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#107 - The Most Difficult Words Jesus Ever Spoke · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  What's up, everyone? So I got up today and I just was not feeling it.
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  I don't know about you. Do you ever have those days where you are just not feeling it at all?
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  Man, I think I ate too late last night and I do that.
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  I do that sometimes. I try to get away from that and I'm trying to get,
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  I'm trying to cut out carbs or something.
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  I feel like the more I try to get healthy, the weaker I become because then
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  the littlest things throw me up and I get thrown off so easily.
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  I don't know what it is, but man, I was not feeling it this morning.
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  I'm not feeling it right now.
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  So I don't know, maybe you're going through something like that.
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  We all are going through something. We're waking up, we're getting into our
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  day, you know, and all that. And just the weirdest things are happening lately.
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  I wanted to start it off this morning with what do words mean?
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  Because I try to become greater and better at language, but some of the words
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  that I use all the time, I've never actually looked into what they mean.
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  And this might make you question my intellectual ability that I don't even know certain words.
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  I get the gist of a lot of words.
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  There are a lot of words that I just use, and I could put it in context and try to make sense of it.
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  But the word of the day is solicit.
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  Honestly, I don't know what that means. I don't know what the word solicit means.
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  And I hear it in different contexts. I said, no soliciting.
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  There's the crude word of soliciting sex. I don't, so I don't know what that is.
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  And then soliciting and like selling something. So is that when you're selling
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  that? And I don't know what solicitation is. So we're going to look it up today.
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  I'm going to look it up and I'm going to right before your eyes,
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  I'm going to find out what does the word solicit mean?
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  I'm typing it into good old faithful Google and solicit says,
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  ask for or try to obtain something from someone.
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  So that's what is throwing me off because in the context, I would always think
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  it does mean you're asking for something.
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  But then I always see signs that say no soliciting, but it's like a person come to your door.
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  They're not asking for something. They're trying to sell you something.
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  So that's where I'm getting all thrown off. And I'm like, what does it mean over here?
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  What does it mean over there? You know, maybe you know what that word is,
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  and I guess I know what the gist of it is, but it says solicit means ask for
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  or try to obtain something from someone.
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  So when you see no solicit, I don't know. Anybody ever like this?
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  There's words out there we use, we throw in context, but the word of the day
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  for me is solicit, solicit.
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  So I, because whenever I was thinking about it, I was in my mind,
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  I thought it was because you say
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  someone solicits sex, I would think that they're asking for it, I guess.
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  I don't know. But then I was just completely just flipped because I was thinking
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  you're going to go and sell something.
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  So does that mean somebody is selling it like prostitution?
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  Is that what that means? Either way, it means to ask for or try to obtain something from someone. Whoa.
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  So maybe that's why I am way off today because I but I wanted to I want to maybe
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  try to introduce some word.
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  And maybe people out there that you know these words, you got them in the back
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  of your head. You already know these things easily.
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  But for me today, the word is solicit. And now I know it is to ask for something
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  or try to obtain something from someone.
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  It's not necessarily the sales thing, but you're trying to get something from someone.
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  And then I always think about the movie Airheads, because I always think in
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  that movie, Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, like that movie's awesome.
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  And he's like, no solicitation. He's like, he's wanting to get a record deal
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  and he has to come unsolicited, unsolicited.
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  And I'm like, what does unsolicited mean?
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  Maybe words mean things in different contexts, but it means to ask.
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  Maybe he wants that record deal without asking for it.
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  It needs to come to him like freely from someone else.
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  I think we're there. I think we're there, everyone. I think we're there.
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  All right, today we are talking about, my name is Brandon Fogel.
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  This is Evolution. and we're going to get into this.
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  And I did want to also talk about, I, like I said, the other day,
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  I'm going to start researching and understanding what evolution is because I
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  said, I use the name for my show because I love, I like the word,
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  but I'm also looking into the theory of evolution.
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  And right now, just the, what I've looked at so far, it is to me,
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  it's almost, it would take a very strong faith to believe in that theory,
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  just based on, I've been trying to watch a bunch of videos and try to understand it.
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  And I'm trying to come at it with an open mind of what people are saying.
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  And I just think I got everything right. Cause.
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  And I'm not going to have everything right. Nobody has everything right. We are not anybody.
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  Nobody here is the sole person that has a sole arbiter of truth.
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  In reality, they have it stuck in their head and nobody else has it.
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  People have a lot of people have bits and pieces of truth. But just looking
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  at the theory of evolution so far, it does not seem strong to me.
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  And I will keep you updated as I research it and as I try to study it,
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  because I want to get into I want to see this carbon dating.
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  I want to see these fossils because so far, a lot of times all I see is a little
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  fossil and then they say it's this huge thing.
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  So I want to find out about that. I want to learn more about that as well as
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  right now, I keep seeing that it's the, they use a lot of the whale,
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  whales in the ocean, that they have a bone inside of them that looks like that
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  they used to walk a long time ago.
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  And inside there that we can find in inside
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  of a whale that that's evidence that they have some
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  type of bone inside of them that gives us a hint that
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  they used to walk years and years ago i don't think
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  that's that strong of evidence so far but i mean i i'm still looking into it
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  because they use a lot of words i want to see pictures i want to see pictures
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  i want to see what is what the strongest evidence you have for evolution like
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  the theory of evolution and darwinism i mean and I was going to talk about the
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  hard sayings of Jesus in this,
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  but I also want to talk about just seeing Darwin and him going to the Galapagos,
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  and he saw a finch over in this island, and then there's a finch that's over
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  on this island, and they have similar traits.
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  I need to be educated. I need to be edumacated.
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  Big time. So I'm studying it. I will keep you updated. You know,
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  this is maybe the one of many videos that I bring that up and talk about that.
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  But in this video, we, I know we've talked about solicitation.
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  We've all talked about Darwinism and all that. We're going to talk about the
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  hardest saying, the most difficult saying of Jesus, at least for me.
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  I should have put that in the title, but this one is the strongest one for me
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  of why I have struggled with Jesus at times.
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  I ultimately and completely believe in him, but this is one that has caused me to trip up.
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  And it's regarding this saying, what he talks about, and it says in all the
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  gospels, in all the gospels that he has in his ministry, he's preaching to the
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  people. Let me switch screens just so you have a verse in front of you.
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  You know, all good stuff.
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  All right. So he's preaching his ministry in front of the people.
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  And he gives this impression like he's going to be coming back within that same generation.
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  And over and over, and we're going to look, maybe this first verse right here,
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  it says in Matthew chapter 16, the very bottom of the page right there.
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  Jesus says, 1627, for the son of man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his father.
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  And then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
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  Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until
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  they see the son of man coming in his kingdom.
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  A lot of times, like as a Christian, it's easy to just skate over those passages
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  and just not really fully flesh it out what Jesus is saying,
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  did he really think he was going to be returning within that generation?
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  And as a prophet, because Jesus was a prophet, did he have the flexibility?
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  And he had the credentials of being a prophet, but did he have that?
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  Because a lot of times, even in the Old Testament, there were prophets that
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  they would say something was going to happen, and then it didn't happen.
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  So the prophet Jonah, he goes into Nineveh and he says, in 40 days,
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  Nineveh is going to be destroyed.
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  The people repent and then it's not destroyed.
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  And then in the book of Isaiah, it talks about Isaiah goes to the king and he
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  says, you are going to die.
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  You are going to die. And then the king weeps and cries and cries out to God.
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  And then God extends his life to live longer than he was said he was going to happen.
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  So it's like, can we change God's mind?
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  I would say fundamentally we can't.
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  But there are anthropomorphisms in the Bible that give us kind of a way that we can understand.
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  Ultimately, in God's mind, in his eternal plan, it doesn't change,
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  but it's almost he puts things in place that could give the appearance that his mind changes.
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  So when Jesus is talking about this, truly, I say some of you standing here
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  will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
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  And I've heard so many different kind of ways to explain what he's saying is,
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  and then I've heard that he's talking about just a few days later that he goes
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  up to the Mount of Transfiguration and then Peter and John and James, they saw him,
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  like they saw the eternal, like the glory that is hidden was concealed in his
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  humanity, like kind of just come through, come through and And just, they saw him in that.
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  Was that the coming that he's talking about?
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  Like, that was like, them seeing him in his glory, was that what he was referring to?
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  And I've heard that from New Testament scholars that I madly respect.
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  I don't think that that really is, that doesn't make sense that much.
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  Because he says some of you standing here will not taste death.
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  So then I, now let's skip forward a little bit. We're going to go to the very
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  end of Matthew when Jesus is given the all of it discourse.
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  Let me throw it on the page for
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  you as well. Find it. Maybe I should have found it before I got on here.
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  Okay. This is another one in chapter 24, right here, like chapter 24,
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  44. Take out the right thing.
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  Two different things. I can't find the verse. It was, it was,
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  one of them is Jesus talks about no one knows the day that he's going to return.
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  He says, the angels don't know and the son doesn't know, but the father alone.
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  That was, that's a tough one as well. But we have to understand that Jesus was a man.
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  He grew up as a child. He grew up, had parents and everything like that.
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  He learned, he didn't immediately come out of the womb, just speaking perfect
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  Aramaic. He had to learn how to speak.
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  So there was a real reality to his humanity.
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  So him not knowing the day he was going to return, was that him,
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  the divine nature was concealing it and kind of hiding that from his human nature.
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  That's the only way I could understand that. But the verse I wanted to find
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  out was, it was, and it's at the very end. It's like, I'm going to find it.
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  I'm going to find it. Might as well just look at this generation. Okay, let me see.
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  2434. Okay. It's Matthew 2434. Jesus giving the Olivet Discourse and he's talking
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  about things that are going to happen near term.
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  And then he's talking about things that are going to happen long-term.
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  And it seems like he's kind of conflating in them.
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  You see a little bit of the stars are going to fall from heaven,
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  the moon's going to turn to blood, and the sun's going to turn to sackcloth.
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  But then also, this temple is going to be destroyed.
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  And that was a legit, true prophecy that he declared that within that generation,
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  Rome came in and just completely destroy Jerusalem and the temple.
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  But at the end of the whole verse in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24,
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  verse 34, he says, truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until
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  all these things take place.
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  Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
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  So for me, this is another one, and it hasn't to do in the same kind of milieu
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  of he's talking about no one knows the day or hour that I'm going to come back.
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  And he says that it's going to happen within this generation.
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  And he's talking to contemporaries.
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  So is the coming of the Lord in that context, is there a difference?
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  And I would say, and just studying the Greek, there is a difference.
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  It's the word parousia, parousia. And that had to do with a judge coming to
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  town, a judge doing his circuit and coming to town and making his determinations
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  and deciding things and judging somewhere.
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  So Jesus, I would say maybe is being a little bit loose and also in his prerogative
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  as a prophet, he can have that near-term fulfillment future that's going to.
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  Out there future. That's going to be the greater reality of what he's prophesying.
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  And I would say that is what's happening because that's the only way I can make sense of it.
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  Because he says within this generation, Rome, the temple is going to be destroyed.
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  It says not one stone is going to be left upon another. This whole thing is going to be coming down.
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  This is 40 years before that temple was destroyed. And it would have seemed
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  ludicrous for anybody at that time, but it happened, but he didn't come back
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  within that generation.
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  So was his coming just that coming in judgment?
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  That's the only way I can make sense of it. And I've thought about the Olivet
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  Discourse when Jesus talks about that.
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  And I put it into three, I don't know why I always touch my face.
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  Okay. I put it into three different perspectives, three different viewpoints.
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  Let me see if I can remember them off the top of my head. One is that immediate
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  generation that was right there that happened, and then they experienced that.
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  They saw it and they witnessed it happen. But then the other one,
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  maybe it's not three, it's three.
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  I hadn't thought through this yet. It's been a little bit before,
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  since I thought about this. There was three.
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  I'll try to remember those, but there was that immediate generation that they
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  experienced it that happened and they saw it happen.
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  But also the coming of the Lord has to do with anyone.
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  Because we always think about Jesus's return when he's physically going to return.
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  Is that going to be, am I going to be here for the ride?
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  Am I going to be front and center in a part of that generation when it happens?
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  Really to me, it doesn't matter because the coming of the Lord for all of us
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  applies to us very personally because the coming of the Lord could be tomorrow for you personally,
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  for me personally, because I could die tomorrow. I could die today.
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  Our coming and appearing before God could happen at any breath.
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  Our final breath could happen at any moment.
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  So it very much matters how we look at Jesus's words, but this one has been
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  one that has tripped me up.
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  I've tried to gymnastically understand it and like what Jesus means.
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  Ultimately, there is so much more that I do understand and I do see clearly
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  about Jesus and trusting in him that this isn't going to cause me to stumble,
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  isn't going to cause me to trip up and throw him out.
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  But it is a tough one and it is one that critics will bring up.
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  And I would say rightfully so, because if you look at it just at plain level,
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  it does look like Jesus said something and didn't happen.
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  But I would argue it has to do with him being a prophet.
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  Like I said, certain prophets said things were going to happen,
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  but then certain events didn't follow.
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  And then God's grace, you could say, overcame.
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  And God allowed more people to repent and come into the kingdom.
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  That's why at this time right now, it's times of repentance.
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  People are given that opportunity to whether they want to choose or reject the
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  gospel, but we want to choose or reject believing in Jesus.
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  So maybe that is what is happening there. So I don't know about you,
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  but this one has been tough for me.
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  And I'm certainly going to talk more about it. And I'm certainly going to talk
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  more about how I'm learning more about evolution. So I'll bring that along the way as well.
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  And if people that say that believe in evolution, the theory and all that,
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  that is real, I will concede.
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  This is a good argument. because like I said in a previous video,
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  that did make Rhett McLaughlin stumble and fall away from the faith.
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  So if it's true, I am interested in what's true. And as far as I can see, Jesus is the truth.
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  So I would say all roads are going to lead to him ultimately.
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  So, all right. Make sure you like this video if you haven't and subscribe,
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  share it with your friends and keep going and keep evolving to that best version of you.