00:00 Introduction and Weather Update

00:55 Listener Question: Bible Reading Order

02:23 Interpretation vs. Application

04:35 The Danger of False Teachings

08:27 Exodus 31-33: Bezalel and the Golden Calf

19:27 Matthew 22: Sadducees and the Greatest Commandment

23:03 Closing Prayer and Outro

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Tuesday day, everybody.

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It is Tuesday and we are

back in the swing of things.

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I thought we were back in the swing of

things and then snow didn't happened,

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but we're back now and it's supposed to

be nice weather this week, like fifties

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and sixties, and I even saw that we

might hit 75 sometime later this week.

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Yeah, at least that's what's happening.

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As of today is when we, as

we record, but I love this.

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Yep.

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I'm all about this.

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Bring it on.

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I'm happy for the snow.

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I'm happy for the heat.

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I'm digging it, man.

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In fact, the other day I went outside

and it was cold and I was just like,

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okay, you, the psychological suffering

that I once experienced coming to

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Texas has almost not, and it's not

gone gone, but it's almost ceased.

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I'm just like, this is normal life now.

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I'm so thankful for that.

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The trauma has subsided.

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Yeah, man.

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My PTSD after moving to

Texas has slowly faded away.

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I feel like I'm almost

fully functional again.

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Good, good.

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Hey I had a question for you that

came up from a conversation I was

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having with somebody recently.

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Oh.

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They were talking about the DBR

and they were talking about,

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oh no, reading the Bible.

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In the podcast.

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Okay.

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So they were talking about

their own experience with it.

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They said, I used to listen to the

podcast and then go read the Bible.

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And they said that they found that

sometimes it was confusing because they

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were trying to understand the text through

what they listened to on the podcast.

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So they said that I started to just

read the Bible and then I would go

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and listen to the podcast afterwards.

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And they found it more helpful

because that's a great order.

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They were able to discern things.

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So is that what you would say?

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You should read the word first

and then go to the podcast.

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If there's any chance that you will

listen to us and not read your Bible.

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Always privilege the text.

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Yes.

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Always, always, always, always,

always, always, always, always, always.

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But otherwise if you're gonna

get it one way or the other, I

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don't know if I necessarily care.

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I do care that.

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We do this in part because

we do wanna influence you.

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We make no apologies about that.

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We want to help you read your

Bible, and we wanna teach

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you how to do it well, right?

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And to help make application to texts

as you make your way through it.

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So we're doing that

for that whole purpose.

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So on the one hand I say we

don't want to influence you.

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But that's not true.

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We don't want to over influence you.

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We don't want to be the larger voice

in your life than the text itself.

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We're trying to help you see

how the text fits into your

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life and what it says to you.

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So I, I don't know if first front

loading or back loading it in my mind

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is all that important unless you sense

in your heart it's not helpful to you

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if you listen to it before you read

the Bible, in which case then move it.

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No, no problem on my part.

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What would you say?

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Follow up question to that

interpretation versus application.

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Would you agree there's one interpretation

of the Bible, but many applications.

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When you say one interpretation,

what do you mean by that?

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This is what the text means.

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Okay.

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So one meaning yes.

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Yeah.

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Yes, yes.

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There's one meaning of a text.

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You can't, so here's what I mean.

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Sometimes people will say, this

is what this passage means to me.

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Yeah.

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And of course we've said before

that you, you can't say that at the

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very minimum it's sloppy language.

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You might mean something that

we could agree with, right?

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But we wouldn't encourage you to

use that terminology because then

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it confuses what the Bible says.

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What it means is what it means.

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Abraham married Sarah you

can't say, well, here's what

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that actually means, right?

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And here's the underlying nuance of the

text, and here's some gnostic knowledge

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that I need to drop some bombs on you.

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It has one meaning.

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Yes, we would agree with that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And the reason that matters is

because the text is under attack,

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even in today's culture because people

wanna take the text and say, well,

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that's not actually what that means.

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What it means then is different

than what it means now.

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And so what it means now is we can

take this and say, well, for example,

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marriage doesn't have to only be one

man and one woman, and we can change the

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meaning of this and people can Love is

love and the meaning is different based

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on culture and it changes over time.

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We would say no.

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There's a meaning that transcends those

things, and we have to start with that,

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and that's what we're after as we come

to this, the scriptures to say what?

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What was the meaning?

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What did it mean then?

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And what does it mean today is the

same, how it applies might be different.

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Absolutely.

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In fact, I would say how it applies

is always gonna be different.

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Yeah.

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By and large, because

scriptures living in active.

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Hebrews chapter four, verse

12, it's going to have.

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Living an active impact on the

way that you live your life.

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And so that means scripture

is timeless in one sense.

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It's not bound to a certain

demographic or a geographic area.

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It's not bound by a certain date.

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Even though it's written thousands

of years ago, it's still as relevant

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in 2026 as it was in the year six.

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Yeah, it's just as relevant,

if not more so in some cases.

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So all that to say,

it's always gonna have.

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A flourishing and unfolding

application that will look like

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it fits your place and your time.

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Yep.

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That's how scripture works.

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But yes, there's only ever one meaning.

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I guess the challenge for that is

there's lots of false teachers that

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they can say things in such a way that

it feels like, oh, they're so sincere.

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They're.

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And those are the most dangerous people

because just because they say it in a

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sincere way or they appear honest, doesn't

mean that they're handling the text.

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Someone brought this to my

attention recently and I thought

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that's a really good point.

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I haven't thought about that lately, and

I should think about that more often.

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What used to be novel opinions.

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And minority opinions can now appear

to have greater weight and greater

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impact because all you need is a really

good podcast or a polled video to

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make a minority view sound like a much

larger view than what it used to be.

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Right?

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A good example of that is the

position that Kirk Cameron

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is flirting with right now.

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It, it is a minority

view in church history.

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Now, that doesn't mean that

it's automatically wrong.

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We're not saying that tradition is always

going to be right, but we are saying.

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That that is something, and that's

a big deal that for most of church

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history, the minority view is conditional

immortality, which is what Kurt

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Cameron is wrestling with right now.

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He's reading modern theologians and

he's thinking, oh, I wonder if maybe

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God doesn't consciously torment people.

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Maybe he just annihilates

them from existence.

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They no longer live.

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And there are some smart people

that support that position.

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But it is a minority view.

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It's a minority view in

our theological stripe.

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Most of the churches that confess

the things that we'd confess are lock

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and step when it comes to believing

in the afterlife the way that we do.

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So all that to say social media,

YouTube, particularly in other

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platforms, like it can make a

view seem larger and more robust.

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Then it otherwise would be

because social media democratizes

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information, it flatlines everything.

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Instead of us being able to say, oh, this

is the position that's majority view.

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Now it looks like it's on equal footing

and on the same level as the minority

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view and that's not always the case.

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Sometimes that's helpful

and many times it's not.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I would agree.

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I would agree.

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Yeah.

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And I'm with you.

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I think the podcast realm has been.

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Detrimental towards that.

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Yeah, it's a mixed blessing though.

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See, 'cause I love engaging with

different thoughts and ar arguments

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and ideas because it stimulates me and

helps me to refine my thinking on it.

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But for someone who's not stable.

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Destructive.

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Unhelpful for sure.

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And in fact we dealt with someone, a

young man who was wrestling through

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stuff because they heard it on a podcast.

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Mm-hmm.

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And next thing you know, he's making

appointments with us and saying, look,

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I disagree with you guys on these.

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Real is a really critical issue.

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Mm-hmm.

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I disagree with that.

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Well, why do you disagree?

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'cause here's what I heard, and

here's the way I understand this.

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Oh man.

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I, man, there's room for doubt.

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Lemme just say this for those

of you who do waffle on things,

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there's room for doubters.

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Good faith, doubting.

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Hey, we welcome you.

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We wanna help you.

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We wanna settle you, we

wanna make you more stable.

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It's not a good place to stay there,

but it's okay to bring your doubts out.

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We want to deal with those

and deal with them biblically.

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We're okay with that.

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There is such a thing as bad faith.

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Doubt though, where it's a suspicion,

it's a raised eyebrow about everything

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and everyone, and it's assuming that

while tradition is a giant conspiracy

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theory, and the whole reason that

Jesus is understood as a God and

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man is because certain people were

silenced and the people who were

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honest and full of integrity, they were

silenced and put out of the church.

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Man, you can rewrite all of human

history and make it lean a certain way.

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That's not our goal.

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We wanna be biblical.

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And so we welcome you to have your

doubts in terms of saying, Hey,

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let me help you work through this.

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But bad faith doubting where it's just

a matter of saying, I wanna one up you

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because I've got all these scholars

on my side and I think you're wrong.

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Well, maybe we're not

the right church for you.

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This might not be the best place

for you to stick around if you're

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really struggling with some of

these major doctrines That said.

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Social media I think is

ultimately a mixed blessing.

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I love it.

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I benefit from it so tremendously.

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But there's also for every good podcast,

maybe there's 20 or 50, a hundred bad

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podcasts that aren't doing us any favors.

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Yeah, I'd agree.

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I would agree.

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I think we're the good

podcast, by the way.

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Hopefully, hopefully you agree.

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Team time will tell.

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The Lord will tell us.

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Well, hey, let's jump into

our daily Bible reading.

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We're in Exodus 31 through 33.

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And then we'll be in

Matthew 22, the rest of it.

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So Exodus 31.

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We get introduced to two

people here, OAB and Beel.

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Now, Beel is an interesting character

because to my knowledge, he's the first

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one I think in the Bible to be referred to

as one who is filled with the Holy Spirit.

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He's mentioned that way in verse

three, that I have filled him with

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the spirit of God and with the

ability and intelligence, and so God

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is using his spirit to equip him.

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Now, before you, you turn me off and

say, well, hey, this is different.

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Yes, this is different than New

Testament and dwelling, but it's

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still notable that the first person

in scripture that we find to be filled

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with the spirit of God isn't Moses.

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It's not Abraham, it's not Jacob.

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It's not.

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Any of the guys that we've read

that you might think it's an artist.

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It's Beel.

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Yeah.

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The artist.

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Yeah.

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The architect formerly known as, yeah.

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Yeah.

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And so him is in Oh, holy Now, oh holy.

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Isn't said specifically to be filled with

the spirit, but we might, imply from the

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text that like Bezo was so was oh holy.

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And they're gonna be equipped to carry

out and do the work that is going to be.

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Done and we're gonna see their work

as we continue in the passage here.

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But before we get there, there's

this intervention here in verses 12

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and following, where God is going to

focus again on the importance of the

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Sabbath and command, the honoring

and the keeping of the Sabbath.

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Now, the command has already been

given back in the decalogue and the

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10 Commandments, that you should

honor the Sabbath and keep it holy.

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But again, he's gonna say this again.

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Above all, you should keep my

sabbaths above all that you may

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know that above I'm the Lord.

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Yeah, this is above all this is.

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Strong.

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Above all.

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Above all.

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That's what it says.

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That's a single lot, man.

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Why does it say that this is.

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Yeah.

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Above all.

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And he goes on, he says, it's above

love the Lord your God with all your

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heart, soul minus strength above.

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You shall have no other gods before me.

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Above all, it's an expression of all

those things, but, and the penalty for

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it is death, which again, ratchets it up.

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But it's because of this command from

the Lords who his people, Israel, part

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of it was their dependence upon him.

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He wanted them to always

remember they needed to rest.

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They needed to depend upon

him that they couldn't.

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Trust in themselves and

their own self-sufficiency.

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So he's going to put in a pattern of

rest to make sure that they understand

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that they're gonna depend upon him.

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Just like when he gave them manna

and said, on the Sabbath day, though

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you're not gonna find any manna.

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You need to rest there.

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And so this is for them.

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And he says, it's a sign forever between

me and the people of Israel, that

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in six days the Lord made the heaven

and the Earth not on the seventh.

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He rested and was refreshed.

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So the Sabbath is an important

pattern of rest for the people here.

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Yeah, and it's that and so much more.

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This is one of those things that

the people really struggled with.

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God wanted them to be a people of rest.

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This is what would define

them outside the ordinary.

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The other six days of the week, those

were the days that they would work.

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But this is one of the things that I

think God uses this to hint at the.

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And maybe it's a large hint.

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Maybe for me it's a hint, but

for God, it's like this is as

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obvious as a nose interface.

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This is how God shows his grace to them.

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Mm.

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Instead of saying, I want you to work all

seven days just like you did in Egypt,

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you're gonna be my slaves and my servants,

and they are a slaves, make no doubt.

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But he's saying, look, I want to

define a relationship by rest.

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We rest so we can work.

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That's the principle.

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But here it's a spiritual

recipe that he's alluding to.

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In fact, later on in the New

Testament, we're gonna find out that

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the rest that we get is in Christ.

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It pointed to an ultimate rest and

a satisfaction that would define

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our relationship, hence forth.

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So for here I agree it's an above all

because it's so defining for their

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relationship between them and God.

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Yeah.

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After this in chapter 32, we get into

not so much of a good situation here

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while Moses is up on the mountain.

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And then that's important for us

to remember because we are reading

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and we're breaking this all up.

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This is.

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Part of Moses is 40 days and 40 nights

on the mountain when, while Moses is

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up there delaying to come back down

the people gather together and they

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go to Aaron and they say to Aaron,

Hey, we want you to make us Gods so

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that we can have something tangible.

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'cause this Moses, well, we

don't know what's become of him.

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And so Aaron and what

struck me this time is just.

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Aaron's a smarmy dude at this point.

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He asks them to come and says, gimme

all your stuff, gimme your gold give.

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And he crafts.

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It's very intentional.

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In the text, he received the gold from

their hands and fashioned it with a

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graving tool and made a golden calf.

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So he receives it, he

fashions it, and he makes it.

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And he says, and then he presents it

to them and says, these are your gods.

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And he builds an altar before it.

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And he makes this proclamation.

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Aaron is anything but.

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An innocent victim in all this.

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You could argue he's leading in

this, and yet what's gonna happen

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ultimately is he's gonna plead

ignorance as we're gonna see later on.

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But this is horrific.

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As Moses is hearing from the Lord,

you shall not make any graven images.

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You shall not have any

other gods before me.

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That's exactly what

they're doing down there.

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And so.

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As the Lord reveals this to

Moses, Moses goes down and he

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finds what's going on here.

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And the Lord says to Moses,

leave me alone in verse 10.

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Then my anger may burn hot against

them, that I may consume them in order

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that I may make a great nation of you.

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We almost had Adam and then Noah.

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And then Moses as the three

figurehead of humanity, so to speak.

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Mm.

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And yet Moses is going to intercede.

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He's going to Implo, implore

the Lord not to do this.

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He's gonna call him to

remember his covenant.

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And God is going to relent.

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It says from the disaster.

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I think this is less about

God and more about Moses.

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I think God is testing Moses to find out

what kind of leader is Moses gonna be?

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What kind of character does Moses have?

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Is Moses the right man to lead,

the people to intercede, to

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be patient with the people and

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to be the man that, that God hopes

that he will be throughout this time.

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And so God is going to relent

when Moses intercedes, God

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was always going to relent.

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This is not God changing his

decree, changing his eternal order.

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This is God condescending to us

to help us understand what's going

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on with his ordination of things.

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Amen to that Spectacular failure

though on Aaron's part poor.

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In fact, I'm surprised.

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I'm genuinely surprised that

God does not take Aaron out.

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Same.

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Maybe we're gonna find out soon

enough that Aaron's sons are gonna

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be taken out for something that

appears to be a lesser crime.

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Yes.

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Appears to be that I, I guess God

knows more than I do but I'm surprised

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that God doesn't take him out.

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And I think you're right.

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I think your instinct is right on this.

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It's probably in part because he's doing

something with Moses and it includes

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Aaron's folly, his disobedience, his.

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Terrible fall from glory.

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This is awful.

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This is as bad as it gets.

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He does exactly what you say he fashioned.

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It's a intentional move on his part.

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So I read one commentator suggest

that what he does is, so he says in

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verse four, well, I guess it doesn't

say this right here, but that what

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he's trying to do is depict Yahweh.

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So he's breaking mm-hmm.

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The second commandment, or he's fashioning

Yahweh as a calf, which is interesting.

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I wonder why he chose a calf of all

the things he could have chosen.

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Yeah.

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Calf was just the thing that stood

out to me, and I don't know why

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he chose that one, as opposed

to it's easiest to make some.

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Yeah, this is probably it.

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Here's a snake, guys.

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Anyway, all that to say, I'm surprised

that Aaron's alive after this.

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Yeah, I am too.

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I'm too, and there's consequences.

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It just because God relents doesn't

mean there's no consequences.

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Part of the consequences is Moses

is gonna take this calf and grind

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it up, and sprinkle it in the water.

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They're gonna have to drink it, drink up.

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And then there's 3000 people that are

gonna be executed by the Lord for this,

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that, for their participation in this.

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And then the Lord's gonna send

a plague as well on top of that.

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And he says this, he says in verse 33

32 and 33, he says, but now if you'll

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forgive their sin, but if not, please blot

me out of your book that you've written.

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This is Moses.

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Then it says in verse 33, the Lord

said to Moses, whoever has sinned

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against me, I will blot outta my book.

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Does that include Aaron?

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I don't think so.

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I think Gar lives he lives,

but to blot outta the book

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as in no Longer Saved, right?

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Mm.

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The Book of life.

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That's a step too far for me.

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I don't know.

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I don't know because I don't think

God would've permitted him to

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maintain his role as high priest.

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That's fair.

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Yeah.

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If he was not.

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In some way, shape, or form.

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Still a Yahweh devote devotee.

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Yeah.

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So I think I, what I find here that's

fascinating to me is that this is where

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the Levites are like, Hey, hold up.

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We got this.

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Let us help you.

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'cause these guys are the executioners,

God, this is interesting to me too,

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because these are the holy men.

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These are the guys that God's

gonna say, I'm gonna choose a

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Levites instead of the firstborn.

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They're the ones that step up

to say, we'll kill our brothers,

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we'll execute these guys, these

knuckleheads who stand out.

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And what's also interesting is that

later on, Phineas is gonna do something

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very similar and God's gonna say, yep,

that dude's a dude after my own heart.

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I think this is fascinating.

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Yeah.

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Because we talked about a few days

ago, someone asked, what about when, we

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have our loved ones who are not on the

right side of Christ in the afterlife.

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How do we feel about that?

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I see glimpses now in scripture where

I see, I see God's justice executed

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and people that are a part of that.

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Are both honored and esteemed by God

because they share his sense of justice.

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So I have to think that what we are seeing

here is a holy anger, a holy justice that,

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that God can say, yeah, that's my heart.

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So God is love.

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We read that first John four.

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He is love.

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Certainly that's what his love does.

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It provides a foundation

for us to be forgiven.

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That is through Christ, by

the sacrifice of his own son.

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But if you're not found in that.

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There is justice to be experienced.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 33, then the Israelites are gonna

be in instructed to, to leave Sinai.

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Sinai wasn't the promised land.

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And so they're going to be called to move

on and the Lord gives them instructions.

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Moses used to take the tent

and pitch it outside the camp.

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This is where the kind of the rhythm

and the pattern of what is going to

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happen is gonna be established here.

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And Moses is gonna go meet with the Lord.

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It says they're face to face as

a man speaks to his friend now.

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God doesn't have a face.

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We, we talked about the fact

as he smell, and so here, what

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does it mean face to face?

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This is about the intimacy, the closeness

of Moses' relationship with God.

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They were talking as though they were

close and intimate, friends face to face.

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In that sense, it's not as though

Moses was beholding his face because

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we're gonna see right over here in

verse 20, you cannot see my face

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for man, shall not see me and live.

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And so this is not literally behold the.

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Face as far as the full glory of God,

but this is more the intimacy, the

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closeness of the relationship that

Moses had with God, which was different

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than anyone else's relationship.

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And so Moses is going to be

interceding for the people as such.

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Moses wants to know as much of

God as he can, and so he asks him.

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Lord, I want to see you.

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Please show me your glory, and

we're gonna find out that God's

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gonna respond to that in verse 34.

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He's gonna say initially, or in

chapter 34, but initially here in 33,

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he's gonna say, Hey, you know what?

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I'll show you a portion of it, but

you can't see the fullness because

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no one can see my face and live.

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And that's what he's talking

about here with Moses.

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Yeah, that's such a cool passage.

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I don't know if that's still

something that God would use is to

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describe his people today to say,

oh man, they know me face to face.

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But man, that sounds like a

really sweet relationship with

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God because we have Christ.

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I have to think that that's not

only possible, but maybe even more

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possible and more likely than it was

under the covenant that Moses was.

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Administrating at this point.

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So if that excites you, like

it does me, I would press in.

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I think God wants us to draw near to him

and to experience that kind of intimacy.

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I would agree.

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There's a guy on I think it's on Instagram

or something, who listens to, to worship

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music, and he says, I'm gonna listen

until I hear something that would kill me.

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And so there's an old third day song

that starts out, show me your glory.

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And so it's one of the first lines out.

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And so he is like, oh.

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We're done.

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That's funny.

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But alright.

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New Testament, Matthew 22, 23 through 46.

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So here we get the question again.

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That the sad sees they're

trying to trip Jesus up.

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So the sad sees are entering the picture.

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Now they're gonna ask them

this question about marriage.

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If a man dies and he, his wife marries

another, and then that man dies and so

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forth and so on, whose wife will she be?

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And Jesus says, you've

got it all wrong in the.

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Afterlife, we neither marry

nor are given in marriage.

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But for the resurrection of the dead

your main issue is you don't believe

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in the resurrection of the dead.

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You need to remember what the Lord

said, what God said, and when he said,

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I am not, I was, but I am the God of

Abraham, Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

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And his point is he's the God

of the living, not the dead.

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So Jesus is answering the question.

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To your point, sometimes he doesn't

answer the question, he does answer,

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but then he really goes after what

their greater error is, which is they're

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denying the bodily resurrection and so

Jesus is going to condemn that here with

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the Sadducees as he engages with them.

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Yeah.

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This is lever at marriage that

they're referring to, by the way.

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Yep.

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We talked about it.

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Recently don't remember when,

but this is Lever it mirrors

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that they're referring to.

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So they're saying, talking about

something that we just recently talked

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about as it related to polygamy.

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Yeah.

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After this, then we get the question

about the greatest commandment

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Jesus gives to in response.

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He says, the greatest is to love the

Lord your God with all your heart,

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with all your soul and all your mind.

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And then he says in the second is

like it to love your neighbor as

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yourself on these two commandments.

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Hang the whole law.

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We've talked about that

the 10 commandments.

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You can break it down into a love

for God and a love for the neighbor.

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And so Jesus is answering

in accordance with this.

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And one of the.

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The other passages, I believe it's

Mark's account where the expert in

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the law says, you've answered well.

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And Jesus even tells that expert,

you're not far from the kingdom of God.

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So it's an interesting interaction here.

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Mark gives us a little bit of

a greater insight here that

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there's maybe some genuine.

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Approach to some of the people that

are asking Jesus these questions.

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I think there's a couple takeaways

from this that stand out to me.

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Number one I would say that probably

you could draw a line or an arrow

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from every law that God gives

to one of these two laws to l.

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Love the Lord your God, heart,

souls line of strength or secondly,

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to love your neighbor as yourself.

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And when he says, which is the great

commandment of the law, that tells me

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that at least in the mind of the first

century audience, and perhaps in the

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mind of Jesus too, because he answers

the question, there is a ranking of laws.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which tells us that there are certain

laws that, as we just saw about the

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Sabbath above all, keep the Sabbath.

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Yeah.

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There is a ranking of the law of God.

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That means that not all of them have.

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Equal authority at equal times.

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They're all equally binding.

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They all are from the mouth of God.

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They're not dispensable.

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You can't just throw things away

saying, I don't like this one.

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They all play a role and they're

all weighty, but they're weighted

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differently, and I think the way that

you discern A from B from C is wisdom.

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Yeah.

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Knowing the word of God and knowing

the heart of God helps you make

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decisions about which law of God takes

precedence in any given situation.

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Yeah.

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I would agree.

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There's another question that's asked.

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The Pharisees are gathered

together this time.

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The question is not asked by the

Pharisees, but asked by Jesus to

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them and he says, who do you think?

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What do you think about the Christ?

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Whose son is he?

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So Jesus goes on the offensive,

even here with them, and they said.

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Said to him, well, he's the son of David.

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And he said, yes, you've answered right.

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But then how does David

say of him in the Lord?

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The Lord said to my Lord, sit

at my right hand until I put

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your enemies under your feet.

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And so this is a reference to,

again, the deity of Christ and

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the deity of the Messiah that if.

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David is able to say of his offspring, his

future, great-great-great, great, great,

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whatever grandson that he is, his Lord.

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The only reason he would say that

is because he's greater than David.

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And if he's greater than David, then he

must be significant to the level that

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Jesus has been posturing himself to be.

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And so again, he's trying to get the

Pharisees to understand who he is here.

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But Jesus goes on the offensive

here at the end of chapter 22.

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All right y'all.

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Well, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Lord, help us to be those that

love you with everything that

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we are and love our neighbors.

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Well also help us to honor the great

commandment and the second Lord, we

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want to be faithful to both and really

there's no way to be faithful to.

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To, to loving you without

letting that overflow into

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our relationship with others.

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And so I pray that we would be

mindful of that and that we would

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do that in a way that honors Christ.

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And so we pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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