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Speaker 2: Have you ever been really sure that you understood something,

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Speaker 2: really sure that you saw something, and then realized you

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Speaker 2: were completely wrong. There is so much possibility and power

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Speaker 2: in understanding that there's often more that's going on than

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Speaker 2: we can see. Hey, friends, minnisicole Unis, and we're here

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Speaker 2: with how to say the Bible. We're in chapter eight

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Speaker 2: of Mark right now, and we are in the absolute

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Speaker 2: pinnacle of this gospel experience as we see our disciples

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Speaker 2: and ourselves moving from confusion to clarity, moving from a

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Speaker 2: perception of what we see that we might believe to

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Speaker 2: actually seeing what is real. So looking forward to this

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Speaker 2: chapter with you today, I don't know if you've ever

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Speaker 2: experienced what exactly I was talking about, where you think

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Speaker 2: that you've seen something and then you realize that you're wrong.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that our eyes actually only take in

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Speaker 2: as much data as they can to create connections to

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Speaker 2: what they think is there. If you've ever thought that

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Speaker 2: you saw somebody in the dark and you thought it

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Speaker 2: or you thought you saw something on the road that

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Speaker 2: that is your eyes doing the work of creating connections,

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Speaker 2: to say, to create meaning out of little pieces of data.

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Speaker 2: And this is the way our hearts work too. We

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Speaker 2: get little pieces of data and we make meaning. We

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Speaker 2: data that we are receiving. And what I love about

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Speaker 2: this chapter of the Gospel is we see that Jesus

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Speaker 2: is so patient with the progression of understanding and.

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Speaker 2: We see that with his disciples as well as the

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Speaker 2: blind man that he heals in this chapter.

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Speaker 1: So everyone, let's get into it.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about how we can also

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Speaker 2: understand the way that we move from confusion to clarity

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Speaker 2: with Jesus as we get into chapter eight. Now, what

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Speaker 2: I love about chapter eight is we open with a

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Speaker 2: very similar experience, a very similar miracle to one that

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Speaker 2: miracle we saw when he was feeding the five thousand.

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Speaker 2: The same sort of situation happens. People are here to

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Speaker 2: He gives thanks, he breaks it. They send the bread

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Speaker 2: out and it feeds everybody, and they have leftover baskets

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Speaker 2: as well. So why in the world do we need

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Speaker 2: a second miracle? Well, I think what we're going to

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Speaker 2: oftentimes our faith is a cycle, it's a circle, and

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Speaker 2: oftentimes we have to circle back experiences more than one

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Speaker 2: time as we're becoming progressively more aware of who Jesus

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Speaker 2: is in our lives. Now, you maybe have said yes

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Speaker 2: never done discovering. We're never done experiencing the goodness of God,

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Speaker 2: looking to the forward, to that next thing, because Jesus

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Speaker 2: also sighs deeply at the stubbornness of the people around him,

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Speaker 2: very transactional faith. You've experienced a ticket to Heaven kind

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Speaker 2: This engagement, this participation, is what Jesus is inviting us

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Speaker 1: And who is he is?

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Speaker 1: Is he John the Baptist? Race from the dead?

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Speaker 2: Is he a powerful prophet sent by God? These are

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Speaker 1: This is the absolute point.

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Speaker 2: You must be the one that was prophesied about. You

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Speaker 2: must be the one that's been messaged about from all

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Speaker 2: one that God has truly said. Friends, there is no

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Speaker 2: more important question you could ever answer in your life

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Speaker 2: than this one. Jesus doesn't say, who does your family

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Speaker 2: church say that I am? He doesn't say who does

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Speaker 2: ton of mistakes, he still falls away, he still doubts.

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Speaker 2: But at this point he can say, you are the Messiah.

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Speaker 2: You are the one who is sent. You are the

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Speaker 2: one who can save us. This is the question of

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Speaker 2: our lives, my friends. The question you have to ask

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Speaker 2: at all times, in every chapter, in every season of

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Speaker 2: your life, is this one when Jesus turns to you

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Speaker 2: and says, but what about you? Who do you say

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Speaker 2: that I am? Who do you say that I am

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Speaker 2: in your failures? Who do you say that I am

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Speaker 2: when you feel far from me? Who do you say

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Speaker 2: that I am when you feel lost? That is the

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Speaker 2: question that changes our lives. All right, friends, that's all

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Speaker 2: we have for today.

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