4-71. How Jesus Confronts Religious Hypocrisy

Luke 14:1-6

Join Dan Reed and Josh Brockman as they explore Luke 14, focusing on Jesus' interactions with the Pharisees, healing on the Sabbath, and the significance of God's timing in our lives. This episode offers deep insights into biblical miracles, spiritual hardness, and living for an audience of one.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not? But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on the Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out? And they could not reply to these things.

SPEAKER_02 0:40

Hey, well, welcome to the One Truth Podcast. Josh Brockman and myself, Dan Reed. If you don't recognize my voice, uh I am okay. It's just been a while. And I'm glad to be back, Josh. Thank you for having me back and welcoming me today for episode season four and episode 71 in our fourth season. Which, if you don't believe in miracles, just look at the episode numbers, and that's a miracle in itself, being the fourth season of this. And the 71st episodes, jumping right into Luke chapter 14.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Kind of like this, it's kind of like baseball season, 71st uh episode of uh the fourth season. It takes it takes a minute to get through through a baseball season, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_02 1:26

Sometimes it takes a minute to get through a baseball game. Maybe even an inning, it takes seventy-one minutes to get through. Only for twelve, I guess. Sometimes we have to wait for 71 inches of rain to dry.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

My computer had just popped up one one inch of rain on Friday. Right before we got going.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

And I know a lot of people haven't, and we haven't had a ton, but the the opportunity time to rain is Friday nights and Saturday nights. So it puts kink in things, but that's okay. We got to go to church Sunday, and it was really, really good to be there in person, Josh. I and we do some ministry stuff on Sundays at the ball game or at the ball field, but there's just something about being there with other sinners, other people that are redeemed, and just worshiping together with a group of folks, big or small, doesn't matter how it is. When you find a church that you can pour into, and it's just it's just good. I encourage everyone who's listening, don't let this be your church, boy. And I tell tell my kiddos or the kiddos I get to speak to, don't let FCA be your church. Go find you a church home. I don't care where you go. Find a place that you can pour into. Find a place that you can serve, and I promise you the opposite will return itself to. You will be poured into and you will be served as well.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

There's nothing, I would say nothing more, or not many things, if anything more important than gathering with the saints on the Lord's Day. Absolutely. It uh Yeah, to go worship to gathers, or commanded to gather, to be around other everything that you just said, Dan, of uh the the things that you know I think it in in uh in American culture sometimes we we get off, and I did this for a lot of my life, of of uh why go, why why can't we worship here or there, or why can't we this and that? But man, when you when you just like you said, and you gather amongst other believers all focused on the Lord's day in one unison, united in Christ, and and man, it's uh I don't know, simple, plain way saying it's good for your soul. But definitely, definitely. No, it's good to be back. It's been a minute for both of us, really, not just for you.

SPEAKER_02 4:01

I guess so.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

Uh yeah, we took just a minute there after Easter, somewhat planned and somewhat unplanned, somewhat spontaneous, uh, also, but uh took uh took a minute there and then uh had a plan and then the plan kind of fell through and and uh here we are in the Lord's Sovereign Perfect Timing uh recording this morning. Uh back again. So hope uh it's giving you a chance to catch up if you were behind on the podcast or go back and check some other stuff out or find other things or whatever it was. We're glad you were here, and we are glad also to be here as we jump back in today to Luke chapter 14, right where we left off. I guess I didn't look at the date, but with Easter and and all that, probably about a month ago would be the last uh last time. So um, but yeah, our plan today is to jump right back in at Luke 14 and um and just pick back up and jump right back into this study of the Gospel of Luke. Uh we've talked about through the through the season the longest gospel account by word counting and length um is the gospel of Luke and and uh and we're what is it? I don't even know how many chapters are in here if I don't look back at it. 24, 25, 26, 20, a lot. But we're about to the halfway point from a chapter number standpoint, give or take a few, and uh jumping right back in today of Jesus dealing, discussing, conversing with the Pharisees, as we've seen multiple times. And as we see today, specifically as we get started, Dan, we see the Pharisees and Jesus interacting over the Sabbath and him healing on the Sabbath. Um, as I kind of was studying on this for a couple of weeks now, um it's interesting to me just doing some reading and that, and as we go through, this will be the third time through Luke, um, that this first specific instance of Jesus healing on the Sabbath and the Pharisees having something to say about it, or or uh trying to set him in a trap or what have you. Uh we saw that in Luke 6, uh verses 6 through 10, when Jesus healed the man with the withered hand. We saw it in Luke 13 uh with the woman that was that was bent double or couldn't straighten up with the disabling evil spirit. And then now we've come in today to see this man uh with dropsy uh that's also the the same. So uh just a few things before I before we kind of jump into the text and get going that I thought was interesting as we talk about that, is uh it seems like this was just uh another instance, and and I've got just some questions to myself as I went through this study as we work through, it'll go. But um as they sit down into this luncheon, this dinner, this this breaking bread together, um it seems really interesting to me. There's there's a few different things in the background of the context that that could be the options of how this come about. And and I thought just maybe kick that around as we get going. Um there was somewhat of a custom sometimes. If we're on the Sabbath, there would have been a meeting in the synagogue for the teacher of the synagogue to then come and and and be invited to a meal. I mean, we can probably relate to that in our culture today uh pretty well. Maybe that was the case for this. Um it seems like when we get into the context of this first story, Dan, that that as they walk in and then they set this man before Jesus, so uh was it just ill intentions to see uh and evaluate how he would handle yet another situation? Another thing that rolls around in my mind a lot is this is this um a different sect or different group of the Pharisees like that haven't haven't been involved in this interaction with Christ but heard of it, or or is it guys that have have been involved uh directly before? You know, just a lot of different things in the background that that kind of set the scene, but and we'll jump into more of that as as we go. But um definitely interesting, definitely a large part of the gospels is Jesus' interaction um with these guys called the Pharisees and this religious uh religious group of people. And and just one more thing before we jump in. Uh I thought Sprohl brought this out really well. Remember, these are Pharisees, they were so named because in the intertestamental period they saw the moral decline of their own nation. They were that their nation was a people moving away from the desire to obey the law of God, and these guys called themselves the set-apart ones, they were devoted to keeping every law from the Old Testament. Now that sounds great, right? That's that's a that's a morally a good thing to come about. He went on to say even some of them were convinced that if someone kept the law perfectly for one day, that action would induce God to send the long-awaited Messiah. He goes on in Swirl's normal way of the irony of that's the Messiah standing right in front of them and they they don't see him. But so if you think about these guys, their initial intention was to follow the law of God. So what happened in that, and we see it throughout the gospels, is and Christ says the the clearest way to me, uh, I don't know if this will come up as we keep going through Luke, but it comes up in Matthew, and when he looks at him and says, You overtly discuss the the matters of of tithing mint and dealing human, but you overlook the weightier things of the law, love and justice and mercy. And so we we see that played out with these men, and and and as we get into it, we'll go on and talk about that a little bit more of how their zeal for the law and what Christ comes and does reveals their true character internally of what they had turned this religious performance and has performance-based system um into. So, with that, I think maybe let's just jump in, Dan, unless you got some some free thoughts here before we go and and we'll get into it.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

Yeah, I do, and but it it jumps back to what you said just a few minutes ago in God's sovereign timing. This is where we're at. Right? And in all transparency, we really tried to do this a week ago. Like we tried really hard, and I had a hard stop at a certain point in time during that day, and we were trying to get this done and trying to get this done, and it just wasn't happening to be able to be on this recording at the same time and do this, and it was okay. And when you said it was all I don't remember what you said before or after that, Josh, forgive me, it's only been 11 minutes and 20 seconds, but I don't remember what you said before or after that and what you were talking about. But you said in God's sovereign timing, man, that's guys, that is life. Like we could have thrown this podcast in the microwave and popped it out in 20 minutes, and it would have probably been okay. It may not have been, but it wasn't meant to be that day. And I I guess me and Josh understood that, hey, that just not gonna happen today. And so we rolled on to today, whatever today is.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

I understood a lot better later than I did in the moment. My wife would tell you I was pretty frustrated in the moment.

SPEAKER_02 12:00

I could read frustration on text messages, and it was just plain text, but I knew that my brother Montgomery was having a rough day. And it wasn't anything, yeah, it it probably wasn't anything Josh you had done that day. It just the normal stuff wasn't happening normally, right? And that happens.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

That happens.

SPEAKER_02 12:19

So what's the lesson that God's like, hey, this thing gets done today. And and in my prayer life lately, and it hasn't been enough requesting this or asking this, or but God just speak to me how you want me, how you want to speak to me, when and where, whatever it is. And two weeks ago I sent you a uh a text message of a quote in the coach's outreach Bible study that I was preparing for that said, Do unbelievers know we've been with Jesus? And I just sat there. And when you said God's sovereign timing ten minutes ago now, I just sat there like, man. In God's timing, we will know, right? We will know when you get the answer, whether it's an answer, whether it's a yes, or whether it's a no, and it's okay if it's a no, it's a no from God doesn't mean that's the end of that question, request, pursuit, whatever it is. I'm rambling now, but even as we jump into 14.1, there's a little bit of God's sovereign timing in the first five verses. Oh, yeah. When he's sitting there on the Sabbath, and maybe Jesus saying, Hey, God, let's go, let's put this in the microwave, let's get this done so I can prove my point. And he's just sitting there with them and they run this guy in front of them. Well, I mean, this guy's there, the the guy with dropsy, swollen limbs, fluid on his limbs. So what and Jesus asked a question Hey guys, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? And he had already done it four times before this was recorded, and you mentioned a few of them, and he'd made the Pharisees and religious leaders look foolish when he did it, and it responded to him then. He Jesus said, Is it unlawful to heal on the Sabbath? And those guys said nothing. Like, we're not we're not gonna tell this guy no this time. So as they kept silent. He took the man and healed him and sent him away. You know, and then he proves his point. Which of you guys ox falls into the well that you're not gonna go get even if it's on the Sabbath?

SPEAKER_00 14:33

It's so interesting there, you know, we we can a lot of different ways that we we can talk about it. But uh as he he talks about that with them, you know, we can read this and and and I have before, and never really given it a lot of thought of, you know, that's an honest question. Like who who wouldn't who wouldn't do that? But studying on it this time, even even more, it it opens up the the reality to me of that's a specific question to a specific group of people. Uh, again, like we talked about kind of in the open of that this is a religious group of people that their their outset and their goal was to strenuously obey the law of God because they lived with with people that in the intertestamental period that through through that time continued to walk further and further away from God. We can relate to that in America. We we see it pretty constant that we're a country that keeps moving, seems like in the opposite direction of obeying the law of God. But within their oral traditions, there there were those exceptions that on the Sabbath, to keep the Sabbath, they had this long, laundry list of ways to keep the Sabbath on top of just keep the Sabbath. Well, here's how don't don't go further than this amount walking, don't carry this from one place to the other, don't do this, don't do that. But there's some provisions of if you're now there was different sects of the religious leaders, the the scenes were even stronger or more tedious than the Pharisees that would would object to this. But as the Pharisee group, uh there was provisions if you have an animal emergency situations. Uh, if you have an animal that's uh again, he he brings this up, that's fallen into a well, you can pull it out. If you have a life or death situation with a person, you can you can address that. Um so on and so forth. So when he asks this question, which of you having a son or an ox has fallen into a well on the Sabbath, they will not immediately pull him out. And he asked the same question earlier. I can't remember if it's in Luke 6 or 14, uh, to him. Really, they've got a couple answers. They can they can say, yeah, our tradition allows for that. But they don't say that. It says they they didn't reply, they kept to themselves. So, you know, it's kind of one of those scenarios, it's not just a random question that he throws out there. It's kind of like if if you do something wrong uh as a child, and your parent comes and asks you, you know, why'd you do that? And you just you know the right answer, but you just I'm just not gonna say anything because I don't want to answer that. And that's pretty much what happens here. And so I think it's it's obviously very wise, and it, but but you see the underlying of you know, he looks at them, so he walks into this lunch, and there's this man before him. Obviously, Jesus is invited here, he didn't bring this man with him. It it kind of goes reading between the lines that this was this is what I said earlier, of it seems like this was a setup deal of they're gonna present this man before him and see what happens. And he just looks at him and says, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not? They remain silent. They could have answered, Well, we believe it's not lawful because unless it's a life or death situation, we believe this, that, and the other. They sat silent. He took him and healed him anyway, sent him away. I kind of thought that's another side note. It was neat that he sent him away. That's a mercy to that man specifically that he healed, that he was no longer the center of the attention of the discussion. Um, and then he asked him this question which of you having a son or an ox falling into a well would not pull him out immediately, which they all would have answered and should have answered. Yes, we would have. But then answering yes, we would have, they exposed their self of the fact of so I count this ox of my own, of a higher value than this man who's been suffering from a you know serious medical ailment. So it's fascinating.

SPEAKER_02 18:39

It really is, it really is fascinating. And I the longer Jesus teaches, the more hardened their hearts become, and I just can't wrap my head around that. And I know that's all God's time and God's purpose, but sure there was one of them. Maybe it was the four-string Pharisee in the back. Like, hey, this guy's right. This guy's the savior sent by God. This guy came to forgive us of our sins and die on the cross for us. And no one paid attention to the four-string Pharisee. I that's that's not written here. I'm not trying to add to it. I'm just solely speculating. Like, surely there was one, Josh. Maybe. I don't, who knows? But I just, man. But then I think about my own life and my own hardness of my heart for 25 years, and I'd seen all the good things that God had performed in my life, all the blessings, all the situations, and then every time I had hardened my heart against Jesus. I mean, Jesus was doing things for these guys, or right in front of them, and they still had the heart. And I and I'm just like, man, I I was the same way. And then eventually, thank, thank God that literally, thank God that he did not give up and I surrender my life to him, and I just that we know the ending, right? We know who wins, and we know the ending, and me and my emotional feel is like, come on, guys, just this time when I read it, this time when we watch the movie, will you do the right thing? But they never do, and their heart stays hardened. And I say that to say, hey, there's people in in your life, our life, that we can't give up on. Even though their hearts are hardened to the message to Jesus, something in the past has happened, whatever it is, don't give up on them. Be like Jesus, who doesn't give up and keep ministering to those people. And Jesus didn't give up. I mean, he died on the cross for them too, Josh. Died on the cross for the very guys that sat in front of him and questioned and eventually didn't answer when Jesus questioned them. For the very guys that man, Jesus died for the guys that took Barabbas over him, he died for him. How many times in my life did I choose something over Jesus? A lot. But Jesus died for me as I was choosing something over him. Whoever's listening to this, Jesus died for you whenever you're choosing something other than Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

No, I would say Roman Romans says that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. And uh I mean he died for those who will believe and follow him. And uh we see you talk about uh you know, could there have been a Pharisee here or there? And and yeah, definitely doesn't say, so it's certainly uh Dan and Josh chapter one, speculation, but uh but yeah, I mean we see we see Joseph Farmouth and we see Nicodemus at the Of the gospels that are helping to prepare his body. And and you know, again, not scripture, but just traditionally, it it said that uh uh Nicodemus like loses everything later, you know, uh after that point and and goes from, you know, I mean, if you're a Pharisee, you're you're wealthy and well off and and in uh high standing and and then uh said that traditionally, like I say not in scripture, that that all of that is is stripped from him. Um and and we read Acts and see how Paul's treated and and was a Pharisee of Pharisees in his own words before that. So I definitely made it would be uh make sense, but um yeah, before we move on past these first six verses of of Luke 14, a couple other things that just really stood out to me that I think we can, or at least I can read past and and have before of um specifically in this instance um is verse 2, and behold there was a man before me who had dropsy, who then we read that he heals. And and you know, what what is that? What you know commonly called edema in today's time, like like Reed said, you know, swelling up of limbs. Um what what causes that? It's likely you know a symptom of of something that's wrong with the heart, lungs, liver, some some sort of vital organ that's not uh not letting things function as they're supposed to. And so in an instant, again, this man is healed before these this this group of people that are in this house, this at this dinner, this lunch, this whatever meal. And so just the the fact of that my dog's having a good good morning. We haven't heard of Lulu in a while on the podcast. She is still just doing great. Lou is Louin. She is she's doing wonderful. Who knows what squirrel or what's in my yard, but she's having a good time. But, anyways, as I was reading this this time and just thinking about she's just not gonna quit.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

Josh is getting up, and if the dog's quiet, we're gonna have to question him about what he did when he walked out of the recording studio there. He's coming back. Anyway, I don't hear Lou anymore.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

There was a squirrel, if anyone was wondering.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Let her out. She'll get it.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

No, she yeah. I mean, anyways, we went down that road before. But so, yeah, it just it finally, you know, occurred to me I've read I've read by that before, and and we read through Jesus' healings, and then and then you see just like literally think of, and I'm sure there's many people listening. I was sure if we sat and just went through list, we can talk about many of the times, and yeah, we can think of of people that have been healed. And and there's no answer but the fact of the prayers are answered and that uh God healed this person, right? And um and we see that here just anyways, like I say uh the first two or three times I read through the chapter, I kind of just read past that, yeah, Jesus healed, you know, we can we can just get to it, but then you really think about what that means and what actually happened in this very setting. And and these guys are are like you said, it's so hardened. And I thought Sproul brought up another good point of their reaction to him is that like I said, these guys are are strenuously on the external, and we know that from other plotters that we read in the gospel that Christ says, you know, that you clean the outside of the cup, but the inside is is dirty and filthy. Uh you whitewash tombs. And they're face to face, so what the what they're attempting to do, they're face to face with the one who is doing that, right? They're attempting to keep the law for their righteousness imperfectly and failing, and inside are full of dead men's bones, but they're face to face with the one who is. And Sproll made the the the comment of that nothing exposes the counterfeit like the genuine. And so that's gotta that's gotta be a part of this this back and forth of their hypocrisy. And we talk about hypocrisy today, is like somebody that does something and says another, but that they're putting on of a charade of being so righteous and holy, they are standing before the sinless one, who's perfectly righteous and holy, and he puts the question to them like, is it is it lawful or not? And their answer, if they were to actually answer, is yes, these provisions are made in our traditions. But they hold off and don't do that. So, anyways, I in that thought, um, you know, it's interesting. I I I put together a list, and and I say put together, I did a little bit of research, and I let a little bit of computer work help me, but um, there's 35 different miracles of Christ that are recorded in the four gospels. And and you could probably break that number up a few different ways and come up with 32 or 37 or just however you want to do it. But um, we got enough time before we move on. I'm just gonna read the list. Yeah, because to see it, and maybe we can go put this in the show notes too. Maybe I can get that, but to see these thirds, just read down through the list, and I won't quote every scripture. Um, I've got that beside him. I'll just put that in the show notes. So it's going through them. Turning water into wine at Cana. Healing an official son at Capernaum, delivering a demoniac in the synagogue at Capernaum. He heals Peter's wife, mother, Peter's mother-in-law at Capernaum. Um, the first miraculous catch of fish at the Sea of Galilee, that's in Luke 5, where uh he's calling Peter and they've been fishing all night and don't catch anything, and then they cast out a little deeper on the other side and pull up 153 fish. Uh they he cleanses a leper again, and that's one of those things like this man that's covered and stuff, instantly cleansed.

unknown 28:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

Uh heals the paralytic at Capernaum. That's recorded in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. So man that can't stand then all of a sudden stands up and walks. Healing of uh the same type of deal, the man at the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem. Gets up and goes. Uh heals the man with the withered hand. So we talked about that again. So physical see instantly. Uh heals the centurion servants uh the yeah at Capernaum, and then uh raises the widow's son at Nain, cast out the blind and the dumb spirit in Galilee, that's in Matthew uh 12 and Luke 11. The still this is one of my favorites, too. The where he calms the storm on the Sea of Galilee, that's recorded in Matthew, Mark, and Luke all three. Again, they said, Who is this that even the winds and the waves obey him? Uh he delivers the demoniac man at uh the Gadderenes at Gadera. Uh that's crazy, and instantly pulls that out, sends its spirit into the pigs to go down the hill, and then the whole town's mad at him. Uh the healing of the woman that has a hemorrhage that's bleeding for twelve years at Capernaum. Again, instantly.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

Hey, and she just touched his cloak. That's all she did.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Yeah. That's right. That's right. Uh, the raising of Jarrus's daughter that was deathly sick. Uh, healing the two blind men. It's only in Matthew 9. Casting out the dumb, uh, the mute spirit at Capernaum, and also in Matthew 9. That one's that one's another one that's interesting to me. Yeah. Uh those that are linked, and we read that one just a few, it's been a bit a little bit of time, but a few episodes back of the woman who was who's bent over and couldn't straighten because of an evil spirit, though those are of a of a something I haven't realized until recently of the times that he's cast out the evil spirit that was causing this physical ailment. Um interesting to know. We'll talk about that more one day. But 19 the the feeding of the 5,000. Um He walks on water. Uh another casting out of a demon of the Syrophoenician's daughter at uh that's in uh Matthew 15 and Mark 7. Uh healing of a deaf person, deaf person with a speech impediment at Decapolis in Mark 7. Feeds the 4,000, different event from feeding the 5,000. Um another blind man that's healed at Bethesda in Mark 8. Uh, another demon cast out. And see, this is how you get into it. Oh, here's another demon that's cast out from allergic boy. Like, okay, that that's that's quite the feat and the deal. Um interesting one in 26, finding the money. He sends Peter to to pay their taxes. He says, Go catch the fish and pull the coin out of his mouth. Uh so finding the money in the fish's mouth of Capernaum. Healing a more uh man born blind in Jerusalem. Um I believe that's where they ask him, is it because of this man's sin or his parents' sin that he's this way? That might be wrong. I think that's right. And then uh 28, healing a woman uh that was had an infirmity for 18 years in Luke 13. So we just just talked about that one. Um Healing a man with dropsy, where we're at right here in Luke 14, and then raising Lazarus from the dead, cleansing ten lepers, healing uh the blind man at Jericho, curses the fig tree, and it immediately withers, or the next morning it's withered. 34. The healing of Malchus's ear in the Garden of Gethsemane when they come to arrest him. Peter cuts the the high priest servant's ear, and Christ puts it back on. And then the second miraculous catch of fish on the Sea of Galilee, which is at the end of John, as they went to fish again, and Jesus comes and pretty much the same thing as when they first came to the disciples happens. So you read that list and you think of the next time you read in the scripture when they say, Perform for us a sign so that we may know you are who you say you are, basically. Think back the next time you read that of that list of 35. Like I say, I'll put that in the show notes just so you you could copy it and paste it into something, print it off, or I'm sure a Google search would produce it up, did something similar to that, but in my logo software. But you read all of that, and that's the man back to these six verses, standing before this, however many men healing this man. And they sit there silent.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

So you brought the one up in 13, so I just flipped the page over. And it says, A woman disabled by spirit for over 18 years, she was bent over and could not straighten up. Here's what Jesus said to her. He said, He called out and said, Woman, you are free of your disability. He laid hands on her, and instantly she is restored and began to glorify God. She knew who restored her immediately. And she glorified God. Said, but the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, the people that are around there, listening at the synagogue, said, There are six days when work should be done. Therefore, come on those days and be healed, not on the Sabbath day. And this, so this is one reason they may not have said much. In 14, it says, Jesus answered them and said, Hypocrites. And there's an exclamation point there. He wasn't just this is a little righteous aggravation here, I'm sure. Don't teach, oh, doesn't each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water. 16 he says, Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for eighteen years. Shouldn't she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day? So they're losing traction. How could that those guys know right? Those guys know it. And just goes just goes to my thought. The the Josh and Dan, I'm sure it's not one-one, it's probably 40-12, but uh there had to be someone in the bag. Hey, this is okay. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Well, even in that go ahead, Josh. No, uh just as you read that back in 13, since it has been a minute. The same. He looks at him. Do not you even do this? Yeah. And and loosen basically, he kind of makes this. I hadn't really caught this before. Loosen the bond on your animals so they can go have water. And should not this woman have this bond loosened that the evil one has put on her for 18 years. It's just they had to look back and just think, no, man, why did you yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

I wonder what the words were that they thought in their head.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Crucify him, crucify him.

SPEAKER_02 36:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

That I mean you think of just that Yeah, how things continued. And I think it's like you, you know, you you keep we keep coming back to this of uh there's one in the background. It's interesting too of uh that we that saying crucify him, crucifying made me think this of all then still in God's foreordained plan for redemption for his people. These men hated him by their own choice, though it worked out in God's redemptive plan. And then we see, like you've been saying, the one in the back of the room here Redeem Nicodemus, also Pharisee, then repents and helps bury his body. And again, all in God's forwarding plan. We read that as we went through the first we went through Acts, you get in the first few chapters of Acts. Like you Peter tells him, like, a you man killed the author of life. Repent now and be baptized. Yeah. A lot to it's a big, big thought to wrap your head around, but it is for my little brain anyway. Mine too.

SPEAKER_02 37:19

Mine too, brother. And I just sit here thinking, if we would have rushed through this last week, we may not have done what you just did. You may not have read that list because it was gonna take some time.

SPEAKER_00 37:29

No, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 37:30

Because we did not have 41 minutes and 10 seconds to do what we were gonna do last week. Definitely we had an hour and a half at one point. Like at one point, guys, we thought about doing two in the time that we had allotted. And it just wasn't God's sovereign timing.

SPEAKER_00 37:51

That's a fact.

SPEAKER_02 37:52

I look back on my life when you said that, Josh, just just you know how we do, quick. I was like, man, God's timing. And I I become friends with with the guy up here, his he actually married a lady that graduated high school with Reagan, and now his daughter and my daughter, their daughter, and our daughter play softball against each other. Well, this guy played professional baseball, and he won Cy Young Awards, he won a World Series, he was an all-star. And he keep he we talked probably at length, the longest we've talked was the other day during the rain out uh or rain delay, whatever. And we got to talking about I I know he's a follower of Christ, I know he has been saved and all that. We just and I've heard a little of his story from him, but he's like, God kept putting people in my life during my whole Pro Ball career, and I had no idea what they were there for. He goes, and I can honestly look back on it now and know exactly why those men, he said, from minor league ball through, I mean, he was he was as good as it got, right? From those points, God had men in my life in those specific points to bring me to him. He goes, and I had no idea at the time. He goes, I was I was just the selfish ball player. I said, He said, and when I stopped pitching for the 50,000 fans and started pitching for an audience of one, he said, that's that was total freedom. That was the freedom that this guy was a world-class athlete, as good as it got. His freedom came when he became that athlete for an audience of one that he performed to honor and glorify God. And I've seen it in you in Carrie's life, Josh. If you want to call it world-class hog farming, I know some days it don't feel like it. And I'm not trying to pump you up, but you're one of you're one of them, right? But I've seen y'all's story when you started doing and and every day it's a challenge, I'm sure. I know last week it was a challenge. But man, when you when you dang, we raise pigs for one person. And if we can turn a hog farm, whatever it is, guys, if you go to work in town every day, you do it for one person and to honor and glorify God. Whether you're on the biggest stage under the bright lights in a World Series that you're about to win, or you're just going to town for your job that you've done for 18 years. To honor and glorify God and the freedom that has, freedom that it gives you to not worry about what anyone else thinks. Performance doesn't matter. If you honor and glorify God, you're gonna perform in the right manner. All about timing, God's perfect timing. Putting people in your life, and I can I can see it in my life. God did this, God did that, whether I wanted to admit it or not, right during that moment, or whether I wanted to open my eyes or soften my heart to say, Man, that's God speaking, that's God doing that in your life, because he's wanting to do something else in your life. And about a quarter mile around the corner from 201 Tommy Street in Quitman, Texas, I finally opened my ears when God said, Dan, stop running. And I softened my heart and I gave it all to him. And that's another thing he and I talked about. I said, Man, we expect it all to be perfect the next day, and we expect to be able to do as good as we can and and sin to be gone in our life, and it's not, it's part of the sanctification process. The meme that you and Vincent we shared, it's been a while ago now, but the guy's doing a skateboard or something down the stairs, and he's jumping stairs. It talks about the sanctification process. He can't ride it when he first starts, and now 20 years later he's riding it, and then all of a sudden he lands on a rake and slaps him right in the head. And that's that's it. That's a sanctification process, guys. One day there will be no sin, there will be no crying, there will be no sorrow, there will be no temptation. But until then, that audience of one.

SPEAKER_00 42:18

Amen. Looking forward to that day. Looking forward to that day, how we should all live. Awesome. Well, Dan, it's nice to be back. Amen. Listeners, thank you. We appreciate y'all again. As always, we thank you for the text. I thank you for the comments, the questions, the prayers. Uh, we c we covered your prayers, uh, especially on weeks like last week. So um definitely no good to be back, good to be going again. Thank you guys for listening. Uh, we did uh create a uh Facebook community group for the podcast that uh um is there just uh ask questions to start discussion to give your thoughts. So if you haven't joined that group um and you're on Facebook, jump on there and it's called the One Trap One Truth Podcast Community. Anyways, just another place to talk about you know Luke 14 and where we're at or different things and thoughts. So feel free to use that, comment on there and uh have another discussion, just like we talked about of gathering with like-minded believers uh and uh discussing these things even a little bit further than maybe we can't cover in 45 minutes a week type of deal. That's what that's kind of thought for. So use that if you will. Uh, we'd love for you to and and uh see what you guys think about about things as we go through. So, with that, thanks again for tuning in to the One Truth. By God's grace, we will see you next week.