00:00 Intro

00:04 Women's Bible Study Preview

00:39 Discussion on Ephesians Chapter 2

01:53 Rangers Game Win and Weather Talk

03:09 Daily Bible Reading: Solomon's Temple

03:49 God's Sovereignty and Man's Responsibility

05:06 Solomon's Public Prayer and Worship

07:25 Fire from Heaven and God's Approval

09:47 God's Response to Solomon's Prayer

14:33 Psalm 136: The Steadfast Love of the Lord

17:12 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Happy Saturday.

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It's Saturday is Women's

Bible Study Saturday.

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That's right, Ian.

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Finally, the woman.

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The woman who's preaching this

morning is none other than my bride.

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She is, she's been preparing this

for, it feels like years now.

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It's awesome.

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Yeah, so I'm looking forward to hearing.

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What it feels like when she's

done, usually, like most of us, is

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the harshest critic that I know.

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And so she'll say what she says, but

I'm looking forward to it being done.

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I know it weighs heavily upon her

and I think I appreciate that.

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I don't wanna take that away from her.

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I like the fact that she

cares so deeply about it.

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She honors God's word and she loves God's

people, so she doesn't wanna be flippant.

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I appreciate that.

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But I also appreciate when she's done.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, she's, what text

is she covering today?

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Ephesians chapter two.

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So she's covering through

verse, I wanna say seven.

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Okay.

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Two, one through seven.

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Yeah.

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I know your wife is covering

the next section, which I

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think is eight through 10.

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Yeah, I think so.

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He made us in his, it made us to be

workers before, before time began.

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I'm totally butchering that.

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Recitation and it's not a

recitation, it's a summarization.

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But you get the idea.

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Yeah.

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So she's covering this really hit.

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Heavy section about who we were BC before

Christ and all of its implications.

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And so she's got, it's a great

text, it's a rich text, but the

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challenge with Rich text is then

you're like what do I do with this?

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Totally.

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There's so much here.

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Where do I even go?

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And those are the ones that are especially

hard to say I need to get rid of maybe

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80% of what I wanna say and just.

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Try to keep it as narrow as I

can while still being helpful.

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That's a really tight, a

tight balance to strike.

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She gets to preach about the best, but

in scripture, I'll be sure to that she

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hears that before she goes up there.

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PPJ wants you to say

this point number one.

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I mean it appreciate the best.

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Yeah, but what you're saying,

what you're alluding to yeah.

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I'll let it sit there for people to enjoy.

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Anyways, if you're curious, what's

the best button in scripture?

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Ephesians two, four.

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Go check it out.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So that's Women's Bible study today.

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That'll be good.

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Awesome.

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Yeah.

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No, that's great.

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We had the Rangers game last night.

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They won.

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They won.

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They won 105 to nothing.

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It was amazing.

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What a blow out.

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Yeah.

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No.

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Hopefully we had a good time.

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We typically do at that event

it's potentially gonna rain again,

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which it rained last year for it.

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It's just, it's June.

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It's just what happens here, rain.

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We get a lot of it.

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You don't know what to

expect in May and June.

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That's just, that's what I am

trying to figure out is how do

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you prepare for these months?

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You just prepare by just being flexible.

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'cause you don't know what's gonna happen.

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Even the radars, you can't it's, it

looks like it's coming straight at you

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and then it's and it takes a hard Right.

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And.

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Yeah.

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Getting used to the shifting

patterns here has been fun.

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I do enjoy it again, California.

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So basic, so predictable,

beautiful weather every day.

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75 in clear skies.

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Oh, crazy.

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It's exactly what I saw yesterday.

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The one thing I do appreciate

about being here is the variety.

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I don't feel like I know

what's happening ever.

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And I kinda like that.

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That gets like surprise basically.

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Yeah.

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And sometimes those

surprises are terrifying.

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Remember when we were having that

chimichanga roll through where

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people were like, oh, be careful.

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It's gonna be terrifying.

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Yep.

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And it didn't happen.

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I know it happened, there were some strong

weather in certain places, but much of it

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didn't end up coming about the way that

people predicted, which I'm thankful for.

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Yeah.

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I'm grateful for that.

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Yeah.

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The derecho, Jimmy Changa,

derecho, the Orta, whatever it is.

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You wanna call it that thing?

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Yeah.

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No, it's it's the weather's interesting

out here for sure, but hey, let's

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jump into our DBR for the day.

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Thi this is gonna be a lot of what we

covered yesterday, just kinda rehashed.

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So chapter six, parallels the

part of chapter eight where

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Solomon is blessing his people.

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First Kings chapter eight.

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That is so second, Colonel.

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Chronicles six connects back to One

Kings chapter eight and the prayer

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of dedication that's recorded there.

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And so this is again, common ground.

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Note though, in two Chronicles six

10, Solomon declares that the Lord had

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fulfilled his promise through the actions

and obedience of Solomon to do what God

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prophesied by David that he would do or

prophesied to David that he would do.

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So that just stood out to me this

time because I thought about,

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this is another example of.

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God's sovereignty and

man's responsibility.

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And so if you look at verse 10,

here, let me read it for us.

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It says this, now, the Lord has fulfilled

the promise he made for I have risen in

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the place of David, my father, to sit

on the throne of Israel and the Lord

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promised, and I have built the house for

the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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So notice part of God's fulfillment

depended upon, if I can use that language,

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Solomon's actions to build the temple.

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If Solomon didn't build the temple, then

God's promise to David that Solomon would

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build the temple would not have happened.

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Now, was there ever a scenario in which

Solomon wasn't gonna build the temple?

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I would argue no.

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That I believe that God's sovereign

ordination of all things had

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ordained and set in stone that

Solomon was gonna build the temple.

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But we've often talked about it from

Solomon's point of view, this was

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a real choice, a real decision that

he made a decision of his will, if

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we can put it that way, to honor

the Lord by building the temple.

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And so we are not as those that

believe in God's sovereignty against

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the notion of any form of free will.

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What we are against is the notion

of autonomous free will that is

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ungoverned free will that we reject

as not being something that we

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find to be true in the word of God.

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So here's an example of God's

sovereignty and man's responsibility.

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Coalescing again for the

completion of the temple.

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Yeah, under Solomon's

prayer for dedication.

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In that next section here, one

of the things that you see in

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Chronicles that you don't see as.

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Easily in the King's telling on the King's

account is in verse 13 you see that?

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He says, it says, then he knelt

on his knees in the presence

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of all the assembly of Israel.

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And you do get the gist of

that from one Kings eight.

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Verse 54 which says that he had knelt with

his hands out, stretched toward heaven.

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It's there, but it's in passing here.

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It highlights the fact that this is

how the king of the current u, the

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currently United Kingdom responded to God.

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And I love the imagery because the

fact that he kneels is a posture of

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someone who's paying OBEs to a king.

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And how important is it that

God's king is surrendering and

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bowing down to the true king?

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And he doesn't just do this in secret.

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I know some of us have our

own prayer posture that we do.

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Some of us will sit in

a seat or just stand.

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I like to walk on occasion.

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And then on rare occasions too, I also

like to kneel Kneelings hard 'cause

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it's hard to do for a long time.

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But notice here, Solomon

just doesn't do this in his.

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Private prayer closet.

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This is a very public display of

the kind of honor that King Jesus

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is do, or in this case, Yahweh.

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Their understanding of God

revealed to them as Yahweh, he

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knelt on his knees in the presence

of all the assembly of Israel.

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And then not only that, but he

spread out his hands toward heaven.

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And this is something that we

still tend to do in our worship.

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Some of us are a little timid.

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We don't do that all the time,

but we spread our hands out.

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This has biblical precedent.

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This is not just us making

things up and trying to feel

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some kind of emotional high.

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This has precedent in scripture and

it communicates abandon or surrender.

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It communicates worship.

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It communicates the fact

that we are lifting our hands

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in worship to a superior.

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And that's what's happening here.

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Solomon is displaying for the people

of Israel what it looks like to

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truly bow down and give reverence

and awe to the true king Yahweh.

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Yeah.

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It's interesting too that

he does that on a platform.

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He built a platform.

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Yeah.

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Specifically that is everyone.

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Yeah.

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Which we're gonna see in Ezra too.

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Ezra's gonna do that

when he stands to preach.

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He's gonna preach from a platform.

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That's why we do what we do.

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Exactly.

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Some people are like why is

there a platform in the church?

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It's because of examples like this.

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Yeah.

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But there's precedent for that.

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Yeah, that's a good point about

raising the hands that, that

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there's a biblical connection there.

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I don't think I'd ever made

that before, but I see that.

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Yeah.

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Chapter seven then.

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Anything else on chapter six?

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I don't think so.

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Okay.

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Chapter seven.

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Then we get into this scene

where we see a visual display.

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I don't think we, I.

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This is recorded in the King's account,

either that the fire comes down from

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heaven not, and consumes the burn

offerings and the sacrifices in the glory.

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The Lord then fills the temple.

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We read about the glory of the Lord

filling the temple in the first King's

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account, but not the fire coming down from

heaven, which I'm thinking to myself, man

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that's a pretty substantial detail amiss.

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You didn't record that of all things.

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You didn't record that.

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22,000 cows.

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They all get, get billing, but

the fire coming down from heaven

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that doesn't get billing Anyways.

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So that shows up there, but

it's that visible act again to

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inspire all within the people.

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God does this, go back to Exodus

19 when God, before he comes down

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on Mount Sinai to meet with Moses.

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He didn't have to do this, but he causes

the mountain to shake and he causes fire

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and smoke to be seen from the mountain.

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He wants the people to

have a reverence and a.

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Fear of him, and so I think that's what's

going on here as well as he inhabits

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the temple and the Holy of Holies.

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This is another visual display.

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Not necessary, but God does it in

order to instill this reverence and

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fear within the hearts of the people.

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I think another thing that it does too,

is it also showcases the fact that God.

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Approves of what's taking place here.

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Sure.

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That God is for the

dedication of the temple.

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He's for the sacrifices

that are being offered.

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This is the way that God shows

appreciation and approval for

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the sacrifice being offered.

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Think about Abraham when he's when

he's, when he says to the three

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strangers, Hey, don't go anywhere.

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I want to give you I wanna

give you an offering.

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And the Lord says, okay,

go ahead and do that.

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So he goes and slaughters the

animal brings it back, and then

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he consumes it by touching it.

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The, and it goes up into a flame.

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And so this is how God showcases that he

appreciates and approves of the sacrifice.

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That's a great thing.

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And one of the things that's interesting

about Second Chronicles, 'cause people

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wonder why, what are the, why is the

redundancy, why is this necessary?

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Why would God want to do this?

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There's a lot of reasons why, but

one of the, one of the ways that

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Second Chronicles is often understood

is that it is God's view of Judah's

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kings, how God perceives them.

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And granted it's not.

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It's not all, it's not all

beautiful, but this is a good sight.

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God appreciates and

approves of their worship.

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And highlights fact, this is their height.

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This is when they were doing so well.

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They were worshiping me.

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They were sacrificing with

generosity and true sacrifice.

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It hurt them.

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This is good.

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This is what God wants from his people.

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He wants genuine worship.

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He wants to be praised and ador

and adored 'cause that's the

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way life is supposed to go.

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So that's one of the

reasons why we see this.

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Yeah, that's a great point too.

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Yeah.

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The other unique thing about One

Chronicles chapter seven or Second

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Chronicles, chapter seven verses one

Kings chapter eight, is we get God's

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response to David's prayer here.

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In verse 12, he says, I

have heard your prayer.

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Now remember, this is the prayer

where David said, time and time

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again, God, if our people repent,

if our people confess, if our people

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come to you, hear their prayer.

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So God responds in verse 12 and says, I

have heard your prayer and have chosen

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this place for myself as I has it.

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House of sacrifice and then he says in

verse 14, if my people who are called by

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my name, humble themselves and pray and

seek my face and turn from their wicked

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ways, then I will hear from heaven and

forgive their sin and heal their land.

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This is a lot of times taken and applied,

I think, out of context to our nations.

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That's true.

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And people will say, Hey, look, if the

United States will humble ourselves and

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pray and seek his face and turn from their

wicked ways, then we will, he will hear

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and forgive our sin and heal our land.

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It's interesting in dealing with this

Sunday's message on Obadiah, we're gonna

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again talk about God's role for Israel

and his relationship with the church.

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I think there are principles we can draw

out of this and say, yeah, that it'd be

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great for our nation to humble ourselves.

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It'd be great for our

nation to, to seek the Lord.

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It'd be great for our nation

to repent from their sins.

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And yet this verse is about Israel.

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It's not about us.

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So God does respond to all of

those things, but we can't bank

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on, we've talked about the promises

and said, God makes promises.

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We can't look at this and say

this is a promise for America.

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If we do this, we're guaranteed

that God's gonna heal our land.

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We can have revival in our country

where people do begin to seek

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the Lord and repent from their

sin and all of these things.

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And yet he doesn't heal the land.

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We could still face

division in the nation.

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We could still face, the judgment of God.

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And there's not the promise that we

see here because this promise isn't

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meant for us in this particular time.

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It's meant for Israel

during the time of Solomon.

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So you're saying basically

all of verse 14, we could say.

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Yeah, that's true.

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The part of verse 14 that we would wrestle

with is the healing their land part.

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I think so, yeah.

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Because everything else we would say,

yeah, that's true as far as it goes.

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And the people called by my name.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I guess that's true.

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But I think you could still say,

the elect, those whom God selects

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for salvation of those people.

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Humble themselves and

pray and seek his face.

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They'll turn from their wicked

ways and then he'll hear

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and he'll forgive their sin.

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The one component that we'd really

push back on is the healing the

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land part, because that this is

for national ethnic Israel, right?

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This is God's people in the old.

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Covenant.

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And so specifically then the

promise that's being alluded to

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here is the Abrahamic covenant.

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This is God saying, I will multiply you.

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I'll bless you.

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With land seed and further

blessing possessions offspring

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riches, all those kinds of things.

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The land promises are specific to the

Abrahamic covenants, and so under the

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new covenant, we don't have those things.

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We have something better.

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We have the Holy Spirit and

we have a land yet to come.

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We have a future land to enjoy.

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But the land that God promises, Israel,

the full extent of it will be experienced.

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During the millennial kingdom.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that is unique that there,

the national identity of Israel

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is part of their identity and

their relationship with God.

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And that's not something

that the church has.

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The church is not a national

body in any way, shape or form.

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The church is international or

every tribe in tongue and nation.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So is it wrong for

someone to pray this then?

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Would you say that they should not

use this in their prayers as they're

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praying for America and praying for the

president, whoever that happens to be.

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And I would say not that last

part about healing the land.

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I think we can pray that God would.

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Heal the land, but not by claiming

this as the promise that it will.

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I think we can pray that, Hey, God,

we would love for you to restore

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our nation and to stop the violence,

and to stop the bloodshed and stop,

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and to protect, protect our borders

and all these things because we

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want to be a nation that seeks you.

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So if we become a nation that seeks you

and repent from our sins and call upon

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your name, will you please heal our land?

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We can pray that without saying,

because you've promised you will

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do that according to this passage.

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So it wouldn't be wrong to take the ideas

from this passage, but it would be wrong

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to take the promise in applying it to us.

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For sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Which is such a helpful way to

think about the Old Testament.

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'cause that's a lot of

the Old Testament, right?

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You have to read for the

theological truth about God.

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What is this conveying about God?

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And then how can I appropriate that

to my life today without taking

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the specifics and saying this is

what's gonna be true for me today.

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Yeah.

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So it's.

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It's not to us, but it is for us.

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And this is one of the reasons why

we would be so hesitant to say, yeah,

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buy one of those bibles that puts your

name in the place of, every one of

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the promises that God makes for sure.

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For I will bless you, John

and I will prosper you, John.

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One of the, I know those Bibles

are at least they were popular for

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a season, but we would struggle

with that because not all of those

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promises are for you specifically.

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They are for Israel.

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Specifically.

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And when you get into the

cursing, you don't want that.

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Don't want that.

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No.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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How about anything else in

chapter seven specifically here?

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No.

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Okay.

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Let's go to the Psalm that has

been alluded to a couple times.

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We talked about at the end of

yesterday's episode, and it even was

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picked up in, in this reading today.

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But Psalm 1 36 is where

all of this comes from.

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And you were unpacking some, you were

talking about how Chris Tomlin is the

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greatest musician that's ever lived, ever

walked the planet, and how he's fantastic.

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Yep.

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And he's so much better than

any of the whole him writers.

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Yep.

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And we should all just

sing Chris Tomlin forever.

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Yep.

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That's exactly what I said.

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No, but that is interesting, as you

mentioned that I think he's one of the

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few that have put this to, to music the

way that it's, it shows up here quite

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literally in, in some regards there.

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And that's a great song.

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Yeah.

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But that's, you read this, you

can't miss what the theme of this

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is, and that is the steadfast

love of the Lord endures forever.

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But the steadfast love that,

that's an interesting concept.

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The hesed the.

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Faithful, the loyal, the merciful

love of God endures forever.

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And he really just calls onto everybody

to recognize this from beginning to end.

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It's a psalm that is, is super encouraging

and redundant at the same time to try to

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read through straight through without.

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Losing our focus.

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And so it's really helpful for you to

think about the first part of each of

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these lines, because the second part, you

know what it's gonna say, the steadfast

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love of the Lord endures forever.

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But it's helpful for you to focus

on specifically, I think on the

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first part of each of these verses

so that you can figure out what

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is this specifically saying.

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In relation to the steadfast love of

the Lord as you read through the psalm.

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Yeah, and what you'll notice is that

the Psalmist who, whoever they are,

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highlights at least two major themes that

you and I can still highlight today and

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utilize in our personal worship you'll

notice that in verses four through nine,

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he largely focuses on God's creation.

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The wonders of what God has made, and

it's always a good thing to remind

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yourself of how beautiful the world is

that you live in, such that you should

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be able to worship God for those things.

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I like, I love the storms here for

the very reason that it gives me

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awe for the one who made the storms

and the one who controls the storm.

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Secondly, in verses 10 through 16, you'll

notice that in addition to creation,

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the psalmist focuses on salvation and

the greatest salvation event that Israel

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ever knew was of course the exodus.

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And so of course this comes

up and it recurs in its theme

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all over the Old Testament to

celebrate God's great victory here.

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Now, for you and I, obviously when

we think about our greatest salvation

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event, we're not talking about the

exodus, we're talking about the cross

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and the resurrection, and so what

they saw only in a glimmering kind of

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foggy way, we now see in its fullest.

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High definition, maybe eight K

vision of what this really meant.

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Jesus is the one who saves us, just

like he redeemed Israel out of Egypt.

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He redeems us from our sin and our

death, and that's the thing that

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we should celebrate and the thing

that should cause us to say for

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his steadfast love endures forever.

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So good.

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So good.

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Let's pray on that note and we

will wrap up another episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Lord, you are good and is as pastor.

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Rob was just saying that the chief

example of that as Christians

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that we can point to is the cross.

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And the collision of your justice

and your grace and your mercy,

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your wrath, all colliding there as

Christ died for us in our place,

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that we can be forgiven of our sins.

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Lord, we're so grateful for that.

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That is the steadfast love that,

that we can never get over and never

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move past, never graduate from.

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It should always be the reason why

we wake up every morning wanting

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to worship you and praise you.

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So we pray that we would

do just that today.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said