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Answering The Muslim Critic Part1: Conflicts In The Genealogy Of Jesus, Matthew Vs Luke
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Feb 20, 2025
I shared a post yesterday via Youtube discussing why as fallen creatures we can’t see God. And out of nowhere this Muslim guy sent me a barrage of scripted/robotic messages that he learned probably from his superiors, attempting to discredit the word of God. He sent me a bunch of supposedly conflicting passages to prove his case. I told him that I was going to answer his objections one a time, and today I'm addressing the genealogy of Jesus. According to this individual, both Matthew and Luke reported conflicting information about Jesus’s earthly genealogy, so let’s go to the Scriptures and analyze this, see video
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hey what's going on guys this is T at
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ts.com and uh this is like actually a
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new thing that I'm doing today because
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yesterday I shared a a video and the the
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question was if God exists why can't we
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see God and I answered a question in um
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the video and I talked about why we
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can't see God and this guy uh I guess
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his name is Zach cat I'm not sure where
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he's from so he basically just started
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to to kind of ask a lot of questions
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about Christianity and how the Bible is
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not the word of God because he gave me
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so many reasons why and then uh he uh I
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told him hey you're talking a whole lot
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but you're not giving me specifics to
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work with so he went ahead and gave me a
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bunch of objections and I told him okay
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I'm going to answer those objection one
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at a time because I don't have time to
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do all of them and the way he was uh
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answering my questions when I was
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talking to him he almost sounded like a
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robot kind of like he was just like I
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ask one question and he gave me like
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Pages worth of stuff and I'm like okay
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first of all how can you answer so quick
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unless you have this thing kind of
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scripted somewhere where whoever is like
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talking to you or your Superior has
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given you these cliche answers that you
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give to Christians or whoever you're
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talking to to try to convince them or
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some kind of uh whatever you believe
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your belief system is and I found out he
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was a Muslim and it's funny because when
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people hear my name t salami they kind
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of assume I'm a Muslim you know and then
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they kind of want hey my brother hey I'm
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still your your brother but I'm not
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Muslim you know I'm a Christian and I
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have reasons why I'm a Christian because
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I know this is the truth now again I'm
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not here to debate because I don't feel
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like it's it's necessary but when you
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ask me questions and you have objections
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I'm willing to put in the work to tell
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you why I believe what I believe so I
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told him I'm going to go one at a time
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and the first question that he asked was
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the genealogy of Jesus he talked about
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that how uh in Matthew uh 1: 6-16
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there's like differences and
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this is what he said here I tried to
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find a comment on my YouTube but he took
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it off or somebody took it off I don't
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know who did it so this is what he said
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here how could inspired words of God get
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the genealogy of Jesus Incorrect and he
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says see Matthew 1 verse 6-16 where it
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states 26 for fathers of the Prophet
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David and Luke 3 23-31 says 41 in number
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so that's what I'm going to be talking
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about today so I did that and then we're
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gonna get into it so again I'm gonna
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give you my quick introduction which I
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just talked about and uh again I I said
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what I just said here I said it in my uh
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in my uh introduction earlier so I don't
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have to read this again for you so I
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guess you say that both Matthew and Luke
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report like conflicting information
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about Jesus uh Earthly genealogy so
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we're going to go to scriptures and
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we're going to analyze this so let's do
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that
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now so basically first thing is this
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we're going to read both P passages and
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then we are going to analyze the
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differences so let me go to Matthew 1
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verse
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1-16 so this is what Matthew says the
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book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ
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the son of David the son of Abraham
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Abraham was the father of Isaac Isaac
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the father of Jacob Jacob the father of
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Judah and his brothers and Judah the
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father of Perez and zarab by Tamar and
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Perez the father of hezron and hezron
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the father of ram ram the father of
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aminadab aminadab the father of n Nan
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Nishan the father of salmon and salmon
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the father of Boaz and Bo boas by Rahab
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and boas the father of OED by Ruth and
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OED the father of Jesse and Jesse the
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father of David the king and David was
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the father of Solomon by the wife of
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Uriah and Solomon the father of rabam
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and rabam the father of abijah abijah
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the father of Asaf Asaf the father of
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Jehoshaphat and Jehoshaphat the father
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of juram and juram the father of Uzziah
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Uzziah the father of jotham and jotham
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the father of ahaz and ahaz the father
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of Hezekiah Hezekiah the father of
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manasse and Manasseh the father of Amos
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Amos the father of Josiah and Josiah the
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father of Janiah and his brothers at the
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time of the deportation to Babylon and
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after the deportation to Babylon Janiah
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was the father of shaltiel and shtiel
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the father of zerubabel and zerubabel
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the father of abud and abud the father
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of elim elim the father father of AAR
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and Azar the father of zok and zok the
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father of Akim and Akim the father of
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elud and elud the father of elazar and
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elazar the father of marthan and marthan
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the father of Jacob and Jacob the father
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of Joseph the husband of Mary of whom
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Jesus was born who is called Christ now
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let's go to Luke 3 verse 23 to 37 Jesus
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when he began his ministry was about 30
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years of age being the son as of as was
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supposed of Joseph the son of heli the
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son of matat the son of Levi the son of
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M the son of janii the son of Joseph the
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son of Mattias the son of Amos the son
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of Nahum the son of asle the son of Nagi
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the son of maath the son of Matas the
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son of samen the son of Jose the son of
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jodah the son of joanin the son of Raza
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the son of zerubabel the son of shaltiel
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the son of ner the son of melai the son
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of Adi son of kosam the son of el Madam
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the son of er the son of Joshua the son
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of Eleazar the son of joram the son of
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matat the son of Levi the son of Simeon
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the son of Judah the son of Joseph the
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son of jonan the son of elim the son of
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Malia the son of Mana the son of mat
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Matata the son of Nathan the son of
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David the son of Jesse the son of OED
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the son of boas the son of Salah the son
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of nahan the son of aminadab the son of
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admin the son of of Arne the son of
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hezron the son of perz the son of Judah
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the son of Jacob the son of Isaac the
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son of Abraham the son of terara the son
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of nahor the son of suuk the son of Ru
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the son of spag the son of abar the son
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of shellah the son of kinan the son of
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arah the son of Shem the son of Noah the
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son of lamech the son of methus the son
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of Enoch the son of Jared the son of
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Mahal the son of Kanan the son of Enos
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the son of Seth the son of Adam the Son
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of
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God
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okay after this really hard uh
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pronunciation now let's go back to the
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presentation so
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basically we need to understand a couple
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of things at the outset like each writer
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Matthew and Luke had a different
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audience in mind see Matthew wrote like
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primarily to the Jews to prove that
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Jesus was indeed the Christ so when he
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wrote the genealogy he began with the
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following verse like he said the book of
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the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of
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David the son of Abraham okay now
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obviously David was not the immediate
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father of Jesus where he uses the son in
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the sense that he's of the line of um
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David and David wasn't the immediate son
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of Abraham but the term son here means
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of the
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lineage that's first how we are to
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understand like this now usually in
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scriptures when people of Jewish
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background were looking for Mercy from
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Jesus they often called him son of
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David basically alluding to his kingship
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lineage so God also made a promise to
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Abraham in Genesis 15 verse 3-6 he said
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and Abraham said behold you have given
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me no Offspring and a member of my
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household will be my Heir and behold the
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word of the Lord came to him this man
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shall not be your Heir your very own son
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shall be your Heir and he brought him
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outside and said look toward heaven and
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Number the Stars if you are able to
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number them then he said so shall your
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Offspring be and he believed the Lord
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and he counted it to him as
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righteousness so God gave Abraham a
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promise of a air and Jesus talks about
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this in John
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8:56 your father Abraham rejoiced that
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he would see my day he saw it and was
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glad so you see this is what Matthew had
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in mind he wanted to prove that Jesus
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indeed was of the lineage of David and
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Abraham basically that's what he had in
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mind because he was of a Jewish
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background so let's keep going so
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basically he was trying to prove that
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the to the Jews that Jesus was indeed
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the promised Messiah okay now what about
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Luke let's look at Luke see Luke wrote
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his gospel primarily to authenticate the
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claims of the other gospels if you look
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at verse 1-4 he says in as much as many
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have undertaken to compile A Narrative
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of the things that have been
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accomplished Among Us just as those who
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from the beginning were eye witnesses
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and Ministers of the word have delivered
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them to us it seemed good to me also
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having followed all things closely
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closely from some time past to write an
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orderly account for you most excellent
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Theophilus that you may have certainty
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concerning the things you have been
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taught so basically you understand that
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Luke was basically like a detective now
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when when Luke wrote the genealogy of
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Jesus to remind us of God's promise he
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wrote this because of Genesis 3:15 I
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believe because Genesis 3:15 after the
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fall this is what God says to the
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serpent I will put enemity between you
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and the woman and between your Offspring
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and her Offspring he shall bruise your
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head and you shall bruise his heel so if
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you
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look the salvation of humanity through
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God the man Jesus so we're going to talk
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about why the genealogy differs but
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before that I want to show you one more
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thing in in the Book of Luke first if
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you look at uh Luke
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verse 22 3:22 and the Holy Spirit
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descended on him in bodily form like a
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dove and a voice Came From Heaven you
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are my beloved Son with you I'm well
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pleased God just made a statement about
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Jesus being his son so and then
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automatically after that um Luke goes
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into proving that he is indeed the Son
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of God so keep that in mind and let's go
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back to this here so now we're going to
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talk about the differences okay the main
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difference
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here beginning and Jacob the father of
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Joseph the husband of Mary of whom Jesus
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was born was who was called Christ okay
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Matthew 1:16 so like I said Matthew
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traced the genealogy of Jesus Through
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Joseph kingley lineage to show that
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Jesus was indeed the promised Messiah
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which I told you earlier now look Jesus
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when he began his ministry was about 30
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years of age being the son was as was
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supposed of Joseph the son of Eli heli
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now the main problem here the identity
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of his heer here here's the problem like
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if you look at in Matthew's account
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Matthew said Jacob was the father of
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Joseph while Luke says heli was his
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father so what do we
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do hey I guess we cut these Pages out of
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scriptures and stop the problem right n
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no we're not going to do that we're not
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going to run away from like this kind of
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hard problems we're going to deal with
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it right what we do is we investigate to
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find out if there is a contradiction so
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I want you to go back to Genesis 38
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verse
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6-9 scripture says and Judah took a wife
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for ER his firstborn and her name was
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Tamar but ER judah's firstborn was
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wicked in the sight of the Lord and the
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Lord put him to death then Judah said to
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Onan go into your brother's wife and
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perform the duty of a brother-in-law to
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her and raise up Offspring for your
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brother but on knew that the offspring
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would not be his so whenever he went
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into his brother's wife he would waste
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the seen on the ground so as not to give
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Offspring to his his brother so you see
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this was a practice in those times where
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whenever let's say I had a wife and I
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died my brother will go into my wife and
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raise of Offspring on my behalf that
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prevalent in some countries like in in
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in in some other third world countries
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it still happens okay so this is what's
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happening here I'm trying to prove I'm
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trying to show you something you can
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clearly see here that if Tamar had been
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impregnated by Onan the child would have
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been biologically own son but legally he
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would have been ER son so if someone
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were to write the genealogy of the child
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it could have gone gone like both ways
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he could have he could have been called
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the son of Onin biologically and the son
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of er legally so you see my point let me
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give you another one in like in Genesis
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37: 911 I'm going to show you something
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else
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here say this is the the story of Joseph
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now Joseph has these dreams and the
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scripture says then he dreamed another
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dream and told it to brother us and said
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behold I have dreamed another dream
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behold the Sun the moon and 11 stars
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were bowing down to me but when he told
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it to his father and his his brothers
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his father rebuked him and said what is
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this dream that you're having shall I
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and your mother and your brothers indeed
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come to Bow ourselves to the ground
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before you and his brothers were jealous
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of him but his father kept the saying in
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mind now you got to understand like at
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this moment Joseph's mom was already
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dead so his mom was Rachel she was there
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so so how come Jacob said shall I and
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your mother bow ourselves to the ground
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before you he wasn't talking about a
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dead woman coming back to life so what
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do you think Jacob was talking about he
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was of course referring to BHA Rachel's
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servant if you go to Genesis 30:3 the
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scripture says then she said here is my
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servant bilha go into her so that she
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may give birth on my behalf that even I
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may have children through her you see
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that so the children's Mother will be uh
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will be BHA
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biologically but legally the children
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will be um rachal Sten children so this
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is a common practice in in Jewish
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culture okay at the time so you can see
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where I'm going with it heli might have
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been Joseph's adopted legal father while
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Jacob mentioned by Matthew was his
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biological father for all I know the
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writers kept all the records and they
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were given accurate information so I
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don't see any problem with that at all
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and let me go a little step further I
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want you to reason here a little bit
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look put your thinking caps on for a
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minute don't you think the early church
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knew that those differences were there
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like pepas or papus polycarp they knew
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all these things right so if you and I
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can see the differences clearly don't
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you think that the early church actually
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knew that and they were aware of it when
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the cannon was being formed they could
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have easily embellished and edited and
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cleaned up all these seemingly Loose
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Ends why do you you think they didn't do
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it number one to preserve the Integrity
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of
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scripture to preserve the Integrity of
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scripture they were not going to change
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anything because they knew that when
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Luke was writing that he was inspired by
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the holy spirit so is Matthew because
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there is a purpose in mind but they also
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understood that the
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purpose Luke had a purpose and Matthew
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had a purpose Matthew was almost he's a
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doctor so when he was writing he was
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writing a lot to Gentiles and to the
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rest of the world Matthew
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had Jewish in people in mind so they
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each had a purpose I already told you
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what a purpose was so there is no
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contradiction so again I don't know why
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people don't really investigate these
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claims like before you say something you
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need to know what you're talking about
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okay so this is our answer objection
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number one so we're going to go into the
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next one maybe tomorrow or some other
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day all right and I'll see you next time
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