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``What if when things start getting really bad, like things go really south and people say, man, don't mess with Ken's family. He'll make a whip. He'll turn over some patio furniture here. He'll do whatever it takes to protect the ones that god has placed in his charge, and I wanna be a man like that. I bet you men listening. You wanna be a man like that, And the only chance we have in that is to follow a lord king like that. And we have one. His name is Jesus. [00:29:46] (42 seconds)  #FamilyProtector

So here's the huge problem that we create. When we b y o j, when we build our own Jesus, we distort our image of God because that's how we view God. It is through Jesus. So we don't see God as he really is, and here's the huge problem that that creates. Psalm 46 says, God is our refuge and strength, a help always near in times of great trouble. Have you ever been in great trouble and you really need God? [00:04:10] (38 seconds)  #SeeGodAccurately

True for grain, true for wheat, true for flower seeds, true for Leonidas, your king, and come on, stick around for a few days, and you'll see it play out in my life. Because when Jesus would die, when he would give up his life here, come on, they buried or planted in the earth and he would rise again with a harvest of new lives. You and I. We are the harvest. So their Greek proverb that Jesus quoted them is fulfilled in Jesus. [00:25:23] (48 seconds)  #SeedToHarvest

He's god. He knows everything but here's the thing, Jesus doesn't quote the Bible to them because it wouldn't matter. They they don't believe the Bible. Jesus does something much wiser. He quotes one of the ancient Greek parables to them, something that they would already know that they would be very familiar with, and he connects the dots with the story of King Leonidas that they learned growing up in school. He connects the dots how this Greek parable is fulfilled in himself. [00:22:37] (43 seconds)  #SpeakTheirLanguage