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Amen Podcast

Jesus' biggest enemies

Amen Podcast

Alex Wilson

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? Me and Luke here hanging out upstairs and just thinking about how Jesus's

0:07.4

biggest enemies on earth were religious people, churchy people, not prostitutes, not thieves,

0:18.1

not drunkards, not some of the most despicable people in his society. It was those

0:25.4

who were held at really high esteem. And I found this little small Bible. I call it a dagger

0:34.7

instead of a sword, you know, a little Bible pun. But, oh, I opened up to

0:41.0

Psalms 37, verse 14. And it says, the wicked draw their sword and bend their bows to bring down

0:48.5

the poor and the needy to slay those whose way is upright. So this is talking about wicked evil people,

0:56.3

and I've been watching Lord of the Rings.

0:58.5

I think I watched all three movies in like two days.

1:02.2

And super good, a lot of sword fighting,

1:05.5

a lot of really wicked people or creatures called orcs.

1:11.4

And they are constantly like, you know, coming after the good guys.

1:19.4

And I think Luke wants to be a podcaster.

1:21.2

He's like talking a lot right now.

1:23.5

And, but what happens is they lose, you know, the same bows and the same swords, they try to kill the innocent people, the innocent men, innocent women and children.

1:34.2

They get killed, you know, by swords and by bows.

1:38.7

And when you think about Jesus in the New Testament interacting with wicked people, Sometimes we think he's talking about the prostitutes.

1:46.0

He's talking about the tax collectors.

1:48.0

He's talking about these like low grade fishermen or whatever.

1:51.0

But the Old Testament, when it's talking about the wicked,

1:55.0

it's talking partly about the enemies of Jesus, those who crucified Jesus.

2:00.0

It was the Pharisees.

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