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Rabbi Jason Sobel: Rediscovering Scripture | Praise

June 10, 2026 | 54:25

Rabbi Jason Sobel: Rediscovering Scripture | Praise
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Praise | Rabbi Jason Sobel: Rediscovering Scripture | Praise | June 10, 2026
  • Coming up tonight on praise
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  • Why are you breaking things?
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  • We are looking to break a lot of the misconceptions
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  • That people have that maybe these are just kind of cute,
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  • Nice little animals going into the ark.
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  • Is that sweet, nice little rainbow.
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  • Everyone's smiling and cheery.
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  • Why do you have to walk in here and break stuff?
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  • Tonight on praise from dallas.
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  • Founder of fusion global and new york times
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  • Bestselling author, rabbi jason sobel.
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  • And now your host,
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  • Matt and laurie crouse.
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  • Jason sobel, you're known for mysteries of the messiah
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  • Transformed by the messiah.
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  • Lots of different kind of series that you've done.
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  • This is a brand new one.
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  • We're going to be talking about tonight.
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  • Is that breaking sunday school?
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  • Breaking sunday school.
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  • So, it feels like what
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  • We learned in sunday school with kind of a felt bored.
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  • Jesus, that you're kind of taking issue with
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  • Some of the things we would have learned early on as little
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  • We little kids, noah's ark kind of stuff.
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  • David and goliath creation.
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  • Jesus walking on the water.
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  • These types of concepts you're taking on.
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  • And why do you have to walk in here and break stuff?
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  • I mean, come on.
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  • He's adding to our stories.
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  • He titled it your break and stuff.
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  • What are you breaking and why?
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  • What are we breaking?
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  • That is a great concept in first.
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  • Thank you for having me.
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  • I think what we're doing is we are looking to break
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  • A lot of the misconceptions that people have,
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  • That maybe these are just kind of cute, nice
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  • Little animals going into the ark
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  • Is and that sweet, nice little rainbow.
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  • Everyone's smiling and chew me right. and
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  • There's more to the story.
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  • So we're breaking misconceptions and we're breaking open
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  • The scriptures to help people see the more to the story.
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  • Okay. yeah.
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  • So why are you breaking things?
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  • Because they're wrong and they need to be broken.
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  • I mean,
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  • You you know, this is a title that you're put your name on.
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  • So why are you breaking stuff?
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  • Again, i think what we're saying by when we're breaking it is,
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  • I think so
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  • Many times that we need to understand
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  • Is that when we look at the bible simply through
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  • A western, context,
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  • That's not the original historic context
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  • That jesus in the bible lived in.
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  • Oftentimes we either get some of the things wrong
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  • Or we don't fully understand everything that's happening.
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  • And so i think it's important to do that
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  • Because when we do, it begins to like break down
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  • Those false misconception
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  • And it begins to break open the deeper
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  • Meaning of what's actually happening. and break it down.
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  • Much like when we're sitting at a dinner together
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  • And i make some kind of
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  • Theological statement, and then you take the next 45 minutes
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  • Kind of correcting everything i just said,
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  • Is that kind of what this whole.
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  • I was saying, maybe he's adding more to this story.
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  • He's making it better.
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  • Don't ever start an argument with him.
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  • He fine.
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  • Yeah. seriously, you just never win.
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  • So, at some point,
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  • I think you win the the, teacher apple award.
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  • And, we've set you up kind of a classroom here, right?
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  • This is going to involve, full studio audience.
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  • You're bringing in, an entire group here.
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  • And by the way, what, what an amazing production
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  • You've got these, you know, kind of.
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  • First of all, you know what?
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  • What an amazing studio you've even got,
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  • You know, the the windows and the trees blowing around,
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  • And you know, this this whole new studios.
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  • Yeah. brand new series is going to be airing here on tbn.
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  • Break it down.
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  • And, let's start with something.
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  • I like this concept that maybe
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  • The traditions of man need to be reexamined.
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  • You know, culturally, occasionally
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  • We get these misconceptions that this meant that.
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  • Why don't you just start with one
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  • Wherever you want to go here, jason.
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  • But give us an example of a tradition
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  • That kind of got created due
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  • To a misconception of a story from the bible itself.
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  • Yeah, absolutely.
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  • I mean, think about the, story of noah's ark.
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  • Okay. it's for a moment, right?
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  • And it's such an important story to understand because, again,
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  • We think about it as he remembered
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  • Growing up reading the cute little color books
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  • And the nice little animals, going into the ark.
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  • I have a veggietales version of noah's ark in my office.
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  • Let's break sunday school,
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  • Because noah's ark is about more than rainbows
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  • And cute little animals that god preserves.
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  • It says no was a righteous man.
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  • Sadique ishtar meme whole complete,
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  • Perfect in his generation doesn't mean he was without sin.
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  • It meant that he was undivided in his devotion to god.
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  • It meant that he wasn't tainted by the corruption
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  • That was happening in the days of noah.
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  • God found noah righteous, but it wasn't
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  • His actions that was the source of his righteousness.
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  • Because hebrews 11 tells us that noah built by faith,
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  • He built for rain when no one had ever seen rain or a flood.
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  • Because that's the reality
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  • We are always made righteous through and by faith.
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  • And noah is a great example of someone who had
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  • A risky, pioneering faith.
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  • One of the
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  • Real significance of noah's ark
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  • Is not just what it meant for that day, but jesus
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  • Makes a very significant point in the new testament.
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  • He says, as it was in the days of noah,
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  • So will it be in the days of the son of man?
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  • So jesus is equating the time before his return
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  • With the time of what it was like in the days of noah.
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  • And what was it like in the days of noah?
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  • Why did god even bring the flood to begin with?
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  • Well, the text tells us very clearly.
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  • It says there was violence in the earth,
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  • And the word there for violence in hebrew is hamas.
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  • Maybe that sounds familiar.
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  • Are you kidding?
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  • No, i'm 100% serious.
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  • The reason why god brings the flood
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  • Is because there's hamas in the earth,
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  • Which is the word for violence and agrees the heart of god.
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  • And he brings a flood.
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  • Now, hamas can mean violence.
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  • It can mean to kidnap.
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  • It can mean to sexually abuse.
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  • It can mean lawlessness.
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  • But in its extreme form of violence.
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  • And we know there is an
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  • Organization by that name that did all of those things
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  • On october 7th, and i believe
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  • It is one of the prophetic signs
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  • That we are living in the days of noah.
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  • Just like there was hamas in noah's day.
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  • We're seeing the rise of hamas.
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  • Not saying it literally means this organization,
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  • But that same spirit that was in the earth is embodied by them.
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  • And we see a rise of hate around the world.
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  • And again,
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  • This is part of what it was that jesus is talking about
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  • When he says,
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  • In the days of noah, that's one aspect of it,
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  • And there's many other aspects to it.
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  • So what you're doing is you're taking
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  • What would have been a cute little story.
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  • And veggietales makes, you know, a little playset out of it
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  • And you're adding a level of depth to it that is, sobering.
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  • Yeah, because think about it.
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  • I mean, it's on different levels, right?
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  • So on the one level, we know it connects to a picture
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  • Of what it's going to happen, the beginning points at the end.
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  • We know that there's something really interesting,
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  • Another piece behind it that we get into on this show
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  • Is the background for the flood of noah is the banana elohim.
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  • The sons of god come down and have relationship
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  • With the daughters of men, and they produce this
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  • Race of individuals known as the nephilim.
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  • And nephilim literally means from the hebrew,
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  • The fallen ones.
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  • And they were the gibbering,
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  • The mighty warriors, the men of renowned from old
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  • Is what genesis chapter six tells us.
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  • And how does that connect to what we see going on today?
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  • Well, some of the most ancient interpretations of the nephilim
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  • Was that these angelic spiritual beings came down
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  • And had relationships with the daughters
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  • Of men, produce this kind of hybrid offspring,
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  • And that were kind of evil, and they were the ones behind
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  • That violence.
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  • But again, this is being replayed today
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  • Because removing, in a sense, back to creating hybrids.
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  • We see with artificial intelligence,
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  • They're talking about
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  • The merging of man and machine known as singularity,
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  • That that we're going
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  • To be connected
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  • To the web, that they're going to be able to improve us.
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  • And it seems like, again, we're moving towards
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  • Some sort of hybrid that we're crossing some sort of boundaries
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  • That fundamentally could potentially alter the way
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  • God designed us.
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  • As you and i, have a suggestion,
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  • Maybe the
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  • If you see how it says back here breaking sunday school,
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  • Maybe that ought to say breaking university level
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  • Phd, doctorate level studies.
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  • You know, it's not as it's not as catchy as breaking sunday.
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  • But then we get into other things
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  • With the noah's ark story, which is kind of like
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  • How it points to jesus.
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  • Think about the beautiful imagery of noah's ark in jesus.
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  • So number one, there's one door in the ark
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  • That you can enter into, just like jesus says, i am the door.
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  • There is no other way to enter
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  • Into eternal life but through one door.
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  • And guess what?
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  • There are three levels in the ark. why?
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  • Because i believe it's a picture of god himself,
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  • Father, son, and holy spirit.
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  • And when you enter into the ark, what level do you enter into?
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  • Into it.
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  • The noah enter into it by on the second level,
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  • Which symbolizes the son.
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  • The only way you can enter into the very thing that symbolizes
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  • Protection, salvation, and security
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  • Is by going through the second, the son, the middle,
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  • The mediator, or think about it.
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  • Noah's ark was made out of wood.
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  • So salvation
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  • And the preservation of life came through this wooden object
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  • In the same way jesus dies on a wooden cross in order
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  • To become our redemption and our salvation.
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  • So there's all these amazing parallels between noah's
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  • Ark in the person of jesus, because it all points to him
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  • One way or the other.
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  • He's the center of all the entirety of the bible.
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  • He's the center of every story. yeah.
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  • Maybe we should rename the show expanding sunday school.
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  • Maybe that's a better. maybe that's a better title.
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  • Okay.
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  • If, you know, go back to creation.
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  • Noah's ark.
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  • David and goliath.
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  • Tower of babel.
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  • Let's do that one. what?
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  • What do you what do you got to expand?
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  • Oh, on the tower map.
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  • So when we look at the man behind the building
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  • Of the tower of babel, his name was nimrod.
  • 00:12:24.266 --> 00:12:28.671
  • And nimrods name tells us a lot.
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  • His name literally means let us rebel.
  • 00:12:31.173 --> 00:12:34.543
  • So the first city is built out of a rebellion
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  • Against god and against the will of god.
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  • He's also called a g boar.
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  • And that is one of the words
  • 00:12:44.987 --> 00:12:47.223
  • In genesis six used of the nephilim.
  • 00:12:47.223 --> 00:12:50.693
  • So is there an allusion or some kind of connection back?
  • 00:12:50.693 --> 00:12:55.497
  • And then we know that nimrod wants to build two things.
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  • He wants to build a city, but he also wants to build a tower.
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  • The city represents containment.
  • 00:13:05.407 --> 00:13:09.578
  • It represents centralization.
  • 00:13:09.578 --> 00:13:12.414
  • It represents population control.
  • 00:13:12.414 --> 00:13:15.351
  • And it directly rebels against the first commandment
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  • To be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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  • God says, go out.
  • 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:25.628
  • And nimrod wants people to stay. why?
  • 00:13:25.628 --> 00:13:29.798
  • Because the power of the king is in how many subjects he has
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  • To rule over.
  • 00:13:33.569 --> 00:13:35.004
  • But then there's something more.
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  • Build a tower.
  • 00:13:37.239 --> 00:13:38.741
  • What is a tower represent?
  • 00:13:38.741 --> 00:13:40.643
  • A tower represents control y control,
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  • Because the high ground is the strategic advantage militarily.
  • 00:13:45.414 --> 00:13:50.386
  • So it represents power, but it also represents surveillance.
  • 00:13:50.386 --> 00:13:54.456
  • It is a bird's eye view to keep your eye on everyone
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  • And everything to know what is happening.
  • 00:13:58.594 --> 00:14:01.897
  • And so this ties in to another hebrew
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  • Phrase in genesis 11 one describing
  • 00:14:05.100 --> 00:14:08.938
  • That time, it says safa a al-haj ibrahim academe.
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  • It says there was one language and few words.
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  • What does that mean?
  • 00:14:17.746 --> 00:14:18.981
  • Nimrod was controlling the language of the people.
  • 00:14:18.981 --> 00:14:23.218
  • He was controlling the information.
  • 00:14:23.218 --> 00:14:25.988
  • He was controlling the worldview and people's thoughts in order
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  • To manipulate them and get them to do what he wanted to do.
  • 00:14:30.592 --> 00:14:35.364
  • Words are powerful.
  • 00:14:35.364 --> 00:14:37.766
  • And so free speech is the enemy of babel.
  • 00:14:37.766 --> 00:14:42.037
  • And then we see there is a journey.
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  • They journey from the east towards
  • 00:14:44.640 --> 00:14:47.676
  • This plane in the plane of shinar.
  • 00:14:47.676 --> 00:14:51.547
  • And the hebrew word for east is macadam,
  • 00:14:51.547 --> 00:14:55.517
  • Which is a very significant biblical hebrew word,
  • 00:14:55.517 --> 00:14:59.154
  • And it implies going away from.
  • 00:14:59.154 --> 00:15:02.257
  • So the question is, what were they going away from?
  • 00:15:02.257 --> 00:15:05.594
  • Well away from where the ark landed.
  • 00:15:05.594 --> 00:15:07.930
  • But something more
  • 00:15:07.930 --> 00:15:09.398
  • The rabbi see in allusions there to the hebrew name cardamon,
  • 00:15:09.398 --> 00:15:13.769
  • Which is one of the names of god in jewish tradition,
  • 00:15:13.769 --> 00:15:17.539
  • That means the ancient one.
  • 00:15:17.539 --> 00:15:19.675
  • And so what they were doing was trying to move away
  • 00:15:19.675 --> 00:15:23.178
  • From god himself, move away from the will of god,
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  • And they travel to separate themselves from the lord.
  • 00:15:27.516 --> 00:15:33.689
  • Here's where it gets really crazy.
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  • First of all, if you're going to build a tower to heaven,
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  • You don't build it in a valley.
  • 00:15:40.696 --> 00:15:43.465
  • You would build it on a high point,
  • 00:15:43.465 --> 00:15:45.334
  • Because you'd have to build
  • 00:15:45.334 --> 00:15:47.169
  • Less amount of effort and materials to build it.
  • 00:15:47.169 --> 00:15:51.206
  • So why do they build a tower to heaven in a valley?
  • 00:15:51.206 --> 00:15:54.710
  • Well, this is interesting.
  • 00:15:54.710 --> 00:15:55.978
  • It says they go to the east.
  • 00:15:55.978 --> 00:15:58.247
  • The hebrew word is macadam.
  • 00:15:58.247 --> 00:16:00.949
  • And it's always a means in hebrew, a movement
  • 00:16:00.949 --> 00:16:03.585
  • Away from something.
  • 00:16:03.585 --> 00:16:05.120
  • Well, what were they moving away from?
  • 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:07.723
  • The deeper meaning is not from a geographic location.
  • 00:16:07.723 --> 00:16:11.960
  • It's from one of god's name is from the same root.
  • 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:15.097
  • Codman. the ancient one.
  • 00:16:15.097 --> 00:16:17.032
  • So they're literally moving away from god, trying to establish
  • 00:16:17.032 --> 00:16:21.036
  • A city and society and to establish their own.
  • 00:16:21.036 --> 00:16:25.207
  • Well, apart from god's will, they're trying to get
  • 00:16:25.207 --> 00:16:27.609
  • As far away from him as they can.
  • 00:16:27.609 --> 00:16:30.813
  • But here's the here's the real breaking sunday school part.
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  • Okay. it says
  • 00:16:33.916 --> 00:16:35.851
  • They found a
  • 00:16:36.185 --> 00:16:37.653
  • Car, which is usually translated from the hebrew as a valley.
  • 00:16:37.653 --> 00:16:41.223
  • It can mean valley, but it literally means in hebrew
  • 00:16:42.257 --> 00:16:45.394
  • To split open
  • 00:16:45.394 --> 00:16:48.497
  • Or to uncover.
  • 00:16:48.497 --> 00:16:50.499
  • And so another interpretation of this
  • 00:16:50.499 --> 00:16:53.368
  • Is not that they found a valley, but that they actually
  • 00:16:53.368 --> 00:16:58.073
  • Were digging in a valley and made a discovery.
  • 00:16:58.073 --> 00:17:02.945
  • And what was the discovery that they found?
  • 00:17:02.945 --> 00:17:05.747
  • They found the
  • 00:17:05.747 --> 00:17:08.917
  • They found the secret, hidden
  • 00:17:09.551 --> 00:17:12.488
  • Knowledge of the generation of the flood
  • 00:17:12.488 --> 00:17:16.058
  • That learned how to call down demons
  • 00:17:16.058 --> 00:17:19.761
  • And manipulate angelic principalities and powers.
  • 00:17:19.761 --> 00:17:24.666
  • And they were able to summon the spirits again, which
  • 00:17:24.666 --> 00:17:28.770
  • Then empowered them to build this city to the heaven.
  • 00:17:28.770 --> 00:17:33.609
  • And it's what emboldened them
  • 00:17:33.609 --> 00:17:35.344
  • To think that they could take on god himself
  • 00:17:35.344 --> 00:17:38.580
  • Because they felt they had were able to control
  • 00:17:38.580 --> 00:17:42.551
  • Through manipulation.
  • 00:17:43.051 --> 00:17:44.520
  • These demonic spiritual beings or partner with them.
  • 00:17:44.520 --> 00:17:47.923
  • It's kind of like
  • 00:17:47.923 --> 00:17:49.258
  • When we go to israel, we've been to israel together.
  • 00:17:49.258 --> 00:17:51.326
  • It's been amazing, right?
  • 00:17:51.326 --> 00:17:52.761
  • And you go to the dead sea and there's qumran.
  • 00:17:52.761 --> 00:17:57.099
  • And what is the important discovered
  • 00:17:57.099 --> 00:17:59.001
  • That they found in the dead sea? the what scrolls.
  • 00:17:59.001 --> 00:18:02.371
  • Right. and sea scrolls.
  • 00:18:02.871 --> 00:18:04.840
  • And those scrolls are from how long ago?
  • 00:18:04.840 --> 00:18:07.342
  • Thousands of years.
  • 00:18:07.809 --> 00:18:08.810
  • Thousands of years. so what happened?
  • 00:18:08.810 --> 00:18:11.513
  • There was a religious community out there,
  • 00:18:11.513 --> 00:18:13.549
  • Their most valuable possession, whether sacred text.
  • 00:18:13.549 --> 00:18:16.718
  • When the romans were coming, they hid those sacred texts
  • 00:18:16.718 --> 00:18:19.721
  • And thousands of years later, we discovered the text again.
  • 00:18:19.721 --> 00:18:24.259
  • It seems implied.
  • 00:18:24.693 --> 00:18:26.261
  • One way to read the text
  • 00:18:26.261 --> 00:18:27.496
  • Is that's exactly what happened when the flood began to occur.
  • 00:18:27.496 --> 00:18:30.699
  • That generation said, we have to hide and bury this wisdom
  • 00:18:30.699 --> 00:18:34.436
  • To preserve it for those who survived the flood.
  • 00:18:34.436 --> 00:18:37.940
  • And this generation under nimrod found this sacred
  • 00:18:37.940 --> 00:18:43.312
  • And secret knowledge and again used witchcraft in manipulation.
  • 00:18:43.312 --> 00:18:47.783
  • And there's all
  • 00:18:47.783 --> 00:18:48.850
  • Sorts of interesting things that come around that.
  • 00:18:48.850 --> 00:18:51.720
  • So that's certainly not in
  • 00:18:52.287 --> 00:18:53.522
  • Most people's reading of sunday school.
  • 00:18:53.522 --> 00:18:55.524
  • Some say they made a breach.
  • 00:18:55.524 --> 00:18:57.259
  • Maybe they didn't find that information,
  • 00:18:57.259 --> 00:18:59.528
  • But they were able to somehow
  • 00:18:59.528 --> 00:19:01.029
  • Breach the divide between heaven and earth and again
  • 00:19:01.029 --> 00:19:05.000
  • Interact with this demonic spiritual realm.
  • 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:08.637
  • And they wanted to make a name for themselves.
  • 00:19:08.637 --> 00:19:12.574
  • What's interesting is that one of the names for god
  • 00:19:12.574 --> 00:19:16.044
  • Is the name.
  • 00:19:16.044 --> 00:19:17.079
  • The name above all name.
  • 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:18.413
  • In a sense, they were trying to make
  • 00:19:18.413 --> 00:19:19.848
  • Themselves god or make a god other than the god, through
  • 00:19:19.848 --> 00:19:24.486
  • Harnessing these spiritual principalities and powers.
  • 00:19:24.486 --> 00:19:28.857
  • Jason sobel, you are clearly breaking some.
  • 00:19:28.857 --> 00:19:32.961
  • Well, you've heard people call it is broken.
  • 00:19:33.862 --> 00:19:36.665
  • Somebody's a nimrod. yeah.
  • 00:19:36.665 --> 00:19:39.301
  • Well, yeah.
  • 00:19:39.301 --> 00:19:40.802
  • Know we know.
  • 00:19:40.802 --> 00:19:41.737
  • He came on the school ground, you know.
  • 00:19:41.737 --> 00:19:43.705
  • Rebellion, right? that's right.
  • 00:19:43.705 --> 00:19:45.807
  • Yeah.
  • 00:19:45.807 --> 00:19:46.708
  • You you, nimrod, you know, that's what
  • 00:19:46.708 --> 00:19:49.544
  • I was always wondering where that name come.
  • 00:19:50.445 --> 00:19:52.714
  • It's always one among us.
  • 00:19:52.714 --> 00:19:54.883
  • Okay, our second question comes from liz.
  • 00:19:54.883 --> 00:19:56.918
  • She's one of our virtual viewers.
  • 00:19:56.918 --> 00:19:59.254
  • Liz asks if god knew humanity was going to sin
  • 00:19:59.254 --> 00:20:03.525
  • And jesus would pay the price before creating us.
  • 00:20:03.525 --> 00:20:06.728
  • Then why did he create us at all?
  • 00:20:06.728 --> 00:20:09.298
  • Also in genesis
  • 00:20:09.298 --> 00:20:10.532
  • It says how god was hovering over the waters before creating.
  • 00:20:10.532 --> 00:20:13.602
  • So where did it come from?
  • 00:20:13.602 --> 00:20:16.138
  • These are great questions.
  • 00:20:16.138 --> 00:20:18.340
  • Don't ask me simple questions.
  • 00:20:18.340 --> 00:20:20.375
  • I guess you to throw the hard questions
  • 00:20:20.375 --> 00:20:23.545
  • That theologians
  • 00:20:23.545 --> 00:20:24.613
  • Have been wrestling with from time and eternity.
  • 00:20:24.613 --> 00:20:27.883
  • I'll give it a stab.
  • 00:20:27.883 --> 00:20:29.618
  • So i think here's the reality.
  • 00:20:29.618 --> 00:20:31.687
  • We're made but sound.
  • 00:20:31.687 --> 00:20:32.888
  • We were made in god's image.
  • 00:20:32.888 --> 00:20:35.624
  • To be made in god's image.
  • 00:20:35.624 --> 00:20:37.359
  • Means just like god has free will and volition.
  • 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.296
  • We have to have free will in order for there to be free will.
  • 00:20:41.296 --> 00:20:45.667
  • There has to be a free choice.
  • 00:20:45.667 --> 00:20:47.436
  • A real choice that we make because
  • 00:20:47.436 --> 00:20:50.672
  • We could have been made with no choice.
  • 00:20:50.672 --> 00:20:53.742
  • But then we're robots.
  • 00:20:54.209 --> 00:20:56.011
  • If we're made with no choice,
  • 00:20:56.011 --> 00:20:58.513
  • You can't actually love god.
  • 00:20:58.513 --> 00:21:01.483
  • Because love has to be a choice.
  • 00:21:01.483 --> 00:21:03.819
  • It cannot be commanded. it has to be.
  • 00:21:03.819 --> 00:21:06.121
  • It cannot be legislated.
  • 00:21:06.121 --> 00:21:07.723
  • It has to be of our free will.
  • 00:21:07.723 --> 00:21:09.925
  • So i think that is the underlying reason
  • 00:21:09.925 --> 00:21:12.694
  • Why there had to be a choice in the beginning,
  • 00:21:12.694 --> 00:21:15.464
  • Because we had to have
  • 00:21:15.464 --> 00:21:16.865
  • The opportunity to choose god or not to choose god.
  • 00:21:16.865 --> 00:21:20.635
  • To choose faith or not to choose faith.
  • 00:21:20.635 --> 00:21:23.205
  • And i think that is part of the reason
  • 00:21:23.205 --> 00:21:25.006
  • Why god made the world even knowing what would happen,
  • 00:21:25.006 --> 00:21:28.677
  • And having to have a plan to correct what would occur.
  • 00:21:28.677 --> 00:21:33.515
  • And so that's a little bit about that question.
  • 00:21:33.515 --> 00:21:35.217
  • I love the thank you, rabbi.
  • 00:21:35.217 --> 00:21:36.785
  • You deal with things like creation, noah's ark.
  • 00:21:36.785 --> 00:21:40.489
  • David, wait.
  • 00:21:40.822 --> 00:21:42.758
  • Tower. babel. walking on the water pool.
  • 00:21:42.758 --> 00:21:44.926
  • The bethesda.
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  • Prodigal son. resurrection.
  • 00:21:45.761 --> 00:21:47.963
  • This is not your kind of felt bored.
  • 00:21:47.963 --> 00:21:50.665
  • Jesus. this is.
  • 00:21:50.665 --> 00:21:51.967
  • This is going deep from these
  • 00:21:51.967 --> 00:21:55.737
  • Little lessons that we would have
  • 00:21:55.737 --> 00:21:58.306
  • Learned a little bit about in sunday school.
  • 00:21:58.306 --> 00:22:01.777
  • And you're taking them, into the deep, into the adult life.
  • 00:22:01.777 --> 00:22:05.714
  • And of course, we get into how they apply today
  • 00:22:05.714 --> 00:22:09.217
  • And how we see it playing out in the world today.
  • 00:22:09.217 --> 00:22:11.553
  • Okay,
  • 00:22:11.553 --> 00:22:12.554
  • Let's do, david and goliath give us a little
  • 00:22:12.554 --> 00:22:15.791
  • One of my favorite. one of my.
  • 00:22:15.791 --> 00:22:18.760
  • We've all heard the story
  • 00:22:18.760 --> 00:22:20.195
  • Of david and goliath in sunday school.
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  • We've probably watched the movie, but,
  • 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:27.369
  • There's something more.
  • 00:22:27.369 --> 00:22:29.070
  • I mean, david, think about it for a moment.
  • 00:22:29.070 --> 00:22:31.840
  • David was more than a boy.
  • 00:22:31.840 --> 00:22:34.443
  • He was a shepherd, and he was a warrior.
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  • David.
  • 00:22:38.346 --> 00:22:39.581
  • David in hebrew means beloved because he was a lover of god.
  • 00:22:39.581 --> 00:22:43.685
  • He was a worshiper of god.
  • 00:22:43.685 --> 00:22:45.587
  • And that's what made him such a great warrior for god.
  • 00:22:45.587 --> 00:22:50.559
  • But david is also a type of the messiah.
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  • The messiah was going to come from the lineage of david.
  • 00:22:54.129 --> 00:22:58.099
  • David was a shepherd, but he was also a royal shepherd.
  • 00:22:58.099 --> 00:23:02.604
  • And messiah is the greater son of david.
  • 00:23:02.604 --> 00:23:06.041
  • And that's why we read this promise in ezekiel 34.
  • 00:23:06.041 --> 00:23:09.878
  • I will set up one shepherd over them.
  • 00:23:09.878 --> 00:23:12.814
  • My servant david.
  • 00:23:12.814 --> 00:23:15.417
  • And that's why i read about that famous
  • 00:23:15.417 --> 00:23:18.520
  • Promise in prophecy.
  • 00:23:18.520 --> 00:23:20.822
  • Out of bethlehem shall come a ruler
  • 00:23:20.822 --> 00:23:24.025
  • For me, who will shepherd my people.
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  • The greater david was to be a shepherd.
  • 00:23:28.497 --> 00:23:31.466
  • And both were born in bethlehem.
  • 00:23:31.466 --> 00:23:33.668
  • Both were shepherds before they were kings.
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  • Both were lovers of god,
  • 00:23:36.738 --> 00:23:39.241
  • And both were willing to lay down their lives.
  • 00:23:39.241 --> 00:23:43.478
  • And that's why issue was said.
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  • I am the good shepherd.
  • 00:23:45.113 --> 00:23:49.251
  • Names are so important in the bible.
  • 00:23:50.018 --> 00:23:52.354
  • So to really understand what is happening in this story,
  • 00:23:52.354 --> 00:23:55.857
  • We have to understand goliath's name.
  • 00:23:55.857 --> 00:23:58.927
  • His name in hebrew is gold yot, and it comes from the hebrew
  • 00:23:58.927 --> 00:24:02.898
  • Word goliath, which means to uncover,
  • 00:24:02.898 --> 00:24:07.536
  • To reveal, or to exile.
  • 00:24:08.036 --> 00:24:10.939
  • So if goliath was a wrestler, he'd be like the
  • 00:24:10.939 --> 00:24:14.276
  • Expose or god or the exile.
  • 00:24:14.276 --> 00:24:17.712
  • Well, why is that important, practically speaking?
  • 00:24:17.712 --> 00:24:20.515
  • Think about it for a moment.
  • 00:24:20.515 --> 00:24:23.151
  • Giants always expose what's in our heart.
  • 00:24:23.151 --> 00:24:27.422
  • When we face a giant, it exposes whether we have true faith
  • 00:24:27.422 --> 00:24:31.960
  • Or whether we're actually living by fear.
  • 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:34.496
  • When goliath presents himself
  • 00:24:34.496 --> 00:24:37.899
  • And blasphemes god, the children of israel
  • 00:24:38.767 --> 00:24:41.670
  • Are cowering in their tent in fear.
  • 00:24:41.670 --> 00:24:44.839
  • It exposes their lack of faith, their fear and their unbelief.
  • 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:49.678
  • Then comes david, the little shepherd boy.
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  • He has this great faith
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  • To face the goliath, and he's able to do so.
  • 00:24:54.849 --> 00:24:58.019
  • And we know that he takes the five smooth stones we get into.
  • 00:24:58.019 --> 00:25:01.523
  • Why five and what's the significance of all that?
  • 00:25:01.523 --> 00:25:04.726
  • But the other interesting thing about goliath is this
  • 00:25:04.726 --> 00:25:07.862
  • It comes from
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  • The same word that forms the background for goliath,
  • 00:25:10.632 --> 00:25:13.468
  • Exposing.
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  • Is the same word for golgotha.
  • 00:25:16.404 --> 00:25:19.307
  • Wow.
  • 00:25:19.307 --> 00:25:20.342
  • The place where jesus died. wow.
  • 00:25:20.342 --> 00:25:22.577
  • So there's actually a connection between the story of david
  • 00:25:22.577 --> 00:25:27.282
  • And goliath and jesus, and what he does on the cross.
  • 00:25:27.282 --> 00:25:31.353
  • So think about the connection.
  • 00:25:31.353 --> 00:25:34.389
  • David faces goliath.
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  • All right.
  • 00:25:37.192 --> 00:25:39.127
  • And what is goliath wearing?
  • 00:25:39.127 --> 00:25:41.229
  • He's wearing scaly bronze armor.
  • 00:25:41.229 --> 00:25:45.767
  • The word for bronze
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  • Is the same word for serpent in hebrew.
  • 00:25:48.837 --> 00:25:52.140
  • The serpent in the garden.
  • 00:25:52.140 --> 00:25:53.575
  • Genesis 316.
  • 00:25:53.575 --> 00:25:55.110
  • The noncash copper is not hachette.
  • 00:25:55.110 --> 00:25:57.846
  • It's from the same root, and it's scaly.
  • 00:25:57.846 --> 00:26:00.315
  • So there's a sense in which goliath represents satan.
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  • He's a type of satan.
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  • He's a type of the serpent.
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  • He's a type of the fallen one.
  • 00:26:07.288 --> 00:26:09.791
  • Okay.
  • 00:26:09.791 --> 00:26:11.593
  • Israel is scared of him.
  • 00:26:12.127 --> 00:26:14.562
  • And david alone by himself as the representative
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  • Of israel, does battle against the goliath.
  • 00:26:20.101 --> 00:26:23.772
  • And his getting the victory
  • 00:26:23.772 --> 00:26:25.740
  • Doesn't just get the victory for himself.
  • 00:26:25.740 --> 00:26:28.276
  • His defeating goliath
  • 00:26:28.276 --> 00:26:30.045
  • Brings redemption and victory for the entire people.
  • 00:26:30.045 --> 00:26:33.882
  • Wow. as the representative.
  • 00:26:33.882 --> 00:26:35.950
  • Okay. he cuts off goliath's head.
  • 00:26:35.950 --> 00:26:38.987
  • This is messiah putting the feet of the serpent
  • 00:26:38.987 --> 00:26:42.190
  • Under the head of the serpent underneath his feet.
  • 00:26:42.190 --> 00:26:46.261
  • So there's all these analogies between the battle of jesus
  • 00:26:46.261 --> 00:26:50.899
  • On the cross with the story of david
  • 00:26:50.899 --> 00:26:53.568
  • And goliath that goes much deeper.
  • 00:26:53.568 --> 00:26:56.071
  • And then what's beautiful two is why on golgotha.
  • 00:26:56.071 --> 00:27:00.709
  • Because just like david defeated death
  • 00:27:01.509 --> 00:27:05.513
  • And his name was goliath, right?
  • 00:27:06.147 --> 00:27:09.451
  • Issue.
  • 00:27:09.451 --> 00:27:10.285
  • It defeats the enemy of all people
  • 00:27:10.285 --> 00:27:14.656
  • On the place.
  • 00:27:15.023 --> 00:27:15.990
  • It shares the same root, brings a victory,
  • 00:27:15.990 --> 00:27:19.094
  • And it means to roll away.
  • 00:27:19.094 --> 00:27:22.630
  • Why? because on the cross
  • 00:27:22.630 --> 00:27:25.433
  • He began to roll away the power of death.
  • 00:27:25.433 --> 00:27:28.503
  • He began to roll away the power of shame.
  • 00:27:28.503 --> 00:27:31.439
  • He began to roll away the power of guilt.
  • 00:27:31.439 --> 00:27:35.009
  • Because he died on golgotha.
  • 00:27:35.610 --> 00:27:38.780
  • And he exposes that now the devil has
  • 00:27:38.780 --> 00:27:41.249
  • No power over us on the basis of what he's done.
  • 00:27:41.249 --> 00:27:44.319
  • And then he dies, and he rises on the third day.
  • 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:48.156
  • And what do they show?
  • 00:27:48.156 --> 00:27:49.457
  • What happens when they come to the tomb?
  • 00:27:49.457 --> 00:27:50.992
  • They found the stone rolled away.
  • 00:27:50.992 --> 00:27:53.228
  • Same root
  • 00:27:53.228 --> 00:27:55.563
  • And it's the same root of the place in the book of joshua.
  • 00:27:55.563 --> 00:27:58.066
  • They named the place gilgal,
  • 00:27:58.066 --> 00:27:59.768
  • Which says, god has rolled away our reproach.
  • 00:27:59.768 --> 00:28:02.270
  • And so by his death and resurrection,
  • 00:28:02.270 --> 00:28:04.506
  • He's rolled away the reproach
  • 00:28:04.506 --> 00:28:06.674
  • Of our sin and wrongdoing, and defeated the goliath.
  • 00:28:06.674 --> 00:28:10.845
  • And it's a beautiful thing.
  • 00:28:10.845 --> 00:28:13.548
  • And the you just roll in that fun.
  • 00:28:13.548 --> 00:28:16.217
  • If you just tuned in, we are here in dallas, texas.
  • 00:28:16.217 --> 00:28:20.688
  • One of our brand new studios has been turned into a classroom.
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  • Let's go to the new testament.
  • 00:28:25.226 --> 00:28:26.928
  • Walking on water.
  • 00:28:26.928 --> 00:28:29.364
  • It's of particular interest,
  • 00:28:29.364 --> 00:28:33.568
  • Because we have to seem to do that all the time.
  • 00:28:33.568 --> 00:28:37.705
  • Yeah.
  • 00:28:37.705 --> 00:28:38.373
  • But but i remember being in,
  • 00:28:38.373 --> 00:28:42.310
  • Just outside the little city of capernaum
  • 00:28:42.310 --> 00:28:44.712
  • That was the headquarters of jesus ministry.
  • 00:28:44.712 --> 00:28:48.183
  • And, i've been on the sea of galilee with you.
  • 00:28:48.183 --> 00:28:51.953
  • I've been beside the sea of galilee with you.
  • 00:28:51.953 --> 00:28:54.355
  • We've done television together.
  • 00:28:54.355 --> 00:28:56.691
  • A number of times.
  • 00:28:56.691 --> 00:28:58.626
  • In israel.
  • 00:28:58.626 --> 00:29:00.361
  • From jerusalem, all the way to the north, there
  • 00:29:00.361 --> 00:29:02.831
  • In the sea of galilee.
  • 00:29:02.831 --> 00:29:04.499
  • And and so there is, you know,
  • 00:29:04.499 --> 00:29:08.636
  • When you think of
  • 00:29:08.636 --> 00:29:10.305
  • Going to the sea of galilee, capernaum is on the north side
  • 00:29:10.305 --> 00:29:14.275
  • Or the north shore of the sea of galilee.
  • 00:29:14.275 --> 00:29:17.278
  • And, that's where tv and by the way,
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  • With our partners, crl tours built the, david's harp hotel.
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  • Beautiful. it's beautiful.
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  • The best hotel in the sea of galilee.
  • 00:29:24.252 --> 00:29:25.954
  • It is a clearly and and beautiful, place.
  • 00:29:25.954 --> 00:29:29.490
  • And and you've been there with us and stayed there.
  • 00:29:29.490 --> 00:29:32.060
  • We take our groups, we stay there. love it.
  • 00:29:32.060 --> 00:29:34.429
  • So with all that said, it,
  • 00:29:34.429 --> 00:29:38.266
  • It feels like the last time i was on camera with you
  • 00:29:38.266 --> 00:29:42.637
  • In israel,
  • 00:29:42.637 --> 00:29:43.838
  • We were either on the sea of galilee or just beside it,
  • 00:29:43.838 --> 00:29:47.542
  • Looking at it.
  • 00:29:47.542 --> 00:29:48.843
  • And that came to mind.
  • 00:29:48.843 --> 00:29:51.079
  • And so i can picture where this scene played out.
  • 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:55.750
  • So how do you break down, or physically break the story
  • 00:29:55.750 --> 00:30:00.755
  • Of walking on water in regard to your brand new series,
  • 00:30:00.755 --> 00:30:04.959
  • Breaking sunday school?
  • 00:30:04.959 --> 00:30:06.327
  • No, i think that's a i think that's a great question.
  • 00:30:06.327 --> 00:30:08.396
  • We'll think about it for a moment.
  • 00:30:08.396 --> 00:30:11.399
  • You know, what is the deeper spiritual significance of why
  • 00:30:11.399 --> 00:30:15.336
  • Jesus walked upon the water,
  • 00:30:15.336 --> 00:30:17.705
  • And what would it have communicated
  • 00:30:17.705 --> 00:30:20.008
  • To the first readers or hearers of the story?
  • 00:30:20.008 --> 00:30:23.978
  • Well, here's the very interesting thing.
  • 00:30:23.978 --> 00:30:25.880
  • Jesus comes to bring about
  • 00:30:26.447 --> 00:30:29.584
  • A new creation.
  • 00:30:29.584 --> 00:30:32.921
  • So how does creation begin?
  • 00:30:32.921 --> 00:30:35.290
  • Creation begins
  • 00:30:35.290 --> 00:30:36.491
  • With the spirit of god hovering over the face of the deep.
  • 00:30:36.491 --> 00:30:40.929
  • There's darkness.
  • 00:30:40.929 --> 00:30:42.931
  • There's chaos.
  • 00:30:42.931 --> 00:30:44.999
  • There's a lot going on.
  • 00:30:44.999 --> 00:30:47.936
  • And so jesus is he's stepping back in
  • 00:30:47.936 --> 00:30:51.973
  • To that initial starting point of creation.
  • 00:30:51.973 --> 00:30:55.443
  • It's the middle of the night.
  • 00:30:55.443 --> 00:30:57.178
  • It's dark.
  • 00:30:57.178 --> 00:30:58.579
  • He's walking on the deep, deep.
  • 00:30:58.579 --> 00:31:01.549
  • This. it's not a currency.
  • 00:31:01.549 --> 00:31:03.084
  • It is a stormy sea.
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  • And everything is raging around them.
  • 00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:07.755
  • And the wind is blowing.
  • 00:31:07.755 --> 00:31:09.924
  • Just like we read about in the creation account.
  • 00:31:09.924 --> 00:31:12.827
  • And it seems like chaos in.
  • 00:31:12.827 --> 00:31:14.929
  • So in jewish people would think about waters or that situation,
  • 00:31:14.929 --> 00:31:19.033
  • They would
  • 00:31:19.033 --> 00:31:20.234
  • Initially would always tie it back to genesis chapter one.
  • 00:31:20.234 --> 00:31:22.637
  • Wow. thinking the waters represent death.
  • 00:31:22.637 --> 00:31:25.340
  • They represent chaos.
  • 00:31:25.340 --> 00:31:27.141
  • They represent darkness.
  • 00:31:27.141 --> 00:31:29.177
  • It represents forces that need to be overcome.
  • 00:31:29.177 --> 00:31:32.780
  • And so jesus comes walking on the chaos.
  • 00:31:32.780 --> 00:31:36.784
  • He comes walking on the to home.
  • 00:31:36.784 --> 00:31:39.287
  • He comes walking on the debts.
  • 00:31:39.287 --> 00:31:41.356
  • And there is a beautiful interpretation of the rabbis
  • 00:31:41.356 --> 00:31:44.726
  • Where it says
  • 00:31:44.726 --> 00:31:45.893
  • The spirit of god was hovering over the face of the deep.
  • 00:31:45.893 --> 00:31:48.429
  • They actually say it was the throne or the spirit of messiah
  • 00:31:48.429 --> 00:31:54.002
  • That was actually hovering over the face of the deep
  • 00:31:54.002 --> 00:31:57.638
  • At the very start of creation.
  • 00:31:57.638 --> 00:32:00.475
  • And jesus is saying, yes, i was actually the one there
  • 00:32:00.475 --> 00:32:04.946
  • In the beginning, taming the chaos
  • 00:32:04.946 --> 00:32:08.449
  • In all of the craziness.
  • 00:32:08.449 --> 00:32:10.418
  • So it points to him as the creator.
  • 00:32:10.418 --> 00:32:13.354
  • And it points to his divine identity. why?
  • 00:32:13.354 --> 00:32:16.657
  • Because there's a number of passages, like jobs
  • 00:32:16.657 --> 00:32:19.560
  • In psalms, where only god
  • 00:32:19.560 --> 00:32:22.630
  • Is above the waters or rides the waves.
  • 00:32:22.630 --> 00:32:26.134
  • And then we see in the book of daniel one
  • 00:32:26.134 --> 00:32:29.037
  • Like the son of man, standing above the waters.
  • 00:32:29.037 --> 00:32:33.041
  • And it's referring to a divine being.
  • 00:32:33.041 --> 00:32:35.977
  • And then yeshua says to them, and they say, is it you, jesus?
  • 00:32:35.977 --> 00:32:39.914
  • And he says, i am.
  • 00:32:39.914 --> 00:32:42.116
  • And it's the same phrase in the greek that's used
  • 00:32:42.116 --> 00:32:45.520
  • When god reveals himself to moses in the burning bush.
  • 00:32:45.520 --> 00:32:48.856
  • Ego. amy, i am that i am.
  • 00:32:48.856 --> 00:32:52.293
  • My goodness.
  • 00:32:52.627 --> 00:32:53.294
  • Well, you are expanding too.
  • 00:32:53.294 --> 00:32:57.565
  • And, a little bit of breaking, you know, prodigal son,
  • 00:32:57.565 --> 00:33:01.469
  • A story that jesus told.
  • 00:33:02.003 --> 00:33:05.373
  • What would we have learned about that?
  • 00:33:06.207 --> 00:33:09.377
  • I mean, the the you know,
  • 00:33:09.377 --> 00:33:10.578
  • You would have learned, that he wants.
  • 00:33:10.578 --> 00:33:14.382
  • You're never beyond intense.
  • 00:33:14.382 --> 00:33:16.150
  • Yeah. you're. well, but you would have learned.
  • 00:33:16.150 --> 00:33:19.020
  • Well, the
  • 00:33:19.020 --> 00:33:19.654
  • The moral of the story,
  • 00:33:19.654 --> 00:33:20.822
  • What's the moral of the prodigal that when he comes back,
  • 00:33:20.822 --> 00:33:23.391
  • The father is there with open arms?
  • 00:33:23.391 --> 00:33:25.593
  • Okay. right. always. welcome home.
  • 00:33:25.593 --> 00:33:27.428
  • You're always welcome to come back.
  • 00:33:27.428 --> 00:33:29.464
  • You know,
  • 00:33:29.464 --> 00:33:30.598
  • Those were the concepts that the story would have told.
  • 00:33:30.598 --> 00:33:33.501
  • Can't do anything.
  • 00:33:33.501 --> 00:33:34.268
  • Too bad
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  • For god's love.
  • 00:33:36.771 --> 00:33:38.005
  • And you can
  • 00:33:38.005 --> 00:33:39.774
  • Squander your inheritance, and your father will welcome
  • 00:33:39.774 --> 00:33:42.944
  • You back.
  • 00:33:42.944 --> 00:33:43.478
  • You can.
  • 00:33:43.478 --> 00:33:44.378
  • You know, you can pretty much do whatever.
  • 00:33:44.378 --> 00:33:47.582
  • And he will always have.
  • 00:33:47.582 --> 00:33:49.550
  • Let's say the porch light on for you is.
  • 00:33:49.550 --> 00:33:52.320
  • So that would be the sunday school version of,
  • 00:33:52.320 --> 00:33:56.424
  • And that's probably enough.
  • 00:33:56.424 --> 00:33:58.559
  • You know, that's that was good, i think.
  • 00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:00.895
  • Did you tell all you know? yeah, that's about it.
  • 00:34:00.895 --> 00:34:02.763
  • Yeah.
  • 00:34:02.763 --> 00:34:03.564
  • You got something else beyond that?
  • 00:34:03.564 --> 00:34:05.299
  • Come on. yeah. let's break it. okay.
  • 00:34:05.299 --> 00:34:08.669
  • Break so we can fix it.
  • 00:34:09.170 --> 00:34:11.072
  • So here's the reality right?
  • 00:34:11.072 --> 00:34:14.609
  • Remind me of that lining
  • 00:34:14.609 --> 00:34:17.278
  • Talladega night break it.
  • 00:34:17.278 --> 00:34:19.313
  • Pepe le pew. okay. go ahead.
  • 00:34:19.313 --> 00:34:21.549
  • Yeah. right.
  • 00:34:21.549 --> 00:34:23.017
  • So the reality is, is that
  • 00:34:23.017 --> 00:34:26.087
  • We just naturally associate it,
  • 00:34:26.721 --> 00:34:28.956
  • That the title of the parable is the prodigal,
  • 00:34:28.956 --> 00:34:32.326
  • But it doesn't have a title.
  • 00:34:32.927 --> 00:34:34.395
  • What in the text of scripture. okay.
  • 00:34:34.395 --> 00:34:36.597
  • There's no title in the texas. are you kidding me?
  • 00:34:36.597 --> 00:34:38.833
  • No. he tells a parable and we do a subtitle over it.
  • 00:34:38.833 --> 00:34:41.602
  • We do a heading over.
  • 00:34:41.602 --> 00:34:42.436
  • We put the prodigal son in there.
  • 00:34:42.436 --> 00:34:44.739
  • The word prodigal is in there, but it's not. it's not.
  • 00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:47.308
  • The title of the parable
  • 00:34:47.308 --> 00:34:48.709
  • Is not called the parable of the prodigal son.
  • 00:34:48.709 --> 00:34:51.145
  • It's a story that involves three individuals a son, a wayward
  • 00:34:51.145 --> 00:34:56.751
  • Son that we call the protocol, a father and an older brother.
  • 00:34:56.751 --> 00:35:01.789
  • The problem with calling it the prodigal son
  • 00:35:01.789 --> 00:35:04.659
  • Is he's not the point of the story.
  • 00:35:04.659 --> 00:35:07.094
  • Right?
  • 00:35:07.094 --> 00:35:08.262
  • Well, the prodigal son is not the point of the story.
  • 00:35:08.262 --> 00:35:12.300
  • It's really about two things, right?
  • 00:35:13.100 --> 00:35:16.070
  • You can either call it the loving father.
  • 00:35:16.070 --> 00:35:19.774
  • Okay. that's one way to look at it.
  • 00:35:19.774 --> 00:35:22.143
  • But really, it probably should be called
  • 00:35:22.143 --> 00:35:25.213
  • The parable of the older brother.
  • 00:35:25.213 --> 00:35:27.248
  • The younger son says to his that i want my inheritance,
  • 00:35:27.248 --> 00:35:30.651
  • Which is basically tantamount to saying,
  • 00:35:30.651 --> 00:35:32.753
  • You're dead to me, right? right.
  • 00:35:32.753 --> 00:35:35.022
  • I want my inheritance while you're living.
  • 00:35:35.022 --> 00:35:37.792
  • There is no way to legally to do that.
  • 00:35:37.792 --> 00:35:39.594
  • It's a whole thing that we can get into.
  • 00:35:39.594 --> 00:35:41.696
  • But so basically, it's
  • 00:35:41.696 --> 00:35:44.098
  • Because inheritance isn't just about wealth, it's
  • 00:35:44.098 --> 00:35:46.500
  • About identity and community and family
  • 00:35:46.500 --> 00:35:50.438
  • And saying, i basically want no part of you.
  • 00:35:50.438 --> 00:35:52.206
  • I don't go do my own thing, right?
  • 00:35:52.206 --> 00:35:54.141
  • Which in that first century society is like huge,
  • 00:35:54.141 --> 00:35:57.478
  • You know, you know, do that.
  • 00:35:57.478 --> 00:35:58.779
  • So he goes away, things go really bad.
  • 00:35:58.779 --> 00:36:02.450
  • He winds up hungry,
  • 00:36:02.917 --> 00:36:05.720
  • Working for a man barely having enough food to survive.
  • 00:36:05.720 --> 00:36:09.890
  • And then he has an epiphany.
  • 00:36:09.890 --> 00:36:11.792
  • The turning point comes when he's there with the pigs.
  • 00:36:11.792 --> 00:36:15.062
  • Okay?
  • 00:36:15.296 --> 00:36:15.997
  • And he says, my, the servants
  • 00:36:15.997 --> 00:36:17.598
  • In my father's house have it better than me.
  • 00:36:17.598 --> 00:36:20.101
  • So listen, the pigs, the most unkosher place, right?
  • 00:36:20.101 --> 00:36:23.371
  • He's telling this story to jewish people.
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  • The kids with the pigs. okay.
  • 00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:28.276
  • The word for pigs says it all
  • 00:36:28.276 --> 00:36:30.378
  • Because there's a promise connected to the pig.
  • 00:36:30.378 --> 00:36:33.247
  • The word for pig in hebrew is hazier,
  • 00:36:33.247 --> 00:36:35.950
  • And it's also the same word to return.
  • 00:36:35.950 --> 00:36:38.019
  • It's one of the words in hebrew for repentance. wow.
  • 00:36:38.019 --> 00:36:40.554
  • And there's.
  • 00:36:40.554 --> 00:36:41.555
  • And why is the pig the most unkosher animal?
  • 00:36:41.555 --> 00:36:44.725
  • Because it has the outward sign of being kosher
  • 00:36:44.725 --> 00:36:48.863
  • Cloven hooves, but it lacks the internal sign.
  • 00:36:48.863 --> 00:36:52.633
  • It doesn't chew its cud.
  • 00:36:52.633 --> 00:36:54.168
  • And so it's
  • 00:36:54.168 --> 00:36:55.436
  • The image of a hypocrite, one who looks clean on the outside,
  • 00:36:55.436 --> 00:36:59.073
  • But is unclean on the inside. wow.
  • 00:36:59.073 --> 00:37:03.110
  • Okay.
  • 00:37:03.344 --> 00:37:04.245
  • That's why it's the most unkosher animal.
  • 00:37:04.245 --> 00:37:06.213
  • Because it's the physical embodiment
  • 00:37:06.213 --> 00:37:08.182
  • In the animal kingdom of the hypocrite.
  • 00:37:08.182 --> 00:37:10.251
  • And so he has this epiphany.
  • 00:37:10.251 --> 00:37:11.686
  • But this interesting thing, the rabbi say that
  • 00:37:11.686 --> 00:37:14.588
  • In the messianic kingdom, pigs will be kosher
  • 00:37:14.588 --> 00:37:18.459
  • And we'll be able to eat them, because the caption for the pig.
  • 00:37:18.459 --> 00:37:21.362
  • That's right.
  • 00:37:21.362 --> 00:37:22.296
  • I'll be able to eat bacon in the kingdom.
  • 00:37:22.296 --> 00:37:23.564
  • Jesus, right? why?
  • 00:37:23.564 --> 00:37:26.033
  • Because the word for pig means to return
  • 00:37:26.033 --> 00:37:28.336
  • Comes from the root to return.
  • 00:37:28.336 --> 00:37:30.071
  • So they say a pig will return and be kosher, right?
  • 00:37:30.071 --> 00:37:34.208
  • The kosher pig.
  • 00:37:34.208 --> 00:37:35.876
  • And if a pig can be made kosher, the most unclean hypocritical
  • 00:37:35.876 --> 00:37:39.814
  • Of animals.
  • 00:37:39.814 --> 00:37:41.415
  • It's an allusion to the fact that the prodigal says,
  • 00:37:41.415 --> 00:37:43.417
  • If god can do that for the pig, wow.
  • 00:37:43.417 --> 00:37:45.786
  • Oh my god, wow.
  • 00:37:45.786 --> 00:37:46.854
  • If a pig can be made kosher, totally transformed.
  • 00:37:46.854 --> 00:37:49.824
  • Certainly i can be totally transformed.
  • 00:37:49.824 --> 00:37:52.393
  • He gets up, he goes back.
  • 00:37:52.393 --> 00:37:55.229
  • We know the story, the beautiful imagery. his father's looking.
  • 00:37:55.229 --> 00:37:57.865
  • He sees him from the distance and he runs out to greet him.
  • 00:37:57.865 --> 00:38:02.269
  • And he embraces him.
  • 00:38:02.737 --> 00:38:04.271
  • And he gives him a robe, a ring and sandals.
  • 00:38:04.271 --> 00:38:07.641
  • What?
  • 00:38:07.875 --> 00:38:08.309
  • We don't know
  • 00:38:08.309 --> 00:38:09.577
  • If you don't know that jewish cultural historical background,
  • 00:38:09.577 --> 00:38:13.080
  • You miss the deep significance and the richness of the story.
  • 00:38:13.080 --> 00:38:17.985
  • That's why you're here.
  • 00:38:17.985 --> 00:38:19.053
  • It's by the way,
  • 00:38:19.053 --> 00:38:20.287
  • So that's why you hear posting breaking sunday school, not me.
  • 00:38:20.287 --> 00:38:24.658
  • Okay.
  • 00:38:24.658 --> 00:38:25.659
  • I didn't know it wasn't named the prodigal son.
  • 00:38:25.659 --> 00:38:28.396
  • Go ahead. you get to why?
  • 00:38:28.396 --> 00:38:29.830
  • Why there's something called in first century
  • 00:38:29.830 --> 00:38:32.733
  • Ancient culture called the kisa ceremony.
  • 00:38:32.733 --> 00:38:35.035
  • Say, that kid starts at the ceremony.
  • 00:38:35.035 --> 00:38:37.605
  • And what it was when a child had done something
  • 00:38:37.605 --> 00:38:41.976
  • That was so bad that it brought such shame upon the family.
  • 00:38:41.976 --> 00:38:47.014
  • Such as, like going to live among,
  • 00:38:47.014 --> 00:38:50.518
  • The gentiles, idolaters, pagans such as, you know,
  • 00:38:50.518 --> 00:38:54.989
  • Demanding his father's inheritance, which is completely
  • 00:38:54.989 --> 00:38:57.958
  • Breaking the commandment to honor your mother and father.
  • 00:38:57.958 --> 00:39:00.461
  • It's tearing at the social fabric of the family.
  • 00:39:00.461 --> 00:39:03.531
  • You know, the society, the future, the family itself.
  • 00:39:03.531 --> 00:39:07.401
  • There would be this ceremony where the elders of the village
  • 00:39:07.401 --> 00:39:10.771
  • Would come,
  • 00:39:10.771 --> 00:39:11.972
  • And communally, they would they could make this decision
  • 00:39:11.972 --> 00:39:15.409
  • To jesus, to cut off that individual.
  • 00:39:15.409 --> 00:39:19.914
  • And once that individual
  • 00:39:19.914 --> 00:39:21.182
  • Had been cut off through that ceremony,
  • 00:39:21.182 --> 00:39:23.717
  • They could never be allowed back in the community,
  • 00:39:23.717 --> 00:39:27.388
  • Back into the family.
  • 00:39:27.388 --> 00:39:29.356
  • Once that ceremony had been performed
  • 00:39:29.356 --> 00:39:32.293
  • By the elders of the city and they were in agreement.
  • 00:39:32.293 --> 00:39:36.430
  • So why does the father run to meet his son?
  • 00:39:36.430 --> 00:39:40.734
  • To make sure that he reaches him and accepts him?
  • 00:39:40.734 --> 00:39:44.805
  • Before that ceremony can be performed and it's too late.
  • 00:39:44.805 --> 00:39:49.109
  • Wow. and he's cut off and he can never come back.
  • 00:39:49.109 --> 00:39:53.547
  • Because if the father
  • 00:39:53.547 --> 00:39:55.549
  • Accepts him back before the community disown
  • 00:39:55.549 --> 00:39:58.986
  • Sammy and goes through the ceremony,
  • 00:39:58.986 --> 00:40:00.421
  • They can't do it after the fact. got it.
  • 00:40:00.421 --> 00:40:02.957
  • So that's why there's an urgency
  • 00:40:02.957 --> 00:40:04.692
  • For the father to run, even though it was shameful to run.
  • 00:40:04.692 --> 00:40:08.529
  • But that's how much he loves him.
  • 00:40:08.529 --> 00:40:10.097
  • He's willing to be shamed to bring his child
  • 00:40:10.097 --> 00:40:14.468
  • Back into the family once again.
  • 00:40:14.468 --> 00:40:17.538
  • He gives him a robe,
  • 00:40:17.538 --> 00:40:21.008
  • A ring, and sandals.
  • 00:40:21.008 --> 00:40:25.179
  • Sandals represent a new identity.
  • 00:40:25.913 --> 00:40:30.751
  • Slaves didn't wear sandals.
  • 00:40:31.352 --> 00:40:33.487
  • Ancient egyptian
  • 00:40:33.487 --> 00:40:35.189
  • Hieroglyphics used to send slaves not wearing sandals.
  • 00:40:35.189 --> 00:40:38.025
  • So status through sandals.
  • 00:40:38.025 --> 00:40:41.028
  • Okay.
  • 00:40:41.028 --> 00:40:42.796
  • And then you see, the ring represents, authority.
  • 00:40:42.796 --> 00:40:47.902
  • He's restoring him to a place of authority in the robe.
  • 00:40:47.902 --> 00:40:51.038
  • Represents honor.
  • 00:40:51.038 --> 00:40:52.673
  • Wow. and he totally embraces him with these three things.
  • 00:40:52.673 --> 00:40:56.243
  • And walk in sin back into the family.
  • 00:40:56.243 --> 00:40:58.779
  • But it's not good.
  • 00:40:58.779 --> 00:40:59.847
  • But there's more.
  • 00:40:59.847 --> 00:41:00.748
  • But there's more. please go ahead.
  • 00:41:00.748 --> 00:41:02.883
  • And here's the more.
  • 00:41:02.883 --> 00:41:05.019
  • And this is why it's not about
  • 00:41:05.019 --> 00:41:08.122
  • The younger brother.
  • 00:41:08.122 --> 00:41:11.759
  • It's about the older brother.
  • 00:41:12.393 --> 00:41:14.495
  • The older brother is upset. why?
  • 00:41:14.495 --> 00:41:17.364
  • Because he thinks the younger brother
  • 00:41:17.364 --> 00:41:21.001
  • Has brought such shame and disrespect on the family
  • 00:41:21.001 --> 00:41:24.638
  • That he should have had the kids at the ceremony performed,
  • 00:41:24.638 --> 00:41:29.243
  • And he has brought dishonor to the family,
  • 00:41:29.243 --> 00:41:32.012
  • Hurt their reputation, hurt their status, squandered,
  • 00:41:32.012 --> 00:41:35.282
  • Potentially the future of the family
  • 00:41:35.282 --> 00:41:36.817
  • And he should be cut off for doing that.
  • 00:41:36.817 --> 00:41:39.887
  • And he's upset
  • 00:41:39.887 --> 00:41:41.255
  • That the father receives him and accepts him again.
  • 00:41:41.255 --> 00:41:45.459
  • And here's the irony and the twist in the story.
  • 00:41:45.459 --> 00:41:49.129
  • The son who went and became a slave and a servant
  • 00:41:49.129 --> 00:41:53.400
  • Wound up becoming more of a son and understanding the heart
  • 00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:56.870
  • Of the father than the older son who never left home.
  • 00:41:56.870 --> 00:42:00.841
  • He never left the father's house.
  • 00:42:00.841 --> 00:42:02.910
  • He never left the father's side.
  • 00:42:02.910 --> 00:42:04.945
  • But he never understood who the father truly was.
  • 00:42:04.945 --> 00:42:08.682
  • He never understood his heart,
  • 00:42:08.682 --> 00:42:10.517
  • And he didn't really have a relationship with him.
  • 00:42:10.517 --> 00:42:13.220
  • It was all transactional.
  • 00:42:13.220 --> 00:42:15.623
  • It was all ritualistic, but it wasn't real.
  • 00:42:15.623 --> 00:42:20.260
  • And that's why this story ends with
  • 00:42:20.260 --> 00:42:23.664
  • We don't know what happens to the older brother.
  • 00:42:23.664 --> 00:42:26.800
  • And the real question that's being asked
  • 00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:28.869
  • Is, which brother are you?
  • 00:42:28.869 --> 00:42:30.871
  • Are you the
  • 00:42:31.205 --> 00:42:32.206
  • One who returns or are you the older brother?
  • 00:42:32.206 --> 00:42:34.942
  • In the context of telling the story
  • 00:42:34.942 --> 00:42:36.910
  • Is to the religious leaders who were upset that jesus eats
  • 00:42:36.910 --> 00:42:41.415
  • Among the tax collectors and sinners and the gentiles,
  • 00:42:41.415 --> 00:42:45.886
  • And welcomes the younger brothers, the prodigals, back.
  • 00:42:45.886 --> 00:42:50.557
  • And it's directed to the older.
  • 00:42:50.557 --> 00:42:52.259
  • It's rejected to
  • 00:42:52.259 --> 00:42:53.360
  • The religious people who think they're so righteous,
  • 00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:56.196
  • Saying, you don't get it.
  • 00:42:56.196 --> 00:42:59.466
  • You don't get it.
  • 00:42:59.466 --> 00:43:00.801
  • Well, and just like we don't know how it ends
  • 00:43:00.801 --> 00:43:03.971
  • With the older brother,
  • 00:43:03.971 --> 00:43:05.939
  • He's asking us the question, don't end up.
  • 00:43:05.939 --> 00:43:07.908
  • Don't be so close and get so far.
  • 00:43:07.908 --> 00:43:11.412
  • Missed it.
  • 00:43:11.412 --> 00:43:13.580
  • Okay.
  • 00:43:13.580 --> 00:43:14.815
  • If you just tuned in, rabbi jason is breaking sunday school.
  • 00:43:14.815 --> 00:43:19.720
  • But, you know, mysteries of the messiah.
  • 00:43:19.720 --> 00:43:22.389
  • It's been a series that you've done here on tbn,
  • 00:43:22.389 --> 00:43:25.959
  • Transformed by the messiah.
  • 00:43:25.959 --> 00:43:28.295
  • You've done that series.
  • 00:43:28.295 --> 00:43:30.497
  • You're with us in jesus in the passover.
  • 00:43:30.497 --> 00:43:33.400
  • You do a lot of content, but there has never been
  • 00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:36.770
  • A better title for you than this one.
  • 00:43:36.770 --> 00:43:39.907
  • Okay?
  • 00:43:39.907 --> 00:43:40.607
  • Because you're good at basically
  • 00:43:40.607 --> 00:43:44.978
  • Exploding the concepts that might be tradition of men.
  • 00:43:44.978 --> 00:43:49.817
  • Okay.
  • 00:43:50.050 --> 00:43:51.285
  • They might have been the sunday school lessons, as it were,
  • 00:43:51.285 --> 00:43:56.190
  • And you're expanding them out and giving the
  • 00:43:56.190 --> 00:44:00.994
  • Cultural context, you know, even what you just said
  • 00:44:00.994 --> 00:44:05.599
  • By saying,
  • 00:44:05.899 --> 00:44:07.167
  • Well, take into consideration where jesus even told the story
  • 00:44:07.167 --> 00:44:11.672
  • And to who it was directed and what
  • 00:44:11.672 --> 00:44:15.375
  • The real historic meaning of it.
  • 00:44:15.375 --> 00:44:19.279
  • That's a preview.
  • 00:44:19.713 --> 00:44:22.082
  • The most important thing is we're going into these subjects
  • 00:44:22.082 --> 00:44:26.954
  • Like prodigal son, resurrection, pool of bethesda,
  • 00:44:26.954 --> 00:44:30.891
  • Tower of babel, david
  • 00:44:30.891 --> 00:44:32.059
  • And goliath, noah's ark, walking on the water, creation,
  • 00:44:32.059 --> 00:44:35.362
  • These types of things that we would have a cursory
  • 00:44:35.362 --> 00:44:38.966
  • Understanding of.
  • 00:44:38.966 --> 00:44:40.701
  • And this guy is going to break it down.
  • 00:44:40.701 --> 00:44:43.337
  • By the way, i've been sitting here with you
  • 00:44:43.337 --> 00:44:44.605
  • Now for over 40 minutes, and i just noticed
  • 00:44:44.605 --> 00:44:47.975
  • That this is the first time that you've never worn all black.
  • 00:44:47.975 --> 00:44:51.545
  • You have dark brown on and it looks great on you.
  • 00:44:51.545 --> 00:44:55.082
  • Thank you.
  • 00:44:55.082 --> 00:44:56.183
  • You're you're you're you're breaking out of the box.
  • 00:44:56.183 --> 00:44:59.319
  • I think laurel's shirt on breaking sunday school.
  • 00:44:59.319 --> 00:45:01.989
  • But do you really breaking out?
  • 00:45:01.989 --> 00:45:03.524
  • Are you aware of for sure. for real.
  • 00:45:03.524 --> 00:45:05.626
  • With the tan blazer, black pants.
  • 00:45:05.626 --> 00:45:08.328
  • Right. i like it.
  • 00:45:08.328 --> 00:45:10.497
  • Breaking break.
  • 00:45:10.864 --> 00:45:11.965
  • You are breaking everything. i can really love it.
  • 00:45:11.965 --> 00:45:14.835
  • You're going to flip over a temple table here in a minute,
  • 00:45:14.835 --> 00:45:17.738
  • Okay? okay.
  • 00:45:17.738 --> 00:45:18.438
  • With us death. okay.
  • 00:45:18.438 --> 00:45:19.573
  • And the hair man, we kind of have to let this be
  • 00:45:19.573 --> 00:45:22.042
  • Kind of the the wrap up land the plane a little bit.
  • 00:45:22.042 --> 00:45:25.345
  • Schools, almost.
  • 00:45:25.345 --> 00:45:26.747
  • We're about to hear the bell and and, and get out of here.
  • 00:45:26.747 --> 00:45:30.050
  • So, kind of give us, you know,
  • 00:45:30.050 --> 00:45:33.187
  • Your final thoughts in regard to what you're doing here.
  • 00:45:33.187 --> 00:45:36.456
  • And do it in the pool of bethesda. yeah.
  • 00:45:36.456 --> 00:45:38.325
  • I mean,
  • 00:45:38.325 --> 00:45:39.359
  • One of the things i love is not just the content
  • 00:45:39.359 --> 00:45:41.662
  • That we're sharing, but i also love the format
  • 00:45:41.662 --> 00:45:44.965
  • That we partnered with you to create with the audience
  • 00:45:44.965 --> 00:45:48.302
  • Participation, with the online participation,
  • 00:45:48.302 --> 00:45:51.505
  • With surveys and interactive questions
  • 00:45:51.505 --> 00:45:55.242
  • And polling that we do so and, and the graphics
  • 00:45:55.242 --> 00:45:59.112
  • And the live animation.
  • 00:45:59.112 --> 00:46:00.714
  • So it's really something special. it's really amazing.
  • 00:46:00.714 --> 00:46:03.383
  • You've created an a beautiful studio here
  • 00:46:03.383 --> 00:46:06.420
  • In, the dallas area.
  • 00:46:06.420 --> 00:46:08.455
  • So man, you are you guys are visionaries
  • 00:46:08.455 --> 00:46:11.091
  • And i am blessed to be part of the tbn family.
  • 00:46:11.091 --> 00:46:14.061
  • So thank you for having me.
  • 00:46:14.061 --> 00:46:16.163
  • Praise god, it's a blessing.
  • 00:46:16.763 --> 00:46:19.066
  • And, i know your your parents would be very proud.
  • 00:46:19.066 --> 00:46:23.237
  • Cool. of bethesda. bethesda.
  • 00:46:23.237 --> 00:46:25.539
  • Okay, so think about it, john.
  • 00:46:25.539 --> 00:46:27.007
  • Chapter five, pool of bethesda.
  • 00:46:27.007 --> 00:46:29.109
  • There's a man.
  • 00:46:29.109 --> 00:46:30.477
  • Two details that people don't consider.
  • 00:46:30.477 --> 00:46:32.479
  • One is he's an invalid 38 years.
  • 00:46:32.479 --> 00:46:36.817
  • Well why is it significant that he is an invalid for 30 years.
  • 00:46:36.817 --> 00:46:40.721
  • Look there's no wasted word in the bible.
  • 00:46:40.721 --> 00:46:43.724
  • Right.
  • 00:46:43.724 --> 00:46:44.691
  • So if the bible is the inspired word of god,
  • 00:46:44.691 --> 00:46:46.360
  • That means every word is important.
  • 00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:48.328
  • There's a lot of details i'd like to know
  • 00:46:48.328 --> 00:46:50.197
  • What did jesus look like?
  • 00:46:50.197 --> 00:46:51.732
  • We don't know that.
  • 00:46:51.732 --> 00:46:52.833
  • But we know this man was an invalid 38 years, right?
  • 00:46:52.833 --> 00:46:56.103
  • Right.
  • 00:46:56.103 --> 00:46:57.371
  • So this actually happened to be something important about that.
  • 00:46:57.371 --> 00:46:58.305
  • So again, we'll break sunday school here.
  • 00:46:58.305 --> 00:47:00.607
  • Well by the way, there's a shroud of turin
  • 00:47:00.607 --> 00:47:02.643
  • If you want to know what
  • 00:47:02.643 --> 00:47:03.877
  • Jesus look like,
  • 00:47:03.877 --> 00:47:05.045
  • There is kind of a picture of him where there's a german,
  • 00:47:05.045 --> 00:47:07.381
  • But it's not in the bible.
  • 00:47:07.381 --> 00:47:08.615
  • Yeah, it's i'm not saying it's not necessarily historicity.
  • 00:47:08.615 --> 00:47:11.618
  • Do it.
  • 00:47:11.618 --> 00:47:12.152
  • But i'm saying this.
  • 00:47:12.152 --> 00:47:13.086
  • It's not it's not a detail in the bible
  • 00:47:13.086 --> 00:47:13.921
  • That you would think would be there.
  • 00:47:13.921 --> 00:47:14.855
  • I just thought you would have known that
  • 00:47:14.855 --> 00:47:16.556
  • There was a shroud of turin.
  • 00:47:16.556 --> 00:47:17.658
  • It seems like, you know, a lot of things
  • 00:47:17.658 --> 00:47:19.459
  • I just like you wouldn't have known that.
  • 00:47:19.459 --> 00:47:21.094
  • It's shrouded in mystery.
  • 00:47:21.094 --> 00:47:23.330
  • But here we go.
  • 00:47:23.697 --> 00:47:25.499
  • So let's break sunday school for a moment, okay?
  • 00:47:25.499 --> 00:47:28.702
  • How many years did israel wander in the wilderness?
  • 00:47:28.702 --> 00:47:32.806
  • 40. 30. right?
  • 00:47:32.806 --> 00:47:34.975
  • But wrong.
  • 00:47:34.975 --> 00:47:36.043
  • 38. they were in the desert 40 years,
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  • But they wandered for 38.
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  • Yeah, because of their unbelief.
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  • How you know that you were just guessing.
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  • I i'm going with the flow. i'm feeling this.
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  • I got 38. didn't you, ron?
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  • Chapter two.
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  • Did you know that
  • 00:47:50.290 --> 00:47:51.658
  • This 38 years israel wandered in the wilderness?
  • 00:47:51.658 --> 00:47:55.595
  • Okay, it does say that for real. yeah.
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  • Deuteronomy chapter two says it says 38, 38 years.
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  • The first two years.
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  • Was god speaking to them at mount sinai
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  • Building the tabernacle, organizing the camp?
  • 00:48:05.505 --> 00:48:09.810
  • The wandering is judgment for not listening
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  • To god to go in and take the land.
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  • When they see the giants.
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  • So david and goliath giant, that's not the first
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  • Part of the story.
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  • The first part is the giants in the land. the people fear
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  • There's a connection,
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  • But there, that's when god says, you're going to
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  • That generation
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  • Has the adult generation has to die in the wilderness.
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  • And that's after two years.
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  • That's
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  • Why moses says deuteronomy chapter 238 years of wandering.
  • 00:48:35.369 --> 00:48:39.039
  • Wow, two years is not wandering.
  • 00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:41.141
  • 38 was judgment wandering.
  • 00:48:41.141 --> 00:48:43.143
  • Wow. okay,
  • 00:48:43.143 --> 00:48:44.811
  • So how does that connect to the man at the pool of bethesda?
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  • Why didn't these individuals want to go in?
  • 00:48:48.081 --> 00:48:51.418
  • Excuses.
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  • There's giants in the land.
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  • We're like grasshoppers in their sight,
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  • In all sorts of reasons why they couldn't believe god.
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  • Trust god to go in and take the land.
  • 00:49:00.961 --> 00:49:04.464
  • And so jesus is saying to this man, and he's saying to
  • 00:49:04.464 --> 00:49:07.868
  • The jewish religious leaders, do you want to have unbelief
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  • And be like the generation that god redeemed out of egypt
  • 00:49:12.339 --> 00:49:15.976
  • But died in the wilderness, or are you going to have
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  • Faith and believe in me and what i offer you?
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  • And rise, take up your bed and walk
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  • Into the promise of redemption?
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  • Or are you going to mean
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  • Paralyzed and stuck here on this mat,
  • 00:49:30.390 --> 00:49:33.727
  • Like the children of israel did in the wilderness?
  • 00:49:33.727 --> 00:49:37.497
  • And so he was saying, there's two options.
  • 00:49:37.497 --> 00:49:40.834
  • You can choose which one you want to pick.
  • 00:49:40.834 --> 00:49:44.037
  • And so this man, again, like israel, begins with excuses.
  • 00:49:44.037 --> 00:49:48.208
  • Well, you know, he says, do you want to be made?
  • 00:49:48.208 --> 00:49:50.010
  • Well, you were thinking, heck yeah, i want to be made.
  • 00:49:50.010 --> 00:49:52.145
  • Well, there's no one to pick me up
  • 00:49:52.145 --> 00:49:53.980
  • When the water stirred and i can't get.
  • 00:49:53.980 --> 00:49:55.582
  • And all these excuses doesn't
  • 00:49:55.582 --> 00:49:56.883
  • Answer the question, provides excuses as to why.
  • 00:49:56.883 --> 00:50:02.522
  • But ultimately,
  • 00:50:02.889 --> 00:50:04.858
  • He chooses to receive what yeshua offers him,
  • 00:50:04.858 --> 00:50:09.229
  • Which is another significant change.
  • 00:50:09.229 --> 00:50:10.931
  • Because if you know me, you know i like numbers.
  • 00:50:10.931 --> 00:50:13.867
  • Hebrews alphanumeric and therefore
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  • Every weight, the way that you write
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  • Numbers is with letters in hebrews.
  • 00:50:19.673 --> 00:50:21.208
  • So what?
  • 00:50:21.208 --> 00:50:21.842
  • Why is sig 38 significant?
  • 00:50:21.842 --> 00:50:23.910
  • The numerical value of his heart
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  • Be bow in hebrew equals 38. wow.
  • 00:50:25.979 --> 00:50:28.982
  • Because god was testing this man to see what was in his heart,
  • 00:50:28.982 --> 00:50:32.619
  • Just like he tested the hearts of the jewish people,
  • 00:50:32.619 --> 00:50:35.322
  • The children of israel when they left
  • 00:50:35.322 --> 00:50:37.290
  • Israel, was his heart going to receive and believe,
  • 00:50:37.290 --> 00:50:40.894
  • Or was it going to lack faith?
  • 00:50:40.894 --> 00:50:42.462
  • And what was he going to do?
  • 00:50:42.462 --> 00:50:44.131
  • And so this man did chose to believe and receive.
  • 00:50:44.131 --> 00:50:48.768
  • But the question then is what were the religious leaders
  • 00:50:48.768 --> 00:50:51.605
  • Going to do?
  • 00:50:51.605 --> 00:50:52.839
  • And and don't you think that's what god does to all of us
  • 00:50:52.839 --> 00:50:56.176
  • Every day, all day long?
  • 00:50:56.176 --> 00:50:57.944
  • Isn't he just kind of always testing jason?
  • 00:50:57.944 --> 00:51:01.448
  • I mean, it feels like it's just it everything
  • 00:51:01.448 --> 00:51:06.486
  • That you face is really just a question
  • 00:51:06.486 --> 00:51:09.923
  • And it's an opportunity, you know,
  • 00:51:09.923 --> 00:51:12.492
  • How do you know you have faith unless it's called upon.
  • 00:51:12.492 --> 00:51:16.329
  • So some kind of trial tribulation is usually god
  • 00:51:16.329 --> 00:51:19.766
  • Asking you a question. what?
  • 00:51:19.766 --> 00:51:21.868
  • Who do you say that i am?
  • 00:51:21.868 --> 00:51:23.737
  • You know, it just feels like that's kind of what's going on.
  • 00:51:23.737 --> 00:51:26.773
  • By the way, in the edit of this show while i'm talking.
  • 00:51:26.773 --> 00:51:30.744
  • Just just cut to jason, who's nodding
  • 00:51:30.744 --> 00:51:33.547
  • Vigorously with everything i'm saying,
  • 00:51:33.547 --> 00:51:35.282
  • Because that might have been
  • 00:51:35.282 --> 00:51:36.416
  • The first time he'd ever done that.
  • 00:51:36.416 --> 00:51:38.752
  • Okay.
  • 00:51:38.985 --> 00:51:39.553
  • I'm arguing with you.
  • 00:51:39.553 --> 00:51:40.487
  • You're always arguing, always asked to argue,
  • 00:51:40.487 --> 00:51:44.558
  • Constantly arguing with you forever.
  • 00:51:44.558 --> 00:51:46.860
  • Okay. hold on. i gotta make over what we're ordering.
  • 00:51:46.860 --> 00:51:49.296
  • You argue. argue over what?
  • 00:51:49.296 --> 00:51:50.897
  • You want to order the shrimp. i'm like, no shrimp.
  • 00:51:50.897 --> 00:51:53.600
  • You're like the lobster,
  • 00:51:53.600 --> 00:51:54.534
  • But it's testable if you want to test it.
  • 00:51:54.534 --> 00:51:57.170
  • But that means, yeah, that's a whole nother.
  • 00:51:57.170 --> 00:51:59.139
  • Yeah.
  • 00:51:59.139 --> 00:52:00.240
  • Okay, so but, but but let's side together real quick
  • 00:52:00.240 --> 00:52:01.841
  • Because it goes back to yeshua walking on the water.
  • 00:52:01.841 --> 00:52:04.578
  • This man's by the water.
  • 00:52:04.578 --> 00:52:06.379
  • Yeshua was walking on the water.
  • 00:52:06.379 --> 00:52:07.747
  • Wow. what's the connection?
  • 00:52:07.747 --> 00:52:11.751
  • The connection
  • 00:52:12.085 --> 00:52:13.186
  • Ultimately comes down to this that the tests
  • 00:52:13.186 --> 00:52:17.691
  • And the storms are meant to be schools.
  • 00:52:18.491 --> 00:52:21.761
  • Yeah.
  • 00:52:21.761 --> 00:52:24.464
  • And going to school
  • 00:52:24.464 --> 00:52:25.899
  • Or the struggle is meant to strengthen us. yes.
  • 00:52:25.899 --> 00:52:29.669
  • Yeah. when you pass the test you become stronger.
  • 00:52:29.669 --> 00:52:32.138
  • Yeah.
  • 00:52:32.138 --> 00:52:33.206
  • When you pass the test or you pass the final exams
  • 00:52:33.206 --> 00:52:36.009
  • You get promoted to the next level of grade in school.
  • 00:52:36.009 --> 00:52:40.614
  • You know, it's true in the natural, it's
  • 00:52:40.614 --> 00:52:42.649
  • True in the spiritual.
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