00:00 Welcome and Googley

01:08 Listener Question: Call To Ministry

06:29 Deuteronomy 14: Food and Tithes

11:27 Deuteronomy 15: Sabbath Year and the Poor

15:03 Deuteronomy 16: Feasts and Rejoicing

16:18 Mark 13: End Times

20:45 Prayer

21:30 Outro and Podcast Information

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello again, party people.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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We are back.

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All three of us in action here.

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Live in the office.

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It's Wednesday, so hopefully

you're enjoying your midweek.

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We had bad storms and Pastor Mark's house

is completely gone after last night.

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Oh, no.

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That's what I, it's a shame.

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It's really unfortunate.

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It is, but you know, God gives and

he takes away, the insurance is

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there, so you're gonna buy something

bigger and nicer and fancier.

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And is that how insurance works?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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No, we're, I mean obviously

we're not profits.

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We're recording this on Tuesday, but

we're supposed, and my house is intact.

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It is int well as as of right now.

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It is as know it is.

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I'm not trying to be a profit on that.

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This is gonna be really.

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A weird intro.

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If my house does destroy, be bad, you

guys check on Pastor Mark right now.

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Shoot him a text.

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You number is your house, okay?

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Is your house okay?

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And lemme just say I had nothing

to do with it if it's not,

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I was not praying that way.

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I was, you know, so, but yeah,

first really bad storm of the

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spring, supposedly headed towards

us tonight, although, we'll see.

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It seems like we're in an alley

where everything just misses us.

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So, I don't know.

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We'll see.

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Baseball size, hail.

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I heard that be something else.

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I heard that.

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That sounds terrible.

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It does, yeah.

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Terrifying and terrible.

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Hey, we have a question that came in.

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Let's answer that question.

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This one is titled

called to Be a Minister.

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'cause it was a question.

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That's how they put it.

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Alright.

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I've heard past preachers say that they

were called into the ministry that.

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Or to be a preacher

called to be a preacher.

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I'm not sure if you all have said the

same thing, however, I was wondering

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where the idea comes from and how it might

or might not be theologically accurate.

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Because I don't see anything in the

scriptures that shows that, rather

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it seems to be by appointment.

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So I can understand that God

effectively calls everyone.

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But perhaps it's just a

focus on one particular idea.

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And along these lines, if

this is something that God

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does, it's a calling that's.

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Theologically sound, would it

also apply to deacons as well?

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Can a deacon also say, I am called

by God into that particular ministry?

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Yeah, so the idea of being called is a

biblical concept and we can trace it back.

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Even in the Old Testament, some of our

key leaders and key figures were called,

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they were actually audibly called by God.

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You think of Moses, you think

of Abraham, so forth and so on.

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They're called by God and appointed by

God into these positions of leadership.

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So we can go back there and see

that there's a foundation in the

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Old Testament of saying there's a

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calling that somebody responds to

take the mantle of leadership, the

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mantle of ministry, specifically

ministry leadership in that context.

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Now, none of the three of us are gonna

say, we received the audible call of

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God, just like Abraham or Moses did.

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We didn't have that.

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But there's a way that God

does call one towards ministry.

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In fact, in one Timothy chapter

three, verse one, we read this,

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the saying is trustworthy.

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If anyone aspires.

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Desires.

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The office of Overseer, which

is the office of elder or

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pastor, he desires a noble task.

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Now, that qualification there, if

anyone aspires, if anyone desires,

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this means that not everybody

is gonna have that desire.

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So a lot of people listening to this

don't have the desire to be a pastor.

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Those that have that desire to be a

pastor, that it may be at least if we're

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gonna read that into one Timothy three,

one evidencing God's internal call on

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that person, meaning that person has an

internal desire to say, I want to do this.

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I think we see.

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Some of the the idea later on where Paul

will tell Timothy Fan, the flame fan into

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flame, the gift that God has given you,

implying that God has equipped him for

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the work of ministry, that God has somehow

set him apart for that work of ministry.

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So there's the internal call,

but then there's also what we

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refer to as the external call.

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And the external call is important

because that looks at other people who

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are recognizing the giftedness in you

that is fit for the work in the ministry.

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Someone can have an.

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Internal desire for the wrong

reasons or the wrong motives.

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In fact, we're gonna be talking a little

bit about some of that this weekend

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in regards to service in general.

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To answer the second part of your

question about feeling called to be a

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deacon called to serve in a specific

capacity in the church, I think you

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can be, but you can also feel like

I want to do this and have the wrong

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motivations, the wrong desires for that.

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In ministry, the external call is

so important, and that is when you

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have other people in ministry, other

pastors, mentors, elders that are

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gonna look at you and say, yeah, I

think this is a good fit for you.

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That's why I'm so thankful

for my time in seminary.

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I spent serving in the church at the same

time, so I was getting trained in seminary

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and also having people look at me and say,

yeah, I think there's something there.

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You need to be baked,

you need to be seasoned.

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You need a lot more experience here.

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But there's at least something there.

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We can affirm that this is the right path.

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So calling comes from the Bible.

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And I think it's, you're right,

sometimes the person who wrote this in,

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people are appointed to those roles.

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But I don't think anybody's

really appointed to those roles

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today without also that internal

calling and that saying, yeah,

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I desire that at the same time.

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Yeah.

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I think another place you can look

to substantiate what you're saying

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is one Peter five, which will be

coming up in your sermon series later.

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Yes, it's later this year.

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But what does Peter talk about?

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He says and he calls the elders

to shepherd the flock the.

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Of God that is among you.

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And he uses the word not under

compulsion, but willingly.

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Yeah.

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So there is a sense in

which willingly Yep.

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You yes, are appointed, but it's also

an agreement with that appointment.

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It's willingly, right?

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It's not just, oh, you're the one now go.

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Right.

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There's that, that other

part to it that's important.

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Yeah.

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God's not dragging anybody kicking

and screaming into the pulpit.

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At least not usually.

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Yeah.

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The whole idea of being called by God

applies both to saints and to pastors.

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Even the idea of vocation.

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The vocation comes from the Latin Voca,

which is to be called, and it was Martin

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Luther, who popular is the idea that

it's not just the pastors and the elders,

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the pres Buto who are called by God.

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And we do see that in scripture, but it's

also the lay person, the lay person is

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called into the vocation of an executive

or a lawyer, doctor, fisherman, et cetera.

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So calling is what God gives to

mankind as a way to say, here's

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what I want you to do with my life.

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Now you can get paralyzed by

that thought and say, well,

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what does God want me to do?

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I'm not sure if I'm fulfilling

his calling for my life.

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And I don't think that's really the

right posture, but whatever you're

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doing by God's providence is often the

calling that God wants you to fulfill.

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You're going to do his

will one way or the other.

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And part of this is also gonna be are

am I called by God to be a Christian?

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Yes, I think that's true

and you should embrace that.

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But beyond that, when it comes to the

specific role that you play in the world

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and in life, that's also God's calling.

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We may not think of it that way.

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We don't think of the doctor

as being called by God unless

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he's exceptionally good.

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He's a hand surgeon and he's really

good at just the minor details.

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Sure we could say that, but I think

everyone, as long as their occupation,

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their ARI is not inherently sinful.

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We could say everybody shares

a vocation, a ARI from God, and

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you should embrace that calling.

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I think that's consistent with what Paul

says in one Corinthians seven verse 17,

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where he says, only let each person lead

the life that the Lord has assigned to

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him and to which God has called him.

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Amen.

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Well, I think all of us are called to get

into our daily Bible reading right now.

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Deuteronomy 14, 15 and 16.

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Starting in Deuteronomy 14, we get into a

chapter that contains a lot of reminders

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about the laws of purification, including

what the Israelites were gonna be allowed

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to eat, what they were to abstain from.

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And then the chapter concludes

with a section on tithing that had

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been amended to now include the

instructions on bringing the tithes.

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To the Lord's chosen place.

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So again, we're getting ready to enter

the promised land and there's going to

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be a central place of worship there.

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And God, just like the sacrifices

wanted the tithes and offerings

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brought to the central place.

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By the way, I was listening.

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I was driving around listening in on

the radio the other day to somebody

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who is preaching locally here.

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I don't know.

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Who he was.

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'cause he never said his name, but

he was making the whole point that

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when he started tithing, God just

opened the storehouses and he referred

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back to the Old Testament and I, I

blanking on the book where it says,

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put me to the test and see if I won't

overflow if you bring your tithe to me.

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And he was trying to make

the point to those listening.

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If you start tithing and he was making

the point of 10% and he was like, do

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you tithe on the grosser, on the net?

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All that to say, y'all, when we're

talking about tithing in the Old

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Testament, we're not talking about the

same thing as New Testament giving.

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And so that's worth reminding us

here that New Testament giving is

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something that God commands us to do.

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It's something that's

good, it's right to do.

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But when we talk about the tithe

in the Old Testament, there were

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multiple different tithes that were

brought at different times, and

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Moses is just reminding them of the

importance, number one of the tithes.

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And also it needed to be brought

to the place where the central

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place of worship was going to be.

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Beyond giving their money, and God

did certainly require that of them.

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You'll notice in chapter 14

verse one, he says, you are

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the sons of the Lord your God.

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You shall not cut yourselves or make any

baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

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As things like this.

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On top of that, we

passed by a while back.

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Tattoos.

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Can you talk about some of these

things because other Christians

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will also struggle with some of.

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Some of the things like, obviously

we're not doing this, we're not

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making baldness on our heads.

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At least unless it's kind of a hairstyle.

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Some people do that.

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Very few people cut themselves

as a pagan ritual to the dead.

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But talk about these things and

tattoos since we're on the subject.

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Yeah.

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Your body the central tenet is

this, your body is a stewardship

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that God has given to you.

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So number one we have to be careful not

to do anything to our bodies that is

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going to degrade or denigrate the image

of God that he has created within us.

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So we need to.

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Honor and treat our

bodies well as stewards.

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I was gonna have you expand on that.

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Yeah.

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Because that's I think what

you said is loaded Sure.

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With all sorts of ideas, Uhhuh putting

contact lenses in with a different color.

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So I think that's where we have to come

back to, for example, tattoos, tattoos.

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Today may not have the same implications

that they did back in the day of Israel,

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where they were more connected with the

worship of false gods and false idols.

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So when you def defaced your body

with a tattoo, you were engaging

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in the worship of these false gods.

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And so that's why God is

saying, Hey, don't do that.

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So today, if a Christian came to me and

said, Hey, I wanna get a tattoo, I wanna

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get the word Grace Karis in Greek, and

I wanna get it tattooed on my arm I'm

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not gonna say you're in sin to do that.

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But if they came to me and they

said, I wanna get the face of Satan

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tattooed on my back, I'm gonna

say, Hey, you're in sin to do that.

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You really shouldn't get the face

of Satan tattooed on your back.

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I think there's freedom that needs

to be balanced by wisdom in saying

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my body is a representative of the

image of God, and as a believer I need

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to be careful to steward it as such.

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So, changing our appearance, physical

appearance, things like that.

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I think if your motive is, I'm

angry at who God made me to be,

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I'm angry at the person the.

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Form that God created me

in the person that I am.

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I think the greatest expression

of that is when people say, I, God

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made me be the wrong gender, so

I'm gonna go through something to

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totally transform myself there.

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But even more minorly, if you get into a

lot of work on yourself, plastic surgery

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on yourself, because . You're upset

with the person that God made you to be.

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I think we can cross lines still

today in that, and I think we

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need to be careful on that.

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That doesn't mean if I get green

contact lenses because I'd rather

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have green eyes than brown eyes, that

I'm defacing my body necessarily.

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A lot of it comes down to where

the heart is in all of this.

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That's right.

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And that's why.

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This passage begins with you are

the sons of the Lord your God.

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And that is a clarifying perspective

that we can take even today, right?

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What do you see yourself as?

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Do you see yourself as somebody who needs

to fit into the culture, into the world,

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into this and that club, or with your

sports team, or do you see yourself as a

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son of God or a daughter of God and that.

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Perspective is a heart attitude, which

is what you're talking about, right?

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It's a heart attitude that will help

us make good decisions about that.

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Amen.

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The next verse is says for you are a

people holy to the Lord your God, which

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is exactly what you're talking about here.

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It's hard to be as precise as we

might want be or even as prescriptive.

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Yeah.

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Eye color, ear piercings, piercings.

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There's all sorts of

piercings today, actually.

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You can do a lot more with that.

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Even tattoos can be controversial

because you can say, well,

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yeah, it's nothing in scripture.

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But then they can say, well,

here it says here, you know,

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don't make carvings on your body.

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Right?

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And don't do these kinds of things, right.

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I think there's a lot of room for

debate there, but the heart of the

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matter is who do you belong to?

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And does that show on your

body and in your person that

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doesn't clarify it entirely.

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'cause there's still lots of room in that.

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That section, that part of the arena.

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But that's a really helpful

place for us to start.

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Yep.

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Well, chapter 15 is a little bit of a

downer chapter, even though it's talking

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about something that's really good.

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And that is because this is a

chapter that describes something

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that to our knowledge, God or Israel

never did in obedience to the Lord.

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And this is the rules for observing

the Sabbath year and for how to

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treat the poor in the destitute

and those enslaved among them.

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Especially the releasing part of

that and freeing part of that.

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Again, we don't know, we

don't have anything recorded

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that Israel ever did this.

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It was to be every seven years.

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People were to be let free the land was

to rest and this will eventually factor

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into the 70 years of the exile for

Israel as they're gonna spend that time

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for all of the times that they didn't

do this between entering the promised

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land and when they go into exile.

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And in fact, and I don't have

the math right in front of me.

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I had it in my notes earlier, but

the timing of when they go into

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exile and the number of years

actually lines up pretty well here.

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Yes.

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So if you go to Second Chronicles

36, it talks about it very clearly

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being the result of the lack of

these Sabbath years occurring.

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And the math actually

adds up really nicely.

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Yeah.

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Well, let me, speaking of math, let

me ask you guys a question here.

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We're looking at chapter 15 and

there's three passages here in chapter

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15 that I wanna help us square.

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For people who might have caught some of

the difficulty with this, the starting

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of verse four, he says, this is God but

there will be no poor among you for the

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Lord, your God will bless you in the

land that the Lord your God is giving

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you for an inheritance to possess.

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Drop down to verse seven.

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It says, if among you, one of your

brothers or sisters should become

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poor in any of your towns within your

land, that the Lord your God is giving

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you, you shall not harden your heart

and then skip on down to verse 11.

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For there will never cease

to be poor in the land.

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Okay so what is it?

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Is it, there's not gonna be

poor, there is gonna be poor.

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There's never gonna be poor.

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How do we put these pieces together

when it's in the same chapter?

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What do we do with that?

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I think in verse five it helps us

to understand here, there's a lot of

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contingencies in the law where it's,

this will happen if you do this.

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And so in verse five, he

follows up by that statement of

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saying there won't be any port.

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If only you will strictly obey the

voice of the Lord your God, being

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careful to do all his commandments

that I command you today.

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God will say, Hey, if you don't,

if you obey, then all of these

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blessings are gonna be yours.

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And then he will also show his cards

and reveal, but you're not gonna obey.

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And because you're not gonna obey,

here's rules for how you should operate

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and the fact in the reality that you're

gonna undergo when you're not obeying.

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'cause there are gonna be poor

among you because you're not

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gonna strictly obey these things.

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So when there are poor among you,

this is how you should treat them.

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And so it's, I think the balance

there of saying this was contingent.

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There wouldn't be any poor

and this was a real offer.

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This wasn't God, holding something

out that he wasn't willing to do.

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It was a real offer.

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But he also knew at the same time,

Israel wasn't gonna follow through

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and obeying him perfectly that way.

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But also if they're obedient to him.

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Then they're gonna do what verse 10 says,

which is you shall give to him the poor

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person freely and your heart shall not

be grudging when you give to him because

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the of, because for this, the Lord your

God will bless you in all your work.

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And in all that you undertake.

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So there is an element in which if

you're obedient to the Lord, then you

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will be freely giving to the poor,

which will mean that there aren't poor.

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Right.

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But that's not inconsistent

with what you're saying.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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Those are both great answers and I think

both, I both have a place I don't want

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to ride the fence here, but I think

there was the ideal that God presents to

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them on the condition of A, B, C, and D.

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And then he also says, and by the way,

here's how you're gonna resolve this.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's not gonna be miraculous

GT or God thing number one.

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But it's gonna be through the

providential means of you.

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Yeah.

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I want you to serve your brother so

that there is no poor, however, because

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I know you're not gonna obey this.

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That's why he says in verse

11, there's never going to

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cease to be poor in your land.

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So I think there's a

both and here interplay.

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Yeah, for sure, for sure.

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Chapter 16, we get into a lot of

the feasts and other civil matters,

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including establishing judges to

hear cases and render judgements.

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And so we're gonna get

into that in the next.

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Era of Israel here.

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In fact, we're gonna turn the page pretty

quickly here into the book of Joshua.

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Joshua's gonna give away to the

judges, and so we're seeing some

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of the polity that is gonna be

established with the people of Israel.

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But these feast are listed again,

including Passover to begin with here,

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feast to boost, so forth and so on.

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Why?

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Because this is the brand new generation.

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So again, as you're reading things

that you're saying, this is redundant.

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We've been here before.

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Remember, this is Deuteronomy.

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It's the book, the Second

Giving of the Law here.

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So it shouldn't come as a surprise

that we're repeating a lot.

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We're repeating it because this is

a brand new generation, and Moses

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wanted to prepare them for their

entrance into the promised land.

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He's also calling them multiple

times here in chapter 16, but also

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back into chapter 14 to rejoice.

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There is a command when it relates to

the tithing that they are to rejoice,

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and then you see that with the Feast

of Weeks and then the Feast of Booths.

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You see a call to rejoice.

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Amen.

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That's great because that tells us

that God can command our emotions.

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Yeah, that's a good point.

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And that are respon.

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We are responsible to do that.

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Dude that's convicting.

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I'm convicted for Pastor PJ right now.

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Just oof feelings.

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Well, why do you think I brought it up?

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I appreciate both of you greatly in that.

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Let's flip over to our

New Testament reading.

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Matthew or Mark chapter 13 values

rejoicing because of our relationship.

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14th through the end of the chapter here.

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This is going back to a lot

of what we read in Matthew as

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well towards the end there.

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I believe it was 24 gives

the signs of the times there.

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And so Mark is gonna give us a lot

of the same material here from Jesus.

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And we talked about a lot of this

in that context, the abomination and

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of de desolation the, these signs

and when they're gonna take place

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and what it's referring to there.

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And again, I would point

out a verse like verse 19.

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In those days there will be such

tribulation as has not been.

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From the beginning of creation that God

created until now and never will be again.

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And so those that wanna argue that

this has already taken place at

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some point in time in history, past,

be it within TKI or Nero, whatever

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it may be, I think they've got a

difficult time overcoming a statement

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like that because this is pretty.

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Pretty overwhelming that this is

gonna make such waves that nothing

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in history can ever be compared

to what this is gonna be like.

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That's why one of the reasons why

we believe this is still future

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we're gonna be talking this weekend

and Peter, he's gonna say, the

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end of all things is at hand.

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So Peter is trying to prepare his

people and by extension us for the

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imminence of these things taking place.

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Now, we believe as those

that are pre-millennial,

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pre tribulational, rapture.

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The, those that, that adhere to the

rapture, we believe that the church

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will be taken out before this.

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But Jesus is preparing his followers

at the time, Jews, for the reality

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that this is going to happen.

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They need to be aware and be

prepared for the coming, the

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second coming of the son of man.

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What does let the reader

understand mean is, who's that?

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Mark talking to us?

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Is that Jesus saying this

to people who's saying this?

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I think that's I'm the reader, right?

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Yeah.

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I think it's an editorial comment

by Mark because as Jesus is

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proclaiming this, he's proclaiming it.

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He's not writing it

down, so it's inspired.

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It's from the Lord, but

I think it's from Mark.

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I remember being a kid and reading this

and being like, I don't understand,

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and feeling quite bad about that.

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Yeah.

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Poor childhood, mark.

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I know.

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He didn't know how difficult this was.

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Yeah and that's why, again.

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People, especially in today's culture

and society, and you've got war going

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on, you've got all these things.

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The blood moon happened and then

now we've got war with Iran and the

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sensationalists are going to be out

there that are gonna say it's it.

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This is it.

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This is the end.

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This is the coming, this is the time.

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Maybe it is, but we have to

balance that with the idea that

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no one knows the day or hour.

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And yet as Christians, we have

to be careful not to be overly

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comforted by either reality.

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We have to live ready for the

return of Christ at any minute.

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We can't be so comforted by the

idea that no one knows the hour

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that we're like, oh man, wolf.

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At least because that guy said

he's gonna come back next week.

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I know for sure he is not coming back

next week 'cause nobody knows the hour.

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So I can live for my flesh for the

next week and not have to be ready.

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No, we have to be ready at all times.

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But the other person, we also can't

be that person that's obsessing over

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all of these things so much that we're

not busy doing the work that he has

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for us to do as the church in the

meantime until he comes back for us.

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We can't be the Heaven's Gate cult.

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That's all gonna just get

together and put on our.

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Foil hats and drink the

Kool-Aid because it's time.

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We have to still be busy about what

he's given us to do, and yet we

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have to watch and look and interpret

the signs and the times to be

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ready for his return at any point.

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So when it says here, let the reader

understand, which, by the way, this

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is also in the gospel of Matthew.

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Matthew 24 15 says the same thing.

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Matthew and Mark, we believe are written

very closely together in terms of their

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content and they're called as synoptic

gospels, Matthew, mark, and Luke.

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Because they share a lot of the same

content, synoptic information let

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the reader understand is a note to

those who are reading, including

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you, to make sure that you read

with awareness of the context.

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And I think some of the best

context you could keep in mind

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would be Daniel nine 11 and 12.

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Yes.

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If you could read.

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Daniel nine 10 or Daniel nine 11 and 12.

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That'll give you a little bit of context

as to what Jesus is referring to because

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this is a multiple process fulfillment.

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It doesn't just happen one time.

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It's gonna happen multiple times.

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And then the fact that you'll know

this will help you make heads and

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tails of what you're about to read.

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I'd include Daniel seven and that as well.

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Daniel seven would be good.

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Yeah.

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7, 14, 13, and 14 about the

son of Man and what his job is.

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Yeah.

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Great.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I'm sure this creates questions.

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Eschatology always does.

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That's the study, the end times.

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And so if you've got questions

about this, you want us to hit moron

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in detail, please write those in.

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We'd love to be able to do that.

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Yeah.

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Rod.

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rod@compassntx.org.

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That's great.

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I was gonna didn't even call

you calling them a moron.

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Do what?

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I was just gonna call you

out on calling them a moron.

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Why?

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Because you said if you have

questions on this, moron eschatology,

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more space on, it's not gonna be

what the transcript shows, buddy.

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Yeah.

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Well love believes the best.

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Right.

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Alright.

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Alright, let's pray.

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Lord, we wanna be a church ready

for your return at any time.

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We wanna be that church that

is on guard that is awake.

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But because we don't know when the

day or hour is, and so help us to

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be faithful help us to be those that

are doing what we should be doing

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when you come back for your bride.

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And we want that to be true

of us corporately as a church.

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And if that's gonna be true

corporately as a church, it has to

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be true of us individually as well.

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And so, God, I pray that you'd guard

us against Slothfulness or seeking too

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much comfort here or taking our eyes

off of where we're ultimately gonna

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be, but help us to set our minds on.

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On heaven where Christ is and be useful.

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In the meantime as we await his return,

we pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

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Keeping your Bibles tune again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Ttu Lu, please come back.

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I don't think you're morons.

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