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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Googley

00:19 Listener Question: Is Tattling Sinful

07:37 Reading Joshua 16-17

08:11 Disobedience and Gratitude

11:19 Joshua 18

12:13 Luke 5:1-16

17:49 Closing Prayer

18:44 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey folks.

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Welcome to Thursday's edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Happy Thursday everybody.

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I was gonna say, happy Thursday too

late early Bird gets to the worm buddy.

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Have a great Thursday.

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Super.

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That was really good.

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I was inspired, bro.

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Yeah.

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Gonna have you show up to a meeting next.

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Alright.

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Gospel gabbers, do you believe that

tail bearing or tattling is a sin?

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Can we define tail bearing

for, other people that need to

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know what tail bearing means?

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Well, that's why he

included the word tattling.

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So your neighbor is installing lights

on their home and you know for a

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fact he has not contacted the HOA.

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And so you contact HOA under an

anonymous email and say, dear HOA

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friends Pastor Mark is installing

lights that he did not get approved.

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Is this okay?

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Is this a sin?

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Is it a sin not to say something?

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Well, that's a different question.

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Yeah.

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Well, okay.

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Well the que, do you believe that

tail bearing or tattling is a sin?

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So is it a sin to do it or

is it a sin to not do it?

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I guess it goes both ways.

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I, this is, so this actually,

this is helpful 'cause.

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Tuesday morning, I was going over a

proverb with my kids as we do in the

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morning, and it was the proverb about

love covers multitude of offenses.

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Mm.

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And I think these things are related

because I think we have to go to

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what's your motive in tattling?

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What's your motive in telling someone?

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If the motive is I want them to suffer

because I want them to get in trouble

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for what they're doing, then yeah,

that's a sinful motive that's a wrong

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motive for you to have about that person.

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If your motive is.

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I'm bringing this to somebody's

attention and maybe it's

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tattling, but you know what?

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I'm concerned for their safety or I'm

concerned for their morality because

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what they're doing I know is wrong and

you really genuine are doing it out of a

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heart of love for the person or concern

for the overall wellbeing of others.

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Then I think you should do it.

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I don't think it's the same thing

at that point, and we would even

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say, well, that's not tattling.

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There's a difference there.

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And so.

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I bust my kids for it.

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If they're tattling,

then I will often, yeah.

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One of the things we often tell our

kids is, you are not their parent.

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And they're like, yeah, but they

didn't brush their teeth this morning.

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It's like, yeah, but you

are not their parent.

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Will we still go to the other one and be

like, you need to go brush your teeth.

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Yes, but.

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We confront them because

that's not their place.

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What they're doing is wrong in that.

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Yeah.

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We, in our house, we try to, and

I think in a very similar way to

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what you're describing, we try

to teach our kids the difference.

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And the way we do it is by saying,

if your brother or sister is going

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to get hurt by what they're doing,

then please come and tell us.

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Yeah.

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Because that is at least trying to

teach them a motive that is, you

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wanna care for your brother or sister.

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We don't want them to get hurt.

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And that's why you come to

mom and dad and say, Hey.

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Lincoln's about to jump off

this, or Shirley's gonna break

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her collarbone again, right?

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As opposed to, they

didn't brush their teeth.

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Right.

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Why do you care?

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And I mean , I don't wanna oversimplify

it, but you know, why do you care that

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your sibling didn't brush their teeth?

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Well, probably because you

wanna get them in trouble.

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You wanna see them get the Shabbat, or you

wanna see them suffer in some way, right?

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And or maybe you want to be.

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Prideful, maybe I'm gonna be like,

well mom, dad, I brushed my teeth.

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Look how great I am.

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Mm-hmm.

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And, little Timmy over

here, a little less.

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So would you discipline

your kids for tattling then?

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We do.

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Yeah.

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I think if it was a

consistent pattern, yes.

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Probably every once in a while

it would just be the verbal

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correction with them at the age

that they're at, especially now too.

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But if it was a consistent pattern, yeah.

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Okay, so one clarifying question that

he asks is what if what's being tattled

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on is a legitimate, sinful situation

and it maybe doesn't necessarily

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involve physical bodily injury, but

it is injurious to the soul that's

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committing the sin, whatever that is.

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Would you treat that differently?

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Are both children

disciplined at that point?

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Would only one be disciplined?

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How do you reconcile those two issues?

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Yes.

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So both are disciplined.

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I would, yeah, we don't discipline if we

do not have either the actual evidence

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of what happened or we didn't witness it.

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Yeah.

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Because we.

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We don't wanna go off what was said.

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Yeah.

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Because there's a lot of,

it's only one witness.

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Yeah.

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And so we won't discipline that.

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We will.

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So sometimes a kid will come

and tattletale and they'll get a

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consequence, and we're pretty sure

that what they're talking about was

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probably something that happened.

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But we don't have full confidence in that.

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So the kid who comes to tattletales

gets a consequence because

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we knew that they came in.

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And tattle tailed when

the kid who doesn't.

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But we're in the mindset that if the kid

did whatever it was that the accusations

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are, they're gonna do it again.

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And they're gonna do it in

front of us at some point.

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Gonna get busted.

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And we have younger kids, and I know

that this is gonna evolve and look a

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little bit different with older kids.

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With our younger kids.

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That's the approach we take.

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Yeah.

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We'll usually ask the one being accused

and we're pretty good judge of whether

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or not they're telling the truth on that.

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Like, Hey did you do this?

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Is this something that you did?

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And often as well, because our house

is five older children in it the

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instance of one witness is rare.

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In our house.

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Usually there's two or three at least.

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Yeah.

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To establish credibility there.

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Yeah.

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So we don't wanna punish if

there's not genuine guilt there,

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but we'll take it seriously.

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If there was a, an accusation and

it is something that needs to be

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dealt with, we'll deal with it.

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I don't I don't think we've

ever disciplined my kid.

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Well, may maybe.

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I suppose it's possible and I just forgot.

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We don't typically discipline them

for tattling, although we enforce

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it and reinforce it by reminding

them constantly, we ask them,

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okay, this is not your concern.

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No need to share this unless, as

you said, pastor Mark, if there's

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physical injury, if there's some kind

of issue where they can be wounded

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in a grievous way, you let us know.

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Otherwise, mom's a word.

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You don't need to be mom and dad.

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You're not the, you're

not the tattle police.

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But I've never considered

disciplining them for that.

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And I suppose maybe I should

reconsider that, given the

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fact that both of you guys are.

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You'd both have affirmed.

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You would.

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Yeah.

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And some of that too is just the mere fact

that we told them Yes, do not tattletale.

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Yeah.

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And when they tattletale dis, they're

disobeying their, you know, 'cause we

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don't necessarily know their heart.

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Right.

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Right.

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We can, we're good judges.

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In fact, we're the best judges,

at least in the worldly context

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of their hearts of anybody else.

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Right.

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Obviously God knows perfectly,

but at the very least we know when

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they have come and tattle tailed.

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They have disobeyed our

instructions not to tattletale.

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Right, right.

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Not to do that sort of thing.

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Okay.

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Let me ask a clarifying question here.

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'cause we haven't yet cited any

scripture for our positions.

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We just have told people what we do.

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What would you say tattling is?

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Biblically?

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I don't think that word's in

our scriptures, there's none.

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There's not a word called

tattle tailing to my knowledge.

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Maybe in the King James.

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What would you call this?

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Is there a word that we could hang our

hats on and say, this is probably the

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situation we're dealing with when our

kids are telling on their siblings?

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I'd call it gossip.

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Gossip.

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Yeah.

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That's, I think the, I think there's

other things you could go with, but I

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think by and large it's often gossip.

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I'm thinking first Timothy

five, gossip, slander.

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Mm-hmm.

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Maybe conceit.

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Oh, interesting.

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The wanting to rejoice in

the downfall of another.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Those are helpful.

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So those are, those verbal sins

are, what we're really getting

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at is some kind of heart sin.

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Conce, I think speaks to that.

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Gossip, slander they are verbal sins

and it's hard to use the word tattling

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'cause we all know what that means, but

there's not a biblical word for that.

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But I think this is helpful.

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Thank you for clarifying those things.

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Any final words on this?

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No, I don't have any.

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Discipline your kids.

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Discipline your kids.

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That's a good thing.

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Well, we'll tell on you.

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We're gonna tell God.

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We're gonna pray to him Lord.

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He's not disciplining his children.

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Alright, great question as always.

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You know who you are.

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We appreciate that.

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Yep.

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Alright, let's get into our daily

by boarding today, Joshua 16 through

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18 and Luke five, one through 16.

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So Joshua 16 opens up with more

of the land being divided here.

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You'll notice in Joshua 16,

four, the reference to Joseph.

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Joseph is named because

these were his sons.

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These tribes, EEM and Manassa

were the sons of Joseph.

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But remember all the way back to

our time in Exodus, they were, I.

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Adopted by Jacob.

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So that's why they are tribes.

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They're counted among the sons of Jacob

because Jacob adopted them from Joseph.

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So these are their

tribal allotments there.

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And really what to note I think here in

16 and 17 specifically is just again,

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the disobedience that we see here.

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End of chapter 16, they did not

drive out the Canaanites who lived

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in geezer or the, so the Canaanites

have lived in the midst of Eem to this

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day, but have made them do forced.

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Labor.

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It's almost like that's the, that

the hat tip that they're giving.

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Yeah, but we enslaved them, at least, God

at least, but that's not full obedience.

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And so it's still disobedience or in

17 you look at verse 12, yet the people

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of Manassa could not take possession

of those cities, but the Canaanites

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persisted in dwelling in that land.

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They did not utterly drive them out.

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Again, this is nothing short

of disobedience from what God

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had told the Israelites to do.

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And so this is going to

begin to signify even.

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In the infancy of their

possession of the land.

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This is beginning to signify the

end of their possession of the land

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because of what's gonna happen.

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Because these people groups stay

amongst the people of Israel.

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Yeah, and I think you make

a helpful observation.

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This indication of the forced labor

that the Canaanites have to do

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does suggest that the Israelites

do have authority over this, right.

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This is an intentional

choice that is being made.

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Mm.

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The, it's because you could read

this and go, oh, well, they just

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couldn't quite win the battles.

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They couldn't quite win the war.

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They live in the little

village down the way.

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And, but I think what you're seeing

here is that this is an intentional

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choice to what you're, you were

saying earlier, pastor pj, and I think

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that needs to draw the alarm bes.

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One thing I noticed too is that

you have a generation of people

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that are benefiting from the prior

faithfulness of generations before them.

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So you mentioned Jacob slash Israel,

who adopts and takes Joseph's children

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to be his own, and now they're enjoying

this rich and beautiful land because of

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what their forefather had done for them.

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Joseph, of course, is enslaved,

and yet he finds himself in Egypt.

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He's second in command.

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God saves the people of Israel by

bringing them all over there and here

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now his descendants are benefiting

from all the work that God did

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through him, and that's fantastic.

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We want to be thankful for the

shoulders that we stand on.

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We should be.

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We should look back at the

good things that we have even

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in fact, compass Bible Church.

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We are thankful for those

who have gone before us.

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Pastor Mike Ez, who

operates out of California.

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His faithfulness to leave his

prior church and then start a new

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Compass Bible Church in Elisa Viejo.

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And then that grew into something bigger.

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And now we're part of a church

planting network that benefited

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from his prior faithfulness.

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I think it's good is this is not

all that you should be doing here.

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Obviously they had work to do and they.

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Clearly did not do that as Pastor

PG and Pastor Mark pointed out.

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But to be thankful for what you

have because of the faithfulness

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of prior Christians before

you, that's a good thing.

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And in fact, you even get some hints at

these tribes grumbling though, right?

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Oh yeah.

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Freeman and Manasses aren't

actually happy because they

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feel like they've been gypped.

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Right.

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The opposite of being thankful.

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Yeah.

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And you see that in verse, well,

several places it's hinted at, but

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right in verse 14, they're upset about

the fact they only get one portion.

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Yeah.

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Even though they're really, they

were huge, only deserving of

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one portion from Joseph's line.

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They do get, of course, the

split tribes of Efram and Manas.

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Right, right.

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They're doing the opposite.

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Yeah.

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They're not taking my counsel very well.

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No, they're not.

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Why don't you let them know?

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I'll let letter, I'm gonna

tell them I'm telling God.

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Joshua 18.

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Joshua's gonna do

something interesting here.

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He's gonna take the remaining seven

tribes and essentially confront them.

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And he says, what are you waiting for?

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You need to go and take.

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Possession of the land

that God has given you.

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And then he sends out some men to record

what the rest of the land was like,

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the cities, the towns that were there.

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And then he's gonna cast lots for those

towns and divide them among the people.

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And then the main tribe in focus here in

the rest of chapter 18 is Benjamin and the

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inheritance that's going to fall to him.

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Remember Benjamin was the

youngest of the sons of Jacob,

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and that was Joseph's brother.

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This would've been so much easier.

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This is.

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Pretty silly, but this would've

been so much easier if they had like

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iPhones and cellular networks instead,

they have to like GPSA lot, write

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all this stuff down and there's no

cameras to take pictures, so they

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have to figure out how to describe it.

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I'm just, you know, if only,

if only, if only iPhone, bc.

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All right, let's flip over to

our New Testament reading then.

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We are gonna be in Luke chapter

five verses one through 16.

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So Luke five, one through 16, we've

got the call of the first disciples.

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And so you have the scene here again.

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Jesus is by the shore.

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He sees the two boats.

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The fishermen gone out to them,

they're washing in their nets,

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and they're mending their nets.

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And Jesus sits down to teach

the people from the boat.

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And when he had finished speaking, we've

got this unique scene where he tells Simon

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Peter to put out further from the shore.

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And so he does this and Simon says.

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Let down your, or Jesus

says, let down your nets.

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And Simon obeys the Lord

and pulls up this catch.

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And in this, I think is a

foreshadow to John 21 because Jesus

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is gonna do something similar.

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In fact, that's when Peter re

recognizes the resurrected Jesus

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on the shore in John 21 is when

Jesus does the same thing to them.

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There it says, let down your nets.

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And they.

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Pulling a great hall of fish.

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And so Jesus here uses this moment

when Simon realizes the power

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of the one in the boat with him.

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And he's, he just falls down from him.

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And he even says, depart from me.

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I'm a sinful man.

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Oh Lord.

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And Jesus, rather than doing that, lifts

him up and commissions him to become one

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of his disciples, one of his followers.

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Again, the background to this, we

have to remember these disciples

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had already been around Jesus,

but this is part of the formal.

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Introduction into the fellowship

of being one of his official

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disciples at this point.

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Yeah.

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Really quick clarification just

before you keep on going here.

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The Lake of Nesset is

also the Sea of Galilee.

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It's the same thing.

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So as you read that, maybe

make a note for yourself.

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This is also the Sea of Galilee.

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It has both of those names and you're

often gonna see Sea of Galilee more than

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Esra, but that one also shows up as well.

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So make note.

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This response of Peter

is fascinating, right?

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He says, depart for me

for I am a sinful man.

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I think this is a kind of response to

the gospel that we don't often recognize

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or don't often like necessarily fully

articulate, but I think there is

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many times when people are exposed

to the gospel and they see their

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sinfulness and what do they say?

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They don't say, come help me.

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They say.

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Go away.

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They say, God, go away.

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Leave me alone.

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And I think you're seeing that

with an dare say an unregenerate

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Peter at this point, right?

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He is, has some sense of his sinfulness,

and he actually doesn't want to have

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anything to do with Jesus, right?

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He says, go away.

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Is that what Jesus does?

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He doesn't go away.

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In fact, he does the very opposite.

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He calls Peter to him.

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But I think that's a response to sin

that we often see in different ways, in

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different forms in our regular lives.

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Absolutely.

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In fact, I would say it's so

essential to salvation that to

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fail to have that awareness and.

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That consciousness of your

own humility before the Lord

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is a really dangerous sign.

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I can't say definitively that to

not have, that means you're not a

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believer, but I think God humbles us.

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One of the first things he does

is he humbles us and draws us

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to himself to become aware.

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I'm sinful and that's what

makes the gospel so glorious.

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I needed to be reconciled to the Lord

and he does that for me for free.

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And I just say, yes, I want that.

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Yeah.

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I love that.

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I agree, man.

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What a profoundly important point

for most of us, that humility, that

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consciousness of I'm a sinful man, so

critical when trying to get someone

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to understand the gospel, but I do

think we need to be people who call

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Jesus to come and help us, right?

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Yeah.

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As opposed to Peter who says.

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Go away.

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Well, that, I think to your

point, that is the natural

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response of encountering holiness.

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Yeah.

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When people encounter the

holy Angels, they fall down.

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Fall down as though dead.

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Yeah.

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They be, they're fearful.

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Fearful.

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They're terrified.

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Yeah.

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They have to say, don't be afraid.

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And yet in some of the books, the Todd

Burpo and those guys who go to heaven,

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they're like, oh, this is awesome.

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Hey Jesus, what's going on?

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They fist pump him.

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They're like, I've got a, I've got an

image of you on my dashboard, and it's

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the whatever that bobblehead Jesus thing.

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We have such a small and trite God

today that I think if anyone were to

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encounter the real Jesus of the Bible

in the flesh, people would be mortified.

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Yeah.

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I think they should still be.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because we are sinful.

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That's right.

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In the rest of this this chapter verses

12 through 16, you've got a man come

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to Jesus, who, the author here, Luke,

describes as being full of leprosy.

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And so that jumped out to me this time

reading it because we had just read back

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in chapter four, verse one that Jesus

had been made full of the Holy Spirit.

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So Luke four, one, Jesus,

full of the Holy Spirit, now

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encounters a man full of leprosy.

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The question arises, who's gonna win?

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Which fullness is gonna

overcome the other?

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And the leper says if you can heal me,

or if you will, you can make me clean.

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Jesus says, I will be clean.

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Reaches out, touches him,

and the leprosy leaves him.

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And I think one of the reasons why the

leprosy flees, or the leprosy leaves

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this man is because of Luke four.

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One, Jesus is filled with the Holy

Spirit and the Holy Spirit, and

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Jesus is going to overcome the

illness, the sickness in this man.

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That's a great observation.

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And if I can plug logos, sometimes

you'll see words that are

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repeated and you wonder, oh, is

that the same underlying word?

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And it isn't.

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In this case, that's a great connection

because that's exactly there, and

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there's all these, there's language

connections that you won't see because

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you're an English speaker and you

don't know the ancient languages.

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We have logos.

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There's easy ways to see

some of these things.

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And I do see that.

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That's a great connection.

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Yeah.

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And back to what you guys were

just talking about too, just the

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progression of discipleship, right?

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Because we don't know what happened

to this man, but this man didn't have

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the same response to being in the

presence of Jesus that Peter did.

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Peter had been around.

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Jesus had listened to

some of Jesus' teaching.

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Jesus was staying with Peter.

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And that got him to the place

of saying, depart from me.

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I'm a sinful man.

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This leper is bold to come to

Jesus and say, Hey I'm lepers.

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If you, I've heard about you.

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If you will, you can make me clean.

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Yeah.

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And Jesus does.

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And then we don't know other than the

report about him when went about from

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here to the, to the people around.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, let's pray and we'll be done with

this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Lord, we thank you for the way that you

came for us, and that you showed us if we

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are in Christ our sinfulness, and that we

responded the way that Peter did to say

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that we are sinful and we need salvation.

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And you gave us that understanding because

of your grace to open our eyes to see

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that, not just to leave us in our sin.

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In fact, it's interesting even that this

leper comes to Jesus recognizing his need.

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His need is a physical need.

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Peter recognized his spiritual need.

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We know we have our spiritual

needs as well, so help us, we

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pray to never lose sight of that.

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Never forget that, never be ungrateful

for what you've done for us, and

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revealing that yes, we're sinful,

but your grace is enough to cover

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our sins through the atoning work

that you did on the cross for us.

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So we ask that and we pray

that in Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles and tune in again

tomorrow, which is Friday already.

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Can't believe it's

Friday already tomorrow.

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And we'll be back with you for

another Daily Bible podcast.

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See you.

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See you.

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Bye.

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Eli.

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episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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