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All right, we made it to the end of the week. I appreciate

y'all being here this week. We have been using John Eldridge's book, Beautiful Outlaw,

to help us get to know the personality of Jesus better. And before preparing the episodes,

I asked John, which chapters of the book really encapsulate what he was going for. That's chapters

two, three, four, five, and seven. And we discuss that in order to truly understand Jesus, we have to

realize that and internalize that he was indeed fully God and fully man. And as a man, he had to

have a real life personality. And we also can't get caught reading the Bible as if Jesus was

some sort of deistic, floating automaton or something like that. Within his personality,

it is a virtual certainty

that Jesus was playful and also fiercely intent as we've covered this week. And today we're

going to be looking at chapter 7 of the book, disruptive honesty. And I'll just tell you a lot of

us, we really don't like this. We don't really like disruptive honesty. We like honesty whenever it's, you know, pointed at other

people, but we don't really like when brutal honesty is pointed towards us. You know, we really like it

the other way around because we don't want it to make us uncomfortable, but we're okay with it making

other people uncomfortable, right? And Eldridge begins this chapter by reminding us of an interaction

between Jesus and a Pharisee that we see recorded in Luke 11, verses 37 through 39. So I'll read that here. When Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. So he went in and reclined at a table. The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner. And the Lord said to him, now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish,

but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. And so for a lot of us, we'll read, you know, a line like that.

And we'll be like, yeah, you tell them, Jesus, go get them. But again, as I said earlier, we don't really like it when the brutal honesty is coming our direction. So let's go back to beautiful outlaw here.

We love it when he goes gunning for the Pharisees. Hypocrats, you travel over land and sea to win a

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