Welcome to Further In, a podcast where Pastor Ben and members of our team take a deeper look at the scripture we studied this week at Passion City Church, D.C.

And consider how to apply the truths of God's word to our lives.

Okay, we're back with Further In after two weeks off.

That's right. Y'all did not do one after the Queen of Sheba, Thomas, that was a phenomenal sermon. Thank you. It wasn't called that. I don't remember what it was called. It was something like that. Hannah came up with a good title. It was essentially the Queen and the King. Yeah. The Queen of Sheba and the greater song. Well, if you didn't hear it, it was a phenomenal talk on the characteristics of a leader of Solomon at its best that Shiba wanted to learn from.

And then a great transition to, you know, Jesus being so clear about, hey, the queen of Shiba will judge you, the people who were

dismissing him. He's like, she responded to, she saw godly wisdom in Solomon. He's like,

and one greater than Solomon is here, which again, if you're just evaluating the person of Jesus,

for him to say, I'm greater than the king who led Israel to its greatest heights, you go, that's a crazy statement for a carpenter.

Yeah.

But it's not a crazy statement if you are the Messiah.

But that's again, Jesus centering himself as, I am the true king.

I am the true Prince of Peace.

And you should be able to acknowledge that by seeing what I do and hearing what I say.

And so I thought your transition to that was excellent, man.

And great message.

So if you haven't heard it, you need to go check it out, everybody.

But we're sitting here together.

I'm Ben, Jacob, Thomas, Elizabeth, talking about how to not mess up your life.

Yeah. We're all light stuff today.

Yeah. I was talking to somebody, I won't give the whole story, but yesterday after the message,

and she was like, I think that could be everybody. And she started telling me a story of someone who,

their reckless pursuit of, of, it's not even so much the money or the power, but the

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