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As we begin this morning, we do 
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chapter 11 and verse 27. 
The Bible says, then they came 

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again to Jerusalem. 
And as he was walking in the 

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temple, the chief priests the 
scribes, and the elders came to 

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him. 
This is a day that tradition 

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tells us was the cult was called
the day of controversy, or it 

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was the day of questions. 
Jesus is probably walking into 

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the court of the Gentiles. 
And when it talks about the 

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temple, it's not talking about 
the temple proper. 

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It's not talking about the place
of worship. 

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It is talking about the temple 
court and one of which was the 

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court of the Gentiles, that was 
the most, that was the biggest 

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place and that was the place 
that allowed the majority of the

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people to go. 
Only Gentiles can go there. 

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Notice what happens, though? 
It's on Tuesday. 

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Jesus has just cleanse the 
temple and Marc records, the 

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third time that Jesus comes to 
that area. 

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And we could just picture in Our
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the court of the Gentiles and 
he's teaching people and no 

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doubt. 
He is healing people, but on the

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scene, he is addressed by the 
following, there were the chief 

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priests. 
They were the scribes and also 

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the elders, and they came to him
an obvious formal delegation. 

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Now, let's talk about the chief 
priests who were, they the chief

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priests were composed of the 
Current high priest. 

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The previous high priest. 
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that the current high priest 
would have allowed to be in that

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group. 
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majority of the chief priests 
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the Sadducees. 
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Pharisee and a sadducee. 
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Pharisees believed in the 
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While the Sadducees. 
Did not the chief priests were 

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composed primarily of Sadducees 
their job. 

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Was the custodial rights to the 
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They were the ones that had the 
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them. 
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that were there. 
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The scribes were the experts in 
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They were the ones that studied 
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interesting. 
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the chief priests being the 
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primarily made up of Pharisees, 
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and that were it. 
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the respective heads of the 
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divisions. 
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As most Scholars said that, the 
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way. 
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people were there. 
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So, it just says that it was 
plural. 

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So, we have a quite a few men, 
no doubt, and no doubt. 

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They're led by the chief 
priests. 

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And the reason for that is the 
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The questions that are being 
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worship or law or the 
interpretation of the law, which

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would have involved. 
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custodial reich's of the temple.
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to what Jesus just did. 
When he Just the temple. 

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And Mark chapter 11 and verse 
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Here is the first question and 
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Authority are you doing these 
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authority to do these things? 
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they asked Jesus for questions 
but the first two questions 

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specifically refer to the Lord's
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market and you know, on the 
surface it might appear to be 

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very Very reasonable. 
I mean, after all, here comes a 

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Galilean and in their mind and 
so many people considered him, 

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just a Galilean Carpenter, here 
was a Galilean Carpenter and his

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friends people in Galilee were 
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They didn't have higher 
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In fact, you remember in Acts 
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When they're speaking in tongues
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utterance they said aren't all 
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In other words, they didn't 
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So there was no one that had any
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Galilee and that's also what is 
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Good came out of Nazareth but 
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scene and they want to know, 
what are your credentials, who 

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gave you the authority, and what
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What you have? 
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the temple. 
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he overturned the tables of the 
moneychangers that picture this 

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one of the Lord do. 
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overturned the tables of the 
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He says my father's house, shall
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You made it a den of Thieves. 
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those that sold the doves and 
then he said, and get those 

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cages out of here. 
He ran the people out that were 

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the vendors that were selling in
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area of the marketplace. 
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people out that were buying and 
selling and I ran the people out

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there were making it some kind 
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go through from one city to the 
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That's what he just did. 
And they want to know. 

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Where did you get the authority?
I want to know. 

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Where did you get it? 
What Authority do you have? 

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Who gave it to you? 
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or demonstrating that he has 
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want to know why he did such 
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Now, when you think about this, 
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understand in the temple. 
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Gentiles. 
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bizarre business and it was 
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anise and I'll tell you 
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a couple weeks ago, I guess it 
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I quoted my father-in-law and my
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If you want to get a man's 
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wallet. 
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somebody's attention, you just 
alter or you just affect their 

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money. 
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here. 
It was called the bizarre of the

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sons of anise and all these 
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It was a very lucrative business
in the Lord comes in and put a 

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stop to it. 
All, no doubt he has now, got 

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their attention. 
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Where's his credentials? 
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interfere with temple protocol 
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They understood this to that. 
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Lift. 
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preaching, they said no man 
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No one spoke with the authority 
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No one was like Jesus. 
And you know what, there's a lot

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of people that follow Jesus for 
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lived. 
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life, one of the reasons that 
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of his Charisma, you know, we 
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charismatic personality people 
that just you're drawn to them 

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because of their personality. 
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Christ and you have that 
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people are drawn to you, but in 
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healed their sick. 
People, you have fed their 

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hungry, you have raised their 
dead, you have caused blind eyes

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to see. 
Don't you see? 

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The people that were rejecting? 
Jesus still realized, they had a

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great problem because now people
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Remember Caiaphas. 
I don't understand this at all. 

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I don't understand this at all. 
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the dead. 
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from the dead. 
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that. 
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the dead. 
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from the dead. 
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And then Caiaphas said, we got 
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We can't let this go. 
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movement. 
People, these people, these 

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Chief priests realize they had a
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But notice this, they want to 
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They want to know where he gave 
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They want to know all that 
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And this is the response but 
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I will also ask you one 
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will tell you by what Authority 
I do these things then he said 

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the baptism of John, was the 
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was it from man? 
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again, answer me. 
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refers to the entire work and 
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it was symbolized. 
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repentance. 
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know why? 
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that John the Baptist was a 
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The people consider that, in 
fact, the Bible talks about John

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the Baptist, it says it says 
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greater than all the men in the 
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He says to Jesus I'm not even 
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as one translation renders it 
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after me is mightier than I. 
I'm not even worthy to bearish 

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use. 
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The Bible does record though, 
that there was no man like John 

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the Baptist and yet 
interestingly we find out in the

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word of God. 
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kingdom is greater than John the
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was never in the church. 
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someone that's a Christian. 
Ian in the kingdom and that 

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great. 
But notice the people considered

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John the Baptist a profit. 
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If they say that John the 
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Now they got a problem with the 
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considered him to be a prophet. 
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That's one thing, can't do that,
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Now, if they said wait a minute,
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heaven. 
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something else. 
A passenger, brother, Carl 

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quotes? 
Quite often at the table. 

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I love that. 
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as the Messiah. 
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Baptist a prophet John, the 
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Messiah and in John 1 and 29. 
When he says, Behold the Lamb of

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God, which takes away the sin of
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problem, they got a real 
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If they said he's not from God. 
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people because he's a prophet, 
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they're going to say, wait a 
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was from God said. 
That Jesus was the Messiah, so 

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all that happens. 
All that problem. 

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So they reasoned it out. 
They reasoned among themselves. 

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And if you go down a couple of 
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Jesus, we do not know and Jesus 
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Neither will I tell you by what 
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think it's important to note the
following They were not 

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concerned with what was true. 
Please get this. 

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They were not concerned with 
what was true. 

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Number two, they were not 
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Number three, they were only 
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I read one comment. 
Are you always said, sit in 

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that, the perfect picture of the
crowd pleaser or the hypocrite, 

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not really concerned about the 
truth that really concerned 

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about what's right? 
But only concerned with what was

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safe, that's all I cared about. 
That's all they cared about what

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was safe. 
In an attempt to save himself 

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from the Dilemma, you know they 
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you've heard me say this you've 
heard me talk about ignorance 

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why does Jesus in John chapter 
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ignorance in that passage was 
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And remember this, willful 
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hand-in-hand with willful 
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That's fact. 
It's kind of like an agnostic. 

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That's a willful. 
Not know where you putting 

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yourself in a willful cat. 
Gory or willful classification 

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of a not knowing. 
That's exactly what they were 

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doing. 
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stand for what was right there, 
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All they do is we got to do 
what's safe? 

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So they're going to say, well, 
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And they say, basically in 
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tell Jesus and Jesus refuses to 
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little sermon and, you know, 
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The only one of the four gospel 
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happens. 
He begins by saying, but what do

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you Fake. 
You know, I'm going to tell you.

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sometimes people think when they
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words of Jesus, And the sermons 
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Bible, our come from Jesus, and 
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parables, Don't mistake the fact
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It was extremely profound. 
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the authority? 
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tell me this did baptism of 
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Was it from heaven or men? 
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Jesus is neither. 
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What do you think? 
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give a tail here of two sons, 
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love this because he begins the 
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with the phrase. 
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He asked him a question? 
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in a few verses? 
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the sermon with another question
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with What do you think? 
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beginning seems to have little 
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between them but quickly, it 
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hypocritical leaders. 
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literally means children. 
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children picture this, he got 
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you tell two kids, you tell both
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you get two different responses 
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If a man has two sons now the 
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sinners. 
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they know he's preaching about 
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children. 
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Vineyard. 
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profound point. 
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tells the first son, I want you 
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now. 
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too, because sometimes when 
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rebellious at first but later 
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then he have the religious Elite
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actually, in contempt of his 
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Nobody cares about that. 
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interested in what somebody 
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He's only interested in which 
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actually does. 
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the first son and we learned 
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had. 
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to work. 
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their father. 
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their compliance is simply a 
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what? 
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And I have to make this point, 
please understand this people do

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exactly what they want. 
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say well, I can't no it's not a 
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years, I'm going to tell you, I 
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what I wanted. 
Sometimes I have Justified an 

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accent, I didn't have a choice 
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We all have choices in this 
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children, the two sons, they 
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what the father had told them 
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Now free will is going to reign 
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verse 29. 
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answered and said look, I will 
not When Scholars said this 

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Fowler said, it's better 
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love this because I think it's 
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It's better rendered in the in, 
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I don't want to I don't want to 
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Folks, I'm going to tell you 
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often, I'ma do it. 
Now I might ask you to listen to

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me. 
I'm going to ask you to really 

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listen to me. 
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things like church, attendance 
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It is the outward manifestation 
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the heart. 
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we justify our behavior and our 
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a choice. 
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Something came up Beyond My 
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But I'ma tell you something, if 
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something in your life, if you 
really wanted something you 

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would do everything, it took you
to get their heating, you get it

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done. 
I have never not done what I 

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really wanted to do. 
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says, I will not what you saying
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going in the vineyard and work 
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Father, because I don't feel 
like it Okay, just a little 

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50-cent tour, little free little
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I'ma tell you, it's the truth. 
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And it's not it's everywhere. 
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people's hearts are. 
If your hearts are in a certain 

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place, you'll do exactly what 
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You'll be led in that direction.
That's a fact. so if you have a 

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problem with decision, just 
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your heart, All of us here. 
He says, I don't want to, 

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there's no respect for his 
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Only blatant exercise of selfish
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But you know, even hearts of ice
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The father patiently allowed his
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Watch What Happens. 
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will not but then afterward he 
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word regret in the new King. 
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King James and the English 
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The word repent. 
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the typical word for repentance 
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about repentance. 
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When we talk about repentance, 
we're talking about, don't 

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misunderstand me on this. 
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has a change of their heart, 
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leads to a change of action. 
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How many times have you heard 
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Say, repentance is not being 
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Okay. 
What's this mean in the new King

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James? 
It says regret in the Old King 

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James, it says repent. 
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It is talking about this, this 
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was this first son, had deep 
remorse because of his decision 

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prior You ever have deep 
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You see, this is a picture of 
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And not necessarily the outward 
demonstration of a change 

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although it did lead to a change
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Meaning he had deep remorse. 
He had deep remorse. now, may I 

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say That deep remorse is only 
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you act upon it and change your 
behavior, Deep remorse is only 

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worth anything. 
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you're the perfect example of 
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Judas. 
You think Judas had regret? 

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You think Judas had remorse. 
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He's he took the thirty pieces 
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said, I have sinned, I have 
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blood of Jesus, the innocent 
blood And they said so what see 

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you to it and he throws the 
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It becomes Blood Money. 
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he do change his life, no. 
Feel bad. 

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Yeah, I thought rotten and he 
hung himself. 

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He took his own life. 
Remorse is only productive if it

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produces Behavior, but the word 
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deep remorse. 
What we find out there are other

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passages that speak of a word 
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How about what Paul said in 
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You know what he called it, he 
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called it Godly sorrow. 
What else remember when John, 

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the Baptist was preaching the 
Forerunner to Jesus the cousin 

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of Jesus, six months, older than
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You know what he called it. 
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idea of deep remorse and godly 
sorrow. 

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He called it fruits, worthy of 
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feel bad enough to make a 
difference. 

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You feel bad enough to change 
her life. 

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Feeling bad is not good enough. 
And I want to say this, too. 

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Sometimes people. 
Have a hard time, forgiving 

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themself. 
For past decisions and behavior.

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I understand that I do, I 
totally understand that. 

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But everything in the word of 
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the purpose of making the 
change. 

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In other words, make the change 
and then God accepts the change.

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It's not a matter of beating 
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Awful of yourself for the rest 
of your life. 

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It ain't about that at all. 
It's this. 

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You have deep remorse. 
It's Godly sorrow. 

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And what's it going to do? 
It's going to pursue and it's 

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going to come out in fruits. 
Worthy of repentance, you going 

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to change your life. 
Again. 

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Guilt is good. 
World says. 

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Oh no. 
We don't want. 

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No, no, no, no. 
We don't want you to be guilty. 

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Yeah, guilt is good. 
You know why? 

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Because that's what that little 
voice inside of me with my 

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conscience and my guilt. 
That's what says, you know, what

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I've done wrong. 
I'm going to change my life. 

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I feel bad about it. 
I'm going to make it right and 

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then make it, right? 
And you know I get to do, I get 

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to feel good again. so, if we 
would just follow the Bible, the

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Bible pattern, Now, here we go, 
this son said here, it says he 

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regretted any went. 
Well let's talk about the Second

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Son but then he came to the 
second and he said, likewise and

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he answered and said I go sir, 
but he did not go, there's an 

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amazing piece piece here. 
I want to, I want to make a 

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point of first of all. 
First of all, the idea here in 

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the word, I the word I is in 
phatak in the Sentence. 

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And what that means, that means 
he is elevating himself. 

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It is emphatic, in the sentence 
of I go now, interesting about 

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that. 
About I go. 

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He's basically saying this one 
scholar, put it like this, a 

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better rendering would be this. 
My brother did not go but I 

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certainly will. 
In other words, this is in, this

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is in fatik, in a sentence 
meaning, it is elevating 

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himself. 
It's kind of like this, you 

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didn't, but I will. 
Look at me. 

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I will the same thing. 
I certainly will. 

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It's kind of like the guy that 
raises himself. 

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Higher than somebody else do 
you? 

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Are you thinking right now when 
I'm thinking about you thinking 

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about a certain example, Jesus 
gave We're somebody elevating 

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himself above what he thought 
everybody else was my mind. 

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Goes to the Pharisee and the 
Publican, I'm not gonna go into 

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that, but that's what I, that's 
where my mind goes. 

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They, both go into the temple to
pray. 

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The Pharisee says, I thank you 
that. 

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I'm not like all the terrible 
rotten rotten rotten rotten 

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rotten people with the world. 
Ain't even that guy over there. 

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The hapless Publican, right? 
And then the Publican smote his 

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breast as an outward sign of an 
inward, anguish and says God be 

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merciful to me The Sinner, okay?
The Pharisee elevated himself 

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above the public, enter the tax 
collector, the same phraseology 

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and meaning is found in this 
word I he's talking about the 

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Second Son. 
Their second son, is elevating 

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himself in word alone that he's 
better than the first son and 

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said he didn't go, but I will. 
And then we come to this word 

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here. 
Now, this on the surface, sounds

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like he's being very respectful 
but this works sir is the Curry.

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The Greek word and it means a 
superficial word of respect. 

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In other words, it's just a 
word. 

455
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It is just show. 
There's no sincerity at all. 

456
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Now, it's going to make sense 
when we describe who this is But

457
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this is just a little story, all
of a sudden there he is. 

458
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Telling and preaching the idea 
is the whole thing is an act. 

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Now, it doesn't say if this son 
intended to actually obey his 

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father at the time, it doesn't 
say, and it really doesn't 

461
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matter. all that matters is he 
disobeys just like the Pharisees

462
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as they say and they do not 
Jesus would speak about 

463
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Pharisees and he would say what 
they say, do it because they 

464
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know the law, they know the law,
every aspect of it but don't 

465
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follow their example, why they 
say and they do not So really 

466
00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:24,500
the idea is. 
Who's going to do the will of 

467
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the father? 
The first son says, I'm not 

468
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doing it. 
Why I don't want to but later, 

469
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he regrets it with sorrow and he
goes The second census, hold 

470
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this guy over here my brother. 
He didn't go, I'll go even use 

471
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the word sir as appear as a 
point of respect. 

472
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But he doesn't go. 
Jesus preaches. 

473
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All of that. 
And then Jesus says this, he 

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says, which of the two did the 
will of his father. 

475
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The Lord story ends the same way
that it began. 

476
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And that's what the question. 
The question to the. 

477
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And the answer, the question is 
obvious and the answer. 

478
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The question is immediate Jesus 
wants to know who did the will 

479
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of the father and they said, 
well, the first The first. 

480
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,600
Don't you see answering the 
Lord's question though, by doing

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that the leaders convict 
themselves? 

482
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Because they were just like the 
second son. 

483
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:32,300
And then Jesus says this, He 
said to them, assuredly, I say 

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to you that tax collectors and 
harlots enter the kingdom of God

485
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before you. 
Picture this they thought they 

486
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were leading the Messianic 
parade and others were 

487
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following, but much to their 
surprise. 

488
00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:53,400
The Lord expresses just the 
opposite to most unlikely. 

489
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People are already leading the 
way they are sinners. 

490
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They are harlots. 
They are Tax Collectors because 

491
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,600
they accepted the ministries of 
both, John the Baptist and 

492
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,600
Jesus. 
So now all of a sudden, yes, 

493
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,200
who's leading the way one 
scholar said, the Sinners are 

494
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proceeding the sand. 
Beatrice. 

495
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,000
It must engage these leader in 
Rage. 

496
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,900
These leaders, No Doubt. 
Because he mentions tax 

497
00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:23,200
collectors and prostitutes. 
I thought this was kind of 

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00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,800
ironic You know, the only gospel
writer that wrote this Parable 

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was Matthew and Matthew was also
a tax collector. 

500
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:34,600
You think Matthew changed his 
life? 

501
00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:38,000
Oh, he absolutely changed life. 
What about that? 

502
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,100
Little I was a kid shaky change 
his life. he sure did because 

503
00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:46,700
Jesus says today, salvation has 
come to your house What's he 

504
00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:50,100
talking about folks? 
The first son represents someone

505
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:56,000
that rejects makes bad choices. 
But now says I've regretted it, 

506
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,300
I'm going to make a change. 
I'm going to make a change. 

507
00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:07,200
Harlots and prostitutes Fowler 
called typify Brazen in purity. 

508
00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:12,600
And they're mentioned together. 
They become a proverbial phrase 

509
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,400
that describes all that is vile.
Load some alien, to the feelings

510
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,000
of the pure respectable and even
the Patriotic, according to 

511
00:31:21,008 --> 00:31:24,800
Broaddus, yet Jesus uses these 
types of people. 

512
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:26,700
He says that they have 
advantage. 

513
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:32,300
And here's why here's why for 
John came again to you in the 

514
00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:36,600
way of righteousness. 
And you did not believe him, but

515
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,700
tax collectors and harlots 
believed. 

516
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,500
Him. 
And when you saw it, you did not

517
00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:43,600
afterward relent and believe 
notice. 

518
00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:48,900
John came preaching, the message
of the Kingdom, Jesus came 

519
00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:50,800
preaching. 
The message message of the 

520
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,500
Kingdom, they had two 
opportunities and they rejected 

521
00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:57,400
them both. 
But tax collectors and harlots. 

522
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,100
They were the ones who went out.
They were the ones that were 

523
00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:03,700
baptized in the River. 
Jordan confessing their sins. 

524
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:16,200
Listen to this. 
Maybe this is you. 

525
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:24,800
I have no idea. 
Those that are most blinded by 

526
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,600
sin. 
Are the ones who most clearly 

527
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:35,000
see their need for forgiveness. 
You ever known someone that 

528
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:40,100
lived a really hard life. 
And made some really bad 

529
00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:47,200
choices. 
And lived a life of sin. but 

530
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,400
they come to the realization, I 
need to be forgiven and they 

531
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:54,700
find out they can They find out 
that in Jesus Christ. 

532
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,900
They can be completely forgiven.
So They seized the opportunity, 

533
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,500
they obey the gospel and they 
become a phenomenal service for 

534
00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:09,700
the cause of Christ. 
I'ma tell you something folks, 

535
00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:13,300
sometimes the people that this 
world kicked around a little bit

536
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,400
Become some of the greatest 
Christians later on in life. 

537
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:26,100
At the time. 
Oh, blinded by sin. but in time,

538
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,600
See Clearly they're needed for 
forgiveness. 

539
00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:36,800
That folks that is a picture of 
the tax collectors and the 

540
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,400
harlots. 
Notice this John Kane. 

541
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,600
I speaking to these religious 
leaders here, John came to you 

542
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,000
in the way of righteousness and 
you didn't believing, you didn't

543
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:54,100
even believe it all. 
Then it says, but tax collectors

544
00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:57,800
and harlots believed him. 
Now they're going to get another

545
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:02,000
chance, watch this. 
And when you saw it, you did not

546
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,600
afterward relent and believe 
him, you messed up twice yet two

547
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,300
choices yet to Chances and you 
didn't, you didn't believe John.

548
00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:11,000
When he came, you didn't believe
John. 

549
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,300
After he didn't believe me, 
either. 

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00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:21,300
Is the entire point. 
Fowler wrote this. 

551
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:28,000
What moral perversity it must 
take to mingle among the 

552
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,900
participants in the nation's 
greatest moral Revival and 

553
00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:33,800
remain. 
Totally. 

554
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,500
Unaffected by it and worse 
publicly disclaim all ability to

555
00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:43,500
discern its origin in God. 
Have you ever known someone 

556
00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:48,199
folks? 
That they, you take them the 

557
00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,600
word of God, you try to study 
with them, they hear sermon 

558
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,900
after sermon, the invitations 
are extended and all that and 

559
00:34:53,900 --> 00:35:00,000
they just unfazed. 
Or like Joe. 

560
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,700
Hisle said to me one time. 
Oh I just don't see it. as some 

561
00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:10,900
would say, they didn't see it. 
But please understand, it's not 

562
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:15,100
because they couldn't it's 
because they wouldn't, and that 

563
00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:18,000
was willful rejection. 
What? 

564
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,200
An amazing sermon. 
What an amazing response to the 

565
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,100
question that they said, what 
Authority are you doing? 

566
00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:27,600
The things you're doing? 
Who gave you the authority to 

567
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:28,200
do? 
What you did. 

568
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,800
Jesus, you just cleanse the 
temple. 

569
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,700
You've taken over here. 
We got the credentials, you 

570
00:35:32,700 --> 00:35:35,800
don't? 
And Jesus says only answer, you 

571
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,900
just answer me one question. 
Baptism of John, was it a man 

572
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,700
from Heaven, man? 
Or from Heaven, they said, oh, 

573
00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:44,100
we got a big problem. 
Got a big dilemma. 

574
00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:47,200
So they said I, we don't know. 
We cannot tell Jesus. 

575
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:49,400
I can't tell you either. 
But what do you think about 

576
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,900
this? 
What do you think about this? 

577
00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:55,700
Man has two, sons tells the sons
to go into the vineyard and 

578
00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:57,100
work. 
The first son, says not me. 

579
00:35:57,100 --> 00:35:59,600
I'm not doing it then later 
regrets. 

580
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,300
It and goes the second son says 
I will. 

581
00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:06,000
Absolutely, I'm better than him.
But he doesn't go. 

582
00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:10,600
And then he says tell me which 
one did the will of his father 

583
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,200
and they said the first. 
So all that being said, let's 

584
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:20,100
wrap it up in conclusion. 
This is not by the way, please 

585
00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:23,600
get this. 
This is not a picture 

586
00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:27,300
contrasting. 
The rejection that the Jews had 

587
00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:31,800
to the gospel in contrast to the
Gentiles acceptance of the 

588
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,600
Gospel. 
That's not, what's being 

589
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,500
contrasted hear? 
What's being contrasted here? 

590
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:43,400
Is this something very specific?
It's talking about a contrast of

591
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,300
the worst within Jewish Society,
who were they Hey. 

592
00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:56,100
Harlots publicans and sinners. 
Now, this is all represented in 

593
00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:59,400
the first son, okay? 
So it's a contrast contrast 

594
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,300
between the very worst, the 
centers and that is a picture 

595
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,600
that Jesus describes with the 
first son, that is in contrast 

596
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,700
is the reason for a sermon that 
is in contrast to the following 

597
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,200
the very best in Jewish Society,
who were they, they were the 

598
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,000
religious leaders. 
It is a cotton, is it is a 

599
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000
contrast or comparison between 
the two? 

600
00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:23,500
Now who were the religious 
leaders described them as they 

601
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:28,100
The second son. 
That's the reason for the 

602
00:37:28,107 --> 00:37:32,000
parable. 
And it's aimed at rebuking the 

603
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,700
hypocritical Jewish leaders. 
Now. 

604
00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:42,600
The next Parable is going to 
talk about the difference 

605
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:47,900
between the Jew and the Gentile 
in the wicked Vine, dressers 

606
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,500
that's coming. 
But in this case folks he's just

607
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:52,900
talking about two different 
people. 

608
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,500
He's talking about two classes 
of people. 

609
00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:59,400
One that the world thought that 
they were just Sinners, terrible

610
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,600
people. 
And the other was the religious 

611
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,900
Elite, and Jesus says that the 
publicans and the harlots and 

612
00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:10,200
the Sinners will go to the 
kingdom before, Are you why they

613
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:16,800
did their father's bidding? 
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