Narrative Juxtaposition: How the Bible Speaks Through Story Placement | Part 1

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We're recording, yeah, we're
ready.

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Let's let's do it.
How's it going, Michael?

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It's.
Going pretty good.

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I am a little tired, but I'm
going to try to bring the

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energy.
I love it.

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This pod recording, it's a
little cold.

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We got a like a late winter cold
in that wizard up in the what's

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going on?
It's all the heck global warming

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is catching up with us.
It is crazy.

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We do need a clay thrower energy
drink.

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Just, you know, pump us up in
this cold, cold times.

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I'm excited for a brand new
series.

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Oh, so we finished Joshua.
Joshua is a wrap.

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OK, good.
It's over.

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Yeah, it's good.
This one I don't know.

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Going on the judges.
Maybe one day we'll take a

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break.
I don't know what a what a good

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name for this series is.
There certainly is probably 1

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better than this.
Yeah, it sounds a little

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pretentious.
It is I, I the first I remember

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reading this word in middle
school and I was like, what does

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this mean?
I had to look it up and I was

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like, oh, this is a good word
and I've used it.

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But whenever I do use it, people
look at me like, who?

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Who do you like?
Is there a better word for what

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we're talking about?
Dude, that that that's good.

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Well, say the introduce the name
of our series.

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All right, it is narrative
juxtaposition, how the Bible

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speaks through story places.
And, and for me, the more I

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study Scripture, the more I just
love seeing like the connections

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that the authors when they wrote
things, it was on purpose.

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It like connects and things like
you can read the Bible all your

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life if you don't notice
something, but then when you see

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it, you see it.
And it's like the more you study

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it, it is amazing how it like
folds in of itself.

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Old Testament to the New
Testaments to everything in

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between.
Isn't it crazy?

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Yeah, and should we define the
word juxtaposition?

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Or they should just go get a.
Dick there, that's.

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Good, that's good.
What do we mean if we are we

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using such weird words like
juxtaposition?

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Yeah.
So juxtaposition really means

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you're like taking two things
that sometimes are seemingly

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unrelated or even if they're
not, like they could be like

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opposites.
That's kind of like kind of like

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an oxymoron, but not that
extreme.

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But you're really just taking
things that you wouldn't

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necessarily expect to go
together and like putting them

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right next to each other and
they're kind of juxtaposed,

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juxtaposed.
Sometimes they can be acting

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like foils of each other, like,
you know, or they can just be,

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you know, but it's two things
being put together that you

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wouldn't necessarily expect.
And I think sometimes we can

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just breeze by this kind of
stuff, but then if you stop and

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see it, you're like, whoa, that
is actually weird that these

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were were like, was this on
purpose?

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Most of the time in the Bible,
if you're asking if this is on

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purpose, it's going to be a
resounding yes, right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, you would
think so.

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Yeah, yeah.
So this is great.

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The first episode we're going to
do today revolves around the

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book of Matthew.
And the reason why is that I

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think if you ask many Christians
who have had any training,

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whether it's a Sunday school or
whatever, about the Synoptic

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Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and what are the different

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emphasis?
What what do most people say the

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emphasis is for Matthew or what
are some of the emphasis?

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Yeah, so you you will hear it
said most you'll you read

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through Matthew, his like key
phrase is so it was fulfilled.

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So it was.
Fulfilled.

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So it was.
Fulfilled something very similar

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to that.
So he's talking a lot about

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Jesus fulfilling Old Testament
prophecies, and so the Scripture

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was fulfilled or something.
So generally we talk about him

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being the Messiah.
That's the view of him.

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Yeah, that's right.
And so and Matthew's gospel said

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to been written to the Jews.
Yeah, Yeah.

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Very Jewish one.
Of the first ones out, where you

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know, maybe the first one out.
So, you know, largely it's a

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Jewish religion right now.
Yeah, it has a lot of Jewish

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illusions, talks a lot.
Kingdom of Heaven instead of

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Kingdom of God.
Something like Jews would be

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very like, maybe hesitant to
write God.

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So they would say things like
Kingdom of Heaven.

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You hear this all the time,
Messiah, the kingship of Jesus,

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these kind of things.
And so the title of this episode

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is Matthew, a Jewish Gospel that
won't stop talking about

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Gentiles.
That's probably overstated

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because it's not like all it
talks about Gentiles.

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It actually talks almost the
least about Gentiles.

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But what it does, that's the
juxtaposition.

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I'm excited to get into it.
I'm excited too.

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So we're going to look through a
few different.

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We're going to kind of breeze by
these Gentile insertions.

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We're going to look at a few
other things just to kind of

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show, you know, these these
contrasts and how once you see

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it, you can't Unsee it.
That's good.

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Well, let's go ahead and take it
to the next level.

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Let's fire up that 20 music.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
level.

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We kind of framed it.
Matthew usually is read as

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fulfillment heavy.
You know, it's got Torah all

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over it.
Israel is at its center.

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Yet we do see gentiles kind of
popping their head in there from

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time to time.
And not only that, these

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gentiles are the ones that maybe
recognize Jesus in a greater

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way.
They they demonstrate greater

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faith.
Their confessions are more

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vibrant and full of true
theology.

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It's it's like kind of crazy.
Yeah, So you have Matthew

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basically using the Gentiles as
a foil as a compare and contrast

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against the Jews.
So that hints the word

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juxtaposed.
Beautiful and and if you are,

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you know, you would probably
pick up on this more if you were

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a, a Jewish person reading this
and you're like, wait a second.

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Why is like the spotlight?
You know, presumably because the

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two ways you can look at it is,
you know, this is just a story.

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This is just like random
anecdote to just coincidence,

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whatever.
But but I think like you said,

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the Gentiles are used as foils.
It's a mirror.

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It reflects almost Israel's
hardness of heart or blindness

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and really foreshadows like
this, this change, this new

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covenant that is just opening up
to all the all the Abraham's

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family, you know, is blessing
the nations you know.

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So maybe to help the listeners
out, imagine like a Cold War era

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American patriot novel that is
kind of really written towards

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Americans.
And yet you have these

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highlights of Soviet Union
people coming in and doing great

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things and you're like, what are
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I thought.
This was I don't.

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Think this is about America?
It would like rub you the wrong

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way, even if like in the end
it's like America won and stuff.

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It would be like.
Weird.

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Why are these Soviets getting
the spotlight in this book about

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America that, well, that's
that's what it would be like for

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the Jews.
Well, let let's talk about

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Matthew's Jewish DNA.
We'll kind of hit this baseline

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so we can better see this
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So if we were to look at the
genealogy in Matthew, you know,

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famously what kind of the
heavier is like Abraham, You

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know, maybe one contrast with
some of these other gospels that

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maybe start with Adam.
It's, you know, it's on purpose.

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You see this, it's like Jewish
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Abraham, David, talk about
exile, which leads into Jesus

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the Messiah.
You know, some people would say,

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hey, you can if you follow the
discourses of Matthew, there's

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five of them, maybe an allusion
to the Pentateuch.

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Maybe that's reaching, you know,
but you know, you can see some

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of these things.
You, you look at Jesus and you

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really see him as the new Moses.
We see kind of the Sermon on the

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Mount and we see you've heard
this said, this is what I say.

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We see him as the true Israel,
the the king from David's line,

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all of these different Jewish
structure kind of built in.

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That's very good.
So there's also some linguistic

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markers.
So like you already mentioned,

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Kingdom of Heaven, other gospels
talk about the Kingdom of God.

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We know Jews were not quite as
ready to say God or, or God's

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name.
So maybe I'll hold it from

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there.
A lot of stuff on the temple

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that you'll see throughout the
gospel.

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There's a lot of Pharisees,
Sadducees, trying to catch him

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up in different disputes.
One of those is like healing on

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the Sabbath.
And stuff.

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I think you do see like slightly
more of this per, you know,

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compared to other ones like man
can't get enough of the Sabbath.

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Yeah, yeah.
And then like we mentioned

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before, always like it this was
in order to fulfill the

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scriptures.
Like I think it's Matthew that

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even says, you know, he said I'm
thirsty.

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They give him the the sponge
with some wine on it.

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And, you know, he says I thirst,
he tastes it, doesn't really

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drink it.
But, you know, this was so that

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all would be fulfilled.
Yeah, Yeah.

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Yeah, you see that.
Yeah.

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So so it's kind of like pee pee
scholars and non scholars alike

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say this is Jewish for good
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It's there.
It's definitely there.

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So let's start at the beginning
and let's talk about the first

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Gentile insertion we see and
that's Matthew chapter 1.

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We see not only a Gentile, but a
Gentile woman of all of all.

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People.
You want to read verses 3

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through 6 of chapter 1.
Yeah, it does seem like maybe

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we're going back to Joshua, but
here we go.

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Judah was the father of Perez
and Serha by Tamar.

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Perez was the father of Hezron
and Hezron the father of Ram.

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Ram was the father of Abinadab,
Abinadab the father of Nashon,

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and Nashon the father of Salman.
And Salman was the father of

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Boaz by Rahab.
Boab was the father of Obed by

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Ruth, and Obed the father of
Jesse.

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Jesse was the father of David
the King.

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Man so like we we mentioned, we
start with Abraham and this

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short just few verses Abraham
we'll get to David, you know,

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making the Jewish, you know,
thing in your face.

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But what's more remarkable is
all the stuff in between.

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There's a lot just sandwich and
such a small, small amount of

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texts, Tamar, a lot of great
things, you know, we see about

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her and in the Old Testament.
Such a you know her and Judah

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and omen.
Just such a heartwarming story,

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one of.
Those bedtime stories can't wait

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to teach your children.
You know, famously in the sexual

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scandal, I think you know, also
famously Judah's like, she's

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more righteous than I.
That's the very positive side.

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But she's she's full on Jewish,
so right, That was a joke.

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And he's like very much
Canaanite.

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Yeah, exactly.
So that's the first one we see.

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And you might be like, wow, one
of the one Gentile woman, maybe

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an accident, then rehab hits
you.

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Prostitute Jericho.
Also being of Jericho, Gentile,

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Ruth and the non gentiles keep
coming and and Moabite of all.

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People.
Yeah, yeah, they were cursed,

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yeah.
And then Bathsheba, maybe not

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explicitly, but you know, via
Uriah, we have this Gentile

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association.
So just like boom, boom, boom

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boom.
I didn't read all of 6.

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Oh yeah, the paragraph stops.
Yeah.

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Paragraph Stop.
But the verse kept going, so let

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me read the rest of that verse.
Jesse was the father of David

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the king.
David was the father of Solomon

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by Bathsheba, who had been the
wife of Uriah.

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And as we know, Uriah was a
Hittite.

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I feel like you can't say Uriah
without thinking Hittite.

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We had a guy named I might have
said this before, Uriah at I

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went to school, went to Chris
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Uriah the Hittite.
I was just his name.

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I coached to Uriah.
Yeah, yeah.

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I asked him if I could just call
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He was like, I don't think I won
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Please, please don't.
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the Messiah's line is very
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Abraham, David, like can't miss
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But on top of that, there is
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beyond that, morally, it's not
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I mean, Abraham and David
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You know, you kind of see
throughout all of that so much

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grace and how God uses sinful
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It's pretty, pretty amazing.
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scene, this has like been teed
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Us.
Yep, Yep.

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It's almost like it was part of
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Oh yeah, exactly, exactly.
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The Magi man from the east,
clearly Jewish, right?

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Clearly.
Jewish.

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We know.
We know the story.

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Christmas wasn't that that long
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It's one of those also.
Oh my, there's three of them and

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only three, one for each, one
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We know they travel from far
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worship, they give gifts.
They they do a lot of great

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things.
I mean, to make that trek and to

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be ones that recognize Jesus.
Compare that to the people

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immediately around Jesus or a
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They're very close.
It's not like they have to hike

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miles and miles.
They have the Torah, they have

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the Old Testaments.
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It's like.
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shepherds who are explicitly
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it's kind of a non event.
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Pagan astrologers, Astro, you
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They recognize Israel's king.
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ones who can quote Scripture,
they know all the little laws

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and all the extra laws, don't
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At least they don't get to the
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Jesus exposes that later.
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but no worship.
The pagans come to worship, and

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that's something.
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And Herod and Edomite, it says,
hey, let us know where where he

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is.
Obviously we know that's under

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false pretenses, but you would
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some Jews in the hearing would
be like, oh, I want to know for

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for real reasons.
But we don't have any record of

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that.
That's so, so interesting.

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So that that's just Chapter 1
and Chapter 2 when we're just

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like off to the races in
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Let's skip down to Matthew
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Maybe we should, maybe we should
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I don't know if you're looking
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Is this too much text?
Is this enough text if we want

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to do 5 through?
13 all.

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Right, let's do it.
All right, it says, this is

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Matthew 8, five through 13.
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Capernaum, a centurion came to
him, imploring him and saying,

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Lord, my servant is lying
paralyzed at home, fearfully

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tormented.
Jesus said to him, I will come

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and heal him.
But the centurion said, Lord,

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I'm not worthy for you to come
under my roof, but just say the

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word, and my servant will be
healed.

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For I also am a man under
authority, with soldiers under

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me.
And I say to this one, go, and

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he goes into another, come, and
he comes into my slave.

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Do this and he does it.
Now when Jesus heard this, he

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marvelled and said to those who
are following, truly I say to

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you, I have not found such great
faith with anyone in Israel.

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I say to you that many will come
from the east and from the West,

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and will recline at the table
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

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in the Kingdom of heaven.
But the sons of the Kingdom,

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when we cast out into the outer
darkness, in that place where

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there would be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.

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And Jesus said to the centurion,
Go, it shall be done for you as

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you have believed.
And the servant was healed that

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very moment.
Man, we see a lot in here and it

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kind of like builds, like by the
time you get to that, it's

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pretty, pretty strong language.
I love this.

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Jesus marvelled.
He's astonished.

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He's like, and and the statement
is something no one in Israel

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have.
I found such faith.

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That's that's a strong
statement, you know, because

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there's a lot of people in
Israel kind of the same thing

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with the Magi and everyone else.
It's like, man, these are the

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people that know the Scriptures
and it was this centurion that

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had greater faith and even that
he's like, hey, you know, you're

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going to be with Isaac and Jacob
in the king of heaven.

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It's like you're the One, and
not only that, the sons of the

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Kingdom, they're actually going
to be thrown into outer darkness

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with weeping and gnashing of
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Can't get a whole lot more clear
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Yeah, I wonder how the reaction
was because, you know, he said

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stuff like this and one time and
they like, try to, you know,

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throw him off a Cliff and he,
you know, escapes from their

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grass.
But man, it seems like they're

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paying attention.
They would know.

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It's like one of those, you
know, you watch a show like

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Downton Abbey or something.
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And it's like all these polite
people sitting around, but they,

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they throw insults at each other
all the time.

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They're like veiled insults.
Like, this is like a veiled

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insult told them to the people
around them.

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And it's like, did they pick up
on it or you?

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Know 'cause you would hope you
would read that and if you are

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offended, like you should be
offended and hopefully that

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would either, yeah, prick you,
maybe it would go the other way.

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But it's like that should bring
you to be like, man, this

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centurion who doesn't?
Know when?

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It's like, yeah, it's like, man,
that's crazy.

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Next one, Matthew 15.
So we can see Matthew 1 and 2.

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A little gap.
Another little gap.

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Here we come to the Canaanite
woman again.

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I think we're going to see some
strong words.

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We'll look at verses 21 through
28.

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I'll go ahead and read these.
And Jesus went away from there

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and withdrew to the district of
Tyre and sight, and behold, A

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Canaanite woman from the region
came out and was crying.

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Have mercy on me, O Lord son of
David, my daughter is severely

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oppressed by a demon.
But he didn't answer her a word,

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and his, his stifles came and
begged him, saying, Send her

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away, for she is crying out
after US.

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Jesus answered, I was sent only
to the lost sheep of the House

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of Israel.
But she came and knelt before

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him, saying, Lord, help me.
And the answer, it's not right

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to take the children's bread and
throw it to the dogs.

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She said, yes, Lord.
Yet even the dogs eat the crumbs

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that fall from their master's
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Then Jesus answered her, O
woman, great is your faith, be

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it done for you as you desire.
And her daughter was healed

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instantly.
Again, big, big, big stuff.

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Jesus, for some context, he's
kind of went away.

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He's he's entire inside.
And so he's kind of in this

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Gentile territory and it kind of
sounds like, Jesus, you're being

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a little harsh there.
And she's kind of like.

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Sounds like she corrects him.
I've I've seen some videos that

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would say, you know, the time
that Jesus sinned and was

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corrected by a Gentile woman and
I was like, I don't, maybe we're

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not as being charitable.
So what what I have read and it

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seems like it's very plausible
that, you know, there are some

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common phrases that we have in
our day, something like we are

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all patriots.
Like we know that's a common

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phrase that we we love and we
agree with, right?

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Totally.
So it would be something like,

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you know, I'm guessing these
phrases are phrases that were

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common amongst Jews that Jesus
is not offering sincerely.

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He's just saying, hey, how do
you, you know that the Jews say

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that this is for?
Yeah, it's like a thing this.

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Is this?
And she says, yeah, yeah, Lord,

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I know they say that, but even
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Man, what a good.
Response.

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That's faith.
Great is your faith again, not

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just a Gentile, but a Gentile
woman.

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We see it as this is very, very
like in your face.

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She appeals to mercy, she
perseveres, and this Gentile

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persistence is kind of set
alongside Israel's, like

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resistance.
They are encountered with Jesus

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over and over a lot of times,
and they harden.

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She's like, Lord, have mercy on
me and being very persistent.

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We're going to jump to the end
of the book, Matthew 27.

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We just got one verse here.
Let's have you read Michael

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verse 54?
All right, it says now the

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centurion and those who were
with him keeping guard over

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Jesus when they saw the
earthquake and the things that

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were happening, became very
frightened and said truly this

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was the Son of God.
Short and sweet.

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We know the scene, Jesus on the
cross.

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This is the first human
confession after Jesus's death.

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And it comes from, you know, a
Gentile executioner, someone who

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presumably is, you know, he's
there crucifying people, this

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kind of thing.
And so if you zoom out, it's

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like, man, we got we got the
genealogy and the Magi at the

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beginning, this ensuring at the
end, it's almost like bookending

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with these Gentile exclamations
or proclamations of faith,

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whether it's action or in Word
or both.

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Yeah, and we got the genealogy
kind of predates actual Christ.

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And then like you said, we have
the bookends and then we have a

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couple smatterings in between,
so.

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And so it's like, it's not, it's
not like this book is all about

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Gentiles, 'cause it's not no,
no.

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But when Gentiles are mentioned,
it's, it's so crazy where it's

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totally.
And that spotlight really shows

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that faith is what creates the
true Israel.

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What's it really mean to be a
Jew, be a child of Abraham, a

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children, child of the promise
privilege?

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Without this faith, it actually
produces blindness, produces

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hardness of hearts, Israel's
rejection.

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We kind of see this in real
time, you know, compared to

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Gentiles that are just being
included, fulfilling, beginning

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to fulfill these Old Testament
promises.

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We kind of see this in real time
as as the Kingdom expands.

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Yeah, that's very good.
We know that we, we looked at

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some of the covenant promises in
in the past.

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If you weren't here from that,
you would know if you go back

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and you look at the Abrahamic
covenant, God tells Abraham, I'm

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going to bless all the nations
through you through, you know,

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through, through your offspring,
all the world's going to be

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blessed.
And then there's also places

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along the Old Testament where it
talk.

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It gives this insight that the,
the Jews are going to be a

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blessing to the world.
I wonder what they thought but

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the.
I wonder.

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Yeah, but.
It was like, hey, you, we are

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going to be.
And so you just see that being

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worked out here, literally, you
know, with Jesus, this, you

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know, coming on the scene, these
Gentiles recognizing him for who

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he is and basically getting
included in.

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Man so so good we see more of
this connection with Isaiah's

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servant songs.
You can see this in here,

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Psalms, you know, this universal
worship is kind of it's all

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these Old Testament shadows and
we see it really, you know, in

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that Great Commission really,
you know, go out, preach the

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gospel to.
Everyone.

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To everyone.
Everyone.

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And so you read this and I think
we learn a lot of different

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lessons.
We can apply this in different

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ways, but we see this a lot in
just the relationships here.

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You know, Jesus runs into these
people and just their response

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is like pretty crazy.
And then we all know the we

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didn't go through, you know, a
lot of the Jewish response, but

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where it's like trying to trap
him in something or attacking

447
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:00,320
him.
It's just a whole different

448
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:05,440
heart behind everything.
A lot of things to think about,

449
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:10,280
but I think a great example of
this juxtaposition that like for

450
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,040
me, I knew Matthew was like
Jewish, but I didn't really

451
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:18,880
realize the what what it meant
when it's like every gentile

452
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,320
means when when I read that in a
book, I was like, wow, that is

453
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,400
that makes it like it's a more
Jewish book and also forever.

454
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:25,800
It's a.
Great.

455
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:26,640
Punchy.
Yeah.

456
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,000
It's like Matthew got it.
Like he he knew what?

457
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,800
Totally.
And and I think it's easy, you

458
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,840
know, we have in our notes here
under the pastor hermeneutical

459
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,240
application, you know, read the
narratives relationally, not

460
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,200
atomistically like individual
separated thing.

461
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,920
I think it's easy to think that
maybe this is all that Matthew

462
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,200
knew.
So he just wrote down what he

463
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,680
did.
But you know, he had a lot of

464
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,920
material to choose from and
under the Holy Spirit's

465
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,080
guidance, he chose these for a
reason.

466
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,080
And he put them in there for a
reason to to tell the story

467
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,640
that, you know, God wanted to
tell through Matthew.

468
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:06,920
And it is a really Jewish story,
but it has these peaks of

469
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,800
Gentiles breaking through.
So good.

470
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,840
I'm excited for this series.
We got, you know, a few more

471
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,000
episodes in here.
I had a lot of ideas.

472
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,680
I think some of them might not
totally land, maybe pushing,

473
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,760
pushing it a little bit.
But this, this is good.

474
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,160
Anything else you want to say
about Matthew?

475
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,520
Oh, man, just one of the, you
know, the best first book, the

476
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,360
New Testament, so.
Yeah, I don't.

477
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,160
If you heard our synoptic
gospels, you can see Michael

478
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,760
lobbying for his his view here.
Maybe I'll link that in.

479
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,440
There you go.
You can check your back and see

480
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,000
if you think Matthew was written
first or Mark was written first.

481
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,640
I know from in the seminaries
I'm I'm the minority, but I

482
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,960
think among the people.
People in majority.

483
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,880
A man of the people.
That's great.

484
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,120
Well, should.
Shall we transition?

485
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,440
Yeah.
To the last take, is it?

486
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:54,920
Final take, Last take, Last
take.

487
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,440
Yeah, the last take.
Final take.

488
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,480
Nice A.
Take.

489
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,840
It's, I don't know what you want
to talk about, but man, it, it

490
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,560
is just cold.
It is cold.

491
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,120
We kind of alluded to this at
the.

492
00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:10,280
Beginning of the winds.
Oh man, I went out and for a

493
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,800
walk today and I complete
because it was really nice

494
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,000
yesterday.
So yeah, I knew it got cold.

495
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,760
There's a cold front that came
into last night, but I thought,

496
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,960
you know, it's Charleston, it's
going to warm up.

497
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,600
It's sunny outside.
I think it's going to warm up at

498
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,160
some point.
I.

499
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,440
Put on a long sleeve T-shirt and
some shorts.

500
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,120
Thought I was going to be fine
and I was like, do I go?

501
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,680
I I hate like going back and
then like trying to putting on

502
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,760
new clothes like I just wanted
to finish, you know, this walk.

503
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,680
And so I didn't, I, I toughed it
out, but I was like, this is

504
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,280
cold.
Man, it's like one of those

505
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,800
things it makes it like we had
soccer practices today.

506
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,760
I had like a dude, I had one kid
shorts and T-shirt.

507
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,240
It's like bro, he was instantly
regretting he he.

508
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,600
Someone I know, probably some.
Probably.

509
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,400
Well, Yant did warn me if we're
going on the podcast, don't

510
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,080
mention names.
This would not be a bad thing to

511
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,200
mention names on.
But yeah, it was like, I was

512
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,040
like dressed like several layers
and I was like, I couldn't like

513
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,600
type things in my.
I was trying to take notes on my

514
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,360
phone from practice.
Like, I couldn't type things

515
00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:12,280
down.
It was so cold, man.

516
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,960
I'm just, I, I feel like if I
lived up north, I, I am so much,

517
00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:18,760
I had soccer part, but I'm so
much less active when it's cold.

518
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,560
Yeah, 'cause it's like you don't
wanna take a walk outside or

519
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,120
something like that, you know?
Yeah, yeah, it is miserable.

520
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,920
Yeah, yeah, very cold.
But, you know, in Charleston

521
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,840
fashion.
It's gonna warm up tomorrow.

522
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,760
Very warm.
Well, not tomorrow, couple days.

523
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,360
Yeah, it's supposed to be like
20 tomorrow evening down in

524
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:35,400
Beaufort.
Where?

525
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,760
'Cause you're going, yeah.
That's crazy.

526
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,920
Karis has a varsity soccer game
down in Hilton Head Beaver

527
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,680
Hilton Head and it's going to be
cold.

528
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:48,160
Jill's like take blankets, take
a scarf, take she's she's very

529
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,520
concerned.
We'll figure it out.

530
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,080
And this is we're recording
this.

531
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,400
What is this the 23rd?
This it'll be a little bit

532
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,080
before this air.
So by the time this gets, it

533
00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:56,880
should be like.
Yeah, the listeners are like.

534
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:58,880
What's going on?
Yeah, yeah.

535
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,360
But it it's cold on the 23rd.
Man, yeah, I'm looking forward

536
00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:04,360
to it warming up.
And it was like really warm like

537
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,960
3 days ago.
Yeah, it's just like for a it's

538
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,160
like, it's just, I don't like
it, man.

539
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:10,840
At least it was sunny and not
rainy.

540
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,520
But man, it was.
It was brutal.

541
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,600
So how's the handstands going?
Handstands I try after ARPAC, I

542
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,840
try to get back into it and I
had a couple good ones, a couple

543
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,360
not good ones.
I just I need to keep up.

544
00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:24,720
I need to do some tonight.
I'll do some tonight.

545
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,440
I get Leanne gives me grades
every time.

546
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,840
Like on a scale of zero to 100,
she think that was a 7.50.

547
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,520
That one was a three.
Not good.

548
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,360
So you're getting threes and
sevens on a scale of up to 100.

549
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,560
Well, yeah.
Well, she's saying like, yeah,

550
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,800
maybe it's 79.
I'm yeah, yeah, it's what I

551
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,480
mean.
And it's like one of those

552
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,000
things, it's like, it can be
great, it can be not good.

553
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,480
I've got no consistency.
No, you know, I'm not very

554
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:47,480
reliable.
I'm kind of.

555
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,760
Every now and then I get a good
one, but it's not.

556
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,000
It's like, well, not to act like
I've ever walked on my hands

557
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,200
because I've never done that,
but it seems like I've done

558
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,000
something stuff like that where
it's like, if your balance is

559
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,480
good to start, Oh yeah, like
you, you can.

560
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,520
Build off that.
But if you have like a little

561
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,760
bit of teeter in there and then
you like try to correct and you

562
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,840
overcorrect and you overcorrect
it and it's like you're down.

563
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:10,960
It's bad right now.
Like when I feel good, I'm, it's

564
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,720
not like I'm not, it's not like
I'm holding my hands up for 10

565
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,480
seconds.
It's like 3 seconds.

566
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,600
I'm like, this is a great one.
You know, it's like it kind of

567
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,280
gets built for a little bit, but
then you lose it instantly.

568
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,880
So all of us say not, not super.
Great.

569
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,920
So we had home groups at your
house last night and I saw some

570
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,720
of these cushions.
So is that what are those out

571
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,240
for?
Your hand stands like you land

572
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,760
on those.
Cushions, my kids just like love

573
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:31,920
playing with these.
Like are you talking about the

574
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,200
yellow cushion things?
My kids just play with them.

575
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,400
But I do use them as like little
buffers when I like 'cause my,

576
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,040
my best one to run, I really go
for it.

577
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,600
And sometimes I overshoot and
I'm like, this is how people get

578
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,240
hurt.
Like I don't, I should probably

579
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,680
like bail out of it, but I
really push them.

580
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,600
But I, but I have those cushions
that to help me out.

581
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,120
But yeah, it's great.
You know, you got all my bases

582
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,360
covered, man.
It's it gets pretty wild with

583
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,040
all the kids jumping around in
there sometimes.

584
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,200
But yeah, it's good.
So, yeah.

585
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,760
What what about you?
You been working on any

586
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,640
anything?
Yeah, I've been working out.

587
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:08,920
I, I, it seems like I can get a
workout in once or twice a week

588
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,240
and I'm like, I know I need to
like get to that 3.

589
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,200
When I say workout, I mean like
lifting weights.

590
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,600
Oh yeah, yeah, 'cause you do you
do you work out at, at the

591
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:17,880
school at.
At the school, yeah.

592
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:23,000
Yeah, I should persuade Jonathan
to to, I think.

593
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,560
No, I think he goes to Planet
Fitness.

594
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:27,840
Really.
Yeah.

595
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,000
It's just because the school
isn't like busy at certain times

596
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,840
you don't be around.
Students, I mean, I do normally

597
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,600
go later in the evening, but
it's like it'd be pretty, it's,

598
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,680
it's close for me.
It'd be real close for Jonathan.

599
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,880
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've been taking creatine, so I

600
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,760
did my like, yeah.
How long have you been?

601
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,320
Did you like?
I did my ramp dose and then I

602
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,320
was like doing my normal doses.
What?

603
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:46,880
What are you like 5 grams?
It's like normal.

604
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,360
Dose for you like 5.
Yeah, you know, I hit it hard.

605
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,600
Well, I was reading is like
whatever, once you get your

606
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,440
muscles totally absorbed, you're
just urinating out any of that's

607
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,000
extra and that's kind.
Of what they say, I don't know

608
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,800
how good the studies are.
You've probably seen this too.

609
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,280
It's a lot of creatine.
If you're on 20 grams of

610
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,480
creatine or more, it's good for
cognitive.

611
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,400
It's if you're sleep, it's if
you're sleep to I think it's

612
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:12,400
only if.
I don't know if it's only if

613
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,440
you're sleep deprived, you do
better than other people that

614
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,080
are sleep deprived, but I I
don't know if it's that much

615
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,840
benefit.
Can you absorb Twinkie?

616
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,520
That's.
What the, I don't know how good

617
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:21,840
the study is or not, but that's
whatever.

618
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,160
I, it might just be like, hey,
as far as muscle is concerned, I

619
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,600
don't, I don't know.
That's like a new thing.

620
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,120
And usually it's like once in
the news like that, it's like,

621
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,040
doesn't really make a
difference, you know?

622
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,320
I did, there was like two or
three days, maybe 4 days in a

623
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,000
row.
You know, 'cause I I weighed

624
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,360
daily and you know, when I first
started taking the creatine, you

625
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:41,880
go up a little.
Bit 'cause you're packing.

626
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,320
Water and stuff and your muscles
and I was fine.

627
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,560
And then I was like, like a
pound or two lost a day.

628
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,640
And then I was like, then I was
like, oh, I saw I forgot to take

629
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,000
my creatine, so I was probably
burning the creatine out.

630
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,560
And I was like, I'm gonna lose
the weight fast.

631
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,120
You.
Know what what's you do the the

632
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,840
powder mix it in.
That's the that's what I do too

633
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,600
cheap.
It's like man, I would love.

634
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,880
I know the gummies have sugar
and stuff in this That's like so

635
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,360
I mean not the powder's that
hard, but it's nice.

636
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,800
Just a pop of gummy so those
things get expensive.

637
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,880
I wonder how much they gave me
when I went to a state because I

638
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,800
like this powder is nothing.
I remember like, going, like

639
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,960
choking on how much they gave us
when we were playing football.

640
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,000
Probably more than our body
could.

641
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,080
Definitely.
And they would say, they would

642
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,120
just say, hey, make sure you
drink some water.

643
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,880
And I'm like, I am drinking with
water.

644
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,880
But they probably should have
said you need to drink a gallon

645
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,200
of water with this much creatine
that we're giving you.

646
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,840
But that was never made.
It's clear.

647
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,920
So yeah.
Yeah, it's amazing to me.

648
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:45,040
Like I have like like 90
servings in the, you know,

649
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,680
whatever the amount I get.
And I just opened a new one this

650
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,720
morning and like that fresh
creatine that hasn't been like

651
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,120
absorbed any liquid or water.
It's just like so nice compared

652
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:56,840
to my old creatine.
Yeah.

653
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,480
It's like, Oh my goodness, it's
kind of gross.

654
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,080
It's like not dissolving.
It's like, you know, So yeah, I

655
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,680
don't know.
We'll see how long I can keep it

656
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,640
going, but that's.
Yeah, I normally just put it in

657
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,960
the bottom, get some water,
swirl, swirl, swig, and then you

658
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,440
then fill up the glass and drink
like the whole glass, something

659
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:12,000
like that.
So it's.

660
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:16,320
Great, my cousin who stayed with
us for like a summer while he's

661
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,160
going to PT school while they
figured out something he would

662
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,560
just like just dry just.
Just dry.

663
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,600
That's it seems like that's what
they gave us too.

664
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,800
I remember it being dry in my
mouth and then chasing it with

665
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,920
something to drink.
And I was like, this is

666
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,240
horrible.
And I I was looking at the

667
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,000
different types because there's
the monohydrate.

668
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,640
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then there's HCLI think.

669
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:40,520
Oh, yeah.
Interesting.

670
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:41,720
I don't know.
I don't have that expert.

671
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:42,920
Yeah.
And it was like, hey, the

672
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,000
monohydrates is the better one
you want to take for absorption

673
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,320
and stuff.
I was like, good, I won't be

674
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,400
getting that powdery stuff that
we had back and apparently that

675
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,680
is the monohydrate because when
I ordered the monohydrate, I was

676
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,640
like, this is exactly what we
had at a state so.

677
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,560
Love it.
Creatine man.

678
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,800
Honestly I feel like everyone
should just take creatine, you

679
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:02,520
know?
Probably.

680
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,520
Side effects, not it'll.
Be a while, but look at the

681
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,480
camera.
Tell Jill you should be taking

682
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:08,360
creatine because I've been
telling.

683
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:09,280
Her.
Yeah, for real.

684
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:10,920
You need to take it, but she's
like.

685
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,440
Do it, do it, we'll see.
So Jill's normally like 5

686
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,000
episodes behind something.
More than five.

687
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,960
But then she catches up.
It was, she was like, you guys

688
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:21,120
took a road trip out and it was
Christmas.

689
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,080
It was like, great, I'll call.
That was like all it took was

690
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,000
like a 10 hour road trip out.
I don't know how far it was, but

691
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,680
yeah.
So she needs to do more of

692
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:27,760
those.
Great.

693
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,400
Anything else you want to add?
I think if we keep going, we're

694
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,880
not gonna have anything for the
rest of the night, so we

695
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,440
probably should cut it off.
That's our thing.

696
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,400
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697
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698
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