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Hi everyone, welcome again to 
the podcast. 

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Today the reading you will hear 
at mass that we're going to dive

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into is one that you might not 
have heard before or perhaps you

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haven't. 
Haven't heard for a while. 

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It's sort of in this part of 
Luke, that sometimes gets a bit,

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neglected. 
So we'll read today's reading 

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and then we'll have a go at 
doing a verse by verse exegesis 

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This over to try and help you 
understand what the author was 

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trying to communicate to the 
original audience. 

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So Luke chapter 17 verses 5 to 
10, The apostles said to the 

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Lord, increase our faith, the 
Lord replied. 

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Were your faith, the size of a 
mustard seed. 

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You could say to this mulberry, 
tree, be uprooted and planted in

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the sea and it would obey you 
Which of you with a servant 

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plowing or minding sheep, would 
say to him when he returned from

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the fields come and have your 
meal immediately, would he not 

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bought the more likely to say, 
get my supper laid, make 

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yourself tidy and wait on me 
while I eat and drink. 

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You can eat and drink yourself 
afterwards. 

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Must he be grateful to the 
servant for doing what he was 

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told. 
So with you, when you have done 

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all you have been told to do 
say, we are merely servants, we 

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have done no more than our duty.
So that's our reading for today,

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an interesting section here 
where Jesus is telling the 

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apostles about the importance of
doing their Duty as the leaders 

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of the church. 
So we want to start by thinking 

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about the context. 
So Jesus is moving From Galilee.

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He's getting closer to Day off 
for the Final Phase of his 

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ministry. 
And along the way, he's doing 

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Ministry and speaking to the 
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And he's just been speaking to 
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So keep in mind, the audience 
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The Twelve Apostles. 
He's been speaking to them about

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how the need to treat other 
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Well, particularly he's been 
highlighting that they need to 

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forgive other members of the 
church. 

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And also, on the other hand, 
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So those are things he's 
mentioned already. 

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Now in verse 5, the Apostle said
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So it looks like the apostles 
here are pretty amazed at what 

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Jesus has just said, they're 
quite challenged by the high 

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expectations is given them and 
the apostles. 

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Now have this desire to have 
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his instructions. 
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that they want more faith. 
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faith, the size of a mustard 
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Now, the Mustard Seed was the 
smallest known seed in that area

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of the world. 
So what Jesus is sort of saying 

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here is even if you have the 
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So that's what he said. 
So far you could say to this 

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mulberry tree or another 
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mindtree. 
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it had an extensive root system,
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pull up. 
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smallest possible known seed, 
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That's very hard to pull out of 
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Those are the two contrasts 
where your faith the size. 

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Size of a mustard seed. 
You could say to this mulberry 

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tree, be uprooted and planted in
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There's a few interesting things
going on here, so there's no sea

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near where Jesus was speaking, 
so and also the sick of mine 

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trees don't grow in the sea. 
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of telling the cinnamon tree to 
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sea, it's basically an 
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It's quite remarkable to imagine
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sea. 
Supposed to be, he's giving them

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His image of something. 
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It's a form of Hyperbole and 
it's actually one of Jesus 

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favorite sayings. 
Jesus often says, if he had 

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Faith the size of a mustard 
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about the power of Faith. 
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something, which is amazing and 
impossible, and it's important 

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to emphasize. 
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that the apostles could command 
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Having said that, we can't rule 
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It's possible that with the 
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The apostles could do that but 
that's probably not primarily 

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what Jesus means. 
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literally command a tree to 
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His just setting up an example 
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Jesus. 
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amount of genuine faith will 
enable God to do great Miracles 

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through them which would 
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That's the point. 
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do impossible things if they 
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responds to your could be 
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like this, you already have 
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So it's sort of a challenge to 
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his disciples will have true 
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It's expressing Jesus, own 
desire, that his Apostles will 

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develop that Faith. 
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way there, notice that Jesus is 
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particular. 
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be that if the apostles as the 
church leaders have genuine 

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faith There are no barriers to 
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them. 
So any Miracle will be possible.

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So it's particularly in the 
context of Jesus speaking to his

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future church leaders. 
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faith in God, so that God is 
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leaders of the church. 
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And Jesus is going to build on 
this in quite an interesting 

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way, which of you with the 
servant plowing or minding 

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sheep. 
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And think about what Jesus has 
said so far why has he brought 

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Up servants on a farm. 
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that cult. 
In this agricultural culture for

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them. 
To either live on farms or no 

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servants, who worked on farms. 
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if you were a farm servant, 
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would do. 
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it's not the kind of slaves that
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In 21st century. 
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on the farm and they have 
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people who own the farm. 
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with a servant plowing or 
minding sheep, So he sort of 

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imagining that there they are 
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the Masters, who owned the farm,
which of you would say to your 

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servant when he returned from 
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meal immediately. 
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wouldn't do that. 
You wouldn't say to your servant

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when he got back come and have 
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That's not how that Society 
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Jesus says, would he not be more
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laid? 
Make yourself tidy and wait on 

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me while I eat and drink? 
You can eat and drink yourself. 

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Afterwards now sounds a bit 
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it worked in that culture. 
It wasn't considered to be harsh

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treatment of the servant. 
It was just that they knew their

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He would then put on his 
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Wait, till the master had 
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servant himself? 
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way things were done. 
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in the home, it was very clear 
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Jesus is just saying, isn't this
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That's his point. 
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this phrase, make yourself tidy 
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good yourself. 
Make yourself ready. 

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So the image here would be of 
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to his gear to help serve the 
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Verse 9 must he be grateful for 
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he was told. 
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he? 
Thank the servant because he did

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what was commanded. 
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question. 
The answer is no, the master 

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does not. 
Not have to thank the servant 

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for doing what he was told for 
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That's not how the master. 
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worked. 
The master gave the servant 

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instructions, the servant did 
what he was told, that's just 

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how it works. 
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where Jesus makes his point. 
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also. 
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meaning he wants his disciples 
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Now at this point, imagine he's 
speaking to the apostles, the 

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apostles are probably thinking 
that in this kind of mini 

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Parable, they The master rush 
but Jesus is going to turn it on

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his head here. 
When you have done, all you have

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been told to do or you can 
translate that as all that is 

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commanded of you. 
The reference here is to God's 

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Commandments particularly the 
ones which Jesus has given to 

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the apostles during his ministry
all the way through. 

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He's been telling his Apostles 
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church, you're going to need to 
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So notice he's treating them as 
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right? 
When you have been when you have

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done all, You have been told to 
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we have done no more than our 
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That's Jesus instructions. 
Here he wants the apostles. 

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When they've done all the been 
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they should simply say. 
We have done. 

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No more than we have been told 
to do so, interesting teaching 

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here, isn't it? 
We are merely servants or we can

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translate that as we are 
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We have only done what was our 
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It's an interesting point and it
appears to be Jesus teaching his

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Apostles that they should follow
God's commands without 

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complaint. 
And without a sense of 

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entitlement, Soooo. 
He can sort of sense that 

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they're starting to get this 
sense of entitlement of 

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thinking, we're going to be the 
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everyone's going to serve us. 
It's going to be great. 

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And we know particularly from 
the gospel of Matthew that they 

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do start to think along these 
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So Jesus is telling them what 
true service is they need to do.

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It's commanded off them as 
leaders of the church and what 

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Jesus expects of them as 
Leaders, with our complaint. 

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And without a sense of 
entitlement, they should not 

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expect praise or reward from God
for fulfilling his basic 

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commands. 
So, Commanded to do things like 

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spread, the message of the 
Kingdom Shepherd, God's people 

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serve, God's people. 
Those are their commands, they 

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shouldn't get a sense of 
entitlement. 

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They shouldn't expect that God 
is going to be in their debt for

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doing these things. 
So Jesus is kind of putting the 

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apostles back in their place 
here, he's telling them, they 

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need to be ready to serve 
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them. 
You can look at it this way, the

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work of the Apostles is very 
important but it's not beyond 

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the call of the Christian Duty 
and they should not expect they 

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themselves. 
They can't fully repay God for 

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the gifts that God has given to 
them. 

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So, in other words, he's 
teaching the apostles that you 

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can't put God in your debt, so 
don't expect that to happen. 

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The context here, might shed a 
bit of light on this because 

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remember the Apostle's have just
asked Jesus to give them a 

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special Faith, they said, 
increase our faith. 

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So maybe here Jesus might be 
trying to teach the apostles 

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patience and perseverance. 
Maybe he's saying to them. 

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They need to do their Duty as 
Apostles before. 

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They can have this great faith 
that they're looking for. 

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So possibly, there's a 
connection between what has just

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come before. 
This overall Jesus is telling 

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his Apostles particularly and 
maybe his disciples all of his 

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disciples by extension, his 
giving them a sobering teaching 

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that they should not become 
proud of their status as 

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disciples or consider themselves
to be special in the The Eyes Of

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God for fulfilling his basic 
commands, rather their focus 

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should be on serving other 
Christians, in order to truly 

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serve God in the way that he 
wants them to. 

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So, it appears that Jesus is 
doing kind of, he's stopping 

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them from getting a big ego for 
serving God. 

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He doesn't want them to feel 
selfish or special because that 

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they are may have certain roles 
of leadership in the church that

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appears to be what's going on 
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He's saying, look in the end, 
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God has given you command. 
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the expectation is that you will
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big head. 
Remember that you are servants. 

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Now, we also need to balance 
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says, because as, you know, 
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does indicate the Christians who
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God will be rewarded in the next
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In fact, she's just been saying 
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So in this case I think we can 
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confidence. 
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particularly maybe his other 
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his warning, them against 
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God's leaders in the church. 
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exegesis somewhat helpful. 
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So if you want to hear the next 
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be verses 11 through 219. 
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if week, 32 in ordinary time or 
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Sunday you'll probably hear it 
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today with just one catechism 
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paragraph 162 which is about the
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faith. 
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this passage here, faith is an 
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makes to man. 
We can lose this Priceless gift 

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as Saint Paul indicator to 
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The good wolf are holding faith 
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rejecting conscience, certain 
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their faith. 
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the faith until the end. 
We must nourish it with the word

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of God. 
We must beg the Lord to increase

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our faith. 
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charity, abounding in, Hope and 
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church. 
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us that if we want to stay in 
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We need to beg the Lord. 
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We need to beg the Lord to 
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That should be the constant 
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Thanks for listening today, 
please keep telling. 

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People about the ministry and 
we'll continue to look at the 

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gospels in the coming days.