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the sponsor. Have you guys ever done the thing where somebody says something so witty and

clever and powerful in an awkward moment that as soon as you get away from the

group setting and it's just the two or three of you you can't wait to

rehash the whole thing and break it down with each juicy detail.

Did you see the look on that girl's face?

Did you see how that guy was when you said this?

Yeah, the whole time I wanted, I mean, I do this.

I find it to be really, really fun

to do the debriefing on the social situation.

And that's kind of what we're doing right now in Matthew chapter 3,

because John the Baptist goes with this verbal flurry at the religious leaders, the Pharisees and the Sajocese

when they show up to his Desert baptism party, and there's just a ton to step into the next room

after it all goes down and break down, not just because it's juicy and fun but also because

there's quite a bit of theological significance to what he says and please make a

note of this because it's going to be important later. It's also important because a lot of the language that John the Baptist employs both positively

and negatively are themes and even exact phrases that we're going to see Jesus employ as we move through his

ministry and that's not just an accident and that's not just Jesus copying

something or writing on the coat tails of something that had already been demographically tested and found to be effective,

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