Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Wednesday Service, Episode four. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Josh Monday. This is brought to you
Speaker 1: by Cult Conspiracy Podcast. And yeah, thank you guys so
Speaker 1: much for joining me. I okay, so I have some news.
Speaker 1: I need some prayer warriors out there too. Please do
Speaker 1: me a favor and pray. Last night, my wife is
Speaker 1: about twenty weeks and six days. She actually her water broke,
Speaker 1: so and we went to the doctors the emergency room
Speaker 1: last night, and the doctor told us that at twenty
Speaker 1: weeks and six days that the baby wouldn't survive. They
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to do anything because the baby's not
Speaker 1: big enough for them to put a breathing to down
Speaker 1: the baby's throat. So, as of right now, my wife's
Speaker 1: in the hospital. I'm just coming back right now from
Speaker 1: the hospital to come do this show and then I'm
Speaker 1: running right back over there. So if you guys could
Speaker 1: just please pray for me and my family, pray for
Speaker 1: my baby. My wife told me I'm having a baby boy,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to walk by faith and I'm going
Speaker 1: to believe that God will let me have this baby
Speaker 1: and that the baby's going to come out healthy, and
Speaker 1: then Nicky is going to be able to do everything
Speaker 1: they need to do for the baby to come out healthy.
Speaker 1: I'm going to walk by faith that this is going
Speaker 1: to happen, and I just need some prayers from you guys.
Speaker 1: If you guys could, I really really really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: As of right now, my wife is on medication because
Speaker 1: they don't want her to get infection. They said, if
Speaker 1: she gets infection, then she's going to have to deliver
Speaker 1: sooner than later. Now her water broke, so at this moment,
Speaker 1: she could go on labor at any time. Like they said.
Speaker 1: They said, the baby needs to at least be to
Speaker 1: twenty two weeks, maybe twenty three or twenty four. They
Speaker 1: really want the baby to be at twenty four week.
Speaker 1: So just pray that God keeps my baby alive well,
Speaker 1: and please pray that the lungs develop to where the
Speaker 1: baby can breathe when the baby comes. You know, that's
Speaker 1: that's what we want. We want the baby to come
Speaker 1: out and the lungs to be developed enough for you know,
Speaker 1: for the nick you to help the baby. You know,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a baby boy too. I have
Speaker 1: three girls. That's going to be a baby boy, So
Speaker 1: this will be very special for me. So if you
Speaker 1: guys could just please pray, I promise to at least
Speaker 1: do one one Wednesday service show a week and one
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Speaker 1: And also, I noticed there's a lot of people out
Speaker 1: there right now that listen to this show in particular
Speaker 1: that this Bible study is assisting and in helping with
Speaker 1: their walk. So it's not me helping. Obviously, it's God
Speaker 1: helping and it's God's word helping. But I think it's
Speaker 1: vas the important right now for people to have this
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: how everything is going, and and and if you are praying,
Speaker 1: then you know, just leave it there. The way I
Speaker 1: could show my wife because obviously she's she needs to
Speaker 1: be in good spirits. Me I I you know, the
Speaker 1: way that I handle situations is different, and I was
Speaker 1: I'm prior military, so I was in the army, So
Speaker 1: I resilience training. I've been through so much and I've
Speaker 1: had to have resilience with so much in my life
Speaker 1: that I can hurdle jump over hurdles a lot different
Speaker 1: than my wife can. So just pray for her. Her
Speaker 1: name's Daphne, you know. Pray for her if you can,
Speaker 1: and pray for our baby.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 1: I usually handle stuff pretty good, So I put everything
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Speaker 1: it's God's will and to be done, you know. And
Speaker 1: if he wants the baby to come and be healthy
Speaker 1: and to live, then I know he will let the
Speaker 1: baby live. If he ends up the baby passing away
Speaker 1: or something, then I know that it was God's will
Speaker 1: and it's an automatic way for the baby to go
Speaker 1: to Heaven, you know. So I just want to let
Speaker 1: you guys know that before I start. I really and
Speaker 1: you know, finally I'm getting over this cold. Jesus can
Speaker 1: kick my butt. It was kicking my butt, you know,
Speaker 1: so I prayed for that too, And now I get
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Speaker 1: This is gonna be in the new King James version,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be at Matthew thirteen verse one. And
Speaker 1: like I said, thank you guys so much for joining me.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jonathan and Jacob for allowing me to do
Speaker 1: this show. Thank you Lord for allowing me to do
Speaker 1: this show and bring I mean this type of audience
Speaker 1: to go over the Bible. It is so important. Last
Speaker 1: week we went over in Matthew eight through twelve. This
Speaker 1: week we're gonna be doing Matthew thirteen, which is a
Speaker 1: chapter I really want to talk to you guys about.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some parables in here that Jesus goes
Speaker 1: over and Jesus actually he's gonna go over the parable
Speaker 1: and then he explains the parable. But there will be
Speaker 1: some parables in here that I'm going to be honest
Speaker 1: and upfront that I can't explain. I'm not Jesus, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not God. And the only way to explain some
Speaker 1: of these parables is for my wife's texting me right now.
Speaker 1: The only way to explain these parables is would be
Speaker 1: to do a deep dive on them and then just
Speaker 1: try to explain them, you know, some of them, because
Speaker 1: there's a few in there, which when I get to them,
Speaker 1: I'll let you know which ones they are. That the
Speaker 1: only one that knows is Jesus. And who knows. Maybe
Speaker 1: there was a little couple lost pages here in Matthew
Speaker 1: that we you know, or Jesus explains these, you know,
Speaker 1: I think there may no maybe there is, or maybe
Speaker 1: we just were just meant to not know, or maybe
Speaker 1: we're just meant to study and pray and ask God
Speaker 1: for discernment and see if he'll teach it, you know,
Speaker 1: show us. I know one thing, I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: up here and act like that. I'm I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: sit up here and act like I know exactly what's
Speaker 1: going on, exactly what the parable means. That's just not me.
Speaker 1: And I've heard a lot of pastors, like some people
Speaker 1: that have been studying the world for a long time
Speaker 1: even say that they don't know what that certain parable means,
Speaker 1: the Robert Breakers, the No Coffee Chapel, some of the pastors.
Speaker 1: I listened to some other ones that I kind of study.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna sit up here and act like
Speaker 1: I know. So you know you're gonna get. One thing
Speaker 1: you'll get from me is you're gonna get real. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be one hundred percent real with you. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna act like, oh, I know this is what it means.
Speaker 1: Maybe I can make a crack at it, but that's
Speaker 1: about it. You know. I can maybe try, but uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna come how it comes. So anyways, Matthew thirteen,
Speaker 1: verse one, let's get to the word and thirteen to
Speaker 1: one the parable of the Sewer. On the same day,
Speaker 1: Jesus went out to the house and sat by the sea,
Speaker 1: and great multitudes were gathered together to him, so that
Speaker 1: he got into a boat and sat, and the whole
Speaker 1: multitude stood on the shore. So imagine this. When you
Speaker 1: are on the lake and you are fishing, and you're
Speaker 1: speaking to your dad or your grandpa or wherever you fished with,
Speaker 1: you speak and your voice travels across the water. And
Speaker 1: if you're sitting there on the shore and people are
Speaker 1: talking on a boat, the voice travels. Obviously, Jesus knows
Speaker 1: that he has a multitude that gathered, and he's going
Speaker 1: to be in the boat speaking and his voice is
Speaker 1: going to travel to the multitudes that he's speaking to.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. These Pharisees that were there
Speaker 1: at the time, they don't do that. They don't go
Speaker 1: and preach out in the open. They don't go and
Speaker 1: preach on the street corner. They think that you need
Speaker 1: to be in the temple only, you know, and preaching like.
Speaker 1: They're not out there trying to make disciples, make Jews.
Speaker 1: That's not what they do. They want them to come
Speaker 1: to them and speak in the holy temples and that's it.
Speaker 1: So this is definitely foreign to the Pharisees. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure that if they went undercover or whatever to go
Speaker 1: see Jesus preach to the multitudes, the amount of people
Speaker 1: that gathered would be very interesting to them. Obviously they'd
Speaker 1: be like, Wow, all these people came to see him.
Speaker 1: But also I bet they would probably have this feeling
Speaker 1: in their heart if they did see it, like why
Speaker 1: is he out here preaching on the boat? Look at
Speaker 1: this guy? You know, Like probably not even holy enough
Speaker 1: to come to our you know church, you know so
Speaker 1: or synagogue, Sorry, not church, all right, So Matthew thirteen,
Speaker 1: verse three. Then he spoke many things to them in parables. Behold,
Speaker 1: a sewer went out to sew. A sower is like
Speaker 1: a gardener going to put seeds. And he sowed some seed,
Speaker 1: fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them.
Speaker 1: The birds here are representing spirits, okay, like evil spirits,
Speaker 1: or like the devil. Some fell on stony places, and
Speaker 1: they did not have much earth, and they immediately sprang
Speaker 1: up because they had no depth of the earth. But
Speaker 1: when the sun was up, they scorched, and because they
Speaker 1: had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns,
Speaker 1: and the thorns sprang up and choked them. But others
Speaker 1: fell on the good ground and yielded a crop, some
Speaker 1: one hundredfold, some sixty some thirty. He who has ears,
Speaker 1: let him hear. So you see that you understand that
Speaker 1: by a fell on good ground, you that's some hundredfold,
Speaker 1: some sixty some thirty. You see, you know them by
Speaker 1: their fruits. So, if you are making disciples out of
Speaker 1: other people and assisting people to get saved. Then these
Speaker 1: are the one hundredfold, the sixty, the thirty that I
Speaker 1: think that he's talking about here. That is the fruit
Speaker 1: that you're gonna bear when you are teaching the word.
Speaker 1: And the disciples came to him, Why do you speak
Speaker 1: to them in parables? He answered and said to them,
Speaker 1: because it has been given to you to know the
Speaker 1: mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven. But to them it
Speaker 1: has not been given. For whoever has to him, more
Speaker 1: will be given, and he will have abundance. But whoever
Speaker 1: does not have even what he has been taken away from.
Speaker 1: Therefore I speak to them in parables because seeing, because
Speaker 1: seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear,
Speaker 1: nor do they understand. And in them the prophecy of
Speaker 1: Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, hearing you will hear and
Speaker 1: shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive.
Speaker 1: For the hearts of the people have grown dull. Their
Speaker 1: eyes are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed
Speaker 1: lest they see their eyes and hear their ears, lest
Speaker 1: they understand their hearts and turn, so that I should
Speaker 1: heal them. So these when Jesus is speaking to these people,
Speaker 1: some of the Jews. It's as if they took their
Speaker 1: fingers and stuck it in their ears, so as he's
Speaker 1: speaking to them, they're not able to hear. You know,
Speaker 1: what's happening is they don't even know their own Messiah
Speaker 1: when he's standing right in front of their face. Their
Speaker 1: hard heart, their hearts have grown dull, their ears are
Speaker 1: hard of hearing, their eyes have closed. They're not able
Speaker 1: to see the Messiah right in front of them. They're
Speaker 1: not able to hear the Messiah as he's speaking to them.
Speaker 1: The Christ is here, but these people are so heard
Speaker 1: hearted that they can't even see it. You see, so
Speaker 1: heardhearted with religion instead of relationship that they can't even
Speaker 1: see that their Messiah is right in front of their face.
Speaker 1: So this is one of the prayer buzzels talking about.
Speaker 1: Because it is given to you to know the mysteries
Speaker 1: of the Kingdom of Heaven, that's kind of easy to understand,
Speaker 1: but to them it has not been given. So we
Speaker 1: understand that he's speaking in parables, and they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to understand the parables. But the people that
Speaker 1: are hard hearted, filled with religion not relationship, that are
Speaker 1: all these laws and rules they're they're trying to uphold
Speaker 1: traditions are in the way. They're not able to see
Speaker 1: the Messiah because they have this traditional thinking and religious
Speaker 1: thinking instead of relationship, you know, instead of instead of
Speaker 1: having an open heart, their hearts are hardened. They're closed.
Speaker 1: Their eyes are closed, their ears are closed. They're not
Speaker 1: able to hear. But it says forever whoever it has
Speaker 1: to him, more will be given, and he will have abundance.
Speaker 1: But whoever it does not have, even if it has
Speaker 1: been taken away from him. Therefore I speak to them
Speaker 1: in prayers because seeing they do not see, and the
Speaker 1: hearing they do. Okay, so there's that, and we already
Speaker 1: went over the Isaiah one. But blessed are your eyes,
Speaker 1: for they see, for your ears, for they hear. For assuredly,
Speaker 1: I say to you that many prophets and righteous men
Speaker 1: desire to see what you see and do not see it,
Speaker 1: and to hear what you hear and do not hear it.
Speaker 1: So many prophets and righteous men desire to see what
Speaker 1: you see. Many prophets and righteous men desire to see
Speaker 1: the Messiah. They wanted to see the Messiah, the Christ,
Speaker 1: so they're able to see it and they're able to
Speaker 1: hear him speak. God in the flesh is there speaking
Speaker 1: to these disciples, And and some of them don't even
Speaker 1: understand the blessed position that they're in because we're mere humans,
Speaker 1: not understanding what God is doing, not understanding the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of heaven. That's why they keep having to ask him
Speaker 1: what's going on. And this is one of those, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is one of the parts where they ask him,
Speaker 1: can you please explain the parable to us? Because I
Speaker 1: know you're saying it to us, and you think we understand,
Speaker 1: even though Jesus knows they don't fully understand. But at
Speaker 1: least Jesus takes the time to at least Jesus takes
Speaker 1: the time to explain this, this parable and uh eighty
Speaker 1: forty eight. Okay, so right, so here we go. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be ah, Matthew, Sorry, I'm getting sidetracked on my
Speaker 1: text messages from my wife. Okay, So therefore, hear the
Speaker 1: parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of
Speaker 1: the kingdom, it does not understand it, then the wicked
Speaker 1: one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is what we're saying. The birds the birds
Speaker 1: or the demons is what they're representing, or the devil
Speaker 1: comes and snatches away what was sown in your heart.
Speaker 1: The Word of God is what these seeds are. The
Speaker 1: seeds are being sown. It's the word of God. And
Speaker 1: it says, then is he who received the seed by
Speaker 1: the wayside, but he received the seed in stony places.
Speaker 1: This is he who hears the word and immediately receives
Speaker 1: it with joy. So these are the people that come
Speaker 1: to church on fire in the beginning, and they come
Speaker 1: to church, they get saved and they're on fire right
Speaker 1: immediately receive it with joy. But it's like on the
Speaker 1: surface conversion. Then maybe they go to Greg Glory's church
Speaker 1: and they say that the Lord's prayer, or they go
Speaker 1: to the harvest fest in Anaheim and they say the
Speaker 1: Lord's prayer. They're on fire, they're feeling it. And then
Speaker 1: they go back to where their home is. They received
Speaker 1: it with joy. Then they go back to their home
Speaker 1: and they don't go read the word, so they don't
Speaker 1: get that root. And that's what it says here is
Speaker 1: yet he has no root in himself, who endures only
Speaker 1: for a while. So that fire gets lit by the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. But it's up to us to keep continuing
Speaker 1: doing the work via reading the Word of God, via
Speaker 1: walking with God, via obedience, via maybe if some people
Speaker 1: need the church, you know, I recommend you know, going
Speaker 1: to church. I do. I recommend it, but not everybody does.
Speaker 1: Some people would rather do this at home and study
Speaker 1: the Word with their family and keep it like that.
Speaker 1: Other people would go to church. Make sure you find
Speaker 1: the right church teaching through the Bible. But we need
Speaker 1: that word every single day. We need the Word every
Speaker 1: day because what happens is faith cometh by hearing and
Speaker 1: hearing by the way to God. What's the way that
Speaker 1: we dodged the wiles of the devil faith? Right, that's
Speaker 1: the big shield, that's the one that's blocking the wiles
Speaker 1: of the devil faith. Right. So this is what it's
Speaker 1: saying here. Yet he has no root in himself, who
Speaker 1: endures only for a while. It's because that Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: lit that fire, and you didn't keep it burning. You
Speaker 1: didn't keep it burning because you didn't keep reading the word.
Speaker 1: Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
Speaker 1: You didn't continue that, but you felt the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: and you felt it and you received it with joy,
Speaker 1: but it has no root. So the seed was planted,
Speaker 1: but it didn't have no root because you didn't water
Speaker 1: it with more word of God. So for when tribulation
Speaker 1: or persecution arises because of the because of the word,
Speaker 1: immediately he stumbles. Okay, immediately the person stuff umbles. So
Speaker 1: you felt like you were able to stand on your
Speaker 1: own feet. Cool, I got to read the word a
Speaker 1: little bit. I'm feeling okay, I'm confident, ready to walk
Speaker 1: out into the world. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: persecution or tribulation comes and you forget about everything that
Speaker 1: you're supposed to use against the walls of the devil,
Speaker 1: that the word of God, the sword, which is the
Speaker 1: word of God offensively using the sword against the devil, right,
Speaker 1: and then you're blocking everything with the shield of faith.
Speaker 1: You forget about that because your shield is like the
Speaker 1: size of your hand instead of being huge, because you
Speaker 1: forgot to read the Word of God. You see what
Speaker 1: I mean. So this is the type of you're in
Speaker 1: spiritual warfare. So when you go through trials and tribulation
Speaker 1: and persecution and it arises because of the word, immediately
Speaker 1: he stumbles. Yeah, I see. And this is what people
Speaker 1: I mean, this is real. I have been in this posies.
Speaker 1: I have been that Christian before, and I'm not going
Speaker 1: to act like I haven't. Where I was on fire
Speaker 1: for the Lord, especially when I was doing my Christian
Speaker 1: rap music when I first, like, you know, I came
Speaker 1: back from deployment, I'm like, all right, let's go. I'm
Speaker 1: ready to just do it for the Lord. And then,
Speaker 1: you know, then I felt like I was putting so
Speaker 1: much time into music that I didn't put all the
Speaker 1: time into reading the Word. And I was writing songs
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, recording songs, writing songs, thinking
Speaker 1: I was good, That's not what gets you through these
Speaker 1: persecutions and tribulations. Okay, but I've been that Christian before.
Speaker 1: I will admit it. Now we're back to the word
Speaker 1: Matthew thirteen twenty two. Now he who received this seed
Speaker 1: among the thorns is he who hears the word, and
Speaker 1: the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches
Speaker 1: choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. So he receives
Speaker 1: the seed the Word of God among the thorns. It
Speaker 1: is he who hears the Word and the cares of
Speaker 1: the world, and deceitfulness, the fear, the deceitfulness of riches,
Speaker 1: you know, selfishness, greed, uh the words that the Word
Speaker 1: of God that you have read, gets choked out by
Speaker 1: the thorns, you know, and and and he becomes unfruitful.
Speaker 1: So you hear the word of God, you receive the
Speaker 1: word of God. You're reading the word of God. But
Speaker 1: everything that happens in the world brings you away from
Speaker 1: the word of God. And then the devil chokes you
Speaker 1: and and you become unfruitful. You forget to share the
Speaker 1: Word of God with other people, and you forget to
Speaker 1: become a disciple. You forget to be obedient to the Lord.
Speaker 1: So when you're not obedient, then the devil comes and
Speaker 1: chokes you out, you know. And that's the thorn that's
Speaker 1: choking you. It knows that you're you're that the world
Speaker 1: and deceitfulness and riches the world is anything that's not
Speaker 1: of God. The cares of the world and deceitfulness of
Speaker 1: riches choke the word, and he become unfruitful. But he
Speaker 1: who received the seed on the good ground is he
Speaker 1: who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears
Speaker 1: fruit and produces some one hundredfold, some sixty some thirty.
Speaker 1: So you're receiving the word of God. You're being obedient
Speaker 1: to God. People are seeing you be obedient. People are
Speaker 1: seeing the joy, people are seeing the peace. People are
Speaker 1: seeing the way that you're living, and they want that.
Speaker 1: They see that you're a real true Christian and that
Speaker 1: you are representing the Lord correctly. And they see that
Speaker 1: you are filled with joy. They see that you are happy.
Speaker 1: They see that there's a spark in you that they
Speaker 1: have never seen before. So they come to you and
Speaker 1: they ask you, I want that. How do you have that? Well,
Speaker 1: the way that I have that is this or saved
Speaker 1: by grace through faith. You know, Jesus died on the cross,
Speaker 1: he rose again after three days, and he can you know,
Speaker 1: you know, just explaining the gospel, you know, and you
Speaker 1: just show them how to be obedient to the Lord
Speaker 1: and then start maybe a little Bible study with them,
Speaker 1: kind of teach them how to read the Word. And
Speaker 1: you make people disciples and you give people. God saves them,
Speaker 1: but you know, you plant seeds for them to get saved.
Speaker 1: That's when you're producing the good fruit. A good tree
Speaker 1: produces good fruit. A bad fruit produces bad fruit. An
Speaker 1: orange tree won't produce a apple. An orange tree is
Speaker 1: going to produce an orange. So you need to shape
Speaker 1: yourself into that good fruit by reading the word of God,
Speaker 1: by being obedient, by having a relationship with the Lord,
Speaker 1: by continuing to pray, by continuing to love people, to
Speaker 1: love them so much that not only do you care
Speaker 1: about their physical body and their health and care about
Speaker 1: anything like that, you care about their soul and their spirit,
Speaker 1: them going to heaven. Okay. This is our purpose in
Speaker 1: life is to make disciples, to help people get it saved. Okay,
Speaker 1: to care about people so much that we care about
Speaker 1: where they're going when they die, because that is the
Speaker 1: most important. This physical reality that we live in is
Speaker 1: beautiful for you to love your wife, for you to
Speaker 1: love your friends, for you to hang out with your kids,
Speaker 1: whatever you do. But this is a physical world. But
Speaker 1: there's a spiritual out there that is the main focus
Speaker 1: for us. We're not here on this earth to enjoy
Speaker 1: the pleasures of life of this world, of these riches.
Speaker 1: You see what it said right there. We're here to
Speaker 1: get people saved, make disciples to live for Jesus, and
Speaker 1: introduce people to God and give them a relationship with
Speaker 1: God as much as we can. Then show people the way,
Speaker 1: the truth, the life, and this is the way you
Speaker 1: produce the fruit. Okay, let's get to Matthew thirteen twenty four.
Speaker 1: And this is the parable of the Wheat and terrors.
Speaker 1: So what I'll tell you, guys, is some Bible like
Speaker 1: the newer translations. It's gonna say wheat and weeds. That's
Speaker 1: something when I was studying, I kinda I found. Let
Speaker 1: me see what. I don't know if there'll be a
Speaker 1: list of Bibles just to show you, guys, wheat and
Speaker 1: beads verse.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know if there's a wheat and weeds
Speaker 2: Bible version.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's like a list I knew
Speaker 1: in the New Living Translation. Probably probably, you know, some
Speaker 1: of the newer translations, maybe the NIV. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'd have to look. I don't I can't really pull
Speaker 1: up a list right now, but I just want to
Speaker 1: let you know, wheat and weeds. This is it just
Speaker 1: changes the parable. Okay, the King James and the new
Speaker 1: King James. I believe have it right by keeping it
Speaker 1: wheat and tears, because tears are exactly like wheat. As
Speaker 1: they're growing, they look exactly like wheat, and then they
Speaker 1: turn green when they're about to harvest, and the other
Speaker 1: ones turn gold, so you can harvest them. So as
Speaker 1: they grow together they look exactly the same. But as
Speaker 1: they but as they mature and they become you know, wheat,
Speaker 1: then then the other ones will turn green, so they
Speaker 1: look exactly the same the whole time they're growing. You
Speaker 1: can't even tell the difference until they fruit, you know,
Speaker 1: until they toll, they heart, till it's harvest time. So
Speaker 1: this is why I like the New King James or
Speaker 1: the King James, because they kept it tears. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's great. Weeds they don't look exactly the same as
Speaker 1: as weed. They look different. So it's just the parable
Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't hit as hard with those versions. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I'm not telling you don't read the NIV,
Speaker 1: don't read the NLT, because I know some people are
Speaker 1: King James only. I like New King James, and I
Speaker 1: do like the King James Bible, yes I do. But
Speaker 1: I think it's good to I think it is kind
Speaker 1: of good to make sure that we read a couple
Speaker 1: of different versions, whatever's easier for you to read. But
Speaker 1: go back to the King James and kind of cross references.
Speaker 1: I'll go back to the new King James and kind
Speaker 1: of cross reference what you're reading in these other translations.
Speaker 1: So you know what the King James said. Not saying
Speaker 1: that the King James is the is the only Bible
Speaker 1: you should read. All I'm saying is cross reference the
Speaker 1: King James to these newer versions. So you see, you know,
Speaker 1: like certain words will be different, just like this one.
Speaker 1: You know, like the parable right here, It makes a
Speaker 1: lot more sense to make it weed and terrors because
Speaker 1: they because what I just explained. Another parable. This is
Speaker 1: Matthew thirteen twenty four. Another parable. He put forth to them, saying,
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed
Speaker 1: good seed in his field. But when the man slept,
Speaker 1: his enemy came and sewed tears among the wheat and
Speaker 1: went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and
Speaker 1: produced a crop, then the tears also appeared. So the
Speaker 1: servants of the owner came and said to him, sir,
Speaker 1: did you not sew good seed in your field? How
Speaker 1: does it have tears? He said to them, an enemy
Speaker 1: has done this. The servant said to him, do you
Speaker 1: want us to go and gather them up? But he
Speaker 1: said no, less while you gather up the terars, you
Speaker 1: also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together
Speaker 1: until the harvest, and at the time of heart, I
Speaker 1: will say to the reapers, first gather together the terrors
Speaker 1: and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather
Speaker 1: the wheat into my barn. So this is one that
Speaker 1: Jesus explains a little further down. Okay, so we'll wait
Speaker 1: for him to explain because he's better. But I'm already
Speaker 1: starting to kind of see a pattern with this this
Speaker 1: parable we're what I'm seeing is some Christians that are
Speaker 1: acting like they're Christians, are acting like they're saved, you know,
Speaker 1: but they're not fully saved. Other ones are are the
Speaker 1: are the wheat. The other ones are the terrors. We'll
Speaker 1: see if that's the way it goes. Obviously, it says
Speaker 1: that they're gonna bind the bundles and burn them, but
Speaker 1: gather the wheat into my barn, you know. So the
Speaker 1: good Christians are gonna come with Jesus, and the ones
Speaker 1: that are fake, they're gonna be spewed out. You know
Speaker 1: that the lukewarm will be spit out out of his mouth.
Speaker 1: You know. It says that, So I think that the
Speaker 1: terrors would be like the lukewarm Christians that are just
Speaker 1: hanging around going to church. Hey, I'm good, I'm saved
Speaker 1: because I go to church on Sunday. Yay, But let
Speaker 1: me just drink party, have fun, come back to church Sunday. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm here, guys, let's have fun. I love this, I
Speaker 1: feel good. And then all of a sudden they go
Speaker 1: back to the same exact way that they lived for
Speaker 1: the rest of the week until Sunday comes again, and
Speaker 1: then they're their back. Hey, I'm in church. I'm good, guys.
Speaker 1: And everybody's like, oh, this is such a great couple.
Speaker 1: This person's so good. Look at him. He's here every
Speaker 1: single Sunday. Yes, I'm saved because but they don't go
Speaker 1: home and read the Word of God. They don't go
Speaker 1: home and be obedient. They're maybe, you know, they're not
Speaker 1: grounded in the word. Right, So let's continue the parable
Speaker 1: of the mustard seed. Jesus will explain the parable of
Speaker 1: the of the wheat and tear in a little bit.
Speaker 1: He goes over a few before he gets to that.
Speaker 1: Another terrible he put forth, saying, the Kingdom of Heaven
Speaker 1: is like a mustard seed which a man took and
Speaker 1: sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of
Speaker 1: all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater
Speaker 1: than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the
Speaker 1: birds of the air come and nest in its branches.
Speaker 1: So what I'm seeing here, even though this is one
Speaker 1: of the ones that Jesus doesn't explain, So what does
Speaker 1: he mean by it? I can't tell you one hundred
Speaker 1: percent what he means by it. Okay, So I'm not
Speaker 1: even I don't. I don't. I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: you because I studied and tried, and I don't know
Speaker 1: what Jesus means by this, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: try to make my own. I don't need to add
Speaker 1: to the word and try to tell you exactly what
Speaker 1: it is. Ah, the parable of the leaven. Another parable.
Speaker 1: He spoke to them, The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven,
Speaker 1: which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal.
Speaker 1: It was all leavened three measures a mill till it
Speaker 1: was all eleven. You know, obviously, we don't want we
Speaker 1: don't want bread with yeast. Leven is good. So women
Speaker 1: took and hit three measures of meal until at all elevened.
Speaker 1: You see, there's parables here that I don't know how
Speaker 1: to explain, and a lot of pastors don't know. If
Speaker 1: they act like they do, then they're probably just guessing.
Speaker 1: And I would rather Jesus explain it like he does
Speaker 1: with the parable the wheed and terrors and tell us
Speaker 1: exactly what he meant. Then for me to put words
Speaker 1: in Jesus's mouth of what he meant. So I'm not
Speaker 1: going to sit here and do that. So the prophecy
Speaker 1: of the parables, all these things, Jesus spoke to the
Speaker 1: multitude of parables without a parable. He did not speak
Speaker 1: to them that it might be fulfilled, which has spoken
Speaker 1: to the prophet saying, I will open my mouth in parables,
Speaker 1: I will utter things kept in seek it from the
Speaker 1: foundation of the world. Let's see what I will utter,
Speaker 1: all right, it's Psalms seventy eight to two. I will
Speaker 1: open my mouth in parables, is what one portion is,
Speaker 1: and I will utter things. And I think that's an yeah.
Speaker 1: The other part is not in Psalms. Some people said
Speaker 1: that he might be quoting from Isaiah, so it might
Speaker 1: be putting two verses together. I remember when I studied that,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought there. So all right, so let's
Speaker 1: see what Jesus says about the parables of the terrors.
Speaker 1: It's explained by Jesus himself, which is the best person
Speaker 1: to explain this, because he means as certain things. He
Speaker 1: means what he says, says what he means his yeses
Speaker 1: or yes, his nose or nose. So with Jesus explaining it,
Speaker 1: it's better for us guessing like some pastors do. I
Speaker 1: think we need to not guess what Jesus saying. So
Speaker 1: then Jesus sent them altitude away and went into the house,
Speaker 1: and we're back to a Matthew thirteen thirty six. Then
Speaker 1: Jesus sent them multitude away and went into the house,
Speaker 1: and his disciples came to him, saying, explain to us
Speaker 1: the parable of the terrors of the field. And he
Speaker 1: answered and said to them, he who sows the good
Speaker 1: seed is the son of man. So Jesus, he sows
Speaker 1: the good seed, the field is the world, and the
Speaker 1: good seeds are the sons of the kingdom. But the
Speaker 1: terrors are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy
Speaker 1: who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the
Speaker 1: end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
Speaker 1: Therefore is the terrors are gathered and burned in the fire.
Speaker 1: So it will be the end of this age. The
Speaker 1: Son of Man will send out his angels, and they
Speaker 1: will gather out his kingdom of all the things that
Speaker 1: are offered that offend, and those who practice lawlessness. Sorry,
Speaker 1: his kingdom to all things that offend and those who
Speaker 1: practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of
Speaker 1: the fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Speaker 1: Then the excuse me, the righteous will shine as the
Speaker 1: son and the kingdom of their father. He who has
Speaker 1: ears to hear, let him hear. Tell me that's not powerful.
Speaker 1: And some people they place this to the rapture. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know some people believe in the rapture. Some people
Speaker 1: do not. But I do know that we will be
Speaker 1: caught up with Jesus. Whether it's a rapture or when
Speaker 1: Jesus comes back, one of the two, we will be
Speaker 1: caught up. I know that some of you believe in
Speaker 1: Satan's Little Season, and some people believe that Jesus already
Speaker 1: came back. So that's a theology I'm not one hundred
Speaker 1: percent on board with, but I know that that's out there,
Speaker 1: So don't get offended that I'm saying this. Okay. What
Speaker 1: people try to do is they want to take these
Speaker 1: parables and spiritualize them, or take these parables as if
Speaker 1: Jesus is speaking to you personally. But I understand in
Speaker 1: the context Jesus is speaking to the people that are
Speaker 1: there at that moment, like he's speaking to his disciples
Speaker 1: right here, explaining the parables. And if you don't believe
Speaker 1: Jesus is God, then understand what he's saying, right How
Speaker 1: is Jesus gonna know this? Okay? And also listen to
Speaker 1: what it says here, the son of Man will send
Speaker 1: out his angels. What what do you mean his angels?
Speaker 1: I thought that the angels were only God, the fathers.
Speaker 1: If you don't believe Jesus is God, how could he
Speaker 1: say that the son of Man will send out his angels,
Speaker 1: that they will gather out of his kingdom all the
Speaker 1: things that offend. So he's taking the place of God
Speaker 1: right there. So that's probably why he didn't speak like
Speaker 1: this in front of the Pharisees, because that would be
Speaker 1: blasphemy to them. But you see the way that he's
Speaker 1: speaking right here, He's speaking as if the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: Heaven is his, which it is. God gives them the
Speaker 1: keys to the heaven, to Hell, to earth, I mean
Speaker 1: the earth, kingdom of Heaven, you know, and also to
Speaker 1: shield you see. So the way he's speaking right here
Speaker 1: is if he is God. So I think it's vastly
Speaker 1: important for us to understand the wordage, Understand how we're speaking.
Speaker 1: Understand that he's speaking as if he knows exactly what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen in the future. That's something called prophecy. That's
Speaker 1: something that only God can do. God can speak to
Speaker 1: prophets and visions and dreams. God is the one that
Speaker 1: does that. God is the one that speaks the future,
Speaker 1: not only knowing your past, but to know what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen in the future. Prophet, I mean profit prophets can
Speaker 1: also do that, but that's God speaking through them. But
Speaker 1: the prophets never say, if you notice, they never say
Speaker 1: that I'm going to send out my angels. The prophets
Speaker 1: only say God will send out his angels. You know
Speaker 1: Yahweh will send out his angels. The Lord will send
Speaker 1: out his angels. That's the way that they speak. They
Speaker 1: don't speak as if they are the one that's that
Speaker 1: the angels are theirs. They speak as if they that
Speaker 1: are God's. But the way that Jesus speaks right here
Speaker 1: is if in first person, is if they are his angels.
Speaker 1: Do you understand the difference. I think that's vastly important
Speaker 1: for people to know. And the disciples, could you imagine
Speaker 1: the way if he was speaking like that to them,
Speaker 1: They're probably like, Okay, he's got to be something, you know,
Speaker 1: higher up than just a prophet. I mean, he's not
Speaker 1: just a man. No man could talk like that without
Speaker 1: it being blasphemy. And they know that Jesus is is
Speaker 1: not just a great man. They could tell that he's
Speaker 1: speaking like he is God. That's why Thomas when he
Speaker 1: sees Jesus after he resurrects and he says, touch me,
Speaker 1: you see that my You know, he's got the holes
Speaker 1: in his hands, and he's got the peer side. He's
Speaker 1: my lord, my God. That's why Thomas spoke like that
Speaker 1: about Jesus, because he's bringing these disciples along to eventually
Speaker 1: know that they're not just dealing with a great man,
Speaker 1: and they're not just dealing with a great rabbi or
Speaker 1: a great teacher. They are they are dealing with God
Speaker 1: in the flesh, my holy Spirit. Whoa hold on? Hold on, sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: default microphone. Your default microphone has changed to microphone real tech.
Speaker 1: Uh hold on, guys. Okay, cool, Hopefully nothing happened there.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys can still hear me. Okay, your
Speaker 1: default microphone has changed to the yet Okay, hopefully you
Speaker 1: guys still hear me, and hopefully the audio has been
Speaker 1: good for some reason. When I speak, I speak of
Speaker 1: my hands because I'm Italian, right, because I'm Italian to me,
Speaker 1: so I knocked the microphone. So hopefully everything's okay. You
Speaker 1: can hear me, and everything's all right. There's no way
Speaker 1: for me to test that either. So anyways, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the parable of the hidden treasure again.
Speaker 1: The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the
Speaker 1: field which a man has found and hid for joy.
Speaker 1: Over it goes and sells all he has and buys
Speaker 1: the field. The parable of the pearl of great price again,
Speaker 1: The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden the field
Speaker 1: that man is hid. I'm sorry, so hidden treasure, treasure
Speaker 1: is treasure is a place where you hide righteous things,
Speaker 1: or good things, or your precious metals. It's somewhere where
Speaker 1: you hide those, right So, so heaven is like a
Speaker 1: treasure hidden in a field, you know. So I'm not
Speaker 1: going to try to explain him, like I said, but
Speaker 1: understand that this is talking about like treasure or something
Speaker 1: that's important to people, or something that's like amazing, you know.
Speaker 1: So you see that there's treasure in this one parable
Speaker 1: and then there's pearl, you know, so something that of
Speaker 1: great value. Right again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like
Speaker 1: a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who when he had found
Speaker 1: one pearl of great price, went and sold it that
Speaker 1: he had and bought it. Okay, And then this is
Speaker 1: the parable of the dragnet. Again, the Kingdom of Heaven
Speaker 1: is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea
Speaker 1: and gathered some of every kind, which when it was full,
Speaker 1: they drew to the shore, and they sat down and
Speaker 1: gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the age the angels will
Speaker 1: come forth separate the wicked from among the just, and
Speaker 1: cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be
Speaker 1: wailing and gnashing of teeth. Once again, just saying that
Speaker 1: the angels will come and separate the wicked among the
Speaker 1: just from among the just. So the drag net is
Speaker 1: like a giant net, and then you pull it, and
Speaker 1: then sometimes the good fish come, and then sometimes there's bad.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about separating throwing the bad away. So
Speaker 1: you know some people they like they'll have one boat
Speaker 1: and then another boat. Then they have this net and
Speaker 1: they start pulling and then it starts gathering fish, talking
Speaker 1: about gathering some of the good fish and some of
Speaker 1: the bad fish. Some of the badfish they throw away. Right,
Speaker 1: So the angels are gonna come and separate the wicked
Speaker 1: from theus. And once again he's talking about the furnace
Speaker 1: of fire. Sheil. Hell. If you go to Luke sixteen,
Speaker 1: the story of Lazarus and the rich Man, you get
Speaker 1: an idea. Once we get there, I'll explain the parable
Speaker 1: to you, or not the parable. I'm sorry, I'll explain
Speaker 1: that portion to you. But the rich Man is in
Speaker 1: sheel and the Lazarus is in paradise. And there's a
Speaker 1: giant chasm between them, and it says the rich man
Speaker 1: and has fire beneath his feet and everlasting burning. He's
Speaker 1: able to speak, he's able to touch, he's able to see,
Speaker 1: he's able to hear because he's talking to Abraham. So
Speaker 1: he has all five senses. So that's why Jesus is
Speaker 1: talking about here, they'll be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to them, have you understood all these things?
Speaker 1: And they said to going, yes, Lord. And then he
Speaker 1: said to them, therefore every scribe instructed concerning the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of Heaven as like a householder who brings out the
Speaker 1: treasure things new and old. This is such a powerful
Speaker 1: chapter of the Bible that we need to understand. We
Speaker 1: need to definitely a treasure. Right, So Jesus rejected at Nazareth.
Speaker 1: Now it came to pass when Jesus had finished these
Speaker 1: parables that he departed from there, when he had come
Speaker 1: to his own country. He taught them in their synagogue,
Speaker 1: so that they were astonished and said, where did this
Speaker 1: man get this wisdom and these mighty works? And this
Speaker 1: is not the carpenter's son. It is not his mother
Speaker 1: called Mary, and his brother, James, josephs Simon, and Judas,
Speaker 1: and his sisters that were not all with us. When
Speaker 1: did this man get all these things? Where did this
Speaker 1: man get all these things? So they were offended at him.
Speaker 1: But Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without
Speaker 1: honor except in his own country, in his own house.
Speaker 1: Now did he not do many mighty works because of
Speaker 1: their unbelief? So here is a portion of scripture that
Speaker 1: the Catholics should probably read, no offense if you're Catholic,
Speaker 1: But if you believe that mother Mary is a virgin
Speaker 1: the whole entire life, the scriptures right here that it
Speaker 1: is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James,
Speaker 1: josephs Simon, and Judas, and his sisters that were not
Speaker 1: all among us. So Jesus was the born, she was born.
Speaker 1: He was born through a virgin. But what about James, Joseph, Simon,
Speaker 1: and Judas, and also Jesus's sisters, how were they conceived?
Speaker 1: Were they conceived of the Holy Spirit? And Mary just
Speaker 1: was a virgin the whole entire time? Or does it
Speaker 1: seem that Joseph and Mary had other children? That's kind
Speaker 1: of what the verses saying here if you're Catholic and
Speaker 1: you're listening to this, I'm not trying to be offensive.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say that, you know. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to say anything to you guys, like in a
Speaker 1: bad negative way. I'm just trying to say that obviously
Speaker 1: Mary had other children, right, so she didn't she wasn't
Speaker 1: a virgin her whole entire life because she had other children,
Speaker 1: and Jesus also had sisters. All right, So all right,
Speaker 1: that was a very amazing chapter. Fifty four verses in
Speaker 1: that chapter are waiting. Hold, I'm sorry. Fifty eight versus
Speaker 1: in that chapter. We were able to a nice little
Speaker 1: forty five minute set there, which is great. And now
Speaker 1: we are going to get to Matthew fourteen, verse one.
Speaker 1: John the Baptist beheaded at this At that time, Herod
Speaker 1: the tetriarch heard the report about Jesus and said to
Speaker 1: his servants, this is John the Baptist. He has risen
Speaker 1: from the dead, and therefore these powers are the work
Speaker 1: in him. For Herod had laid hold of John and
Speaker 1: bound him and put him in prison for the sake
Speaker 1: of Herodes, his brother Philip's wife, because John had said
Speaker 1: to him it is not lawful for you to have her.
Speaker 1: And although he wanted to put him to death, he
Speaker 1: feared the multitude because they counted him as a prophet.
Speaker 1: But when Herod's birthday was celebrated, the daughter of hereadus
Speaker 1: Heredis danced before them and pleased Herod. Therefore he promised
Speaker 1: with a note to give her whatever she might ask.
Speaker 1: So so Herod, you see, is married or with his
Speaker 1: brother's wife, and John the Baptist is pointing out that
Speaker 1: it's not lawful for you to have her. And he
Speaker 1: didn't like that he was being called out. And it
Speaker 1: seems like he was either trying to impress Herod is right,
Speaker 1: and or he was trying to maybe he even liked
Speaker 1: the daughter too, But he said, whatever you promised, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you might ask, he's gonna do, you know. So, she,
Speaker 1: having been prompted by her mother, said give me John
Speaker 1: the Baptist's head here on the platter. And the king
Speaker 1: was sorry, nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of
Speaker 1: those who sat with him, he commanded it to be
Speaker 1: given to her. So he sent and had John beheaded
Speaker 1: in prison, and his head was brought to a platter
Speaker 1: and given to the girl, and she brought it to
Speaker 1: her mother. Then his disciples came and took away the
Speaker 1: body and burned it and went and told Jesus. So
Speaker 1: it's not like you become a prophet and life is peachy.
Speaker 1: That's why this doctrine of prosperity is not true. God
Speaker 1: is not trying to make you rich, famous driver Bugatti.
Speaker 1: Life is good. Everybody's happy. You have the big house,
Speaker 1: the big mansion, the big cars and all this stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is not what's happening. You don't be obedient to
Speaker 1: God and then God blesses you with riches. Because John
Speaker 1: the Baptist was obedient to God. John the Baptist, he
Speaker 1: he was holy, you know, he was not concentrating so
Speaker 1: much on this world. He was letting Herod know that
Speaker 1: he shouldn't be with this woman. He was still being
Speaker 1: holy unto death. But when you are persecuted for the Lord,
Speaker 1: then you will be blessed. You know, you'll be blessed.
Speaker 1: You know, like it's like it's heroic and it's something
Speaker 1: good for you to be persecuted and die for the Lord. Right,
Speaker 1: that's what happened. You're noticing that just because you're a
Speaker 1: follower of Christ doesn't mean that everything's gonna be peachy.
Speaker 1: Just like me. Right now, I'm in a position that
Speaker 1: my wife is in the hospital. She her water broke early.
Speaker 1: She could have the baby at any time, the baby
Speaker 1: could pass away. You see me doing this podcast every Wednesday,
Speaker 1: every Sunday. I have a Christian podcast. For the last
Speaker 1: four years. I've been working for the Lord, trying to
Speaker 1: do my best. People are you know, hopefully getting saved
Speaker 1: from this And you know God is saving people through
Speaker 1: this podcast. And I mean uses a mouthpiece to read
Speaker 1: the Bible. Hey, great, But it doesn't mean that God's
Speaker 1: gonna be like, Okay, no problem, your life's gonna be
Speaker 1: peachy from here we go. I'm gonna make you rich, famous,
Speaker 1: money and cars and all the stuff of this world. No,
Speaker 1: when you get saved, that's when the spiritual battle begins.
Speaker 1: John the Baptist is not here cursing God when he's
Speaker 1: put in this position, is he He's still praising the Lord,
Speaker 1: still checking Herod even though Herod's a king on doing
Speaker 1: unlawful things. You see, obedient until death. But this is
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for you to see that when
Speaker 1: you get saved, that's when the battle begins because the
Speaker 1: evil one, the enemy, is going to be ready to attack.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be easy. Okay, it's not about prosperity gospel.
Speaker 1: That's not the way it works. You can see it
Speaker 1: right there or else. John the Baptist, would it became
Speaker 1: the king had been rich because he's the one that's
Speaker 1: obeying God. And the Angel came and told his parents
Speaker 1: that he's gonna come and be a great prophet. You see,
Speaker 1: And what do we see here?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: We see John the Baptist getting beheaded. What happened to
Speaker 1: the disciples? Did they become rich and famous and happy? No?
Speaker 1: Each of them died a horrendous death besides John. You know,
Speaker 1: John ended up going to the island of Patmos and
Speaker 1: dying of old age. But the other ones were crucified
Speaker 1: upside down, burned at the stake, all this stuff. So
Speaker 1: just want to let you guys know that. But be ready.
Speaker 1: The spiritual battle begins once you get saved, and the
Speaker 1: devil knows that you are now a target. So that's
Speaker 1: why you need to start reading your word. That's why
Speaker 1: you need to get into the word. That's why you
Speaker 1: need to get your relationship with the Lord, get it
Speaker 1: right now, instead of being like some of these people
Speaker 1: in these parables that Jesus is talking about, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you get the seed, and then
Speaker 1: it's not getting watered by the word, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're not praying, and then you start sinning,
Speaker 1: and then you're separating yourself from God, and then you
Speaker 1: don't have any type of foundation for you to come back.
Speaker 1: You start getting separated from God, and then you get
Speaker 1: further and further away because you just lose that. So
Speaker 1: what I want to tell you, guys, I strongly recommend
Speaker 1: that's why this podcast is so important. When Jonathan and
Speaker 1: Jacob told me and gave me this opportunity to do
Speaker 1: this show, I jumped on it immediately. And then when
Speaker 1: they call me and told me that they would like
Speaker 1: me to do another show, I thought it would be
Speaker 1: perfect for I thought it would be perfect for for
Speaker 1: Wednesdays to be New Testament, Sundays to be Old Testament,
Speaker 1: and you could keep going back and forth. You've got
Speaker 1: the foundation of the Old Testament for you, and then
Speaker 1: the gospel message of the New Testament, and then the
Speaker 1: spiritual battles and everything that it's going to help you
Speaker 1: so much to go to the New Testament, you know,
Speaker 1: and learning about Jesus and learning about the Lord is
Speaker 1: going to help you so much. So I just think
Speaker 1: it's just such a blessing, such a blessing. So all right,
Speaker 1: let's get back. Sorry, I ramble sometimes and I get
Speaker 1: on little stints, but you know that's what happens when
Speaker 1: you're a podcaster. You're not here just to read. You're
Speaker 1: here to preach, and then we're here to teach. That's
Speaker 1: what we have to do. We have to preach and
Speaker 1: we have to teach. The teaching portion is the reading
Speaker 1: and explaining, and then the preaching portion is why do
Speaker 1: we even what do we need to do with this
Speaker 1: information we're getting. We need to put it into our
Speaker 1: lives because knowledge is great, but wisdom is better. So
Speaker 1: knowledge is you gaining the Word of God, but wisdom
Speaker 1: is applying it to your life. It's not about just
Speaker 1: listening to me speak to you guys about the Bible.
Speaker 1: That's great, but does that make you a disciple. No.
Speaker 1: All it does is it equips you to have extra
Speaker 1: tools on your belt, and it's going to help you
Speaker 1: when you get into spiritual battles. Okay, so we're at
Speaker 1: Matthew fourteen, verse thirteen. This is feeding the five thousand.
Speaker 1: When Jesus heard it, he departed from there by boat
Speaker 1: to a deserted place by himself. But when the multitudes
Speaker 1: heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.
Speaker 1: And when Jesus went out, he saw a great multitude,
Speaker 1: and he was moved with compassion for them, and healed
Speaker 1: their sick. When it was evening, his disciples came and
Speaker 1: was saying, this is a deserted place, and the hour
Speaker 1: is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may
Speaker 1: go into the villages and buy themselves food. But Jesus
Speaker 1: said to them, they do not need to go away.
Speaker 1: You give them something to eat. And they said to him,
Speaker 1: we only have five loaves and two fish. He said,
Speaker 1: bring them to me, and then he commanded the multitudes
Speaker 1: to sit down on the grass. He took the five
Speaker 1: loaves and two fish, looked up to heaven, and he
Speaker 1: blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples,
Speaker 1: and the disciples gave to the multitudes. So they all
Speaker 1: ate and were filled. And they took up twelve baskets
Speaker 1: full of fragments and they remained. Now, those who had
Speaker 1: eaten were about five thousand men besides women and children,
Speaker 1: so it says we're about five thousand. So he's not
Speaker 1: saying that he fed exactly five thousand people. I've seen
Speaker 1: people call into radio shows a pastor's perspective, which I
Speaker 1: listen to sometimes, so on one oh seven point nine
Speaker 1: if you're in California and it's at three o'clock. But anyways, uh,
Speaker 1: they called it excuse me, and their question was, did
Speaker 1: Jesus feed exactly five thousand people? And uh, that's why
Speaker 1: it says that he fed about five thousand men, okay,
Speaker 1: besides women and children. Okay, so no excuse me. But
Speaker 1: look at this though, is this is the type of
Speaker 1: miracles that that that builds faith for them because understand
Speaker 1: that they didn't have all the New Testament scriptures to study.
Speaker 1: All they had was Jesus in front of them, God
Speaker 1: in the flesh, the Messiah, the Mahia in front of them,
Speaker 1: and he's turning these five loaves and two fish and
Speaker 1: feeding five about five thousand. So all they have is
Speaker 1: the Torah to study, and you know, the Old Testament,
Speaker 1: so they get they they earned sorry. Faith comes by
Speaker 1: hearing the word of God, right, So they were building
Speaker 1: faith by hearing the Old Testament and hearing the word.
Speaker 1: But also these miracles and signs are being portrayed to them,
Speaker 1: so it's making them believe more. And Jesus is healing
Speaker 1: their sick as well. So these multitudes they came to
Speaker 1: see him, he's also healing the sick. So he's doing miracles,
Speaker 1: building faith by signs, and that's what the Jews needed.
Speaker 1: They needed a sign, they needed miracles. You see that
Speaker 1: in throughout the Old Testament. So it's making people talk.
Speaker 1: It's making the paras is super uncomfortable because you have
Speaker 1: this guy that is, you know, this son of Man
Speaker 1: who is speaking as if he came from heaven and
Speaker 1: he's healing the sick. He is feeding great multitudes with
Speaker 1: five loaves of bread, two fish. He is speaking in parables.
Speaker 1: So the Pharisees don't understand, and they're like, what's this
Speaker 1: guy about. They need to try to find some way
Speaker 1: to corner him and get him killed is what they want.
Speaker 1: They want to get him off. So so let's go
Speaker 1: to soon. I need to tell my wife. Sorry, I'm saying.
Speaker 1: My wife is asking me a question. So I'm just
Speaker 1: texting her real quick. Sorry, guys, I don't mean to
Speaker 1: get sidetracked, but I definitely it's very important for her too,
Speaker 1: for me to be here for herself. Matthew fourteen, Verse
Speaker 1: twenty two, Jesus walks on the sea. So immediately Jesus
Speaker 1: made his disciples get into the boat and go before
Speaker 1: him to the other side. While he sent the multitudes away.
Speaker 1: And we had sent the multitudes away, he went up
Speaker 1: on the mountain by himself to pray. Then when evening came,
Speaker 1: he was alone there. But the boat was now in
Speaker 1: the middle of the sea, tossed by the ways, for
Speaker 1: the wind was contrary. Now in the fourth watch of
Speaker 1: the night, Jesus went to them walking on the sea.
Speaker 1: And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea,
Speaker 1: they were troubled, saying it is a ghost, and they
Speaker 1: cried out with fear. Something I want to look up
Speaker 1: while I'm on with you, guys, is Matthew fourteen. Matthew,
Speaker 1: and what is that? Verse twenty six. I want to
Speaker 1: see what ghost means. Okay, so ghost and the new
Speaker 1: King James. But if you look at the King James,
Speaker 1: it actually says spirit so and apparents a apparition is
Speaker 1: what that means. So it's going to be a spirit, okay,
Speaker 1: not a ghost like people would think. So you could
Speaker 1: say it is a spirit. And they cried out for fear.
Speaker 1: But immediately Jesus spoke to them saying, be of good cheer,
Speaker 1: do not be it is I, Do not be afraid.
Speaker 1: So Jesus is letting me know, Hey, it's me. Do
Speaker 1: not be afraid. And Peter answered him saying, Lord, if
Speaker 1: it is you, command me to come to you on
Speaker 1: the water. And he said come, And then Peter had
Speaker 1: come out, come down out of the boat. He walked
Speaker 1: on the water to go to Jesus. But when he
Speaker 1: saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid and
Speaker 1: beginning to sink. He cried out, saying, Lord, save me.
Speaker 1: And immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught him
Speaker 1: and said to him, oh, you of little faith, why
Speaker 1: do you doubt? And when they got into the boat,
Speaker 1: the wind seized. Then those who were in the boat
Speaker 1: came and worshiped him, saying, truly, you are the son
Speaker 1: of God. So first of all, when you focus on
Speaker 1: Jesus and you focus on God, you focus on the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, then you're able to walk on the water.
Speaker 1: So Peter was like, you know, he's like, okay, if
Speaker 1: you are, you know, if you are, then let me come.
Speaker 1: You know, like, if it is you Lord hard, then
Speaker 1: then I command me to come to you in the water.
Speaker 1: So he was super uh boisterous, like he's ready to
Speaker 1: do it. Like he's like, all right, cool, let's go.
Speaker 1: And he was focused on God. As soon as he
Speaker 1: took his eye off God and focused on the wind
Speaker 1: and and about things that are gonnah, things that are
Speaker 1: going to be hard are sway his life, then he sinks,
Speaker 1: that's what happens to us. We focus on the Lord
Speaker 1: and we and we focus on God. Then what happens.
Speaker 1: We're walking by faith and we're and we're not going
Speaker 1: to be sinking. We're able to walk on the water,
Speaker 1: we're able to do those miracles, we're able to get
Speaker 1: over those hurdles. But what happens is when we look
Speaker 1: up to Jesus and all of a sudden, we see
Speaker 1: all these hurdles coming and we start, oh no, and
Speaker 1: then we start to sink. But you see, Peter, he
Speaker 1: that's what he did. And Jesus says, oh, you little, oh,
Speaker 1: you of little faith, Why did you doubt? Like, don't
Speaker 1: you understand that Jesus is walking on the water, So
Speaker 1: why do you not have faith? Why do you doubt? Also,
Speaker 1: last time they were on the seas and the you know,
Speaker 1: the wind was going crazy and and the waves were
Speaker 1: going crazy. Jesus said, wind stop, waves stop, and it stopped.
Speaker 1: So how come they can't remember that? Because we are
Speaker 1: so quick to forget what God has done for us.
Speaker 1: For example, when I had my third daughter, she ended
Speaker 1: up having to go to the niqu because she was
Speaker 1: born early, so she was on a breathing machine and
Speaker 1: we prayed and prayed and prayed. So that's what I
Speaker 1: have to remind my wife is listen, we're dealing with
Speaker 1: the same God that helped our daughter through this, So
Speaker 1: we're dealing with the same God that's going to help us.
Speaker 1: Sooe this too. You know, if it's his will, let
Speaker 1: it be done. So all right. So now we're on
Speaker 1: Matthew fourteen, verse thirty four. When they had crossed over,
Speaker 1: they came to the land of Genserrat, and when the
Speaker 1: men of that place recognized him, they sent out all
Speaker 1: the surrounding region brought to him all who were sick
Speaker 1: and begged him that they might only touch them the
Speaker 1: hem of his garment, and as many as they touched
Speaker 1: it were made perfectly well. And as many as touched
Speaker 1: it made perfectly well. So as they touched his garment,
Speaker 1: that's all they had to do to be perfectly well.
Speaker 1: And obviously those people had faith. They brought him to
Speaker 1: Jesus with faith. So when they touched the garment, it's
Speaker 1: not the garment that healed them. It's just that their
Speaker 1: faith was so great that Jesus was like, Okay, they're
Speaker 1: going to be healed because of their faith. They're not
Speaker 1: healed because of touching the garment. That's not the point.
Speaker 1: The point is they walked out in faith, asked them
Speaker 1: to heal, and the people were healed because Jesus saw
Speaker 1: their faith. That's what kind of faith I need to
Speaker 1: have with the situation that I'm in, that it's gonna
Speaker 1: be done, all right, So Matthew fifteen, verse one. Then
Speaker 1: the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to
Speaker 1: Jesus saying, why do your disciples transgress the tradition of
Speaker 1: the elders, For they do not wash their hands when
Speaker 1: they eat bread. And He answered and said to them,
Speaker 1: why do you also transgress the commandmenter to God because
Speaker 1: of your tradition. For God commanded you saying, honor your father,
Speaker 1: your mother, and he who curses your father or mother,
Speaker 1: let him be put to death. But you say, whoever
Speaker 1: says to his father or mother whatever prophet you might
Speaker 1: have received from me is a gift of God, then
Speaker 1: he need not honor his mother or father. Thus you
Speaker 1: have made the commandment of God of no effect by
Speaker 1: your tradition. Hypocrites. Well, did Isaiah prophecy a prophesiah about you, saying,
Speaker 1: listen to this, and the people draw near with me
Speaker 1: with their mouth and honor me with their lips, But
Speaker 1: with their heart is far from me, and the vein
Speaker 1: they worship me, and in vain they worship me, teaching
Speaker 1: as doctrines their commandments of men. So I know this
Speaker 1: is in the book of Isaiah. I just have to
Speaker 1: find out where it's set. So this is very important.
Speaker 1: This is hypocrites. They honor God with their lips. It's
Speaker 1: like me doing a podcast and I'm honoring God in
Speaker 1: front of you, But then when I go away, then
Speaker 1: it'd be like my heart is not with God, and
Speaker 1: I'm not worshiping God. When I'm away hop on the podcast,
Speaker 1: I'm worshiping God, which honestly, sometimes do I fall short
Speaker 1: of the glory of God? Yes, sometimes I do, But
Speaker 1: I try to do my best to continue to study
Speaker 1: the Word. And you know, when I'm doing the podcast,
Speaker 1: I try to be explaining to you guys, teaching and preaching,
Speaker 1: and then when I'm away from the podcast, I try
Speaker 1: to do my very best. But obviously I am a human.
Speaker 1: But these are Pharisees that are honoring God with their lips,
Speaker 1: so people think that they're holy, but their hearts are
Speaker 1: far from them and in vain. They're worshiping God, teaching
Speaker 1: as doctrines the commandments of men, so teaching your traditions
Speaker 1: instead of teaching God's commandments. So this is a God,
Speaker 1: This is God in the flesh, putting man in their place.
Speaker 1: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because
Speaker 1: of your tradition, man made tradition that you act as
Speaker 1: if it comes from God. But it is just a
Speaker 1: tradition that you follow, and it's something that got put
Speaker 1: in there by men instead of by God. And now
Speaker 1: you act like it's a commandment from God, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's your man made tradition. You're mixing wheat with the
Speaker 1: tears here, because your traditions are the tears, and then
Speaker 1: God's commandment is the wheat. And that's what's happening. They're
Speaker 1: growing right, And these traditions are the terrors that God
Speaker 1: wants to pluck and throw in the fire for each other.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want you to do traditions. He wants you
Speaker 1: to just follow his commandments. God is perfect. Do not
Speaker 1: add to the word of God, for it is pure
Speaker 1: Proverbs thirty verse five. So God cannot lie right, So
Speaker 1: when he tells you his commandment, he's not lying to
Speaker 1: you like you don't need to have a man twist
Speaker 1: on it. Romans three four. Let God be true, every
Speaker 1: man a liar. Every man's tradition. We don't need to
Speaker 1: follow that. We need to follow God Sola scriptora. Follow
Speaker 1: the Bible, not follow what men tell you to do.
Speaker 1: New doctrines are created, traditions are created, and people place
Speaker 1: the traditions over what God is saying in his word.
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you guys know, Jesus is checking them right. Now,
Speaker 1: take the plank out of your own eye before you
Speaker 1: take the speck out of another man's eye. These Pharisees,
Speaker 1: look what they're doing. They're transgressing against your tradition of
Speaker 1: the elders. They're not washing their hands when they eat bread.
Speaker 1: Jesus comes at them, like, listen, let me put you
Speaker 1: in your place. Son. You see what I mean. You're
Speaker 1: transgressing against the traditions of the elders. Who cares about
Speaker 1: your traditions? Is what Jesus is saying. Matthew fifteen, verse ten,
Speaker 1: when he had called the multitude to himself, he said
Speaker 1: to them, here and understand, not what goes into the
Speaker 1: mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the
Speaker 1: mouth that defiles a man. Then his disciples came to him.
Speaker 1: Do you know the Pharisees were offended when they heard
Speaker 1: this saying. But he answered and said, every plant which
Speaker 1: my heavenly Father has not planted will be up rooted.
Speaker 1: Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind,
Speaker 1: and if the blind leads the blind, both will fall
Speaker 1: into a ditch. Even though the Pharisees study the word,
Speaker 1: they come up with their traditions. They think that they
Speaker 1: are great, holy people, holy enough to try to check
Speaker 1: the son of God. But Jesus is telling them that
Speaker 1: you are nothing, but you are blind, and you will
Speaker 1: be uprooted, and you blind teachers are going to fall
Speaker 1: into a ditch. You know, He's just checking them, letting
Speaker 1: telling his disciples, these are not the people you think
Speaker 1: they are. But he answered and said, okay, he read
Speaker 1: that part, So now we're on Matthew fifteen, verse fifteen.
Speaker 1: That Peter answered and said to him, explain this parable
Speaker 1: to us. And Jesus said, are you also still without understanding?
Speaker 1: Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth
Speaker 1: goes into the stomach and is eliminated. But those things
Speaker 1: which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart,
Speaker 1: and they defile a man. For out of the heart
Speaker 1: proceeding evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness blasphemies,
Speaker 1: these are the things which defile a man. But to
Speaker 1: eat what is unwashed hands does not defile a man.
Speaker 1: So worry about all the murderous, adulterous, fornications, thefts, witnesses,
Speaker 1: blasphemies that are coming out of your mouth. Pharisees, you
Speaker 1: might wash your hands, big deal, wash your heart because
Speaker 1: your mouth, you're eating the food with dirty hands. What
Speaker 1: are you gonna get? A little sickness, maybe a little diarrhea,
Speaker 1: That is nothing. It's better to go to heaven with diarrhea.
Speaker 1: They go to hell with clean hands. You see, because
Speaker 1: he knows the blasphemies and the evil thoughts and the murders.
Speaker 1: These pharisees want to murder Jesus. They want him killed fornications,
Speaker 1: you see that. That's that's just so hard as a
Speaker 1: as a as a man. This this fornications, thefts, false
Speaker 1: witness and blasphemies. Even though these pharisees probably don't know
Speaker 1: that Jesus is the son of God. I don't, I don't,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you could push it all
Speaker 1: the way to the point where they knew for sure
Speaker 1: he's the son of God and they still wanted to
Speaker 1: kill him. I think that there their heartened hearts didn't
Speaker 1: allow them to understand who the Masiah was. But Jesus
Speaker 1: is telling them that these diseases that you might get,
Speaker 1: or these little bacterias that might be in your stomach
Speaker 1: when you eat the food with unwashed hands, hey, the
Speaker 1: stomach will eliminate those but which proceeds out of the mouth,
Speaker 1: that come out from the mouth of the heart, they
Speaker 1: defile a man. Now, listen, Words can hurt people. Words
Speaker 1: can make it so that you Words can make it
Speaker 1: so that you can live or die. You could literally
Speaker 1: be walking down the street or getting gas at the
Speaker 1: gas station and someone can cut you off and drive
Speaker 1: up to you and say one word to you, and
Speaker 1: you could say the wrong word back to them, and
Speaker 1: you could be shot and killed. You could say the
Speaker 1: wrong word to a police officer and you could get
Speaker 1: arrested and have a really bad night and go to jail,
Speaker 1: and something bad can happen. You can say something to
Speaker 1: a female when you know when you're married, and it
Speaker 1: could cause adultery. You could speak to somebody about another person,
Speaker 1: slander them and say bad things about them to make
Speaker 1: someone want to go and murder them. And when you
Speaker 1: do slander them, Jesus is saying you are murdering them. Spiritually,
Speaker 1: false witness blasphemies, so you know, we speak blasphemy against God.
Speaker 1: They are speaking blasphemy against the Son of Man, the Christ,
Speaker 1: the Messiah by trying to say that he is casting
Speaker 1: out demons and the devil. Basically, I would say Bellzebub name.
Speaker 1: They're doing blasphemies. So Jesus is basically just saying the
Speaker 1: spiritual matters way more than the physical. And you want
Speaker 1: to over here, you want to check my disciples for
Speaker 1: not washing their hands for your little stupid traditions. Your
Speaker 1: traditions are crap because of all these things that you're doing,
Speaker 1: and you're not worried about You're not worried about the adulteries,
Speaker 1: the fornications, the false witness, the blasphemies. You're more worried
Speaker 1: about whether you get a little bacteria in your stomach,
Speaker 1: which your stomach would be able to handle anyways. So
Speaker 1: here is Matthew fifteen, verse twenty one. Then Jesus came
Speaker 1: out from there and departed to the region of Tyree
Speaker 1: and Saddam. And behold, a woman of Canaan came out
Speaker 1: from the region and cried out to him, saying, have
Speaker 1: mercy on me, o, Lord son of David, my daughter
Speaker 1: is severely demon possessed. But he answered her not a word.
Speaker 1: And his disciples came and urged him, saying, send her away,
Speaker 1: for she cries out after us. But he answered and
Speaker 1: said I was not sent except to the lost sheep
Speaker 1: of the House of Israel. Then she came in, worshiped
Speaker 1: and saying, Lord help me. But he answered and said,
Speaker 1: it is not good to take the children's bread and
Speaker 1: throw it to the little dogs. And she said, yes, Lord,
Speaker 1: even the little dogs eat crumbs which fall from the
Speaker 1: master's table. When Jesus answered and said to her, old woman,
Speaker 1: great is your faith. Let it be you as to
Speaker 1: you desire. And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Speaker 1: So Jesus recognized her faith. So is it not good
Speaker 1: to take the children's bread and throw it to the
Speaker 1: little dogs? So that's what they would do. When they
Speaker 1: would eat, they would eat, you know, and then they
Speaker 1: would throw their leftovers to their dogs. And you notice
Speaker 1: in Lazarus sixteen, the rich man, that's what was happening.
Speaker 1: They were eating, and they would wipe their hands with
Speaker 1: the bread, and they would throw the bread they wipe
Speaker 1: their hands with out to the dogs. And the poor
Speaker 1: man was eating that bread, you see in that story
Speaker 1: with Lazarus, Lazarus was eating that bread. Sorry, So so
Speaker 1: you see what they were talking about. Yes, Lord, Yet
Speaker 1: even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from
Speaker 1: their master's table. She's saying, you are my master, lord,
Speaker 1: so please can I at least eat your crumbs, and
Speaker 1: you know, basically responding to Jesus like hey, your lord.
Speaker 1: And he felt her faith and he was like, okay,
Speaker 1: let your faith. Oh great is your faith. Let it
Speaker 1: be you as your desire. And her daughter was healed
Speaker 1: that very hour. So Jesus has compassion on this woman
Speaker 1: because she has faith. You see, faith is so important.
Speaker 1: It's not about works so much as it is faith.
Speaker 1: Faith is so important. You see that here that it
Speaker 1: is so important. This woman could have been a good woman.
Speaker 1: He's not saying, hey, you're a good woman. He is
Speaker 1: recognizing her faith, and that's why he healed her and
Speaker 1: the people that walked out. Like just chapter fourteen, it
Speaker 1: says the great multitude walked out, and they they were
Speaker 1: they had faith that Jesus would heal them, so we
Speaker 1: healed them. You see, like it's all about having faith.
Speaker 1: Jesus heals great multitudes. Jesus departed from there and skirted
Speaker 1: the ski the sea of Galilee, the ski the sea
Speaker 1: of Galilee, excuse me, and went up on the mountain
Speaker 1: and sat down there. Then great multitudes came to him,
Speaker 1: having him having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed,
Speaker 1: and many others, and they laid them down at Jesus's feet,
Speaker 1: and he healed them. So the multitude marveled when they
Speaker 1: saw the mute speaking, the maimed, made whole, the lame walking,
Speaker 1: the blind seeing, and they glorified the God of Israel.
Speaker 1: So you see that the blind, the lame, the mute,
Speaker 1: the maimed, Jesus healed them. You see, he's building people's faith.
Speaker 1: They're following him because they're seeing him heal because they
Speaker 1: don't have they don't have the faith, because they don't
Speaker 1: have the Word of God. Because that's how faith is
Speaker 1: being built here by reading the word. That's how your
Speaker 1: faith is being built by reading the Word of God. Right,
Speaker 1: So they need the miracles. So that's what Jesus is doing.
Speaker 1: He's healing these great multitudes. He is Can you imagine
Speaker 1: having that, By the way, imagine having that much power
Speaker 1: and having that much responsibility on you that you know
Speaker 1: that someone's dying over here in another country and another city,
Speaker 1: but you're here healing these people and you see that
Speaker 1: someone's dying, and you have the power to heal that person.
Speaker 1: Do you understand how that could be really a difficult
Speaker 1: power to have? And you're just doing your best? How
Speaker 1: many people are going to be coming to you? Please
Speaker 1: my daughter, she's so sick. Yes, all these people coming
Speaker 1: to him. That's a lot of responsibility and a lot
Speaker 1: of stress. So good thing. He was God in the flesh,
Speaker 1: and he was to handle that. Now, Jesus called this
Speaker 1: is Matthew fifteen, verse thirty two. Now feeding the four thousand. Now,
Speaker 1: Jesus called his disciples to himself, saying, I have compassion
Speaker 1: on the multitude, because they have now continued with me
Speaker 1: three days and have nothing to eat. And I do
Speaker 1: not want to send them away hungry, unlest they faint
Speaker 1: on their way. So Jesus having compassion for these people,
Speaker 1: they are following him, and he's noticing that they are
Speaker 1: probably hungry, and they're so they are so focused on
Speaker 1: the Lord that they're following him and they're not eating
Speaker 1: because they are so amazed by what the Lord is doing,
Speaker 1: God in the flesh is doing. Then his disciples said
Speaker 1: to him, where could we eat? Where could we get
Speaker 1: enough bread in the wilderness to fill such a great multitude.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to them, how many loaves do we have?
Speaker 1: And they said seven and a few little fish. So
Speaker 1: do you see? How do you see how the disciples
Speaker 1: forget so fast? They said, where are we going to
Speaker 1: get enough bread in the wilderness to feel such a
Speaker 1: gay multitude? Like? Why don't they just ask Jesus, hey,
Speaker 1: remember when you you know, you had the fish, the
Speaker 1: five fish and two the five loaves of bread and
Speaker 1: the two fish, and you fed the five thousand. Can
Speaker 1: you just do that again? Ask knock, you shall receive.
Speaker 1: They should have just done that. It would show Jesus
Speaker 1: that they have faith. Why don't they just say, hey,
Speaker 1: remember you did that, can you do the same thing
Speaker 1: for them? So Jesus said to them, how many loaves
Speaker 1: do you have? He said seven and a few little fish.
Speaker 1: So we commanded the multitudes sit down on the ground,
Speaker 1: and he took the seven loaves of bread and the
Speaker 1: fish and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to
Speaker 1: his disciples, and disciples gave to the multitude. So they
Speaker 1: all ate and were filled, and they took up seven
Speaker 1: large baskets full of fragments, and they were left. Now
Speaker 1: those who ate were four thousand men besides women and children,
Speaker 1: and he said, away the multitude, go into the boat
Speaker 1: and come to the region of Magdala. See he's feeding
Speaker 1: the flock. I think that we could probably get into
Speaker 1: Matthew sixteen. I am. Let me see what we got here. Yep, Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're in Matthew sixteen. I think we could get
Speaker 1: this going, and we have about fifteen minutes. I do
Speaker 1: got to get back to the hospital, So after this,
Speaker 1: I'm literally gonna clean my kitchen and shoot directly to
Speaker 1: the hospital. Right now, it's about ten ten at night.
Speaker 1: So just so you know the dedication that I have
Speaker 1: for this study and how important I feel like this is.
Speaker 1: I left the hospital, came here. I'm going to upload
Speaker 1: this to their Patreon, and I'm going to send this
Speaker 1: file to cult to Conspiracy so that this episode comes
Speaker 1: out on Wednesday. So just so you know the dedication
Speaker 1: that we have to make sure you guys get these messages. Okay,
Speaker 1: Matthew sixteen. Verse one, and Lord, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for blessing me with a voice to be able to continue,
Speaker 1: because I had such a trouble the last show that
Speaker 1: we did speaking Hey, Okay, the Pharisees and sadducees seek
Speaker 1: a sign. This is Matthew sixteen to one. If you're
Speaker 1: following along, read Matthew sixteen to one. Then the Pharisees
Speaker 1: and Sadducees came and testing him and said that he
Speaker 1: had shown them a sign from heaven. Okay. Then the
Speaker 1: Pharisees and Saddestes came and testing him, asked that he
Speaker 1: would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and
Speaker 1: said to them, when it is evening, you say it
Speaker 1: will be fair weather, for this guy has read, and
Speaker 1: in the morning it will be foul weather. Today, for
Speaker 1: this guy has read and threatening hypocrites. You know how
Speaker 1: to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot
Speaker 1: discern the signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous
Speaker 1: generation seeks a sign, and no signs shall be given
Speaker 1: to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And
Speaker 1: then he left and departed the leaven and the Phariseeson Sadducees. Now,
Speaker 1: when his disciples said come to the other side, they
Speaker 1: had forgotten to take bread. And Jesus said to them,
Speaker 1: take heed and beware of the leaven of the Phariseaeson sadduescees.
Speaker 1: And they reasoned among themselves, saying, it is because we
Speaker 1: have taken no bread. But Jesus, being aware of it,
Speaker 1: said to them, oh, ye of little faith, why do
Speaker 1: you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread?
Speaker 1: Do you not understand or remember the five loaves of
Speaker 1: five thousand and how many baskets you took up? Know
Speaker 1: the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many
Speaker 1: large baskets you took up. How is it that you
Speaker 1: do not understand that I do not speak to you
Speaker 1: concerning bread, but be aware of the leaven of the
Speaker 1: Phariseason's sadducees. Then they understood that he did not tell
Speaker 1: them to beware of the leaven of bread, but the
Speaker 1: doctrine of the Phariseaeson Sadducees. You see the doctrine, all right.
Speaker 1: A wicked adult generson seeks to sign, and no signs
Speaker 1: shall be given to it except the sign of the
Speaker 1: prophet Jonah. Okay, so we'll continue here. Peter confesses Jesus
Speaker 1: as the Christ. We're gonna go with Matthew sixteen, verse thirteen.
Speaker 1: When Jesus came to the region of Sarah, Sah Philippi.
Speaker 1: He asked the disciple, saying, who do men say that
Speaker 1: I the son of man am? And they said, some
Speaker 1: say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, others Jeremiah and
Speaker 1: one of the prophets. He said to them, but who
Speaker 1: do you say that I am? Simon Peter answered, you
Speaker 1: are the Christ, meaning the Messiah, the son of the
Speaker 1: living God. So, okay, since you see the difference here
Speaker 1: that you have Muslims saying that Jesus is a prophet,
Speaker 1: like Jeremiah, like John the Baptist, like Elijah. You see,
Speaker 1: that's what the Muslims are saying. But his disciples, which
Speaker 1: should be us, are saying, you are the Messiah, the
Speaker 1: son of the living God. You see, that's the way
Speaker 1: we should look at Jesus. Okay, the Muslims are saying
Speaker 1: that he is just a prophet, but his disciples you
Speaker 1: see the difference. What are they saying, I am not
Speaker 1: my disciples, but these other people, Well, they're saying that
Speaker 1: you're John the Baptist, Elijah, or Jeremiah one of the prophets.
Speaker 1: So like they they're putting Jesus on that level. That's
Speaker 1: what the Muslims are saying, okay, sounds good. But who
Speaker 1: do you say I am to Peter. You are the Messiah,
Speaker 1: the son of the Living God. If you are the
Speaker 1: son of God, then you are God right. So I
Speaker 1: just need to understand that. So Jesus answered and said
Speaker 1: to him, blessed are you, Simon Barjonah, For flesh and
Speaker 1: blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father,
Speaker 1: who is in heaven. And I also say to you
Speaker 1: that you are Peter. And on this rock I will
Speaker 1: build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not
Speaker 1: prevail against it. And I will give you the keys
Speaker 1: of the Kingdom of Heaven. And whatever you bind on
Speaker 1: earth will be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose
Speaker 1: on earth will be loosened in heaven. Obviously by the
Speaker 1: power of Jesus. Though okay, this is not the power
Speaker 1: of Peter. He's not saying that I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you all my power and now you have the power, Peter,
Speaker 1: have a good time. No, no, no, Jesus is the rock, right,
Speaker 1: Jesus is the rock. Jesus. This is through the name
Speaker 1: of Jesus, through the power of Jesus, through the power
Speaker 1: of the Messiah. The Mashiach the Son of God. That's
Speaker 1: how you're going to have the power. I will give
Speaker 1: you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven and whatever
Speaker 1: you bind on earth, binding through Jesus's name, binding through
Speaker 1: the power of Jesus. Jesus is the mediator between us
Speaker 1: and God. So they're binding through the power is through God.
Speaker 1: Peter is not the one that has the key to Heaven,
Speaker 1: to Hell and to the earth. Jesus has that. That's
Speaker 1: why he's saying, you can bind these things on earth
Speaker 1: through me. That's why he has. That's the keys that
Speaker 1: he's giving. He's not saying, Peter, you are the pope
Speaker 1: and you are going to be me while I'm gone.
Speaker 1: So the powers through you, Peter, No, the powers through Jesus. Okay.
Speaker 1: People don't understand that. So then he commands his disciples
Speaker 1: that they should tell no one that he was Jesus
Speaker 1: the Messiah, Jesus the Christ okay, because he doesn't want
Speaker 1: them to tell them now that they realize that he
Speaker 1: is Jesus the Messiah, the son of the Living God,
Speaker 1: because he wants them to have faith and for them
Speaker 1: to understand themselves. Okay. Jesus predicts his death and resurrection
Speaker 1: we're at a Matthew sixteen, verse twenty one. From that time,
Speaker 1: Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and
Speaker 1: chief priests inscribs, and be killed and be raised the
Speaker 1: third day. Then Peter took him aside and began to
Speaker 1: rebuke him, saying, far it be from you, Lord, this
Speaker 1: shall happen to you. But he turned and said to Peter,
Speaker 1: get behind me, Satan. You are an offense to me,
Speaker 1: for you are not mindful of things of God, but
Speaker 1: things of men. So understand something. Jesus was just on
Speaker 1: the next to the rock. Our Peter was just what
Speaker 1: Jesus next to the rock, saying he's the Messiah, is
Speaker 1: the king, and Jesus is telling him what's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: because he is the Messiah, the son of God, letting
Speaker 1: him know what's gonna happen. And then Peter, his pride,
Speaker 1: is stepping in saying, far be, Lord, this shall not
Speaker 1: happen to you. Get behind me, Satan. That's what he said.
Speaker 1: Because Peter was speaking with pride, like no one's nothing's
Speaker 1: gonna happen to you. I will kill them. I will
Speaker 1: slay them. No, no, no, this is supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: This is God's will, and Satan, you're not gonna get
Speaker 1: in the way, So don't try to say that far be,
Speaker 1: Lord is not gonna happen to you, because this is
Speaker 1: God's will and Jesus, this is going to do the
Speaker 1: will of the Father. Okay, so this is very important
Speaker 1: for this to happen. So he's letting it. He's telling Peter,
Speaker 1: get behind me, Satan, and Peter was probably like, whoa.
Speaker 1: He's probably baffled by that. So you're not mindful of
Speaker 1: things of God or God's will. You're mindful of the
Speaker 1: things of men. That's why he checked him like that,
Speaker 1: this is God's will. Get behind me, Satan. You're not
Speaker 1: going to stop this from happening. Peter. You're being mindful
Speaker 1: of the things of men and not the things of God. Right,
Speaker 1: you're trying to you're trying to create your own will
Speaker 1: instead of following the will of the Father. Right, So
Speaker 1: that's what's happening, right him, excuse me, Matthew sixteen, verse
Speaker 1: twenty four. Then Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone
Speaker 1: desires to come after me, let him deny himself and
Speaker 1: take up his cross and follow me. For whoever desires
Speaker 1: to save his life will lose it, But whoever loses
Speaker 1: his life from my sake will find it. For what
Speaker 1: is it profit a man that he gains the whole
Speaker 1: world and loses his own soul? For what will a
Speaker 1: man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son
Speaker 1: of Man will come in the glory of his Father
Speaker 1: with his angels, and then he will reward each according
Speaker 1: to his works. But surely, I say to you, there
Speaker 1: are some standing here who shall not taste death till
Speaker 1: they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, okay, If anyone desires to come after me,
Speaker 1: let them deny himself and take up his cross and
Speaker 1: follow me. Whoever desires to save his life will lose it. Listen,
Speaker 1: whoever desires to save his spirit and go to heaven
Speaker 1: will lose his physical life or the life of this world.
Speaker 1: But whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Speaker 1: Whoever loses his worldly life for his sake will find
Speaker 1: his spiritual life, the part that actually matters. What will
Speaker 1: it profited man if he gains the whole world worldly things,
Speaker 1: things of the flesh, and loses his own soul for
Speaker 1: what will it give a man in exchange? For what
Speaker 1: will a man give in exchange for his soul? Do
Speaker 1: you want the riches? Do you want the fame? Do
Speaker 1: you want the women? Do you want the cars? Do
Speaker 1: you want the notoriety? Do you want all your gifts
Speaker 1: given up front? You can have those in this physical world.
Speaker 1: Drake Lil, Wayne Eminem, doctor dre Nicki Minaj, any star
Speaker 1: that you see on TV. You can have all these
Speaker 1: worldly gifts now, and you can enjoy this physical life.
Speaker 1: And you can have these worldly things and enjoy your
Speaker 1: physical life. But when you die, you know you sold
Speaker 1: your soul. But when you die, you're not going to
Speaker 1: be getting the gifts. Listen to what he says, for
Speaker 1: the son of Man will come in the glory of
Speaker 1: his Father and will reward each according to his work.
Speaker 1: That's called the Beama Seed of Christ. There's going to
Speaker 1: be the great White Throne judgment that judges those that
Speaker 1: are not believers. Then there's going to be the Beama
Speaker 1: Seed or the judgment seed of Christ, where God or
Speaker 1: Jesus takes your works places them in the fire, and
Speaker 1: then you get your heavenly gifts. There's five crowns, there's
Speaker 1: there's certain things that you could get in heaven. Some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that you've done in works, if you've
Speaker 1: done it to boast or to brag, or you did
Speaker 1: it for money, or you did it for pleasure, you
Speaker 1: did it for some other reason than for God, those
Speaker 1: will burn in the fire and you will not get
Speaker 1: anything out of it. You know, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: gold or precious metals you're gonna get. You know it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be precious gifts. So you're gonna get because
Speaker 1: it's gonna burn in the fire. He's saying that he
Speaker 1: will reward each according to his works. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you're saved by these works. What he's saying is
Speaker 1: you're already saved. Now you're coming to heaven. I will
Speaker 1: take your works, put him in the fire, and then
Speaker 1: you will get your heavenly gifts. You see, surely, I
Speaker 1: say to you, there are some standing here who shall
Speaker 1: not taste death till they see the sun a man
Speaker 1: coming in his kingdom. This is the type of verse
Speaker 1: that people would would push towards the Satan's little season
Speaker 1: because they would say like the people that are standing
Speaker 1: there that he's speaking to will not take death untill
Speaker 1: they see the sentiment kemedist kingdom. Just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1: That is one first that they would probably say, hopefully
Speaker 1: you understand it. It's easy to digest what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to teach there. I'll see how long verse seventeen is.
Speaker 1: I mean, chapter seventeen is. I think we could push.
Speaker 1: We've got another ten minutes. Maybe I'll try to get
Speaker 1: through chapter seventeen so that next week we could do
Speaker 1: chapter eighteen. Matthew, seventeen to one. Take a drink. I
Speaker 1: literally feel like I'm still getting over this, this this
Speaker 1: cold a little bit in two weeks because I noticed
Speaker 1: my voice is going out, Matthew, seventeen one. Now, after
Speaker 1: six days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother,
Speaker 1: led them up on a high mountain by themselves, and
Speaker 1: he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun,
Speaker 1: and his clothes became white as the light. And behold,
Speaker 1: Moses and Elijah appeared to them take talking with him.
Speaker 1: Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, Lord, it is
Speaker 1: good for us to be here. If you wish, let us,
Speaker 1: make here three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses,
Speaker 1: and one for Elijah. Yeah, like Peter's trying to trying
Speaker 1: to tell Jesus what he should do. So first of all,
Speaker 1: First of all, let's understand something that I think is
Speaker 1: important with this. With this verse, notice that Moses and
Speaker 1: Elijah appeared to them. Notice that Moses and Elijah recognized
Speaker 1: Jesus the Christ. The Lord appeared to Moses. It says
Speaker 1: in numbers twelve verses fourth the eight that the Lord
Speaker 1: spoke to Aaron and marry him, and that he comes
Speaker 1: to prophets and visions and in dreams, so not physically
Speaker 1: right there in person, speaking to him face to face.
Speaker 1: But when he speaks to Moses, he speaks to him
Speaker 1: face to face or mouth the mouth. Excuse me, John.
Speaker 1: The Book of John says no one has seen the
Speaker 1: invisible God or invisible Father. So who is it that
Speaker 1: Moses was seeing in uh Exodus? Who is it he
Speaker 1: was seeing? Which Lord came to speak to Moses face
Speaker 1: to face? My point is, I believe that's Jesus in
Speaker 1: the Old Testament. That's why Moses recognized Jesus, because Jesus
Speaker 1: is in his glorious form. He's transfigured. His face is
Speaker 1: like the sun, so he's bright, and his clothes became
Speaker 1: white as light. Okay, behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to
Speaker 1: them now, And we got to understand that to these Jews,
Speaker 1: Moses and Elijah were great. But to Moses and Elijah,
Speaker 1: Jesus is great, the Lord. He's the Lord, he's God.
Speaker 1: So to them Jesus is great, Jesus is God. But
Speaker 1: to these Jews, who's Moses? Who? What's Elijah? The great prophets?
Speaker 1: So when Peter says, Lord, is it good for us
Speaker 1: to be here, Let's make three tabernacles, one for you,
Speaker 1: one for Moses, and one for Elijah, they're they're not
Speaker 1: They're not understanding. Peter's not understanding who the Lord is,
Speaker 1: who God is right here? Moses and Elijah don't need
Speaker 1: no tabernacle. That's how we are as men, you know,
Speaker 1: That's how we are. We're just so ignorant. While he
Speaker 1: was still speaking, behold, the bright cloud overshadowed them, and
Speaker 1: suddenly a voice came out from the cloud, saying, this
Speaker 1: is my beloved son, and whom I am well pleased.
Speaker 1: Hear him. And when the disciples heard it. They fell
Speaker 1: on their faces and were greatly afraid. But Jesus came
Speaker 1: and touched them, said arise and do not be afraid.
Speaker 1: When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no
Speaker 1: one but Jesus only. So we have God the Father saying,
Speaker 1: this is my beloved son and who I'm well please
Speaker 1: hear him. If you notice, you don't see Moses and
Speaker 1: Elijah falling to the floor scared. No, only Jesus's disciples,
Speaker 1: because Moses and Elijah are already aware of who Jesus is.
Speaker 1: He is the son of God. He is God in
Speaker 1: the flesh. They already know that. They recognize that. And
Speaker 1: God the Father is speaking, saying, this is my beloved son,
Speaker 1: who I am well pleased. If Jesus was just a man,
Speaker 1: then there's no way that God would give that type
Speaker 1: of glory or worship. Can I you know, like to
Speaker 1: a man. It just doesn't happen. So God is saying,
Speaker 1: worship him. He is my son, who I am well pleased.
Speaker 1: Hear him. And then disciples heard it. They fell in
Speaker 1: their flaces and they were greatly afraid. Right, but Jesus
Speaker 1: came and touched them and said, a rise and do
Speaker 1: not be afraid. They don't understand. But this is God
Speaker 1: in the flesh telling them to a and do not
Speaker 1: be afraid. When they lifted up their eyes, they saw
Speaker 1: no one but Jesus only. Why why do they see
Speaker 1: Jesus only? Because Jesus is God in the flesh right here,
Speaker 1: and he transfigured here of his heavenly to his heavenly body,
Speaker 1: and they see him for his heavenly body. Now, as
Speaker 1: they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying,
Speaker 1: tell the vision to no one until the Son of
Speaker 1: Man has risen from the dead. So Matthew obviously wrote
Speaker 1: this in the Book of Matthew, so he is supposed
Speaker 1: to write this. He says, don't tell anybody what you saw.
Speaker 1: Do not tell anybody until I have risen from the dead,
Speaker 1: because if they start telling the Pharisees and they start
Speaker 1: telling people about this, then Jesus would not have died
Speaker 1: on the cross, which he needed to do. He had
Speaker 1: to die on the cross for our sins. That is
Speaker 1: God's will. He wants to do the will of the Father.
Speaker 1: Jesus knows best. So he's telling them, do not tell
Speaker 1: anybody about this, because I don't want them to know
Speaker 1: that I am God. I do not want them to
Speaker 1: know that right now, obviously, So that's what's happening now.
Speaker 1: As they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying,
Speaker 1: tell the vision to no one until the son of
Speaker 1: Man has risen from the dead. So that's why, because
Speaker 1: he needed to die on the cross. And also if
Speaker 1: they started saying stuff like that then they say that
Speaker 1: Jesus is God, then they would probably die before they
Speaker 1: could even write the Book of Matthew, you know, before
Speaker 1: they can even write John's Gospel. And so that's why
Speaker 1: Jesus knows best and when and his disciples asked him, saying,
Speaker 1: why then do the scribes say that Elisha come first?
Speaker 1: Jesus answered and said to them, indeed, Elijah is coming
Speaker 1: first and will restore all things. But I say to
Speaker 1: you that Elijah has come already. And they did not
Speaker 1: know him, but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise,
Speaker 1: the son of men is also about to suffer from
Speaker 1: their hands. Then the disciples understood that he spoke to
Speaker 1: them of John the Baptist. So John the Baptist must
Speaker 1: have had this like the spirit of Elijah or something
Speaker 1: or or you know this is This is a verse
Speaker 1: that I kind of have trouble kind of understanding. The
Speaker 1: disciples understood that he spoke with John the Baptist. So
Speaker 1: John the Baptist was he Elijah? I think that they
Speaker 1: asked John the Baptist. I don't know where Jesus knows.
Speaker 1: So what I will say this, Jesus is God. He
Speaker 1: cannot lie. So when he says that John the Baptist
Speaker 1: was Elijah, that's what the disciples understood, and that's we spoke.
Speaker 1: So I would go with what Jesus says before I
Speaker 1: go with what John the Baptist says. I think John
Speaker 1: the Baptist said he's not Elijah, but Jesus is saying
Speaker 1: he was. Who do we believe? We don't believe anybody
Speaker 1: but Jesus. Right, Okay, now we're on Matthew seventeen, verse fourteen.
Speaker 1: And when they had come to the multitude of man
Speaker 1: came to him, kneeling down to him and saying, Lord,
Speaker 1: have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic
Speaker 1: and suffers severely. Or he often falls into the fire
Speaker 1: and often into the water. So I brought him to
Speaker 1: your disciples. But they could not cure him. And Jesus
Speaker 1: said to them, oh, faith, this perverse generation, how long
Speaker 1: shall I be with you? How long shall I bear
Speaker 1: with you? Bring him here to me? And Jesus rebuked
Speaker 1: the demon and it came out of him, and the
Speaker 1: child was cured from that very hour. So we see
Speaker 1: here that the disease that the child had are that
Speaker 1: was actually a demon that needed to be cast out.
Speaker 1: Now does that mean that every single disease is a demon? No,
Speaker 1: the Bible's not saying that. But what Jesus is saying
Speaker 1: is that the epileptic Caesars who is suffering from was
Speaker 1: an actual demon. And Jesus cast the demon out. And
Speaker 1: now that the child is healed, then the disciples came
Speaker 1: to Jesus privately and said, why could we not cast
Speaker 1: it out? Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief,
Speaker 1: Or as surely I say to you, if you have
Speaker 1: faith of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain,
Speaker 1: move here to there, and it will move, and nothing
Speaker 1: will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not
Speaker 1: go out except by prayer and fasting. So what they
Speaker 1: didn't know is that that demon wouldn't come out with
Speaker 1: just you normally asking it to come out in Jesus's name,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't just be able to cast it out. But
Speaker 1: it needed prayer and fasting. It needed more faith. So
Speaker 1: also Jesus is saying that if you have the faith
Speaker 1: of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain,
Speaker 1: move from here to there, and it will move. So
Speaker 1: we need to understand that we need to have that
Speaker 1: kind of faith. That's the kind of faith I need
Speaker 1: to have with what I'm going through right now. I
Speaker 1: need to have the faith that Jesus will deliver us
Speaker 1: perfectly healthy baby, that God will intervene. God is the
Speaker 1: one that formed my baby in the womb. God will
Speaker 1: protect my baby, give it the lungs that it needs
Speaker 1: to breathe, and it's going to assist and it's going
Speaker 1: to come and it's going to be healthy. That's what
Speaker 1: I believe. I have faith in that. Matthew seventeen, verse
Speaker 1: twenty two. Now, whether we're staying in Galilee, Jesus said
Speaker 1: to them, the son of Man is about to be
Speaker 1: betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him.
Speaker 1: And on the third day he will be raised up.
Speaker 1: And they were exceedingly sorrowful, So he's letting him know
Speaker 1: that it's going to go down, and the disciples are
Speaker 1: probably starting to now understand that Jesus is saying this
Speaker 1: and is probably gonna happen. Peter and his master pay
Speaker 1: their taxes. So when they had come to Capernaum, those
Speaker 1: who received the temple tax came to Peter and said,
Speaker 1: does your teacher not pay the temple tax? He said yes,
Speaker 1: And when he had come to the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying,
Speaker 1: what do you think, Simon, for whom do the kings
Speaker 1: of the earth take customs or taxes from their sons
Speaker 1: or from strangers? Peter said to him, from strangers, And
Speaker 1: Jesus said to him, the sons are free. Nevertheless, let
Speaker 1: lest we offend them, go to the sea. Cast in
Speaker 1: a hook and take the fish that comes up first,
Speaker 1: and when it opened its mouth, you will find a
Speaker 1: piece of money. Take that and give it to them
Speaker 1: for me, from me and you. So give it to
Speaker 1: them for me and you. So that's really interesting that
Speaker 1: he has the fish come open his mouth and he
Speaker 1: takes the piece of money and he gives it to them.
Speaker 1: So so he's following the laws of the land to
Speaker 1: not cause any problems, so he pays them the tax.
Speaker 1: So Jesus is basically following the laws in line. He
Speaker 1: doesn't need to, but he is. So we're gonna be
Speaker 1: taking We're gonna be in Matthew eighteen next week. I
Speaker 1: will do an in depth study for you guys. Obviously,
Speaker 1: while would try to, I'll do my best. I don't
Speaker 1: know what my schedule is going to be looking like, uh,
Speaker 1: with with everything that's happening, it's looking like I'll be
Speaker 1: off for a couple of days from work and then
Speaker 1: maybe work a few days, probably do some studying, try
Speaker 1: to record a the show after I do it, you know,
Speaker 1: in depth study. I'll do my best, but I will
Speaker 1: try to definitely give you guys Matthew eighteen next week.
Speaker 1: Worst case scenario, I'll give you guys a roundtable, but
Speaker 1: I will try to do my best to record the
Speaker 1: show so that we continue this Bible study. I think
Speaker 1: it's been fruitful. I've been wonderful going over the Book
Speaker 1: of Matthew with you guys so far. But I will
Speaker 1: so what I would say to you guys right now,
Speaker 1: you're going to be hearing this on Wednesday, which is
Speaker 1: a few days if you guys, could I need my
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Speaker 1: we're gonna end this in prayer. So Father God, in
Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, and in Jesus's name, Lord, I
Speaker 1: appreciate everything you do for me and my family. I
Speaker 1: just want to ask that you you have healed the name,
Speaker 1: the lame, the sick, the blind. You have made the
Speaker 1: deaf here the blind see. And I know that you
Speaker 1: can make this baby breathe when he is born, So
Speaker 1: just help me with that. Lord. I knew that you
Speaker 1: form us in the womb. I need you to form
Speaker 1: lungs for my baby to live, you know. And if
Speaker 1: it's your will, let it be done. If it's not
Speaker 1: your will, then I understand. But please, Lord, help me
Speaker 1: to do that. Help me to give me words of
Speaker 1: wisdom to tell my wife to make her feel better. Also,
Speaker 1: help everybody that's listening to digest the Word as I
Speaker 1: try to teach and preach, and help them to continue
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Speaker 1: the one hundredfold, the sixtyfold, the thirtyfold. Help them to
Speaker 1: be great disciples, and help them to make disciples out
Speaker 1: of their friends and family and people that they know.
Speaker 1: So thank you, Lord for everything you do for us.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Thank you for Wednesday's service and
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Speaker 1: Jesus name Amen. Thank you guys so much for tuning in.
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