifying with the drugs, the alcohol, the party life. Maybe you're identifying with your 4.0 GPA that you're trying to keep up with in the summer classes.

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But the reality is, is those things are just as shaky as the opinions of man. They're going to fail. But Jesus Christ doesn't change his mind about you.

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And when you put your faith in someone that isn't going to change his mind about you, when you put your faith in someone that's perfect, eternal, and just, that has once and for all killed sin on the cross, you realize that your identity is not perfect. your GPA in school. Your identity is not money. It's not sex. It's not drugs. Your identity is not how many bodies you have.

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Your identity isn't how much money you make. Your identity isn't your GPA in school. When you put your faith in Christ, Jesus takes you from a dirty, rotten sinner to now you've become his child. To all who believe in him, John 1.12 says, you've been given the right to be called children of God. John 8 gives this interesting dilemma.

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So we're going to be talking about identity and what that looks like and things like that. But first, we have to understand what our identity is. and then what our identity is like in Christ. What does the Bible say about all these things? Well, first of all, I just want to go ahead and say that in 2 Timothy 3, Timothy actually describes what most people are going to be like in the end times.

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He says, and you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free. And then he says, everyone is a slave to sin. And then he says, but a slave is temporary, but a son is forever. You don't have to live like this anymore.

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You don't have to live bound to your sin struggle, bound to the porn addiction, bound to the drugs, bound to the alcohol, because the reality is, is if you try to shake yourself free from that, that's going to be your identity forever. You can't shake yourself free. But Jesus says, blessed are the poor in spirit.

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Blessed are you, brother or sister listening to this, that recognize you need someone outside of yourself to save you. Blessed are you, brother or sister, when you're sick and tired of numbing the pain with substances, with Netflix, TikTok, food. Blessed are you when you realize you're sick and tired of that and you need something that will sustain you. For what do you inherit?

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kingdom of heaven when you recognize hey i am a sinner and i'm in need of someone outside of myself to save me and you put your faith in christ you now become a child of god and the thing you inherit for recognizing that you need jesus christ is more of him a few verses later last thing i'll close with is jesus blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god

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anyone watching or listening to this, you know right now, whatever sin struggle you have, whatever addiction you're holding to right now, whatever it may be, you understand in this moment what you need to give up to God. You understand right now, if you're watching or listening to this, you know what things are holding you back from God.

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And all knowing God is waiting on you to invite him into a relational aspect where you confess things that he already knows you're going through. He's looking for trust. He's looking for sincerity. And that's why Jesus is blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. When you get honest with God, the reward for deep, sincere honesty with God is more of him.

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You can give 99% of yourself to God and the 1% you're withholding back is this one sin struggle that you just don't want to give up. You're still unknown to God. You're not trusting him. You're not being honest. But the reality is this transparency leads to transformation. When you look at John 4, the woman at the well, all of her cards were on the table. Yeah, I've been ran through.

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I've had five different husbands, and the dude I live with now isn't even my husband. What does Jesus say? I will give you water where you don't have to thirst anymore. A lot of you are thirsty out there. You're looking to the money. You're looking to the drugs, the substances. Another joint, just one more joint, man, and then I'll put it down. Man, just one more time.

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And this description is what people are naturally like already in a world of sin. He says people will be lovers of self, lovers of money,

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I'm going to sleep with her one more time or sleep with him one more time and then I'll be good. You don't need that, man. You need Christ. You need Jesus. So I'm going to pray for us really quick. What is your identity? Well, there's two types of people listening to this. You got someone who doesn't know Christ at all who needs to recognize, hey, I'm a sinner. I'm in need of Jesus' saving grace.

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I'm broken. We're going to pray that God reveals that to you, reveals his love to you and that you'll come to know that. And then there's other people who may be a Christian who don't view themselves the way that God sees them. And so they let their sin bind them in shame and guilt and they hide in the coward.

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And I want to tell that person that's a Christian, first of all, submit, give that up to God. But second thing, man, you're God's child. It's not who you are anymore. You need the strength of the spirit of God to help you. So Jesus, thank you so much. that you set us free from our addictions. Jesus, thank you that you set us free from ourselves.

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God, your word says that there's a way that seems right to a man. There's a way that seems right, but in the end, it leads to death. God, thank you that your way is better. God, first of all, I pray for the person listening or watching this that hasn't recognized that they need you. God, would you just soften their heart?

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Proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people. That's just the life of sin Timothy describes.

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Let them recognize under your power and the tugging of your spirit that they need you. And second, I speak to those who already are putting their faith in you, God, but there's sin that is holding them back from knowing more of you, God. But you give them the strength to give up every sin habit towards you so that they can experience the fullness of you, God.

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God, we just ask to continue to move in our lives. God, we love you, praise you. In Jesus' mighty name, amen.

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Luke Series Chapter 2 (EP 56)

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we're on day two of the Christmas Luke series, where for the whole month of December, from December 1st through December 24th, we're gonna be breaking down each chapter of Luke, verse by verse, so that by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you will have read the entire Gospel of Luke.

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And while they were there, the time came from her to give birth, and she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. There's a couple things I want to identify about verses 1 through 7 here, all right? I love Luke's simple presentation of the birth of Jesus.

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He's like, look, there's extensive stories, extensive details about it. I'm just going to keep it simple. We know an angel visited Mary. She's bearing the Messiah, and it's like, oh, she was there while they were in Bethlehem. She gives birth to Jesus Christ and wrapped him in a swallowing cloth and laid him in a manger. So we know the gist of the story.

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The second thing I want to identify here was briefly mentioned at the very beginning. This is in the time period of Caesar Augustus reign. We're in a crucial time period now where Caesar Augustus is one of the most important figures of history in this time period. Caesar Augustus, he's in reign, he's in power here.

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And this is important because the same world that Caesar Augustus is reigning in and governing in is also the same world that Jesus is about to be born into today. And this world is in shambles right now. I mean, it's drowned in morality and war and destruction and brutality. And this is the world that Caesar Augustus is reigning in and the world that Jesus is about to be born into.

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We're on chapter two of Luke. If you guys wanna print out a free PDF Bible plan to track your readings, and to make sure that you're watching these verse by verse breakdowns on YouTube or listening to them on Spotify, Go to our ministry website at jesusinthestreet.org slash Luke and download the free PDF today.

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This is important for us to recognize because people are in need of hope. And Jesus Christ is about to be hope in the midst of this war-filled, brutality-filled, violent time period of life. So we see that, and then we also look at this simple birth story. Let's go to verse 8 and look at the angels visiting the shepherds.

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Verse 8, Now we need to understand, the flock that these Bethlehem shepherds are watching over aren't just any flock. It's the temple flock, which means that these shepherds would be protecting the lambs that would be used as offering in the temple. Why is this such an important thing? You guys actually watch over the lambs that are used for sacrifice at the temple on behalf of sins?

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Well, I'm about to introduce you guys to the Lamb of God who's going to take away the sins of the world once and for all. This is a beautiful picture we need to understand here. The role of the shepherds. They watch the flock of sheep and lambs that are used at slaughter. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.

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And the angel said, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you. You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.

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And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased. Okay, so the angel not only delivers the message and says, Hey, listen, the Messiah is here, but he gives them a sign to recognize the Messiah by, which is the baby's going to be in a manger.

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The king of the universe is going to be delivered in a horse feeding trough. Not in a hospital, not in a place that was nice and clean. He comes humbly in a horse trough. And then after that angel appears, a multitude of angels appear and they worship the Lord. Verse 15.

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When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened with which the Lord has made known to us. There was zero hesitation for the shepherds. They said, Oh my gosh, the Messiah is here. We've got to go see this thing. And they gave them a sign to recognize the Messiah by, the feeding trough.

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And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the baby lying in the manger. That's key. They didn't just find any baby. They found the baby lying in the manger, the sign that the angel said that they would witness. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning the child. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds had told them. Verse 19.

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But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in their heart. What a beautiful thing. Instead of being filled with pride, Mary and Joseph were just in awe, wonder, and joy. That God is a fulfillment of a promise that he spread in the word. And so they treasured the fact that this truth, this promise that had been given to them is unfolding before them.

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And this isn't just a promise of a child on their behalf. This is a promise of the savior of the world that they're watching unfold. And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen as it had been told to them. At the end of the eight days when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

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And we look at the story of the shepherds who were so moved by the birth of Jesus Christ. If the shepherds were moved so much to go tell people about the hope of the Savior of the world, just by seeing him as a child being born in a feeding trough, then how much more should we be moved as Christians by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ?

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that takes away the sins of the world, that gives us a clean slate and unites us in relationship with him, how much more should we be moved to share the love of Christ with people? Because now we have hope and a purpose and unity with Jesus Christ because of his sacrifice. Such a beautiful thing.

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If the shepherds were moved by just the birth of Jesus Christ, then how much more should we be moved by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ? Now we're going to look at Jesus being presented at the temple.

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And this needs to be important here, because although Jesus was fully God, he was also fully man, which means he humbled himself and limited himself in his humanity to submit himself to the law of God, the law of Moses. It says, Okay, let me pause there. Sorry, before we go further. Jesus Christ, we're going to watch him as a child. Two things here.

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Mary and Joseph were obedient to the Lord and the law of the Lord. They went through the motions and being obedient to the law of the Lord and did exactly what they were supposed to do with the newborn child. Now, Jesus Christ would be exempt from these purification laws because he wasn't born into sin. He was born of a virgin. He was fully God.

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You can go to jesusinthestreet.com for the merch today. Now let's get into Luke chapter 2. This is beautiful. We're about to read about the birth of Jesus Christ, the angels visiting the shepherds, and then we're going to look at Jesus.

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But we watch himself identify himself with mankind by going through the same law of Moses, showing himself being fully submitted to the law of the Lord, to the will of the Lord. It's a beautiful thing. Now, we see in verse 25, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

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And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord Christ. So Simeon, being a righteous man, had been revealed to him by the Lord some time ago that he would not die until he saw the Messiah. What a beautiful promise and thing to hold on to. And he was led by the Spirit into the temple.

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Being a devout righteous man, leaning into the unctions of the Holy Spirit, he was led by the Spirit to the temple. And he came by the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought the child in,

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It says, And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him according to the custom of the law, he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word. For my eyes have seen your salvation.

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You have prepared in the presence of all peoples a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people of Israel. And his father and mother marveled at what was said about him. And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother, behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel and for a sign that is opposed so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.

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Simeon holds the baby up and the Lord makes it very clear to him that he is witnessing the Messiah of the world. And he gives thanks to God saying, Lord, you have fulfilled your promise to me. Now I can die in peace. Die in peace knowing that the sins of the world, past, present, and future, about to be taken care of. That there is hope for despair and sin in the world.

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He says that his eyes have seen the salvation of the Lord. He is prepared in his presence of all the peoples, the light of the world, the light of the Gentiles. And then he tells Mary and Joseph, he says, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel. Meaning that Jesus is either one of two things for people.

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Actually, one of the only times in Scripture, if not, I think it's the only time in Scripture, that we see something about Jesus being like a little teenage boy, almost. It's going to be awesome. Let's read the first few verses. In those days, the decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

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Jesus is either a magnet for people, that people are drawn to Jesus because they are hopeless and in need of hope, in need of eternal hope, in need of undying hope, in need of unfailing hope, or he's repellent. He is truth.

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Jesus Christ is the embodiment of truth so much that he is either a magnet of hope for people or he repels people that want to live on their own and that don't want to live for the Lord. That's what he says. And he says, and he is for a sign that is opposed so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.

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See, like, man, many people are going to say nasty things about him because he's the Messiah. And then it says in verse 36 that there was a prophetess, Anna, Of the tribe of Asher, she was advanced in her years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, and then as a widow until she was 84.

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She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day, and coming up at that very hour, she began to give thanks to God and speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem. So again, we have a devout woman, Anna, a prophetess is all we know about her. She was devoted. What it says is she was devoted to the temple. She wouldn't leave the temple.

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She was devoted to the Lord. She was just righteous and faithful to the Lord. And she stayed in the temple praying and fasting. And when she had witnessed the Messiah, Jesus Christ, before her, she couldn't not but speak about him. That's what Scripture says.

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Verse 39, and when they had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned in Galilee to their own town of Nazareth, and the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon it. Verse 39 is confirmation. They had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, and they had returned to Galilee.

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This just means that Jesus Christ fulfilled the law on the earth. He was obedient to God, both in his calling and to the law that was on the earth. It's a beautiful thing. Now, here we go. We get into the last bit of Luke chapter 2 here I think is so beautiful. Because we're about to see young Jesus in action.

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Verse 41, Now, every year, these people had to go to temple on behalf of the holidays and celebrations, and they were there for the Feast of Passover. When the feast ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus had stayed behind in Jerusalem.

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His parents did not know it, but supposing him to be in the group, they went a day's journey, but they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances. And when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem searching for him. This would have been very easy to lose Jesus. There's such a big crowd going to the feast of Passover.

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I mean, it's not like weird that they lost Jesus in the crowd. There's so many people there. After three days, They found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding of his answers.

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So they come to the temple, and not only is Jesus still at the temple, but he's teaching these guys what he knows, this 12-year-old boy. Jesus, fully God, but we see his humanity at work as well. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.

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This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria, and all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem. because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary his betrothed, who was with child.

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And these are the first recorded words that we have of Jesus Christ here in the gospel timeline. Verse 49, and he said to them, why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my father's house? And I love the scripture because when I was studying the scripture, I found out that

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that at the age of 12 years old, that a boy in this time period would start to grow in their calling as a man, that they would have this deep connection with their father. That they would be building this connection and this longevity with their father at around 12 years old. And so Jesus Christ saying this to Mary and Joseph is, there was acknowledgement that he was the Messiah.

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He had to have known it because he said that. But number two, he's emphasizing that he does have some very particular calling. There's something special and different about him and he has to consult with his true father, God the Father. Verse 50, and they didn't understand what the saying that he spoke to them.

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And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them again, showing Jesus being fully obedient to the law of the Lord. You shall honor your father and mother. Jesus Christ in his younger years was submissive to his parents. And his mother treasured up all these things. She cherished the time of him being young.

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And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God a man. We know as Jesus was submissive to his parents, we know that at some point Joseph was out of the picture. Jesus became a carpenter and became a man of the house.

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But this shows that not only was Jesus acknowledging his special relationship with God the Father, but he was also acknowledging his submission to the law of the Lord that had been established on the earth. And he is the fulfillment of the law of the Lord. This is so beautiful because now we have seen the birth of Jesus Christ.

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We have seen the promise delivered to the shepherds and the shepherds deliver the good news. Then we see young Jesus here who says, hey, I recognize that there's something different about me. He's not being prideful about it, but he's got to make a distinction with God the Father here.

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He's building his relationship with God the Father and he's submissive to the law of the Lord and everything, the purification laws and everything. And he's submissive to his mother and father. And in Luke chapter 3, we're about to see John the Baptist prepare the way for the Lord here and begin to walk in the calling that John the Baptist has on his life. I love you guys.

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I pray that this episode blessed you guys. Like and subscribe. Follow Bryce Carver Podcast on all social media platforms. I look forward to seeing you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 3 as we dive into John the Baptist's calling and him preparing the way for the Messiah to begin his earthly ministry.

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Luke Series Chapter 20 (EP 74)

What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver podcast. I'm Bryce and today we are on Luke chapter 20 of the 24 day Luke Christmas series where every day we've been reading a chapter of Luke. So by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. Guys, this is our fifth to last one.

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And they discussed it with one another, saying, If we say from heaven, he will say, Why did you not believe him? But if we say from man, all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet, like we just said. So they answered that they did not know where he came from. And Jesus said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

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Jesus decided not to answer their question directly, not because he didn't want to, but he recognized that the Pharisees were insincere seekers of him. Jesus has extreme compassion on sincere seekers of him. Jesus is not going to entertain insincere seekers of him. Verse 9. And they began to tell the people this parable.

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A man planted a vineyard and let it out to the tenants and went into another country for a long while. Now, the phrase vineyard, these Jews would understand that in the Old Testament, this picture of a vineyard was known to be Israel. So when they hear this phrase and they're like, oh, okay, this is cool.

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Like we think about Israel, which is very important because Jesus's earthly ministry, it came to the Jewish people. Jesus didn't write the Bible to America. he, Jesus, like the Bible wasn't written to America. That's what I'm saying. It was written for believers, but the audience in this time period is Jews. Okay.

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So when he's speaking to them, they recognize this race vineyard is referencing to Israel. Okay. This is important. When the time came out, he sent a servant to the tenants that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard, but the tenants beat him and sent him away empty handed. And he sent another servant, but they also beat and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty handed.

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And he sent yet a third. This one also, they wounded and cast it out. Okay. Imagine how many prophets have been sent by God and people have persecuted them, tried to kill them, all these things. I mean, you look at like Jezebel headhunting the prophets in the Old Testament. You look at so many other stories. How many times were the prophets persecuted?

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Then the owner of the vineyard said, what shall I do? Will I send my beloved son? Perhaps they will respect him. Now keep in mind, God looks down on mankind and says, there needs to be a perfect sacrifice for this wicked, sinful mankind. I'm going to have my son, beloved son, take on flesh and live a perfect life for mankind. Maybe then they'll believe, right? That's the heart posture of a man.

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Maybe then they'll believe if Jesus comes in the flesh. When the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, this is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours. And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to the others.

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When they heard this, they said, surely not. But he looked directly at them and said, what then is this that is written? The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is a quote from Psalm 118. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces.

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Everyone who comes to Jesus Christ, the foundation, the cornerstone of our faith, the author and perfecter of our faith, everyone who comes to him, their pride will be broken to pieces. And when it falls on anyone, it will crush him. Those that don't come to Jesus, his righteous judgment will crush them in the end. Verse 19.

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For they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be sincere that they might catch him in something he said so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. They're trying to trip up Jesus, basically what they're saying.

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So they asked him, teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly and show no partiality. They're trying to show flattery to Jesus to butter him up. That doesn't work. But truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar or not? So now they're trying to trip him up. Because they're testing whether he's going to honor the sovereignty of God or not here.

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So if you guys want to come out and support our ministry and come be a part of an amazing night, powerful night, January 19th, 6 p.m., go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets and get your tickets. For some reason, the website says 21 and up. It's not 21 and up. Anyone can come. It's going to be a great night. Let's dive into Luke chapter 20 and see what Jesus is saying.

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But he perceived their craftiness and said to them, show me a denarius, show me a coin. Whose likeness and inscription does it have on it? They said to Caesars. He said to them, then render to Caesars the things that are to Caesars and to God the things that are to God's. What is he saying here?

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He's saying that in the natural, we have the civil duty because God has delegated authority to people and the authorities have created the governments of the world. We must honor the government authorities. in the practical and the natural. But then he says, and render to God the things that are God's.

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Every human being that has the imprint of the image of God on them, which if you don't know this, here's a little secret. Every human being is made in the image of God. That's a little secret. Then we render to God what is God's. Okay? Very clear. And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him and what he said, but marveling at his answer, they became silent.

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There came to him some Sadducees and those who deny that there is a resurrection. And they asked him a question saying, Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Look, they're making up this hypothetical, this extremely hypothetical situation about the afterlife.

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Now there were seven brothers. The first took his wife and died without children. And the second and the third took her. And likewise, all seven left no children and died. Afterward, the woman died also. And the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as a wife. So they're trying to trip him up with this hypothetical question here.

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And their perspective of the eternal life with Jesus, the eternal life with God, is drastically different than what Jesus is about to paint a picture here. The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage in this lifetime. But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given a marriage.

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When he says neither marry nor are given a marriage, he's saying what happens in eternal life is going to be drastically different than what's going on here. It's going to be totally different. It's not like the same things that happen in this lifetime just correlate into an infinite amount of time. Like it's going to be two totally different worlds, two totally different things.

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But that the dead are raised. Even Moses showed in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. He couldn't be called the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob if they weren't still alive in an afterlife. Okay, if they didn't have an eternity. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.

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Then some of the scribes answered, Teacher, you have spoken well, for they no longer dared to ask him any questions. But then Jesus said to this, how could they say that the Christ is David's son? For David himself says in the book of Psalms, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. David thus calls him Lord. So how is he his son?

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This quote is from Psalm 110 verse 1, where David calls the Messiah Lord. And we can see this in Revelation 22 verse 16, that Jesus Christ is both the root and the offspring of David. He is the root of salvation for all mankind and for David, but he is the physical genetic offspring of David from a legal standpoint. Verse 45 to close out chapter 20.

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And in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, beware of the scribes. Beware of these people who claim to be close to me with their mouth, but are far from me in their heart. Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts.

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Now, it's going to open up this chapter here where the Pharisees were challenging the authority of Jesus here. One day, Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel. The chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up and said to him, tell us by what authority do you do these things or who it is that gave you this authority?

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who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. See, these scribes thought if they said longer prayers, they would be heard by God and they use fancy words that their prayers would be heard by God faster and things like that. They will receive their greater condemnation. They've received their reward.

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What is the reward that the scribes have seen, have received for their unrighteousness? What is the reward that they've received? They've received the approval of man. They've done everything for the approval of man. Jesus says they've received their reward, but they will receive their greater condemnation on the day of judgment. Man, that was a powerful chapter. There was a lot going on there.

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There was a lot of pushback from the Pharisees and Sadducees and religious leaders. But man, Jesus does not falter under their craftiness and their foolishness. It's so powerful to watch Jesus navigate these tough situations. And I love personally how Jesus asks questions in return to their questions. Man, I pray that Luke chapter 20 bless you guys. We got four more days of this.

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He answered them, I'll also ask you a question. Now tell me, was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Now some people might hear that and they might think, but Jesus totally dodged this question. He did not. He's not dodging it at all. He's making a statement here saying, you guys believe John the Baptist was a prophet sent from God. It's undeniable. The people believe it.

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And if you guys believe that John was sent from God, then he was also right in saying that Jesus Christ was the Messiah because they believe John, John the Baptist was a prophet from God. And John the Baptist was literally saying, here's Jesus. He's the Messiah. So he's like, if you think that John was from God, then you think I'm from God.

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