Feb. 6, 2025

Spotify Christian Podcast Chart Pt 3

Spotify Christian Podcast Chart Pt 3

We discuss an episode of a podcast on the Spotify Christian Podcast Chart

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We discuss an episode of a podcast on the Spotify Christian Podcast Chart

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good evening everyone.

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It is Wednesday. I was going to say January, which

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just because right before I went live, I was talking

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about January, so I think I should probably give you

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the correct month, right, Good evening everyone. It is Wednesday,

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February the fifth, twenty twenty five.

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I don't even know the day. I don't even know

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the year.

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I don't know anything anymore. Good evening everyone. It is Wednesday,

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February the fifth, twenty twenty five. It is currently six

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fifty three pm Central Time, and I'm coming to you

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live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas.

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So what should we talk about tonight? Well, if you

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see the metadata, you have a pretty good idea what

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we're going to talk about. Let me explain kind of

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how we got here, and then we're going to just

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jump right in this this kind of series where this

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episode will be placed. It really kind of it kind

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of started with the idea, Look, there are there's like

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a million Christian podcasts out there. There are so many,

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So what I'll do Because I listened to podcasts after

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podcast after podcasts after podcasts. There will be times I

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will find a podcast, then I'll turn on the microphone

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and kind of turn the spotlight on and go, hey, everyone,

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here's this podcast. Let's go listen to it. Here's what

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it's about, and then you can decide if you like it,

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if you don't like it, if you want to subscribe,

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if you don't want to subscribe, and just help you

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find other content out there that you may find interesting,

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you may find challenging, you may disagree with, but you

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feel like you need to keep up with it for

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whatever reason. So it kind of started off as the

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idea of turning the spotlight on other podcasts and doing

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what I can as I go from you know, podcast

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app after podcast app, searching for all the different Christian philological,

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Bible based podcasts, and that's kind of how it started.

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There was there was we won't go through everything that

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happened in this series. There was a lot of stops

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and starts and starts and stops, and you know, there

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was some chaos that kind of happened early on. We

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won't go back and recount all of that. So that's

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kind of how it started. And then that kind of

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transitioned into what we did all of twenty twenty four,

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all of what we did on twenty twenty four. Instead

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of turning my turning the spotlight on other Christian podcasts,

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I decided to kind of narrow the focus and turn

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the spotlight on other broadcasts and other sermons and other

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broadcasters and churches on the sermons two point oh app alone.

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So I told everyone to download the sermons two point

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oh app. We did the Sermon's two point oh app challenge.

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I tried to have everyone find a random sermon every

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single day for all of twenty twenty four, and that

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by the end of twenty twenty four we would have

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listen to at least one sermon per day taken directly

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from the Sermon's two point oh app. You would find

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different churches, different speakers, different broadcasters. Hopefully you would find

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the ones you liked the ones you didn't like. I

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listened to sermon after sermon. We did review after review

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after review. Yes, sometimes those reviews turned negative and a

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lot of people didn't like that. But I mean, when

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I do our review, I don't listen to something first.

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We listened to it in real time, so I have

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to respond and whatever happens. It's always kind of like

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I don't know what's going to occur. And I think

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that that was it was. I think it was beneficial.

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I hope. I think it was somewhat interesting. It definitely

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it definitely led to some interesting reviews. Let me tell

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you that it also led to a lot of frustration,

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which kind of led us to our entire series from

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Isaiah chapter forty through Isaiah chapter fifty five, which we're

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going to be working on I don't know for the

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next twenty five years because of some of the things

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we discovered.

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So we kind of did that.

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Well, now that it's twenty five, if I know which

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year it actually is, I'm like, well, this year, we're

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going to kind of just you know, I told you

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I had a notebook here underneath the microphone, and that

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the notebook was going to remain empty, and we're not

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going to have a complete strategy or are like we're

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going to do this. We're going to kind of just

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wherever things lead us. And late last night Spotify contacted me,

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sent me some information about our podcast on Spotify, some analytics,

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and we found some interesting things. And so I talked

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about earlier today, Hey guys, Theology Central is available on Spotify.

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You don't have to subscribe to Spotify to use Spotify

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as a podcasting app. Go use it as a podcasting

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app and look for Theology Central and give us five

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stars and follow us and all of those types of things.

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And one of the reasons we talked about that is

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because Spotify has these charts, these podcasting charts. They may

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not mean anything to you, but when it comes to

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a chart dealing with Christianity, religion, spirituality, you should want

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want to know what are people listening to. You should

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want to know that, right, because that kind of tells you.

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It gives you some kind of idea of the spiritual

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climate that we currently live in, right, So you want

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to kind of keep track of that just for your

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own information. Where you can go, Oh, it seems like

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people are going in this direction spiritually and this direction,

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and Spotify is a good place to pay attention because

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it is the number one podcasting app and the world

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it is, especially if.

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You're talking about audio podcasts.

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If you're talking about video podcasts, then YouTube would rule

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the world. But when it comes to audio podcasts and

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Spotify is trying to move into the video podcasting market,

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but they dominate the world. So what's going on there

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is giving you some idea. Now you may look and go,

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this is crazy what is happening, But that's telling you

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what is going on. Now. When I see the chart,

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I always get bothered because of the things I see

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on the chart, And I'm like, are you telling me

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that there is no more Bible based, philologically sound churches

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out there producing podcasts that can make it on the chart?

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Are you telling me there's no one out there? Why

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do we have Joyce Meyer, Why do we have Joel Ostein,

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Why do we have Stephen Ferdick. Why are they ruling

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the podcasting world where the rest of the churches aren't,

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Like what are we doing? And so I always get

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bothered by that, And it's not even about my podcast,

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it's really anyone. And I'm always like, come on, churches,

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if you put if you put your sermons online, make

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it into use the RSS feed, make it into a podcast,

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make sure it's everywhere, and have people trying to listen

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to it.

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Because the more people who listen to.

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Solid a solid biblical theological podcast on Spotify, that for

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and that almost forces the algorithm for Spotify to pick

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up that particular broadcast, that church, that podcast and then

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start recommending it, or it may even show up on

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the chart, and then more people will find it, and

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then they will find they're going to find something. If

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they're out there looking for something biblical, spiritual, they're going

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to find something. And the question is what are they

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going to find? Well, the algorithm pushes what is being

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listened to, what what's getting people's attention. So I'm always

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trying to say, we've gotta, we gotta. It's not even

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about me again, it's about any any good broadcast out there.

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So we talked a lot about that today, and so

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once again I was looking at the Spotify podcasting charts.

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I haven't looked looked. I have not looked at them

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in a while, and I decided to take a look today.

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So I've got to Spotify app open right now, I'm

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looking at podcast charts. I went to category and I

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pulled up top Religion and Spirituality podcast.

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We talked about this in the last broadcast, so I'm

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just going to go through. Number one is a Catholic podcast,

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The Bible in a Year, Father Mike Schmidz. If you

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look at the top fifty. Catholicism basically dominates. Catholicism dominates.

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I don't know. If Catholics just listen to more podcasts

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than non Catholics, I don't know. But Father Schmids and

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everything that they do with Ascension, they dominate the podcasting charts.

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It's just that's the way it is. Number Number one,

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I mean, number one is the Bible in a year.

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If you go down to number six again put out

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by Ascension, it's the Rosary and a year. Uh. If

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you go down to see where they show up again,

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A number twenty two the Father Mike Schmidz Catholic podcast.

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If you look at number twenty four, Padre, it's a

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it's another uh.

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Catholic podcast.

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I'm looking. I'm just looking at all the numbers. If

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you look down here, if you go a little further down,

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you see here. If you look another further down you

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have the Sunday Homilies with Father Mike Schmitz. Another one,

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you have the Exorcist files that number forty eight. All

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of those are Catholic. So and it's basically one one

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Catholic group that's that's dominating that. So I find that interesting.

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Number two on the chart is Girls Gone Bible. We've

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reviewed it. It's a thiological train wreck if I've ever

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heard one in my life. I think it's a mess

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beyond I mean, I don't even know what to say.

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It's still number two. It's been dominating. It's been in

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the top five or ten. It seems like forever they

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figured out a formula, people love it. That's where people

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are going for. I guess Bible right. Number three is

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the Bryce Crawford podcast. I have no idea who he is.

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He clearly kind of markets himself. It's the Bryce Crawford Podcast.

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He's marketing himself. It's supposedly about the Bible. I think

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he did a long series on the Gospel of Luke.

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I wanted to review one of the episodes. I was

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having problems getting in in the format I needed to

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upload to my software. I think I have to convert

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it to something else. But when I started listen to one,

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the first thing I noticed was, Hey, before we get started,

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go buy some of my merch and he sells merchandise.

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So I guess that's okay. I mean, you can, you know,

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you can say however you feel about that. So that's

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number one. Two and three, The Bible in a Year,

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Girls Gone Bible, and the Bryce Crawford Podcast. Right then,

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number four caught my attention because I've never seen number

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four on the chart ever. I don't think i've ever

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so man, it's been a while since I've looked. It's

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not like I don't use Spotify all the time, so yeah,

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a lot of times I don't see it. Sometimes I

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use it as a podcasting app. Sometimes I forget about it,

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you know, and so well, I looked at him, like.

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What is this.

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The first thing that caught my attention was, well, it's numbers.

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It's two, eight, one nine Church, twenty eight nineteen Church,

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twenty eight nineteen Church. And then the last broadcast, I

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kept saying, twenty eight nineteen, twenty eight nineteen. I wonder

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what that's it, And all of a sudden it hit me, Oh,

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come on now, it's.

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Matthew twenty eight nineteen.

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It's the Great Commission, the idea that they were a

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great Commission church. Okay, I'm like, that's clever. They got

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me a twenty eight nineteen Church. So I clicked on it,

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and if you look at it right now, they have

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one hundred and seventy seven ratings. One hundred and seventy

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seven people have given it a star rating, and they

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have a star rating of five point Oh that's perfect,

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ladies and gentlemen. We don't eat we have like a

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four point two or three or something like that. We've

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only had like I don't know, fourteen people give us

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a star rating, so they have one hundred and seventy seven.

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Now you say, well, that seems pretty insignificant. That's not

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insignificant because it's hard. I think you think it would

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be easy. It's hard to get people to go. No,

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actually give it a thumbs up.

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No.

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Actually, that's why in every YouTube video, please don't forget

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to hit that button and subscribe and hit the bell

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and do this, because they know how difficult it is

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listen to that. Hi, maybe maybe not. Who cares. They

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got a million things to choose from, and I can

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understand that. So that's pretty pretty significant. I haven't looked.

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eight twenty eight nineteen Church Podcasts. I think they're a

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listen notes sing on. I'm gonna go to where we

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get all of our information about our podcast their podcasts. WHOA, Okay,

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it's in the top one point five percent. Okay, they

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they they're up there, ladies and gentlemen, we're in the

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top five percent. That when you get to the top

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one point five person, they're in a whole different universe. Okay,

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that is a lot of people listening to them. So

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I've never even heard of this church. Have you ever

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heard of twenty eight nineteen church? If I have, I

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don't have any. I have no information here about the

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podcast is what it says. Welcome to the official podcast

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for twenty eight nineteen Church. The podcast features powerful and

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life impacting messages from Philip Anthony Mitchell and guests communicators.

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expect to be challenged, stirred, matured and inspired in your

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faith walk with God. For more information, visit us at

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to this, they've only been I guess doing a podcast

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since January two, twenty twenty five. So this is a

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relatively new podcast and they're already and the top one percent.

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That is insane. They've got eighty three episodes out so far.

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these guys come from? Where?

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blame you for not letting me know. Okay, so where

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did they come from? They're already what was it on

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the on the Spotify chart? Their number? Let me go

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back here, they're number four. They're already number four. They're

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number four in the chart. They've basically been around since January.

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There's something going on here. So I clicked on it and

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I'm like, okay, what's going on here? So the newest

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I'm like, and it says an episode two of Entry

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and End Times. I'm like, okay, well, then where's episode one?

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one through eleven. Now, I think see now when I

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with eschatology. Sounds like maybe it will not sounds like

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it's going to be Jesus triumphant entry into Jerusalem, right,

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I think that's what that's going to be. So well,

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let's review it. Let's review it. Let's just jump in

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and review it. I don't know how far we'll get.

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and the podcasting charge. Yeah, well, you can draw your

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own conclusions whether you like it don't like it. But

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new up and coming church? Is this I mean not

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new and up and coming, as they probably have been

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around for a while, but they're just now gaining this

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podcasting notoriety. I mean, top one point five percent. All right,

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so let's see let's let's let' see what we can

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discover about them. Here we go. We're going to go

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to twenty eight nineteen church. I think it's in Atlanta.

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I think it's in Atlanta. And this is from January

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the twenty seventh is when it was at least uploaded.

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Entry to Okay, I gotta stop it there. I need.

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I need that whenever I stand up at church and say,

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hey guys, we're going to start a new series, and

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doing it. Whenever I announce a new series here for

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I don't know, I know it's a it's more of

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a preference. I know it's more of a preference. You

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can't really say that's necessarily wrong. It just feels like

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a big show. It feels like a lot of hype.

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it deserves that kind of intro a. Right, I mean,

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maybe pastors need you wanted the best, you got the best,

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the hottest preacher in the land. Well, I'm borrowing from

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how kiss used to be introduced way back in the day. Okay,

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all right, we won't we won't go into music. But hey,

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you wanted the best, You've got the best, the hottest

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preacher in the land. And then you scream his name,

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and then the band goes and everybody starts applouting, and

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I get what do they hold up their lighters? Okay,

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I mean, all right, it just seems so okay, but

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it's also a preference thing. So then we get to

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regulative normative principles. We won't get into all of those

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theological issues. Let's just see ultimately what matters is not

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the style in which it's delivered. It's not even really

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worth about the esthetic and all the other things tools

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they use. I mean, we can have a conversation about that.

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to be handled? Because look, now this is very important.

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is important. I've heard churches sometimes who have all of

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this like Is it a concert? Is that a nightclub?

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Is it a stage presentation? Is this a Broadway show?

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where it's it's reverent, it's respectful, it's open the Word

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of God. They read it, they preach it. But the

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actual handling of the text is a total and complete

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train rag. So what you have to do is not

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allow the blinding lights or no lights and no drama

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and no dramatic anything.

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bright lights and loud music or whether it's nothing but

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it looks it feels more reverent you've got. You can't

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let either of that influence you when you're listening to

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see how the text is handled. So all we really

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care about is if this is going to be a

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Matthew twenty one, how is the text going to be handled?

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New series Entry.

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In this series we will marvel.

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of his earthly ministry before he departed this world, and

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we will be awakened at the words of Christ about

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what is coming for the world in the end times. Okay,

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our text to is coming from Matthew chapter twenty one,

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that we're gonna get to seeing what's coming in the

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seventy a d. And to ignore that, I mean his

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scriptural malpractice. All Right, if you go to Matthew twenty

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four and you make it all about the end times,

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the end times, and.

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Then we got a problem.

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go Matthew twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and then

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the grand finale will be Matthew twenty four. So you

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can get to the entry and the End Times clever

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entry and End Times that's pretty clever. Go from Matthew

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twenty one to twenty four. I do like adding further

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context that I do applaud that, I do applaud that

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everyone in the church seems very hyped for it. I mean,

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he just gave the text are going to go through

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and everything's like yeah, yeah. I wish I could say

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open your Bibles to Isaiah and everybody just starts going

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crazy again. It's just a cultural preference. I mean, you know,

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you can you can say whether it's good or bad. Well,

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going to be handled. So Matthew twenty one one through

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eleven and he's going to cover these eleven verses in

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about about thirty minutes.

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he gonna is this?

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Well? All right, there's a lot of questions I can ask.

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I won't ask any questions. Let's just go.

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Okay, Eternal Garden of a Wise Father, Lord, we thank

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you for the miracles you have performed for us this week.

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We thank you for your faithfulness to us as a church,

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and we thank you, God Lord for just the opportunity

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you've given us to come together and to open this

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sacred book and to proclaim this holy Gospel. It shall

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not be hindered. And I just pray, with the minutes

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I have left, that you would help me in my

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weakness to preach the truth of these scriptures to these

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your sons and daughters and to the unbeliever. I asked

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us in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless

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name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.

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And now we can talk all day.

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The music.

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And the praying is that emotional manipulation? And I don't know.

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I know this. I get sick and tired of pastors

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praying for God help me preach the truth. Because if

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God is helping us preach, then ladies and gentlemen, there

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wouldn't be fifty bazillion different denominations and nobody would agree

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on any interpretation we saw just the other day. And

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listening to a sermon on the Sermon on the Mount,

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nobody can agree who even the audience was for the

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sermon on the Mount. So if God is helping us,

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you think we can be able to figure out by

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now what is the proper mode of baptism. Who's supposed

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to be baptized the Lord's Supper? Close, closed, open, I

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mean the gospel, how do we understand it? And as

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a reformed way, non reform way, free will way, our many.

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I mean I could go on. Do we understand scriptures

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from a law gospel dynamic or from a lordship perspective?

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I mean we could go on and on and on.

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There is literally no agreement about anything, but every preacher

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always seems.

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To not only do they pray it.

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Feel that prayer is somewhat manipulation.

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but I always focus on this prayer. Hey, Lord, you

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speak through me, Lord like you hide me behind your cross.

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Let my words be true.

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Let me well when whenever you or you tell the congregation,

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you either pray that way or you tell the congregation.

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God gave me this message the minute you do that.

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Whether it's the I'm not saying it's intended, but what's

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clearly implied, whether whether people understand it or not, is

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you can't criticize this sermon because I mean, the pastor

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prayed for God to speak through him and help him

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speak the truth. So I mean, obviously God wouldn't let

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him speak alive if he pray, so obviously it's got

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to be true. I mean God gave him the message.

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Obviously it has to be true. I mean, I don't know.

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I know Christians don't seem to have a problem with that,

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but whenever I hear that, I just want to get

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up and walk out because that basically I'm being told

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that this message comes directly from God. So we just

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basically better understand that pastor as being a part of

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the magistral authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Because they claimed that.

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Authority that their interpretation their sermon comes directly from God.

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You cannot question it, you cannot challenge it. I know

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pastors may not mean it that way, but that's how

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it comes across. If the sermon was given to you

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by God and God told you what to preach, then

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I can't question it. And if you're the one saying, God,

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let me what I speak is true, then either God

470
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is not answering your prayer, or maybe God doesn't answer

471
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that prayer, because if he answered that prayer, we wouldn't

472
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have all these different denominations. The whole thing drives me crazy.

473
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But let's get to the text.

474
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Let's get to the text, amen. I'll figure out a

475
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title later. This is just the beginning of the.

476
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End a family and our human experience. No one actually

477
00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:06.079
knows the day or the album which they will depart

478
00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:09.720
this life. For there is nobody listening to me right

479
00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.599
now that knows the exact day that they will die.

480
00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:16.680
But there are some circumstances.

481
00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:20.279
In this life when a doctor may tell a terminally

482
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ill person that they have a certain set amount of

483
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time to live, and they may be able to do

484
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that with some measure of accuracy. And it's in those

485
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:34.480
circumstances I just want to lean on your mental faculties

486
00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:38.400
for just a moment, that if a person knew exactly

487
00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:42.319
when they was gonna die, how much more significant becomes

488
00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:46.480
the final words of that person or the final actions

489
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of that person as they knew there was coming to

490
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the end of their life. Interer the Lord Jesus Christ,

491
00:27:55.079 --> 00:27:59.599
who knew exactly when he was going to die, He

492
00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:03.880
knew exactly where he was going to die, he knew

493
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:07.680
exactly how he was going to die, and she knew

494
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:10.359
when he would return to the Father.

495
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The year is a d thirty three. Okay.

496
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The city or the place is the Holy City of Jerusalem.

497
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The month is the month of Nissan on the Jewish

498
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calendar April for you and I. The city Jerusalem is

499
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in a time a festival passover at the point in time.

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Now, I'm just gonna jump in just for clarification, you know,

501
00:28:46.759 --> 00:28:51.200
for clarification purposes. The exact year of jesus crucifixion, I

502
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:52.920
don't know. I know you're gonna be shocked by this.

503
00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:58.279
It is debated, I know, I know, because there's no

504
00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:02.599
agreement on anything, all right. The two most common proposals

505
00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:06.279
is eighty thirty not AD thirty three, and the second

506
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one is AD thirty three. While the Bible does not

507
00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:13.039
give a specific year, scholars attempt to determine the date

508
00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:16.920
based on historical and astronomical data.

509
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So there's a lot of speculation going on here.

510
00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:24.240
The key factors in dating jesus death one would be

511
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Ponscious Pilot's governorship. Jesus was crucified under Ponscious Pilot, who

512
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governed Judea from eighty twenty six to AD thirty six,

513
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according to Josephus. Now, some people even question the historical

514
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:40.720
accuracy of Josephus. We won't get into all of that,

515
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but that's twenty six to thirty six, so I mean

516
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he's saying it very dogmatic. The year is thirty three,

517
00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:52.519
the month is I mean, he's saying it authoritatively and dogmatically. Again,

518
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:54.559
it's a lot of times things are preached from the

519
00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:57.720
pulpit and an authoritative and dogmatic way in five minutes

520
00:29:57.720 --> 00:29:59.319
of research, and you're kind of like, I don't know

521
00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.400
if that's as a authoritative as it ever is. The

522
00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:05.400
second factor is to passover in the day of the crucifixion.

523
00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:08.759
The gospel seemed to indicate Jesus was crucified on Friday

524
00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:13.119
during Passover week Matthew twenty six two, Mark fourteen one,

525
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John eighteen twenty eight. Astronomical calculations suggest that passover Nissan

526
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:24.759
fourteen fell on Friday in both A D thirty and then,

527
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:28.359
which would be April seventh and AD thirty three April third,

528
00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:34.400
So you have two possibilities there. Jesus public ministry duration,

529
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The gospel suggests jesus ministry lasted around three to three

530
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:40.519
point five years based on the number of passovers mentioned

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in John. Since John the Baptist began his ministry around

532
00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:46.839
twenty eight or twenty nine Luke three one through two,

533
00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:50.759
referencing Tiberia Caesar's reign. This suggests a crucifixion date of

534
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:55.799
AD thirty or AD thirty three. Okay, why Some scholars

535
00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:58.640
favor AD thirty fits well with the estimated start of

536
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:02.880
jesus ministry around AD twenty seven and aligns with a

537
00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:07.200
passover on Friday, April seventh, AD thirty Some early Christian

538
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:11.079
sources seem to support this date. So we do have

539
00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:15.240
some early Christian sources who seem to support April seventh,

540
00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:20.319
AD thirty right. Others seem to favor AD thirty three.

541
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:23.920
It fits well with Jesus ministry lasted closer to three

542
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:27.559
point five years, starting around eighty twenty nine. This is

543
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:30.640
matches a Friday passover in April third, eighty thirty three.

544
00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:35.680
Some argue that aligns better with historical details about Pilots governance.

545
00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:37.079
There is no.

546
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:42.480
Absolute certainty, but AD thirty and AD thirty three are

547
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:48.440
basically the strongest candidates. Many scholars lean towards AD thirty

548
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:53.559
while others argue for AD thirty three. So he made

549
00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:57.160
it very dogmatic. This is the year and just know

550
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:00.880
that it's it's not that. As soon as he said it,

551
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:03.440
I was like, Oh, I've been in too many classes

552
00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:06.240
where we argue this. Okay, I've been I think in

553
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:10.960
I think maybe one Bible college, maybe a Bible institute.

554
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:12.599
I have to go back and try to remember where

555
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:14.680
we had to do a whole thing about making your

556
00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:18.160
arguments pro and con Was it thirty or thirty three?

557
00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:19.880
All right, So here we go.

558
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The biggest festival on the calendar for the Jews.

559
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And it was in that festival where.

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The Jews would remember, listen, or commemorate they had great

561
00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:38.160
deliverance from four hundred years of Egyptian slavery. Where the

562
00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:42.200
people were crying out for freedom. God is talking to Moses.

563
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:46.000
Side note, they're crying out for freedom. God is talking

564
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:50.160
to Moses. They're crying out for help. God is talking

565
00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:53.880
to the answer. They're crying out for help. God is

566
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:57.000
talking to the answer. Not because God is silent, that

567
00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:04.279
doesn't mean he's not talking to your answer. And as

568
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:07.880
in their try, the Lord gives them a word that

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he will send a death angel through all of the

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cities of Egypt, and they are to.

571
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Slay a lamb.

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And take the blood of.

573
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:19.920
The lamb and put it over the doorposts of their house,

574
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and when the Death Angel passed by that house, the Death.

575
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:26.359
Angel would see the lamb over the house.

576
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And will pass over that house, symbolizing the coming of Christ.

577
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:37.759
And so every year it pass over, they would slay

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00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:43.680
lambs and spill the blood to remember that time when

579
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they would deliver it from Egyptian slavery.

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The Lord, now, knowing he's coming down to the end

581
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of his life, how much more significant are his final words.

582
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And his final actions.

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History tells us that on this day in history, in

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the months of Nissan, in the month of April, in

585
00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:06.759
the y A D thirty three, we know that accurately

586
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:11.199
that there was some two hundred and fifty thousand lambs

587
00:34:11.199 --> 00:34:13.400
that was slain that week in Israel.

588
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.679
Okay, he's making another claim. Okay, do I'm gonna I'm

589
00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:26.679
gonna do search here. Do we know accurately that two

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00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:40.360
hundred and fifty thousand lambs were slain in A D

591
00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:47.719
thirty three April? I think he said. I think he

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00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:50.440
said April third. That's typical the date. If he said

593
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:56.079
a different day, then it becomes all more complicated. Good

594
00:34:56.119 --> 00:34:59.159
I'm gonna do a search here and see. I don't

595
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:07.440
know how you would know the Okay, here's what we know. Okay,

596
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:11.000
so I figured this was the case. The claim that

597
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:13.679
two hundred and fifty thousand lambs were slain during the

598
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.239
passover and AD thirty three comes from an ancient estimate,

599
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:20.039
but is not a precisely verified historical fact.

600
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Of course I.

601
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:27.920
Should have known, right the sources of The primary historical

602
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.679
source for large numbers of passover lambs being sacrificed is,

603
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:33.079
of course Josephus.

604
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:37.119
That's typically where people go the War of the Jews.

605
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:42.159
Josepha states that during one passover, possibly around AD sixty six,

606
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:47.440
not AD thirty three, two hundred and fifty six thousand,

607
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:49.960
five hundred lamps were slaughtered in the temple. Please note

608
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:56.440
AD sixty six, not AD thirty three. His estimate that

609
00:35:56.480 --> 00:36:00.119
each lamb represented about ten people, implying over two two

610
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:03.239
point five million people were in Jerusalem for the feast. Now,

611
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:05.800
why would he want to establish how many people are

612
00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:09.599
in Jerusalem and sixty six AD Because Josephus is going

613
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:12.840
to talk about the destruction of the temple in seventy

614
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:15.440
a d. This has nothing to do with thirty three AD.

615
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:19.440
He says, we know accurately, so he's made it a

616
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:23.480
dogmatic assertion that it's thirty three, which is not historically verified.

617
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:27.480
He made a historical stating that it was factual. So

618
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.239
so far we are just a few minutes into this sermon,

619
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:32.920
and we were wrong about two hundred and fifty thousand

620
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:36.480
lambs being slaughtered in AD thirty three or AD thirty

621
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:40.960
It was sixty six according to Josephus. Secondly, he said

622
00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:43.119
that it was AD thirty three, and we don't know

623
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:46.440
if it was actually AD thirty three that Jesus died.

624
00:36:48.239 --> 00:36:52.920
Ai says many historians believe Josepha's number was inflated, either

625
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:56.119
to impress the Roman audience or due to unreliable reports

626
00:36:56.599 --> 00:37:00.400
logistical issues. Sacrificing two hundred and fifty thousand lambs in

627
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:04.400
a single day from three pm to sunset would require

628
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.800
an extremely high rate of slaughter, perhaps thousands of lambs

629
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:13.119
per minute, which seems very unlikely. Temple space limitation. The

630
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:17.599
Temple Mount, even in its expanded form under Herod, would

631
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:22.239
have struggled to accommodate such a massive operation. We do

632
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:26.400
not have a specific, verifiable record for the exact number

633
00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:30.400
of lambs sacrificed on April third. Josepha's number, if accurate

634
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:33.159
at all, applies to a later time, possibly before the

635
00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:37.199
Jewish revolt eighty sixty six to eighty seventy, not necessarily

636
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.480
to jesus crucifixion year. However, it is reasonable to assume

637
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:43.400
tens of thousands of lambs were sacrificed in Jerusalem during Passover,

638
00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:46.800
given the large number of Jewish pilgrims. But it was

639
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:50.239
not two hundred and fifty thousand. It's just factually wrong.

640
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:53.079
We do not know if it was eighty thirty three

641
00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:57.199
when Jesus died. We just don't know. I know preachers

642
00:37:57.239 --> 00:37:59.760
love to stand behind pulpits and say all kinds of

643
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:03.119
things in an authoritative and dogmatic way, but it's twenty

644
00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:06.639
twenty five, ladies and gentlemen. Pastors can't do that. They

645
00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:08.719
should have never done that. They should have been worried

646
00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:11.800
about accuracy and truth of fifty years ago, one hundred

647
00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:14.719
years ago. But pastors used to get away with this nonsense.

648
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:17.920
Used to drive me crazy when I would hear claims,

649
00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:20.559
and in many cases I would know the claim was false.

650
00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:21.880
But back in the day, I would have to.

651
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:23.840
Drive to a library, it'd have to go try to

652
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.119
research and have to try to look up and then

653
00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:29.119
sometimes try to go back. Anytime I've ever gone back

654
00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:31.000
to a pastor going this is not right, this is

655
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.519
not they never care.

656
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:34.760
They always get irritated.

657
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:36.960
They always get mad, and they just and most cases

658
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:40.039
will not do anything to correct it. Well, it's twenty

659
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:44.800
twenty five. You can be corrected in five seconds. I

660
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:47.639
could correct all of that in five seconds using any

661
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:54.800
AI program that's even worth anything. That's just maddening.

662
00:38:55.079 --> 00:39:00.320
But this is the number four podcast on Spotify.

663
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.199
It's in the top one percent of all podcasts globally.

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00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:14.960
We're absolutely getting fraudulent historical data so far. I mean,

665
00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:19.400
so did he even read Josephers? Did he just look

666
00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:21.440
it up online? Where did he get the information? He

667
00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:24.480
didn't give us a source, but he says, we accurately know, Well,

668
00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:27.519
if we accurately know, give me the source that supposedly

669
00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:28.199
is accurate.

670
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:33.840
One land for every family gives us a number of

671
00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:37.880
maybe over two million people packed into.

672
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The city of Jerusalem.

673
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:46.800
Matthew and Chat to twenty one records for us, the

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00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:50.159
beginning of the end of the public life of the

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00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:54.599
Lord Jesus Christ, and Matthew writes for Us and Matthew

676
00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:58.960
chapter twenty one, and this small periscope of scripture. The

677
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:04.039
very first significant event in what we call the Passion

678
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:08.360
week of the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew writes in Matthew

679
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:10.480
Chapter twenty one and beginning in verse one.

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Now, when they, that is Jesus and his.

681
00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:19.039
Followers drew near to Jerusalem, there is two million people there.

682
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:22.679
They came to a town called Bethphage to the Mount

683
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of Olives.

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I've stood on top of that mountain.

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Then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, go into

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00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:33.760
the village in front of you, and immediately you will

687
00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:37.360
find a donkey tiede and a cult which is the

688
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:42.000
baby of a donkey with her Untie them and bring

689
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:42.559
them to me.

690
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If anyone says.

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Anything to you, you shall say the Lord needs them.

692
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And he will send them at once.

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So, family, I just want to draw your attention to

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this parera scope of scripture.

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Okay. He also made the claim there were two million

696
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:09.639
people in Jerusalem for Passover in eighty thirty three. Well,

697
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:12.920
once again, I just looked it up based this is

698
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based on some ancient estimates.

699
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:16.400
Please note these are based on estimates.

700
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:20.360
He's stating this like it's factual, just like you know,

701
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.519
we dug up a book and it had all of

702
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:27.920
these information just for us, and it doesn't work that way. Okay.

703
00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:32.519
According to AI, this is most likely an exaggeration. Again,

704
00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:35.840
Josephus comes into play. A lot of this is based

705
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:39.719
on Josephas. Josephus states that the census taken for passover

706
00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:42.880
and later in a later year, I counted two hundred

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00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.960
and fifty six thousand, five hundred lamb sacrifice, estimating ten

708
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:48.719
people per lamb, leading to a total of about two

709
00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:51.280
point seven million people. But once again, that's a D

710
00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:55.559
sixty six. That's not AD thirty three. So if you're

711
00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:58.400
gonna say two million people, why is he pulling numbers

712
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:03.880
from eight sixty six? I'm putting to eighty thirty three. Tacitus,

713
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:07.320
a first century Roman historian, is a Tacitus.

714
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:09.320
I think it's Tacitus, first.

715
00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:12.039
Century Roman historian, wrote that Jerusalem had a population of

716
00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:14.840
six hundred thousand, but he was referring to the total

717
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:20.360
resident population, not passover numbers. Right, we have another source

718
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.960
that describes large crowds that pass over, but this is

719
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:25.760
not given exact number, So the problem with the two

720
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:31.039
million estimate. Josephus number most likely exaggerated. Many scholars believe

721
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:35.199
he inflated figures to emphasize the city's significance jerusalem size

722
00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:38.039
at the time, Jerusalem's estimated size was about one square

723
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:41.880
mile with a normal population of eight eighty thousand to

724
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:45.360
one hundred thousand. Even if temporary shelters and camps outside

725
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:48.519
the walls expended capacity, fitting two million people in and

726
00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:52.159
around the city would have been nearly impossible food and

727
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:55.679
water limitations. Providing food, water, and sanitation for two million

728
00:42:55.679 --> 00:42:58.639
people in the ancient city would have been extraordinarily difficult.

729
00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:02.360
Temple logistics. Scrificing lambs for two million people and one

730
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:05.360
day would have been required would have required an incredibly

731
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:09.639
fast and efficient slaughtering process, which seems unlikely. A more

732
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:16.039
realistic estimation estimate estimate modern Many modern historians suggest pass

733
00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:18.599
over a crowd of three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand,

734
00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:23.400
with some estimates maybe reaching one million. But again, that's

735
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:27.440
basically sixty six AD not thirty three AD. Why does

736
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.480
he keep taking so you see what happens in a

737
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:33.639
sermon when you start off making dogmatic assertion. And remember

738
00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:37.880
what he said, he prayed, Lord, make sure you know

739
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:40.760
help me speak the truth? Well, where is God helping

740
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:44.239
him speak the truth? When it's factual error after factual

741
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:45.800
error after factual error.

742
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:48.000
What we're up to? What three factual.

743
00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:55.440
Errors he's borrowing somewhere? He got confused that Josephus was

744
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:58.599
speaking about sixty eight sixty six AD and is referencing

745
00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:01.679
that to thirty three AD. That's not the same year.

746
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:03.559
And not only that, we don't even know if it

747
00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:10.199
was thirty eighty or thirty three AD. Oh man, But see,

748
00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:12.280
this is the podcast it's going to get that's getting

749
00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:14.960
all the attention. This is the podcast that you see

750
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.840
Why I get so irritated when I see the podcasting charts.

751
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:20.320
It's not about me.

752
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:23.519
There's plenty of people out there who can do a

753
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:27.119
far better job than I can do. Let's find their podcast,

754
00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:29.559
get them to number one, so that people at least

755
00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:35.079
have the option to go Catholicism twenty eight to nineteen

756
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:37.960
church where all kinds of historical facts have been stated

757
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:40.960
in about a ten minute period. Or here's this other

758
00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:44.800
church that will handle the text more accurately. Remember, I said,

759
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:47.400
it's not about all of the other things that happened

760
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.960
at the beginning, the esthetic, the music, It's about how

761
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:52.440
the text was going to be handled. Well, we haven't

762
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:55.360
even got into the text, and we already have massive

763
00:44:55.519 --> 00:45:00.000
historical and factual errors.

764
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.599
Heems very insignificant on the surface, but right here in

765
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:08.639
these verses we have the beginning of the first major

766
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:10.559
event in the life of Christ.

767
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:13.440
In the final week of his life.

768
00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:18.000
Matthew tells us that Jesus and his followers is drawing

769
00:45:18.079 --> 00:45:21.880
near to the city of Jerusalem. They stop at a

770
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place called Bethphage, and he tells us that the Lord

771
00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:28.679
is getting ready to enter the city of Jerusalem. Listen,

772
00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:31.679
for the very last time in his life, and he

773
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:34.400
tries to enter the city, or he does into the city,

774
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:38.480
Listen with a special request. He's not gonna walk in.

775
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:42.400
He wants to ride in. Now, Watch what do we

776
00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:44.960
know in history up into this moment. Listen to what

777
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:48.480
we know. We know based on Matthew's records, the Lord

778
00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:55.159
has walked with his followers from northern Israel, net Capernaum, Cesarea, Philippi, Galilee.

779
00:45:55.199 --> 00:45:58.920
Watch all the way down to the south to Jerusalem.

780
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:00.960
We know from him history.

781
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:05.320
That the Lord walked a hundred miles, stopping every night

782
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:08.840
for rest where his followers all the way down to Jerusalem.

783
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:11.800
We know on his way to Jerusalem he rolls through

784
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:15.119
a city called Jericho, where he wins to the faith

785
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:15.800
a rich.

786
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:19.599
Man called Zachias, who gave away half his goods. We

787
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:21.840
know as he's on his way to Jericho.

788
00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:24.159
He stops at a city called Bethany, where he hung

789
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:26.719
out with a few friends, a woman named Mary, a

790
00:46:26.719 --> 00:46:29.199
woman named Martha, and a man he had raised from

791
00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:32.159
the dead named Lazarus. We know on his way to

792
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:33.960
Jericho he stops at this.

793
00:46:33.880 --> 00:46:35.039
Town called beth Phage.

794
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:37.480
Watch rich is a suburb.

795
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:41.960
Of Jerusalem, like Henry County, or like filling the blank

796
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:43.360
county around Atlanta.

797
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:47.199
Now watch, he travels one hundred miles and he stops

798
00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:48.079
at Bethage.

799
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:53.199
Okay, here we go again. He keeps stating these numbers

800
00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:55.840
as if he just dug this up in a Hey,

801
00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:58.840
we're doing an archaeological dig. Look, here's this book. It

802
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:03.119
gives us dates, gives it. We don't have anything like that.

803
00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:06.960
Was Jesus wearing a watch keeping track of how many

804
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:10.400
miles he walked. Now we don't know the exact number.

805
00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:16.519
One could argue it's reasonable. It's a reasonable estimate that

806
00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:18.559
he traveled one hundred miles over the course of a

807
00:47:18.599 --> 00:47:22.760
three year ministry, including his final journey to Jerusalem. We

808
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:31.400
can look at some of the key locations Nazareth, Copernaium, Jerusalem, Bethany, Jericho, Caina,

809
00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:36.960
tire Sidon, Cesarea Philippi, Cesa Philippi, and beyond. Now, the

810
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.079
most direct route from Copernium to Galilee is about eighty

811
00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:43.320
to ninety miles. Many Jews avoided traveling through Samaria, taking

812
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:48.360
a route through Peria, which was which was longer about

813
00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:50.960
one hundred, one hundred and twenty miles. Jesus made multiple

814
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.920
trips to Jerusalem, not just for his crucifixion, but also

815
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:57.679
for Jewish feast. The estimated total miles and his ministry,

816
00:47:57.960 --> 00:48:01.440
some scholars estimated that if you look the total miles

817
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:03.880
that he walked was actually have been three thousand miles

818
00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:06.760
for his entire ministry. I don't know why you would

819
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:10.039
even get caught up in this. If Jesus traveled from

820
00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:12.519
Galilee to Jerusalem for his final passover, he could have

821
00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:15.039
walked about one hundred miles depending on the route. We

822
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:18.800
don't know. There's all kinds of there's all kinds of speculation.

823
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:21.880
When do you start the hundred miles? When he walked

824
00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:22.639
from here to here?

825
00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:26.400
Like, Oh, he's.

826
00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:31.039
Throwing out numbers in a dogmatic, assertive way, and in

827
00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:33.800
many of these are just factually incorrect, and some of

828
00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:37.119
these it's just it's just an estimate. Well, I don't

829
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:40.400
understand the purpose of doing this other than to sound

830
00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:45.480
like I've got the authority. I know all of these details,

831
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:47.800
so then everything I'm going to say is going to

832
00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:53.679
be accurate. It seems almost more like you're building a case.

833
00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:57.039
You're trying to demonstrate your authority by knowing all of

834
00:48:57.079 --> 00:49:00.320
these facts and figures. But you're not demonstrating your authority

835
00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:03.320
if your facts and figures are either one not even confirmed,

836
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:07.840
just an estimate, or you're taking numbers and dates. You're

837
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:11.000
taking numbers and facts about eighty sixty six and applying

838
00:49:11.039 --> 00:49:14.639
them to eight thirty three, you destroy any authority or credibility.

839
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.920
And when he gets there, he asks for a donkey

840
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:21.360
to be watch. He asked for a donkey to be

841
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:23.639
given to him. You know where I'm going older. Watch.

842
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:29.519
Watch the Lord chooses not to walk the last mile

843
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:33.920
into the city. He's surrounded by crowds that have been

844
00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:35.360
following him for miles.

845
00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:36.280
Now, listen to me.

846
00:49:36.719 --> 00:49:39.719
We have no record of Jesus ever writing an animal

847
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:42.000
anywhere in the scriptures.

848
00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:42.440
Right, so watch.

849
00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:45.480
He's not asking for the donkey because he's tired.

850
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:52.239
He's not asking for the dog.

851
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:57.119
Man got someone yelling in the background, or I don't

852
00:49:57.159 --> 00:49:58.760
know what. Someone just got excited.

853
00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:01.800
Hey, he didn't need the donkey because he was tired.

854
00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:04.559
I don't know what that was.

855
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:09.280
I don't know what that was. Is that woo? I mean, man,

856
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.920
Jesus was riding a donkey for another purpose. Okay, all right,

857
00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:16.960
I guess people are getting Hey, it's good to get excited.

858
00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:19.159
It just seems like a weird place to start yelling.

859
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:23.679
But okay, all right, donkey Watch because he's weary and

860
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:25.280
he can't walk the last mile.

861
00:50:26.199 --> 00:50:30.599
No, what the Lord does, watch this is arrange and public.

862
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:34.840
Display of him walking into or riding into the city

863
00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:38.880
of Jerusalem sitting on that donkey. Everybody around him would

864
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:43.079
see this man riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. And

865
00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:46.280
he arranges this public display for everybody to see.

866
00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:47.559
Now he's being.

867
00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:51.320
Intentional about his entry into the city. He coming into

868
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:54.440
the city on two legs. He's coming into the city

869
00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:55.400
on this animal.

870
00:50:55.639 --> 00:50:56.960
Now watch, up until.

871
00:50:56.800 --> 00:50:59.760
This point, the Lord who was famous did nothing to

872
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:04.039
unnecessary attention to himself, like he's operating low key.

873
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:07.679
Why all of a sudden, now would the Lord.

874
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.440
Do something like this, pull off a stunt to draw

875
00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:15.519
all this attention to himself. Is he insecure? Is he

876
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:18.840
trying to get likes on social media? Then? Why would

877
00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:22.000
he pull off this elaborate stunt for two million people

878
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:23.599
to see him rolling into the city.

879
00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:29.119
Oh he's not. We don't know there's two million. Why

880
00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:33.079
are you saying these numbers that are not right now?

881
00:51:33.159 --> 00:51:36.079
The point he's making here, though, is very good. Why

882
00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:39.440
is Jesus doing this? That's that's a great question. I've

883
00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:42.639
got another question. This guy's dynamic and he's speaking. He's

884
00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:45.360
dramatic and he is speaking. He's got the audience right

885
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:47.599
there in the palm of his hand. He's a great speaker.

886
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:50.400
You can see why from that perspective, why this is

887
00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:53.800
the number four podcasts you know on Spotify. You can

888
00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:56.880
see why. You can see why he gets such a crowd. Okay,

889
00:51:56.880 --> 00:52:00.559
you can see why he's a great communicator. Now it's

890
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:06.559
been factually wrong a lot, but let's see what his answer.

891
00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:08.920
I know, I'm pretty sure I know where his answer

892
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:11.119
is going. Unless this takes a mate. We're getting ready

893
00:52:11.119 --> 00:52:12.800
to get swerved here, and I'm gonna be like, wait,

894
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:14.880
what just happened? I think you know he's gonna do

895
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:19.280
for prophetic reasons. He's gonn feel fulfilling a prophecy, right right.

896
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:21.519
I think let's see if that's where he goes.

897
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:27.519
Well, Matthew tells us why in verse four this took

898
00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:32.719
place to fulfill gosh. I like that word what was

899
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:36.840
spoken by the prophet saying quote say to the daughter

900
00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:42.079
of saying, behold that is watch and take notice. Your

901
00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:48.639
king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a

902
00:52:48.679 --> 00:52:52.800
donkey on a colt, the fall of a beast of

903
00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:53.679
bird And pause.

904
00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:56.519
Matthew in hindsight.

905
00:52:56.039 --> 00:52:58.800
Now that he's old, it's looking back, and he remembers

906
00:52:59.519 --> 00:53:04.239
that Gesus pulled off this elaborate stump because he was

907
00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:09.400
fulfilling a prophecy from a man named Zachariah.

908
00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:10.960
Who lived five hundred.

909
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:14.159
Years before Christ was born, and five hundred years.

910
00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:15.440
This is so powerful. Watch this.

911
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:19.039
Five hundred years before Christ was born, a man named

912
00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:22.719
Zachariah writes a prophecy, Watch that a day is coming

913
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:26.639
when the Son of God would roll into the city

914
00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:31.679
of Jerusalem, sitting on a donkey.

915
00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:38.679
The King is coming to you, Jesus. Now watch this.

916
00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:45.480
Knowing biblical prophecy, Gosh arranges for this elaborate entry into

917
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:47.760
the city so that the words.

918
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:49.320
Of God does not fall to the floor.

919
00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:55.400
Watch. Watch, I'm coming for you. Next, watch, and the

920
00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:59.440
prophecies doesn't stop there. In Daniel chapter nine, there was

921
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:03.320
another obviously about seventy weeks, in sixty nine weeks, and

922
00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:06.519
a man took it upon himself to do the mathematics

923
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:09.639
about those seventy weeks talking about years, And there is

924
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:10.920
a prophecying Daniel nine.

925
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:11.920
Go read it for yourself.

926
00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:15.960
When a king named Arta Xerxes declared the rebuilding of

927
00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:19.280
Jerusalem when it was formally destroyed, that math tells us

928
00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:23.239
four hundred and eighty three years from that decree that

929
00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:26.239
the Son of God, the Prince, the Anointed One, would

930
00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:33.000
roll into the city in the month of Nissan. And

931
00:54:33.079 --> 00:54:36.079
according to history, it is believed that exactly watched.

932
00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:37.639
Us four hundred and eighty three.

933
00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:42.320
Years to the month and day Jesus rolls into the

934
00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:46.400
city of Jerusalem on this donkey. The Lord now doing

935
00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:50.400
this fulfills two major prophecies to make sure the word

936
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:52.519
of God doesn't fall to the floor. And family, when

937
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:54.960
I read that, man, three things sticks up in my

938
00:54:55.039 --> 00:54:55.679
heart for me.

939
00:54:55.960 --> 00:54:57.000
Hopefully for you.

940
00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:59.960
Number One, God looks after his word to make sure

941
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.679
so that it is properly performed.

942
00:55:03.320 --> 00:55:04.480
Now, y'all don't want to talk to me.

943
00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:08.639
You got other religious books that have never said anything

944
00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:11.559
about the future. You and I have the only religious

945
00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:14.960
writing in the history of the world that has hundreds

946
00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:19.639
of prophecies that have been accurately unfolded, and that Christ

947
00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:23.800
was the only human in history to fulfill these prophecies.

948
00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:27.400
It reminds me that when God speaks, he watches over

949
00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:30.679
his word through history to make sure his word.

950
00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:33.880
Does not fall to the floor. Watch See.

951
00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:37.079
That may not mean anything to you, but that means

952
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:39.760
something to me, because it reminds me that everything that

953
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:44.880
God has spoken over me, He's gonna watch over his

954
00:55:48.079 --> 00:55:51.079
He's gonna watch over his word to make sure that

955
00:55:51.199 --> 00:55:54.800
everything he spoke over you, and everything he spoke over me,

956
00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:57.639
will come to pass away. He tells me, my name

957
00:55:57.719 --> 00:56:00.400
is written in a Lamb's book of life. I don't

958
00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:03.599
have to be afraid of death because I have confidence

959
00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:05.159
and what God has said to me.

960
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:13.719
I'm okay. Well, he goes all crazy here, and there

961
00:56:13.800 --> 00:56:16.840
is some good application what God has said in his word.

962
00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:19.360
He will fulfill right now when he says what God

963
00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:21.719
has spoken over me. Now, I gotta be a little

964
00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:24.440
concerning if he's now, if he's only related to what

965
00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:27.320
the scriptures that apply to me he's going to fulfill

966
00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:29.360
then okay. Now, if he's saying God spoken to me

967
00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:31.920
outside of scripture, then we would have a problem. But

968
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:35.199
he's connecting Matthew twenty one four through five to Daniel

969
00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:38.000
nine twenty four through twenty seven. He told everyone to

970
00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:40.519
go read it for themselves. He said, someone figured out

971
00:56:40.519 --> 00:56:44.800
the math and it's the exact day. Again, he makes

972
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:50.679
these major dogmatic assertions. Let's go let's go through.

973
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:51.119
Here, all right.

974
00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:55.199
Matthew twenty four or Matthew twenty one four through five

975
00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:58.840
is not necessarily a direct fulfillment of Daniel nine, right,

976
00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:02.320
So let's just go ahead right there. Daniel nine contains

977
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:04.960
the prophecy of the seventy weeks, a timeline revealed to

978
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:08.679
Daniel by the Angel Gabriel regarding Israel's future and coming

979
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:12.480
of the Messiah. Daniel nine twenty fourth through twenty seven.

980
00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:17.800
The six purposes of the prophecy, including atonement for sin

981
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:21.440
and bringing in everlasting righteousness. That's Verse twenty four twenty five,

982
00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:23.719
a timeline from going forth of the command to restore

983
00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:26.440
and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince. Those should be

984
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:29.320
seven weeks in sixty two years, a total of sixty

985
00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:31.800
nine weeks or four hundred and eighty three years. Now,

986
00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:33.880
there's a lot of like, how do we figure out

987
00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:36.360
the timing of this Daniel nine twenty six. After the

988
00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:38.760
sixty nine weeks, the Messiah will be cut off or kill,

989
00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:41.320
and the city and the temple will be destroyed. Daniel

990
00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:45.199
nine twenty seven. A final seventieth week often interpreted in

991
00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:48.840
relation to eschatology and in times. The prophecy predicts the

992
00:57:48.840 --> 00:57:52.639
timing of the Messiah's arrival and the death. Now the

993
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:55.559
connection to Matthew twenty one four through five. Matthew twenty

994
00:57:55.599 --> 00:57:59.079
one four through five describes Jesus' entry into Jerusalem presenting

995
00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:02.639
him as Messiah, the Messiah, the King, fulfilling Zachariah. Chapter

996
00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:05.679
nine Daniel nine twenty five through twenty six predicts the

997
00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:08.000
coming of Messiah the Prince, who will later be cut

998
00:58:08.039 --> 00:58:11.519
off and crucified. Many scholars believe that Daniel's prophecy points

999
00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:14.400
to the exact timing of jesus ministry, and the Triumphal

1000
00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:18.119
Entry marks the moment Jesus publicly presents himself as Israel's king.

1001
00:58:18.519 --> 00:58:20.519
Now in is Matthew twenty one fourth through five, the

1002
00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:24.199
fulfillment of Daniel nine Well, some would say yes. In

1003
00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:27.719
terms of timing, the Triumphal Entry falls within the prophesied

1004
00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:31.599
sixty nine weeks of Daniel, which points to the Messiah's arrival.

1005
00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:36.119
In terms of presentation, Jesus publicly declares himself as king

1006
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:38.960
at the Triumphal Entry, which does align with Daniel nine

1007
00:58:39.039 --> 00:58:41.960
twenty five. In terms of a fulfillment of Daniel nine

1008
00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:44.719
twenty six speaks of the Messiah being cut off, which

1009
00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:48.079
refers to the crucifixion, not to his arrival. So they're saying,

1010
00:58:48.280 --> 00:58:50.400
there's some of this that would be applicable, some of

1011
00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:53.880
this would not. That makes sense, So at least what

1012
00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:57.000
he's saying here. Many would somewhat agree with. Now he

1013
00:58:57.079 --> 00:59:00.599
said the exact day and time, and I don't. Daniel

1014
00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:00.960
does not.

1015
00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:03.119
Some say that they figured out the math.

1016
00:59:03.159 --> 00:59:04.920
I'd have to do a little bit more research to

1017
00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:08.400
see if the math is supposedly exact on the exact day.

1018
00:59:08.639 --> 00:59:12.840
I think that maybe a little over. That's probably stating

1019
00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:14.880
it far more than it is. But it seems that

1020
00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:18.199
there would be at least some connection between Matthew twenty

1021
00:59:18.199 --> 00:59:19.880
one four through five. So he does seem to be

1022
00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:24.000
correct there. But please note, I see how skeptical I was.

1023
00:59:24.119 --> 00:59:26.880
I was so skeptical because of all the other factual errors.

1024
00:59:26.960 --> 00:59:34.920
So I'm gonna I am gonna ask Ai, this, does

1025
00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:46.679
the math of Daniel nine twenty four through twenty seven

1026
00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:59.840
lead us to the exact year and year and month

1027
01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:15.000
for the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in Matthew twenty one.

1028
01:00:20.519 --> 01:00:21.840
All right, we'll see if we get this.

1029
01:00:21.880 --> 01:00:27.400
He said it. He made it very clearly, Ai says.

1030
01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:30.000
Many scholars argue that Daniel nine twenty fourth through twenty

1031
01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:33.079
seven provides an exact prophetic timeline that leads directly to

1032
01:00:33.519 --> 01:00:38.719
Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Using historical mathematical calculations, many

1033
01:00:38.800 --> 01:00:43.159
believe that Daniel's prophecy pinpoints the very year and possibly

1034
01:00:43.199 --> 01:00:46.280
even the exact day of Jesus' arrival is Messiah the Prince.

1035
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:49.119
Okay, it goes through this.

1036
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:52.440
The prophecy breaks the timeline into basically seven weeks, forty

1037
01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:54.840
nine years, sixty two weeks, four hundred and thirty four years.

1038
01:00:55.039 --> 01:00:55.360
Total.

1039
01:00:55.400 --> 01:00:57.800
Sixty nine weeks equals four hundred and eighty three years

1040
01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:01.880
until Messiah the Prince appears, determining the starting point. The

1041
01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:05.559
Decree to Rebuild Jerusalem Daniel nine to twenty five states

1042
01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:08.679
that the countdown begins from the going forth of the

1043
01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:12.559
command to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem. There are several

1044
01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:15.760
decrees that could fit. The Decree of Cyrus five thirty

1045
01:01:15.800 --> 01:01:18.880
nine to five thirty eight BC permitted Jesus to return

1046
01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:22.079
but did not focus on rebuilding Jerusalem permitted Jews to

1047
01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:25.800
return but did not focus on rebuilding Jerusalem. Darius Decree

1048
01:01:25.880 --> 01:01:30.719
five twenty BC reinforced temple reconstruction. Art Exerxes first decree

1049
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:34.719
focused on religious reforms, not rebuilding the city. Art Exerxes

1050
01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:38.559
second decree, the most widely accepted date as Nehemiah was

1051
01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:43.920
given permission to rebuild the walls. Many scholars count calculate

1052
01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:47.960
from art Exerxes decreed in Ford forty five BCS. Please

1053
01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:50.360
note there was a number of decrees, so then you

1054
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:52.960
have to pick which decree. Now you see how you

1055
01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:55.320
can get into a little game here, right, Okay, does

1056
01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:58.800
this decree work? Well, no, we're short that year. Now, okay,

1057
01:01:59.039 --> 01:02:02.880
this decree. Then you picked the decree that seems to work. Well,

1058
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:05.639
that's I mean, come on, now, we gotta at least

1059
01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:09.199
be honest with that, right now. Calculating the sixty nine weeks,

1060
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:12.880
sixty nine weeks equals sixty nine times seven years forty

1061
01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:15.920
eight four hundred and eighty three years. Biblical prophecy often

1062
01:02:16.039 --> 01:02:18.679
uses a three hundred and sixty day prophetic year, as

1063
01:02:18.719 --> 01:02:21.400
seen in Genesis seven to eleven, and then name some passages.

1064
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:24.320
Four hundred and eighty three years then would be three

1065
01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:27.599
hundred and sixty days, which which would equal four hundred

1066
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:30.119
and eighty three years times three hundred and sixty days.

1067
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:33.679
It's all math, right, equals one one hundred and seventy

1068
01:02:33.679 --> 01:02:36.800
three thousand, eight hundred and eighty days. Converting this to

1069
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:40.440
the solar calendar three hundred and sixty five point twenty

1070
01:02:40.440 --> 01:02:43.280
five days per year one hundred and seventy three eight

1071
01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:46.719
hundred and eighty days divided by three sixty five point

1072
01:02:46.719 --> 01:02:49.639
twenty five equals four hundred and seventy six solar years.

1073
01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:52.239
See all the gay all the mathematical things you have

1074
01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.400
to go through to try to supposedly figure this out.

1075
01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:57.519
Starting from four to forty five BC, adding four hundred

1076
01:02:57.519 --> 01:02:59.960
and seventy six years brings us to eighty thirty two

1077
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:02.719
or AD thirty three. Now, please, no, we don't know

1078
01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:05.239
if it was eight thirty or AD thirty three. But

1079
01:03:05.320 --> 01:03:07.800
if you say AD thirty two or AD thirty three,

1080
01:03:08.039 --> 01:03:11.920
you're not exact. The way he's making it. It's exact.

1081
01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:17.760
It's it's not now arriving at Jesus triumphal entry. If

1082
01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:21.239
we began from Nissan one four forty five BC or

1083
01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:25.960
March fourteenth, four forty five BC and the Julian calendar

1084
01:03:26.079 --> 01:03:28.840
and count one hundred and seventy three eight hundred and

1085
01:03:28.840 --> 01:03:32.119
eighty days, it brings us to Nissan ten, AD thirty

1086
01:03:32.119 --> 01:03:35.519
two or AD thirty three. That's not exact because we

1087
01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:37.639
don't know if it was AD thirty or AD thirty three,

1088
01:03:37.719 --> 01:03:40.039
and if you throw in AD thirty two, well then

1089
01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:42.679
it's not exact. Nissan ten was the day when the

1090
01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:46.599
passoverland was chosen, which aligns with Jesus presentation as King

1091
01:03:46.639 --> 01:03:49.400
of Matthew twenty one. Many scholars believe that April six,

1092
01:03:49.599 --> 01:03:53.000
eighty thirty two, or A or April third, eighty thirty three,

1093
01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:57.679
depending on calendar adjustments you got to adjust calendars was

1094
01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:03.360
the exact day of Gus triumphal entry. Does the math

1095
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:07.519
work exactly right? This is what AI says, And of

1096
01:04:07.559 --> 01:04:11.119
course AIS going all in, breaking all that mathematical you know,

1097
01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:15.159
calculations down the traditional calculation using March fourteenth four to

1098
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:17.599
forty five BC as the decree in April six, eighty

1099
01:04:17.679 --> 01:04:20.800
thirty two, as Jesus entry, fits remarkably well.

1100
01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:23.519
So if you go with AD thirty two, it fits well.

1101
01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:27.039
But he's already dogmatically asserted that it was AD thirty three,

1102
01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:30.320
and then he borrowed numbers from AD sixty six. So see,

1103
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:34.800
the whole thing is not. Everyone's yelling and screaming and hollering,

1104
01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.480
but nobody wants to stop it. Go Wait a minute,

1105
01:04:37.480 --> 01:04:39.199
wait a minute, we got a how does all of

1106
01:04:39.239 --> 01:04:41.559
this fit together, because we got a lot of factual

1107
01:04:41.679 --> 01:04:45.719
errors here. However, many scholars argue that Jesus was crucified

1108
01:04:45.719 --> 01:04:50.199
in eighty thirty, which slightly shifts the math. Lunar calendar

1109
01:04:50.239 --> 01:04:53.440
adjustments and historical uncertainties mean we cannot be one hundred

1110
01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:56.559
percent certain of the exact day, but the timeline strongly

1111
01:04:56.599 --> 01:04:59.760
supports Jesus entry into Jerusalem as a fulfillment of Daniel

1112
01:04:59.800 --> 01:05:03.320
nine twenty five. All right, so there you have it.

1113
01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:06.599
It's not as exact, it's not I am i saying, well,

1114
01:05:06.679 --> 01:05:09.400
this means if we don't trust any of it. I'm

1115
01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:12.920
saying that this means that in this sermon we have

1116
01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:17.800
been given things stated in a dogmatic, assertive way, which

1117
01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:22.440
is not Either it's not as as factual as stated,

1118
01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:26.880
or in many cases it's just completely factually in error.

1119
01:05:29.239 --> 01:05:29.679
Oh deep.

1120
01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:32.760
Or when you have received watch a ram a word

1121
01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:37.280
from a credible source, you can have confidence that the

1122
01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:38.559
Lord would watch over.

1123
01:05:38.440 --> 01:05:39.639
That word to perform it.

1124
01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:43.519
It doesn't matter how much time elapse between declaration and manifestation.

1125
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:48.519
Oh no, Now, if we receive a ram a word

1126
01:05:48.679 --> 01:05:51.360
from a credible source, So if someone comes up to

1127
01:05:51.400 --> 01:05:53.119
you and supposedly gives you a word from God. So

1128
01:05:53.159 --> 01:05:55.159
now we have God speaking outside of the Bible.

1129
01:05:57.119 --> 01:05:59.639
Oh man alive, here we go.

1130
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:03.679
I should have known that the chart is filled with

1131
01:06:03.719 --> 01:06:07.519
Catholicism and charismatic So now we got God speaking outside.

1132
01:06:07.199 --> 01:06:07.599
Of the Bible.

1133
01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:09.639
So if who's a credible source? While I'm there, are

1134
01:06:09.639 --> 01:06:11.639
incredible source, they said this word over to me, Well,

1135
01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:15.519
you know God's gonna fulfill it because he fulfilled prophecy

1136
01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:18.840
and Matthew twenty one. And so because Jesus fulfilled prophecy

1137
01:06:18.840 --> 01:06:21.000
in Matthew twenty one, then you know He's gonna fulfill

1138
01:06:21.079 --> 01:06:23.880
some prophecy that someone speaks over you by some supposed

1139
01:06:23.920 --> 01:06:28.360
incredible source. That is ridiculous. The God speaks to us

1140
01:06:28.360 --> 01:06:39.480
through his word, and his word alone.

1141
01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:37.960
I can have confidence in my heart that God will

1142
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:41.480
watch over his word. It's like my son Malachi, when

1143
01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:43.239
my wife and I was saved for like two years.

1144
01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:45.960
We was in a church in North Carolina. Sitting on

1145
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:49.559
the front row. Malachi is six months old. A prophet

1146
01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:52.880
is visiting the church that day. She's up on the platform.

1147
01:06:53.199 --> 01:06:55.280
She looks down at Lena sitting on the front row.

1148
01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:56.639
She said, this child right here.

1149
01:06:56.679 --> 01:07:00.000
Bring him to me. We'll go up there with the child.

1150
01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:02.159
He takes the child into arms, and she says to

1151
01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:07.199
She says, this child six months old, he will be

1152
01:07:07.320 --> 01:07:11.400
musically inclined, he will be musically gifted.

1153
01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:12.880
He will write.

1154
01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:16.079
Songs, and he will sway people into the Kingdom of God.

1155
01:07:16.519 --> 01:07:17.440
Six months Oh.

1156
01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:19.920
Lena and I take that prophecy and we hide it

1157
01:07:19.960 --> 01:07:20.519
in our heart.

1158
01:07:20.760 --> 01:07:23.440
We say nothing to anyone. Watsh this? We said nothing

1159
01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:25.840
to the child? Twelve years old?

1160
01:07:26.320 --> 01:07:29.559
Malachi and the computer in the kitchen stumbles into an

1161
01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:39.159
app called garage Band. Started making music. He makes his

1162
01:07:39.159 --> 01:07:42.960
first track, He makes his first beat. He making all

1163
01:07:43.039 --> 01:07:49.320
this trap music. Okay, no problem, He making all this

1164
01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:54.480
trap music cool. Then he makes a score. Then he

1165
01:07:54.519 --> 01:07:58.679
makes a worship track, then a worship instrumental. Then he

1166
01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:02.039
picks up a guitar, plays it. He picks up a bass,

1167
01:08:02.559 --> 01:08:05.639
plays it. He picks up a piano, plays it, picks

1168
01:08:05.719 --> 01:08:09.119
up the drums, play it. Now he's singing all that stuff.

1169
01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:13.239
Now he's twenty and walking in the manifestation.

1170
01:08:13.599 --> 01:08:20.680
Of what God's spok what God.

1171
01:08:23.239 --> 01:08:25.239
Wouldn't it be nice if one of those prophets would

1172
01:08:25.239 --> 01:08:27.479
walk into a church and go, that child is gonna

1173
01:08:27.479 --> 01:08:30.760
be molested by a person six months from now. Keep

1174
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:32.920
that child away from that person. Wouldn't it be great?

1175
01:08:33.199 --> 01:08:35.560
Then all those children have been molested and abused in church,

1176
01:08:35.560 --> 01:08:38.279
wouldn't that be great if God would say something more than.

1177
01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:41.680
This child's gonna be musically gifted. Okay, this is.

1178
01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:45.279
The typical charismatic stories. I get so tired of them,

1179
01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:49.319
so tired of them, tired t Wouldn't it be great

1180
01:08:49.319 --> 01:08:51.399
if the prophet would have said, I don't know, people,

1181
01:08:51.399 --> 01:08:53.399
don't get on this airplane and you won't die.

1182
01:08:53.479 --> 01:08:55.119
Hey, there's gonna be a pandemic.

1183
01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:58.640
Hey, this is the cure for cancer. Maybe something worthwhile

1184
01:08:58.680 --> 01:09:02.880
than this typical charismatic stories. Oh, and then I get

1185
01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:05.399
ticked off. That's what happens. Then I get tired of it.

1186
01:09:07.800 --> 01:09:08.079
Yeah.

1187
01:09:08.119 --> 01:09:13.319
So we've been factually inaccurate when it came to actual facts,

1188
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and now we just go to here's this story. Hey,

1189
01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:18.960
a long time ago, I didn't tell anybody this story,

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01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:21.560
didn't even tell the child. But now I get to

1191
01:09:21.600 --> 01:09:24.760
tell the story after the fact. I didn't tell anyone

1192
01:09:24.720 --> 01:09:26.880
of the story before the fact. I don't have any

1193
01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:29.239
video of it. I don't have any evidence of it.

1194
01:09:29.279 --> 01:09:32.399
But bu buh buh bu. But hey, hey, hey this happened.

1195
01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:35.279
Trust me, we didn't tell anybody. We didn't tell anybody.

1196
01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:40.760
But now after the fact, now we're gonna tell everybody. Hey,

1197
01:09:41.159 --> 01:09:44.000
when I was when I was seventeen and I was

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01:09:44.039 --> 01:09:46.600
in a church, this prophet came to me and said,

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01:09:47.800 --> 01:09:50.680
you're gonna be in the military. You can almost die,

1200
01:09:50.920 --> 01:09:55.159
and you're gonna have a seizure disorder. Look what happened.

1201
01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:56.199
It happened.

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01:09:57.760 --> 01:10:00.680
I mean, I can make up any story, right, I

1203
01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:05.720
can die, I can make up anything. Now, Usually the

1204
01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:06.800
stories are always positive.

1205
01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:08.399
It's never bad. It's never bad.

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01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:11.520
It's never Hey, your parrot, your mother is going to die,

1207
01:10:11.640 --> 01:10:12.880
your father's going to die.

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01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:14.720
You're gonna be real, You're gonna be abused.

1209
01:10:14.720 --> 01:10:15.720
No, you don't.

1210
01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:18.840
You only it's only positive stuff. It's only positive. Hey,

1211
01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:21.760
God doesn't tell someone. Hey, your child's gonna be murdered

1212
01:10:21.760 --> 01:10:23.960
when they're seventeen. You may you may want to do

1213
01:10:24.039 --> 01:10:25.880
this to protect No, no, no, it's just gonna give

1214
01:10:25.880 --> 01:10:28.920
you some great information, like your child's gonna be musically gifted.

1215
01:10:35.239 --> 01:10:36.560
Now what does any of that have to do.

1216
01:10:36.680 --> 01:10:38.720
I see what he's trying to do well, Matthew twenty

1217
01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:41.039
one it was fulfilled. So now, but see you note

1218
01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:43.520
how we went from scripture now to nonscripture.

1219
01:10:44.239 --> 01:10:47.199
We went from God's actual revelation.

1220
01:10:46.800 --> 01:10:50.399
And his word to now anything someone says to you,

1221
01:10:50.439 --> 01:10:51.039
if it's from.

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01:10:50.920 --> 01:10:53.479
A credible, credible.

1223
01:10:52.680 --> 01:10:57.359
Source, it's in line with scripture. See charismatics always trying

1224
01:10:57.359 --> 01:10:59.119
to claim, oh, it's not the same, Oh no, that

1225
01:10:59.159 --> 01:11:02.279
would be the same. If God says it, it will

1226
01:11:02.279 --> 01:11:06.119
be fulfilled as certain as Matthew twenty one, four through five.

1227
01:11:06.279 --> 01:11:09.199
Then you're putting it on the same level as scripture.

1228
01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:12.800
So stop telling me that it's different. You believe that

1229
01:11:12.920 --> 01:11:16.359
extra biblical revelation is on par with scripture. So therefore,

1230
01:11:16.439 --> 01:11:18.880
whenever you get this extra biblical revelation, it should be

1231
01:11:18.920 --> 01:11:21.119
written down in your Bible and it should be treated

1232
01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:31.000
as scripture. All right, Well, we'll stop there because we're

1233
01:11:31.000 --> 01:11:33.800
at seventy one minutes and it's already after eight o'clock.

1234
01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:42.199
All right, there we have it, ladies and gentlemen. We've

1235
01:11:42.279 --> 01:11:46.520
been listening to the number four podcast on the Spotify

1236
01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:50.000
podcasting chart. The name of the church is twenty eight

1237
01:11:50.760 --> 01:11:54.560
nineteen Church. It looks like It looks like they've only

1238
01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:57.199
been podcasting since January. They're already in the top one

1239
01:11:57.239 --> 01:12:01.319
point five percent of all podcasts globally four I don't

1240
01:12:01.359 --> 01:12:03.720
know much about them. You may be able to point,

1241
01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:05.560
you know, what they come from this and they come

1242
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:07.880
from this pyllological stream. Somebody may want to chart it

1243
01:12:07.920 --> 01:12:10.960
all out. I don't necessarily want to, but I don't know.

1244
01:12:11.319 --> 01:12:12.520
You know, are they going to be there for a

1245
01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:15.560
while then disappear? Are they here to stay? Are they

1246
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:17.560
going to become one of the most influential Remember we

1247
01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:19.720
used to we did a lot. We had that chart

1248
01:12:19.800 --> 01:12:22.199
of the fifty most influential churches in America, and we

1249
01:12:22.199 --> 01:12:24.920
were reviewing sermons from the most influential churches in America.

1250
01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:29.000
At ah Man, those sermons were so much, so bad.

1251
01:12:29.279 --> 01:12:31.000
Is this going to become one of the most influential

1252
01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:34.239
churches in America? I don't know. I don't know. Do

1253
01:12:34.279 --> 01:12:35.880
we need to watch it, do we need to pay attention?

1254
01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:42.520
I don't know. But there you have it. So I

1255
01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:45.680
don't know what to say. I will say this whenever

1256
01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:48.720
pastors say things that are dogmatic, and they say it

1257
01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:53.239
in a dogmatic, assertive way as being a fact and

1258
01:12:53.439 --> 01:12:59.800
my experience, the facts typically aren't the facts as they state.

1259
01:12:59.880 --> 01:13:04.479
The facts are extremely different then they state them. They

1260
01:13:04.520 --> 01:13:07.079
say things with certainty, many cases things are not as

1261
01:13:07.079 --> 01:13:09.520
certain as they put forth. They say something is this,

1262
01:13:09.880 --> 01:13:12.439
and many cases it's not. Many things he said about

1263
01:13:12.439 --> 01:13:15.399
thirty three e D are just not right, I mean

1264
01:13:15.479 --> 01:13:19.640
just factually in error and in some cases not certain.

1265
01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:24.760
And when people start saying, well, it.

1266
01:13:24.680 --> 01:13:27.600
Comes down to the exact day they did the calculations.

1267
01:13:27.600 --> 01:13:29.680
And then we start looking at the calculations, you're like, well,

1268
01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:32.159
the calculation works if you start here and then you

1269
01:13:32.239 --> 01:13:35.119
divide by this, and then you go from solar calendar

1270
01:13:35.199 --> 01:13:37.119
not lunar calendar. And then you well, if I do

1271
01:13:37.239 --> 01:13:40.800
five hundred different little you know, manipulations, I can get

1272
01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:43.920
the numbers to line up. Whoa, we really we prove

1273
01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:47.159
that we can go back and manipulate numbers to get

1274
01:13:47.159 --> 01:13:51.640
the numbers to line up. Whooo wow, that really proves something.

1275
01:13:51.720 --> 01:13:53.840
But we don't state it that way in church, do we?

1276
01:13:53.840 --> 01:13:54.199
We stay?

1277
01:13:54.319 --> 01:13:57.359
Oh, you do the math right, it's perfect. Does anyone

1278
01:13:57.439 --> 01:13:58.720
in the church go, well, wait a minute, can I

1279
01:13:58.760 --> 01:14:00.840
see the math? Can I can I see how we?

1280
01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:01.079
So?

1281
01:14:01.119 --> 01:14:01.319
Wait?

1282
01:14:01.439 --> 01:14:02.880
Are we starting the date here.

1283
01:14:03.119 --> 01:14:05.760
Wait, so how do we know that's that's that many

1284
01:14:05.880 --> 01:14:08.119
days in a year if we use the solar but

1285
01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:10.399
we use the lunar here. Wait, and then we have

1286
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:12.479
to divide by this, and then we drop this, and

1287
01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:14.680
then oh oh, and then wait, and then we end

1288
01:14:14.760 --> 01:14:16.680
up with thirty two a D, which is not even

1289
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:18.279
the thirty three a D that you said in the

1290
01:14:18.279 --> 01:14:24.119
first place. It stuff drives me crazy, man, it's stuff.

1291
01:14:24.239 --> 01:14:28.479
Just ah. We say it's such a die and everybody's okay, man,

1292
01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:30.880
this is great, and then they go on social media

1293
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:32.640
claiming it's all accurate.

1294
01:14:32.640 --> 01:14:34.119
And then someone does the math and oh, what are

1295
01:14:34.159 --> 01:14:35.079
you talking about?

1296
01:14:35.399 --> 01:14:38.600
What are you talking about? Oh but I read it

1297
01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:42.479
in a book. I heard it in a sermon. Now,

1298
01:14:42.520 --> 01:14:45.560
I'm not saying that that doesn't make how close it

1299
01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:49.720
gets it still makes it amazing. I'm not denying that.

1300
01:14:49.880 --> 01:14:51.479
I'm just saying, well, you gotta be careful. If you're

1301
01:14:51.479 --> 01:14:53.119
gonna make the claim, then you're gonna have to say

1302
01:14:53.119 --> 01:14:55.039
that it was thirty two a D. Well, if it

1303
01:14:55.079 --> 01:14:57.560
was thirty two a D, does that correspond with the

1304
01:14:57.640 --> 01:14:59.560
pass of Oh wait, are we going to run up

1305
01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:02.000
with another problem? Well, if we make it thirty three, Well,

1306
01:15:02.039 --> 01:15:04.439
then the math doesn't gets us to thirty three. So

1307
01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:06.920
if we make it thirty where some people, well then

1308
01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:10.039
that really doesn't work. So is it thirty is a

1309
01:15:10.119 --> 01:15:22.800
thirty two? Is it thirty three? It's okay to acknowledge

1310
01:15:22.840 --> 01:15:26.760
when things don't quite line up perfectly. It's okay to say,

1311
01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:29.840
I don't know if this was It's okay, and I

1312
01:15:29.840 --> 01:15:32.199
know Christians can't accept that, but sometimes it's okay to

1313
01:15:32.239 --> 01:15:36.560
go maybe we just can't quite have this dogmatically asserted.

1314
01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:43.479
We can just say the prophecy still fits, Jesus entering

1315
01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:49.760
in still fits. All right, Thanks for listening, everyone, Have

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01:15:49.800 --> 01:15:50.840
a good night, God bless