Examining Artistic Liberty in Bible Adaptations and Deep Dive into Joshua
In this engaging episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, Pastors PJ and Rod discuss the complexities and controversies of using artistic license in Bible adaptations, focusing on the new show 'House of David.' They critique the show's approach and compare it to other adaptations like 'The Chosen' and 'Veggie Tales,' deliberating over the acceptability and potential pitfalls of creative liberties in portraying biblical stories. They then transition to a detailed study of Joshua 12-15, discussing the historic conquests, tribal land divisions, and the unwavering faith of Caleb. The episode rounds off with reflections on the importance of wholehearted devotion to God and the implications of partial obedience.
00:00 Introduction and Banter
00:57 Discussion on 'House of David' Show
02:25 Artistic License in Biblical Media
06:02 Christian Liberty and Media Consumption
11:12 Transition to Bible Study
11:26 Joshua 12: Kings Defeated by Israelites
12:50 Joshua 13: Land Division East of Jordan
14:37 Joshua 14: Caleb's Inheritance
19:17 Joshua 15: Boundaries for Judah
20:24 Closing Remarks and Prayer
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hey, and welcome back to another
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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captain for this episode.
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say up until the point where you started
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I drive a Subaru and I voted for Hillary.
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I would never drive a Subaru.
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never do any of those three things.
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on the part of the joke in my mind.
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:Hey, there's a new show out there
called David, or Life of David, or
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and not clearly I'm betraying
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it's available online.
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from what I gather, this is meant
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I think more than either of us have
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I've watched 'cause you've watched one.
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seem to enjoy the show for what it is.
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else who is a well-known Christian thinker
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there who really blew it up and blew it up
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bunch of different reasons why it's wrong.
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unauthorized words in God's mouth.
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Bible misrepresenting historical
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start with that last point.
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were the, what's the creator's
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to show how David sets up Jesus.
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it wasn't, maybe it was simply to
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when you go through some of the,
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there's room for artistic liberty.
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talk about the chosen.
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the guy behind it Dallas is it Who?
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Christianity and blurs the lines at best
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lines between Christianity and Mormonism.
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as brothers and sisters in Christ.
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like the chosen, I'm like, no I don't
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that he's gonna bring to the show.
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this it never really crossed my mind
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let me turn that on and watch it.
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license all over the place.
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sometimes will employ artistic license
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in a scene in scripture or if you ever.
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Kids and let them watch Veggie Tale
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interpretation that is being depicted
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around and bowing down to a big
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equal damnable heresy, in other
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watching an episode of the show?
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so I'm trying to see how closely they're
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at the very beginning, and that's what
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not a show that Christian should watch.
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it's a distortion of the text.
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is probably what they would say.
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they offer a disclaimer at the
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but they're trying to say, look,
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word copy and paste into our script.
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not to detract it to, to detract
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of scripture, things like that.
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most people have is there anything
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chapter of the Bible and trying to
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and maybe it is giving a character to.
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what David might have looked like
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and why was he out in the field
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and he's the one tending the sheep.
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pole, that's pretty, pretty
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would say based on your understanding
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with understanding these people, these
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about our approach to artistic license.
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in the pulpit and fill in some,
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gray areas but white space in the
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left back probably because of this.
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when Jesse calls his sons to be.
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not even thinking about him.
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to help inform things, even though it
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from one position to the other.
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doesn't ever degrade God or blaspheme
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that which is high and exalted and bring
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be sure that we're not.
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comes to how we're employing artistic
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that creativity, artistic license is
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be able to watch House of David
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another Christian would say, no way.
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because it does the very thing that
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lower God, it does.
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misinformed and misunderstand the text.
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cannot partake of that TV show.
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Christian liberty where one
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mistaking the forest of the trees.
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I can enjoy this to the glory of God.
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anything nefarious or evil.
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to put this show into?
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to one another in that context, as
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the person that disagrees with us
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examine our heart to say, okay, do I
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and it's, if I can compare it.
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hear me talk about Harry Potter when you
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talk about something more.
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movies before you read the book.
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trilogy before you go and read the books,
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character that Tolkien wrote as Frodo.
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you watch the movie and the movie
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not to allow that same thing to
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like the chosen or anything else.
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you're seeing the guy from the chosen
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be uncomfortable with that.
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not to watch the movie, so to speak,
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to things like the David series or
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human interpretations and these are not
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of what it was like.
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up front and they're saying
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does not degrade the quality of our
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puts certain images, faces, interactions,
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as we're now seeing Jesus as this
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the way that someone sees the
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person and saying, oh, I think Jesus
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Peter would act like this, or, I
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would call problematic.
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and of itself, but there.
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looking at scripture through
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looking at scripture to the lens of
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says, and this is why a lot of people
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learn the Greek and the Hebrew because
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medium as possible, which is fine.
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really good, but even those.
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them interpretations of what's
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by telling you here's what the word is
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and a good one to understand.
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preaching, you're hearing Jonathan
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Jesus to ever walk this planet, right?
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word with him, which who knows?
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rather than the mystery of going, I
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the scripture of Jesus words right now.
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fallen human being, because what happens
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happen, but what ha, what happens if
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apostate and so forth and so on.
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you go and read the Bible.
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gonna venture into that territory.
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as bothered with a different
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let's leave that one to be discovered when
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that requires great discernment and
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if you are a student of the word.
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so that you don't watch.
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somewhere, we'd like you to spend it here.
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recently came on the radar.
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would you call those?
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show that's scripted.
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of the promised Land.
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to throw you feeding lines to
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by the Israelites, two by Moses
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the west side of the Jordan.
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the laundry list of all the
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was a historical book.
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no, no longer in the law.
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being something that is inspired.
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the historical records for the people
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encouraging for future generations
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this is all that God has done.
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version of the 12 Stones.
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writing down these names of all of
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defeated would've been the same thing
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going, what are all these names about?
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moms and grandmas could say, these are all
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we came in and took the Promised land.
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times, but note in Joshua:
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is defeated but not Jerusalem itself.
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to make war on Gideon, and he was defeated
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much later, but Joshua chapter 12.
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life, the Lord told him of the land that
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instructed him to divide the land that was
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the record of dividing that land
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and the Half Tribe of Manassas.
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divisions, and this is, I don't know,
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a comment before we even started.
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us to work through here.
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the book of Proverbs where you're
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many nuggets everywhere I look.
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proverb just prepare for that.
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thoroughly, read through it all.
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of the geographical outlay of what
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with the two and a half tribes on
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play a little bit later as we think
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promised and whether or not God actually
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that he had promised them, or if there's
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has not yet been fulfilled to
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at these territories and
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but you should be asking does this
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we'll look at that when we get there.
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gonna have to ask, okay, is does
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that this promise is fulfilled?
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yet to be fulfilled.
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tense reverberations.
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of the spies along with Joshua.
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they're in the promised land
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Moses to Caleb that he could have a
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whatever land that he wanted there, and
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down in, in Joshua chapter 15 verses 13
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his daughter as a wife after he helps
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the land there in he chapter 14, Caleb
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pick up part of the story in chapter 15.
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needed to drive out some of the.
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oth Neil, who will show back up
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comes and says, I can do it.
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and he gets Caleb's daughter as a wife.
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15 is this story of Caleb
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because you have holy followed the Lord.
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the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jah.
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followed the Lord, the God of Israel.
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description about somebody.
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our lives are a testimony that we
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God, which suggests that there's a
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something, but there is a.
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God that I guess, is tepid and maybe
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context, in our current culture.
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Lord that is wholehearted full-throated
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we ought to live, and this is
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sacrifice and therefore it ought to
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whole life committed to the Lord.
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life, the blessings that God gave him
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blessing or to the lemme try this again.
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his whole life was committed to the Lord.
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of following the Lord the less
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half-hearted, maybe that's what Paul's
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be saved, but only as through fire.
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together, but I don't see why it
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idea that, so in that context, again,
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so we're dealing with believers.
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to find that the majority of what is
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have heavenly rewards for themselves.
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will have the precious stones and
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:metals and the crowns and things
that will pass through the fire.
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:Things that were done for
the Lord and for his glory.
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:Good things that the spirit rot.
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:In their lives.
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:But it implies, at least when Paul talks
about this, that there will be some that
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:suffer more loss than they gain reward.
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:And they're still gonna be
saved, but they're only gonna
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:That there's something right
on the precipice of eternity.
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:That there's a moment of final
regret, final pain, final
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:loss that they experience.
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:And that is looking back at a life.
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:L devoid of a wholehearted devotion to
the Lord like we see here from Caleb.
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:So just to catch you guys up
who are hearing us talk about
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:this without the context, let's
give you one Corinthians three.
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:This is starting at verse 10, and
we're gonna read through verse
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:According to the grace of God
given to me like a skilled master
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:builder, I laid a foundation in
someone else's building upon it.
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:Let each one take care
how he builds upon it.
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:For no one can lay a foundation other than
that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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:Now, if anyone builds on the foundation
with gold, silver, precious stones,
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:wood, hay, straw, each one's work
will become manifest for the day.
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:We'll disclose it and
that day is capitalized.
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:So it's referring to the great day.
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:Because it will be revealed by
fire and the fire will test what
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:If the work that anyone has
built on the foundation survives,
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:he will receive a reward.
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:If anyone's work is built, burned up,
he will suffer loss, though he himself
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:will be saved, but only as through fire.
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:Okay.
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:Now that we've read that any fur further
reflections or thoughts about that?
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:No.
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:Yeah I see.
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:I could see that.
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:It could be part of that.
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:It seems like there, there's a lot here.
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:I'm gonna say that's maybe a part of
the idea, but I think that there's.
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:More stuff happening here, so maybe it's
at least that, but perhaps more than that.
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:More than that.
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:Being more than the half heartedness.
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:Sure.
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:I think there's a lot more than the half
heartedness being communicated here.
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:Totally.
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:And it's probably connected.
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:Yeah, I would agree with you.
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:I think there's more than the
halfheartedness for there for sure.
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:That could be part of it.
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:Joshua 15.
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:Then outside of the situation with
Caleb and Othniel the majority
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:of this chapter marks out the
boundaries for Judah and lists the
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:cities that Judah was to inhabit.
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:The one notable exception coming at the
very end, that is that they were unable
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:to drive out the Jbb sites from Jerusalem.
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:So that will happen, but it's
not gonna come for quite a while
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:under the reign of King David.
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:Speaking of David, which
we opened the episode with.
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:Bookend it with David again.
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:He's the one that's gonna
take care of Jerusalem.
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:Eventually.
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:I wanna shout out my man, Caleb once more.
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:Joshua 15, 14.
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:Caleb drove out from there,
the three sons of och.
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:She shy.
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:And Ahhe.
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:And Alai, the descendants of och.
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:So these are probably the, at least
what we think, were a giant people.
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:They were large people and this
dude is just outta here buddy.
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:My place now he's a rock star.
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:I love Caleb.
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:Yeah.
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:Caleb's good and young are great dudes.
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:But yeah, I, we've already seen hints
of the fact that Israel is struggling to
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:take out people that should not be there.
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:They, it's not that God isn't saying you
have the ability by my grace to do this.
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:It's that they're choosing not to.
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:And those little cracks are alluding
to what we're going to soon see
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:flourish in the book of judges.
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:So pay close attention to those hints.
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:Yep.
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:Hey, let's let's pray and then
we'll be done with this episode.
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:God, we are thankful for your word
that we get to spend time in and it's
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:sometimes harder for us to wrap our
minds around understand than other times.
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:But I just pray that by your spirit,
you would help us to pull some nuggets
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:out of this that we could take and apply
just like we have been highlighting
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:Caleb, that we would be a church that
are marked by more Caleb's than not,
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:that we would be a church that is wholly
devoted to you, that's following you with.
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:Everything that we are.
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:And we need your spirit to be able to
do that and work that in us, and so we
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:pray that you would in Jesus' name, amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep in your Bibles tuning again
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