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Sometimes I read the sayings of Jesus and I am taken aback! Sometimes I read the sayings of Jesus and I am taken aback! Off track Off track Off track Authenticity Off track Authenticity Off track Authenticity Off track And as for

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Sometimes I read the sayings

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am taken aback!

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Sometimes I read the sayings

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am taken aback!

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Off track

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Off track

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Off track Authenticity

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Off track Authenticity

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Off track Authenticity

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Off track

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And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.” (Mark 12:26-27)

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And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.” (Mark 12:26-27)

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And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.” (Mark 12:26-27)

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And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.” (Mark 12:26-27)

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πολὺ πλανᾶσθε

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πολὺ πλανᾶσθε

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πολὺ πλανᾶσθε polū planasthe

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πολὺ πλανᾶσθε polū planasthe

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πολὺ πλανᾶσθε polū planasthe “more”

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πολὺ πλανᾶσθε polū planasthe “more”

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πολὺ πλανᾶσθε polū planasthe “more” “to wander”

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What got them WAY OFF TRACK?

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What got them WAY OFF TRACK? Mk 12:24

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Know the Scriptures

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Know the Scriptures Know the Power of God

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Authenticity

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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Mt. 12:33-34)

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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Mt. 12:33-34)

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γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν

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γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν

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γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν gennēmata exidnōn

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γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν gennēmata exidnōn

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γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν gennēmata exidnōn “offspring”

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γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν gennēmata exidnōn “offspring”

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γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν gennēmata exidnōn “offspring” “poisonous snake”

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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Mt. 12:33-34)

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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Mt. 12:33-34)

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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Mt. 12:33-34)

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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Mt. 12:33-34)

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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Mt. 12:33-34)

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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Mt. 12:33-34)

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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Mt. 12:33-34) Authenticity

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May my words and life be from a good tree

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“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.” (Mt. 11:16-19)

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“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.” (Mt. 11:16-19)

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There are all kinds

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“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.” (Mt. 11:16-19)

Some people are never satisfied…

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“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.” (Mt. 11:16-19)

Some people are never satisfied…

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Some people are never satisfied…

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Puns and witty word play

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Puns and witty word play Irony

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Puns and witty word play Irony

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

Calling Peter, whose name means “rock” a “stumbling block” (Mt. 16:23)

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

Telling righteous Pharisees that prostitutes will get into the kingdom before they will (Mt. 21:31)

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

In the healing of a woman with persistent bleeding, when a crowd is pressing against him, Jesus proclaims, “Who touched me?” (Lk. 8:44-45)

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

Concern over sawdust

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Puns and witty word play Irony Absurdity Sarcasm

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And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No

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tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” (Mt. 9:15-17)

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And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No

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tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” (Mt. 9:15-17)

Don’t lose the joy of walking with our Savior!

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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and

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neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! (Mt. 23:23-24)

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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and

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neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! (Mt. 23:23-24)

Righteousness is not a buffet line from which we pick and choose

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Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” (Mt. 19:24)

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Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” (Mt. 19:24)

Relying on God isn’t as easy if you seem to have a choice…

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Be surprised at our Savior as we learn and walk with him

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Hey!!! I’m in that story!

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