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Eric Ennis: We are on a study series
called The Road to Resurrection, and

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we're looking at the last week of Christ.

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Now, I had warned the worship team
and all staff beforehand that, Hey,

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I'm gonna need as much time as I can
today because I am covering two topics.

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That's very interesting.

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And here's the irony of this.

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One of the stories I'll be covering
is probably one of the most common

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stories we talk about all the
time in our church fellowship.

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Uh, every contribution, this is
one of the top picks that we go to.

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The very next thing that we talk about
that's by the, in case you didn't get the

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hint, it's the offering of the Poor Widow.

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Uh, the very next story is what's
known as the olive discourse.

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And I have never seen a sermon
preached on this in my 30 years

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of this sur of this church.

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And depending on how today goes,
it may be another 30 years before

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we see a sermon on this again.

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Um, but I'm gonna try to go through it
how these two stories and, and what Jesus

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is talking about really go together.

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Because oftentimes what happens when
we read the Bible, we, we kind of go in

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and, and read a story and then forget
that things happen beforehand and after,

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and there's context to what's happening.

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And so as we dive into Luke 21, know
that we're on a mission for Jesus looking

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at the cross and ultimate resurrection.

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And I'm gonna begin with Luke 20 verse 45.

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I'm gonna back up just a moment.

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Again, Marcel covered Luke 20 last week,
but I want to give just a little bit of

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context to what I'm gonna be going into.

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Uh, by the way, I put these other
verses up there and Matthew and Mark,

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in case you want to do a deeper dive
yourself of parallel scriptures on

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what we're gonna be covering today.

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So Luke 20 verse one.

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I'll start here just to
give us some context.

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One day as Jesus was teaching the
people in the temple courts and

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proclaiming the good news, the chief
priests and teaches the law together

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with the elders, came up to him.

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Tell us by what authority you're
doing these things they said,

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and who gave you this authority?

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So this is what Marcel
talked about last week.

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Jesus was being confronted in the temple.

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He's at the temple and he's being
confronted by these different groups,

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chief priests or Sadducees, the Pharisees,
the the teachers of the law, the scribes.

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And he's being challenged.

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He's being challenged politically.

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He's being challenged theologically,
and he's having to answer back.

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I'm gonna skip ahead.

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To talk about these groups here.

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'cause I, I need you to understand
who's having these discussions.

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'cause oftentimes we hear these
names, Sadducees, Pharisees, teachers

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of Law, and we think they're the
same thing and they're actually not.

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In fact, they oftentimes
don't like each other.

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The only thing they seem to agree
on is they don't like Jesus.

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That's about the only
thing they got in common.

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So who are these people?

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The Pharisees are very strict religious
leaders, uh, oftentimes known as rabbi.

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They're very respected by the people.

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Uh, the way I think of them is,
is a quote from The Dark Knight.

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If you've ever seen that film,
and if you haven't, you should.

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But there's a line in there that says
you either die a hero or live long

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enough to see become of the villain.

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And that's how I see the Pharisees,
the Pharisees during the Maccabean,

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uh, revolt, where the people that
held the Jewish nation together,

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which is why they're so respected.

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But over time, uh.

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Their need for recognition and
their desire for authority and

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specifically, uh, their altering
of scripture to match their, their

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traditions will sideline them.

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But they're a minority group in
the Sanhedrin, the Jewish Ruling

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Council, and they're resisting Rome.

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They don't like the Hellenization.

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The Greek influence.

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The Roman influence.

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So that's who the Pharisees are, the
Sadducees, they're the cheap priests.

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They're the ones who control
the temple at this time.

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They only believe in the tour and
a little interpretation of that.

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They don't believe in
like the resurrection, for

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instance, or any resurrection.

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Um, but they're in charge of all
the ceremonies, all the finances.

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So when Jesus is overturning the
tables in the temple, he's directly

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going against the DUIs and they are
in charge of the Sanhedrin, and they

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have a lot of political power because
they've been given it by Rome, which is

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why the people don't like them because
they're very much in line with Rome.

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And then you have this third group.

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The teachers of the law also, not
those scribes, they're the ones

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who are copying down scripture.

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Now these guys are oftentimes aligned
with the Pharisees, but sometimes

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not These guys are legal scholars.

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Uh, also they are known to be brought
in to kind of help interpret things.

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So these are very powerful groups
at this time at the Temple.

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I just wanna make sure you understand the
major players here because here we go.

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Into this next verse in Luke 2045 to
47, while all the people were listening,

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so all the people were listening to
Jesus having this discourse with these

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groups who are all very powerful.

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Jesus said to disciples, beware
of the teachers of the law.

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They like to walk around and flowing
rows and love to be greeted with respect

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in the marketplaces and have the most
important seats in the synagogues.

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And in the places of honor at banquets,
he's calling out their vanity.

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He's calling out, man, this is what
they truly love, but here we go.

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They devour widow's houses and for
show, make lengthy prayers, these

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men will be punished most severely.

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You can imagine this would get
the ire of those two groups.

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Yep.

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When he's just called them out and
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their shall, their religion has
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the people rather than serve God.

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And he has this line,
they devour widows houses.

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What is that about?

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Well, oftentimes women would
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Uh, if their husbands died, it would
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the estates would be transferred to.

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Teachers of the law, and they would
run their estate for them as a

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trust, but sometimes that would be
mishandled and these poor widows

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would suffer the consequences.

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And so he's just mentioned this,
talking about the most powerful

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people in the temple and that he
turns his attention to somebody else.

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And I put continue here because
oftentimes when we read the Bible,

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we hit a chapter and we end the
chapter and we think, okay, I'm done.

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But the chapters work to help
us understand what's, you

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know, how to reference things.

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But that doesn't mean that
the story ends there, right?

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And so I, I want, you know, as much as
I love chapters and verses, I think an

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unintended consequences, we read a chapter
a day, you know, keeps God at obey.

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I don't know, you know, we love
this idea of keeping your chapter.

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We stop, but the idea
is the stories going.

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And here we go in Luke
21, as Jesus looked up.

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He saw the rich putting their
gifts in the Temple Treasury.

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He also saw a poor widow put
in two very small copper coins.

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Truly, I tell you, he said, this poor
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All these people gave their gifts out
of their wealth, but she, out of her

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poverty, put in all she had to live on.

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He's comparing this widow to these
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these Sadducees, these groups here.

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That outta their abundance give.

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And he says she gave hardly anything.

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In fact, the coins that she's
giving is what's known as a leptin

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in Greek or might in English.

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They're very small.

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They're one 64th of a common day's wage.

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And so I, I quickly did some math
based on minimum wage here, and it's

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basically like someone working a full
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dollars and that's all they got.

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And this is all she's got.

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And when I say it's a very small
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These are very small coins

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and this is what she has
and this is what she gives.

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And God is calling out these Pharisees
who, man, they could write the big

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checks, they could put it in there.

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And he says, what influence should she
have or what, what influence should

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they have in comparisons to hers?

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None.

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And I think this is hard
for us here in our politics.

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You know who writes the biggest checks?

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The biggest donors.

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They get the seats, you know,
they, they get the influence,

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but that's not true with God.

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Those who write the biggest
checks don't, but those who give

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the most outta their heart do.

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So he's making this comparison here.

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He's talking about these teachers
of the law and, and they put

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their confidence in their, in
their vanity and in their wealth.

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And here's this poor woman who,
here's what she has, and she gives it.

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And then the Bible keeps
going into Luke 21, 5.

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Some of his disciples were remarking about
how the temple was adorned with beautiful

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stones and with gifts dedicated to God.

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Notice the disciples don't get it.

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What's their focus right now?

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Look at this temple,
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Jesus just pointed out this
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That's matters.

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And what do they get excited by?

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Man, look at this amazing building.

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Look how awesome it looks.

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So Jesus.

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Is gonna help redirect them again.

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I want to explain a little bit
about the temple because again, uh,

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most of us haven't been to Israel.

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You've probably never seen a temple,
uh, or seen the temple, uh, in

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its heyday 'cause we were never
alive because it was destroyed.

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Uh, but maybe you don't
know much about it.

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This is a mockup in Israel.

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It's a scale drawing because it
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Um, it's almost a football
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It's huge.

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It's massive.

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If you see that little door, I'll try
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that's the door you would enter in.

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This is the road that
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Palm Sunday d enter as
coming off the hill.

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This is the heart of the
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On both sides.

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You have the gentile court
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Uh, the gentile cord is where the
woman could also go, which is where

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she's putting her two copper of corns
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This is the temple mount here.

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It's also being overlooked
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Oh, they did not like that,
but it's a massive structure.

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It's huge.

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But to give you some concept and how
big this is, I want you to just take a

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look at these walls here and this large
area, just to give you some context.

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The size of the temple
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In case you don't know what 36
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it, math and numbers and art.

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Strong suit here in America.

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I know this 'cause I'm a teacher.

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Um, an acre is about the
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So the temple mount is about
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the walls, oh, the temple itself is
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So you haven't been to Rome?

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The Roman form's massive.

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The temple mount, the temple
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The walls leading up to it
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I try to find an object
that's about 150 feet tall.

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Just to get in comparison,
the Arc Day triumph is about a

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little over a hundred feet tall.

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So if you get an idea of the little
people there and how tall the walls

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are, it's a massive structure.

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So you could see why the Jewish people
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also took a lot of security in it.

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In fact, many people
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Because they felt the
temple was so strong.

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And here's Jesus, you know, and here's
the disciples going look at, look

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how great this temple is after just
commenting about this poor widow.

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And Jesus is gonna come in and kind
of obstruct them, because for them,

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the temple is the center of Jewish
worship for them, the temple is

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what the Jewish nation has to live
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This is where all the festivals are.

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This is where the sacraments go.

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This is where they see themselves.

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Uh, getting forgiven is at the temple.

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It's connected to their identity.

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Even to this day, it's still connected
to the nationalism and there's a lot

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of expectation that the Messiah was
gonna rule over Jerusalem and restore

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this temple, and restore, uh, the
nation, as the nation in the world.

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And that was the expectation of
this messiah, of wanting to be king.

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Instead, Jesus is going to say, after
all this gifts dedicated to God.

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But Jesus said, as for what you see here.

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The time will come when not one
stone will be left on another.

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Every one of them will be thrown down.

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Mind blowing.

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Mind blowing.

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They could not perceive that.

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You know, we hear all the time that
empires rise and empires fall and

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there are people go, the American
Empire, it's gonna fall someday.

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But we look at our military and
our military might, I don't know

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if you know this, anything about
America, but the number one, uh.

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Our, our air force in the
world is our, the Air Force.

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The second largest air force in the
world is the United States Navy.

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Amen.

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We are massive.

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Some people applaud this.

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Again, we are massive in strength
and so the thought that we could ever

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fall, it's just like, what do you mean?

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How could that be?

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And when they looked at the temple
and looked at the hot thought

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that God is in his presence there,
there's no way it could fall.

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And Jesus going, every stone's
gonna be overturned here.

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This thing that you're trying
to put your security in.

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Don't, don't.

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This is the rubble still
left from that destruction.

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You could actually see the
burn marks on these rocks.

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Now, what's hard is, is is the scale.

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These rocks are about the size
of cars, just to give you scale.

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They're massive stones.

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When Herod built this temple.

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He did so out of his own ego.

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He wanted it to be magnificent, one
of the great wonders of the world.

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And so the thought that this was
gonna be destroyed, there's no way.

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And Jesus is going, yeah, it's gonna go

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teacher.

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They asked, when will these things
happen and what will be the sign

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that they're about to take place?

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So, man, this is crazy.

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This is gonna happen.

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When's this gonna happen?

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And what's gonna be signs?

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What are we gonna look out for?

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And I wanna remind you that this
is a conversation that Jesus

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is having with his disciples.

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He's instructing them.

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Sometimes when we read the Bible, we
think that Jesus is talking personally

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to us, and that's good to some degree.

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We want to hear the lessons
that he has to teach.

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But we also to realize that sometimes
we're watching a conversation

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between Jesus and his disciples.

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There's lessons to be learned there,
but just know there's a conversation

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being had here and Jesus talking to
his disciples because they have just

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had their minds blown yet again.

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By Jesus.

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Now here's where we're
gonna have some fun today.

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There you go.

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This is what's known as
the All of It discourse.

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Uh, there are many books on the
next civil passages, uh, alone.

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Just many books about this.

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And I gotta try to sum all this up,
uh, without getting too controversial.

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And all of about another 15 minutes.

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Um, so I might go an extra little
five, but just know there's a lot to

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be said here a lot and I know this.

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And then we're starting
to biblical prophecy.

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Oh my gosh, which side are you?

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Are you a millennialist?

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Are you a post millennialist?

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Are you pre millennias?

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Which side?

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And we jump into that
place and I realize that.

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So let me throw out an
olive branch to you.

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We can all agree no matter which side
you wanna play here, we can all agree

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that there'll be a time of tribulation.

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We'll, we believe that Christ
will return, the righteous will be

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resurrected, and those not of God
will be judged and separated from God.

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We can at least agree on this.

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So just know as we go down this
road and I'm about to head down it.

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If, if you start to get weighed a
minute, wait a minute, just let's,

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let's remember what we agree on.

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Okay, just stay here.

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You know, I might take us down
a few rows, but we all agree

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we're all brothers of Christ.

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We'll all give each other hugs at the end.

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Um, but here we go.

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Come on, bro.

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Come on.

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I'm gonna try to keep this simple.

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Uh, believe me, I, I started reading this
and going down the hole, uh, this week.

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I, I was asked last week to talk on this
and, uh, Dallas looked at me with ever

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eager eyes going, please cover this.

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Um, I do not want to.

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Uh, and I got it.

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I understand.

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But I wanna remind us that
Jesus is giving pastoral care

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and guidance to his disciples.

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He's trying to help them, but there
are some questions for our personal

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application, for our lives here.

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First, where do you put our security?

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That's a great question to
think through with this topic.

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And the second, how are we supposed
to live when life is outta control?

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These are two great questions for
your own personal heart and life

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as we drive through this area.

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Let's get into it.

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First up, where do we put our security?

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Do we put our security in our wealth, our
honor, our reputation like the Pharisees

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and the Sadducees and the teachers of law?

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Do we put our temple in great
structures, in great might in great

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wealth, in great opulence, or we like
the poor widow and put our security in?

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God?

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Alright, where do we put our security?

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What matters to us most?

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I was talking with, uh, Chad Hoffman last
week and, and talking about the stock

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market and, uh, in case you've not been
paying attention, it has not been great.

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Um, I stopped looking, but is
that where my security's in?

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Is that where my trust is
in, where my trust in God?

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And I think this story reveals
that, which is why it's been put

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there with these other stories.

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But the ex part, how should we live
when our life is outta control?

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Let's get into verse eight.

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Here we go.

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The all of it discourse.

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We'll see how this goes.

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He replied, watch out
that you are not deceived.

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For many will come in my name,
claiming I am he, and the time is near.

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Do not follow them.

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When you hear of wars and
uprisings, do not be frightened.

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These things must happen first.

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But the end will not come right away.

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Then he said to them, nation
will rise against Nation

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and Kingdom against Kingdom.

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There'll be great earthquakes and famines
and PEs and various places, and fearful

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events, and great signs from the heavens.

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So his first thing is, listen,
when all this is starting to

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go down, don't be deceived.

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There'll be a bunch of people walking
around going, follow me, follow me.

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You know, the end time's
new year, time is coming.

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Here we are.

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Don't follow them.

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But also don't be frightened.

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God's got this again, back to where
do we put our security and how do

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we live when life is outta control?

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And then he goes on with that verse 10,
about these nation will rise up against

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nation and kingdom against kingdom

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wars, earthquakes, famines.

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And certainly we could see that
in the last a hundred years.

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We can look at the last two, two world
wars and, and the war is in between.

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And go, man, it feels like this is right
now, but we could also go back 500 years.

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And they probably would've said, you
know, what it feels like right now.

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And they would've also felt
like that right after the

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destruction of the Jerusalem.

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And they would've been,
it feels like right now.

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And every society feels
like this is right now.

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And that's kind of the point.

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It's the point of human condition.

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Stay watchful, stay mindful.

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But times will get tough.

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But before all this, they will seize you.

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And again, remember he's
talking to disciples.

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They will seize you and persecute you.

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They will hand you over to
synagogues and put you in prison.

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You'll be brought before Kings
and governors and on and all

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on account of my name, and so
you will bear testimony to me.

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But make up your mind not to worry
beforehand how you'll defend yourself.

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For, I'll give you words and wisdom and
wisdom that none of your adversaries

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will be able to resist or contradict.

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You'll be betrayed by parents, brothers,
sisters, relatives, and friends.

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They will put some of you to death and
everyone will hate you because of me,

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but not a hair on your head will perish.

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Stand firm, and you'll win life.

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But before all this takes place,
you guys are gonna be persecuted,

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but you're gonna bear testimony to me.

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Even in the toughest persecution,
you'll reveal God through it.

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Sometimes when we're going
through hard times, we feel like,

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why am I going through this?

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Why is this happening?

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And God's going, you're showing my glory,
and it says, you'll be betrayed by whom?

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All the closest people to you, parents,
brothers, sisters, relatives, and friends,

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when you're trying to live this life,
those closest to you will reject you.

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Which is why it's so important that
this church isn't just a congregation,

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but we are the family of God because
some people don't have family.

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Uh, I help out in the campus ministry
and one thing that's been very

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different helping out with this campus
ministry than my experience was how

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many of them grew up in the church.

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It's just different.

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It's a different
perspective that they have.

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There are things that they see that I
was like, I never saw it that way because

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they grew up in a different environment.

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When I told my parents I'm gonna
get baptized, they were like, why?

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My dad's first question, how much
money has this church taken from you?

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My dad's first question, I'm
like, dad, I give a contribution.

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Um, because again, it's an offering,
you know, because again, they do a lot.

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All right, as long as it's not too much.

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That was my dad's full response.

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My mom was like, how no, we're gonna
go back to our church, come back.

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Like, mom, you haven't
been to church in 10 years.

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Yeah, but we're gonna go back.

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It was hard.

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It was real hard.

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And now the campus ministry is like, Hey
guys, stop going home to your parents.

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'cause stay with us for a little bit.

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You know, hang out.

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Like it's, it's a different environment.

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'cause for their home life is,
man, they're not being persecuted.

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In fact, their parents
are like, get out, go, go.

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You know, it's a differing environment.

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It's amazing.

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To go home and pray with your parents.

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What?

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That's a thing.

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Come on.

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Who knew?

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You can go share your
faith with your parents.

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Come on, go do that.

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That's crazy.

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We have to be the family
of God for people here.

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We can't just be a place where
people come see us on a Sunday.

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We give a hug and see you next week.

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If we are, we've just become
a congregation and we stop

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being what God wants for us.

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'cause some people need us to be a family.

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Right.

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And thus, that's what we need to be.

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I'm gonna point this back out
and that verse 16 says, they'll

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put some of you to death.

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Everyone will hate you because of
me, but not a hair of your head will

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perish, stand firm, and you'll win life.

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Um, this verse had more
comfort for me before I started

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shaving my head, but amen.

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Um, but the idea that they
will put you to death.

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But not a head or hair or perish.

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And people go, man, look at Jesus.

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He contradicts himself.

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He's not that stupid.

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He just said the same sentence.

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He, he, he knows what he's talking about.

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00:24:09,330 --> 00:24:12,960
'cause what he's saying
is, yeah, you might die,

471
00:24:15,030 --> 00:24:16,830
but not the least bit of you will perish.

472
00:24:18,450 --> 00:24:19,710
Not the least bit of you.

473
00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:24,629
The thing that you know, in case you
don't know, this hair is dead as it

474
00:24:24,629 --> 00:24:26,400
grows up, as it gets outta your head.

475
00:24:26,460 --> 00:24:27,690
I feel like an expert on hair.

476
00:24:27,690 --> 00:24:28,260
I shouldn't be.

477
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,139
But as it gets outta your,
your head, it's actually dead.

478
00:24:31,139 --> 00:24:31,800
That's why you can cut it.

479
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:32,490
It doesn't feel anything.

480
00:24:32,879 --> 00:24:40,200
And Jesus saying, even that won't
perish because when you're with

481
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,770
me, stand firm, just stand firm.

482
00:24:44,670 --> 00:24:47,220
Now you can feel like as you're reading
this, man, this is a lot of defense.

483
00:24:47,220 --> 00:24:48,510
Right now we're just being attacked.

484
00:24:49,410 --> 00:24:51,930
That's all it is in Matthew.

485
00:24:51,930 --> 00:24:54,450
It gives a little more context and
the gospel of the kingdom will be

486
00:24:54,450 --> 00:24:57,810
preached in the whole world and
as a testimony to all nations.

487
00:24:57,810 --> 00:24:58,530
And the mean will come.

488
00:24:59,670 --> 00:24:59,880
Yeah.

489
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:03,060
But as this persecution ISS
coming, as this harsh is happening,

490
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,430
my name will be preached.

491
00:25:06,540 --> 00:25:09,480
It'll go out because of you.

492
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,260
Now, here's what's tough, and
here's probably the controversy

493
00:25:16,260 --> 00:25:17,190
with the olive discourse.

494
00:25:17,715 --> 00:25:23,355
Is what's Jesus talking about is some
people will argue that Jesus is gonna go

495
00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:26,790
back and forth talking about the temple
destruction and the end of the age and,

496
00:25:26,805 --> 00:25:30,165
and so one sentence we'll be talking
about the temple, another sentence,

497
00:25:30,165 --> 00:25:31,455
he'll talk about the end of the age.

498
00:25:31,605 --> 00:25:34,395
And that is one belief and there is a
lot of great scholars and people smarter

499
00:25:34,395 --> 00:25:35,565
than me that absolutely believe that.

500
00:25:36,375 --> 00:25:38,385
I don't necessarily hold that view.

501
00:25:39,585 --> 00:25:42,795
I think what Jesus is talking about
is the destruction of the temple.

502
00:25:42,810 --> 00:25:47,639
Yeah, so that's my personal belief and
I, and I'm gonna walk you through why.

503
00:25:47,639 --> 00:25:49,139
And again, we can Absolutely.

504
00:25:49,169 --> 00:25:50,639
Again, we can go back to what we agree on.

505
00:25:50,639 --> 00:25:51,570
There's a tribulation.

506
00:25:51,570 --> 00:25:53,850
Christ will come, we'll all be good.

507
00:25:53,909 --> 00:25:57,030
But I absolutely believe what this passage
is actually talking about as a temple.

508
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,570
Not to say there's not lessons to
be learned about our life and what's

509
00:26:00,570 --> 00:26:04,110
to come, but I do believe this is a
conversation that Jesus is getting

510
00:26:04,110 --> 00:26:08,970
his disciples ready for, because that
temple's gonna be destroyed and he's gonna

511
00:26:08,970 --> 00:26:10,919
make sure they remind them that, hey.

512
00:26:12,105 --> 00:26:15,195
I'll be gone after the
resurrection, but you'll be here,

513
00:26:15,645 --> 00:26:16,695
but everything's gonna be okay.

514
00:26:17,504 --> 00:26:18,855
And I think that's the conversation.

515
00:26:19,155 --> 00:26:23,415
But again, I recognize there's, there's
great theologians on both sides of this.

516
00:26:24,105 --> 00:26:26,745
But I'm gonna go with this is
talking about the temple and,

517
00:26:26,745 --> 00:26:30,075
and I'll make the case we can,
happy to have a discussion later.

518
00:26:30,345 --> 00:26:30,794
Here we go.

519
00:26:32,235 --> 00:26:32,835
Verse 20.

520
00:26:33,225 --> 00:26:36,105
When you see Jerusalem being
surrounded by armies, you'll

521
00:26:36,105 --> 00:26:37,665
know that its desolation is near.

522
00:26:38,670 --> 00:26:42,570
Then let those in Judea flee to
the mountains and let those in

523
00:26:42,570 --> 00:26:45,450
the city get out and let those in
the country not enter the city.

524
00:26:45,690 --> 00:26:49,470
For this is the time of punishment and
fulfillment of all that has been written,

525
00:26:50,340 --> 00:26:54,750
how dreadful it will be in those days
for pregnant women and nursing mothers.

526
00:26:55,410 --> 00:26:57,765
There'll be great distress and
land and wrath against this pe.

527
00:26:57,810 --> 00:27:01,050
This people, they will fall
by the sword and will be taken

528
00:27:01,050 --> 00:27:02,340
as prisoners to all nations.

529
00:27:03,150 --> 00:27:05,790
Jerusalem will be trampled
on by the Gentiles until the

530
00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:07,050
time of the Gentiles are.

531
00:27:07,050 --> 00:27:12,675
Fulfilled the church of Jerusalem was, you
know, after Jesus resurrection became the

532
00:27:12,675 --> 00:27:19,485
church, but then it's gonna be overthrown
and its destruction will be imminent.

533
00:27:21,735 --> 00:27:23,415
This is the arch of Titus.

534
00:27:23,775 --> 00:27:24,435
It's in Rome.

535
00:27:25,095 --> 00:27:30,285
It, it's celebrating a Roman
general, the Roman general who

536
00:27:30,285 --> 00:27:34,275
would conquer Jerusalem in 80 70.

537
00:27:35,250 --> 00:27:37,290
So Jesus is gonna make this
preach about this temple.

538
00:27:37,350 --> 00:27:41,010
He says, some of you in this generation
is gonna see it, and in fact, less than

539
00:27:41,010 --> 00:27:44,760
40 years later, the temple is destroyed
and it's destroyed by this general named

540
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,370
Titus who would be celebrated in Rome.

541
00:27:47,490 --> 00:27:51,419
And in fact, on the engraving
of this is this picture here.

542
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,070
Now, in case this is harder to see,
I have a differing image of it.

543
00:27:56,850 --> 00:27:57,600
And it's this.

544
00:27:57,899 --> 00:28:02,310
This is the Romans carrying off
the emblems from the temple.

545
00:28:03,510 --> 00:28:07,980
They'll actually take the altar
and burn, uh, sacrifices to the

546
00:28:07,980 --> 00:28:12,600
Roman gods on the Jewish altar as a
way of saying your God is nothing.

547
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:13,980
We've just conquered it.

548
00:28:14,910 --> 00:28:20,430
And this is still in Rome today, the
celebration of we conquered Jerusalem.

549
00:28:22,285 --> 00:28:25,890
And so you can see how devastating
this would've been for the early

550
00:28:25,890 --> 00:28:31,470
church to see this temple destroyed
and Jesus is warning them.

551
00:28:31,470 --> 00:28:32,280
Yes, this will come.

552
00:28:34,785 --> 00:28:39,705
And it'll be hard for people, in fact
run fully to the mountains when it does

553
00:28:43,935 --> 00:28:44,685
Verse 25.

554
00:28:45,375 --> 00:28:48,165
There'll be signs in the sun
and the moon and the stars.

555
00:28:49,425 --> 00:28:50,055
On the earth.

556
00:28:50,055 --> 00:28:53,475
Nations will be in anguish and perplexity
at the roaring and the tossing of the sea.

557
00:28:53,835 --> 00:28:56,475
People will faint from terror,
apprehensive what is coming on

558
00:28:56,475 --> 00:28:59,505
the world for the heavenly bodies
will be shaken at that time.

559
00:28:59,505 --> 00:29:02,685
They will see the son of man coming
in a cloud with power and great glory.

560
00:29:02,955 --> 00:29:05,475
When these things begin to take
place, stand up and lift your heads

561
00:29:05,475 --> 00:29:06,945
because the redemption is drawn near.

562
00:29:07,395 --> 00:29:10,215
Now again, some people think he's
just talked about the temple and

563
00:29:10,215 --> 00:29:14,085
now he's talking about end times
and and I understand the belief,

564
00:29:14,085 --> 00:29:16,845
you know, these signs of the
sun and the moon and the stars.

565
00:29:18,375 --> 00:29:21,764
But he's actually quoting a
differing verse, a verse in Isaiah.

566
00:29:23,445 --> 00:29:25,545
By the way, I'm gonna come
back to this son of man part.

567
00:29:25,545 --> 00:29:26,625
I'm just pointing it out.

568
00:29:26,625 --> 00:29:27,885
Don't worry, I'm gonna, I see it.

569
00:29:27,945 --> 00:29:28,815
I'm gonna come back to it.

570
00:29:29,235 --> 00:29:32,925
But I wanna read the verse in Isaiah
that he's referencing and why I still

571
00:29:32,925 --> 00:29:36,524
believe he's talking about the temple,
because when we hear this apocryphal

572
00:29:36,524 --> 00:29:38,655
language, man, it can be confusing.

573
00:29:39,375 --> 00:29:39,435
Yeah.

574
00:29:39,735 --> 00:29:40,905
What does this mean?

575
00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:47,070
But we are also our 21st century
people reading ancient Hebrew.

576
00:29:48,090 --> 00:29:49,830
They speak a little different than us.

577
00:29:49,950 --> 00:29:53,700
For instance, there's, there's 12
phrases in Hebrew that say None has

578
00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:55,140
liked this before and none after.

579
00:29:55,170 --> 00:29:58,140
Like for instance, in Josiah,
there's no king like Josiah before,

580
00:29:58,140 --> 00:29:59,250
and there's no king like Josiah.

581
00:29:59,250 --> 00:30:01,080
After then Hezekiah comes in.

582
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,570
No king like Hezekiah before,
no king like Hezekiah.

583
00:30:03,570 --> 00:30:08,760
After we can understand apocryphal
language, Jesus himself engages in it.

584
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:10,530
When he says things like.

585
00:30:11,820 --> 00:30:13,860
If your eye cause you a sin, gouge it out.

586
00:30:14,190 --> 00:30:17,460
I don't think he's literally meaning
gouge it out, or You must eat in

587
00:30:17,460 --> 00:30:18,690
my flesh and drink in my blood.

588
00:30:18,690 --> 00:30:20,160
Again, I don't think he's saying that.

589
00:30:20,220 --> 00:30:23,460
I think he's being hyperbolic here and
I think we can understand that and this,

590
00:30:23,550 --> 00:30:27,480
this language that they're using, he's
quoting an ancient prove, uh, prophet that

591
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:32,760
also uses this kind language is trying to
give imagery to something catastrophic.

592
00:30:34,110 --> 00:30:36,210
So let me read to you, Isaiah.

593
00:30:37,140 --> 00:30:40,590
Listen, a noise on the mountains
like that of a great multitude.

594
00:30:41,310 --> 00:30:46,470
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms like,
like an like nations massing together.

595
00:30:47,459 --> 00:30:50,010
The Lord Almighty is ma
mustering an army for war.

596
00:30:50,610 --> 00:30:54,240
They come from far away, lands
from the ends of the earth, the

597
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,000
Lord, and the weapons of this
wrath destroy the whole country.

598
00:30:57,780 --> 00:30:59,280
Whale for the day of the Lord is near.

599
00:30:59,399 --> 00:31:01,439
It will come like destruction
from the almighty.

600
00:31:02,429 --> 00:31:06,330
The stars of the heaven and their
constellations will not show their light.

601
00:31:06,870 --> 00:31:08,610
The rising suns will be darkened.

602
00:31:08,730 --> 00:31:10,260
The moon will not give its light.

603
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,180
See, I will stir up against them.

604
00:31:12,180 --> 00:31:16,980
The meads, their bows will strike
down the young men, Babylon.

605
00:31:16,980 --> 00:31:18,930
The jewel of the kingdoms
will be overthrown by God.

606
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,870
I think what Jesus is referring to,
that this temple and Jerusalem has

607
00:31:24,870 --> 00:31:30,930
become like Babylon and it's gonna
be overthrown just like Babylon was.

608
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,430
I don't think the heavens and
the stars stopped showing the

609
00:31:35,430 --> 00:31:37,530
light when Babylon was conquered.

610
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,510
I think what he's doing is referencing a
language that's apocryphal, that's saying,

611
00:31:42,510 --> 00:31:44,130
Hey, this is gonna be catastrophic.

612
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,520
And I think when Jesus is
referencing this verse here, he's

613
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:48,600
not talking about the end times.

614
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,640
I think he's talking about this
destruction of this temple.

615
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,320
It's gonna be like
nothing you've ever seen.

616
00:31:53,190 --> 00:31:55,650
And in fact, it has been because
that temple has yet to be rebuilt.

617
00:31:56,790 --> 00:31:58,980
When Solomon's temple was
destroyed, it was rebuilt by Ezra.

618
00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:02,040
Whenever Ezra's temple was
rebuilt it, it was done by Herod.

619
00:32:02,415 --> 00:32:04,965
Since Head Edward's Temple has been
destroyed, it has yet to be rebuilt.

620
00:32:06,765 --> 00:32:10,575
2000 years later, I think
that's what he's referencing

621
00:32:13,245 --> 00:32:14,055
in verse 29.

622
00:32:14,715 --> 00:32:19,155
He told them this parable, look at the
fig tree and all the trees when they

623
00:32:19,155 --> 00:32:23,295
sprout leaves, you can see for yourself
and know that summer is near even.

624
00:32:23,295 --> 00:32:27,015
So when you see these things happening,
you know that the kingdom of God is near.

625
00:32:27,585 --> 00:32:30,315
Truly, I tell you, this generation.

626
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,190
Again, he's talking to disciples.

627
00:32:32,310 --> 00:32:36,810
This generation will certainly not pass
away until all these things have happened.

628
00:32:37,830 --> 00:32:39,030
Heaven, earth will pass away.

629
00:32:39,510 --> 00:32:40,920
My words will never pass away.

630
00:32:43,110 --> 00:32:46,080
He's looking as disciples and
going, some of you're gonna

631
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:47,490
live, in fact, a generation now.

632
00:32:47,490 --> 00:32:48,750
We go, well, what's a generation?

633
00:32:49,140 --> 00:32:49,410
Think?

634
00:32:49,410 --> 00:32:50,070
40 years.

635
00:32:50,130 --> 00:32:52,110
40 years in the desert,
you know, 40 years.

636
00:32:52,410 --> 00:32:56,880
And in fact, we estimate the timeframe
from this destruction is about 37 years.

637
00:32:57,780 --> 00:32:58,860
He was almost to the year.

638
00:33:00,030 --> 00:33:01,110
That this temple was gonna be destroyed.

639
00:33:01,110 --> 00:33:02,640
He said, this generation will see it all.

640
00:33:03,780 --> 00:33:04,710
You're gonna go through hardship.

641
00:33:07,950 --> 00:33:09,210
So what's his response to them?

642
00:33:09,210 --> 00:33:10,230
What's his encouragement?

643
00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:11,280
Be careful.

644
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,750
Or your heart's we laid down
with carousing and drunkenness

645
00:33:15,750 --> 00:33:18,690
and the anxieties of life and
that day will close on you.

646
00:33:18,690 --> 00:33:21,240
Suddenly like a trap for will come on.

647
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,380
All those who live on the face
of the whole earth, be always on.

648
00:33:25,380 --> 00:33:26,400
Watch and pray.

649
00:33:27,180 --> 00:33:30,090
So you'll be able to escape all that is
about to happen and that you'll be able

650
00:33:30,090 --> 00:33:33,840
to stand before the son of man each day.

651
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,720
Jesus was teaching at the temple and
each evening he went out to spend the

652
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,780
night on the hill called the Mount of
Olives, and all the people came early in

653
00:33:39,780 --> 00:33:40,890
the morning to hear him at the temple.

654
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,080
So what's our response to this?

655
00:33:43,140 --> 00:33:45,270
What's, what should be their
response and what should be ours?

656
00:33:45,570 --> 00:33:46,140
Be careful.

657
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,990
Don't let our hearts be weighed
down with all the anxieties

658
00:33:51,990 --> 00:33:54,240
of life, but be on watch.

659
00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:59,790
And pray, and I think that's
still good advice for us to be on.

660
00:33:59,790 --> 00:34:00,270
Watch.

661
00:34:01,110 --> 00:34:03,750
You know, every time I get in the car,
I put on a seatbelt, not because I'm

662
00:34:03,750 --> 00:34:08,159
expecting to be an accident, although
sometimes driving to LA I feel like it,

663
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,770
but I put on these seatbelt as assurance.

664
00:34:12,510 --> 00:34:15,480
So every time I'm pray, I'm
just putting it on as insurance.

665
00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:21,270
God, I, I'm watchful, but I don't
live in fear, but I also don't get

666
00:34:21,270 --> 00:34:24,090
distracted by the anxieties of life.

667
00:34:24,135 --> 00:34:24,195
Yeah,

668
00:34:28,665 --> 00:34:29,655
so what are our practicals?

669
00:34:29,655 --> 00:34:30,855
Wow, that was a lot.

670
00:34:30,885 --> 00:34:35,175
I just sat through a bunch of prophecy
and, and what does all this mean for me

671
00:34:35,175 --> 00:34:37,364
today as I leave here on a Sunday morning?

672
00:34:38,114 --> 00:34:38,264
Come on.

673
00:34:38,955 --> 00:34:42,165
Well, I think first put
your security in God alone.

674
00:34:43,665 --> 00:34:47,205
If your security's in anything
else, I think there's a problem.

675
00:34:47,745 --> 00:34:47,804
Yeah.

676
00:34:48,315 --> 00:34:52,635
I think our security can only be
in God also, do not be seated.

677
00:34:53,415 --> 00:34:56,054
Man, there is gonna be people
that'll pop up all the time saying,

678
00:34:56,054 --> 00:34:57,285
this is the way God should go.

679
00:34:57,285 --> 00:34:58,395
This is the way we should go.

680
00:34:58,515 --> 00:34:59,685
This is what's happening in the world.

681
00:34:59,685 --> 00:35:00,765
This is what's going on.

682
00:35:01,154 --> 00:35:03,945
No, we're gonna follow Jesus.

683
00:35:04,875 --> 00:35:09,765
And as these things pop up, we're not
gonna live in fear and in speculation,

684
00:35:10,904 --> 00:35:16,335
but we're gonna be watchful and we're
gonna pray and we're gonna stand firm.

685
00:35:16,935 --> 00:35:18,285
'cause those who stand firm

686
00:35:20,445 --> 00:35:21,255
will make it to the end.

687
00:35:21,435 --> 00:35:21,495
Yeah,

688
00:35:24,404 --> 00:35:26,265
I say I'll come back to the son of man.

689
00:35:27,375 --> 00:35:28,875
So I start heading to communion.

690
00:35:28,875 --> 00:35:33,255
I'm gonna take a detour into
Daniel because the son of man

691
00:35:33,255 --> 00:35:37,185
is the favorite term that Jesus
loves to talk about himself as.

692
00:35:37,485 --> 00:35:39,165
That's what he commonly
refers to himself as.

693
00:35:39,195 --> 00:35:40,395
He is the son of man.

694
00:35:41,505 --> 00:35:42,884
What's this son of man about?

695
00:35:43,545 --> 00:35:46,245
It's coming from a, a vision
of Daniel in chapter seven.

696
00:35:47,024 --> 00:35:49,694
And he has these vision of four
great beasts, and each beast

697
00:35:49,694 --> 00:35:50,835
represents a different nation.

698
00:35:50,835 --> 00:35:52,935
And there's all kinds of beliefs
on what those nations would be.

699
00:35:53,115 --> 00:35:58,185
Is it, uh, the Babylonians
and the the Mead Persians and

700
00:35:58,185 --> 00:35:59,444
the Greeks and the Romans.

701
00:35:59,444 --> 00:36:01,875
And you know, obviously it's
apocryphal, we don't fully know.

702
00:36:02,234 --> 00:36:05,055
But this idea that there's be this fourth
beast that was more powerful than the

703
00:36:05,055 --> 00:36:07,605
others that would ultimately be destroyed.

704
00:36:10,395 --> 00:36:11,115
Let's read Daniel.

705
00:36:12,510 --> 00:36:16,650
In my vision at night, I looked and
there before me was one like the son of

706
00:36:16,650 --> 00:36:20,130
man coming with the clouds of heaven.

707
00:36:20,550 --> 00:36:23,520
He approached the ancient of days
and was led into his presence.

708
00:36:23,970 --> 00:36:26,760
He was given authority,
glory and sovereign power.

709
00:36:27,540 --> 00:36:29,850
All nations of people of
every language worshiped him.

710
00:36:30,270 --> 00:36:34,680
His dominion is an everlasting dominion
that will not pass away, and his kingdom

711
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,660
is one that will never be destroyed.

712
00:36:38,220 --> 00:36:39,420
I think the reason.

713
00:36:40,215 --> 00:36:45,075
Jesus loved referencing himself as
the son of man is because as he's

714
00:36:45,075 --> 00:36:48,435
going through the hardship, he's
seeing what's on the other side.

715
00:36:49,785 --> 00:36:53,025
He's seeing that he will be given glory
and sovereign power in all nations

716
00:36:53,025 --> 00:36:57,795
and people will worship him and it
will be an everlasting dominion.

717
00:36:58,635 --> 00:37:02,025
I think sometimes in our lives we,
we think of the timeline of our

718
00:37:02,025 --> 00:37:07,605
birth and our death, and thus the
beginning and the end, but Jesus is

719
00:37:07,605 --> 00:37:09,135
reminding us here that there's a birth.

720
00:37:09,825 --> 00:37:10,485
And there's a death.

721
00:37:10,485 --> 00:37:12,735
But that's just a part of the
timeline because the timeline

722
00:37:12,735 --> 00:37:14,625
keeps going after this.

723
00:37:15,165 --> 00:37:18,675
And I think that's what gave him
encouragement because the son of

724
00:37:18,675 --> 00:37:20,505
man was given authority by God.

725
00:37:21,225 --> 00:37:24,675
He has risen up from death and
destruction of this world to heaven,

726
00:37:25,665 --> 00:37:28,545
and he's taken up the kingdom over
the world and to think this is what

727
00:37:28,545 --> 00:37:30,225
Jesus sees in himself as a son of man.

728
00:37:31,485 --> 00:37:35,355
And I think this is what he sees as
he's going to the cross that very week.

729
00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:39,720
As someone who's gonna have to once
again leave the death and destruction

730
00:37:39,870 --> 00:37:44,190
even his own death, but he'll be risen
up to heaven seated at the right hand

731
00:37:44,190 --> 00:37:48,690
of God where he'll take up his kingdom
and a dominion that will be forever.

732
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:52,830
As it says his, he was given
authority, glory and sovereign power.

733
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,920
All nations and people of
every language worshiped him.

734
00:37:56,700 --> 00:38:01,230
His dominion is an everlasting
dominion that will not pass away.

735
00:38:02,220 --> 00:38:05,130
He may pass away, but his dominion won't.

736
00:38:05,175 --> 00:38:05,235
Yeah.

737
00:38:06,705 --> 00:38:06,945
Why?

738
00:38:06,975 --> 00:38:10,725
'cause he'll be resurrected
again and that kingdom when one

739
00:38:10,725 --> 00:38:12,375
that will never be destroyed.

740
00:38:13,575 --> 00:38:17,445
I think as we walk into communion
here and we think through it,

741
00:38:18,405 --> 00:38:19,455
what do we get out of today?

742
00:38:20,565 --> 00:38:24,435
I think we get outta the fact
that our security, once again

743
00:38:24,435 --> 00:38:27,975
goes back to who Jesus was and is.

744
00:38:28,875 --> 00:38:33,615
He was a man who walked with us,
died for our sins and resurrected.

745
00:38:34,110 --> 00:38:38,820
And his kingdom lasts forever, and
we get to be a part of that kingdom

746
00:38:40,380 --> 00:38:41,940
as long as we stand firm to the end.

747
00:38:43,410 --> 00:38:43,800
Let's pray.

748
00:38:46,350 --> 00:38:50,610
Father, as we come before you, uh, we
are grateful, uh, for the love that

749
00:38:50,610 --> 00:38:56,910
you have for us, uh, the love that
given us and the hope that you bestow.

750
00:38:58,260 --> 00:38:59,190
Father, as we, as we.

751
00:39:00,165 --> 00:39:03,404
Walk through these final weeks or
this final week of Jesus and in

752
00:39:03,404 --> 00:39:07,755
these final days, um, we realize
that they're not final days

753
00:39:08,865 --> 00:39:11,295
because his dominion still stands.

754
00:39:11,384 --> 00:39:11,475
Yep.

755
00:39:12,615 --> 00:39:19,965
God, nothing can shake us with you
And God, as we go to the cross, uh, we

756
00:39:19,965 --> 00:39:27,675
see the son of man leaving death and
destruction and rising up in power.

757
00:39:28,814 --> 00:39:34,605
Uh, in resurrection and it gives
us hope that our life isn't a

758
00:39:34,605 --> 00:39:39,585
timeline of, of birth and death,
but it's birth, death and beyond.

759
00:39:41,444 --> 00:39:44,564
And father, I pray that we have the
heart to put our security in you,

760
00:39:46,904 --> 00:39:53,654
to trust in you, God, to not fear, to not
give way, to speculation, but to always

761
00:39:53,654 --> 00:39:56,625
have our hope in you as we watch and pray.

762
00:39:57,660 --> 00:40:00,750
Waiting an expectation for the
day we're reunited with you.

763
00:40:02,010 --> 00:40:06,180
God, knowing that in you is perfection
and ultimately perfect love.

764
00:40:06,990 --> 00:40:08,520
And Father, we pray all
this in your son's name.

765
00:40:09,030 --> 00:40:09,270
Amen.

766
00:40:09,815 --> 00:40:10,105
Amen.