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\nOK, admit it, that’s a confusing
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\nI mean, look at the things we
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\nThere’s so many questions there.
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\nthere’s fun because we can
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\nto dig into what they might be
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\nknow, we look at the even
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\nthe man who’s who had to, in a
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\nWhat, what’s that about?
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\nbaskets full of bread and the
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\nAnd Jesus says, how do you don’t
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\nAnd, and we’re looking at going,
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\nAren’t we, if we’re being honest
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\nthe, the, the leaven of the
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\nleaven of Herod, What, what’s
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\nAnd what does that have to do
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\nAnd why does he rebuke them so
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\nThese are these are things that
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\nAnd you look at that and you go,
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\nabout.
\nAnd that is the start of a great<\/p>\n
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\nBible study.
\nThat’s the start of a great <\/p>\n
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\nBible study, young people.
\nIt’s not about seeing it and, <\/p>\n
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\nand, and having the answers
\nright away. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s it’s asking yourself the
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\nexploring and being interested
\nin the in the answers because <\/p>\n
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\nevery word of the Lord Jesus
\nChrist is important. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can take that for certain.
\nThere’s not a single word this <\/p>\n
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\nman says that is not worth
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\nIt’s not worth digging into if
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\nscripture, it’s there for a
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\nreason.
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\nreasons, you’re going to find
\nwonderful lessons that you can <\/p>\n
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\nlive by.
\nSo the the title for this class <\/p>\n
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\nis for this series of classes is
\nwho do you say that I am? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd of course that that title
\nspeaks to the climax of Matthew <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 16, but I chose it for
\nexcitational reasons because I <\/p>\n
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\nthink you’re going to understand
\nand perceive as a go through the<\/p>\n
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\nstudy is that understanding who
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ is is what<\/p>\n
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\nall this is about.
\nNow we know that the that the <\/p>\n
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\nHerodians and the Pharisees,
\nthey didn’t understand who the <\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus Christ was.
\nWe we can understand that. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s maybe harder to
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\ndon’t understand who he is
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\nAnd that’s where we’re going to
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\nWe we can perceive that that his
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\nwho he is.
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\nThey’re threatened by him, but
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\nsome of you are right.
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\nYou can, you can go through many
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\nBut if you’re around people that
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\nyou, then you can cope and get
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\nIt’s one of the most frustrating
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\nIt leads to frustration.
\nIt can lead to depression. <\/p>\n
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\nI just want to ask the question,
\nwho understood the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist?
\nWho understood this man? <\/p>\n
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\nObviously the Herodians didn’t,
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\nWe know that.
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\nCan you can see how this is all <\/p>\n
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\nCan you see that we’re all
\nleading to that question? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy would we need to lead to
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\ndid understand who He was?
\nNo one understood this man and <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going to see today that
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\nThat is in the in the in the
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\nWe’re told in Isaiah 53 in
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\nDo we understand who he is? <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s pick up the story, then
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\nHe leaves the he leaves the,
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\nacross, that’s about 10
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\nif the wind is going against
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\nSo at some point during this <\/p>\n
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\ncrossing, the disciples realized
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\ntaken one loaf of bread among
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\nMatthew’s account places this
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\nbread when they get to the other
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\nBut Mark actually places the
\nrealization about one loaf of <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what that suggests is not a
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\nWhat it what it suggests is they<\/p>\n
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\nhad one loaf a long time. <\/p>\n
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\nThey began the conversation in
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\nonly have one loaf of bread. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re concerned about having
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\nThey were talking about it and
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\nThey’re concerned. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re worried, OK, That’s what
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\nThey’re worried about it.
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\nwe read that Jesus says take
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\nthe Pharisees and the leaven of
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\nleaven of the Sadducees.
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\nAnd they beseech him to put his
\nhand upon him. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:23:29,160 –> 00:23:31,520
\nAnd they took him aside from the
\nmultitude, and put his fingers <\/p>\n
341
\n00:23:31,520 –> 00:23:33,840
\ninto his ears, and spit and
\ntouched his tongue. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:23:34,040 –> 00:23:36,400
\nAnd looking up to heaven, he
\nsighed, and Seth unto him, <\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:36,640 –> 00:23:41,040
\nEffafatha, that is be opened.
\nAnd straightway his ears were <\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:41,040 –> 00:23:43,760
\nopened, and the string of his
\ntongue was loose, and he spake <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:43,760 –> 00:23:49,040
\nplain.
\nI mean, obviously that in itself<\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:49,040 –> 00:23:52,080
\nis a stunning miracle, but this
\nis what I want you to point <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:52,080 –> 00:23:56,160
\nlisten to.
\nAnd he oops this way. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:57,200 –> 00:24:05,640
\nAnd he charged them that they
\nshould tell no man, but might be<\/p>\n
349
\n00:24:05,640 –> 00:24:07,120
\nworth underlying the word but
\nthere. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:24:09,080 –> 00:24:17,320
\nBut the more he charged them so
\nmuch the more a great deal they <\/p>\n
351
\n00:24:17,320 –> 00:24:22,440
\npublished it.
\nI don’t know who the they is. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:24:22,440 –> 00:24:26,880
\nHere is the they the man that
\nwas deaf and his friends, was <\/p>\n
353
\n00:24:26,880 –> 00:24:28,680
\nthey the disciples?
\nIt doesn’t really matter. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:24:30,800 –> 00:24:34,520
\nThe point is, we have a miracle
\nabout a person who couldn’t <\/p>\n
355
\n00:24:34,520 –> 00:24:41,240
\nlisten, and miraculously Jesus
\nhelped that this man to listen, <\/p>\n
356
\n00:24:41,560 –> 00:24:45,120
\nand the result of the miracle is
\nthat he doesn’t listen. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:24:48,760 –> 00:24:50,800
\nThis is irony.
\nDo you see this? <\/p>\n
358
\n00:24:51,200 –> 00:24:55,680
\nIt’s irony.
\nSo just before Jesus accuses <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:55,680 –> 00:25:00,600
\nthem of hearing, you don’t hear,
\nyou don’t understand the <\/p>\n
360
\n00:25:00,600 –> 00:25:05,000
\nmiracles I fed 5000 people.
\nYou don’t understand this. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:25:05,000 –> 00:25:10,000
\nYou’re complaining about a wolf.
\nBut that’s not unusual because <\/p>\n
362
\n00:25:10,000 –> 00:25:12,920
\nJesus had just given a man the
\ngift of listening who couldn’t <\/p>\n
363
\n00:25:12,920 –> 00:25:22,480
\nlisten, OK, and, and, and, and
\nlook at their response, right? <\/p>\n
364
\n00:25:22,480 –> 00:25:27,760
\nSo this man, he cannot hear.
\nHe’s able to hear. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:25:28,120 –> 00:25:32,920
\nAnd, and, and, and they respond
\nthis miracle, just the way they <\/p>\n
366
\n00:25:32,920 –> 00:25:35,840
\nresponded to Jesus when he got
\ninto the boat. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:25:35,840 –> 00:25:39,880
\nNow when it got into the boat
\nafter the feeding of the 5000, <\/p>\n
368
\n00:25:39,880 –> 00:25:41,040
\nhe walked on water, he got on
\nthe boat. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:25:41,160 –> 00:25:44,200
\nIt says they’re utterly
\nastonished beyond measure. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:25:45,600 –> 00:25:49,480
\nAnd look what it says here in
\nMark Chapter 7 verse 37. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:25:49,480 –> 00:25:51,440
\nAnd they were beyond measure
\nastonished. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:25:51,480 –> 00:25:53,760
\nAnd they’re like, that is not a
\ncompliment. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:56,120 –> 00:26:01,040
\nIt means they don’t get it.
\nJust like in the boat, when he <\/p>\n
374
\n00:26:01,040 –> 00:26:03,480
\nsays your hearts are hardened,
\nyou don’t get it. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:26:04,200 –> 00:26:07,120
\nYou don’t understand that the
\nLord Jesus Christ says don’t <\/p>\n
376
\n00:26:07,120 –> 00:26:09,840
\ntell anyone.
\nYou don’t tell anyone why? <\/p>\n
377
\n00:26:09,920 –> 00:26:12,000
\nBecause he’s the Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:26:12,280 –> 00:26:14,360
\nThat’s why you listen to this
\nman. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:26:14,520 –> 00:26:18,280
\nIf you know who he is, you get
\nit. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:26:18,280 –> 00:26:21,600
\nPeople don’t listen to him.
\nThis was his experience <\/p>\n
381
\n00:26:21,760 –> 00:26:26,560
\neverywhere he went.
\nPeople don’t listen to him, no <\/p>\n
382
\n00:26:26,560 –> 00:26:31,840
\nmatter what miracle he does, no
\nmatter what sign he shows, they <\/p>\n
383
\n00:26:31,840 –> 00:26:34,520
\ndon’t know who He is, they don’t
\nrecognize who He is. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:26:34,640 –> 00:26:36,400
\nThey don’t give him the
\nauthority he has. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:26:36,520 –> 00:26:39,320
\nNot only the Pharisees and the
\nSadducees, even the people that <\/p>\n
386
\n00:26:39,320 –> 00:26:43,720
\nreceived the miracles, this was
\nhis experience of life. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:47,400 –> 00:26:50,160
\nThis is what the Lord Jesus
\nChrist experienced day in day <\/p>\n
388
\n00:26:50,160 –> 00:26:52,480
\nout.
\nPeople not understanding who He <\/p>\n
389
\n00:26:52,480 –> 00:26:59,280
\nis over and over again because
\nso this is a story about a man <\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:59,400 –> 00:27:01,360
\nthat was given the ability to
\nhear that couldn’t listen. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:27:01,720 –> 00:27:03,640
\nHow about a man given the
\nability to see that couldn’t <\/p>\n
392
\n00:27:03,640 –> 00:27:06,800
\nperceive?
\nWell, that’s our next story, <\/p>\n
393
\n00:27:08,040 –> 00:27:12,160
\nMark chapter 8, verses 22 to 25.
\nNow these two stories sandwich <\/p>\n
394
\n00:27:12,200 –> 00:27:16,600
\nthis whole experience that Jesus
\nhas in Magdala. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:27:17,680 –> 00:27:22,360
\nWe read there that it comes to a
\nBethsaida, and they bring a <\/p>\n
396
\n00:27:22,360 –> 00:27:27,680
\nblind man unto him and besought
\nhim to touch him, and he could. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:27:27,720 –> 00:27:31,240
\nAnd he took the blind man by the
\nhand and let him out of the <\/p>\n
398
\n00:27:31,240 –> 00:27:34,160
\ntown.
\nAnd when he had spit on his eyes<\/p>\n
399
\n00:27:34,160 –> 00:27:38,040
\nand put his hands upon him, he
\nasked him if he saw aught. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:27:39,080 –> 00:27:42,160
\nAnd he looked up and said, I’m
\nsee men as trees walking. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:27:43,680 –> 00:27:46,480
\nAnd after that he put his hands
\nagain upon his eyes and made him<\/p>\n
402
\n00:27:46,480 –> 00:27:49,720
\nlook up, and he was restored and
\nsaw every man clearly. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:51,760 –> 00:27:54,680
\nSo having the deaf man who’s
\nhearing was restored but unable <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:54,680 –> 00:27:57,920
\nto listen, we now have the blind
\nman whose side is restored, but <\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:57,920 –> 00:28:02,560
\nhe’s unable to perceive.
\nI probably not a coincidence. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:28:05,200 –> 00:28:07,000
\nNow there in our community,
\nthere’s a lot of discussion <\/p>\n
407
\n00:28:07,000 –> 00:28:10,840
\nabout this, this miracle and
\nwhat it means. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:28:11,920 –> 00:28:16,960
\nBut the fact that this miracle
\nfalls hard on the heels of Jesus<\/p>\n
409
\n00:28:16,960 –> 00:28:20,040
\nsaying his disciples seeing you
\ncannot see. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:28:21,160 –> 00:28:24,040
\nGiven that that’s what Jesus had
\njust said a few verses earlier. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:28:25,680 –> 00:28:28,560
\nI think this miracle is about
\nsomeone seeing but cannot see. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:28:36,080 –> 00:28:40,200
\nThe thing is, people can have
\nmiraculous things happen to <\/p>\n
413
\n00:28:40,200 –> 00:28:46,000
\nthem, even acknowledge that the
\nsource of the miracle must be <\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:46,000 –> 00:28:50,240
\nGod, and still not understand,
\nstill not perceive. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:51,280 –> 00:28:55,000
\nYou know, there’s a man in the
\nOld Testament who had witnessed <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:55,000 –> 00:29:00,480
\nseveral miracles, and it even
\nacknowledged that the God of <\/p>\n
417
\n00:29:00,480 –> 00:29:02,960
\nheaven must be the source of
\nthose miracles. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:29:03,160 –> 00:29:06,360
\nAnd yet that man could not
\nperceive who God was. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:29:08,920 –> 00:29:15,560
\nAnd interestingly, that man is
\ndescribed as a tree. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:29:18,320 –> 00:29:19,600
\nYou know what I’m thinking
\nabout, don’t you? <\/p>\n
421
\n00:29:24,120 –> 00:29:30,240
\nDaniel chapter 4, verses 20 to
\n22, it says this is in the <\/p>\n
422
\n00:29:30,240 –> 00:29:36,040
\ncontext of a dream that
\nNebuchadnezzar had had, and he <\/p>\n
423
\n00:29:36,040 –> 00:29:38,240
\nasked Daniel for interpretation.
\nAnd Daniel comes to him and <\/p>\n
424
\n00:29:38,240 –> 00:29:41,680
\nsays, The tree that thou solace,
\nwhich grew and was strong, whose<\/p>\n
425
\n00:29:41,680 –> 00:29:45,960
\nheight reached up into heaven,
\nthe sight thereof to all the <\/p>\n
426
\n00:29:45,960 –> 00:29:49,080
\nearth, whose leaves were fair,
\nand the fruit thereof much, and <\/p>\n
427
\n00:29:49,080 –> 00:29:54,160
\nit was meat for all, under which
\nthe beasts of the field dwelt, <\/p>\n
428
\n00:29:54,160 –> 00:29:57,680
\nand upon which branches the
\nfowls of the heaven had their <\/p>\n
429
\n00:29:57,680 –> 00:30:00,240
\nhabitation.
\nIt is thou, O king, that are <\/p>\n
430
\n00:30:00,240 –> 00:30:04,760
\ngrown and become strong, and thy
\ngreatness is grown and reacheth <\/p>\n
431
\n00:30:04,920 –> 00:30:08,080
\nunto heaven, and thy dominion to
\nthe ends of the earth. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:30:08,080 –> 00:30:11,400
\nSo here we have Nebuchadnezzar,
\ndescribed interestingly as a <\/p>\n
433
\n00:30:11,400 –> 00:30:14,720
\ntree.
\nNow you’d have to admit that <\/p>\n
434
\n00:30:14,720 –> 00:30:19,000
\nNebuchadnezzar was a man who had
\nseen great miracles, no doubt. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:30:19,400 –> 00:30:21,080
\nHow about the burning fiery
\nfurnace? <\/p>\n
436
\n00:30:21,080 –> 00:30:32,040
\nFor one, he had received amazing
\nvisions, such as, you know, we <\/p>\n
437
\n00:30:32,040 –> 00:30:36,320
\nsaw the image of the gold,
\nsilver, brass, iron and iron <\/p>\n
438
\n00:30:36,320 –> 00:30:41,440
\nmixed with clay.
\nHe had seen that vision <\/p>\n
439
\n00:30:41,440 –> 00:30:45,760
\ninterpreted, although he had not
\ntold anyone what the dream was. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:30:46,640 –> 00:30:51,560
\nSo he’d seen many miracles.
\nBut my question to you is this, <\/p>\n
441
\n00:30:54,520 –> 00:30:56,120
\ndid they, Mechanizer understood
\nwhat they meant? <\/p>\n
442
\n00:31:00,800 –> 00:31:09,350
\nDid he?
\nHe was like a majestic tree. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:31:10,070 –> 00:31:14,350
\nHe was tall and he was proud,
\nbut he didn’t understand that <\/p>\n
444
\n00:31:14,350 –> 00:31:25,120
\nGod had planted and watered him
\nfor his purpose until we’re told<\/p>\n
445
\n00:31:25,120 –> 00:31:33,320
\nin Daniel chapter 5 verse 25,
\ntill thou know that the most <\/p>\n
446
\n00:31:33,320 –> 00:31:38,160
\nhigh ruleth in the Kingdom of
\nmen and giveth it to whomsoever <\/p>\n
447
\n00:31:38,720 –> 00:31:43,000
\nhe will.
\nIt was after this vision of the <\/p>\n
448
\n00:31:43,000 –> 00:31:45,960
\ntree was fulfilled that
\nNebuchadnezzar saw clearly. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:31:49,440 –> 00:31:51,720
\nOK, but here’s my here’s my
\nquestion to you. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:31:52,880 –> 00:31:55,400
\nWere the disciples so very
\ndifferent than Nebuchadnezzar? <\/p>\n
451
\n00:31:57,720 –> 00:32:02,560
\nThey’d seen miracles.
\nNebuchadnezzar saw miracles, but<\/p>\n
452
\n00:32:02,560 –> 00:32:04,680
\nthey they really understand what
\nthey meant. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:32:09,040 –> 00:32:13,120
\nDid they know what the miracles
\nimplied? <\/p>\n
454
\n00:32:15,600 –> 00:32:19,560
\nSee, Nebuchadnezzar believed
\nthat no other God could deliver <\/p>\n
455
\n00:32:20,080 –> 00:32:22,080
\nlike the God of Israel could
\ndeliver. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:32:23,760 –> 00:32:26,760
\nBut did he know that same God of
\nIsrael ruled over the kingdoms <\/p>\n
457
\n00:32:26,760 –> 00:32:32,720
\nof men and gave those kingdoms
\nto whomsoever he will? <\/p>\n
458
\n00:32:34,800 –> 00:32:38,080
\nHe believed that God had power.
\nNo doubt he had said already, <\/p>\n
459
\n00:32:39,920 –> 00:32:41,760
\nbut did he understand what the
\npower meant? <\/p>\n
460
\n00:32:44,200 –> 00:32:47,720
\nI suggest to you that this
\ndescribes the disciples as we <\/p>\n
461
\n00:32:47,720 –> 00:32:50,400
\nencounter them in marks 6-7 and
\neight. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:32:52,600 –> 00:32:56,240
\nI’d say so because Jesus says
\nhearing, they could not hear, <\/p>\n
463
\n00:32:57,240 –> 00:32:59,520
\nand he says seeing they cannot
\nperceive. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:33:01,080 –> 00:33:04,720
\nIn mark 6, they’re utterly
\nastounded at the miracle of the <\/p>\n
465
\n00:33:04,720 –> 00:33:06,040
\nloaves.
\nThey’re hard. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:33:06,040 –> 00:33:10,720
\nIs hard hard.
\nWe shouldn’t be surprised then <\/p>\n
467
\n00:33:11,920 –> 00:33:16,560
\nthat in the context of the
\nhardness of their heart, the <\/p>\n
468
\n00:33:16,560 –> 00:33:20,200
\nthing that Jesus decides to
\nbring up to them, the thing he <\/p>\n
469
\n00:33:20,200 –> 00:33:24,480
\nasked them to recall to mind was
\nthe feeding of the 5000, the <\/p>\n
470
\n00:33:24,480 –> 00:33:29,120
\nfeeding of the 4000.
\nSo we read then in Mark Jesus <\/p>\n
471
\n00:33:29,120 –> 00:33:35,160
\nrebuke it says there I break the
\nfive loaves among 5000. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:33:35,160 –> 00:33:37,400
\nHow many baskets full of
\nfragments take you up? <\/p>\n
473
\n00:33:38,400 –> 00:33:43,200
\nThey send to him 12.
\nAnd when the seven among the <\/p>\n
474
\n00:33:43,200 –> 00:33:47,480
\n4000, how many baskets full of
\nfragments took you up and they <\/p>\n
475
\n00:33:47,480 –> 00:33:53,480
\nsaid 7.
\nHe said to them, how is it that <\/p>\n
476
\n00:33:53,480 –> 00:33:59,600
\nyou do not understand?
\nSo what is Jesus getting to by <\/p>\n
477
\n00:33:59,600 –> 00:34:04,440
\nciting baskets and fragments?
\nNow this is a situation where <\/p>\n
478
\n00:34:04,440 –> 00:34:05,960
\nthere has to be layers of
\nmeaning. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:34:06,280 –> 00:34:09,320
\nEvery word young people of in
\nthe Bible is important. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:34:09,520 –> 00:34:12,280
\nEvery word of the Lord Jesus
\nChrist is important. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:34:12,520 –> 00:34:15,199
\nSo numbers like 12 and seven are
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:34:15,760 –> 00:34:18,920
\nThe feeding of the 5000 among
\nthe Jews, the feeding of the <\/p>\n
483
\n00:34:18,920 –> 00:34:21,920
\n4000 when the Gentiles in
\nDecapolis is important. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:34:22,400 –> 00:34:24,600
\nBread itself is a rich Bible
\nsymbol. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:34:25,560 –> 00:34:29,040
\nThe words for baskets in this
\nverse are different from one <\/p>\n
486
\n00:34:29,040 –> 00:34:30,639
\nanother.
\nThat must be important. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:34:31,040 –> 00:34:35,520
\nThere’s just no word in the
\nBible that isn’t important. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:34:35,520 –> 00:34:38,199
\nThere’s no word the Lord Jesus
\nChrist says isn’t important. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:34:38,199 –> 00:34:40,920
\nAnd God willing, we’re going to
\nlook at some of those details <\/p>\n
490
\n00:34:41,040 –> 00:34:43,440
\nand we’re going to find some
\nsymbolic meaning. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:34:43,560 –> 00:34:46,320
\nBut here’s the thing I want you
\nto see before we look at any of <\/p>\n
492
\n00:34:46,320 –> 00:34:52,840
\nthose things is that the clear
\nand obvious and undeniable <\/p>\n
493
\n00:34:52,840 –> 00:34:59,360
\nimplication of what Jesus is
\nsaying is I fed 5000 men and <\/p>\n
494
\n00:35:01,080 –> 00:35:10,200
\nthere was leftover.
\nI fed 4000 men and there was <\/p>\n
495
\n00:35:10,200 –> 00:35:16,880
\nmore than enough.
\nDon’t you understand? <\/p>\n
496
\n00:35:18,440 –> 00:35:22,040
\nCan you see?
\nHe say, you see the miracles, <\/p>\n
497
\n00:35:22,080 –> 00:35:23,200
\nbut you don’t know what they
\nmean. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:35:23,200 –> 00:35:25,120
\nYou hear the teaching.
\nYou don’t perceive the authority<\/p>\n
499
\n00:35:25,120 –> 00:35:28,040
\nof the one who’s teaching you
\nseeing. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:35:28,040 –> 00:35:30,840
\nYou don’t see hearing, you don’t
\nhear. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:35:31,680 –> 00:35:34,800
\nYou’re worried about bread.
\nYou don’t understand the manner <\/p>\n
502
\n00:35:34,800 –> 00:35:36,440
\nof the man who’s with you in the
\nboat. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:35:39,400 –> 00:35:45,720
\nSo Matthew adds this in Matthew
\nchapter 16 verses 11 and 12. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:35:45,720 –> 00:35:49,000
\nHe adds, How is it that you do
\nnot understand that I spoke to <\/p>\n
505
\n00:35:49,000 –> 00:35:54,520
\nyou not concerning bread, but
\nthat ye should be beware the <\/p>\n
506
\n00:35:54,520 –> 00:35:57,520
\nleaven of the Pharisees and of
\nthe Sadducees. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:36:00,280 –> 00:36:05,400
\nThen they understood then
\nunderstood they how he bade them<\/p>\n
508
\n00:36:05,400 –> 00:36:10,400
\nnot beware of the leaven of
\nbread, but of the doctrine of <\/p>\n
509
\n00:36:10,680 –> 00:36:18,120
\nthe Pharisees and the Sadducees.
\nTell me, why would Jesus be so <\/p>\n
510
\n00:36:18,120 –> 00:36:20,320
\nconcerned that his disciples
\nthought he was talking about <\/p>\n
511
\n00:36:20,320 –> 00:36:24,320
\nactual bread rather than
\ndoctrine? <\/p>\n
512
\n00:36:25,120 –> 00:36:29,640
\nHe’s Jesus is really concerned
\nthat they are confusing this. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:36:31,360 –> 00:36:35,400
\nJesus is concerned that that
\nthat disciples think he’s <\/p>\n
514
\n00:36:35,480 –> 00:36:37,320
\nactually talking to them about
\nbread. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:36:39,720 –> 00:36:43,280
\nNow think this through.
\nIf Jesus was talking about <\/p>\n
516
\n00:36:43,280 –> 00:36:46,920
\nbread, in that case he’d be some
\nsaying something along these <\/p>\n
517
\n00:36:46,920 –> 00:36:48,080
\nlines.
\nAnd I want you to pay attention <\/p>\n
518
\n00:36:48,080 –> 00:36:50,520
\nto this because you don’t.
\nIf you miss this, you might miss<\/p>\n
519
\n00:36:50,520 –> 00:36:53,920
\na little bit of what I want to
\nsay if, if, if they actually if,<\/p>\n
520
\n00:36:54,200 –> 00:36:56,920
\nif they are, if they actually
\nthought Jesus was talking about <\/p>\n
521
\n00:36:56,920 –> 00:37:01,040
\nliteral bread, then they would
\nbe assuming that Jesus was <\/p>\n
522
\n00:37:01,040 –> 00:37:05,280
\nsaying something along the lines
\nof beware the leavened bread <\/p>\n
523
\n00:37:06,680 –> 00:37:09,200
\nthat derives from the Pharisees
\nand the Sadducees. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:37:09,200 –> 00:37:13,960
\nThat bread is tainted.
\nAvoid buying their bread. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:37:15,560 –> 00:37:17,680
\nSo if he’s talking about bread,
\nthat’s what he’s saying. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:37:18,160 –> 00:37:22,520
\nHe’s saying beware buying the
\nbread, the leavened bread that <\/p>\n
527
\n00:37:22,520 –> 00:37:24,440
\ncomes from the Pharisees and the
\nSadducees. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:37:24,640 –> 00:37:28,800
\nTheir bread is tainted.
\nAvoid buying their bread. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:37:28,960 –> 00:37:31,120
\nIf he was literally speaking
\nabout bread, that’s what he was <\/p>\n
530
\n00:37:31,120 –> 00:37:34,400
\nsaying.
\nNow, what would be problematic <\/p>\n
531
\n00:37:35,920 –> 00:37:41,600
\nif Jesus was actually saying
\nthat precisely this to <\/p>\n
532
\n00:37:41,600 –> 00:37:47,040
\ndiscriminate who you buy bread
\nfrom because the source of the <\/p>\n
533
\n00:37:47,040 –> 00:37:54,200
\nbread taints the bread, is the
\ndoctrine of the Pharisees and <\/p>\n
534
\n00:37:54,200 –> 00:37:58,680
\nSadducees.
\nIt was the exact opposite. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:37:59,080 –> 00:38:03,760
\nThat was their doctrine.
\nAnd if if he was talking about <\/p>\n
536
\n00:38:03,760 –> 00:38:07,000
\nliteral bread, then they would
\nbe assuming that he was teaching<\/p>\n
537
\n00:38:07,000 –> 00:38:09,360
\nthe same doctrine that they’re
\nteaching and he’s actually <\/p>\n
538
\n00:38:09,360 –> 00:38:13,800
\ntelling them to avoid doctrine.
\nYou can see why he’s he’s not <\/p>\n
539
\n00:38:13,800 –> 00:38:15,800
\nvery happy with his
\nmisinterpretation. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:38:16,600 –> 00:38:19,320
\nNow, I mean, to understand this
\na little bit better, we have to <\/p>\n
541
\n00:38:19,320 –> 00:38:21,880
\nkind of see what the New
\nTestament gospels teach to us <\/p>\n
542
\n00:38:21,880 –> 00:38:25,400
\nabout the teaching at that time
\nabout bread and about how is <\/p>\n
543
\n00:38:25,400 –> 00:38:28,040
\nused to discriminate.
\nFor example, in Matthew chapter <\/p>\n
544
\n00:38:28,040 –> 00:38:35,080
\n15, so 1 chapter earlier verses
\n2 and 11 we read there, why do <\/p>\n
545
\n00:38:35,080 –> 00:38:39,640
\nthy disciples transgress through
\ntradition of the elders, for <\/p>\n
546
\n00:38:39,640 –> 00:38:42,360
\nthey wash not their hands when
\nthey eat bread. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:38:43,080 –> 00:38:46,600
\nVerse 11 says it’s not that
\nwhich goeth into the mouth that <\/p>\n
548
\n00:38:46,600 –> 00:38:51,080
\ndefileth a man, but that which
\ncometh out of the mouth this <\/p>\n
549
\n00:38:51,080 –> 00:38:57,120
\ndefileth a man.
\nSo so doctrine about defiled <\/p>\n
550
\n00:38:57,120 –> 00:39:05,160
\nfoods.
\nWhat defiles was used by the <\/p>\n
551
\n00:39:05,160 –> 00:39:08,560
\nreligious leaders of Jesus day
\nto discriminate against 2 <\/p>\n
552
\n00:39:11,320 –> 00:39:13,040
\ndiscriminate against the
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:39:14,200 –> 00:39:19,440
\nI I want you just to note how
\nthe Samaritan woman is in shock <\/p>\n
554
\n00:39:19,440 –> 00:39:21,120
\nwhen Jesus asked her for a
\ndrink. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:39:21,840 –> 00:39:23,680
\nJesus said that.
\nThen saith the Samaritan woman <\/p>\n
556
\n00:39:23,680 –> 00:39:26,760
\nunto him.
\nHow is it that thou being a Jew <\/p>\n
557
\n00:39:26,880 –> 00:39:30,200
\nasketh drink of me?
\nShe’s shocked. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:39:32,760 –> 00:39:35,760
\nA Jew would never even ask the
\nSamaritan to draw water from a <\/p>\n
559
\n00:39:35,760 –> 00:39:40,200
\nwell.
\nAnd the Samaritan woman says the<\/p>\n
560
\n00:39:40,200 –> 00:39:42,600
\nJews have no dealings with the
\nSamaritans. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:39:42,600 –> 00:39:45,360
\nAnd what she means by no
\ndealings is you will not drink <\/p>\n
562
\n00:39:45,360 –> 00:39:48,320
\nanything we draw, you will not
\neat anything we bake. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:39:50,360 –> 00:39:52,720
\nYou will not have any meal or
\nfellowship with us. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:39:52,840 –> 00:39:58,640
\nYou have no dealings with us.
\nNow think about that for a <\/p>\n
565
\n00:39:58,640 –> 00:40:01,440
\nmoment.
\nThe disciples are concerned that<\/p>\n
566
\n00:40:01,440 –> 00:40:05,320
\nthey don’t have enough bread.
\nThey think that Jesus is <\/p>\n
567
\n00:40:05,320 –> 00:40:09,040
\nrebuking them for this and
\ntelling them not to buy bread <\/p>\n
568
\n00:40:09,040 –> 00:40:12,320
\nfrom groups associated with the
\nPharisees and Sadducees. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:40:13,720 –> 00:40:16,400
\nIf they don’t buy bread from any
\ngroups associated with the <\/p>\n
570
\n00:40:16,400 –> 00:40:18,720
\nPharisees and Sadducees, who are
\nthey going to have to buy bread <\/p>\n
571
\n00:40:18,720 –> 00:40:21,320
\nfrom?
\nFrom the Gentiles? <\/p>\n
572
\n00:40:21,520 –> 00:40:23,080
\nAnd they’re thinking this is a
\nproblem. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:40:27,120 –> 00:40:29,640
\nThat’s Jewish discrimination
\ndoctrine. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:40:32,440 –> 00:40:35,920
\nIt’s not rooted in the word of
\nGod, but it’s rooted in <\/p>\n
575
\n00:40:35,920 –> 00:40:40,760
\nnationalistic pride.
\nIt’s rooted in the ideas of men.<\/p>\n
576
\n00:40:41,040 –> 00:40:46,240
\nNow the Mishnah, written around
\n200 AD, codified a lot of the <\/p>\n
577
\n00:40:46,240 –> 00:40:50,560
\nJewish thinking at that time
\nabout food laws and how to deal <\/p>\n
578
\n00:40:50,560 –> 00:40:54,120
\nwith Gentiles and about purity
\nand interaction. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:40:54,960 –> 00:40:58,840
\nNow there’s a section of the
\nmission called Avodah Zarah, <\/p>\n
580
\n00:40:59,000 –> 00:41:02,520
\nwhich literally means foreign
\nworship or idolatry, Avodah <\/p>\n
581
\n00:41:02,520 –> 00:41:05,640
\nzarah.
\nAnd if you look at Avodah Zarah <\/p>\n
582
\n00:41:08,280 –> 00:41:16,040
\n26, it says their bread and
\ntheir oil are prohibited. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:41:17,080 –> 00:41:18,640
\nAvodah Zarah.
\nYou might want to write that in <\/p>\n
584
\n00:41:18,640 –> 00:41:21,120
\nyour margin just so you have a
\nreference to define where this <\/p>\n
585
\n00:41:21,120 –> 00:41:23,520
\nis prohibited.
\nThe mission not prohibited. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:41:23,520 –> 00:41:26,040
\nYou buy their bread, but their
\noil was permitted. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:41:26,040 –> 00:41:28,480
\nSee, Caleb, I have to quote from
\nsomething that’s not the Bible <\/p>\n
588
\n00:41:28,480 –> 00:41:31,160
\nevery talk, right?
\nI was talking to Caleb Warren <\/p>\n
589
\n00:41:31,160 –> 00:41:32,760
\nabout this.
\nI can’t help myself, Right. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:41:33,760 –> 00:41:34,720
\nHistory major.
\nYou see. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:41:35,840 –> 00:41:40,280
\nSo their oil was prohibited when
\nthere is no alternative. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:41:40,480 –> 00:41:43,640
\nSo only only when there’s a
\npermitted, I should say the only<\/p>\n
593
\n00:41:43,640 –> 00:41:46,280
\nwhen there’s no alternative can
\nyou buy even their oil. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:41:50,080 –> 00:41:53,760
\nSo think about it.
\nThis is the teaching of the <\/p>\n
595
\n00:41:53,760 –> 00:41:56,520
\ntime.
\nBut what had Jesus just just <\/p>\n
596
\n00:41:56,520 –> 00:42:01,800
\ndone?
\nWhat he just done? <\/p>\n
597
\n00:42:03,960 –> 00:42:06,960
\nHe shared bread with 4000
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:42:10,520 –> 00:42:11,960
\nWhat do you think he thought of
\ntheir teaching? <\/p>\n
599
\n00:42:17,140 –> 00:42:20,140
\nYou see what a profound thing it
\nwas for Jesus to break bread <\/p>\n
600
\n00:42:20,140 –> 00:42:24,340
\nwith 4000 Gentiles.
\nDid you see that’s a profound <\/p>\n
601
\n00:42:24,340 –> 00:42:30,360
\nthing?
\nDo you see how hugely anti <\/p>\n
602
\n00:42:30,360 –> 00:42:36,680
\ncultural that was of the Lord?
\nSo Jesus is not asking his <\/p>\n
603
\n00:42:36,680 –> 00:42:40,000
\ndisciples to mirror Jewish
\ndiscrimination doctrine. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:42:40,160 –> 00:42:45,880
\nThat was not his doctrine.
\nThat was their doctrine. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:42:47,880 –> 00:42:52,200
\nHe wanted His disciples to avoid
\nthe teaching of the Pharisees <\/p>\n
606
\n00:42:52,200 –> 00:42:56,640
\nand the Sadducees and it was
\ntheir self important doctrine <\/p>\n
607
\n00:42:57,160 –> 00:42:59,840
\nthat it was the reason they
\ncouldn’t perceive that the signs<\/p>\n
608
\n00:42:59,840 –> 00:43:03,040
\nthey were seeing pointed to the
\nfact that He was the Messiah. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:43:03,280 –> 00:43:07,480
\nIt was because the Gentiles were
\nunburdened by Jewish doctrine <\/p>\n
610
\n00:43:07,600 –> 00:43:10,000
\nthat their eyes were open that
\nthey could actually see what <\/p>\n
611
\n00:43:10,000 –> 00:43:12,280
\nthey were seeing and behold and
\nknow who He was. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:43:16,560 –> 00:43:21,720
\nJewish doctrine is worth looking
\ninto because on the surface the <\/p>\n
613
\n00:43:21,720 –> 00:43:24,760
\nPharisees and the Sadducees had
\nvery different doctrine. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:43:25,680 –> 00:43:28,760
\nYet it’s interesting that Jesus
\nsays avoid the doctrine of the <\/p>\n
615
\n00:43:28,760 –> 00:43:31,680
\nPharisees and the Sadducees now,
\nbut they had very different <\/p>\n
616
\n00:43:31,680 –> 00:43:34,560
\ndoctrine.
\nSo let’s look into their <\/p>\n
617
\n00:43:34,560 –> 00:43:37,360
\ndoctrine, see how they’re
\ndifferent and then see where the<\/p>\n
618
\n00:43:37,360 –> 00:43:39,840
\ncommonality is that Jesus must
\nbe referring to. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:43:39,920 –> 00:43:42,560
\nHe says avoid the doctrine of
\nthe Pharisees and the Sadducees.<\/p>\n
620
\n00:43:42,920 –> 00:43:45,200
\nSo first the doctrine of the
\nPharisees. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:43:45,320 –> 00:43:48,080
\nWell, we’re told that the
\nPharisees weapon was hypocrisy <\/p>\n
622
\n00:43:49,320 –> 00:43:53,600
\nin Luke chapter 12 verse one.
\nThis means they would <\/p>\n
623
\n00:43:53,600 –> 00:43:56,640
\nhypocritically teach one thing,
\nbut secretly they would do <\/p>\n
624
\n00:43:56,640 –> 00:43:59,080
\nanother.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
625
\n00:43:59,360 –> 00:44:01,360
\nBecause they want to be held in
\nhigh esteem. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:44:01,640 –> 00:44:06,120
\nSo they built up man made rules
\nthat they could keep publicly so<\/p>\n
627
\n00:44:06,120 –> 00:44:08,320
\nother people would know how
\nreligious they were. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:44:09,320 –> 00:44:13,720
\nThe Pharisees judge Jesus then
\nbased on their own man made laws<\/p>\n
629
\n00:44:13,720 –> 00:44:17,440
\nthat they called traditions, and
\nthey would condemn Jesus when he<\/p>\n
630
\n00:44:17,440 –> 00:44:21,400
\nforsook those traditions because
\nhe was keeping God’s righteous <\/p>\n
631
\n00:44:21,400 –> 00:44:24,120
\ncharacter and mercy.
\nSo that was the doctrine of the <\/p>\n
632
\n00:44:24,120 –> 00:44:29,800
\nPharisees, to interpret the law,
\nto call it traditions, to impose<\/p>\n
633
\n00:44:29,800 –> 00:44:33,640
\nit upon others, to not keep it
\nthemselves, and to do so, so <\/p>\n
634
\n00:44:33,640 –> 00:44:35,720
\nthat they look religious and
\nimportant in front of the <\/p>\n
635
\n00:44:35,720 –> 00:44:37,760
\npeople, which the Scripture
\ncalls hypocrisy. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:44:37,840 –> 00:44:41,320
\nThat’s their doctrine.
\nWhat about the doctrine of the <\/p>\n
637
\n00:44:41,320 –> 00:44:43,680
\nSadducees?
\nWell, the Sadducees doctrine <\/p>\n
638
\n00:44:43,680 –> 00:44:47,920
\ntaught them that there was no
\nhope because they didn’t believe<\/p>\n
639
\n00:44:47,920 –> 00:44:52,520
\nin a resurrection.
\nSo doctrines like resurrection <\/p>\n
640
\n00:44:52,800 –> 00:44:55,800
\nare clearly elucidated in the
\nlater prophets. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:44:56,000 –> 00:44:58,800
\nBut they didn’t accept that the
\nlater prophets were inspired. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:45:00,120 –> 00:45:02,760
\nOf course it was very convenient
\nthat they didn’t believe the <\/p>\n
643
\n00:45:02,760 –> 00:45:06,200
\nlater prophets were inspired
\nbecause the later prophets were <\/p>\n
644
\n00:45:06,200 –> 00:45:09,840
\nmainly non priests.
\nThey wouldn’t want to accept the<\/p>\n
645
\n00:45:09,840 –> 00:45:12,000
\nfact there was a bunch of non
\npriests out there in teaching <\/p>\n
646
\n00:45:12,000 –> 00:45:13,560
\nroles.
\nThat would definitely erode <\/p>\n
647
\n00:45:13,560 –> 00:45:15,120
\ntheir authority.
\nNot interested in that <\/p>\n
648
\n00:45:15,120 –> 00:45:21,200
\nwhatsoever.
\nSo, and they also would have to <\/p>\n
649
\n00:45:21,200 –> 00:45:25,440
\nacknowledge that those later
\nprophets repeatedly condemned <\/p>\n
650
\n00:45:25,840 –> 00:45:29,040
\npolitical association with
\nGentiles, and the Pharisees <\/p>\n
651
\n00:45:29,040 –> 00:45:31,400
\nloved their political
\nassociations with Gentiles. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:45:32,000 –> 00:45:33,520
\nSo Sadducees couldn’t accept
\nthat. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:45:34,720 –> 00:45:40,320
\nSo absent revelation from the
\nprophets, the law itself offered<\/p>\n
654
\n00:45:40,320 –> 00:45:45,240
\nno hope of salvation afterlife.
\nSo the Sadducees thought, well, <\/p>\n
655
\n00:45:45,240 –> 00:45:47,760
\nthere’s no hope for anything
\nafter this life might as well <\/p>\n
656
\n00:45:47,760 –> 00:45:53,040
\nmaximize today.
\nAnd they pursued politics, they <\/p>\n
657
\n00:45:53,040 –> 00:45:56,760
\nmust sued, pursued materialism,
\nthey pursued status. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:45:57,080 –> 00:46:01,320
\nThey accommodated themselves
\nwith Herod and were self <\/p>\n
659
\n00:46:01,320 –> 00:46:04,880
\nimportant, holding official
\nduties and offices. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:46:06,120 –> 00:46:08,640
\nThey rejected Jesus for
\nthreatening their power sharing <\/p>\n
661
\n00:46:08,640 –> 00:46:12,560
\nsystem with the Romans and for
\ncalling on them to repent. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:46:13,760 –> 00:46:16,040
\nSo that was the doctrine of the
\nSadducees. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:46:18,240 –> 00:46:20,640
\nSo what doctrine is in common
\nbrothers and sisters? <\/p>\n
664
\n00:46:23,480 –> 00:46:28,720
\nWell both Pharisee and Sadducee
\ninterpreted scripture and I will<\/p>\n
665
\n00:46:29,240 –> 00:46:34,480
\nventure to say a self-centered
\nway in order to build up and <\/p>\n
666
\n00:46:34,480 –> 00:46:38,720
\nproject their own status in
\nJewish society. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:46:39,480 –> 00:46:43,240
\nThey use God’s word and the
\npower they gain from it in a <\/p>\n
668
\n00:46:43,240 –> 00:46:49,520
\nself selfish way.
\nAnd because this self-centered <\/p>\n
669
\n00:46:49,520 –> 00:46:54,040
\npoint of view was threatened by
\nJesus, they were dollop hearing <\/p>\n
670
\n00:46:54,520 –> 00:46:58,160
\nand they were dollop seeing.
\nAnd they’re unwilling and unable<\/p>\n
671
\n00:46:58,160 –> 00:47:00,680
\nto see the signs right in front
\nof them because it threatened <\/p>\n
672
\n00:47:00,680 –> 00:47:02,600
\nthem.
\nIt threatened their place and <\/p>\n
673
\n00:47:02,600 –> 00:47:06,840
\nstatus in society.
\nThat’s their combined doctrine. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:47:10,520 –> 00:47:14,760
\nBut here’s a question.
\nWhy would Jesus link doctrine to<\/p>\n
675
\n00:47:14,760 –> 00:47:16,120
\nbread anyways?
\nTo leaven. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:47:17,680 –> 00:47:19,240
\nKind of an interesting
\nassociation. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:47:19,400 –> 00:47:22,920
\nI mean, we know that it spreads.
\nDoctrine spreads, leaven <\/p>\n
678
\n00:47:22,920 –> 00:47:27,720
\nspreads.
\nWhy would he link doctrine to <\/p>\n
679
\n00:47:27,720 –> 00:47:37,140
\nbread?
\nThink about the first <\/p>\n
680
\n00:47:37,140 –> 00:47:41,740
\ntemptation.
\nWe’re told in the first <\/p>\n
681
\n00:47:41,740 –> 00:47:49,520
\ntemptation that Jesus was 100
\nand the temptation was this use <\/p>\n
682
\n00:47:49,720 –> 00:47:53,040
\nyour miraculous power in a
\nselfish way. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:47:55,000 –> 00:47:57,200
\nAnd what was the basis of that
\ntemptation? <\/p>\n
684
\n00:47:58,760 –> 00:48:04,080
\nTurn the stone into bread.
\nUsing God’s power in a selfish <\/p>\n
685
\n00:48:04,080 –> 00:48:08,200
\nway, turn the stone into bread.
\nBut what was Jesus response? <\/p>\n
686
\n00:48:12,840 –> 00:48:23,000
\nJesus response was, man shall
\nnot live by bread alone, but by <\/p>\n
687
\n00:48:23,000 –> 00:48:26,600
\nevery word that proceeds out of
\nthe mouth of God. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:48:28,640 –> 00:48:30,880
\nThe Pharisees and Sadducees
\ndidn’t live by the words that <\/p>\n
689
\n00:48:30,880 –> 00:48:33,040
\nproceed out of the mouth of God.
\nThey live by the words that <\/p>\n
690
\n00:48:33,040 –> 00:48:36,960
\nproceed from their own mouth,
\ntheir own traditions, their own <\/p>\n
691
\n00:48:36,960 –> 00:48:44,360
\ninterpretations.
\nYou see, that’s the source of <\/p>\n
692
\n00:48:44,360 –> 00:48:52,200
\ndoctrine, the mouth of God.
\nThey wanted to use their own <\/p>\n
693
\n00:48:52,200 –> 00:48:57,000
\npower to make their own bread,
\nto fill their own stomachs. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:48:57,200 –> 00:48:59,880
\nThey want to use their place in
\nsociety. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:49:00,000 –> 00:49:03,800
\nThey want to use their power for
\nself-centered reasons. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:49:04,120 –> 00:49:07,320
\nJesus had stared down that
\ntemptation. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:49:07,440 –> 00:49:10,640
\nHe called it bread, and He will
\nnot be filled with it. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:49:12,400 –> 00:49:16,520
\nBeware the leaven of the scribes
\nand Pharisees. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:49:16,600 –> 00:49:20,160
\nThey’ve made their own bread.
\nIt’s full of leaven, and their <\/p>\n
700
\n00:49:20,160 –> 00:49:24,440
\nberries are full of it, and they
\ncannot hear, they cannot see <\/p>\n
701
\n00:49:24,440 –> 00:49:33,000
\nbecause of it.
\nAnd amongst the many doctrines <\/p>\n
702
\n00:49:33,400 –> 00:49:37,120
\nthat both these groups adhered
\nto was to never eat with <\/p>\n
703
\n00:49:37,120 –> 00:49:41,960
\nGentiles.
\nBut Jesus had just fed 4000 <\/p>\n
704
\n00:49:41,960 –> 00:49:45,720
\nGentiles so they wouldn’t go
\naway and be faint on the way, <\/p>\n
705
\n00:49:46,040 –> 00:49:48,600
\nand that he had done that with
\nGod’s blessing because he prayed<\/p>\n
706
\n00:49:48,600 –> 00:49:53,640
\nbefore he offered.
\nI think Jesus is driving in this<\/p>\n
707
\n00:49:53,640 –> 00:49:58,800
\nsection giving them a warning
\nabout Pharisee and Sadducee self<\/p>\n
708
\n00:49:58,800 –> 00:50:02,280
\nimportant doctrine which
\nincluded the rejection of <\/p>\n
709
\n00:50:02,280 –> 00:50:05,760
\nGentiles.
\nAnd he directs their thinking to<\/p>\n
710
\n00:50:05,760 –> 00:50:09,160
\nthe feeding of the Jewish 4000
\nand the feeding of the Gentile, <\/p>\n
711
\n00:50:09,480 –> 00:50:13,160
\nexcuse me, Jewish 5000 and the
\nGentile 4000. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:50:14,040 –> 00:50:17,440
\nAnd he points them to
\nspecifically, not to the bread. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:50:19,400 –> 00:50:21,520
\nWhat does he point them to
\ninstead of bread? <\/p>\n
714
\n00:50:26,040 –> 00:50:32,880
\nHe points them to the fragments.
\nYou notice that look at Mark <\/p>\n
715
\n00:50:32,880 –> 00:50:38,360
\nchapter 8 verses 19 to 20.
\nWhen I break the five loaves <\/p>\n
716
\n00:50:38,360 –> 00:50:43,600
\namong 5000, how many baskets
\nfull of fragments took ye up? <\/p>\n
717
\n00:50:44,600 –> 00:50:49,720
\nThey say in Him 12 and when the
\nseven among 4000, how many <\/p>\n
718
\n00:50:49,720 –> 00:50:54,960
\nbaskets of fragments took ye up?
\nAnd they said seven. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:50:56,400 –> 00:50:59,120
\nWhy is Jesus focusing on
\nfragments? <\/p>\n
720
\n00:51:03,920 –> 00:51:07,760
\nWell our first clue comes from
\nJohn chapter 6 after the feeding<\/p>\n
721
\n00:51:07,760 –> 00:51:10,640
\nof the 5000.
\nJesus says this in John 6 verses<\/p>\n
722
\n00:51:10,640 –> 00:51:13,240
\n12 and 13.
\nWhen they were filled, he said <\/p>\n
723
\n00:51:13,240 –> 00:51:18,240
\nto his disciples, Gather up the
\nfragments that remain, that <\/p>\n
724
\n00:51:18,240 –> 00:51:22,120
\nnothing be lost.
\nTherefore they gathered them <\/p>\n
725
\n00:51:22,120 –> 00:51:24,960
\ntogether and filled 12 baskets
\nwith the fragments of the five <\/p>\n
726
\n00:51:24,960 –> 00:51:28,800
\nbarley loaves, which remained
\nover and above unto them that <\/p>\n
727
\n00:51:28,800 –> 00:51:32,280
\nhad eaten.
\nSo the key with fragments is <\/p>\n
728
\n00:51:32,280 –> 00:51:35,120
\nthat nothing was lost.
\nYou see that very clearly. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:51:35,320 –> 00:51:37,800
\nThe key with fragments is that
\nnothing was lost. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:51:38,000 –> 00:51:41,280
\nThe fragments are not for the
\nones that originally ate the <\/p>\n
731
\n00:51:41,280 –> 00:51:43,720
\nmeal, because those ones are
\nalready full. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:51:45,840 –> 00:51:49,600
\nThe fragments are gathered in
\nthe baskets, presumably to give <\/p>\n
733
\n00:51:49,600 –> 00:51:50,960
\nto the ones that are still
\nhungry. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:51:54,080 –> 00:51:57,320
\nNow, there’s one particular
\nstory in the Bible, in the <\/p>\n
735
\n00:51:57,320 –> 00:52:00,040
\nGospels, I should say.
\nThere’s one particular story in <\/p>\n
736
\n00:52:00,040 –> 00:52:03,240
\nthe Gospels about someone who is
\ndesperate for fragments. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:52:03,560 –> 00:52:05,880
\nCan you think of it?
\nWho? <\/p>\n
738
\n00:52:05,880 –> 00:52:10,840
\nWhat’s the story in the Gospels
\nabout someone who was desperate <\/p>\n
739
\n00:52:10,960 –> 00:52:15,320
\nfor fragments?
\nI love. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:52:15,440 –> 00:52:17,560
\nI love how you guys are thinking
\nlike one step out of me. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:52:17,560 –> 00:52:20,280
\nI love it.
\nKeep doing it right, 100%. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:52:20,680 –> 00:52:24,400
\nThere’s a story about a woman
\nwho is desperate for fragments, <\/p>\n
743
\n00:52:24,480 –> 00:52:28,760
\nand this story comes just before
\nthe feeding of the 4000. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:52:28,920 –> 00:52:33,040
\nI think this story inspires
\nJesus to feed the 4000. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:52:33,920 –> 00:52:36,560
\nSo turn with me that story
\nbecause we read it yesterday. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:52:37,720 –> 00:52:40,880
\nIt was Matthew chapter 15.
\nWe’re going to start with verses<\/p>\n
747
\n00:52:40,880 –> 00:52:49,460
\n21 to 24.
\nThen Jesus went fence, and <\/p>\n
748
\n00:52:49,460 –> 00:52:52,180
\ndeparted into the coast of Tyre
\nand Zidan. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:52:52,680 –> 00:52:56,800
\nAnd behold, a woman of Canaan
\ncame out of the same coasts, and<\/p>\n
750
\n00:52:56,800 –> 00:53:00,440
\ncried unto him, saying, Have
\nmercy on me, O Lord, thou son of<\/p>\n
751
\n00:53:00,440 –> 00:53:03,840
\nDavid, my daughter is grievously
\nvexed with a devil. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:53:04,320 –> 00:53:08,000
\nAnd he answered her not a word.
\nAnd his disciples came, and <\/p>\n
753
\n00:53:08,000 –> 00:53:10,880
\nbeside him, saying, Send her
\naway, for she cried after us. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:53:11,280 –> 00:53:14,440
\nBut he answered and said, I am
\nnot sent, but unto the lost <\/p>\n
755
\n00:53:15,080 –> 00:53:20,160
\nsheep of the House of Israel.
\nSo why is this story interesting<\/p>\n
756
\n00:53:21,280 –> 00:53:24,360
\nand important to our story?
\nWell, here Korea, we see a <\/p>\n
757
\n00:53:24,360 –> 00:53:28,000
\nGentile woman.
\nShe’s not just a Gentile woman, <\/p>\n
758
\n00:53:28,000 –> 00:53:30,560
\nshe’s a Gentile woman that seems
\nto understand several things. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:53:31,120 –> 00:53:37,280
\nFirstly, we can see that she can
\nsee that Jesus is the son of <\/p>\n
760
\n00:53:37,280 –> 00:53:39,640
\nDavid.
\nSo by implication she knows that<\/p>\n
761
\n00:53:39,680 –> 00:53:44,440
\nJesus is the Messiah.
\nSecondly, she understands that <\/p>\n
762
\n00:53:44,440 –> 00:53:49,320
\nthe hallmark of the Son of David
\nwould be that mercy would not <\/p>\n
763
\n00:53:49,320 –> 00:53:54,480
\ndepart from his house.
\nSo she understood the character <\/p>\n
764
\n00:53:55,000 –> 00:54:00,320
\nof the Messiah.
\nThirdly, she expressed a need <\/p>\n
765
\n00:54:00,880 –> 00:54:03,320
\nfor which Jesus did not answer a
\nword. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:54:04,440 –> 00:54:08,320
\nSo what do the disciples do?
\nWell, they asked to send her <\/p>\n
767
\n00:54:08,320 –> 00:54:09,280
\naway.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
768
\n00:54:09,520 –> 00:54:13,240
\nWell, why wouldn’t they?
\nWasn’t this the doctrine of the <\/p>\n
769
\n00:54:13,240 –> 00:54:15,080
\nPharisees and the Sadducees at
\nthe time? <\/p>\n
770
\n00:54:15,080 –> 00:54:18,800
\nThe Jews had no dealings with
\nthe Samaritans, remember. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:54:18,960 –> 00:54:22,320
\nNo dealings.
\nThey wouldn’t even accept water <\/p>\n
772
\n00:54:22,400 –> 00:54:24,440
\ndrawn from a well from a
\nSamaritan. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:54:28,360 –> 00:54:35,680
\nPerhaps worse, a Syrophoenician
\nhadn’t remember when Jesus went <\/p>\n
774
\n00:54:35,680 –> 00:54:41,120
\ninto the synagogue in Nazareth
\nin Luke chapter 4, and he he <\/p>\n
775
\n00:54:41,120 –> 00:54:45,200
\ntalks about the woman from Syria
\nthat Elijah was sent to. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:54:45,400 –> 00:54:48,120
\nRemember that it says, I tell
\nyou there were many widows in <\/p>\n
777
\n00:54:48,120 –> 00:54:50,760
\nthe days of Elias when the
\nheaven was shut up, three years <\/p>\n
778
\n00:54:50,760 –> 00:54:53,240
\nand six months when the great
\nfamilies were at the land, but <\/p>\n
779
\n00:54:53,600 –> 00:54:57,400
\nunto none of them was Elias
\nsent, saved to Serepta, a city <\/p>\n
780
\n00:54:57,400 –> 00:54:59,880
\nof Zidan, unto a woman that was
\na widow. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:55:00,160 –> 00:55:02,240
\nAnd they in the synagogue when
\nthey heard these things were <\/p>\n
782
\n00:55:02,240 –> 00:55:07,520
\nfilled with wrath.
\nThat’s the view, that’s the anti<\/p>\n
783
\n00:55:07,520 –> 00:55:09,880
\nGentile view.
\nBut what had Jesus been doing <\/p>\n
784
\n00:55:09,880 –> 00:55:15,440
\nthe last six months where he
\nfound faith not among the Jews, <\/p>\n
785
\n00:55:15,800 –> 00:55:21,880
\nbut among the Gentiles?
\nSo now back in Matthew 15, she <\/p>\n
786
\n00:55:21,880 –> 00:55:23,720
\ncame and worship him, saying,
\nLord, help me. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:55:25,600 –> 00:55:29,240
\nBut he answered and said, it’s
\nnot me to take the children’s <\/p>\n
788
\n00:55:29,240 –> 00:55:34,200
\nbread and cast it to dogs.
\nAnd she said, truth, Lord, yet <\/p>\n
789
\n00:55:34,200 –> 00:55:36,880
\nthe dogs eat the crumbs that
\nfall from the Master’s table. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:55:38,280 –> 00:55:42,680
\nThen Jesus answered, And send to
\nher, woman, greatest thy faith, <\/p>\n
791
\n00:55:43,680 –> 00:55:45,480
\nbe it unto thee, even as thou
\nwilt. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:55:45,880 –> 00:55:48,320
\nAnd her daughter was made whole
\nfrom that very hour. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:55:49,480 –> 00:55:52,800
\nSo Jesus says, he’s sent to the
\nlost sheep of the House of <\/p>\n
794
\n00:55:52,800 –> 00:55:56,280
\nIsrael, but this woman’s lost,
\nand she’s not in Israel. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:55:57,560 –> 00:55:59,480
\nSo Jesus responds and says,
\nWell, it’s not right to take the<\/p>\n
796
\n00:55:59,480 –> 00:56:02,360
\nbread away from children and
\ngive it to the dogs. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:56:03,160 –> 00:56:04,840
\nAnd that was the Jewish attitude
\nof the time. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:56:05,200 –> 00:56:08,000
\nNow, Jesus knew what he was
\nsaying and he knew it was <\/p>\n
799
\n00:56:08,000 –> 00:56:10,920
\naffronting.
\nAnd, and why does he use the <\/p>\n
800
\n00:56:10,920 –> 00:56:13,800
\nanalogy of a dog Who is the most
\nfaithful Gentile in the Old <\/p>\n
801
\n00:56:13,800 –> 00:56:17,280
\nTestament?
\nWhat’s his name mean? <\/p>\n
802
\n00:56:18,040 –> 00:56:20,160
\nYou think Jesus was just using
\nthat by chance? <\/p>\n
803
\n00:56:25,830 –> 00:56:28,630
\nSo what Jesus is doing, he’s
\nraising the drama of the moment <\/p>\n
804
\n00:56:30,990 –> 00:56:34,880
\nso the disciples can hear what
\ntrue faith sounds like, because <\/p>\n
805
\n00:56:34,880 –> 00:56:39,240
\nthey would have thought of her
\nas a dog, a unclean, dirty, vile<\/p>\n
806
\n00:56:39,240 –> 00:56:41,360
\ndog.
\nAnd seeing the on the surface <\/p>\n
807
\n00:56:41,360 –> 00:56:45,160
\nalone, they’re probably right.
\nAnd they probably agreed with <\/p>\n
808
\n00:56:45,240 –> 00:56:47,160
\nJesus words.
\nYou wouldn’t feed a dog with the<\/p>\n
809
\n00:56:47,160 –> 00:56:50,400
\nchildren’s bread, now would you?
\nYet she responds, and here’s the<\/p>\n
810
\n00:56:50,400 –> 00:56:54,000
\npoint.
\nThe dogs eat fragments of bread.<\/p>\n
811
\n00:56:56,560 –> 00:57:00,760
\nThey eat what’s leftover.
\nThey eat the crumbs. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:57:01,480 –> 00:57:03,880
\nThe dogs ensure.
\nDoes anyone have a dog? <\/p>\n
813
\n00:57:04,600 –> 00:57:07,040
\nThe dog’s assured.
\nNothing’s lost, don’t they? <\/p>\n
814
\n00:57:10,560 –> 00:57:14,600
\nNow that’s humble faith.
\nAnd there’s perhaps no greater <\/p>\n
815
\n00:57:14,600 –> 00:57:18,480
\ncontrast to the proud leaven
\nlike doctrine of the Jews to the<\/p>\n
816
\n00:57:18,480 –> 00:57:22,480
\nhumble faith of this Gentile.
\nAnd Jesus calls her faith great.<\/p>\n
817
\n00:57:22,880 –> 00:57:25,520
\nA commendation reserved to the
\nGospels exclusively for this <\/p>\n
818
\n00:57:25,520 –> 00:57:28,360
\nwoman and the centurion of
\nMatthew, chapter 8. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:57:29,400 –> 00:57:32,480
\nThis is why Jesus mentions the
\nfragments or crumbs. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:57:32,680 –> 00:57:36,480
\nThe fragments are fed to the
\nones that were rejected by <\/p>\n
821
\n00:57:36,480 –> 00:57:41,720
\nJewish doctrine, and those would
\nbe the ones that he would feed <\/p>\n
822
\n00:57:41,800 –> 00:57:43,120
\nat the marriage supper of the
\nLamb. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:57:47,520 –> 00:57:50,960
\nSo back in Mark 8, Jesus asked
\nhow many baskets of fragments <\/p>\n
824
\n00:57:50,960 –> 00:57:56,800
\ntook he up among the Gentiles 7.
\nThey said seven large baskets, 7<\/p>\n
825
\n00:57:57,120 –> 00:58:00,680
\nbaskets full of fragments for
\nthe Gentiles, and seven of <\/p>\n
826
\n00:58:00,680 –> 00:58:04,560
\ncourse, is a symbolic number.
\nYou might be thinking of the <\/p>\n
827
\n00:58:04,560 –> 00:58:10,240
\nseven ecclesias, you know,
\nGentile ecclesias mainly, but <\/p>\n
828
\n00:58:10,240 –> 00:58:13,120
\nthere’s maybe even a verse that
\nillustrates better how sevens <\/p>\n
829
\n00:58:13,120 –> 00:58:15,320
\nconnected.
\nYou can’t forget it because of <\/p>\n
830
\n00:58:15,320 –> 00:58:19,920
\nDeuteronomy Chapter 7, right?
\nAnd Deuteronomy Chapter 7 says, <\/p>\n
831
\n00:58:19,920 –> 00:58:21,800
\nwhen the Lord thy God shall
\nbring thee in the land where <\/p>\n
832
\n00:58:21,800 –> 00:58:24,960
\nthou goest to possess it, and as
\ncast out many nations before <\/p>\n
833
\n00:58:24,960 –> 00:58:27,040
\nthee.
\nThe Hittites 1, the Girgashites <\/p>\n
834
\n00:58:27,040 –> 00:58:30,800
\n2, the Amorites 3, the
\nCanaanites 4, the Parasites 5, <\/p>\n
835
\n00:58:30,800 –> 00:58:33,000
\nthe Hivites 6, and the Jebusites
\n7. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:58:34,120 –> 00:58:37,200
\nSeven nations mightier than
\nthou. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:58:38,840 –> 00:58:43,520
\nSo 7 baskets for Gentiles.
\nAnd the word for basket here is <\/p>\n
838
\n00:58:43,520 –> 00:58:48,440
\nspiras, and the word describes a
\nlarge basket, the kind of basket<\/p>\n
839
\n00:58:48,440 –> 00:58:52,680
\nthey use to drop Paul from the
\nDamascus wall. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:58:55,880 –> 00:59:01,000
\nThat’s a spirus, right?
\nAnd that is a kofnos, which is <\/p>\n
841
\n00:59:01,000 –> 00:59:06,280
\nthe basket used amongst to to
\ngather food, the fragments <\/p>\n
842
\n00:59:06,280 –> 00:59:13,800
\nleftover amongst the Jews.
\nSo the doctrine of the Pharisees<\/p>\n
843
\n00:59:13,800 –> 00:59:17,040
\nand Sadducees would never allow
\nthe disciples to save the <\/p>\n
844
\n00:59:17,040 –> 00:59:22,120
\nfragments for the lost.
\nBut as his gospel spread, it <\/p>\n
845
\n00:59:22,120 –> 00:59:24,920
\nwasn’t the children that
\naccepted the truth. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:59:25,840 –> 00:59:28,960
\nAnyone here have a bring a baby
\nto the camp? <\/p>\n
847
\n00:59:28,960 –> 00:59:32,320
\nMaybe 2-3 years old?
\nAnyone here have a 2-3 year old <\/p>\n
848
\n00:59:32,320 –> 00:59:35,160
\nbaby?
\nEver tried to feed a baby who <\/p>\n
849
\n00:59:35,160 –> 00:59:37,840
\nthought it wasn’t hungry and
\ndidn’t like the food? <\/p>\n
850
\n00:59:38,280 –> 00:59:41,320
\nRight?
\nWhat does the baby do to the to <\/p>\n
851
\n00:59:41,320 –> 00:59:44,320
\nthe to the food you put in front
\nof it or try to feed it right? <\/p>\n
852
\n00:59:44,840 –> 00:59:47,560
\nIt’s all over the place now.
\nThis is when you want a dog, <\/p>\n
853
\n00:59:49,240 –> 00:59:51,200
\nright?
\nYou try to feed a two or <\/p>\n
854
\n00:59:51,200 –> 00:59:53,720
\nthree-year old when it doesn’t
\nwant to be fed, it doesn’t like <\/p>\n
855
\n00:59:53,720 –> 00:59:56,400
\nwhat it’s been eating.
\nThe baby eats very little, but <\/p>\n
856
\n00:59:56,400 –> 01:00:00,960
\nthe dog eats a lot, right?
\nAnd and that’s, that’s a little <\/p>\n
857
\n01:00:00,960 –> 01:00:03,040
\nbit what we’re, we’re like here,
\nright? <\/p>\n
858
\n01:00:03,640 –> 01:00:06,640
\nIt’s like the Jews in the 1st
\ncentury took the food that was <\/p>\n
859
\n01:00:06,640 –> 01:00:09,160
\nbeing given to them and they
\nspat it out and they, they <\/p>\n
860
\n01:00:09,160 –> 01:00:13,720
\nspread it everywhere, those
\nchildren, but the dogs came and <\/p>\n
861
\n01:00:13,720 –> 01:00:17,720
\nlapped it up.
\nThey ate most of the bread. <\/p>\n
862
\n01:00:18,600 –> 01:00:21,920
\nAnd accepted that Jesus was the
\nson of David, the son who <\/p>\n
863
\n01:00:21,920 –> 01:00:25,800
\nbrought mercy.
\nAll right, so let’s summarize. <\/p>\n
864
\n01:00:27,080 –> 01:00:30,200
\nI get accused of, of dumping a
\nlot of information and never <\/p>\n
865
\n01:00:30,200 –> 01:00:33,160
\nsummarizing.
\nSo, so I sat down. <\/p>\n
866
\n01:00:33,160 –> 01:00:34,920
\nI’m like, I’m going to write a
\nsummary of this talk. <\/p>\n
867
\n01:00:36,280 –> 01:00:38,880
\nAnd then I thought, I’m just
\ngoing to put on the board, <\/p>\n
868
\n01:00:39,080 –> 01:00:40,760
\nright?
\nAnd that way, if you guys want <\/p>\n
869
\n01:00:40,760 –> 01:00:45,600
\nto write down, you can see
\nAlyssa, I did a summary, right? <\/p>\n
870
\n01:00:46,120 –> 01:00:49,800
\nSo this is the summary of what
\nI’m trying to get at in this <\/p>\n
871
\n01:00:49,800 –> 01:00:51,760
\nchapter because there’s a lot of
\ninformation that we brought to <\/p>\n
872
\n01:00:51,760 –> 01:00:54,800
\nthe surface.
\nAnd this is the summary, OK? <\/p>\n
873
\n01:00:55,280 –> 01:00:57,960
\nJesus wasn’t warning his
\ndisciples about physical bread <\/p>\n
874
\n01:00:58,440 –> 01:00:59,880
\nor they where they should buy
\nit. <\/p>\n
875
\n01:01:00,440 –> 01:01:05,160
\nHe was warning them to beware
\nthe corrupt teachings of the <\/p>\n
876
\n01:01:05,160 –> 01:01:08,680
\nPharisees and Sadducees.
\nTheir leaven wasn’t about bread <\/p>\n
877
\n01:01:08,680 –> 01:01:13,440
\nat all, it was the prideful
\nself-serving doctrine that <\/p>\n
878
\n01:01:13,480 –> 01:01:15,800
\nblinded them to the truth of who
\nJesus was. <\/p>\n
879
\n01:01:15,800 –> 01:01:18,640
\nThe Pharisees are hypocrites.
\nThey are obsessed with outward <\/p>\n
880
\n01:01:18,640 –> 01:01:21,840
\nappearances, with man made
\ntraditions that excluded others,<\/p>\n
881
\n01:01:21,840 –> 01:01:24,160
\nincluding Gentiles, from God’s
\nmercy. <\/p>\n
882
\n01:01:24,160 –> 01:01:26,880
\nThe Sadducees on the other hand,
\nthey rejected the hope of the <\/p>\n
883
\n01:01:26,880 –> 01:01:31,520
\nresurrection, clung to political
\npower, clung to material gain, <\/p>\n
884
\n01:01:32,320 –> 01:01:34,560
\nand both groups had this in
\ncommon. <\/p>\n
885
\n01:01:35,120 –> 01:01:40,240
\nThey used religion to promote
\ntheir own self-interest, and <\/p>\n
886
\n01:01:40,240 –> 01:01:47,720
\ntheir spiritual blindness kept
\nthem in combination from seeing,<\/p>\n
887
\n01:01:50,880 –> 01:01:56,000
\nfrom seeing the signs of God’s
\nKingdom that Jesus was offering <\/p>\n
888
\n01:01:56,000 –> 01:02:01,840
\nright in front of them.
\nBut by contrast, Jesus fed <\/p>\n
889
\n01:02:02,000 –> 01:02:05,840
\nthousands.
\nHe fed Jews and Gentiles alike. <\/p>\n
890
\n01:02:06,000 –> 01:02:09,120
\nHe fed them with bread that
\nsymbolize God’s abundance. <\/p>\n
891
\n01:02:09,120 –> 01:02:13,840
\nThere was more than enough.
\nHe gathered the fragments that <\/p>\n
892
\n01:02:13,840 –> 01:02:15,840
\nnothing be lost.
\nHe’s illustrating God’s desire <\/p>\n
893
\n01:02:15,840 –> 01:02:19,280
\nto save everyone, even those the
\nPharisees and Sadducees would <\/p>\n
894
\n01:02:19,280 –> 01:02:20,800
\nhave rejected due to their
\ndoctrine. <\/p>\n
895
\n01:02:21,120 –> 01:02:23,880
\nJesus want his disciples to
\nunderstand the true bread of <\/p>\n
896
\n01:02:23,880 –> 01:02:28,120
\nlife is not physical bread or
\nhuman doctrine. <\/p>\n
897
\n01:02:28,160 –> 01:02:30,960
\nIt’s every word that comes from
\nthe mouth of God and that alone <\/p>\n
898
\n01:02:31,840 –> 01:02:37,000
\nthat’s what brings life, unity
\nand salvation to all who humbly <\/p>\n
899
\n01:02:37,000 –> 01:02:42,560
\nbelieve.
\nJesus desperately wants his <\/p>\n
900
\n01:02:42,560 –> 01:02:44,640
\ndisciples to understand who he
\nis. <\/p>\n
901
\n01:02:48,400 –> 01:02:50,480
\nAnd I guess that’s the question
\nfor us, brothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
902
\n01:02:52,640 –> 01:02:59,000
\nCan we perceive who this man is?
\nCan we see how his doctrine is <\/p>\n
903
\n01:02:59,000 –> 01:03:02,360
\nso different than the prideful
\ndoctrine of men? <\/p>\n
904
\n01:03:04,880 –> 01:03:11,520
\nAre our hearts still hardened,
\nor can we perceive the power of <\/p>\n
905
\n01:03:11,520 –> 01:03:13,880
\nthis man to save the heart of
\nthis man? <\/p>\n
906
\n01:03:19,040 –> 01:03:22,400
\nSo having rebuked his beloved
\ndisciples and warned them <\/p>\n
907
\n01:03:22,400 –> 01:03:25,120
\nagainst the doctrine of
\nPharisees and Sadducees, he’s <\/p>\n
908
\n01:03:25,120 –> 01:03:28,560
\nnow going to begin a trip up to
\nCaesarea Philippi with one thing<\/p>\n
909
\n01:03:28,560 –> 01:03:32,960
\nsquarely on his mind.
\nIt was the very thing the <\/p>\n
910
\n01:03:32,960 –> 01:03:35,520
\ndoctrine of the Pharisees and
\nSadducees was preventing them <\/p>\n
911
\n01:03:35,520 –> 01:03:38,840
\nfrom seeing.
\nAnd it could be summarized in a <\/p>\n
912
\n01:03:38,840 –> 01:03:42,280
\nsingle question.
\nDo you know who I am? <\/p>\n
913
\n01:03:44,080 –> 01:03:47,440
\nAnd we’ll take up that question
\nin our study after the break. <\/p>\n
914
\n01:04:01,320 –> 01:04:04,560
\nThank you our brother Ben for a
\nvery deep study this morning <\/p>\n
915
\n01:04:04,800 –> 01:04:07,920
\nmaking it very palatable for all
\nof us to ingest. <\/p>\n
916
\n01:04:07,920 –> 01:04:10,800
\nIt was very deep.
\nI thank him for the summary, <\/p>\n
917
\n01:04:11,000 –> 01:04:14,480
\nsaved me having to think of it
\nso thank you for that. <\/p>\n
918
\n01:04:15,680 –> 01:04:20,360
\nWe will be having a a break
\nafter I give thanks for the <\/p>\n
919
\n01:04:20,360 –> 01:04:23,560
\nmorning tea.
\nThe announcements will be given <\/p>\n
920
\n01:04:23,560 –> 01:04:26,760
\nafter the next study and the
\nnext study will start promptly <\/p>\n
921
\n01:04:27,440 –> 01:04:31,000
\nat 11:15.
\nPlease stay seated while I just <\/p>\n
922
\n01:04:31,040 –> 01:04:33,040
\ngive a thanks for the morning
\ntea. <\/p>\n
923
\n01:04:34,680 –> 01:04:37,120
\nOh our great God, we do thank
\nThee. <\/p>\n
924
\n01:04:37,320 –> 01:04:41,240
\nWe thank Thee indeed that our
\nbrother has prepared words for <\/p>\n
925
\n01:04:41,240 –> 01:04:47,040
\nus to break down an important
\nunderstanding how that the pride<\/p>\n
926
\n01:04:47,040 –> 01:04:51,720
\nof men and women can be a
\nblocker to what our Lord is <\/p>\n
927
\n01:04:51,720 –> 01:04:55,440
\nteaching and His purpose.
\nAnd if we truly understand Thy <\/p>\n
928
\n01:04:55,440 –> 01:04:59,920
\nword of truth, if we truly let
\nit work in our hearts, it will <\/p>\n
929
\n01:04:59,920 –> 01:05:04,880
\nhelp us to preach Thy word to
\nothers in the world around about<\/p>\n
930
\n01:05:04,880 –> 01:05:07,680
\nus and draw people to the true
\nLord. <\/p>\n
931
\n01:05:07,680 –> 01:05:13,040
\nAnd we also thank Thee that us
\nprovide us with the daily bread <\/p>\n
932
\n01:05:13,280 –> 01:05:17,920
\nthat we enjoy the natural which
\nplays a part that may we truly <\/p>\n
933
\n01:05:17,920 –> 01:05:22,200
\nappreciate that the spiritual is
\nthe greatest and the life <\/p>\n
934
\n01:05:22,200 –> 01:05:26,160
\nsustaining for eternity.
\nPlease accept our thanks through<\/p>\n
935
\n01:05:26,160 –> 01:05:28,240
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.
\nAmen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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