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Greetings, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith.

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And today, I'd like to challenge you to think through the five ways in which Jesus' ministry shifts

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after Peter's confession of him as the Messiah.

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Now, you may remember that last time we looked at that climactic scene in the Gospels.

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There's a real character and integrity to the Gospel narratives.

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There's highs and lows, and one of the high moments of the Gospels is after years, months of ministry,

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where Jesus begins to reveal himself as the very Son of God, that the apostles, the disciples,

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finally confess that he is Messiah.

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And Peter says, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.

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So that is indeed a climactic moment in the narrative of the Gospels.

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But Jesus' ministry shifts dramatically after this, and there's five major ways in which his ministry shifts.

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He goes into another gear, into a higher gear, if you will, after Peter's confession.

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And I want to go over those five major ways.

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But before I do, I would like to also invite you to our Wednesday night Bible study.

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We have launched it.

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It's kicked off.

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We've been rolling now for two weeks, but it's not too late to begin coming as well.

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So we want to invite you to our Wednesday night Bible study.

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It's a good time to be introduced to New Geneva.

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If you aren't able, for example, to come to our Sunday morning worship service,

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and we would invite you to do that most of all.

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But if you're not able to because of prior commitments, then we very genially invite you to our Wednesday night Bible study.

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And you will hear today a little bit of my teaching mode, my teaching method,

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when it comes to the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth.

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And that is our subject, our topic, again, for the year.

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And we are inviting you to come and join us in the homes of our people.

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That is our setting.

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And it's been a very successful setting for us.

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And we've had visitors and our own people in the church turn out then to the homes of our people.

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And it's very genial atmosphere, friendly and conducive to learning.

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We have snacks, coffee, tea, fresh bread, fresh water, whatever it may be to quench your thirst while you're amongst us.

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And then also we will try to quench your thirst for the living water of life, which is the gospel, of course.

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And it's been such a delight for us over the past year to study the life of our Savior and its context to the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth.

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So we also look at the times.

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Who was ruling?

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The Herods.

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We look at the Herods.

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We look at the Romans.

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We look at the ruling classes of the Jews and all provide a sound setting for the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth.

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And we meet on Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.

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And I would just encourage you to call me, Pastor Dave Bass, at area code 208-523-0196 to find out the various locations and which one is nearest to you and where you can go and meet me and meet the people in our congregation.

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And it's a very low-key, if you will, to find out a little bit more about what New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church is about and who I am, my teaching style, teaching mode, and the people in our congregation, too.

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So Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. is when we meet.

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And you don't have to worry about having missed two lessons already because each lesson is self-contained and you'll benefit from it.

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It will be continuous with previous lessons and continuous with lessons to come, too.

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So they're all linked, but you don't have to have had all of them in order to glean much from the lesson you're there for on that particular night.

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So I just, once again, invite you to our Wednesday night Bible study at 7 p.m.

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Give me a call to find out locations, area code 208-523-0196.

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And one of the topics that we'll be treating, of course, is the one I just mentioned to you.

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This is kind of a sample, if you will, of my teaching style and some of the things that you'll be learning.

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And my topic today is the five ways in which Jesus' ministry shifts after Peter's confession.

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Now, you may not have ever realized this before, but so let me bring this to your attention.

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Jesus' ministry does shift.

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You remember the opening part of his ministry, the first year or so of his ministry,

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Jesus begins preaching the gospel.

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He has come to do this, to preach the kingdom of God.

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Repent and believe, Jesus says, for the kingdom of God is amongst you.

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And, of course, that king was Jesus himself amongst the people.

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He began to teach.

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He began to heal.

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He began to do great wonders and miracles.

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And people began to get the idea that this was someone out of the ordinary.

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Peter, the disciple said, some think that you're Elijah.

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Some think you're John the Baptist, raised from the dead.

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Others think you're Jeremiah or one of the prophets.

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Who do you say that I am?

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And, of course, Peter confesses, you are the Christ, the son of the living God.

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What a marvelous and beautiful confession.

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Well, after having made that confession and Jesus himself realizes that his father has now revealed to his disciples

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that he is the very son of God, the Christ, the Messiah, his ministry shifts.

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In five major ways, Christ's ministry shifts after that confession.

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And how does it shift?

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Well, number one, Jesus begins to predict his passion.

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Jesus begins to predict his passion.

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Oh, the text says right after Peter's confession, Matthew says,

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From that time, that is from that time when that good confession was made by Peter,

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from that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem

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and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes

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and be killed and on the third day be raised.

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Oh, what does the text say right after that?

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And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, Far be it from you, Lord.

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This shall never happen to you.

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Oh, after having made that good confession and being called Simon Barjona,

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being renamed to Peter, right, the rock.

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Jesus said, This has been reviewed to you by my father.

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You are now Peter, the rock.

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And in the very next sentence, practically, he turned to Peter and said, Get behind me, Satan.

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You are a hindrance to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God,

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but on the things of man, right?

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Because this was the work Jesus was sent to do.

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This was the thing he was sent to accomplish.

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That is, to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes

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and be killed and on the third day be raised.

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To this he was commissioned by his father.

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So Jesus begins now to predict his passion.

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And he does this repeatedly throughout the rest of his ministry,

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right to the day before the day of his crucifixion.

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Now, Jesus begins to predict his passion and tell his disciples,

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but it wasn't until after his resurrection that they realized these things.

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Isn't that true?

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That's the first way in which Jesus' ministry begins to shift after Peter's confession.

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Well, secondly, the second way in which Jesus' ministry shifts after Peter's confession

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is that Jesus' ministry shifts from Galilee, this is geography now, a little bit of regionalism,

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Jesus' ministry shifts from Galilee to Judea and Jerusalem, from Galilee to Judea and Jerusalem.

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Now, Jesus' focus becomes urban from being rural, we might say.

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In fact, his hometown of Nazareth was in Galilee, and this was the region in which he began his ministry,

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the region in which Peter made his good confession in Caesarea Philippi.

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So he begins his ministry here.

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He's on the Sea of Galilee from time to time, isn't he?

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And then he's also in the fields and farms and the more or less rural area of Israel,

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that is Galilee, for the beginning of his ministry.

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But now that region begins to shift now.

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Jesus' focus becomes urban from rural.

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And Luke tells us that when the days drew near for him to be taken up,

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he set his face to go to Jerusalem.

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I've always loved that expression.

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That is an expression of determination.

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That is an expression of the solidity of the will of our Savior,

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the firmness of his commitment and purpose.

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When the days drew near for him to be taken up, that is to undergo his passion,

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to be crucified and buried and raised from the dead and then rise into heaven to his Father to be glorified again.

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This is the sense, the telescoping of his passion in these words, the time for him to be taken up.

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Well, when he began this process, then, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.

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His will was determined to execute the will of his Father.

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Well, this was by design as well.

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The focus, now geographical focus of his ministry from Galilee to Judea and Jerusalem was for a purpose and by design.

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Because Jesus says as well in Luke 13,

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I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following,

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for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.

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Yes, this is where the prophets of old were killed by their generation.

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And this is where the prophet will be killed by his generation.

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It cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.

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So, from here on in, after the good confession of Peter that he is the Messiah, the very son of the living God,

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the focus, geographical focus begins now to turn from Galilee to Judea and Jerusalem.

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And this is where we will find our Lord in the Gospels from here on in, in this geographical region,

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as he then goes to the capital, if you will, and spends a lot of time in the temple precincts as well.

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And we'll look at that in a few moments because that has to do with our fifth and final shift after Peter's confession.

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But let's not rush too quickly.

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Let's look at the third way in which Jesus' ministry shifts after Peter's good confession.

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That third way, number three.

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Jesus creates an increased polarity as it becomes clearer who he is and what he has come to do.

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Well, we will see an increased polarity between those who love him and those who hate him now after Peter's confession

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because it will become clearer and clearer as he sets his face towards Jerusalem and goes to Jerusalem.

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And along the way, he creates more polarized enemies and more dedicated followers.

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And this is just exemplified, I think, of one of my favorite passages in all of the Gospels

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is the confession, another confession, if you will, of Peter.

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After the miracle of the loaves and fishes, you may remember this.

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Well, the Gospel of John gives us a very dear and sweet insight into not only the polarity that begins to develop,

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but also the great love and dedication of his disciples.

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After the miracle of loaves and fishes, Jesus gives us a great discourse in John chapter 6,

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recorded for us in John chapter 6, where Jesus gives us a great articulation of what that miracle entails,

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what it means, the implications of the multiplying of the loaves and fishes.

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And he gives us that great discourse in John chapter 6, the bread of life discourse.

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And when he says, then, in conclusion, with great passion and great climax,

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Jesus says, if you do not eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no part in me.

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And you remember that many were offended by this teaching.

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How can we eat his flesh and drink his blood?

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And after that discourse, and after that clear, delineated declaration, we read in John,

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after this, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

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This was one of those teachings that they just could not stomach, so to speak, that pun and being intentional.

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If you do not eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no part in me.

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And after these disciples, many of them, this is that increased polarity that I'm talking about.

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Jesus' ministry became very clear at this point.

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And when these things were articulated by him, preached by him, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

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So Jesus said to the twelve, John goes on to say,

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Jesus said to the twelve, do you want to go away as well?

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Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?

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You have the words of eternal life.

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And we have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy One of God.

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Isn't that beautiful?

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I've always loved that confession by Peter, too.

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After all this time, they've heard him.

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They've been with him.

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They've followed him now for all of this time.

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They've seen what he's done.

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They've seen, they have seen the love.

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They have seen the power, the majesty, the glory of the Christ.

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And they've heard him preach and teach the very words of God.

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And Peter says to him, when he asked him, do you want to go away as well?

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Peter says, Lord, to whom shall we go?

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You have the words of eternal life.

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Oh, I have felt this way many times myself.

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And those times when you think it's not worth living the Christian life, it's not worth following Jesus.

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Have you ever had those doubts?

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Well, many have in the past.

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But I just urge you to remember the words of Peter.

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To whom shall we go?

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You have the words of eternal life.

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This is what I've discovered in my life.

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And I cling to this confession of Peter's as well.

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Because to whom am I going to go?

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I'm not going to go to Muhammad.

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I'm not going to go to Buddha.

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I'm not going to go to any other.

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Because Jesus alone has the words of life.

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So this, to me, is a very beautiful confession.

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But it also demonstrates the increasing polarity that characterizes Jesus' life and ministry

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as he begins to preach and teach and move towards Jerusalem.

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And this happens in the world today, doesn't it?

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Many people come to a church, perhaps, or they come to the Gospels.

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Maybe they come to the Bible.

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They're interested in Jesus.

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They know he's a good man and that he has very powerful teachings, perhaps, that they've heard about.

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And so they begin to discover just who Jesus is.

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But after a while, they also see that he's very exclusive.

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I am the way, the truth, and the life.

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No man comes to the Father except by me, one of those exclusive verses in the Bible,

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whereby Jesus declares himself and himself alone to be the Savior of the world.

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And for this reason and for other reasons as well, many, when they begin to unpack just who Jesus is,

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they also turn away and no longer walk with him.

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But we, those who know him, those who have been birthed by him spiritually, we know him, we love him.

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And to whom else will we go?

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Because Jesus has the words of life.

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But it also tells us that as Jesus marches toward Jerusalem, the closer he gets to Good Friday,

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the closer he gets to Golgotha, the closer he gets to his cross, the more increasing polarity,

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the more resistance from his enemies, and the more love and dedication from his 12 apostles in particular,

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but also those of the people who are his disciples, increasing polarity then as Jesus approaches Jerusalem.

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But there are also other ways too.

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Number four, the fourth way in which Jesus' ministry begins to shift after Peter's good confession of him as Messiah,

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the Son of the living God.

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Well, number four, Jesus' enemies begin to plot his death at this time.

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and the more people begin to see him for who he is, the more his enemies begin to plot his death.

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because so great becomes this polarity that I just spoke of,

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that the leaders of the people plot his death.

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Four, the text tells us,

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You know that after two days the Passover is coming,

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and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified, he tells his disciples.

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The chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest,

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whose name was Caiaphas,

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and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

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Yes, this is what begins to transpire then as Jesus approaches Jerusalem,

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especially in the week prior during the Feast of Unleavened Bread,

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they begin to plot to kill him.

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They plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

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So this was the process underway as Jesus approaches.

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Jesus, the polarity becomes so great that indeed they plot then to kill him.

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The fifth way in which Jesus' ministry begins to shift after Peter's confession

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to we see increasingly Jesus' teaching focuses on the end of Jerusalem and his return.

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He begins to anticipate the end.

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Even as they plot to destroy him, he undertakes to reveal how they will be destroyed

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and how the end will transpire,

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because those who plot to kill him are but enemies of God.

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And Jesus begins to reveal in a variety of ways,

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through parables and through discourses,

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that they will be destroyed.

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The enemies of God will be destroyed.

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And that will come in the microcosm of the destruction of Jerusalem,

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but also will come in the end of the world as Jesus begins to predict it as well.

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This becomes an increasing motif in his ministry, in his teaching,

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and in his life ministry too,

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the cleansing of the temple being one example of precisely how he demonstrates the wrath of God

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and the cleansing that God will bring to his enemies

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and how the end will transpire in great wrath and anger, the anger of God.

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So the fifth way in which, major way,

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the fifth major way in which Jesus' ministry shifts after the good confession of Peter,

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after indeed he reveals him to be the son of the living God,

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is that Jesus' teaching increasingly focuses on the end of Jerusalem and Christ's own return.

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Jesus more and more teaches regarding the end of all things,

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including the destruction of Jerusalem.

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For example, in Luke 21, we read,

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how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings,

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the days will come when there will not be left here

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one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.

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Teacher, when will these things be?

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See that you are not led astray,

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for many will come in my name, saying,

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do not be terrified,

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for these things must first take place,

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but the end will not be at once.

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doesn't he?

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He speaks of the end preeminently in the Olivet Discourse,

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when he stands on the Mount of Olives.

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you can see the Temple Mount,

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and you can see much of Jerusalem

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spread out before you on the Mount of Olives.

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just before he goes then to the Last Supper

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and goes to be betrayed

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and be killed and crucified.

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He sits down on the Mount of Olives,

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thus it's called the Olivet Discourse,

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and tells his disciples about the end,

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tells them about the destruction of the Temple

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and what it will be like

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and his coming as well.

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of Jesus' latter ministry.

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One of the things that characterizes his ministry

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after Peter's good confession,

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he begins to tell of the end of all things

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and of his second coming,

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of his return,

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when he will come in great power and glory,

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then to judge the nations.

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He has the parable of the sheep and the goats,

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for example, in Matthew 25,

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where he demonstrates his judgment of the peoples

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at the last day.

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and increasing motif throughout Jesus' ministry.

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These are the five.

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These are the five major ways

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in which Jesus' ministry shifts

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after Peter's good confession.

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He begins to predict his passion,

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number one.

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his ministry shifts from Galilee

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to Judea and Jerusalem.

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Jesus creates an increased polarity

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as it becomes clearer who he is

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and what he has come to do.

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Jesus' enemies begin to plot his death.

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They begin to hound him, don't they?

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And hound and ghost his heels

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waiting for an opportunity.

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Jesus' teaching increasingly focuses

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on the end of Jerusalem

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and his return,

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his second coming.

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So these are the things

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that in which major ways

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in which Jesus' ministry shifts

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after Peter's good confession.

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Now we'll be taking up this topic

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in the Bible study

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and we'll be discussing

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many of these elements.

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that you wish to add,

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I just encourage you

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to come to our Wednesday night Bible study

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and throw in your two cents.

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Give us your perspective.

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And we'll be glad to answer

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any questions that you might have.

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Our Wednesday night Bible study

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will be dealing with this topic

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probably over the next couple of weeks.

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at 7 p.m. on Wednesday nights.

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And we have it in the homes of our people.

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And I just encourage you

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to find out times and locations

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for this Bible study

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where you can meet me,

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you can meet the members

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of our congregation,

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get a flavor

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of New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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by coming to this Bible study.

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And it's at 7 p.m.

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And you can find this information

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at area code 208-523-0196.

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That's area code 208-523-0196

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for further information.

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And you can join us

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for worship on Sunday too.

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I encourage you to do that.

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Join us for Sunday morning worship

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10 a.m. on Sunday.

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And we're located

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And you can once again

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call us for further information

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on all of these things

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at area code 208-523-0196.

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And please come and join us

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on our Wednesday night Bible study

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at 7 p.m.