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So as you might remember, this whole lens, we've been talking about the imitation of

Christ. That the whole point of the Christian life, right, is not just to be slightly

better. Like the whole goal of length is not just to be slightly better.

The whole goal of Christian life is not just to get rid of bad habits and get good

habits. Just like the goal of length is not just to get rid of bad habits, get good

habits. The whole goal of length is the whole goal of the Christian life, which is to

end up looking like Jesus. It's the imitation of Christ.

And so we've been doing this whole series called the prototype.

Because Jesus is our rabbi, he's our prototype.

And so you might remember this that we talked about like we kept every weekend.

We've been talking about the three schools. If you remember this at all, I'm

the test, there's no test. I'm not going to ask you tell me what they are.

But we all know, right, when you're six years old in the first century, if you're a

Jewish kid, you went to that first school, Betsefair.

And Betsefair, the whole goal from six years old to 10 years old is you would

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