Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and

Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

Hey guys, welcome back. I know for the last couple days I've gone a little bit longer than

what you're normally used to, but I'll try to, you know, tighten it up a little bit or maybe

not. Maybe I'll just go longer and y'all will just have to deal with it. But this week,

we are using John Eldridge's beautiful outlaw to help us get to know the personality of Jesus

better. And before preparing all the episodes for this week, I asked John about the chapters

that really encapsulate his point. He told me chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7. That's where we've

been focusing all week. So yesterday and today, we're in chapter 4 called Fierce Intention.

And on yesterday's episode, we discussed the intensity with which Jesus dealt with the death

and his subsequent resurrection of his good buddy Lazarus. And today we're

keeping the theme of fierce intention of the Lord Jesus by getting into two of my favorite occurrences

in the Bible. And that's Jesus cleansing the temple. Now, some of you immediately got confused,

because you're like, wait a minute, he did that twice? Well, I thought he just did it once.

And it was just described in all the Gospels. But I am of the persuasion, and I've been certainly persuaded by biblical historians and theologians and archaeologists and all types of folks that this is something that Jesus did at least twice. So the first cleansing was right after he did his first public miracle, and this was early in his ministry, and this is recorded in John 2. And then the second cleansing, this was the final week of his life.

This was, you know, this Passion Week, Matthew 21, Mark 11, and Luke 19.

So I want to read from Beautiful Outlaw beginning on page 34.

And guys, I just got to be honest, I'm going to read several, you know, sections here.

It's really hard for me to put into words what this particular passage from Eldridge's book

has done for me and how I approach my Christian walk. So let's get into it right here. Then comes the

thunder at the temple. And then he's going to be getting into the scripture here, John 2,

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