Welcome And Luke Recap

SPEAKER_02 0:11

What's up, Life House Family? Welcome back to the Life Talk Podcast. Man, we love to be getting into God's Word every week with you. So thankful that you take the time and uh give us a listen, and we pray every week before we do this that it is helping you in your walk with Christ. And so uh continuing through the book of Luke, man, it's been we're getting to April, a new month, and man, I'm I'm rejoined. Got some familiar faces on the podcast today. And first and foremost, Rico is running his streak, man. Rico, what's going on today? Happy to be here. Happy to be in streak Iron Man. I'm so glad you didn't get injured. We haven't had to put you on injured reserve yet. So it's good to have you continuing with us. Running my race, bro. All right, yes, run the race. And Jonathan Bush is back with us. Took a month off. You know, you get rested, relaxed, all ready to go, Jonathan. Let's do this. All right, man. Forward to it. Backgrounded. So and our quality. So, Jeremy, I'm blaming you that we had audio issues last month because my quality control guy wasn't here.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

You see what happens when I'm not here?

Three Questions To Test Us

SPEAKER_02 1:16

You leave and we have problems. So, but we do appreciate our listeners being patient. We did have some audio issues for a few uh episodes, and Nate takes ownership of that. Proof that Nathan is not perfect and need lots of grace, but we do appreciate y'all hanging with us. Hopefully the content was good and get all that worked out. But we are continuing through Luke. And so uh last episode we had Jason take us through Luke's Beatitudes. We touched on a whole lot of what Luke tells us, how his focus in Luke is a little different than Matthew, but still gives us some really deep information, really deep direction when it comes to what Christ told us through those. But we're gonna continue and finish chapter six today. We're gonna start in 27. Man, this is gonna be some challenging stuff. Loving your enemies and judging. So Rico stepped up to the plate and said, Man, I'm gonna take some hard scripture here. So, Rico, what do you got for us and how we should study and look at the rest of chapter six?

Loving Enemies Without Transaction

SPEAKER_03 2:18

Absolutely. Well, first and foremost, thank you for having me again. This passage of scripture, it was really challenging for me. Uh, it's really confronting and welcome everybody. Today we're gonna be stepping into Luke 6, 27 to 45. And before I even start reading, I want to I want to challenge us. I want to ask three questions. If you read if you are listening and if you have something to write with, please follow in with us. I want to challenge you with three questions. Can you truly say you love your enemies? Or do you just avoid them? Question number two Do you judge others more harshly than yourself? And if your life were tested today, will you stand or collapse? Today, we're just gonna not just gonna be reading scripture, we're just gonna examine it. Before I even start, uh, it is important to understand that this teaching parallels what we see in Matthew 5 and 7. So if you have an opportunity, if you want to see what we're gonna be digging in today, you can go back to Matthew 5 and 7. It's the same kingdom message, but there is something direct and practical. We know by scripture that Matthew 5 and 7 is the sermon of the mountain. This one, some theologians they said is the sermon of the plane. Jesus isn't teaching morality, he is revealing what transform people looks like. So let's step into the first question segment number one. This is where it's gonna get challenging. And I'm gonna read, starting on verse 27. But I said to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those that spicily use you. To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other one also. And from him who takes away your clock, do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from him who takes away your goods, do not ask them back. And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. But if you love those who love you, what credit is that for you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that for you? Even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that for you? For even sinners lead, lend to sinners to receive as they much want back. But love your enemies, do good and lend, hoping nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the most high, for he is kind to the unthinkable and evil. Therefore, be merciful just as your father also merciful. Here in this passage, love your enemies. Wow, Jesus is not speaking to his disciples. Jesus is speaking to these his disciples, but there's also a crowd listening. There are followers, they are skeptics alike. In the context, he says something very radical love your enemies. And some back theology scripture in this context, loving your neighbor at that time makes sense, but loving your enemy especially oppressors was the unthinkable. Yet Jesus expands love beyond boundaries and roots in God's character. God is kind of even grateful to everybody, especially in evil as well. This is not an emotional love, it is a decision, a reflection of God Himself. This is so interesting about Luke because Luke presses his to confront our pride and selective compassion. You just don't represent God when you love, you resemble him. I think this is a good time to pause, and I want you to think, what does loving your enemy actually look like in real life? So I want to open up to you guys to see what you guys say.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

Yeah, I mean, so much we could say, and especially in our culture, you know, how love gets defined, and you know, I just see what you know Jesus is telling us like love is not transactional. You know, we get in a very transactional type love of, you know, well, I'll love exactly what they say here, if I get something back. We always think if I'm in a relationship, we see this in marriage, so much you know, where marriages start to break down, where you're expecting something back from your spouse rather than loving sacrificially. So I think what Luke is giving us through the words of Christ here is so much of love requires sacrifice, you know, and so if you just love those who love you, you're just trying to get something back, or you're just repaying what you received rather than truly sacrificing. And so I know man, we go way deep in love. I know we won't have time to dig as deep, but this is what's cool about scripture, right? Getting into some of these topics of seeing what real love, godly love, looks like.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Yeah, and thanks, Rico, for introducing this section. I mean, it it what I see is that Jesus is continuing to unveil this radical ethic of the kingdom where you know a way of life is is this type of way of life is impossible from the transforming work of God. You know, instead of retaliating, the disciples are commanded to love. Do good doing good to those who hate them, bless those who curse them, pray for those who mistreat them. Like these are all things that we can't do in and of ourselves. And like you said, Nate, if if I love someone who loves me, it's just it's a trend it's that's not that's not the love that Jesus is talking about. We're in and the Bible talks about multiple kinds of love. And we're talking about agape here, which is a willful choice for us to do that love to someone who doesn't like us, and and as we see it, it practicing this kind of love reveals our heart and and our can the condition of our heart.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Absolutely, yeah. I appreciate like tying that back to Matthew, because we look at Matthew, part of what Matthew's highlighting there is what God is talking about is his kingdom and and the king. And what we see here is what that it's defining that, what that looks like, and how it's radically different than what is being experienced at this time or what we have here on earth because of sin and etc. So it's it's the the hope and the perfection that that will be brought once his kingdom you know does return. Um what I do do appreciate though is in verse 31, probably everybody recognizes that as the golden rule, right? And I I like how Jesus, when he gives us these, you know, this is the ideal, but then he also gives us the the practicality of how to do it. And it's you know very simple. It's just do as to others as you wish to do unto unto you. Like, would you want that? You know, it's like with my kids. Well, okay, if if they did that to you, would you be happy about that? Honestly. Well, no, Dad. Okay, then let's not do that. Let's not say that. Let's not, you know. And and I think sometimes it is the hard part is like you were talking, Jeremy, about it's the it's a it reveals your heart. But then, okay, so so how do I what can I do to help you know repair that and you know, somewhat with the marriage of the re-engage, highly encourage it for any couple. It's it is definitely uh worthwhile. Christina and I are going through right now. And it is with with with that, sometimes it's not just because you think, oh, it's 50-50. Like my my life, if if I'm going to love in in my wife, then I'll do half the chores and I'm gonna get half of this, and then if as long as you're loving me, I can love you back. Like it's in that transactional and all that, but it's not. It's what God is saying is it's a hundred percent of you, regardless of what's going on, regardless of how they respond. Now, obviously, if you're loving someone, hopefully they love you back, but at the same time, what did God do? While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, showed the greatest example of love through death. And so, and that's challenging. And and so I think practically getting back to that golden rule, though, is a lot of times is just reflecting on, and like you, I think what you're saying, Rico, is in that reflection is how am I doing with that? You know, am I truly doing that?

Judge Not And Kill Hypocrisy

SPEAKER_03 11:36

Not only it was very challenging for me because I had to analyze my life, I had to analyze everything that scripture says from the biblical worldview, not from the Rico worldview, right? You mentioned the golden rule, right? The rule is I'm gonna do to you exactly how you do me. Contrary to what scripture says, you love everybody. That's why I asked that question at the beginning. Can you truly say you love your enemies? Can we? And in what kind of love, what kind of love is that? You mentioned a gap in love, which is amazing. A love that comes only from God, only that the reveal of the Holy Spirit can give you. Not only that, we give you peace. It gives you peace that regardless of what people can do to you, you can still love them in a way that God loves them, and we truly do not know love until we come to Christ. So I had to put myself in that situation. How did I love before I came into Christ? Golden rule if you do something to me, please believe I'm gonna do something to you, knowing that it was wrong at the same time, but there was no conviction in there, right? So, for you, if you are listening, this is a very good challenge for all of us that love is unconditional, love penetrates our barriers, love just like scripture says, cancel a lot of sins in our life. With that rule, with that command, with that observation, that a doctor of the Bible, which is Luke, if we take that, we can potentially be in alignment to what discernment of the plane is talking about. After proceeding this, uh God goes ahead and jump into something very specific. He talks about judging. Again, this is a continuation. So first we're going with love, now we in the judging part. This is the second sentment, Luke 6, 37 to 42, and it reads, judge not, and you should not be judged, condemn not and you should not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and it will be given to you, good measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over, it will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you. And also he spoke this parable to them. Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the dish? A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher. And why do you look at a speck on your own eye, on your brother's eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, brother, let me remove your speck that is in your eye when yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite exclamation point. First, remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother's eye. Just reading that. I mean, that's plain simple English that we can truly dissect that. Now Jesus is shifting from where we're treating our enemies on how we view people. He says, judge not. But this is not about removing discernment, it's about removing hypocrisy, and he mentioned it with exclamation point. The image of the Lord in your own eye and speck in somebody else is an intentional exaggeration meant to expose how blind we can be in our own issues while magnifying others. Luke emphasized this because religious people often fall into the trap of outward righteousness, but inward pride, that word pride confession. I dealt with that for so many years. This is a call of humility. The measure we use others will be used to us. There's nothing better than this to explain this segment. Spiritual blindness is most dangerously when we think what we can see clearly. Let me open it up to you guys because this is something that for me, even though I am in alignment with this, it penetrates my soul when I see other believers that they said they believe in Christ, they love Christ, they see people how they see it, but at the same time, we judge in a way, in our own actions, when we ourselves got our own plant in our eyes. So let me open it up for you guys.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

I think you used an optimal word there in pride, you know, and how we're judging others, but we don't like to be judged. And I think sometimes this passage can be taken a little out of context, like, well, I'm not allowed to judge, I should never say anything, I shouldn't call anything out. And that's really not you know what God's word is saying, but it's the self-examination, like humility rather than pride. You know, it's been a while, but in the business world, one of the things I didn't say it every day, so Nate's not perfect, but I had some good days where people would do some things and be like, Well, I'll get mad at you when I stop doing it myself, you know. So like, but let's call it out. Like you fell short, you were late, you didn't do a good job, whatever. But I do the same things, you know, so let's figure out how to do better together and move on, you know. But too often, and that's not every day. I didn't do that every day. It was just when I probably on Mondays after a great day at church, you know, but then the week would go and be bad. But truly, you know, examine yourself. And I think another, I'll just throw in, I think it was a Francis Schaefer thing that you know, he kind of made this illustration of God when you stand kind of in the judgment, he's gonna he has this tape recorder around your neck going around the whole life, and he's just gonna judge you by what your your standards were, you know, because all the things you got mad at, but yet you were doing the same things, and gotta be like, look, you didn't even live up to your own standards, all these things you judged others, and you did the same thing. So I'm just finding you guilty of what you found others guilty of. And obviously, we know that's not entirely biblical, but I think this passage especially applies to what he was trying to bring out is I mean, the Ten Commandments, we know people break them, but just your own standards of the things, and that's where God checks me a lot of times, getting frustrated with somebody about something, and then he'll be like, You know, you do the same things, you really do. So, how are you gonna get mad and not be forgiving, you know, tying into a lot of those things?

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Yeah, I mean, I think some things that the that we ourselves and the church as a whole can can take away from this section is you know, we we need to be generous with mercy while still be discerning being discerning. When you know Jesus talks about the measure that it will that you use will be measured back to you, we need to be generous with with grace and mercy, but we also need to be discerning again. That word keeps coming up, you know, being discerning. You know, when the blind leading the blind, don't follow people really who can't see their own sin. If you like you choose who you're who you're allowing to speak into your life, be humble as you approach these type of things and deal with your own sin first.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Yeah, the blind leading the blind, not a good situation, is it? Yeah, it's it's amazing because also there it talks about how you know the uh disciple is not above his teacher. And to some of it, I think there's that positive context of yeah, that's that's the that's what you hope for, is that you know the teacher in a in an ordered society, the teacher is the one that's providing that instruction in per in into some contents, like you're saying, is who you want to listen to. I think today that's that's tough because there's a lot of people out there talking that would like to say, I'm a teacher, listen to me, when they really what they say is not lining up with what the Bible tells us and what God tells us of of how we how we are to live and what what truth is. And that you know, the the Bible's clear, there is no wishy-washy. I mean, it's pretty black and white. But I I also like in here, again, there's that those ties, Rico, like you were saying, back to Matthew, and how like in Matthew 15, tying to kind of this the blind leaning to the blind was where the Pharisees they're like, they they got they were upset at Jesus and really his disciples because they didn't wash their hands. And it's like, how can you eat if you you know if you aren't following the law? And and his response was hear and understand, and and he called the people to him, Jesus did, and he said, Hear and understand, it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth. This defiles a person. And again, what we just talked about, where what is what reveals where we're at is is our heart and what we say, not what we eat. And and again, the the teachers, the the uh Pharisees weren't happy with that. The disciples said so. And and and what he was saying is says, Every plant that my heavenly father, this is in uh verse thirteen, says, Every plant that was in my father my heavenly father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alone. They are blind guides, and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall. Into a pit. And to some level, it's just, you know, I think he's he's saying is like it doesn't it doesn't do any good necessarily. I I will speak truth, but it's it's their decision. Like they will make that decision. That's what the decision we have. But if if you know if I have a a brother that is in willingness in sin, I'm gonna speak truth. But at some point, if he's unwilling to do that, then I treat him as an unbeliever and all that. But but it's it's hard at times because you got people you love and you want them just just if you saw you know what God's goodness is, you know, just just change, you know, repent. And yet there are gonna be those that don't, or are not right now, not today. And so that's where we just have to be diligent in getting back to to what he's talking about is love, is is showing them kindness, praying for them on their behalf, and and you know, whether it's a child or or a coworker or family member, whatever, is that we're doing spiritual warfare for our families and and friends and neighbors and everything to because when God's kingdom comes, at that time, you you've had your time, right? And and we will stand before a righteous God. And so hopefully to some level, this this motivates us to not just be a person that shows up on Sunday praising God and then go out in the work day and and it's just like I'm another another Jonathan on the on the street, but that I I am fervently beseeching and and confessing Christ to my to everyone around me so that they have every opportunity to confess and be right with God.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

I think it's uh one of the these these chapters, two of the ways you can most be different and show the love of Christ is love your enemies and withhold judgment. Like we're in a society where everybody's judging, quick to judge, and condemn your enemies. We're so divided, we can't, you know, come together or really truly love each other. So that's where I just so countercultural.

SPEAKER_00 24:00

Yeah, and one of the verse 37 is you know, judge not, the judge not verse is one of those verses that gets so twisted by the culture today. You get caught like anytime there's a correction, well, judge not. Like you're you know, that that's but it's when you understand it in its context, Jesus is forbidding self-righteous correction, not correction in and of itself. It's just a matter of how do we deal how do we approach that in a godly way that God that God is commanding us to do.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

First, first respection should be introspection. Like I should inspect inspect my self, and that takes humility, that takes, you know, submission, and and you know, and daily, it's a daily task, and like for me, it's one of the reasons why I like reading the word in the morning and listening to God's word, because that sets up then kind of the lens for how that how I'll filter that day. Because if I don't do that, then it's just Jonathan trying to, you know, do good, if you will.

Fruit That Reveals The Heart

SPEAKER_03 25:05

I I like how we literally discussing this because just like you mentioned earlier, uh Nate, judging, uh, for us that we in Christ, it's our job to in previous scriptures say judge one another. Right? And for the people who do not believe, hey, let God do that. But for us that are in the kingdom, for those that are written in the book of life, if I see a brother sin it, it's my obligation to go to that individual. Hey, brother, it the the word judge, it I don't want you to take it out of self-righteousness from me, is that you're doing something that you are not partaking in the biblical worldview, repent and come back. And I I think that's the the discomfort between some believers. When I see you doing that, when I see somebody doing something, or when somebody sees me doing something, and then that confront me to it, that's in contrary to what the word says. We must be in alignment, judging one another with love, with kindness, with restitution, not to me, but the one who paid the sacrifice. That's why he called the hypocrisy, right? With exclamation point. After these segments in where he will go ahead and love your enemies, judging others, this is where Jesus brings everything to climax, building on the rock. Luke 643 verse 43 to 49. And he reads, For a good tree does not heat bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor did they gather grapes from a bramble bush. A good man out of a good treasure of his heart bring forth good, and an evil man out of his evil treasure of his heart bring forth evil. For out of abundance of a heart the mouth speak. But why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do the things which I said? Whoever comes to me and hears my saying and does them, I will show you who they might be like. He is like a man building a house who dug deep, laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vivently against the house, and could not shake I could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he who hears and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which stream behemently and immediately it fell, and the ruin of the house was great. As I previously stayed uh stated, this is where Jesus brings everything into a climax. He talks about the trees and the fruit, then he shift to the foundations. This is a decision of language. A tree reveals its nature by its fruit, and life reveals a foundation in the storm. The imaginary the imagery of the rock points, the stability of the ultimate of God Himself. The storm represents testing, both in life and judgment. Both builders hear the same word, but the difference is obedience. This is where Luke presses this because he wants certainly of faith. There is no neutral response to Jesus. You either build on him through obedience or build on something that will collapse. This is what I want to open it up, because this is so what we see in today's living. Are we building on a rock on our own serious foundation?

Integrity When No One Watches

SPEAKER_02 29:35

I think a couple of my favorite verses here, just in terms of how we build our life, but I think as we've been going through, there might be a good thing of saying, like, how is this even possible? That how can I even love my enemies? How can I withhold judgment? Well, Jesus gives the answer right here. You know, when it's built on Christ, when our identity, some things that we've talked about, you know, kind of through the thread of some of the episodes in Luke, when our identity is in Christ, when I'm not finding my validation in other people, when it's not my religiosity or standards, I can withhold judgment and see people as they are. I can love people even where they are and sacrificially. That only comes when we have the confidence of who we are in Christ. And so he's saying, like, when you have a firm foundation, man you can't shake it, you know. And I think this just says so much about society, why when you are finding your identity in what others think, you know, you're not going to be able to love them, or you are going to judge them when they don't meet your expectations because it's crushing your identity of not getting what you want or getting the validation you want or those different things. But right here, Jesus, like, hey, if you're the firm foundation on the rock, listening to my words, being obedient, being obedient is you know, faithfulness like sharing the gospel. It's being obedient. It's it's not always about the results, but it's truly loving sacrificially, caring about people, being empathy can be an interesting topic. We'll get too into deep details of that, but just having compassion. Jesus always had compassion. So when we mimic our Lord, that's how these things are possible.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Yeah, in this section, Jesus is talking about the fruit of you know, you can examine your fruit and it reveals your heart. I mean, last month Mitch and Forge talked about, he gave the example of a seed and how seeds grow in the dark, right? So, and I don't know if you guys remember that or not, but but I was when he's when he spoke that I was it it had echoed something that I was studying in my Connect group and start we have to get a plug group here. But we talked about, you know, seeds grow roots, and they can either be roots that are founded in the word, or like the Bible talks about, we they can be roots of bitterness and and negativity. And this is exactly this is kind of what is Jesus is talking about. Like your fruit, the fruits that's coming out of that root, that because the roots is where the tree gets its nutrients from is going to be revealed just like your in your heart.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

Yeah, Jeremy, I was uh thinking about Mitch's forge as well. Just and and the topic of you know that for that was integrity, and as as men of God, the importance of having integrity and doing like he was saying is doing what is right even when no one's looking. You know, it's not it's not just that, oh mom and dad are watching me, or you know, my boss sees me, or you know, maybe the church sees me, and and so I'm gonna do what's right, but then you know, in my own private house by myself, then I do whatever because you know it doesn't hurt anybody. It's not it's not a big deal, yet it's not what God commands, right? You know, and and you know, for guys a lot of times that's keeping your eyes pure, keeping your thoughts pure, and not you know, lusting after things you you shouldn't and looking at things you shouldn't look at out of you know the context like for a married couple, it's as in married situation, yeah, that's that's that's allowed, but it's something beautiful. But outside of that, it it isn't, you know, it's destructive. And and to some level, that that is kind of what correlates here with the the rock and and the other foundation is you know, if someone's in like say for instance something like adultery, like that's a that's a weak foundation. That's a foundation that's just waiting to fall apart. And whereas on the firm foundation, if if all that's kept within a marriage as it should be, I mean, there you you're gonna weather the storms as they come, you know, whatever it may be. And uh I know uh again just with re-engage, it's it's encouraging every week we get to hear another testimony, and really it's just hearing how God worked in both the husband and the wife of taking, you know, what was broken and where the sin was and dealt with it in a way so that now there's strength there. And really the ultimately of what is our um for those that are married, you know, what is that an example of? It's Christ in the church and that that uh consistency there. But yeah, I think I think the integrity, the integrity piece that Mitch was getting after, I think, is huge because that really undermines it can undermine if you don't if you lack the integrity, then it it's such it's such it's it's like you the someone out on the outside looking in at a church, they just see hypocrisy and they go, well, why would I want that if if I am not if what I say I don't mean it, if I'm not living it. And so my encourage just for all our listeners and and for us is live it. Like don't accept anything less than because Christ's kingdom will come, we will stand before our king. And and why why would any of us want to have something less than? I hope, I hope when when when I stand before my God that he will see the mission I had and the work I've done and say, Well done.

Dangerous Prayers And Final Challenges

SPEAKER_03 35:06

Very interesting how in verse 46 it's a double affirming in there. And when he said, Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and you do not do do what I said? This is a foundation of where are you building your life on? There's a book that I read, it's called Dangerous Prayers, and in that book, a lot of us who believers, we scared to ask or to pray the dangerous prayer. And one of those prayers is hey God, Lord, search my heart, remove anything and anybody who does not serve purpose to the mission that I have here on this earth for you. And that is what we stand on business if we want to walk this walk and not talk the talk. We're building his kingdom in a good foundation, and he's being the rock of everything that we said that he is gonna do in our life. So as we wrap this up, here's the reality love reveals your heart. My challenge to you is where is your heart right now? Judgment exposes your pride. We talk about that word pride. That pride, man, I had to deal that with so many. Even speaking here, and the ones who are listening, I am no better than nobody, and by the grace of God, He allowed me. I I I get to do this in the same way that I had to be on my knees at His feet and my eyes on His face because of my pride. Therefore, I have to walk on obedience. Obedience proves your foundation. Jesus is not asking for an agreement, He is demanding transformation. So I just want to leave you with that with the three questions that I asked you when we started. Number one, can you truly say you love your enemies? Or do you just avoid them? Do you judge others more harshly than yourself? And if your life were tested today, would it stand or will it collapse? Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

Really good stuff. So, listeners, hopefully this episode challenged you a little bit. Pray some dangerous prayers, certainly get into God's word, but as you do, this is why we get into the word so that we can change, so that we can be more Christ-like, so we can really be building on that foundation. So we pray this helped you, and we're looking forward to continuing with the book of Luke. And next week we'll be checking out some miracles, some very key miracles. So make sure you come back next Monday and join us, and we'll look forward to seeing you next time. Thanks for tuning in to the Life Talk Podcast. If this episode encouraged you, please be sure to like, comment, subscribe, and leave a review so others can find this content as well. And we'll look forward to seeing you next Monday for another great episode.