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All right, my Bible in 365. 
Brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at the wonderful book of
Matthew, and boy is this one a 

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doozy. 
Now, let me just simply say with

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all of these new summaries that 
we are doing, we this year are 

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going to be dedicating each book
to providing five of the most 

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common and most difficult 
questions that I get for each of

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these books, which will help you
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moments of controversy. 
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develop some food for thought in
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throughout each of these books. 
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these questions, I will also 
give you some areas that I want 

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you to focus on in these books 
specifically. 

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And if you want to know more 
about these books, you can go to

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jamescadice.com or you can go to
Bible in 365. 

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And we do have all of my 
previous studies through these 

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books, including any devotionals
I may have done, but you have 

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lots of material, literally 
thousands of hours worth that we

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will hold your hand and walk you
through the learning process, 

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including all my teachings 
through these passages. 

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So with that said, let's go over
the first of one of the most 

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difficult questions that I get, 
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Why does Matthew's genealogy of 
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genealogy? 
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note right off the bat, and I 
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really important. 
Matthew traces Jesus's lineage 

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through Joseph's bloodline, 
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David. 
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OK, Now this is important 
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that this emphasizes Jesus's 
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throne of David. 
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erroneous statement to make 
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away from Jesus's legal right to
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of David because of the fact 
that Yekhonaya is in that 

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bloodline and in that lineage. 
Understand, Yekhonaya was cursed

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by God and told by God that 
nothing good could come from his

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bloodline. 
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told you that Matthew put that 
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could actually prove the deity 
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OK, I'll explain that in a 
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Now that brings us to what Luke 
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Luke traces Jesus, Jesus's 
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emphasizing not only his true 
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royal descent through Nathan, 
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Of course, Solomon is where 
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of an intro. 
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here. 
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to point out is what this does 
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Christ owns the right to be the 
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are written, but it also seals 
the fact that he is the Messiah.

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How do we know that? 
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Christ would be born of a 
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OK, Isaiah predicts this for us.
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the genealogy that you see in 
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It's consequential because if 
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of of course, David through 
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definitive connection to King 
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But what destroys that 
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Yehoniah was cursed and Jesus by
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could be the Messiah if he comes
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However, Mary's bloodline, which
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David, came from a different son
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Now this is really interesting 
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sense because it was the Holy 
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inseminating Mary, which means 
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of Joseph touched Jesus. 
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that came physically through 
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the Holy Spirit, which then 
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understanding of who Christ is. 
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genealogy that he presents, 
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genealogy he presents to make an
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the Messiah and there's nobody 
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OK. 
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And if you want to learn more 
about that, you can go through 

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even my recent Christmas Bible 
study where I talk about this, 

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or you can go through my very 
first chapter teaching through 

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the very first chapter of the 
book of matthew@jamescadice.com.

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Now, this is an interesting one.
And this to me doesn't seem more

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difficult as it is one that's 
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And this is interesting because 
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emphasized a lot by Matthew. 
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why is it emphasized so much? 
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Well, keep in mind the answer to
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Matthew is writing to a 
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OK, Jewish readers avoided the 
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of God. 
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respect that. 
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Kingdom of God would refer to 
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infrastructure structure, the 
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So Matthew presents Jesus as the
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phrase highlights God's rule 
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So the theme here is going to 
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of the coming Kingdom like you 
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trying to emphasize this to a 
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So also, I would say that the 
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very important a lesson to bring
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considering the fact that the 
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some kind of a Kingdom being 
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so much of the oppression that 
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This is interesting and this is 
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I haven't gotten it recently, 
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it up. 
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say people could move mountains 
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People actually questioned Jesus
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And my answer to that is that 
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and yes, some people might say 
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be very common in Jewish 
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this in mind. 
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literally in that point. 
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he was saying that moving a 
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humanly impossible obstacle. 
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trusting in God, not human 
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power to do the very things that
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And if you think about it, 
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when it's aligned with God's 
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will or our own power. 
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some weird mystical or, or 
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out to us the ability that God 
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than the ability we have and our
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And so the idea here is if you 
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mountains, then you can also 
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the circumstances that you're 
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And of course, can God, God can 
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Can we move a mountain 
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No, but God can do it because if
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in him, we can watch God do 
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scope or our ability. 
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move a mountain in order to 
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do it. 
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last days, we will see him move 
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OK, We're going to see that 
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when the Mount of Olives is 
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being asked is remarkable 
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that we often times throw away 
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And that's the fact that God is 
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that he tells us are quite 
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allegorical statement, it really
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It's not this, this picture of 
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emphasize something in a way 
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just for the use of, of doing 
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No, it's very connotative of 
what we see in Hebrew language 

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to show the impossible strength 
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order for that to happen. 
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and this one is one that kind of
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think that it's reflective of 
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question being asked. 
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Why does Matthew include 
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God would not do? 
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clear in asserting it's the most
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do. 
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as both our Savior and our judge
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he will be doing. 
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the seriousness of sin, that sin
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Hypocrisy was a major issue 
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the time, which is why Jesus 
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was the thing that was keeping 
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reality of the things that God 
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love. 
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cruelty. 
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They were literally designed to 
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repentance. 
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So grace here can't even be 
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judgement and the nature of it. 
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you this right now, No one will 
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love or the grace of God unless 
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God, unless they understand the 
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And so Peter speaks about this 
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Matter of fact, why even mention
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Timothy, in Paul's discussion 
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things, he makes it very, very 
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Look, all over the New 
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Even in the Old Testament we see
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God will never be understood 
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seriously. 
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And Matthew is doing exactly 
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Now, the 5th question, and this 
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And that is what does Matthew 
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age in Jesus's teaching? 
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be Matthew 24, and we're talking
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And that's exactly what that 
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It means things that are going 
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human history under God's plan. 
It includes future judgment, the

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establishment of God's Kingdom. 
This is all stuff that relates 

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to Matthew 24. 
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questions about future events 
and speaks very clearly of 

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things that are going to happen 
in the near term for the 

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disciples as they're listening 
to it with respect to 

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Jerusalem's destruction. 
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that speaks about the 
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And that's something that's 
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able to understand. 
So this speaks about the return 

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of Christ, meaning the second 
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And it calls us as believers to 
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endure through the time that 
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And that leads us to some 
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to study and focus on. 
First and foremost is going to 

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end up being Matthew chapter 24 
because this is a powerful 

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passage that deals with the time
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Hopefully it's going to come 
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mean we're going to be raptured 
before it even starts, which is 

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an exciting thing. 
The other thing that I want you 

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to focus on is Matthew chapter 
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It is by far one of my favorite 
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when you go through Matthew 
chapter 6, actually Matthew 

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chapter 5-6 and seven, you will 
love that because we are going 

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to be dealing with in that 
section what was called the 

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Sermon on the Mount. 
And it is a powerful passage 

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that I want you to really focus 
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By the way, it was probably 
delivered roughly within an 8 

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minute to 10 minute period, OK? 
Yet there are people who have 

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been talking into the ages over 
it because it's so profoundly 

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important and so powerful. 
So I would just ask you to focus

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on those two passages alone, OK,
Matthew 567. 

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And then I want you to focus on 
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25 because they all work 
together and coincide and they 

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are powerful, powerful passages.
OK, Now, as I said, if you're 

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looking to dig deeper, you want 
to learn more, you want to 

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understand more, go to 
jamescadice.com. 

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You can also go to our materials
page in Bible and 365. 

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And we have plenty of these 
videos that I've done in the 

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past, all designed to help you, 
all designed to bless you. 

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I love you guys. 
I hope all this made sense. 

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And once again, on behalf of my 
beautiful and dear sister Erica 

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Kirk and the beautiful and dear 
team that work with me at Bible 

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and 365, we're excited you're on
this journey with us. 

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Continue to fight the good 
fight, continue to seek the 

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Lord, continue to put Him first 
and hold fast to his word. 

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We love you. 
We're here with you in this 

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fight. 
And whatever you do, don't quit.

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Keep on going. 
We love you, God bless you.