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[SPEAKER_02]: This is Troy Dilt, and you're listening to Revived Thoughts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Christ was the son of a craftsman, but of the one who formed the structures of the universe, not with a hammer, but with these command.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every episode, we bring you a different voice from history in a sermon that they delivered.
[SPEAKER_01]: Today, we're going back to the fifth century to listen to a sermon by Peter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crosoligus, not to be confused with Crosostum, very similar sounding names, Crosoligus, and Crosostum, they start there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're actually, there's a reason they sound the same, which we'll get into a little bit more in this episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's a little angle of mystery here right at the beginning of 2020.
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[SPEAKER_02]: As I say, we are recording this on Christmas break.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am thoroughly enjoying this Christmas break.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a much-needed break over here in Indonesia.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is of course not snowing.
[SPEAKER_02]: We do not have white Christmas this over here.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that is okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've had time off, and it was time definitely much-needed.
[SPEAKER_02]: What about you, Joel?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have a Christmas or having a Christmas roll?
[SPEAKER_01]: delightful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, we celebrate on both sides of the family.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, did the routine the juggle and, you know, it went great.
[SPEAKER_01]: The whole family, healthy as can be.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a true Christmas miracle.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, wonderful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, we're praising the Lord and, uh, bracing for the inevitable fallout of us all getting sick now.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, we made it through holiday season.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'll take it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you have really got to look into some of my health plans.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me tell you, drink a coke a day, give her a take, wait, not don't get in a sleep every day, hide from you guys right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, actually, we really don't get sick very out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was looking at my daughter's attendance record never missed a day for sickness Really?
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, she only she and as I think average like one day out for sickness a year It's to that I've never had to take a sick day at this at this current position In no climate boosted your immune system
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the thing is it's just us that my students have actually like kind of gotten annoyed with me They're like, why are you never after for saying this?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're sick all the time And I'm like, I don't know what you guys are doing wrong But I seem to have passed this is not to say even people might be listening to going I remember you have an historic throw like three months ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did have a sore throat
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're going to be off the air.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: One thousand.
[SPEAKER_02]: Expect a couple episodes to go missing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Two to sickness because of these comments.
[SPEAKER_02]: But all I'm saying is I, the Lord has blessed us with some good health over here overall, which has been very nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've appreciated not having too much stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: With that said, we should probably get into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got some comments stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to read out right here real quick for everybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: when you get those positive comments on here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Richard, over on Spotify, said of our J.C. Riles, two bears episode, what a great episode on J.C. Riles, and fantastically read by young Mordecai.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well done, and hope Mordecai gets to read again soon.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then another person, thank you Mordecai, great job.
[SPEAKER_02]: I enjoyed your reading, great sermon, to share with the kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I actually had another review here on our Apple podcast page.
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[SPEAKER_02]: From Varcus, who says, as someone who has listened to all Revive Thoughts episodes, this two bears episode by J.C. Royals, the best one in the last couple years, so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: The young man had preached in the amazing job.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was truly impressed.
[SPEAKER_02]: The ceremony was even more powerful because it was a boy who preached a great job guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: This episode would be on my mind and heart for a long time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Many of you really enjoyed that episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: And of course we did too.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're really glad that he I hope more I hope and I'm pretty sure more to Kai is listening right now with his family And I hope he feels a lot of love in the new year for doing that and we got extreme amounts I mean extreme amounts of good feedback from everybody on that episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: So thank you another one we had on here I can't tell you how many times I've listened to this sermon and that was on our spot of high far Jonathan Edwards sinners in the hands of an angry god
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we have lots of episodes, six and a half years worth of episodes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of those are older sermons.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of them are technically older sermons.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've been about a hundred years old each, but at least, some of them may be a couple years back in the page, but they might be a great listen, so you haven't checked out yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then one more person I wanted to reach out to Daniel, who is a pastor in Weston, Missouri, who left a very nice voice message and then an email and he's wanting to read some sermons for us in the future.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was very kind and you had a lot of really kind words for us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jill, with that said, all of that up front stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get into good old Peter Chrysoligus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jesus in his hometown was the sermon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus in his hometown is the sermon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Peter Chrysoligus born in the town of Emola.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how I'm going to say Emola.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this is, oh, this next part right here is one of my favorites because it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never seen a discrepancy like this in all of our time of recording.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was like, huh, so go ahead and tell them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, born sometime in near the end of the fourth century.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good way to say, and near the end of the fourth century, we have dates that range from 380 AD all the way up to 406.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's the thing though.
[SPEAKER_02]: They really seemed to be people were like, he was either born in 380 or 406, and they didn't seem to see it anywhere else.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's like, but that's a 24 year age cap.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a pretty big thing to not be certain about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they must have just been recorded.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it seems for all intents of purposes.
[SPEAKER_01]: That the earlier date is probably the more accurate one.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what my brain is adjusting around and simulating to the 380 AD date.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, just in general, I feel like earlier dates.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want the earliest documented piece of evidence is usually the most,
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, uh, convincing one, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think you're probably correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you probably was born in 380 as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there is a story that would make the 406 date make more sense, which maybe that's why that story came into existence.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe like maybe the later date came to justify the story.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll get into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it it like it is I've never seen this in any other episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've had many episodes where like I have no idea what this guy's born.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've even had a few episodes where we're like, and we don't know when he died either.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the only episode where we've had where it's been like, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: He definitely was born either this year or 24 years earlier.
[SPEAKER_01]: So his town, Emola, it's in the center of Italy and that region.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, we're at the end of 300's going into the early 400's.
[SPEAKER_01]: Essential Italy.
[SPEAKER_01]: is kind of the powerhouse of what the Roman Empire was doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got Rome, you know, like right there, and Rome is crumbling at this time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this is to live in this era is to live in something akin to the United States falling apart and being dissolved and going away and being overtaken by
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know of saying bar bear countries is like that sounds weird to say, but that's kind of what was happening here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just an unsuscessible sense of, but like it would be like bar bear at courts of Canadians, like they're northern or people who you wouldn't normally expect would take you over.
[SPEAKER_02]: solely taking over and again that's not a good comparison because the the people the tribes people above Rome had always been kind of enemies of Rome and it's and obviously there's a lot of issues with that but like it would have been that unfeasible to the Romans to be taken over by these guys 200 years before this as it would be of Canada to take over America I think I hope that doesn't sound maybe some Canadians are like we could definitely take America and
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, but I just don't see that happening right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: So if it did, that kind of tells you what happened to America.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the literal powerhouse of the entire world, like the empire that has run essentially, the inhabited, you know, like the known world, as far as the Westerners were concerned, and implemented all these road structures and communication lanes and fleshed out that world,
[SPEAKER_01]: now is reduced to rubble and that is kind of the environment that he's going up and to see that that once powerhouse of Rome fading into history.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now today,
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm sorry, when I think if you put the word for me that my first thought is like baby hair before it gets to a racing racing I do call it friends or for me the one fans I have a friend that's hardcore and a formula one and they, they, him and his wife watch all the races And so I have a little bit of Osmosis through him, but um, myself, yeah, not, but if, like, that's probably if you're a formula one guy, you probably know
[SPEAKER_02]: The the city of I do I will say I do think Formula One racing looks cooler to me than the NASCAR racing That's traditionally.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, so like when I'm in airports and stuff They'll put Formula One racing on over on this side of the world or whatever more and I usually and like that looks it looks pretty cool I just there's no part of me that goes like I need to watch more of that I feel like I got the gist of it from what I watched so I apologize everybody for it was a big fan of that our about yes
[SPEAKER_01]: In Krasalegas' youth, history moved out of far more violent pace, depending on which birthdate you accept.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was either a small child or a young man when Roman self was sacked and taken over and burned.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we talked about that moment recently in our St. Augustine episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, Augustine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was wondering if if you would catch it or not, or if you would be a half course I will.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who you just talked about, but we talked about saying August we haven't done an episode by this Augustan guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, there will be no Augustan's here on Revive, so it's got Augustan's only.
[SPEAKER_01]: St. Augustine, also alive during this time, again, hard to kind of overstate the sheer shock of living through your formative years as the capital of the ancient world is falling before your eyes amid this instability, crassologus' spiritual life.
[SPEAKER_01]: was shaped by, uh, it seems like this specific figure, the steady figure, a bishop, named Cornelius, and Cornelius baptized him, educated him, and eventually ordained him, and under his guidance, Cresoligus grew in both faith and responsibility until he was ultimately appointed, the Archdeacon, and that appointment came with the recognition of the Emperor himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this next part gets weird, and this is why the age thing kind of matters, and maybe maybe this is not, this is the official story as it's told, it's a legend, whatever you want to call it, but the Pope apparently at the time had a dream that Peter the Apostle and the first bishop of Revena, Revena, a man named Apollonaris, not to be confused with the Pollonarianism or it's not the heresy, this is a different guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: showed him that he was having this as pope as having a dream and a young man was showed to him and they said this will be the next fish archbishop of Ravana.
[SPEAKER_02]: Revena was an important city in the Roman Empire at the time from the year 402 to 476.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is the capital of the Roman Empire, which is wild because you think it always be Rome But it was not the last almost hundred years of the Roman Empire the capital of least this western part of it was Revena and Very defendable strong metropolitan city even if it's kind of been forgotten today for the most part Like it's I'm sure people live there know it, but it's not you know, it's not Rome right we don't really we don't put it on the same level
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so we, this, but during this time, whoever's going to be the bishop of that city is bishop over the capital.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a pretty important position to get, but the Pope, at least according to the story, uh, was told to grab this young man from his dream and, uh,
[SPEAKER_02]: this is the year 433.
[SPEAKER_02]: So at this point, the Pope kind of comes around sees Bishop Cornelius coming by, sees entourage grabs the young man and says this is the one, the new Archbishop of Revenant that I was shown in the dream.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, it was Chris Oligas, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: If this is not how it happened, this is at least the official story according to the Catholic Church.
[SPEAKER_02]: But here it lies our age problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: If we know what happened in the year 433, if he was born in 406, then he's only 27, and making him the arch, you know, the bishop over the capital of the empire, yeah, that would make sense.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a young man, and that's pretty crazy to do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could totally see the story working in that way.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would have no problem with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But if he was born in the year 380, then he's 53, and I'm not saying that he's, you know, he's not, if you're 53, you're not like an ancient or anything, but I don't think anybody looks at a 53 year old and goes, this young man, you're going to give him responsibility, I mean, especially in the ancient Empire tastes like if you make it to 45, you're not doing half bad, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: So,
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't really add up.
[SPEAKER_02]: So then is it that the ages were changed to make this story work better?
[SPEAKER_02]: Or was the story always true in the eye?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's to me, kind of a mess.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or was like the young man he saw him aged up?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's something wrong here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you want to believe the legend in the Pope story, then you kind of need to go with the 406 dating for it to really work.
[SPEAKER_02]: And maybe that and again, we weren't there.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe that was when he was born and maybe that is how it worked out If not and you're kind of questioning it then he was 53 It certainly makes for him a more exciting story and kind of a cool story if he was 27 but he comes this great Bishop If he's 53 it's still still very good, but it does kind of change the flavor of it But if you but you know one more kind of point to put in the 53 one if he's 53 and still following around Cornelius like he really hasn't broken out on his own and so
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is a tough one here.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is well-liked by the people.
[SPEAKER_02]: The classic case we've done so many of these, right, of where the guy gets put into a big position.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's hardworking, good, and caring, intelligent, defender of the faith, and a time of heresy and problems.
[SPEAKER_02]: It goes very well for him.
[SPEAKER_02]: And
[SPEAKER_02]: It all works out in the end for Krasalegas and this is one of those guys like there are people we cover in this time period You know, we just recently did a Krasalstem basal some of those guys were like it's tough They feel like they're in fights the entire time through Krasalegas I think has a little bit of a smoother time even though the Empire seems to be falling down around him He does okay for himself in Brevana
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the things that made Peter Crisoligus stand out was his preaching.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unlike many of his contemporaries, his homilies were remarkably short.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crisoligus believed that people struggled to pay attention for long stretches of time and that respecting their limit spent offering something brief, clear, and spiritually nourishing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because of this, he would be remembered as one of his names.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you know, I have a feeling because all of us might have done okay in today's current day and age, you know, you feel like you'd be able to keep it in there with our manager that you too short tiktok.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a quick snippet servings.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this kind of style of preaching didn't go unnoticed.
[SPEAKER_01]: The daughter of the Emperor Herodum speak one time and was really struck and biome.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she actually ended up, I don't know how this works, but she gave him a new name, which is the name we know and buy, because Christoligus, which means golden speech.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's kind of why it sounds like Christophe Stum, because Christophe Stum,
[SPEAKER_01]: is golden mouth, and I believe that's a lie.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Chris, Chris, Chris, no, no, the thing is Greek wouldn't it be, it might be Latin, oh boy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh boy, it's Greek.
[SPEAKER_02]: Either way, Chris must mean golden.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, right, that's the commonality between these two.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, which also, I don't actually know it, because that's what, that's what the daughter of the emperor entitled him, you know, gave him that, that title.
[SPEAKER_01]: What, uh, do we had to know what is real?
[SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea what is actual, like, mom given name is.
[SPEAKER_02]: The thing is the Peter part.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Peter is the original.
[SPEAKER_02]: He didn't have anything like in the crassologous was given afterwards.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, the title is Gringsons, but it's a lot as, uh, homilies were in Latin, so there you go, nothing but the best research on our show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Daughter of the Infra, uh, again, was still kind of as big as fan, uh, really admired him.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was a powerful patron to him and really helped him find stability and reach and, and would kind of,
[SPEAKER_01]: fund his career as a preacher.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if that's like that's not how we typically think of it that's kind of how it worked back then.
[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of the projects that had worked on a lot of the prestige was helped along by the daughter of the emperor.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you like sermons, I want to be one of our patriots that help us with our property.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, but that seemed like a good, okay, we're done.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was not so a big mover when it came to the council council on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh,
[SPEAKER_02]: But he died just before it actually happened, but as letters and works for red and rain flu and show on those proceedings If you don't know much about that, don't worry about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We covered Whole lot of thoughts on that on our three part series on Ethiopia because that is actually super important
[SPEAKER_02]: to the opia story.
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you don't know it, go put Ethiopia into your Spotify, Apple, whatever you're on podcast page.
[SPEAKER_02]: Google, then you go through that and you'll learn a whole bunch of stuff about Christianity and Ethiopia.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very interesting story.
[SPEAKER_02]: Most people do not know about Christianity, the opia house, completely removed from the rest of the world for a long time and had ups and downs and wars and battles.
[SPEAKER_02]: At one point it was like the biggest empire and that another point it was almost completely destroyed.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was quite a time period, but we covered our thoughts on the council and council on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not going to repeat that because it's a lot of work.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, but he died right before it happened, but he was an important player in getting it set up and his influence was felt during it.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Roman Empire was in decay again, concert revolveds, barbarian invasion, sack capitals, not a great time, and there were a ton of theological battles happening throughout the Christian world during this time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So imagine being the bishop over the capital of such turbulent times, but he did a pretty good job.
[SPEAKER_02]: He served for only almost 20 years, held on to respect and love of his people.
[SPEAKER_02]: He helped build many churches and expand the faith deeply in the lives of the
[SPEAKER_02]: Sadly, on a trip to his hometown in Emola in the year 450 he died and has always with his story he was either 44 or 70 when that happened once again, a quite a descriptive either he lived a long full life of service to God or it was cut short in the tough time and we don't know which of those two it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, I think it's probably 70 but um which again it really frames how you feel about his death.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so enjoy this brief sermon in Christolius style about Jesus in his hometown and you know right in and tell us if you find it as insightful as the people of Rome did in their day.
[SPEAKER_00]: When Jesus came, he says, to his homeland and to his home, and was teaching them in their synagogues, such that they were amazed and said, where did he get this wisdom in these powers?
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't he the son of a carpenter?
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't his mother called Mary?
[SPEAKER_00]: Aren't his brothers and sisters all here among us?
[SPEAKER_00]: So where did he get all of this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 13 verses 54 to 56.
[SPEAKER_00]: Clouds do not cover and darken the sky, night the day, and gloom the sun, as much as envy, covers and darkens the mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: The jealousy of the Jews attest to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: They marveled across wisdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: they were amazed that he's powers, they prized his works, they received what he had to say, nevertheless, so that divinity would not be seen in him, so that his deity would not be recognized, they remembered and publicized the names of his parents according to the flesh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus came, it says, to his homeland and to his home.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let no one marvel if the creator of the universe, the Lord of the heavens, and God of all obtains a homeland in a particular place.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he encloses himself in a womb, is placed in a cradle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Plings to his mother's bosom, lays himself in a lap.
[SPEAKER_00]: allowed himself to be embraced and in order to remove humanity's needs, he submitted and adapted himself to humanity's needs.
[SPEAKER_00]: O man, God puts himself through these things for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He follows you through these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: He seeks you through these needs.
[SPEAKER_00]: so that the one whom he formed by his hand he worked, he might reform by his example, so that the one who he cast off by his judgment, he might lead back by his affection, and that he might preserve in himself the one whom he sees was lost without him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus came, it says to his homeland, and was teaching in their synagogues.
[SPEAKER_00]: not in his temple, but in their synagogues.
[SPEAKER_00]: The synagogues could not be his sense in them, the crowd of faithfulness, not for faith, was congregating.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then came together the people of envy, not of love, and then was seated the company of evil doers, not the counsel of good instruction.
[SPEAKER_00]: he was teaching their synagogues so that they were amazed.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were amazed out of indignation, not favour.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were astonished with jealousy and not praise.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were furious because what horty judgement seats were not able to grasp.
[SPEAKER_00]: humility taught perfectly while standing up, such that they were amazed and said, where did he get this wisdom?
[SPEAKER_00]: So say the one who is ignorant of God, the source of wisdom and the source of power.
[SPEAKER_00]: So say is the one who does not know that Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Solomon shows where wisdom comes from.
[SPEAKER_00]: When as a child he accepted the crown of kingship, and in order to rule the people entrusted to him with virtue, not arrogance, with wisdom, not pride, and with his heart, and not all high and mighty, he wanted, asked for, and received wisdom from God.
[SPEAKER_00]: where did he get this wisdom and these powers?
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a power that gives eyesight to those deprived of it from birth that restores hearing to those afflicted with being deaf.
[SPEAKER_00]: That in the mute unbines what had been shackling their speech, that puts those who had been lame back on their course that compels souls now bound in Hades to return to their own bodies.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only one who is envious of salvation could deny that this is the power of God, but the Jews admitted that the works of Christ were of divine power, that they were not humanly possible, but by the cloud of jealousy and the smoke of malice.
[SPEAKER_00]: The vision of the onlookers was dark and such that they did not see the light of Christ, nor that it was the time of the gospel, and they said, isn't he the son of a carpenter?
[SPEAKER_00]: They were saying, he is the son of a carpenter, but the son of which carpenter, they did not say.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were saying, son of a carpenter, so that by their mean spirit had kind of craftiness,
[SPEAKER_00]: might be concealed, and so that the Carbender's name might keep the name of the deity hidden.
[SPEAKER_00]: Christ was the son of a craftsman, but of the one who formed the structures of the universe, not with a hammer, but with his command, who joined together diverse elements, not with a clever inventiveness, but with an order.
[SPEAKER_00]: who forged together the mass of the world with his might, not with Cole, who set the son of Blaze, not with an earthly fire, but with heat from heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who adjusted the moon, the darkness, and the periods of night, who made the stars distinct, with varying degrees of light, who made all from nothing, and he made it a man for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that by pondering the works, you would think
[SPEAKER_00]: of the one who made it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you always were out.
[SPEAKER_00]: You observe that he is the son of this craftsman.
[SPEAKER_00]: So whom, for such great benefits, you ought to pay compensation to the son.
[SPEAKER_00]: The reason why you do not receive any future benefits is because you are ungrateful for the present ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't he the son of a carpenter?
[SPEAKER_00]: isn't his mother called Mary?
[SPEAKER_00]: A gay nose, Rao, you call out the name of his mother, but you can seal that of his father.
[SPEAKER_00]: You say Farber, but you do not say his name.
[SPEAKER_00]: You say craftsmen, but you do not say what his work is.
[SPEAKER_00]: These things are larger, but they do not allude those who will believe.
[SPEAKER_00]: He isn't his mother called Mary and aren't his brothers and sisters all among us.
[SPEAKER_00]: If his mother, his brothers and his sisters are there among you.
[SPEAKER_00]: What about his father?
[SPEAKER_00]: He is not with you because God hates pretenders.
[SPEAKER_00]: He abandoned the inviots.
[SPEAKER_00]: He turns away from the ungrateful and he does not permit the unbelievers and the irrelevant to stay with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the castle angel out of heaven, drove a man out of paradise, was the first to contaminate the earth, with a brother's blood, compelled brothers to sell their brothers, put Moses to flight, aroused Aaron to insult his brother, defiled Miriam with jealous jealousy towards her brother,
[SPEAKER_00]: and in short what causes the mind to shutter the sight to become blurred and the hearing to fail to grasp.
[SPEAKER_00]: It aimed for and attained the very blood of Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Envy is worse than all other evils.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those whom it captures cannot be freed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those whom it wounds can never be cured nor returned to health, and the is the venom for offenses.
[SPEAKER_00]: The poison for sin, the mother of sins, the origin of the viruses.
[SPEAKER_00]: The one who does not see it, sees good things.
[SPEAKER_00]: The one who is unfamiliar with it, is unfamiliar with evil.
[SPEAKER_00]: The one who flees from it, leaves.
[SPEAKER_00]: One can avoid envy by flight, but once engaged in a conflict with it,
[SPEAKER_00]: but now let us hear what response the Lord makes.
[SPEAKER_00]: A prophet is not without honor, except in his homeland, Matthew 13, verse 57.
[SPEAKER_00]: Indeed Christ came to his homeland because it is written to his own he came and his own did not receive him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But by saying a prophet is not without honour, except in his homeland, he teaches that if a person shows potential among his own, they will bite him.
[SPEAKER_00]: If one stands out among his fellow citizens, he will get burned.
[SPEAKER_00]: One name is glory in flames, the rest of the neighborhood.
[SPEAKER_00]: If relatives should be obliged to give some honour to another relative, they consider it enslavement.
[SPEAKER_00]: and he did not do many miracles it says because of the lack of faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: A miracle is not done in a place where the lack of faith does not deserve it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if Christ does not demand pay when he heals, he is nevertheless offended when insult is offered to him instead of honour.
[SPEAKER_02]: there's a line in the middle of the sermon and you could just tell how Chris all the guy was a careful word or you really could buy a really like this part where he says the Jews say to him is needed son of a carpenter and I actually had preached on that passage myself and it was I it was just it's a kind of tough passage because it's such an interesting way and it's
[SPEAKER_02]: It's showing their lack of faith in God by the Jews saying that they're saying what they're saying is and we know who his dad is.
[SPEAKER_02]: We know that Jesus is born of a virgin.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a way of kind of acknowledging that he can't be who he really says he is, but then I really love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Chris Oligas says, he goes, yeah, you know what he is a son of a carpenter.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's some of the greatest cat craftsman, the one who forms the structure of the universe, but not with hammer, but by command.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is a great line and I think that this sermon is full of great lines like this and to be honest if you're looking for some Just good reading material.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think her solid guess might be a good one for you as you go into this new year Just reading and I love well-worded lines like that to me I think those are pretty cool I somebody get who has to preach now and then I am impressed when people can put together those right phrasing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just the right way
[SPEAKER_02]: So I really enjoyed this sermon and thought it was a great idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will use that answer in the end time I cover that passage again.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will definitely be using that line.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they are right, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is the son of the carbonaries, the son of the greatest craftsman, the Lord who created the whole universe.
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