Hi, this is John Eldridge, and welcome to the Ransomed Heart podcast. What we are doing over this series is

exploring the personality of Jesus from my new book, Beautiful Outlaw.

There is absolutely no one and nothing that is more captivating than Jesus when you can see him as he really is.

And to know Jesus as he really is is to fall in love with him.

So what we're doing in this series, I am reading some excerpts from a new book called

Beautiful Outlaw, discovering the playful, extravagant disruptive personality

of Jesus.

And so let's explore Jesus together.

Picture seven-year-old Jesus in the shop out back,

learning from Joseph how to use a hammer and a saw.

He who hung galaxies in such perfect poise, like a hundred billion mobiles, has to be shown

how to nail two boards together?

I take my shoes off. The humility of this is beyond words.

We don't appreciate Jesus is cunning because we insist on clinging to our naive view of the world.

We just want life to be easy.

We just want life to be good.

We don't want to deal with evil, so we pretend we don't have to.

We don't want to navigate sin either. We prefer our

coffee house chit chat, our Twitter level engagement. We play at church. It's as as though we think our mission and our context is something other

than what it was for Jesus. Even though he said, as the Father has sent me, I am sending you, John 2021.

Jesus told his disciples, there was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.

So he called him in and asked him,

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