Jason Hensley – The Gospel of Peace – Class 1 – Shades of Peace

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Family Bible Camp speaker for
this session is our brother

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Jason Hensley from this Simi
Hills Eclesia in California.

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His theme this week is the
Gospel of Peace and this is his

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first class and the subjects for
his first class is Shades of

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Peace.
There is no introductory

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reading, so I’ll ask her brother
Jason to come.

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There we go.
Thanks for the David.

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Good morning, everyone.
All right.

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I think I have like 10 foot, 10
feet of cord here, so there I

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can move a little bit.
All right, very nice.

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It’s good to see you all.
I hope that you are having a

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pleasant day, that things are
going well.

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The teens are great because I
had a lot of fun with them.

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We are going to be talking about
the gospel of peace.

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I gave a little bit of an
introduction as to why we’re

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talking about that and.
This is going to be an

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interesting study because it’s
kind of.

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It’s like a blend of biblical
and a little bit of historical.

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So we’ll see.
Kind of what what you think

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about that In addition, I want
to I want to put out there

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again, I know I said it last
night, but I’m totally happy to

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be interrupted so.
If you feel.

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You know, really moved at some
point you want to like jump up

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and say, but what about this or
something like that?

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That’s great.
Like, you know, I, I teach

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middle schoolers, They interrupt
me all the time.

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So like that’s, that’s the kind
of thing where it, it makes me

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feel at home.
So you want to do that.

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That’s good.
And I think it’s good for us to,

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to talk through things.
So I’m happy to happy to hear

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any, any ideas that you have or
any disagreements you might

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have, anything like that.
OK, this is where we’re going to

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go this week.
We got five classes together.

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This first class we’re going to
talk about shades of peace.

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So that’s the types of peace and
why peace matters.

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That’s really what we’ll be
looking at for the first class

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tomorrow.
We’re going to look at

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interconnected peace.
So the idea is that once we’ve

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seen the different kinds of
peace, let’s notice how they are

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related to each other.
They’re all interconnected and

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you can’t really have one
without the other.

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For our third class on
Wednesday, we’re going to then

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look at what’s the difference
between peace and unity.

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And I think this is really
interesting, This, this is a big

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deal for me because I’d never
really thought about there

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possibly being a difference
between the two.

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So we’re going to spend some
time looking at what is peace

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biblically, what is unity
biblically?

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And what is the difference?
Why does that matter?

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Then we will look at some of the
instances on Thursday that we

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might see as unpeaceful.
So I think sometimes we tend to

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to look at cases in the Bible.
Like the destruction of the

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Canaanites, that sort of thing.
And we say, well, look, see,

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there are clearly things that
are unpeaceful in the Bible.

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And so therefore we sometimes
use them as an excuse.

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You know, we say like, well,
see, we are supposed to, we’re

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supposed to be like that.
I remember hearing before a

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brother saying, just like the
Israelites went out and killed

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all the Canaanites, We’re
supposed to do that.

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There’s just not enough bullets,
right?

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And I, and I was like, whoa,
like that.

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You know, I don’t think that’s
what that meant.

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And, and one of the one of the
things that I think is important

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for us to look at is to
understand that peace is a

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really big deal.
And then to go back and say, so

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if God cares so much about
peace, then why do we see so

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much violence in the Old
Testament, right?

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What’s going on there?
So we’re going to try and re

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evaluate.
That our last class together

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will be on making peace and
unity.

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So now that we see that peace
matters.

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What do you do about it, right?
How?

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How do you bring that out?
OK, so that’ll that’ll be again,

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looking at some biblical
examples to bring out some

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principles there.
So that’s the plan.

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Our plan for today, we have 3.
Sections here this is I don’t

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know why it’s one of those
things I always think in threes,

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maybe you do too.
I so I’m always going to have

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three sections in my classes.
That’s that’s just how it goes

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so.
Our first section will be a

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Kingdom of Peace so.
We’re going to talk about how

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the Kingdom is connected to
peace.

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Then we’re going to see how the
gospel is connected to peace.

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What I’m really trying to do in
these two sections is just build

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out that peace really matters a
lot.

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And as I talked about last
night, for me that was just

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something that I didn’t think
about that much.

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That peace didn’t seem like it
was that important.

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So I want to really lay that
foundation that that peace

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biblically matters a lot.
And then we’re going to talk

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about the different kinds of
peace.

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So that will be the plan.
Now in every class I give, I

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really like to have what I call
a core message.

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And that’s because this is
probably like my middle school

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teaching side, but.
For the core.

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Oh, that sound is going to
bother me.

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Give me a second.
Let me fix this.

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It’s like, yeah, that kind of
worked.

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OK.
So I really like to have, like,

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a main message because sometimes
you hear classes and it’s a

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whole bunch of stuff and you
write it down and you’re really

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excited, and then you don’t ever
look at your notes again.

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So like you don’t actually take
anything from it.

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So for me, it was really nice to
just have a distilled here’s the

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one sentence version of this
class.

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All right, here’s the one
sentence version.

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And in fact, I’ve tried to be
really nice to you.

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I made it 2 words long.
OK, I couldn’t just make it 1,

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right?
You know, you can’t have a one

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word sentence.
Well, maybe, I guess like stop,

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that’s probably a sentence.
But that way that anyway, that’s

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not that’s not useful.
So peace matters.

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That’s the main message, right?
Peace matters.

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So that’s what I really would
like you to take from this.

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So we’re going to spend an hour
together and hopefully you come

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out of that feeling like, yes, I
agree, peace really matters.

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That was 3 words, but you get
the idea.

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OK.
I also like to ask why

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questions?
You know, I feel like questions

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really power Bible study.
So each each class I’ll try to

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give you why questions.
If you have more why questions

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afterwards, you know, come and
share them with me and.

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We can see what we can come up
with.

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This is something that I was
thinking about as I was working

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through this class.
Why didn’t Jesus come to bring

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peace?
You remember that, He says.

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I did not come to bring peace,
but a.

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Sword.
What’s that mean?

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You know, why did why did he say
that?

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So here I am, you know, saying
peace is really important,

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really important.
And then Jesus, because, well, I

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didn’t come to bring peace.
So, you know, I want us to think

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about that and I and we’ll try
and talk.

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About it as we go, OK.
So let’s talk about a Kingdom of

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peace here.
So I’m going to ask you

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questions.
I know that’s maybe a little

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untraditional, so don’t feel
like you have to answer them,

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but if if you want to, that’s
OK.

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So here’s my question for you if
somebody were to ask.

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You why did the Lord Jesus heal?
What would you say?

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I think there’s multiple right
answers, right?

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Multifactorial.
What was that?

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To prove he had the spirit right
now in fact that works.

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You might remember Nicodemus
John chapter three.

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He says we know you are a
teacher sent from God because no

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man can do these works.
Unless God is with him, right?

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So yes.
So to prove that he has the

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Spirit, Why else do you think
Jesus healed?

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Yeah.
It’s hard to make your receptive

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of things when you’re in pain.
Oh yeah.

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So you might not listen, you
know, if you’re hurting.

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Yeah, that’s good, Steve.
To prove he had the.

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Authority to forgive sins.
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That’s a good one.
Yeah.

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To prove that he had the
authority to forgive sins.

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That’s mark two, right?
Paralytic comes down through the

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roof.
He forgives sins.

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Yeah.
Phil, glorify God.

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That’s a big one.
Right?

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So that that was one of the big
goals.

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OK, Paul.
He has compassion so we know

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when, when the feeding the 5000,
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He has compassion on the
multitude, it says.

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And he heals their sick Laurie
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Foreshadowing of the Kingdom
too, right?

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Oh, oh, that’s that’s good.
Yeah.

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OK, I’m going to end it there
because that’s actually the

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segue here that I’m going to
that I’m going to go towards.

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So yes, I think all of these
things.

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These are all reasons for what
he was doing right.

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He wants to glorify God.
He wants to prove that he has

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the Spirit.
He has compassion.

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He wants people to be able to
listen, right?

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He doesn’t.
He doesn’t want them to be

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hurting during all of this.
So you can see the Lord Jesus is

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healing for a number of
different reasons.

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Now, what’s intriguing about
that is that you will notice

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that he did not heal everyone,
right?

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We know that the Lord had the
power to heal.

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By distance right, he had
distance healing power.

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He heals the centurion servant,
He heals the nobleman’s son.

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He very easily can speak the
word and he can heal people.

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So theoretically, Robert Roberts
talks about this and Nazareth

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revisited.
Theoretically, he could have

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just said, you’re all well, and
then boom, there’s nobody sick

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in Israel anymore, right?
He could have done that, but he

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doesn’t do it.
And in fact, we’re told a couple

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of reasons why.
In Matthew 1358, we read that he

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did not heal a number of people
in that area because anyone

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remember why?
Because of their unbelief.

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That’s right.
So he specifically links his

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healing with belief.
So that’s one thing.

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And then in addition to that,
where it gets really, really

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intriguing, that’s two reallys.
In John 5, you get the story of

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the man at the pool of Bethesda.
Remember that?

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Now, we know that there were a
lot of people there who wanted

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to be healed.
We know that because Bethesda

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was a place where you would go
to be healed.

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And what happens is the Lord
Jesus specifically walks by all

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of these sick people.
Have you ever pictured that,

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right?
He walks by all of these sick

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people and He goes up to one
specific person, a person who

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remember what He says to him.
Do you want to be healed?

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Have you ever thought about
that?

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How long have the man been sick?
3838 years.

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OK, Now what do you think?
What kind of reaction do you

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think you’re going to get if you
walk into somebody who’s been

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sick for 38 years and you say,
hey, would you like to get

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better?
You’re probably going to get a

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well.
Yeah, Right.

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Or like a, I’m at a pool where
you get healed.

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Like, don’t you know, don’t you
think that indicates I want to

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get better or something like
that?

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But you know, again, clearly the
Lord Jesus, he’s the Lord Jesus,

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right?
So he knows what he’s doing.

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So he’s not just walking up to
somebody and asking a dumb

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question or something like that.
Like he has something going on.

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He knows what the man is
thinking, right?

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He’s the Lord.
So what I would suggest to you

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is based on the fact that he
asked this question is it’s not

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just a, oh, you know, do you
want to be better?

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Because I don’t really know.
Like that’s not what he’s

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saying.
He’s he’s saying to the person,

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look, you’ve been here 38 years,
why have you not gotten in this

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pool yet, right?
Like what’s going on?

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Do you actually want to be
better?

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And that’s why the man answers.
You remember his answer?

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Well, Sir, someone gets in front
of me every time.

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There’s nobody to help me,
right?

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Hey, the man gives an excuse.
He says, oh, well, here’s why

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I’m not better right now.
I bring that up because when

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we’re looking at why did the
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find out he didn’t heal a lot of
people because of their

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unbelief.
In addition to that, we see

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somebody who appears to not
believe, right?

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He’s there.
He’s, he’s not, you know, really

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doing what he should do.
And even after Jesus heals him,

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do you remember?
What he says, Jesus says go and

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sin no more, lest something
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So this is not, you know, a
story of a guy who was really

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awesome or something like that.
Like Jesus says, go and sin no

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more or something worse will
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And what does the man do?
He goes and he tells the

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Pharisees that it was Jesus who
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Like that was probably like the
worst thing you could do in that

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situation.
And yet that’s what the man

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does.
So here we see somebody who

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apparently doesn’t seem to
believe, and yet Jesus heals him

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anyway.
So what’s going on there?

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Interesting.
Right.

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So what I want to put to you is
that, you know, the healings

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that Jesus does, they’re
nuanced.

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It’s not, it’s not as though
Jesus just comes and we can say,

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oh, here, here it is.
He’s really nice and he wants to

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be nice to everybody and he
wants to help them all.

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Like clearly Jesus is somebody
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So he does want to help
everybody, but there’s certain

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things that he’s looking for
first and certain things that

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he’s doing.
So let’s try and understand this

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a little bit better.
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What I find very intriguing is
that when you start looking

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specifically at the healing
miracles, you will notice that

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very often they are connected to
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So let’s take a look.
Matthew 4, verse 23, Matthew 423

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says Jesus went throughout
Galilee.

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So look at look for the things
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Jesus went throughout Galilee
teaching in their synagogues,

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proclaiming the good news of the
Kingdom and healing every

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disease and sickness among the
people.

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So you can see it there, right?
When He goes to heal, He does

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two other things.
First, before he heals the

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people, he teaches them and he
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Now you’ll see that same pattern
in Matthew 935 and in Luke 9

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verses two and six.
This is not just something that

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happens once, but you can see
this isn’t a general verse on

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just this is what Jesus does
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He teaches, He preaches about
the Kingdom and then he heals.

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Now the reason that I’m bringing
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Out is because I think this
really helps us understand what

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the Lord Jesus was doing and
this is going to connect us to

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peace.
In case you’re wondering now

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yesterday when we talked about
the transfiguration we talked

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about how the Lord went around
from city to city preaching the

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Kingdom of God is at hand,
right?

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The Kingdom of God is at hand.
Now we know that had to be true

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because the Lord Jesus spoke
things that were true, right?

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His words were truth.
So the question becomes, well,

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how is that true?
How is it true that the Kingdom

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of God was at hand?
And I think we’re starting to

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see the answer here.
Just picture what this would be

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like.
Can you imagine what it would be

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like if somebody came and
started talking about the

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Kingdom, started to say, here’s
what the Kingdom is going to be

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like.
This is going to happen.

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The blind will see, the deaf
will hear.

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And oh, by the way, let me show
you, right?

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And then all of a sudden the
people that could never walk can

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now walk.
When he says the dead will be

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raised and he raises the dead,
right?

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When the Lord Jesus says the
Kingdom is at hand.

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I think, you know, sometimes it
gets a little cliche when we

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say, oh, well, he was the
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But I think that’s really the
case.

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It’s not just.
It’s not just that he was the

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Kingdom because he was the king,
but it’s that he was the Kingdom

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because being with Jesus was
like living in the Kingdom of

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God, right?
You had the word made flesh with

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you.
Every single thing that was said

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was perfect, right?
If you got a cough and you were

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like, Oh no, I don’t think I can
preach today.

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You go to the Lord Jesus and you
say, well, I was supposed to go

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preach in that city and he’s
like, oh, I got it right.

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And you know, then you’re not
coughing anymore.

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Like it’s.
It’s the kind of thing where you

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didn’t have to worry about that
kind of stuff, right?

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Even when they were afraid of
getting captured.

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Jesus says, oh, don’t worry, my
hour has not yet come, right?

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Owe you a little faith.
You think the boat’s going to

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collapse?
Come on.

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Like living with the Lord Jesus
was.

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Living in the Kingdom, right?
That’s what it was like.

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And so when he heals, I think
he’s giving a taste of here’s

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Kingdom life.
And I want you to see this.

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I want you to experience it.
So that then is why we often see

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him say these words.
So you see it there in Matthew

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9/22.
He says your faith has healed

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you, right?
He doesn’t just heal.

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All over the place, heal at
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But he tells people, here’s what
the Kingdom is going to be like.

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And if they don’t believe that
the Kingdom is at hand, then he

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says, oh, well, never mind,
right?

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We looked at that in Matthew 13.
He says never mind then you

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won’t experience the Kingdom.
But if you do believe it, if you

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do believe that the Kingdom is
at hand, that I have this power,

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then you will.
So he constantly says your faith

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has healed you.
Matthew 1528.

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Great is your faith.
Mark 1052, your faith has healed

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you.
So we see that he’s constantly

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connecting faith healing and
this Kingdom idea.

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So he’s bringing it all
together.

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Now, where it gets really
interesting is when we actually

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start to look at the Greek, and
some of you are in my Greek

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class.
Yeah.

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So there you go now, so you’ll
be able to read that.

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But I put the English
translation on the right, so

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don’t worry.
It’s OK.

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I’ve underlined in this in these
two verses here the word healed

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right.
So this is the same word three

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times.
It’s it’s conjugated slightly

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differently the different times,
but it’s the same root word.

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So Matthew 9, verses 21 to 22,
take a look at this word healed.

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It says she said to herself,
this is the woman with the issue

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of blood.
She said to herself, if I only

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touch his cloak, I will be
healed.

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Jesus turned and saw her take
heart, daughter.

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He said, your faith has healed
you and the woman was healed at

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that moment.
Now we read that and it makes

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sense, right?
The woman’s healed.

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OK, got it.
Her faith has healed her and at

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that moment she’s made whole or
she’s healed.

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Well, what’s interesting about
it is in the Greek, it doesn’t

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actually say healed.
It’s your Greek word sozo.

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Which, yeah, you could say it
could mean made whole, but it

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literally means saved.
And that’s a really interesting

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spin on these healings.
Now, in fact, I put down there

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on the bottom of the screen.
So mark 656, Mark 1052.

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Luke 836.
Luke 850.

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Luke 17. 19 Those are all
healings where the people are,

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according to the Greek.
Saved when they’re healed.

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Now I’m not trying to say some
kind of thing of like the Lord

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Jesus came along and he gave
them eternal salvation, right?

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I’m not not like teaching once
saved, always saved anything

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along those lines.
I’m just trying to explain.

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Here’s here’s what the Greek
says, and I think it’s important

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for us to notice.
That the Greek says this because

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we’re supposed to see a
relationship between the

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healings here and salvation.
Because when the Lord Jesus was

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healing, he was giving a picture
of the Kingdom.

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So this is all intertwined.
He wanted people to be

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experiencing the Kingdom of God
when they were with him.

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And so when he heals them, he
says your faith has saved you

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because he wants them to
connect.

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This healing is not just, oh, I
can walk again, but this is a

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new experience.
This is something you could not

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have achieved on your own,
something totally different.

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You’ve been saved.
And there’s just a couple verses

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that give you an idea of, of how
this word is used, right?

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It means saved.
So Luke 1910 for the Son of Man

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came to seek and to save the
lost, right?

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He didn’t come to heal the lost.
He came to seek and to save the

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lost.
Same thing John 316 to 17,

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right?
Most famous verse in the history

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of time you have for God so
loved the world that he gave his

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one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish

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but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son

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into the world to condemn the
world, but to save the world

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through him.
And so you see that connection

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with saving and healing.
Now, in addition to that, then

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that’s why when the Lord Jesus
heals, He forgives sins.

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Have you ever wondered about
that?

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Like it’s kind of a funny story
when the paralytic man is let

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down through the roof, right?
And he’s laying there and Can

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you imagine what he would have
been thinking?

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He would be so excited like
there was a.

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Big long line and finally here’s
somebody who heals sickness and

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he’s laying there in front of
the Lord Jesus.

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He found out a way, you know,
his friends figured out bring

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him down through the roof and
all of this.

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And so he’s laying there and
he’s waiting to be healed.

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And Jesus says your sins are
forgiven.

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And the man would be like.
Oh.

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Well, that’s good.
You know, I’m, I’m glad to not

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have sins anymore.
That’s that’s good.

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But could I also walk, you know,
like that’s kind of what I was

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hoping for, right?
Like and yet the Lord Jesus does

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it because I think he wants the
man to realize.

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This is.
All connected, all of what he

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was doing is he’s showing a
picture of the Kingdom of God

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and he wants them to realize
this is bigger than walking,

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right?
This is bigger than being able

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to see.
Because what he is doing is he

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wants to show, yes, there’s not
going to be these diseases,

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there’s not going to be
sickness, that kind of thing in

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the Kingdom of God.
But the Kingdom of God is more

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than that.
It’s about the sickness of sin

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going away and you will be saved
for real.

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Right, this is what he’s
showing.

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And so he’s giving this picture
of here is the Kingdom of God.

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Come and experience it with me.
Your sins are forgiven.

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That’s what it feels like now.
This is why the Lord is

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constantly expressing this idea
that wherever he goes, it is the

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Kingdom of God.
So when he’s accused of casting

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out demons by Beelzebub, he says
to them, he doesn’t say look

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like Beelzebub is a false God,
right?

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You know that that probably
would be a tactic that, you

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00:22:44,920 –> 00:22:47,520
know, I might want to take you,
you get out your Bible and

437
00:22:47,520 –> 00:22:49,000
you’re like, all right, you
know, let me whack you with this

438
00:22:49,000 –> 00:22:51,600
Bible and show you, you know,
what you’re saying is totally

439
00:22:51,600 –> 00:22:53,480
wrong.
But that’s not what he does.

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It’s interesting.
He goes and he says, no, you

441
00:22:57,240 –> 00:22:58,760
don’t understand the point of
what I’m doing.

442
00:23:01,520 –> 00:23:04,600
This has nothing to do with
Beelzebub or whatever.

443
00:23:05,000 –> 00:23:09,440
He says I’m bringing the Kingdom
like that’s the point.

444
00:23:09,720 –> 00:23:12,120
So he says to them, this is his
big, you know, crowning

445
00:23:12,120 –> 00:23:14,920
conclusion here in this story.
He says, But if I’m driving out

446
00:23:14,920 –> 00:23:17,880
demons by the finger of God, the
Kingdom of God has come to you.

447
00:23:18,800 –> 00:23:20,920
Right.
You’re, I mean, forget, forget

448
00:23:20,920 –> 00:23:23,480
like Beelzebub, forget the
demons, all of that kind of

449
00:23:23,480 –> 00:23:25,560
thing, he says.
What really matters here is the

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fact that you are in the
presence of the Kingdom of God.

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OK.
So we’ve established that.

452
00:23:33,160 –> 00:23:38,800
Now you might be wondering.
What’s the relation of all of

453
00:23:38,800 –> 00:23:41,560
this to peace?
Why are we talking about this?

454
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Well, because there’s another
phrase that the Lord Jesus uses

455
00:23:46,080 –> 00:23:50,400
when he heals.
Maybe you remember it, but it’s

456
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one of those phrases that I
think we often just don’t notice

457
00:23:53,960 –> 00:23:56,320
because He says a number of
things when he heals people and

458
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we’re used to reading them.
But look at this, he says in

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Mark 534.
This is the parallel record of

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the woman with the issue with
blood.

461
00:24:03,520 –> 00:24:08,360
He says to her daughter, your
faith has healed you go in

462
00:24:09,400 –> 00:24:11,520
peace.
Have you ever noticed that?

463
00:24:12,040 –> 00:24:16,360
Go in peace and be freed from
your suffering.

464
00:24:20,000 –> 00:24:25,080
Now, what I want to suggest to
you is that the Lord is now

465
00:24:25,080 –> 00:24:29,440
associating the Kingdom of God
with peace.

466
00:24:30,960 –> 00:24:33,600
Now you might say, well, that’s
obvious, right?

467
00:24:33,600 –> 00:24:37,760
Like we, we expect there to be
peace, But I, I think this is a

468
00:24:37,760 –> 00:24:40,320
little bit different kind of
peace, right?

469
00:24:40,320 –> 00:24:44,440
He’s not, he’s not saying, oh,
and by the way, I’ll bring World

470
00:24:44,440 –> 00:24:46,400
Peace or something like that,
right?

471
00:24:46,400 –> 00:24:48,880
We, we always, we’re constantly
associating the Kingdom of God

472
00:24:48,880 –> 00:24:51,200
with the time when the swords
are beaten into plowshares.

473
00:24:51,200 –> 00:24:52,440
And that’s good.
We should do that, right?

474
00:24:52,760 –> 00:24:54,360
So I’m not saying that’s bad in
any kind of way.

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00:24:54,640 –> 00:24:56,600
We should, but in addition to
that.

476
00:24:57,360 –> 00:24:59,920
What I want us to notice here is
that the Lord Jesus is bringing

477
00:24:59,920 –> 00:25:02,400
out a different shade of peace.
This isn’t World Peace that he’s

478
00:25:02,400 –> 00:25:04,600
talking about.
He’s talking about some kind of

479
00:25:04,600 –> 00:25:08,760
peace that this woman was
experiencing individually

480
00:25:08,920 –> 00:25:12,720
because at this point she was
feeling something that she

481
00:25:12,720 –> 00:25:19,960
hadn’t felt for 12 years, right?
And he says, go in peace.

482
00:25:20,040 –> 00:25:23,280
I’m giving you this experience
of the Kingdom of God.

483
00:25:23,400 –> 00:25:26,960
This is what it will feel like.
Here is something that you could

484
00:25:26,960 –> 00:25:30,720
not do for yourself.
Here is something that you

485
00:25:30,720 –> 00:25:36,280
haven’t felt before, and now I’m
doing that for you.

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00:25:36,920 –> 00:25:39,040
Go in peace.
Experience this.

487
00:25:39,920 –> 00:25:41,440
So is this.
Experience of peace.

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00:25:41,560 –> 00:25:43,880
Now you see the same thing.
This isn’t necessarily healing,

489
00:25:43,880 –> 00:25:45,520
but I think it’s the same idea.
This is the.

490
00:25:45,520 –> 00:25:48,440
Story when the Lord is invited
into Simon the Pharisees house,

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00:25:48,440 –> 00:25:50,760
do you remember that?
It’s like one of my favorites.

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00:25:51,360 –> 00:25:55,840
So he he gets invited into Simon
the Pharisees house and he sits

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00:25:55,840 –> 00:25:57,720
down.
Simon doesn’t give him anything

494
00:25:57,720 –> 00:26:00,120
to drink.
Simon doesn’t give him any water

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00:26:00,120 –> 00:26:01,560
for his feet.
He doesn’t anoint his head.

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00:26:02,280 –> 00:26:05,440
And the Lord is sitting there
and this woman who was a Sinner.

497
00:26:05,440 –> 00:26:07,200
Now I think that was Mary.
You can come and talk to me

498
00:26:07,200 –> 00:26:09,800
later about that if you want.
I also think it was a relative

499
00:26:09,800 –> 00:26:10,920
of Simon.
That’s a different story.

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00:26:13,080 –> 00:26:17,560
She comes in, she washes his
feet right with her tears.

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00:26:18,240 –> 00:26:23,880
She anoints his head and Simon
Says, if this man were a

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00:26:23,880 –> 00:26:30,880
prophet, he would know who and
what manner of woman this was,

503
00:26:30,920 –> 00:26:39,360
for she is a Sinner, right?
Well, this, this is just the

504
00:26:39,360 –> 00:26:42,840
best part of the story, right?
Because Simon thinks it and he

505
00:26:42,840 –> 00:26:44,960
says, oh, he can’t be a prophet.
You know, he’s thinking that in

506
00:26:44,960 –> 00:26:47,200
his head.
And the Lord Jesus says, well,

507
00:26:47,200 –> 00:26:49,920
actually, Simon, you know, let
me show you that I’m more than a

508
00:26:49,920 –> 00:26:53,240
prophet because not only do I
know who this woman is, but I

509
00:26:53,240 –> 00:26:54,720
actually just read your
thoughts.

510
00:26:55,720 –> 00:26:57,760
So he turns to Simon and he
says, Simon, I have a parable

511
00:26:57,760 –> 00:26:59,880
for you and.
He tells the parable of the two

512
00:26:59,880 –> 00:27:05,080
debtors.
And so then he says, therefore I

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00:27:05,080 –> 00:27:08,880
tell you this is Luke 747 to 48.
Therefore I tell you her many

514
00:27:08,880 –> 00:27:11,080
sins, right?
She was the great debtor who had

515
00:27:11,160 –> 00:27:12,480
a number of sins that were
forgiven.

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00:27:12,680 –> 00:27:16,040
Her many sins have been
forgiven, as her great love has

517
00:27:16,040 –> 00:27:19,480
shown, but whosoever has been
forgiven, little loves little.

518
00:27:19,600 –> 00:27:22,000
Then Jesus said to her, your
sins are forgiven.

519
00:27:22,440 –> 00:27:25,520
So you will notice again,
there’s this idea of healing and

520
00:27:25,520 –> 00:27:27,520
now we have forgiveness being
brought out, right?

521
00:27:27,520 –> 00:27:29,560
Because this is a.
Picture of receiving that

522
00:27:29,560 –> 00:27:32,440
forgiveness in the Kingdom of
God and the Lord Jesus.

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00:27:32,440 –> 00:27:36,120
Says the same things as he
brings as he culminates this

524
00:27:36,240 –> 00:27:38,920
this work with this woman.
He says your faith has saved

525
00:27:38,920 –> 00:27:39,800
you.
Same thing that he said to

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00:27:39,800 –> 00:27:43,320
people when he healed them.
And then he ends it with go in

527
00:27:43,680 –> 00:27:45,440
peace.
There was this individual

528
00:27:45,440 –> 00:27:49,040
experience of peace that she was
having as the Lord Jesus forgave

529
00:27:49,040 –> 00:27:54,920
her sins.
So we often think about World

530
00:27:54,920 –> 00:27:58,240
Peace, but this is something
different.

531
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This is a kind of association
between the Kingdom of God and

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00:28:05,240 –> 00:28:07,760
peace that I think we sometimes
miss.

533
00:28:08,680 –> 00:28:10,440
So let’s just put that on pause
now.

534
00:28:11,960 –> 00:28:14,080
So what we’ve.
Seen is that there’s this sense

535
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of peace that’s connected to the
Kingdom of God.

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00:28:16,240 –> 00:28:18,640
Sometimes we might not often
notice.

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00:28:19,480 –> 00:28:24,040
Now with that said, let’s talk a
little bit about the new

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00:28:24,040 –> 00:28:26,440
creation.
So we’re still building out the

539
00:28:26,440 –> 00:28:33,360
Kingdom and and peace.
OK, so take a look at John 11 up

540
00:28:33,360 –> 00:28:35,360
there, right.
This is one of those verses that

541
00:28:35,360 –> 00:28:37,320
sometimes we try to avoid when
we’re talking to people.

542
00:28:38,120 –> 00:28:40,440
And I I recognize, you know, I’m
going to say this.

543
00:28:40,440 –> 00:28:42,840
I recognize that this is that
there’s multiple interpretations

544
00:28:42,840 –> 00:28:44,400
of how this works.
I’m going to present one to you

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00:28:44,400 –> 00:28:47,480
see what you think about this.
So John one one starts with our

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00:28:47,480 –> 00:28:49,760
words in the beginning.
Now I have the Greek up there

547
00:28:49,760 –> 00:28:50,840
for you.
It’s NRK.

548
00:28:51,600 –> 00:28:55,000
And the reason this is
significant is because it’s

549
00:28:55,000 –> 00:28:59,720
missing the definite article.
So it does not say the IT just

550
00:28:59,720 –> 00:29:03,360
says in a beginning.
Now that’s helpful for us, by

551
00:29:03,360 –> 00:29:05,680
the way, when we’re talking to
Trinitarians, right, Because we

552
00:29:05,680 –> 00:29:08,920
can say, oh, look, this doesn’t
necessarily have to be the

553
00:29:08,920 –> 00:29:11,200
Genesis beginning.
The other reason that it’s

554
00:29:11,200 –> 00:29:13,960
interesting is because it’s
actually a quote of Genesis.

555
00:29:14,960 –> 00:29:20,080
So in Genesis 11, the Hebrew
reads Barashit, which also

556
00:29:20,080 –> 00:29:21,280
doesn’t have the definite
article.

557
00:29:21,880 –> 00:29:25,520
So this really is in a beginning
as well.

558
00:29:26,320 –> 00:29:28,320
That’s very intriguing.
I’m not going to say anything

559
00:29:28,320 –> 00:29:33,800
else about that, but but you
see, you can look at the two of

560
00:29:33,800 –> 00:29:37,320
those and what we can see is
that John is quoting Genesis,

561
00:29:37,440 –> 00:29:40,080
right?
And we can tell that because he

562
00:29:40,080 –> 00:29:41,680
specifically leaves out the
definite article.

563
00:29:42,400 –> 00:29:45,600
OK, Septuagint, by the way, in
case you’re wondering, you know,

564
00:29:45,600 –> 00:29:47,000
you’re thinking, oh, that’s
Greek and Hebrew.

565
00:29:47,080 –> 00:29:50,240
Well, the Septuagint says
anarchy says Septuagint, Genesis

566
00:29:50,240 –> 00:29:51,760
11.
John is probably quoting that.

567
00:29:52,360 –> 00:29:55,360
OK, well, the first thing then
that gets created in the

568
00:29:55,360 –> 00:29:58,120
physical creation, right?
So John, John is trying to get

569
00:29:58,120 –> 00:30:02,040
us to think, I think about the
Genesis creation.

570
00:30:02,040 –> 00:30:03,880
So he quotes Genesis.
He says think the Genesis

571
00:30:03,880 –> 00:30:05,720
creation.
So you’re thinking about the

572
00:30:05,720 –> 00:30:08,440
Genesis creation.
You then get the same thing

573
00:30:08,440 –> 00:30:10,080
created first.
Right.

574
00:30:10,240 –> 00:30:13,520
First thing created in the
Genesis creation is separation

575
00:30:13,520 –> 00:30:16,080
of light and darkness, right?
Let there be light, light and

576
00:30:16,080 –> 00:30:19,560
darkness and then separated.
Well, John 1 verses four and

577
00:30:19,560 –> 00:30:22,800
five.
They say in him was life, that

578
00:30:22,800 –> 00:30:24,680
life was the light of all
mankind.

579
00:30:24,840 –> 00:30:26,880
The light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness does

580
00:30:26,880 –> 00:30:28,920
not overcome it.
Same thing, right?

581
00:30:29,240 –> 00:30:32,360
Light and then separation of
light and darkness.

582
00:30:33,000 –> 00:30:35,920
So you have the same ideas.
So you can see that in John 1/4

583
00:30:35,920 –> 00:30:38,040
and five, and then Genesis 1
verses three and four.

584
00:30:38,720 –> 00:30:41,280
OK, well here’s where this gets
interesting.

585
00:30:41,960 –> 00:30:46,920
John has been basing this
exposition so far on Genesis,

586
00:30:47,200 –> 00:30:50,000
and then he diverges.
Take a look.

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00:30:51,080 –> 00:30:54,960
All of a sudden so you have
light, and then the next thing

588
00:30:55,000 –> 00:30:59,400
that shows up in John One is yet
to all who did receive him, to

589
00:30:59,400 –> 00:31:02,480
those who believed in His name,
He gave the right to become

590
00:31:02,480 –> 00:31:05,720
children of God.
Children born not of natural

591
00:31:05,720 –> 00:31:09,440
descent, nor of human decision
or of a husband’s will, but born

592
00:31:09,440 –> 00:31:12,360
of God.
So now you have the creation of

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00:31:12,360 –> 00:31:19,000
humanity right now.
Did you notice what John is

594
00:31:19,000 –> 00:31:23,280
emphasizing here?
By the way, it’s not what I

595
00:31:23,280 –> 00:31:25,560
underlined.
So you don’t have any hints.

596
00:31:28,280 –> 00:31:30,400
I feel like there’s something
there that John could not say.

597
00:31:30,400 –> 00:31:34,840
More times, he says, he gave
them the right to become

598
00:31:34,840 –> 00:31:37,200
children of God.
And by the way, they were

599
00:31:37,200 –> 00:31:40,720
children born not of natural
descent, nor of a human decision

600
00:31:40,880 –> 00:31:43,800
or of a husband’s will, but born
of God, right?

601
00:31:43,920 –> 00:31:46,440
John is.
Trying to say here, I want it to

602
00:31:46,440 –> 00:31:51,600
be extremely clear that this is
not natural birth.

603
00:31:52,840 –> 00:31:57,160
And he’s saying this is not the
same thing as the Genesis

604
00:31:57,160 –> 00:31:59,920
creation, right?
In Genesis, you have Adam and

605
00:31:59,920 –> 00:32:02,320
Eve, they have Cain, who then
has more children, more

606
00:32:02,320 –> 00:32:05,000
children, right?
And So what John is saying is

607
00:32:05,000 –> 00:32:08,680
it’s not like that, right?
Everyone here, God is creating

608
00:32:08,680 –> 00:32:10,240
children of God.
He’s making a family.

609
00:32:10,480 –> 00:32:12,320
And it’s not through a lineage
here.

610
00:32:12,320 –> 00:32:16,720
It’s not through a natural
lineage, but it’s through all of

611
00:32:16,720 –> 00:32:18,880
those who receive the Lord Jesus
Christ.

612
00:32:21,400 –> 00:32:23,440
It’s different.
He’s diverging, right?

613
00:32:23,440 –> 00:32:24,920
He has some of the same ideas,
right?

614
00:32:25,120 –> 00:32:28,120
God creating.
Mankind being in his image,

615
00:32:28,120 –> 00:32:30,200
they’re the children of God,
like a family resemblance kind

616
00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:31,600
of idea, right?
They’re some of the same

617
00:32:31,600 –> 00:32:34,320
thoughts, but it’s different.
So you have this divergent.

618
00:32:34,480 –> 00:32:36,280
So John starts with Genesis,
right?

619
00:32:36,360 –> 00:32:40,120
And then he starts to break off
and he shows a new creation,

620
00:32:40,520 –> 00:32:42,240
something different, which is
very interesting.

621
00:32:42,240 –> 00:32:45,560
I don’t know if you ever
noticed, but in the Gospel of

622
00:32:45,560 –> 00:32:48,360
John, you actually have the
first seven days as well of

623
00:32:48,400 –> 00:32:52,360
Jesus’s ministry, which is very
cool and it culminates in the

624
00:32:52,360 –> 00:32:55,640
wedding of Cana.
So I, I find that to be very

625
00:32:55,640 –> 00:32:59,520
exciting.
OK, Now the reason that all of

626
00:32:59,520 –> 00:33:00,840
that is significant for us,
right?

627
00:33:00,840 –> 00:33:01,760
Again, we’re talking about
peace.

628
00:33:02,440 –> 00:33:05,680
The reason that’s significant
for us is because when we come

629
00:33:05,680 –> 00:33:07,840
to the end of the Gospel of
John, you have this record that

630
00:33:08,000 –> 00:33:11,120
maybe maybe you’ve read this
before and, and wondered about

631
00:33:11,120 –> 00:33:13,800
it, or maybe you just kind of
read it and skipped over it.

632
00:33:13,920 –> 00:33:16,000
But it it’s one of those kind of
funny like.

633
00:33:16,400 –> 00:33:20,200
Stories Listen to this on the
evening of that first day of the

634
00:33:20,200 –> 00:33:21,720
week.
It’s John 2019 to 22.

635
00:33:22,320 –> 00:33:24,680
When the disciples were together
with the doors locked for fear

636
00:33:24,680 –> 00:33:27,320
of the Jewish leaders, Jesus
came and stood among them and

637
00:33:27,320 –> 00:33:30,040
said, peace be with you.
After he said this, he showed

638
00:33:30,040 –> 00:33:33,040
them his hands and his side.
The disciples were overjoyed

639
00:33:33,040 –> 00:33:35,920
when they saw the Lord again.
Jesus said, peace be with you.

640
00:33:36,520 –> 00:33:38,680
As the Father has sent me, I’m
sending you.

641
00:33:39,280 –> 00:33:41,200
So you know, you read that part
and that, that all sounds really

642
00:33:41,200 –> 00:33:42,680
nice, right?
He’s with his disciples.

643
00:33:42,680 –> 00:33:44,560
That’s, that’s wonderful.
He says, peace be with you.

644
00:33:45,520 –> 00:33:49,200
Then have you ever noticed this
next sentence?

645
00:33:50,000 –> 00:33:52,720
And with that, he breathed on
them and said, receive the Holy

646
00:33:52,720 –> 00:33:55,760
Spirit.
Now it’s one of those things

647
00:33:55,760 –> 00:34:00,400
that you read that and you’re
like, huh, Like especially post

648
00:34:00,400 –> 00:34:03,400
COVID, right?
You read it and you’re like, oh,

649
00:34:04,200 –> 00:34:07,280
like, I don’t want people to
breathe on me.

650
00:34:07,440 –> 00:34:09,480
You know, like that’s not very
nice.

651
00:34:09,840 –> 00:34:13,440
Like, but but what’s going on
here?

652
00:34:13,560 –> 00:34:17,040
Like this makes complete sense
when we recognize John sets up

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00:34:17,040 –> 00:34:20,840
the gospel so that you see the
Lord Jesus as the beginning of a

654
00:34:20,840 –> 00:34:23,480
new creation.
And here he is the beginning of

655
00:34:23,480 –> 00:34:25,800
that creation, the first born
from the dead, right?

656
00:34:26,560 –> 00:34:29,480
The first born from the dead.
And he says, now I’m starting

657
00:34:29,480 –> 00:34:32,239
the new creation.
And it’s not just with people

658
00:34:32,239 –> 00:34:35,560
that he’s healing, but now we
see it’s expanding.

659
00:34:35,639 –> 00:34:40,080
To everyone and it starts with
the disciples and he does it by

660
00:34:40,080 –> 00:34:45,480
breathing in the breath of life,
which for the new creation was

661
00:34:45,480 –> 00:34:48,480
the Holy Spirit, right?
So that’s, that’s what he’s

662
00:34:48,480 –> 00:34:50,400
doing.
That’s why he is doing these

663
00:34:50,400 –> 00:34:54,880
things.
So what we see then is that you

664
00:34:54,880 –> 00:34:58,120
have this new creation.
The Lord Jesus is setting the

665
00:34:58,120 –> 00:35:00,960
foundation for his Kingdom.
Now don’t, don’t start to feel

666
00:35:00,960 –> 00:35:02,520
all weird.
I’m not saying the Kingdom came

667
00:35:02,760 –> 00:35:05,160
anything like that.
He’s studying the foundation for

668
00:35:05,160 –> 00:35:07,960
his Kingdom as he begins this
new creation, right?

669
00:35:08,640 –> 00:35:13,040
It’s it’s the beginning of it
all, and that new creation will

670
00:35:13,040 –> 00:35:18,560
be fully realized when everyone
else is born from the grave and

671
00:35:18,560 –> 00:35:23,280
given immortality.
So this is how he starts now.

672
00:35:23,280 –> 00:35:26,640
This is significant for us.
Because I think it’s crucial we

673
00:35:26,640 –> 00:35:27,920
talk about the new creation,
right?

674
00:35:28,440 –> 00:35:30,960
But have you ever thought that
the new creation begins with the

675
00:35:30,960 –> 00:35:37,960
words peace be with you, right?
The, the, the original creation

676
00:35:37,960 –> 00:35:39,600
started with let there be light,
right?

677
00:35:40,800 –> 00:35:44,360
The Lord Jesus begins the new
creation with peace.

678
00:35:46,920 –> 00:35:48,960
I think that’s crucial.
You know, we’re, we’re looking

679
00:35:48,960 –> 00:35:51,880
at this idea that peace is
highly connected to the

680
00:35:51,880 –> 00:35:53,320
experience of the Kingdom of
God.

681
00:35:54,240 –> 00:35:57,200
And the Lord Jesus shows us that
as he starts his new creation,

682
00:35:57,280 –> 00:35:59,600
which eventually becomes the
Kingdom of God.

683
00:35:59,640 –> 00:36:02,600
At his second coming.
And he starts it with the words

684
00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:06,640
peace.
So it shouldn’t.

685
00:36:06,640 –> 00:36:10,040
Surprise us then that as we
start to look at the New

686
00:36:10,040 –> 00:36:12,920
Testament and we ask ourselves,
OK, So what then is the gospel?

687
00:36:12,920 –> 00:36:16,360
What is it that the disciples
preached that we see peace

688
00:36:16,520 –> 00:36:19,280
consistently associated with the
gospel, right.

689
00:36:19,480 –> 00:36:21,440
Now, if somebody were to ask you
what is the gospel, you’d

690
00:36:21,440 –> 00:36:23,160
probably take them to Acts 8
verse 12.

691
00:36:23,960 –> 00:36:27,400
Yeah, I and I don’t think
there’s anything wrong with

692
00:36:27,400 –> 00:36:28,960
that, right?
It’s a very good one sentence

693
00:36:28,960 –> 00:36:32,240
definition.
So the gospel is the gospel of

694
00:36:32,240 –> 00:36:33,800
the Kingdom of God in the name
of Jesus Christ.

695
00:36:34,160 –> 00:36:35,160
So there you go.
So that’s good.

696
00:36:36,200 –> 00:36:38,840
What’s interesting is that when
we go along and we take a look

697
00:36:38,840 –> 00:36:40,760
and we see what did the
disciples actually preach,

698
00:36:40,760 –> 00:36:42,080
right?
Let’s expand our definition a

699
00:36:42,080 –> 00:36:43,840
little bit.
When we look at what the

700
00:36:43,840 –> 00:36:46,600
disciples actually preach, you
will notice that they are

701
00:36:46,600 –> 00:36:51,240
constantly referencing that
forgiveness that Jesus offered

702
00:36:51,240 –> 00:36:54,480
as he healed people.
They’re showing here’s the

703
00:36:54,480 –> 00:36:56,240
peace, right?
Here’s that.

704
00:36:56,240 –> 00:36:58,600
Experience of peace.
So they are constantly saying

705
00:36:58,600 –> 00:37:02,560
that Acts 238, Acts 319, Acts 5
verses 30 to 31.

706
00:37:03,280 –> 00:37:05,600
They’re over and over
expressing.

707
00:37:05,920 –> 00:37:07,760
That the gospel is connected to
forgiveness of sins.

708
00:37:08,120 –> 00:37:14,080
Acts 1043, Acts 1338 to 39, Acts
2618, forgiveness of sins.

709
00:37:16,160 –> 00:37:24,520
And so peace is interwoven into
the gospel.

710
00:37:24,840 –> 00:37:26,160
This is part of what the gospel
is.

711
00:37:26,680 –> 00:37:30,920
So if I were to ask you, what is
the gospel called throughout the

712
00:37:30,920 –> 00:37:32,280
Bible?
Right.

713
00:37:33,640 –> 00:37:35,560
There’s a handful of times that
it’s called the gospel of God,

714
00:37:36,680 –> 00:37:38,680
handful of times that it’s
called the gospel of Christ.

715
00:37:39,000 –> 00:37:41,240
Paul sometimes refers to it as
my gospel.

716
00:37:41,480 –> 00:37:43,880
I can, I can give you these, by
the way, if you want them later.

717
00:37:44,320 –> 00:37:45,760
Paul sometimes calls them my
gospel.

718
00:37:46,520 –> 00:37:48,680
You’ll also see the gospel of
glory, the gospel of grace,

719
00:37:48,680 –> 00:37:50,600
gospel of your salvation, gospel
of the Kingdom.

720
00:37:52,200 –> 00:37:55,480
And you know, I gave it away by
this title, the title of the

721
00:37:55,480 –> 00:37:59,440
series and.
You’ll also notice two times

722
00:37:59,440 –> 00:38:00,720
it’s referred to as the Gospel
of Peace.

723
00:38:00,800 –> 00:38:02,920
There’s also the potential, by
the way, that it’s referred to

724
00:38:02,920 –> 00:38:04,480
as the Gospel of peace in Romans
10.

725
00:38:04,880 –> 00:38:07,280
There’s a manuscript difference
there.

726
00:38:07,280 –> 00:38:09,200
And so there’s a question, you
know whether or not it should be

727
00:38:09,200 –> 00:38:12,240
there, but.
It could be three, could be 3.

728
00:38:13,440 –> 00:38:15,400
So we have multiple times where
it’s referred to as the gospel

729
00:38:15,400 –> 00:38:16,520
of peace.
And I think that’s really

730
00:38:16,520 –> 00:38:20,280
helpful because I don’t know if
this was your experience, but I

731
00:38:20,280 –> 00:38:22,680
never thought of the gospel that
way, right?

732
00:38:22,840 –> 00:38:25,800
Like when I went to go preach
the gospel, I was ready to be

733
00:38:25,800 –> 00:38:29,000
anything but peaceful.
Like I, I was ready to say,

734
00:38:29,000 –> 00:38:30,600
like, you know, here’s my 50
verses.

735
00:38:30,600 –> 00:38:33,120
Oh, you only have 5.
Like, you know who won like sort

736
00:38:33,120 –> 00:38:35,640
of thing like that was?
That was my feeling about it.

737
00:38:35,920 –> 00:38:41,040
And yet I was supposed to be
preaching the gospel of peace,

738
00:38:41,200 –> 00:38:42,720
right?
Like this is it.

739
00:38:42,760 –> 00:38:46,440
It’s something that I think we,
we don’t think about all that

740
00:38:46,440 –> 00:38:48,080
often.
Now.

741
00:38:48,240 –> 00:38:52,400
It shouldn’t surprise us,
though, because that is the

742
00:38:52,400 –> 00:38:56,800
Lord’s mission.
You know, when Zechariah

743
00:38:56,800 –> 00:39:00,880
prophecies about John the
Baptist’s role, he says that

744
00:39:00,880 –> 00:39:03,880
John the Baptist Luke 179 would
shine on those living in

745
00:39:03,880 –> 00:39:06,800
darkness and in the shadow of
death to guide their feet into

746
00:39:06,800 –> 00:39:10,320
the path of peace.
Simeon says of the Lord Jesus,

747
00:39:11,320 –> 00:39:12,880
glory to God in the highest
heaven.

748
00:39:13,040 –> 00:39:14,720
Sorry, that’s not Simeon, that’s
the angels.

749
00:39:15,200 –> 00:39:16,920
Glory to God in the highest
heaven and on earth.

750
00:39:17,120 –> 00:39:18,880
Peace to those on whom his favor
rests.

751
00:39:20,480 –> 00:39:23,440
Now this is an interesting in
case you’ve ever wondered about

752
00:39:23,440 –> 00:39:25,880
this, here’s here’s a little bit
of Greek fun Greek trivia.

753
00:39:26,560 –> 00:39:30,360
If you’ve ever noticed, right?
Different versions say different

754
00:39:30,360 –> 00:39:33,200
things for this verse.
So you’ll get glory to God in

755
00:39:33,200 –> 00:39:35,400
the highest heaven on earth,
peace to those on whom his favor

756
00:39:35,400 –> 00:39:38,240
rest.
Other versions will say on earth

757
00:39:38,320 –> 00:39:40,360
peace, goodwill towards men,
right?

758
00:39:41,680 –> 00:39:44,000
Well, the question is actually
one letter.

759
00:39:44,320 –> 00:39:47,000
One letter changes that whole
thing, which is sort of funny.

760
00:39:48,080 –> 00:39:52,880
Probably this is likely the more
accurate one, in case you’re

761
00:39:52,880 –> 00:39:55,680
wondering, because I mean
really, like, do you really

762
00:39:55,680 –> 00:39:58,400
think the angels would proclaim,
you know, goodwill towards

763
00:39:58,400 –> 00:40:01,080
everybody, including the ones
who would kill the Lord Jesus,

764
00:40:01,600 –> 00:40:03,240
right?
It’s not just goodwill to

765
00:40:03,240 –> 00:40:07,800
everyone, but it’s goodwill
specifically on those whom the

766
00:40:07,800 –> 00:40:13,560
Lord was sent to bring peace to,
OK.

767
00:40:14,040 –> 00:40:16,280
And so we know the Lord Jesus
was sent to bring peace.

768
00:40:16,280 –> 00:40:17,680
I won’t go through those verses.
You know them.

769
00:40:19,800 –> 00:40:22,480
So the question then becomes,
OK, if we’ve seen that peace is

770
00:40:22,480 –> 00:40:26,120
so central to all of this, well,
what do we do with these verses,

771
00:40:26,640 –> 00:40:28,400
right?
How do how do we explain this?

772
00:40:29,320 –> 00:40:32,880
If it’s the gospel of peace, if
the Lord Jesus was trying to

773
00:40:32,880 –> 00:40:35,320
show people this experience of
the Kingdom and he gives them

774
00:40:35,320 –> 00:40:38,640
individual peace, then why does
he say in Matthew 10, as he’s

775
00:40:38,640 –> 00:40:41,000
preparing his disciples to go
out and preach, why does he say

776
00:40:41,000 –> 00:40:43,280
to them, Do not suppose that I
have come to bring peace to the

777
00:40:43,280 –> 00:40:44,720
earth?
I did not come to bring peace,

778
00:40:44,720 –> 00:40:47,520
but a sword.
Luke 1251 Do you think I came to

779
00:40:47,520 –> 00:40:49,840
bring peace on earth?
No, I tell you, but division.

780
00:40:50,120 –> 00:40:55,280
Why does he say that?
Well, I’ll give you my thought.

781
00:40:56,080 –> 00:40:58,480
And you can come and talk to me
later about this or you know,

782
00:40:58,480 –> 00:41:03,560
right now if you want.
But my thought here is I think

783
00:41:03,560 –> 00:41:07,200
we see it really in Luke chapter
2 when we see peace on whom his

784
00:41:07,200 –> 00:41:09,920
favor rests at the Lord Jesus
did bring peace.

785
00:41:10,160 –> 00:41:11,480
And we see that in those other
verses.

786
00:41:11,640 –> 00:41:15,840
Peace I give to you, right?
He’s not contradicting himself.

787
00:41:15,960 –> 00:41:19,800
He’s in different contexts.
And So what he’s saying here is

788
00:41:19,880 –> 00:41:23,960
he gives peace to his disciples.
His disciples do have peace, he

789
00:41:23,960 –> 00:41:26,320
says.
By this all will know that you

790
00:41:26,320 –> 00:41:28,680
are my disciples if you have
love for each other, right?

791
00:41:28,680 –> 00:41:30,520
He’s saying.
When you when you are peaceful,

792
00:41:32,120 –> 00:41:34,840
people will know.
That you’re the ones right?

793
00:41:35,560 –> 00:41:38,560
And so his point is my message
is going to bring division.

794
00:41:38,840 –> 00:41:41,680
People aren’t going to like it.
They’re going to divide from

795
00:41:41,680 –> 00:41:46,640
you.
But I’ve given you peace amongst

796
00:41:46,640 –> 00:41:49,480
yourselves, right?
That’s that’s what the Lord

797
00:41:49,480 –> 00:41:52,880
Jesus is bringing.
He brings us peace with each

798
00:41:52,880 –> 00:41:59,840
other and other people might not
want to have peace with us, but

799
00:42:01,000 –> 00:42:06,360
we are people of peace.
So you’ll see.

800
00:42:06,360 –> 00:42:08,520
That as you continue reading in
the passages, right?

801
00:42:08,520 –> 00:42:10,320
He goes on and he says, look,
here’s what’s going to happen.

802
00:42:10,720 –> 00:42:15,280
You know, your your father might
not want to talk to you anymore

803
00:42:15,320 –> 00:42:19,560
because of this, or your mother
might not want to associate with

804
00:42:19,560 –> 00:42:22,080
you anymore, but you are the
people of peace.

805
00:42:24,120 –> 00:42:27,080
OK, so with that said, let’s get
to our last section here in our

806
00:42:27,080 –> 00:42:30,080
last 15 minutes.
So the question then becomes,

807
00:42:30,080 –> 00:42:32,400
well, before you talk about
anything, it’s always really

808
00:42:32,400 –> 00:42:35,400
important to get a standardized
definition right.

809
00:42:35,920 –> 00:42:38,120
So we’ve seen that peace is
important, but there’s a lot of

810
00:42:38,120 –> 00:42:41,480
different aspects of peace.
So let’s just try and define

811
00:42:41,480 –> 00:42:45,040
this a little bit.
Well, peace is the word Irene in

812
00:42:45,040 –> 00:42:46,680
Greek.
So if you’ve ever met somebody

813
00:42:46,680 –> 00:42:48,640
named Irene.
There you go.

814
00:42:49,000 –> 00:42:52,080
That’s where Irene comes from,
Greek word for peace.

815
00:42:52,080 –> 00:42:53,760
And that’s actually it’s what I
named my hamster.

816
00:42:54,160 –> 00:42:57,680
So now you all, now you all know
that it.

817
00:42:58,240 –> 00:43:00,200
You know, it’s the kind of thing
that you want to like, remember

818
00:43:00,200 –> 00:43:02,400
when you’re working with a
hamster, I guess.

819
00:43:02,880 –> 00:43:07,040
OK, so that’s Irene.
Peace, so tranquility, harmony.

820
00:43:07,160 –> 00:43:08,400
That’s.
That’s really what it means.

821
00:43:08,400 –> 00:43:11,200
It’s a very simple word, right?
It’s not like a, it’s not super

822
00:43:11,200 –> 00:43:12,560
complex.
You don’t have to go through the

823
00:43:12,560 –> 00:43:15,480
root word or anything like that.
It just means getting along,

824
00:43:15,680 –> 00:43:17,880
right?
It’s being at peace.

825
00:43:17,880 –> 00:43:21,480
So it’s a pretty easy word to
define what’s interesting about

826
00:43:21,480 –> 00:43:23,840
this, and this was my experience
and maybe it will resonate with

827
00:43:23,840 –> 00:43:26,520
you.
We’ve just associated it with

828
00:43:26,520 –> 00:43:30,240
healings and the gospel, which I
think is connected to the idea

829
00:43:30,240 –> 00:43:31,200
of peace with God.
Right.

830
00:43:31,200 –> 00:43:32,840
That was the experience that
people were having.

831
00:43:33,040 –> 00:43:36,000
When Jesus heals them and says
go in peace, he’s saying, now

832
00:43:36,280 –> 00:43:39,680
I’ve given you this opportunity
to again have peace with God.

833
00:43:41,160 –> 00:43:44,960
So we recognize, I think, as a
community, the idea of peace

834
00:43:44,960 –> 00:43:46,880
with God.
Sometimes we might describe it

835
00:43:46,880 –> 00:43:50,360
as inner peace, right?
You know, depending on who you

836
00:43:50,360 –> 00:43:53,200
talk to, maybe you’re into yoga
or something, whatever you

837
00:43:53,200 –> 00:43:55,480
might, you might talk about
inner peace or think about it

838
00:43:55,480 –> 00:43:58,360
like that.
Yeah, sometimes we talk about

839
00:43:58,360 –> 00:44:00,600
World Peace, right?
We have that in, in a lot of our

840
00:44:00,600 –> 00:44:03,320
books where we, we talk about
the Kingdom coming, that there’s

841
00:44:03,320 –> 00:44:07,080
going to be years of peace after
destruction, right.

842
00:44:08,320 –> 00:44:11,400
So we have that in in a number
of our our community’s works,

843
00:44:11,520 –> 00:44:15,560
our references.
We also talk about the peaceful.

844
00:44:15,560 –> 00:44:18,480
Time of like the the wolf with
the lamb, right?

845
00:44:20,320 –> 00:44:25,760
OK, so I think we talk about
peace a lot as a group, and I

846
00:44:25,760 –> 00:44:28,160
think that’s good.
So these are just a few quotes

847
00:44:28,160 –> 00:44:31,600
from various Christadelphian
works to bring out how peace

848
00:44:31,760 –> 00:44:35,080
shows up in our literature.
And so we have people coming to

849
00:44:35,080 –> 00:44:38,200
the Lord Jesus to be healed, and
they leave with that inward

850
00:44:38,200 –> 00:44:38,960
peace.
Right.

851
00:44:38,960 –> 00:44:41,200
Go in peace.
You have that from the life of

852
00:44:41,200 –> 00:44:45,480
Jesus Nazareth revisited.
You have him talking about again

853
00:44:45,480 –> 00:44:48,360
the the peace that they get.
When they know the Lord Jesus

854
00:44:48,360 –> 00:44:51,200
Christ and he says being
justified by faith, we have

855
00:44:51,200 –> 00:44:52,840
peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ.

856
00:44:52,840 –> 00:44:56,360
So he’s showing how we have that
sort of inner peace, the peace

857
00:44:56,360 –> 00:44:59,240
with God.
So we talk about that as a

858
00:44:59,240 –> 00:45:01,680
community.
Now, what was interesting for me

859
00:45:01,720 –> 00:45:05,880
is I felt in my experience,
while we talk a lot about inner

860
00:45:05,880 –> 00:45:07,440
peace, we talk about peace with
God.

861
00:45:11,720 –> 00:45:17,160
Peace with each other was
something that was not brought

862
00:45:17,160 –> 00:45:20,480
out a lot to me.
Maybe it was the same for you,

863
00:45:20,480 –> 00:45:22,240
maybe it was different, I don’t
know.

864
00:45:23,160 –> 00:45:26,520
But for me, peace with other
people.

865
00:45:27,240 –> 00:45:32,000
It was kind of like, oh, well,
those are like those people that

866
00:45:32,000 –> 00:45:33,760
all get along.
Those are the weak people that

867
00:45:33,760 –> 00:45:37,720
aren’t contending, right?
Like, you know, the, the people

868
00:45:37,720 –> 00:45:41,360
who are really tough, who know
their Bibles, well, they’ll be

869
00:45:41,360 –> 00:45:44,920
the ones there fighting over,
you know, what’s true and that

870
00:45:44,920 –> 00:45:46,280
sort of thing.
That, that was what I thought.

871
00:45:47,400 –> 00:45:49,640
So I was like ready to run
people over.

872
00:45:49,640 –> 00:45:52,120
And I probably ran over a lot of
people, unfortunately.

873
00:45:54,240 –> 00:45:57,080
So I decided now I’m a, I’m a
historian, right?

874
00:45:57,520 –> 00:46:02,240
So I’m a historian by trade.
So I tend to do certain things

875
00:46:02,240 –> 00:46:04,240
when it comes to history that’s
maybe slightly obsessive.

876
00:46:05,120 –> 00:46:09,600
So I have attempted to purchase
every Christadelphian book that

877
00:46:09,600 –> 00:46:12,840
exists.
I think I’m missing maybe like

878
00:46:12,840 –> 00:46:18,040
10 or 12, but I don’t, I don’t
know for sure, but I, I buy a

879
00:46:18,040 –> 00:46:19,840
lot of books and I scan them
all.

880
00:46:20,280 –> 00:46:24,680
OK, Now I, I take this, the
books, I cut off their spines, I

881
00:46:24,680 –> 00:46:26,600
scan them.
So I have 7000 books on my

882
00:46:26,600 –> 00:46:30,560
laptop.
Now, the reason I’m mentioning

883
00:46:30,560 –> 00:46:32,600
this, you might be wondering
like, where is this going?

884
00:46:32,600 –> 00:46:36,800
Well, I mentioned that because I
decided to do a little bit of an

885
00:46:36,800 –> 00:46:40,000
experiment.
I wanted to know what do

886
00:46:40,000 –> 00:46:43,600
Christadelphian works?
What have we historically

887
00:46:43,760 –> 00:46:47,800
published about Peace right now?
I didn’t look at the magazines,

888
00:46:47,880 –> 00:46:50,280
although I have all those too,
but I didn’t look at the

889
00:46:50,280 –> 00:46:51,800
magazines.
I wanted to specifically look

890
00:46:51,800 –> 00:46:54,320
at, you know what, what are in
our books because the magazines

891
00:46:54,320 –> 00:46:56,400
would be too much.
But it was really interesting to

892
00:46:56,400 –> 00:46:58,040
me to just to take a look at
this.

893
00:46:58,040 –> 00:47:00,720
Now, before I say these things,
I want to give a disclaimer.

894
00:47:01,640 –> 00:47:05,600
Obviously, if I have 7000 books,
I like them, OK?

895
00:47:05,640 –> 00:47:07,200
So I think that’s important to
notice.

896
00:47:07,320 –> 00:47:10,000
Like Christadelphian books I
think are wonderful.

897
00:47:10,560 –> 00:47:13,120
I think if we don’t read them,
that’s a huge mistake.

898
00:47:13,960 –> 00:47:17,240
OK, so in no way am I trying to
make fun of our literature or

899
00:47:17,240 –> 00:47:19,920
anything like that, but I think
it’s really important for us to

900
00:47:19,920 –> 00:47:24,520
know where we come from, right?
Like if you don’t, then there

901
00:47:24,520 –> 00:47:26,800
are certain things you just take
for granted as this is normal

902
00:47:26,800 –> 00:47:28,840
and maybe it’s not necessarily
biblical.

903
00:47:29,560 –> 00:47:31,440
So I think it’s important for us
to look back at that.

904
00:47:31,720 –> 00:47:33,680
So with that said, right, that’s
my disclaimer.

905
00:47:33,920 –> 00:47:36,120
I love Christadelphian books.
I love the people that were

906
00:47:36,120 –> 00:47:37,600
quoting, right?
I’ve learned a ton of things

907
00:47:37,600 –> 00:47:39,400
from them.
So please don’t take this in any

908
00:47:39,400 –> 00:47:41,920
way like I’m saying that they’re
bad or.

909
00:47:42,040 –> 00:47:44,920
Anything like that, but I
thought that this was really

910
00:47:44,920 –> 00:47:48,720
interesting.
So in Romans 12 verse 18, you

911
00:47:48,720 –> 00:47:50,560
have this verse.
So brother John Carter here

912
00:47:50,560 –> 00:47:53,160
quotes it in the second-half of
what I have on the screen.

913
00:47:53,480 –> 00:47:56,640
It says if it be possible as
much as in you Liath be at peace

914
00:47:56,640 –> 00:47:58,960
with all men.
And so this is what the apostle

915
00:47:58,960 –> 00:48:00,960
Paul says.
And in fact, he he talks about

916
00:48:00,960 –> 00:48:02,800
peace twice there in Romans
chapter 12.

917
00:48:04,080 –> 00:48:06,840
So what I wanted to do is I
said, well, let me get my books

918
00:48:06,840 –> 00:48:08,880
that are on Romans, right,
Christopher, books on Romans and

919
00:48:08,880 –> 00:48:11,160
let’s take a look and see.
What do we write?

920
00:48:11,560 –> 00:48:14,080
About these verses, right?
What do we say about them?

921
00:48:14,240 –> 00:48:18,480
And what really intrigued me is
that this is what the whole book

922
00:48:18,480 –> 00:48:21,280
says.
So when it says live at peace

923
00:48:21,280 –> 00:48:23,920
with everybody, the entire book
says this and half of it is

924
00:48:23,920 –> 00:48:27,600
quoting the verse, right?
It says peace depends on two

925
00:48:27,600 –> 00:48:29,800
parties being agreeable.
The Christian must be sure to do

926
00:48:29,800 –> 00:48:34,800
his part.
Now brother John Carter writes

927
00:48:34,800 –> 00:48:38,640
things that are very helpful.
I don’t feel like this is part

928
00:48:38,640 –> 00:48:44,120
of that just because.
Yeah, I mean, the first

929
00:48:44,120 –> 00:48:46,360
sentence, that’s good, right?
It depends on two parties being

930
00:48:46,360 –> 00:48:49,120
agreeable, but the rest is
really just a quote of the

931
00:48:49,120 –> 00:48:52,000
verse.
And so I was really struck by

932
00:48:52,200 –> 00:48:54,720
wow, like, you know, the next
verse he goes on to write like a

933
00:48:54,720 –> 00:48:57,520
paragraph about this one gets
that.

934
00:48:58,760 –> 00:49:02,160
So that was intriguing to me.
Now then I said, huh, like, I

935
00:49:02,160 –> 00:49:03,640
wonder what we do about some of
the other verses.

936
00:49:03,640 –> 00:49:05,880
So I started to look at Hebrews,
right.

937
00:49:05,880 –> 00:49:07,800
And in Hebrews we have the same
commandment to live at peace

938
00:49:07,800 –> 00:49:11,880
with all men.
So it says here it were unwise.

939
00:49:11,880 –> 00:49:14,040
This is again John Carter in his
book the letter to the Hebrews,

940
00:49:14,040 –> 00:49:16,040
it were unwise to provoke
persecution.

941
00:49:17,360 –> 00:49:19,440
The aim should be to promote
peace, right?

942
00:49:19,440 –> 00:49:22,160
So he says that promote peace.
That’s good, right?

943
00:49:22,920 –> 00:49:25,360
But peace can be purchased at
too great a price.

944
00:49:25,520 –> 00:49:29,560
Now what really struck me was as
soon as he says the peace is

945
00:49:29,560 –> 00:49:34,840
good, he hedges it right.
He then quotes the verse follow

946
00:49:34,840 –> 00:49:37,480
after peace with all men and
holiness without which no man

947
00:49:37,480 –> 00:49:39,240
shall see the Lord.
Now, there’s multiple ways to

948
00:49:39,240 –> 00:49:41,320
read this.
You could read it as though it’s

949
00:49:41,320 –> 00:49:45,440
saying follow peace, but you
can’t have peace and holiness at

950
00:49:45,440 –> 00:49:47,160
the same time.
So there’s like this, you know,

951
00:49:47,160 –> 00:49:50,000
tension right between the two
and you have to try and figure

952
00:49:50,000 –> 00:49:53,440
out how to have both.
Or you could read this as saying

953
00:49:53,640 –> 00:49:58,000
peace and holiness go together.
A way that you are holy is by

954
00:49:58,000 –> 00:50:01,760
being peaceful.
So what I found interesting is

955
00:50:01,960 –> 00:50:06,000
he takes the first approach.
He says follow after peace,

956
00:50:06,440 –> 00:50:07,720
right?
So again, he encourages us to do

957
00:50:07,720 –> 00:50:09,040
that.
He says, for it’s not something

958
00:50:09,040 –> 00:50:10,800
to be easily grasped.
It has to be pursued.

959
00:50:10,800 –> 00:50:13,240
As this psalmist said, seek
peace and pursue it.

960
00:50:13,760 –> 00:50:17,160
But this pursuit of peace is
governed by the larger trait of

961
00:50:17,160 –> 00:50:19,520
holiness, which the next verse
is in force.

962
00:50:20,440 –> 00:50:23,560
So notice that he takes it and
he says so yes, you need to have

963
00:50:23,560 –> 00:50:27,720
peace.
But be holy. 1st and then if

964
00:50:27,720 –> 00:50:30,400
you’ve figured out holiness,
then have peace.

965
00:50:31,880 –> 00:50:35,040
So I thought, wow, that’s,
that’s very interesting.

966
00:50:35,040 –> 00:50:38,560
Like it’s interesting to see how
perhaps you know that that could

967
00:50:38,560 –> 00:50:40,120
have colored the way that we
approach things.

968
00:50:40,120 –> 00:50:41,760
Now, just in case you’re
wondering, there’s the verse in

969
00:50:41,760 –> 00:50:43,920
Greek, and I’ve underlined the
word up there, Kai.

970
00:50:44,160 –> 00:50:47,600
Which is just your word and but
the reason I underlined it is

971
00:50:47,600 –> 00:50:51,720
because he presents these two
things add as adversative,

972
00:50:52,080 –> 00:50:56,880
right, you have peace versus
holiness.

973
00:50:57,680 –> 00:50:58,720
And I want to just.
Put to you.

974
00:50:58,720 –> 00:51:02,920
The Greek doesn’t say that.
So there’s multiple words that

975
00:51:02,920 –> 00:51:06,600
you can use in Greek to say and
and there is an adversative and

976
00:51:07,000 –> 00:51:09,960
it’s day, in case you’re
wondering, doesn’t that sound

977
00:51:09,960 –> 00:51:12,080
adversative day or something
like that?

978
00:51:12,280 –> 00:51:15,600
So chi is not that way.
Chi is just saying, hey, we’re

979
00:51:15,600 –> 00:51:17,800
linking these things together.
So here’s, you know, a fancy

980
00:51:17,800 –> 00:51:20,080
book called Discourse Grammar of
the Greek New Testament.

981
00:51:20,600 –> 00:51:22,480
And here’s what he says.
He says Chi does not mark a

982
00:51:22,480 –> 00:51:25,360
distinction of semantic
continuity or discontinuity.

983
00:51:27,120 –> 00:51:29,320
I think I should have said
semantic continuity or

984
00:51:29,320 –> 00:51:30,480
discontinuity.
There we go.

985
00:51:31,120 –> 00:51:33,720
It connects 2 items of equal
status, constraining them to be

986
00:51:33,720 –> 00:51:37,840
closely related to one another.
So the idea is, is that what

987
00:51:37,840 –> 00:51:42,280
this is telling us is that we
pursue peace and holiness

988
00:51:42,280 –> 00:51:45,960
together.
These two ideas work together.

989
00:51:45,960 –> 00:51:48,520
They’re not adversative.
And so you’ll see that in newer

990
00:51:48,520 –> 00:51:51,000
translations.
That’s the idea that you have

991
00:51:51,000 –> 00:51:51,800
brought out.
Strive for.

992
00:51:51,800 –> 00:51:54,280
Peace with everyone and for the
holiness without which no one

993
00:51:54,280 –> 00:51:57,720
will see the Lord right?
You do this as one thing.

994
00:52:00,080 –> 00:52:01,200
I found this one really
interesting.

995
00:52:01,200 –> 00:52:03,640
This is by Frank Janaway.
Now he he had to do with the

996
00:52:03,640 –> 00:52:05,400
Berean split.
So you know, you might say he’s

997
00:52:05,400 –> 00:52:08,840
a little biased, but here’s
here’s what he wrote.

998
00:52:09,440 –> 00:52:12,600
This is this is very intriguing.
I will tell you before we read

999
00:52:12,600 –> 00:52:16,200
this that what I underlined
there peace with all men

1000
00:52:17,080 –> 00:52:22,080
Biblical quote, right?
Listen to how he uses it and you

1001
00:52:22,280 –> 00:52:24,000
I don’t know, right?
I don’t know if he was using

1002
00:52:24,000 –> 00:52:25,440
this.
As a quote.

1003
00:52:25,520 –> 00:52:27,240
Or if it just, you know, if he
just wrote it.

1004
00:52:27,240 –> 00:52:29,600
I don’t know if this was on
purpose or not, he says.

1005
00:52:29,600 –> 00:52:32,360
No, nearly half a century’s
experience has taught us that

1006
00:52:32,360 –> 00:52:35,640
the corrupters who have done the
most mischief have been the

1007
00:52:35,640 –> 00:52:39,840
kind, broad minded, liberal
hearted leaders who invariably

1008
00:52:39,960 –> 00:52:41,840
have an eye to a seat on the
fence.

1009
00:52:42,640 –> 00:52:46,080
Leaders not because they possess
the qualities of leaders, but

1010
00:52:46,080 –> 00:52:50,600
because their followers are
made-up of non thinkers who

1011
00:52:50,720 –> 00:52:54,080
loving to be at peace with all
men, choose the easiest route

1012
00:52:54,080 –> 00:52:56,760
there too.
And therefore needing a leader,

1013
00:52:56,840 –> 00:53:00,480
select one after their own heart
and invariably have as their

1014
00:53:00,480 –> 00:53:04,200
motto, let sleeping dogs lie,
which is the reverse of the

1015
00:53:04,200 –> 00:53:07,160
Apostolic one of contender
earnestly for the faith.

1016
00:53:09,400 –> 00:53:12,720
So do you see what he did here?
He’s talking about leaders that

1017
00:53:12,720 –> 00:53:15,760
are coming up, and he says the
problem with these leaders is

1018
00:53:15,760 –> 00:53:20,680
that they love to be at peace
with all men instead of

1019
00:53:20,680 –> 00:53:21,880
contending.
Earnestly for the faith.

1020
00:53:22,360 –> 00:53:25,000
So again, you have this
adversative relationship that he

1021
00:53:25,200 –> 00:53:27,360
creates here.
He says being at peace with

1022
00:53:27,360 –> 00:53:30,400
everyone is not the same as
contending earnestly for the

1023
00:53:30,400 –> 00:53:32,360
faith.
Now the problem with that is in

1024
00:53:32,360 –> 00:53:36,120
fact, at peace with all men is
from Hebrews 1214, where we are

1025
00:53:36,120 –> 00:53:42,720
told follow peace with all men.
Now, the way that I thought for

1026
00:53:42,720 –> 00:53:45,640
a long time was like this,
right?

1027
00:53:45,680 –> 00:53:48,080
I, I looked at people that were
at peace and I said, well, you

1028
00:53:48,080 –> 00:53:49,800
know, their issue is they just
want to get along with

1029
00:53:49,800 –> 00:53:51,560
everybody.
They want to sing kumbaya, you

1030
00:53:51,560 –> 00:53:54,080
know, all that kind of thing.
Like they don’t really know what

1031
00:53:54,080 –> 00:53:55,680
the Bible says.
And that’s what he calls them.

1032
00:53:55,680 –> 00:53:57,680
He calls them non thinkers,
right?

1033
00:53:58,480 –> 00:54:00,520
They’re not contending, you
know, they need to be out

1034
00:54:00,520 –> 00:54:03,400
fighting.
But the problem is, is that it’s

1035
00:54:03,400 –> 00:54:06,640
the same Bible that tells us to
be at peace with all men and to

1036
00:54:06,640 –> 00:54:10,240
contendernessly for the faith.
It’s not contradicting itself.

1037
00:54:12,080 –> 00:54:16,080
We can’t take one and ignore the
other or take one and say that

1038
00:54:16,080 –> 00:54:18,400
the other is wrong, right?
We are supposed to do both.

1039
00:54:18,880 –> 00:54:21,720
And so my suggestion is that
contending for the faith does

1040
00:54:21,720 –> 00:54:24,440
not mean hitting people with
your Bible, right?

1041
00:54:24,600 –> 00:54:27,360
Like, we should know this stuff.
We should be able to quote

1042
00:54:27,360 –> 00:54:31,520
verses, but we don’t come up and
say, what?

1043
00:54:31,520 –> 00:54:33,520
You didn’t know that.
That’s so ridiculous.

1044
00:54:33,720 –> 00:54:36,320
You know, I remember saying to a
pastor, oh, you’re a teacher in

1045
00:54:36,320 –> 00:54:38,080
Israel, and you don’t know these
things, right?

1046
00:54:38,080 –> 00:54:40,840
Like, I mean, come on, That was
rude, right?

1047
00:54:41,360 –> 00:54:45,920
Like.
Anyway, I won’t, I won’t say

1048
00:54:45,920 –> 00:54:48,800
anything more on that now, OK?
This is this is how I’m.

1049
00:54:48,800 –> 00:54:50,600
Going to end.
I know I got 3 minutes left.

1050
00:54:52,200 –> 00:54:53,560
Again, I want to give a
disclaimer.

1051
00:54:54,280 –> 00:54:56,840
I think people should read Elvis
Israel right?

1052
00:54:56,840 –> 00:54:58,040
I think this is really
important.

1053
00:54:59,880 –> 00:55:02,440
Elvis Israel is an incredible
exposition of the Bible.

1054
00:55:04,440 –> 00:55:08,600
However, I think there are
takeaways from Alexander

1055
00:55:08,600 –> 00:55:14,560
Campbell that influenced our
community through some of the

1056
00:55:14,560 –> 00:55:17,000
things that ended up influencing
John Thomas.

1057
00:55:18,080 –> 00:55:20,560
So take a look at this and I
just have a couple more quotes

1058
00:55:20,560 –> 00:55:23,280
that I want to end with.
This is my historian portion

1059
00:55:23,280 –> 00:55:25,080
coming out.
But I think it’s helpful to just

1060
00:55:25,080 –> 00:55:26,560
again, see kind of where we came
from.

1061
00:55:27,320 –> 00:55:29,920
These are the kind of things
that I would say to people.

1062
00:55:31,000 –> 00:55:32,640
Because I thought they were
biblical.

1063
00:55:32,800 –> 00:55:35,680
Type of things to say so it.
Says here the keys were promised

1064
00:55:35,680 –> 00:55:38,480
to Peter and not to successors
of Peter if it were possible for

1065
00:55:38,480 –> 00:55:40,880
him to have them in such an
office, which none but the most

1066
00:55:40,880 –> 00:55:43,000
stupidly ignorant of the
scriptures would venture to

1067
00:55:43,000 –> 00:55:44,960
affirm.
The custody the keys by

1068
00:55:44,960 –> 00:55:48,200
successor of Peter is the most
farcical assumption that ever

1069
00:55:48,200 –> 00:55:49,840
poor crazy mortals were guilty
of.

1070
00:55:50,800 –> 00:55:52,680
Now, you know, it’s kind of fun
to read them, right?

1071
00:55:52,680 –> 00:55:54,480
Because we’re like, yeah, those
dumb people, right?

1072
00:55:54,600 –> 00:55:58,960
But the problem is, is that this
could very nicely be expressed,

1073
00:55:59,440 –> 00:56:03,320
right?
You could very nicely say you

1074
00:56:03,320 –> 00:56:05,240
could take out that whole
section which none but the most

1075
00:56:05,240 –> 00:56:06,960
stupidly ignorant of the
scripture would venture to

1076
00:56:06,960 –> 00:56:09,200
affirm, right?
You can assert the same purpose

1077
00:56:09,400 –> 00:56:15,000
without having those things.
You don’t have to say that now

1078
00:56:15,800 –> 00:56:18,280
if you look at the.
Christadelphian’s version of

1079
00:56:18,280 –> 00:56:20,480
Elpis Israel, you will notice
that they put a disclaimer in,

1080
00:56:20,560 –> 00:56:22,680
right?
And what’s interesting is, is

1081
00:56:22,680 –> 00:56:25,160
that I, I took this for a long
time and I said, oh, OK, so

1082
00:56:25,160 –> 00:56:26,520
that’s the deal.
You know, everybody just talked

1083
00:56:26,520 –> 00:56:28,000
that way, right?
That’s what they say, the

1084
00:56:28,000 –> 00:56:30,280
forthrightness of the writer
seen in the vigor of his words.

1085
00:56:30,280 –> 00:56:32,400
And modern readers must make
some allowance for that because

1086
00:56:32,400 –> 00:56:34,440
that’s just how people talk.
The problem is, is that that’s

1087
00:56:34,440 –> 00:56:37,400
just not true, right?
People did not talk that way.

1088
00:56:38,120 –> 00:56:40,480
So I will just show you Horace
Bushnell.

1089
00:56:40,560 –> 00:56:44,120
He was a major theologian at the
same time, here’s what he’s

1090
00:56:44,120 –> 00:56:45,440
writing about people he
disagrees with.

1091
00:56:45,600 –> 00:56:49,280
He does not say that they are
stupidly ignorant, right?

1092
00:56:49,720 –> 00:56:53,000
Like he says, do not teach them
that they can never pray or do

1093
00:56:53,000 –> 00:56:55,360
anything acceptable to God.
Till after they converted or

1094
00:56:55,360 –> 00:56:57,960
regenerated.
This with many is a great point

1095
00:56:57,960 –> 00:57:00,360
of orthodoxy and I would not
speak of it with severity.

1096
00:57:02,320 –> 00:57:04,880
That’s the total opposite right?
Because it is a very natural

1097
00:57:04,880 –> 00:57:09,520
mistake.
This is Charles Hodge.

1098
00:57:10,720 –> 00:57:12,840
He was AI believe he was
president of one of the Ivy

1099
00:57:12,840 –> 00:57:14,160
Leagues.
Again, he was a major

1100
00:57:14,160 –> 00:57:15,640
theologian.
He says the same kind of thing.

1101
00:57:15,840 –> 00:57:20,000
These big deal theologians did
not write that way.

1102
00:57:20,120 –> 00:57:25,920
You know who did?
Not Robert Roberts.

1103
00:57:26,600 –> 00:57:30,680
Come on.
Oh, no, I didn’t put my

1104
00:57:30,680 –> 00:57:33,840
Alexander Campbell quote in.
Oh, no.

1105
00:57:33,840 –> 00:57:35,960
OK.
Well, anyway, Alexander Campbell

1106
00:57:35,960 –> 00:57:38,600
wrote that way and it’s really
fascinating if you, if you ever

1107
00:57:38,600 –> 00:57:41,160
take the chance and I, I
recommend it because it’s just

1108
00:57:41,160 –> 00:57:43,840
again, interesting as far as
history is concerned, Alexander

1109
00:57:43,840 –> 00:57:47,480
Campbell and John Thomas wrote
this way to each other, right?

1110
00:57:47,480 –> 00:57:49,600
They would, they would say, I
can’t believe you are so dumb to

1111
00:57:49,600 –> 00:57:51,720
be thinking this.
Like, you know, nobody who reads

1112
00:57:51,720 –> 00:57:53,520
their Bible would ever believe
these things that you believe.

1113
00:57:53,760 –> 00:57:55,080
And they would.
This is how they would write.

1114
00:57:55,240 –> 00:57:57,920
And it’s just, it’s interesting
to to hear these kind of things

1115
00:57:58,320 –> 00:57:59,440
and to realize.
That they have.

1116
00:57:59,560 –> 00:58:03,840
Come down into, I think how we
talked today.

1117
00:58:04,280 –> 00:58:06,680
This is from a recent class.
I’m not going to tell you who it

1118
00:58:06,680 –> 00:58:08,920
is, OK?
Because that’s weird.

1119
00:58:10,000 –> 00:58:12,880
But these these kind of things
are still said right?

1120
00:58:13,160 –> 00:58:15,200
He tells Joshua, look, you
better take your shoes off for

1121
00:58:15,200 –> 00:58:16,600
the place where on thus stand as
is holy.

1122
00:58:16,800 –> 00:58:18,920
And Joshua would know by that
comment, brothers and sisters,

1123
00:58:19,080 –> 00:58:21,800
he’d have to be blind, deaf,
dumb and stupid not to know by

1124
00:58:21,800 –> 00:58:24,440
that comment who he was talking
to, because that statement is a

1125
00:58:24,440 –> 00:58:27,640
monumental statement.
Here’s another one.

1126
00:58:27,760 –> 00:58:29,720
So the host of the Midianites,
these are two separate brothers,

1127
00:58:30,400 –> 00:58:33,320
says verse one we could read.
Now you’ve got to use the idea

1128
00:58:33,320 –> 00:58:34,880
we’re in the arena of a divine
type.

1129
00:58:34,880 –> 00:58:37,200
There’s no argument about that.
You’d be stupid to argue this is

1130
00:58:37,200 –> 00:58:39,400
not designed by God to be a type
of the judgment seat.

1131
00:58:39,640 –> 00:58:42,120
Now, when we just throw these
things out, when we talk like

1132
00:58:42,120 –> 00:58:45,600
this, right, we really, we make
a big mistake.

1133
00:58:46,160 –> 00:58:48,560
And I want us to emphasize that
because I’ve had people say this

1134
00:58:48,560 –> 00:58:51,000
to me, you know, I’ve gone up to
somebody to share an idea and

1135
00:58:51,000 –> 00:58:53,960
they’ve said only people who are
idiots would agree with you.

1136
00:58:53,960 –> 00:58:55,920
And I’ve said, OK, well, that’s
fine.

1137
00:58:55,920 –> 00:58:57,360
But I got it from John Thomas,
right?

1138
00:58:57,360 –> 00:58:59,760
Like and that made them really
mad.

1139
00:59:00,040 –> 00:59:04,560
But but like, it was one of
those things of like, why do we

1140
00:59:04,720 –> 00:59:05,760
say that?
Right?

1141
00:59:06,080 –> 00:59:09,120
The Kingdom is about peace.
We don’t need to say those

1142
00:59:09,120 –> 00:59:12,360
things.
We can talk about, look, I think

1143
00:59:12,360 –> 00:59:15,480
you’re wrong and that’s fine.
And we can say here’s why I

1144
00:59:15,480 –> 00:59:17,240
think you’re wrong.
Let me show you this first and

1145
00:59:17,240 –> 00:59:18,640
this first and let’s chat about
it.

1146
00:59:18,680 –> 00:59:21,280
And that’s good.
But to to go around and say only

1147
00:59:21,280 –> 00:59:23,920
the stupidly ignorant and the
dumb, I think that’s just that’s

1148
00:59:23,920 –> 00:59:25,480
part of that legacy that we
have.

1149
00:59:25,680 –> 00:59:30,240
That’s probably a good idea to
step back and say, Oh, you know,

1150
00:59:30,680 –> 00:59:32,800
he talks that way probably
because he was really excited,

1151
00:59:33,200 –> 00:59:34,800
right?
Like he was discovering things

1152
00:59:34,800 –> 00:59:36,520
that nobody had seen for
hundreds of years.

1153
00:59:37,680 –> 00:59:40,280
And so he felt like, come on,
like, how could you not be

1154
00:59:40,280 –> 00:59:44,920
pumped by this?
But let’s put that stuff aside,

1155
00:59:45,560 –> 00:59:51,280
and let’s learn to embrace.
The peace that the gospel of

1156
00:59:51,280 –> 00:59:54,400
peace really is, and I think
we’re going to see as we go on

1157
00:59:55,840 –> 00:59:59,680
that as we learn more about the
gospel, we recognize that it’s

1158
00:59:59,680 –> 01:00:02,840
not just something that God
wants, but peace amongst

1159
01:00:02,840 –> 01:00:05,040
ourselves is an imperative.