Jason Robinson – Toward Jerusalem – Class 2 – The Cost of Following

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Thank you very much and good
morning, Bible School.

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Well done.
That was great.

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All right, I’m very excited to
officially be starting the

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journey of Christ to Jerusalem
today.

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He in today’s class, he will
actually take his first step to

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get there and it is an exciting
moment.

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We have a few things to go over
before he makes that step, but

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I’m excited to start this
journey with you today.

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Yesterday we saw that following
Jesus to Jerusalem was a journey

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we all can join him on.
And we are chasing after our

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Lord Jesus Christ to become a
city of people, a new Jerusalem.

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And we aren’t following him to
the Old City, but to a city that

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he’s actually literally
constructing right now.

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He’s building it at his Father’s
side, a heavenly Jerusalem, one

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made out of people.
But on the road to the natural

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city, he left all the principles
that we’re going to need to find

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places in the new holy city.
And that’s what I’m very excited

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to join you guys with in the
study of following Christ to

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Jerusalem.
Now, one thing everyone must

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learn before they begin their
journey to Jerusalem is it’s not

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a fun road trip to Jerusalem.
This is not a vacation trip to

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Jerusalem for the disciples, the
12 who Christ chose and for us.

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It’s not a big journey about
figuring out who you are.

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This is a journey where you have
to learn to give up everything

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and you have to discover the
worth of other people.

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And that’s what Christ did on
his journey towards Jerusalem.

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It was never for himself.
It was a journey meant for

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others.
And he invited his 12 and he

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invites us on that journey as
well.

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So I hope we all have our
handouts from yesterday.

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If you don’t, I have bad news.
I don’t have them the extras

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with me.
Uncle Bob saved me in the teen

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class and he went and grabbed a
few.

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But if you don’t, I will bring
extras with me tomorrow.

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I promise It’ll just mean you
have a couple pieces of homework

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to do, which will be fine.
All right, so let’s begin our

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look at our class this morning.
What I want to start off with

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just a is a quick little fun
study here and there seems to be

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7 unique entries of our Lord
Jesus Christ into Jerusalem

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recorded for us in scripture.
Now we know that He would have

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gone there more times.
There was many feasts in

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Jerusalem that he would have had
to go there every year.

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But there seems to be 7 recorded
entries in Jerusalem, three of

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which we’ll find in Luke.
The presentation of the temple

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in Luke 2, the 12 year old Jesus
who visits the temple in Luke

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12.
His temptation.

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We’re on the temple in Luke trip
4.

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We jump to John for the
cleansing of the temple in John

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2.
The Feast of the Jews in John 5

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and the expectation we had
yesterday.

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The Feast of Tabernacles in John
7 and then the 7th entry in all

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four gospels.
This what’s labeled as the

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triumphant entry.
So it’s quite beautiful seeing

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that there are seems to be 7
unique entries of Christ into

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Jerusalem, 7 being that covenant
number and he would enter on the

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7th time to build a new
covenant.

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You would enter an eighth and
we’ll see his eighth entry later

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on in this week to as a new
resurrected Lord Jesus Christ.

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OK, so there seems to be two
unique ones to Luke, Luke 2 and

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Luke, the presentation at the
temple and the 12 year old who

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visits the temple.
Those are unique to Luke’s

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gospels we saw yesterday.
And then finally, the other one

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located for us in Luke is his
triumphant entry.

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So what we’re going to do is we
are going to just quickly look

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at the context of his entry into
Jerusalem.

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But before we do that, the
classic question you guys are

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going to be sick of by the end
of the week.

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Where does the journey begin?
Excellent.

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That’ll be a very loud chorus,
hopefully in a few days here.

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Luke 951 is where the journey
begins.

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Does anybody have markdown where
the journey ends?

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Luke 1945 Very good.
So what we’re doing is we’re

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going to use those as our
bookends.

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And what we’re going to see is
where we fall in setting a

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chapter.
We’ll know now.

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Are we at the beginning of the
journey?

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Are we at the middle of the
journey?

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Are we near the end?
Are we after?

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OK, So hopefully that’ll help us
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And then the journey’s purpose
probably is left blank.

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We’re going to go over that
today.

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It’s going to be a an awesome
verse to go over.

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OK, So what we’re going to do is
take a look then at Luke chapter

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18.
And since we have kind of this

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for these verses in our minds,
we know that we’re getting close

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to the end of the journey,
aren’t we?

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We know he enters the city into
the temple in Luke chapter 19.

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We know Luke 18 is getting close
to the end somewhat.

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So Luke 18 and verse 31, we
actually have the purpose of the

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journey.
So if you want to fill in that

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last line there from session
one, the journey’s purpose,

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taking the 12, Jesus says to
them, Luke 1831 See, we’re going

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up to Jerusalem, he says, and
everything that’s written about

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the Son of Man by the prophets
will be accomplished.

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That’s His purpose.
Everything that’s been written

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by the prophets, everything
that’s been written in the law,

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everything that’s been written
in the Psalms about the Son of

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Man is about to be accomplished.
So we’re going to Jerusalem.

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He says that’s his purpose.
Luke 1831 Four.

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Here’s what happens to Christ in
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He is going to be delivered to
the Gentiles, mocked, treated

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shamefully, spit upon, flogged,
killed, and on the third day

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he’ll rise again.
So interestingly, it seems like

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on his 7th entry, 7 things are
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Delivered to the Gentiles,
mocked, treated shamefully, spit

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upon, flogged, killed and rise
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So with this list of things that
are happening to Christ, he

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tells his disciples only a
chapter away from entering the

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city.
What’s the response of the

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disciples?
Look at the next verse, verse

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34.
They understood none of these

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things.
The saying was hidden from them.

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They didn’t grasp what he said.
Three different ways, we’re

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told.
The disciples had no idea what

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was happening.
They were clueless.

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This is the end of the journey.
How could they still not know

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what’s happening?
Aren’t we?

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Aren’t we only moments away from
entering the city, but the

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disciples find themselves
oblivious as to what’s

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happening?
Well, this isn’t the first time

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that this has happened.
Come with me back to Luke

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Chapter 9, Luke Chapter 9.
We know from Luke Chapter 9 that

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we are at the beginning of the
journey, right?

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You’re starting to get the hang
of this.

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Hopefully that we kind of know
where we’re at in the chapter in

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Luke.
We could put ourselves really at

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the the timeline of our journey.
So Luke 9 verse 22 saying the

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Son of Man must suffer many
things and be rejected of the

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elders, the chief priests and
scribes, and be killed, and on

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the third day be raised.
So we have bookends Now right

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before the journey starts and
right before the journey ends,

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Christ explains to his
disciples, these are the

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terrible things that await me in
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But now look at verse in Luke
2944.

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We’re verses away from beginning
the journey, aren’t we?

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We are right there.
Verse 44, Let these words sink

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into yours.
The Son of Man is about to be

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delivered into the hands of men.
He restates what he’s just

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stated in verse 22.
But the disciples, verse 45,

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what does it say?
The disciples thought the

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disciples did not understand the
saying.

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It was concealed from them so
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and they were afraid to ask Him
about the saying.

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So what else do we have as
bookends in this journey?

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Well, Christ reveals to the
disciples everything that

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terrible that awaits him in
Jerusalem.

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And the disciples confused, not
understanding what he’s talking

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about.
You see, they saw Christ’s

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mission as something totally
different, didn’t they?

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They saw Christ’s mission as
well.

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Finally, we’re going to be free
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He’s going to go in.
A triumphant entry indeed.

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And deliver us from the hands of
these terrible Romans.

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And when he says things like I’m
going to die, I’m going to be

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mocked, people are going to spit
on me and be resurrected.

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This didn’t fit into their idea.
This doesn’t fit into the plan.

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And I’m confused.
So come back with me to Luke

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922.
This is His introduction then to

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what awaits them.
On this rode to Jerusalem.

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The Son of Man must suffer many
things to be rejected by the

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elders, the chief priests and
the scribes, to be killed, and

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on the third day be raised.
Verse 23, immediately after.

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And He said to all, He says to
everyone, if anyone would come

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after me, let Him deny Himself,
take up His cross daily and

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follow me.
So he says in Jerusalem, here’s

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what awaits me.
Shame, mocking.

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I’ll be spit on, I’ll be beaten,
I’ll be killed, but I’ll be

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resurrected.
If you want to join me on this

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road trip to Jerusalem, deny
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Take your cross every single day
and follow me.

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It’s an invitation, isn’t it?
And no one in the right mind

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would say this sounds like a
fantastic trip.

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Let’s go.
But he opens the invitation to

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everyone.
That sounds like a great trip to

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Jerusalem.
Let’s go.

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No, nobody would say this.
So why does he do this?

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Why does he open up the call
like this?

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Well, let us look at the context
of what happens in Luke Chapter

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9.
Right?

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Just to get ourselves a little
bit grounded as to where we’re

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at.
We know what verse 51’s all

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about, don’t we?
Luke 951, he leaves for

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Jerusalem.
That’s our target verse.

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That’s our key.
That’s our beginning.

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Well, what happens before this?
Well, he sends out the 12 to

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proclaim the Kingdom of God at
the beginning of the chapter.

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He then feeds the 5000.
Luke 9’s packed by the way, Luke

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9’s packed full of big stories.
He sends out the 12.

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He then feeds the 5000.
He then as we already read in

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verses 21 and 22 tells about his
death.

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He says this is what awaits us
in Jerusalem.

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He then invites us to take up
our cross every single day, deny

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ourselves and follow him. 28 to
36, the transfiguration amazing

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event.
You can spend the whole Bible

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school talking about those set
of verses.

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The transfiguration happens, the
boys healed by Jesus.

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Jesus tells of his death a
second time.

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This is the second time this has
happened.

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And this is when the disciples
are confused.

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Then the disciples instantly
argue who’s the best disciple

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and they leave for Jerusalem.
That’s our context.

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That’s our foundation for
departing for Jerusalem.

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By the way, who is the greatest?
That’s the class on Wednesday.

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We’re going to look really dive
into the, the dynamics of the

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disciples.
OK, so this is where the where

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we’re at.
This is what we find ourselves

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in contextually for verse 51
when he leaves.

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Before we jump too much further
into it, what I thought we would

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do is spend a few minutes
filling out the back of our

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handout, this little map,
totally optional if you guys

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would like.
What we’ll do is we’ll just kind

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of layout a few things here and
you guys can geographically

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follow along throughout the week
up to you.

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So up in the north, in the
northern section of our map

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here, we have the Sea of
Galilee.

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This was the region that came to
be known as shockingly, Galilee.

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All right, so the region of
Galilee is where Christ found

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His home base at the beginning
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The first couple years of His
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he centered around.
He would of course, pop all

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over, but he would end up back
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All right, so this is our main
section up here in the northern

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part of Israel.
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region called Samaria.
Now Christ has a lot of

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parables, a lot of dealings with
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So we’re going to spend a couple
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Samaritans here for a second.
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look at Judea, the set land in
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That’s our third region here on
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So with Galley up in the north,
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We know that that’s our target.
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area in Nazareth and we’re going
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That’s the goal.
Any map will tell you the best

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path is straight line.
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And Christ thinks the same
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Luke 9 verse 52, one verse after
we’ve left and he sent

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messengers ahead of him who went
and entered a village of the

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Samaritans to make preparations
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Christ says I have to get to
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Samaria is the way.
So He sends disciples ahead

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saying prepare me a place.
We’re going to go through

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Samaria.
OK, so let’s then kind of figure

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out, if we can, what all the
friction is between the

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Samaritans and the Hebrews.
Because we know that when the

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parable of the Good Samaritan is
presented, the question, who is

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my neighbor?
The Samaritan couldn’t possibly

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be the answer.
The Samaritans, they’re

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lowlifes.
We don’t we don’t deal with

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them.
So who are the Samaritans?

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Well, the Samaritans in Second
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You don’t have to turn it up.
I’ll go ahead and read this

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verse for you.
Second Kings 17 and a verse 24.

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This is kind of the beginning
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foundation of the Samaritan
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Second, Kings 17 and verse 24,
Assyria is wreaking havoc in the

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area and what it says is and the
king of Syria brought people

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from Babylon, Kutha, Ava, Hamath
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the cities of Samaria instead of
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So what the king of Assyria does
is very strategic, isn’t it?

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What he does is he says, OK, I’m
going to take people from

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Babylon.
This is my Babylon people.

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You guys are no longer living in
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I’m going to put you here in
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You are kuthovites.
I’m going to take you.

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You’re going to live in Samaria.
You guys are people from

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Sephoraeum, my Sephoraeumites
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Everybody in Samaria, you’re
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their homes, and their homes.
So what does that do to a

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culture?
What does that do if you’re

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going to try to revolt against
the terrible Assyrian overlords?

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If you guys and you guys and you
guys are all trying to get

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together and you say, well, this
is a good plan, They say that’s

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a terrible plan.
What about this one?

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And they say, you guys are all
crazy, we’re going to go with

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this.
It just doesn’t work.

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It’s a fantastic strategy as an
occupier because now everybody’s

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mixed together.
Nobody can talk to each other,

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nobody can deal with each other.
And they just go, fine, we’ll

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pay whatever you want.
Just please don’t mix this up

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anymore.
And so now over the course of

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time, what happens is this
bubble of Samaria becomes very

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anti everyone else because not
only that, but further on in the

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chapter we’re told that their
religion’s mixed lions started

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eating people.
It’s a great story.

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Go read it.
Lions start eating people and

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they go, why are lions eating
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They said, we’ll ask the priest.
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And he said, well, this is how
you’re supposed to worship God.

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And you go, oh, and they mix it
is that how is that how God

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wants us to do it, to say, well,
you know what?

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This is the way you worship God.
But feel free to sprinkle in

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your own ideas too.
No, this doesn’t work.

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And so over time, this area of
Sumeria became polar opposites

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to the Jews and Hebrews were
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So we get to the time of
Nehemiah when they come back and

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they try to build the wall.
They’re feeble Jews is what

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they’re known.
They’re feeble Jews.

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And so there’s this friction now
between these two nations,

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between these two cultures,
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So when Christ can say here’s a
story about a man who’s a

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Samaritan who saves an injured
Jew, you’d get under your skin a

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little bit.
But that’s the point.

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That was what he was going for.
Everyone is your neighbor.

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OK, So that’s the Samaria.
So Christ needs to go through

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Samaria to get to this area of
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So what he does is he sets foot
and he says to his disciples, go

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into Samaria, prepare the way.
So they go and they prepare the

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way.
What happens?

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Let’s read our next verse.
I’m sorry, we’re not moving very

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quickly.
Let’s try to move fast.

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Verse 53.
But the people did not receive

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him.
Why?

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Why didn’t the people receive
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What does it say in your Bibles?
What’s the reason that they said

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no, you can’t come through some
area?

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I heard it over here.
What?

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Because his face was as though
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That’s a weird thing to say.
No, you can’t come through my

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land for you’re going to
Jerusalem.

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Oh, Jerusalem.
Nope.

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Another way.
Why has Jesus been to Samaria

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before?
Yes, he has.

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John chapter 4.
You don’t need to turn up.

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I’ll read some verses for you.
John chapter 4, he visits a

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woman at a well and in John
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of his way to visit Samaria.
It says in John chapter 4 verse

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four, and he had to pass through
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So he came to a town of Samaria
called Sychar near the field

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that Jacob had given to his son
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Jacob’s well was there, so
Jesus, wearied as he was from

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his journey, was sitting beside
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It was about the 6th hour and a
woman from Samaria came to draw

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water.
Look at the friction between

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these people.
A wearied Lord sits down.

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How often do you read Jesus
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First of all, he sits down,
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And he said to her, give me a
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The woman, a Samaritan, said to
him, How is it that you, a Jew,

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ask for a drink from me, a woman
of Samaria, in parentheses?

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For the Jews have no dealings
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Do you see the friction here?
Is Christ in Samaria at this

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time?
Yes, he is.

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Why is He allowed to go into
Samaria in one area and they say

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no, no, no, you can’t go through
at this time because you’re

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going to Jerusalem?
Well, I think in John 4 we’re

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given another little clue.
I’m going to read for you coming

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down to verse 19.
Right after this, the woman and

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Jesus have a conversation about
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He reveals way more about her
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And she says to him, verse 19,
Sir, I perceive you’re a

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prophet.
Yeah, good guess He just told

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you about all of your husbands.
And he says, she says, our

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fathers worshipped on this
mountain, But you say that in

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Jerusalem is the place where
people ought to worship.

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So what’s the difference
religiously between Samaritans

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and Jews?
Well, it was where their holy

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places were.
Mount Garrison, probably from

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Deuteronomy 11, is where the
Samaritans found their holy

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place, this mountain, she says,
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So coming back to Luke Chapter
9, they say, oh, you’re going to

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Jerusalem.
Nope, not today.

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Find a different route.
And so Christ is forced to take

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a detour.
And we know he takes a detour

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because we have two more places
to just kind of familiarize

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ourselves with.
On our map.

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We have the region of the north
called Decapolis, and right to

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the east of the Jordan River, we
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We’ve probably heard of four of
these places before.

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Pray a little harder to find
contextual stories for.

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But to capitalists, we’ve heard
of certainly Gali, Samaria and

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Judea we’ve heard of.
So what he does, he says I’m

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going to travel through Samaria.
Another reason we know he wants

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to travel through Samaria is in
John 7, the Jews had made it

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their mission to kill Jesus.
And if he’s trying to travel

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down there without being killed,
Samaria is a good route.

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So he says, I’m going to go
through Samaria.

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The Samaritans say, no, you’re
not.

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And so we know from Mark Chapter
10, Mark Chapter 10 tells us

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that he crossed over the Jordan
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And if he’s going to crossover
the Jordan back into Judea, it

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means he had to cross it
somewhere in the north to get

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over there in the first place.
So with that, with those clues,

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we can pretty much figure out
the route that he would have

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taken to go from Capernaum area,
his home base, down into

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Jerusalem.
Again, this is Luke’s version.

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The other gospels placed him in
Jerusalem a couple different

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times in the stories.
But Luke says, let’s make it 1

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story, let’s make it a journey
narrative.

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Let’s take you through 11
glorious chapters of Christ’s

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journey to Jerusalem.
All right, so with that being

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said, you guys ready to start?
Let’s go.

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Let’s start this journey to
Jerusalem.

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Verse 57 as they went in the
way, the way fantastic 2 words,

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anytime you find them in
Scriptures, look at the type,

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the way of God.
So as they went in the way,

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someone said to him, I’m going
to follow you wherever you go.

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And Jesus said to him, foxes
have holes, birds of the air

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have nests.
The Son of Man has nowhere to

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lay his head to another he said,
follow me.

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But he said, Lord, let me first
go and bury my father.

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And Jesus said to him, leave the
dead to bury their own dead.

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But As for you, go and proclaim
the Kingdom of God.

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Yet another said, I will follow
you, Lord, but let me first say

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farewell to those at my home.
Jesus said to him, No one who

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puts his hand to the plow and
looks back is fit for the

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Kingdom of God.
So instantly we’ve taken one

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step to Jerusalem and we’re
given three stories of potential

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disciples. 3 would be followers,
three people who say I can, I

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can do that.
I can, I can carry a cross to

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Jerusalem.
Yeah, sign me up.

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So let’s take a look then at
these three potential disciples,

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because what Luke does is we can
tell from Matthew’s gospel where

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these come in a different order,
that Luke probably takes three

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stories of individuals from the
way.

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And he puts them all at the
beginning, right at the

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beginning.
And he says, do you want to

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follow Christ to Jerusalem?
There’s a cost to that.

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It’s not simply signing a name
and saying, where’s the bus?

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You carry a cross all the way
there.

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So let’s take a look at the 1st.
As they were going on the road,

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someone said to him, I’ll follow
you wherever you go.

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Jesus said to him, Fox of holes,
birds, the air of nest, Son of

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man has nowhere to lay his head.
The 1st man volunteer voluntold.

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What do you guys think?
Volunteer, Voluntold volunteer.

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He says, I’m going to follow you
wherever you go.

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Fantastic.
He volunteers to be a disciple.

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A nice little, just quick little
note to jot down.

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Matthew 819 tells us about the
story.

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It informs us that it’s a
scribe.

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This is a scribe who says who?
Volunteers?

433
00:25:37,320 –> 00:25:39,040
Who puts himself out there and
says I’m going to follow you,

434
00:25:39,040 –> 00:25:47,840
Jesus.
Had it been Jason Robinson and a

435
00:25:47,840 –> 00:25:51,200
scribe comes to me and says I’ll
follow you wherever you go

436
00:25:51,840 –> 00:25:55,080
instantly I would say you’re
going to follow me.

437
00:25:55,440 –> 00:25:57,680
A scribe.
Perfect.

438
00:25:57,680 –> 00:25:59,560
I don’t have a great
relationship with the scribe.

439
00:25:59,560 –> 00:26:02,080
This is a great way in.
Tell them about our journey.

440
00:26:04,920 –> 00:26:08,480
This isn’t Jason at all.
This is the Lord Jesus Christ

441
00:26:09,440 –> 00:26:14,840
and he says foxes of holes,
birds, the air of nests, but the

442
00:26:14,840 –> 00:26:16,000
Son of Man has nowhere to lay
his head.

443
00:26:16,520 –> 00:26:17,720
So the imitation is I’m going to
follow you.

444
00:26:17,720 –> 00:26:20,520
Wherever you go, Wherever it is
you go, I’ll follow you.

445
00:26:21,040 –> 00:26:24,520
I would have said that’s
fantastic, let’s go to

446
00:26:24,520 –> 00:26:29,160
Jerusalem.
Christ says, do you know the

447
00:26:29,160 –> 00:26:33,440
cost?
I have nowhere to lay my head.

448
00:26:34,000 –> 00:26:35,800
I’m not even like a fox or a
bird.

449
00:26:38,720 –> 00:26:42,560
That’s his response.
What Christ is doing with this

450
00:26:42,560 –> 00:26:46,920
first is he’s challenging anyone
who would limit their

451
00:26:46,920 –> 00:26:53,880
commitment, who would say I’ll
go with you, but it hopefully

452
00:26:54,200 –> 00:26:56,760
comes with four-star hotels or
better.

453
00:26:57,960 –> 00:27:00,320
There better be comfort, there
better be peace.

454
00:27:00,720 –> 00:27:03,840
It better be an easy walk to
Jerusalem then sign me up.

455
00:27:06,040 –> 00:27:09,040
But Christ is saying you have to
give in.

456
00:27:09,040 –> 00:27:15,040
You have to just gum but
unlimited commitment.

457
00:27:17,080 –> 00:27:19,720
Anybody who limits their
commitment doesn’t belong on the

458
00:27:19,720 –> 00:27:22,960
road to Jerusalem.
Now the fascinating thing is,

459
00:27:23,120 –> 00:27:27,320
does scripture tell us that this
man didn’t follow Christ?

460
00:27:29,200 –> 00:27:32,920
We don’t know the answer.
He could have said, great point,

461
00:27:33,720 –> 00:27:36,960
I’m coming anyway.
But all three of these are

462
00:27:36,960 –> 00:27:40,240
open-ended.
All three of these are given a

463
00:27:40,240 –> 00:27:48,120
challenge that they might, they
just might have said, OK, I’m

464
00:27:48,120 –> 00:27:52,040
willing to pay that cost.
We’re not told.

465
00:27:52,440 –> 00:27:56,960
Luke purposefully slams 3
stories together, open-ended

466
00:27:57,680 –> 00:27:59,600
right after the invitation to
fall into Jerusalem.

467
00:27:59,600 –> 00:28:02,960
Because brother sisters, we
might find ourselves just like

468
00:28:02,960 –> 00:28:07,000
one of these.
Let’s look at the second verse

469
00:28:07,000 –> 00:28:10,840
59 to another.
He said follow me, but he said,

470
00:28:11,200 –> 00:28:13,080
Lord, let me first go in to bury
my father.

471
00:28:13,080 –> 00:28:15,560
And Jesus said to him, leave the
dead to bury their own dead.

472
00:28:15,560 –> 00:28:18,760
But As for you go and proclaim
the Kingdom of God, volunteer,

473
00:28:18,840 –> 00:28:25,520
voluntold, voluntold.
This man is called by Christ.

474
00:28:25,800 –> 00:28:28,800
We have both in our midst by the
scissors in this room.

475
00:28:28,800 –> 00:28:32,520
We have both.
We have some who just who felt

476
00:28:32,520 –> 00:28:34,040
like they needed to follow
Christ.

477
00:28:36,640 –> 00:28:41,360
And this man was called Christ,
called out to him, called to be

478
00:28:41,360 –> 00:28:43,840
a disciple.
Matthew 821 goes over this.

479
00:28:43,960 –> 00:28:47,720
He was already a follower.
This man was already somebody

480
00:28:47,720 –> 00:28:52,280
who followed Christ.
He knew everything that was

481
00:28:52,280 –> 00:28:54,120
involved.
He heard the speech about the

482
00:28:54,120 –> 00:28:56,480
cross.
He heard the speech about what

483
00:28:56,480 –> 00:29:00,040
awaited in Jerusalem.
He was already a follower.

484
00:29:00,320 –> 00:29:04,440
So Christ says, hey, hey, you,
let’s let’s go to Jerusalem with

485
00:29:04,440 –> 00:29:09,080
me.
And he says that’s that sounds,

486
00:29:09,640 –> 00:29:13,760
that sounds good.
But I will after I bury my

487
00:29:13,760 –> 00:29:19,160
father, put Jason in the shoes
again.

488
00:29:22,000 –> 00:29:24,040
Yeah, you’ve got to bury your
dad.

489
00:29:24,320 –> 00:29:27,360
Please go bury your dad.
Meet us down the road.

490
00:29:27,360 –> 00:29:30,440
That’s that sounds great.
Is that Christ’s answer?

491
00:29:31,280 –> 00:29:34,960
Not at all.
Christ’s answer is let the dead

492
00:29:34,960 –> 00:29:38,000
bury the dead.
It’s awfully harsh, isn’t it?

493
00:29:39,320 –> 00:29:41,080
What was the problem with his
answer?

494
00:29:41,080 –> 00:29:44,040
What was the one word in his
answer?

495
00:29:45,880 –> 00:29:52,880
First, let me first go bury my
father.

496
00:29:53,400 –> 00:29:56,080
The challenge of the second is
to anybody who would

497
00:29:56,080 –> 00:29:59,640
procrastinate in their
commitment to say I’ll get

498
00:29:59,640 –> 00:30:06,120
around to it, but not right now.
That sounds that sounds like a

499
00:30:06,120 –> 00:30:10,720
steep cost.
I know I have it in me, but not

500
00:30:10,720 –> 00:30:13,960
today.
Again, do we know the result?

501
00:30:14,560 –> 00:30:16,680
We don’t.
Luke leaves it open-ended for

502
00:30:16,680 –> 00:30:17,920
us.
He might have followed.

503
00:30:18,800 –> 00:30:23,520
We’re not told.
The third, yet another said I

504
00:30:23,520 –> 00:30:26,720
will follow you, Lord, but let
me first say farewell to those

505
00:30:26,720 –> 00:30:28,240
in my house.
It’s a combination of the two,

506
00:30:28,240 –> 00:30:30,720
isn’t it?
It’s a volunteer, but he has a

507
00:30:30,720 –> 00:30:34,960
condition, he says.
I have to also first say goodbye

508
00:30:35,120 –> 00:30:40,840
to those at my home.
Christ’s response sums up his

509
00:30:40,840 –> 00:30:44,600
journey, doesn’t it?
Jesus said to him, no one who

510
00:30:44,600 –> 00:30:46,800
puts his hand to the plow and
looks back as fit to the king of

511
00:30:46,800 –> 00:30:48,560
God.
There’s a city in the horizon,

512
00:30:48,560 –> 00:30:52,160
he says.
There’s a city on the horizon.

513
00:30:52,600 –> 00:30:57,440
That’s where you look.
You don’t look to the right, you

514
00:30:57,440 –> 00:31:00,280
don’t look to the left, and you
certainly don’t look behind you.

515
00:31:01,320 –> 00:31:03,280
You look at the city and you go
straight toward it.

516
00:31:03,280 –> 00:31:06,240
It says stay in the straight
path.

517
00:31:06,320 –> 00:31:08,920
If you look to the right and if
you look to the left now and

518
00:31:08,920 –> 00:31:11,520
then you might not make it to
the city.

519
00:31:11,560 –> 00:31:14,480
And his challenge to the third
is those who are distracted in

520
00:31:14,480 –> 00:31:17,840
their commitment.
And So what he’s doing is he’s

521
00:31:17,840 –> 00:31:22,520
saying Luke is purposely putting
3 amazing disciples in here

522
00:31:22,720 –> 00:31:26,040
right at the beginning.
We’ve barely set a foot on this

523
00:31:26,040 –> 00:31:28,880
road to Jerusalem.
And he says these are the three

524
00:31:28,880 –> 00:31:33,600
kinds of people.
There’s the limiter, there’s the

525
00:31:33,600 –> 00:31:37,560
procrastinator, and there’s the
distracted.

526
00:31:38,200 –> 00:31:40,840
You’ll see in your handout,
brothers and sisters, you don’t

527
00:31:40,840 –> 00:31:44,840
have to circle one.
Maybe these don’t apply to you,

528
00:31:45,120 –> 00:31:49,200
but maybe they do.
Which potential disciple do you

529
00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:52,280
relate to the most?
If you were going to say that’s

530
00:31:52,280 –> 00:31:55,000
my problem, maybe it’s one of
these three.

531
00:31:55,360 –> 00:31:59,960
And it’s nice to kind of just,
I’m not alone in this.

532
00:32:02,480 –> 00:32:05,400
Christ will have you anyway.
He’ll invite you on that road

533
00:32:05,400 –> 00:32:07,840
anyway.
But he’s got a challenge to see

534
00:32:07,840 –> 00:32:09,960
the limiter.
The journey appeared easy

535
00:32:10,080 –> 00:32:12,920
because he doesn’t, He doesn’t
even know what the cross is.

536
00:32:14,240 –> 00:32:17,600
He’s not a follower yet the
second we’re told was a

537
00:32:17,600 –> 00:32:20,280
disciple, wasn’t he?
Matthew 8 tells us he was

538
00:32:20,280 –> 00:32:21,880
already a disciple.
He knew that.

539
00:32:21,880 –> 00:32:27,040
That cross right there, that’s
heavy, but I’ll get around to it

540
00:32:27,040 –> 00:32:30,680
eventually.
Trust me, I’ll start Monday.

541
00:32:32,600 –> 00:32:35,760
And the distracted also
understands the weight of the

542
00:32:35,760 –> 00:32:38,720
cross.
But you know what?

543
00:32:39,560 –> 00:32:43,880
There’s other things that come
up just at this time.

544
00:32:43,880 –> 00:32:46,080
It’s it just, it just doesn’t
work right now.

545
00:32:46,400 –> 00:32:50,280
I’ll get to it.
But this, oh, this, and and this

546
00:32:50,280 –> 00:32:52,680
looks great too.
So those are our three

547
00:32:52,680 –> 00:32:54,440
introductions, brothers and
sisters.

548
00:32:54,920 –> 00:32:57,520
Those are the three.
We’ve just started the journey

549
00:32:57,520 –> 00:33:02,640
and already we’re running into
three fantastic disciples who,

550
00:33:03,360 –> 00:33:04,880
man, they’re just like us,
aren’t they?

551
00:33:05,920 –> 00:33:08,760
And I think Luke purposely pulls
three of these stories and says

552
00:33:08,760 –> 00:33:10,560
these belong in the beginning.
Because if you’re going to

553
00:33:10,560 –> 00:33:12,040
follow him on that road, if
you’re going to follow him in

554
00:33:12,040 –> 00:33:16,840
the way, no, there’s a cost with
following.

555
00:33:17,040 –> 00:33:22,800
All three of these were taught a
cost and we don’t know what the

556
00:33:22,800 –> 00:33:25,160
result was.
Did they follow him or not?

557
00:33:28,160 –> 00:33:30,200
We have to make the same answer
in our lives, don’t we?

558
00:33:31,040 –> 00:33:34,480
So the next question I wanted to
ask you guys here is how heavy

559
00:33:34,480 –> 00:33:37,000
is your cross?
Hopefully you’ve had a chance to

560
00:33:37,000 –> 00:33:40,200
look at the first question.
What is the heavy cross that you

561
00:33:40,200 –> 00:33:41,800
bear in your spiritual walk to
Jerusalem?

562
00:33:41,800 –> 00:33:44,000
You don’t need to put an answer
down, but but think about it if

563
00:33:44,000 –> 00:33:46,120
you could.
What’s something that in your

564
00:33:46,120 –> 00:33:51,160
life feels like it’s weighing
you down spiritually?

565
00:33:53,880 –> 00:33:57,480
And how heavy is your cross?
It’s important to ask yourself

566
00:33:57,480 –> 00:34:02,360
this, do you even notice how
heavy your cross is?

567
00:34:05,160 –> 00:34:08,560
Is it not noticeable?
Is it light?

568
00:34:09,120 –> 00:34:10,920
Do you say?
Oh yeah, that’s right.

569
00:34:11,080 –> 00:34:12,920
I know I do have crossed.
That’s right.

570
00:34:12,920 –> 00:34:15,920
Yeah, I do.
It’s that little toothpick right

571
00:34:15,920 –> 00:34:18,560
here.
Is it noticeable?

572
00:34:19,080 –> 00:34:23,360
Yeah, it’s there.
Is it heavy or brothers and

573
00:34:23,360 –> 00:34:25,120
sisters?
Is it impossible?

574
00:34:27,040 –> 00:34:35,320
Because if you look at the story
of those 3 disciples, brothers

575
00:34:35,320 –> 00:34:37,360
and sisters, it seems
impossible.

576
00:34:38,920 –> 00:34:43,920
I can’t bury my dad.
I can’t say goodbye to my mom.

577
00:34:43,920 –> 00:34:50,960
What kind of cost is this?
So, brothers and sisters, that

578
00:34:50,960 –> 00:34:54,040
that’s the point, it takes
everything.

579
00:34:54,679 –> 00:34:56,840
Does Christ really not us, want
us to care about our family?

580
00:34:56,840 –> 00:34:58,280
Of course not.
That’s not the point.

581
00:35:00,160 –> 00:35:03,320
The point is the priority is
Jerusalem.

582
00:35:05,320 –> 00:35:07,760
You plow straight, you get
there.

583
00:35:09,720 –> 00:35:16,600
If anything holds you back, if
anything holds you back, don’t

584
00:35:16,600 –> 00:35:20,440
let it.
Your family should be dragging

585
00:35:20,440 –> 00:35:22,520
you with dragging you along with
them.

586
00:35:23,080 –> 00:35:27,760
That’s where we’re all going.
If they’re not, it’s tough.

587
00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:33,520
You keep in touch.
You drag them as far as you can,

588
00:35:34,400 –> 00:35:41,360
but you got to get your cross to
Jerusalem, he tells us in Luke

589
00:35:41,360 –> 00:35:46,080
9.
If anyone would come after me,

590
00:35:46,560 –> 00:35:53,920
let him deny himself, take up
his cross every single day and

591
00:35:53,920 –> 00:36:00,640
follow me, you know he says this
again, Luke 14.

592
00:36:01,200 –> 00:36:04,960
Where are we in Luke 14?
Mid journey, Wouldn’t we?

593
00:36:05,000 –> 00:36:08,360
Probably mid journey in Luke’s
journey narrative.

594
00:36:09,000 –> 00:36:11,320
If anyone comes to me and does
not hate his own father and

595
00:36:11,320 –> 00:36:13,640
mother and wife and children and
brothers and sisters, yes, and

596
00:36:13,640 –> 00:36:15,960
even his own life, he can’t be
my disciple.

597
00:36:16,120 –> 00:36:22,240
That sounds terrible.
Whoever does not bear his own

598
00:36:22,240 –> 00:36:26,520
cross and come after me cannot
be my disciple.

599
00:36:26,640 –> 00:36:29,920
What does it mean to to if we
hate our father and our mother

600
00:36:30,000 –> 00:36:32,600
and our and our wife and
children and brothers and

601
00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:33,320
sisters?
Is Christ?

602
00:36:33,320 –> 00:36:35,200
No, no, no, no.
He’s first.

603
00:36:35,200 –> 00:36:37,440
John, whoever hates his
brothers, a murderer.

604
00:36:39,520 –> 00:36:41,920
If a man say I love God and
hates his brother, what is he?

605
00:36:41,960 –> 00:36:45,800
He’s a liar.
You have to love them, but the

606
00:36:45,800 –> 00:36:49,120
priority has to be a love for
God.

607
00:36:50,000 –> 00:36:53,320
It has to be your love for God.
That’s the thing that gets you

608
00:36:53,320 –> 00:36:56,160
to Jerusalem.
You pick up that cross every

609
00:36:56,160 –> 00:36:59,480
single day.
You follow Christ there.

610
00:37:03,680 –> 00:37:12,400
You pick it up every single day.
Do you notice that cross every

611
00:37:12,400 –> 00:37:15,080
single day?
Do you wake up and go, the

612
00:37:16,720 –> 00:37:19,760
kingdom’s not here yet.
It’s like a lug through another

613
00:37:19,760 –> 00:37:24,760
day carrying this thing around.
It’s daily, brothers and

614
00:37:24,760 –> 00:37:28,400
sisters, but it’s not supposed
to be terrible.

615
00:37:30,040 –> 00:37:37,680
Psalm 68 conveniently tells us,
blessed be the Lord who daily

616
00:37:38,520 –> 00:37:41,560
bears us up.
He lifts us up.

617
00:37:42,440 –> 00:37:45,640
You carry that cross every day
and you and you stumble and you

618
00:37:45,640 –> 00:37:50,440
fall down because it’s so heavy
and it’s there and it’s obvious.

619
00:37:51,960 –> 00:37:55,720
But blessed be the God who says
you’ve got this.

620
00:37:56,080 –> 00:38:02,360
I’ll pick you up every day.
So you wake up and you say I got

621
00:38:02,360 –> 00:38:04,760
to do this again and God picks
you up.

622
00:38:04,880 –> 00:38:08,960
How does God do this?
How does God do this?

623
00:38:08,960 –> 00:38:11,400
Well, brothers and sisters,
let’s find the answer.

624
00:38:13,640 –> 00:38:16,800
See, God gives us a way to
endure temptations.

625
00:38:16,920 –> 00:38:20,200
He tells us that in First
Corinthians 10, not a way to

626
00:38:20,200 –> 00:38:23,200
avoid temptations.
He’s not going to give you a

627
00:38:23,200 –> 00:38:27,040
life where the road to Jerusalem
is simple and you won’t have

628
00:38:27,040 –> 00:38:29,720
any.
He gives you a way to get

629
00:38:29,720 –> 00:38:33,000
through them.
Because, you see, here’s our

630
00:38:33,000 –> 00:38:36,680
progression.
We find ourselves, especially

631
00:38:36,680 –> 00:38:43,600
after reading Luke 957 through
62, with a major struggle and we

632
00:38:43,600 –> 00:38:46,360
say, how are we expected to do
this?

633
00:38:48,080 –> 00:38:52,120
And then the next progression is
we go, I can’t do this.

634
00:38:53,160 –> 00:38:55,360
You know what this is?
This is terrible.

635
00:38:57,040 –> 00:39:03,800
And God says, that’s right, you
now have a choice.

636
00:39:06,440 –> 00:39:09,240
You now have a choice.
Now that you’ve realized that

637
00:39:09,240 –> 00:39:14,240
you can’t do this, I can work
with you.

638
00:39:16,080 –> 00:39:21,200
But we have a choice, don’t we?
We can say I can’t do this

639
00:39:22,720 –> 00:39:23,960
cross, you’re staying here
today.

640
00:39:25,120 –> 00:39:31,920
Or we can say I can’t do this.
God daily.

641
00:39:32,000 –> 00:39:36,840
Bear me up.
We have to find the third phase.

642
00:39:37,880 –> 00:39:40,800
But what is the third phase,
brothers and sisters?

643
00:39:41,800 –> 00:39:44,240
It needs to be some sort of
total dependence on God.

644
00:39:44,240 –> 00:39:45,840
That has to be the answer.
We know that.

645
00:39:47,480 –> 00:39:49,680
But how do we find phase three?
Now?

646
00:39:50,440 –> 00:39:55,320
Many of us have probably already
thought of the answer.

647
00:39:56,000 –> 00:39:59,960
It’s Matthew 11, reading from
the New Revised Standard

648
00:39:59,960 –> 00:40:05,560
Version.
Come to me, all you who are

649
00:40:05,560 –> 00:40:09,800
weary and carrying heavy
burdens.

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I will give you rest.
You won’t find it on your own.

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Take my yoke upon you.
Learn from me, for I’m gentle

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and I’m humble in heart.
And you’ll find rest if you can

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do those things.
My yoke’s easy.

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My burden’s light.
We know those verses.

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It’s a wonderful hymn.
It was a beautiful connection

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between Matthew 11 and Luke.
Chapter 9 Matthew 11, the Son of

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Man has nowhere to lay his head.
He tells the first he’s got

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nowhere to rest.
Matthew 11 says take my yoke and

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you’ll find rest.
The second says let me first and

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go bury my father.
Matthew 11 says no one knows the

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Father except the Son, so, so
follow me and you’ll know the

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Father.
The third third says, Christ

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says, tells him you can’t put
your hand to the plow and look

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back and find your way to
Jerusalem.

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Christ says my yoke’s easy, my
burden’s light.

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You want another solution for
those 3 disciples?

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He was rely on that man who
invited them to walk.

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It was to say I’ll leave
everything.

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There were 12 disciples who did,
who left their gains and

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followed Christ.
And guess so far those 12 made

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it all the way to the Jerusalem.
Take my yoke upon you, learn

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from me.
Where’s our application here,

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brothers and sisters?
The point isn’t some imaginary

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thing where we say there’s Jesus
yoke.

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That’s the light one.
It’s about learning.

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So taking this book and saying
this applies to this guy.

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What do you learn from Jesus?
He tells us gentle and humble in

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heart, Learn from me.
What do you learn from me?

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What can you learn from me?
I’m humble and gentle.

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00:42:29,000 –> 00:42:32,080
What can you learn from me?
Be gentle, be humble.

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00:42:33,520 –> 00:42:37,240
If you do those things, you’ll
find rest for your souls.

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00:42:39,200 –> 00:42:42,640
It’s it’s simple, isn’t it?
Matthew 11 lays it out clearly.

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Take my yoke upon you, he says.
Take my yoke upon you.

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For what is my yoke?
It’s easy and my burden.

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It’s light, he tells Matthew 11.
So this is his solution, but I

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still don’t know how it applies
to me.

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This is these are great verses.
I know them.

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My yoke is easy and my burden is
light.

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Brothers and sisters, we’ve
looked at what Christ needed to

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get through to get to Jerusalem.
On what planet was that an easy

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yoke?
In what world was that burden

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00:43:28,240 –> 00:43:33,360
light?
Death awaited Jesus in that

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city, but because death awaited
him there, life awaits everyone

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else.
How light is that burden,

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knowing that because that man
got there, you can live forever

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in service to the Father.
Life awaits all those who follow

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Him.
The invitation is open in Luke

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923.
If anyone come after me, deny

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yourself.
Take it across every single day.

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Follow me.
We don’t have time to go into

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it, but a couple of notes may be
worth jotting down.

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Luke 9 pre journey Luke 10 mid
journey.

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He sends two groups of disciples
out to proclaim the Kingdom of

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God.
Does anybody remember the

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instructions he gives to the 12
and to the 70 slash 72?

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He says take what with you?
Nothing with you, he tells them.

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Don’t take money.
Don’t take a purse, don’t take

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shoes.
What would you take with you?

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00:44:40,640 –> 00:44:44,760
What’s the one thing he told
everyone to take with them?

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Mr. Cross?
Nothing else can weigh you down.

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Money.
It’ll weigh you down.

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All those things don’t help.
Proclaim the Kingdom of God, the

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brothers and sisters.
Why carry a cross?

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Why not?
Why didn’t Jesus open the

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invitation and say, carry your
burdens, pick up your yoke and

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follow me.
Why carry a cross?

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00:45:24,960 –> 00:45:30,960
Colossians in the ESV says
having been buried with him in

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baptism, in which you were also
raised with him through faith in

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the powerful working of God, who
raised him from the dead, and

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you who were dead in your
trespasses and the

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uncircumcision of your flesh,
God made alive together with

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Him, having forgiven us all our
trespasses by canceling the

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record of debt that stood
against us with its legal

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00:45:59,440 –> 00:46:06,280
demands.
These things he set aside,

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nailing them to the cross.
Why do you carry a cross?

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00:46:13,560 –> 00:46:16,000
We go from having this major
struggle.

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We’re carrying a cross, and you
better believe it.

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00:46:21,360 –> 00:46:27,880
We can feel it.
We didn’t go to this no

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00:46:27,880 –> 00:46:32,920
struggle.
Go, we can’t do this anymore.

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We put it down, we take a seat.
We say, what are we going to do?

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And God says you have two
choices.

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You pick it up and you follow me
to Jerusalem.

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You take my bird and you take my
yoke.

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They’re light and they’re easy.
You learn of me or you give it

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up entirely.
Because what he wants, brothers

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and sisters, is for us to
realize there doesn’t have to be

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any struggle at all.
That’s where he wants us to get.

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So why do you carry a cross?
Can anybody here tell me what is

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a cross used for?
It’s not a trick question.

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Execution, murder, killing,
putting to death.

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Why do you carry a cross?
What did Paul tell the

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Colossians?
He nailed all those things to

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00:47:30,760 –> 00:47:33,000
the cross.
What do you do with your sins?

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00:47:33,480 –> 00:47:36,920
You wake up and you go.
I just can’t take it anymore.

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00:47:37,160 –> 00:47:39,720
I’m struggling with this.
This is too hard.

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00:47:40,200 –> 00:47:42,040
Guess what you’re always
carrying with you.

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00:47:42,480 –> 00:47:44,480
You take that cross, you put it
there.

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00:47:44,560 –> 00:47:46,960
You take your problem and you
slam it into the cross.

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It’s dead.
It’s gone.

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Christ took it away from you.
You put that cross on, you go to

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00:47:53,720 –> 00:47:57,520
Jerusalem.
There’s no struggle at all,

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00:47:57,520 –> 00:48:00,200
brothers and sisters, if you can
put to death the flesh.

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00:48:01,120 –> 00:48:05,840
He’s told us to carry the tool
with us everywhere we go, all

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00:48:05,840 –> 00:48:12,240
the way to Jerusalem.
Come unto me, all you who are

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00:48:12,240 –> 00:48:16,520
heavy laden, I’ll give you rest.
He says.

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00:48:18,120 –> 00:48:20,600
Take my yoke upon you.
Learn of me.

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00:48:22,880 –> 00:48:25,600
And so, brothers and sisters,
when we look at the cost

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00:48:26,640 –> 00:48:32,240
associated with following Jesus,
we see it’s tremendous.

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00:48:33,400 –> 00:48:39,200
The reward we know is great, but
getting there, it could be

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00:48:39,200 –> 00:48:42,600
tricky.
But brothers and sisters, Christ

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00:48:42,600 –> 00:48:47,000
has given US1 tool because he
made it to the city.

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00:48:48,120 –> 00:48:50,640
He’s given US1 tool.
We carry around everywhere we

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00:48:50,640 –> 00:48:53,240
go.
We can take our sins, we can

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00:48:53,240 –> 00:48:55,880
take our problems.
We can say, you know what, I

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00:48:55,880 –> 00:48:57,400
have something I could put this
to death with.

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We nail it to the cross.
So what I’d like to end with as

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we wrap up here, Sorry, I’m a
teacher.

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There might be homework if you
can.

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Very last question on our
handout.

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Find a verse for strength in
your own time when you’re

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feeling overwhelmed with your
burdens.

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Maybe it was a verse from today.
Whatever you feel like, that

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00:49:23,560 –> 00:49:26,920
burden is that you bear,
whatever you feel like that that

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00:49:26,920 –> 00:49:31,240
cross that’s just too heavy to
carry around is, I promise you

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00:49:31,240 –> 00:49:36,040
there’s a verse for it.
So if you guys can see if you

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guys can find it, see if you
guys can just jot it down.

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Tomorrow we’re going to be
taking a look at saving the

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00:49:41,800 –> 00:49:43,800
lost.
We’re looking at another purpose

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00:49:43,800 –> 00:49:45,440
of Christ on his journey.