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This is the last candy cigarette in this box or as they ought to be

better referred to a devil sliver. Mm but they're just so delicious despite all the

dangerous things that these might lead to.

I wish I had a candy cigarette to give literally every one of you

because of how good it is taste in my mouth right now.

You know it doesn't taste so good in my mouth right now metaphorically this is a horrible behavior of Judas toward Jesus because we've been looking at Matthew 26

oh that is so good and this horrible betrayal passage and then understandably

Peter's like you know how to do? Kill the people or doing this to Jesus.

So he goes to get started with that project and Jesus is like knock it off and you and I have spent a bunch of time focusing on the first reason that Jesus gives for why we're not going to go swing and swords around to make Christianity happen.

And that is simply that there's a danger to it. There's a reflexive property to violence.

Those who draw the sword will die by the sword and we've considered that in light of church history,

we've considered that in light of the Old Testament, we've considered that in light of the the old testament. We've considered that in light of the teachings of Jesus. I

guess we kind of cut off on the church history thing. It's kind of

conveniently we didn't get into any of the Protestant stuff because yeah I'm a Protestant

so I don't want to make any of that

look bad but but seriously they very shortly into the Protestant reformation we

see Catholic on Protestant violence we see eventually Protestant on Protestant violence directed at the Anabaptists.

And then as we get into the age of colonialism, we see a whole bunch more violence from different

Christian groups in different ways and just in general it's never an attractive

fit for people who are kingdom citizens it's just it's not a good look and I suppose we could have an entire

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