Understanding Suffering, Human Responsibility, and Judges 10-12

This episode of the Daily Bible Podcast discusses the recent earthquake in Burma and delves into theological questions around suffering and God's role in it. Pastor Rod explains how natural disasters tie into the fall of man and the curse on creation, referencing Genesis and Romans. The conversation then shifts to their daily Bible reading from Judges 10-12, covering Israel's cyclical disobedience, repentance, and God's deliverance through judges like Jephthah, despite their flawed characters. The episode concludes with a call for Christians to love and evangelize to the lost, preparing for potential societal changes.

00:00 Introduction and Current Events

01:03 Theological Discussion: Why Does God Allow Suffering?

06:24 Daily Bible Reading: Judges 10-12

07:00 Reflections on Judges 10

09:38 Reflections on Judges 11

19:52 Reflections on Judges 12

21:44 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

22:20 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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It is April 3rd, it's a

Thursday, and we're back with

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with more in the book of judges.

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But before we get there, pastor Rod,

we're just kicking around a little bit.

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The this massive

earthquake that took place.

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I.

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Yeah, it was a 7.7

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earthquake.

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And as far as I know the death toll

is in the thousand if not thousands.

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Yeah.

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I don't exactly know what

the aftermath is yet.

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I don't know if we're gonna find

that anytime soon, but burma, 7.7.

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I saw videos of some of

the people on the ground.

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Yeah.

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There's the massive tower.

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I don't know what it's called.

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I just saw that it has a land bridge

between these two towers and the land

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bridge broke, which reminds you never to

use a land bridge 'cause you never know

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what there's gonna be an earthquake do.

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That's terrifying.

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It is horrible.

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Did you see some of that stuff?

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People, the pool with the waves?

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If you're in the pool?

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On that upper story, what do you do?

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You're going over, you just, I don't

know, catch some, hold something, right?

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Dude, that was terrifying.

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So you saw water coming outta

that building and people, again

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I've heard the death toll is in

a thousand, if not thousands.

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That's a ter That's a terrible thing.

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Horrible.

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So explain then.

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I'm gonna pretend to be a critic here for

a second, and I'm just gonna put on my

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atheist hat and say, if God were good, why

would he allow things like this to happen?

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Doesn't God care about people?

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And it seems like if there is a God,

he certainly isn't loving enough to

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protect the people of Myanmar, Burma.

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Why would he do these things if

God is as good as you say he is?

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Yeah.

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And this goes back to our understanding

of what took place at the fall.

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And so if we go back to Genesis, even

there was a curse that took place not only

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on the people, but also on the creation.

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So creation itself, Paul says

in Romans eight is groaning

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under the way to the curse.

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And so this is the judgment.

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This is part of the

judgment of God against sin.

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And that means that the world

that we live in is no longer the

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world that he originally created

it to be and prepared it to be.

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With Adam and Eve living in the

garden, there were no earthquakes.

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Prior to the fall, but when the fall

took place, when sin took place,

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when mankind rebelled against God.

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And this gets into our

understanding of our represented

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rep representation by Adam.

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That in that we all participated in

the sense with Adam, he was our federal

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head, he was our representative.

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We sinned.

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In Adam, that's Paul's argument

in Romans chapter five.

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And I know we don't like that,

but if we don't like that, we also

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can't like the fact that we were

represented by Christ on the cross.

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So it's a sword that cuts both ways.

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But this, we're watching some of

the images, even as we record this

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tragic, this horrific event that

takes place is a reminder that we

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rebelled against a good and holy God.

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And in doing that, we brought upon

ourselves and upon this creation, the

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curse of sin, that this world is broken.

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And these things remind us of a

future that is going to be unlike

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this, a future where there is no, no

longer gonna be anymore earthquakes.

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There's not gonna be anymore.

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Of the fires or anything else that

you see, like this is a reminder that

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this world is not as it should be.

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And so does God permit this

and allow this to take place?

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He does.

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And yet it's also a consequence of

our sin, our actions, our rebellion

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against him and against his his goodness

and his kindness and his holiness.

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And so it is God holy.

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Responsible in the sense that he is

sovereign over these things and allows

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them and even ordains them to take place.

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And yet these things are here

because of our sin, and we

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are responsible for our sin.

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So how does Adam's sin affect

tectonic plate movements?

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And that, that gets into the cursing of

the ground back in, in the garden when

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God said, by the ground, by the sweat of

your brow, you will har you will work, you

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will labor to get food from the ground.

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That even tells us right there

that there was a change, even

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the, in the makeup of the soil.

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Before, when Adam went to 10, the Garden

of Eden, it was easy for him to grow the

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food that he needed from these trees.

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That wasn't laborious.

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It wasn't hard work.

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But after the fall that there was

something that changed wherein now it was

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gonna require, he was gonna have thorns

and thistles that were gonna grow up.

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There were gonna be weed that

he was gonna have to combat.

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There were gonna be things that

were gonna compete for the good

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of the fruit that he needed to be

able to survive because God had.

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Cursed and judged not only Adam, but

also he had cursed and judged mankind.

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And we have to remember too,

the wages of sin is death.

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And in the church we so often run and

rightly so to spiritual death, but that

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death also includes physical death, that

is part of the wages of sin as well.

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So when we've seen a earthquake

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talked about this in our DBR reading

recently, justice is that God would

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destroy everyone that is justice.

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But the fact that he doesn't, the

fact that he's merciful, the fact

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that he's patient is an evidence of

his grace and his kindness to us.

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And so even a horrific event

like an earthquake is a product

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of our rebellion against God.

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It's bringing about the natural

consequence of sin, which is death.

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That is what we are deserving of because

of the holiness of God and our sinfulness.

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Luke chapter 13, Jesus says essentially

that when they came to him and said,

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look, this tower that fell on these

18 people, Jesus, isn't this awful?

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I.

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And he says, or those 18 on whom the

tower in silo fell and killed them.

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Do you think that they were

worse offenders than all the

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others who lived in Jerusalem?

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No.

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I tell you, but unless you repent,

you will all likewise perish.

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And so while we should feel some level

of sympathy care, and enough to pray,

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at least for the people of Myanmar, it

ought to remind you that we are equally

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susceptible to having something as

catastrophic happen here, if not worse.

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We can't look at them and say,

man, these guys are a special these

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guys are a special breed of sinner.

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I think they could make a case that

we're probably in a worse situation.

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In many ways, it's hard to qualify or

quantify these things, but just know

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Jesus would have us to take to heart

the fact that people perish every day,

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that the towers that fall or that the.

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Earthquakes or the tornadoes.

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We've got some gnarly weather up ahead

for us in the next couple weeks, at

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least according to our weather guys.

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They're telling us, Hey, it's

a storm season right now.

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We're going into a severe storm season.

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And the models are showing

that this is gonna be a gnarly

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season, and that's terrifying.

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It was May of last year that Salina

had that tornado tear through, so we're

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familiar at least with some of it.

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If something bad were to happen to

our church family, we can't say well.

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At least the lesson shouldn't be

you guys are especially bad sinners.

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That's why God did this to you.

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The point for all of us needs to be, we

need to be aware that our life is short.

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It's fickle, it's fleeting, and we're

equally susceptible and vulnerable.

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Let us repent.

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Let us love others enough to tell them

to repent and let us bring more into

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the kingdom Mother still opportunity.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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Let's jump into our daily Bible reading

for the day, judges 10, 11, and 12.

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Thank you for agreeing with

everything I just said.

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I did not.

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I did not.

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I did not.

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I did not.

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I did not.

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I did not.

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I did not.

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I did not.

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I said that one time and somehow

it slipped in so many times in

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the last handful of episodes.

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I have no idea you did it this one too.

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Did I?

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I'm sure I did.

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You said, I'm sure you said it again

and even though you just said no.

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I'm sure I did.

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Maybe that actually didn't happen.

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There are bible verses that talk

about bearing false witness.

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I'm just throwing that out there

for pondering in consideration.

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I'm just, oh, yeah.

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That's great.

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They should do that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You all should think about that.

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All right.

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Anyways, judges 10 two more judges

arise in chapter 10 to, to govern Israel

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before they return to their evil ways.

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That is before Israel does this

time though, after being given over

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by God to the Philistines and the.

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Ammonites.

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God initially refuses to respond

to their cries for deliverance.

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Israel cries out to God.

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They're being oppressed.

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And again, this is a

consequence of sin, right?

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We're, this builds on what

we were just talking about.

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This is a different consequence,

but this is a consequence of sin

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that God turns them over to the

Philistines, the ammonites, to judge

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them and to rule harshly over them.

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And so they cry out for deliverance.

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And God initially says, no.

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He says, go to your false

gods and let them deliver you.

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But they persist.

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The Israelites do in

their repentant posture.

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At least they.

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Purge those false gods from their midst.

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And the chapter ends with God as

it's described in the text, being

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impatient over their suffering

and the people preparing for

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battle against the Ammonites.

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So this is an interesting chapter

here where God is really revealing

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to the people, okay you're wearing

on my last nerve here and you're

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calling out for deliverance.

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I'm not gonna deliver you just yet.

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I'm gonna wait and you're gonna

suffer a little bit more for this.

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And by the way, why don't you go

to your false gods and call to them

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for deliverance rather than turning

to me only when it's convenient.

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I think it's really cool that God

becomes impatient over the misery of

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Israel, as it says here in verse 16,

because God can't be impatient in a

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technical sense because he doesn't

he doesn't have human capacities.

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This is an anthropomorphism, right?

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It's meant to help us to feel

something of what God feels but

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it's not a one-to-one because his

impatience is different than ours.

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Ours is a sinful impatience.

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His is.

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It's trying to convey the sense that

God finds repentance irresistible, and

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he just wants to act on their behalf.

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And so there's something of a, I

don't know, a childlike anxiety,

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a joyful, an anxiousness to say I

wanna do something on their behalf.

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And I think in part, again, as I

said, because God is so attracted to

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repentance, he's so attracted to humility.

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As scripture says, God opposes the

proud, but he gives grace to the humble.

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God is on the side of the humble people.

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God loves to give power and favor and

kindness to those who are humble at

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heart, and that's evidenced in repentance.

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How are you doing today?

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Are you humble in heart

and are you repentance?

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I think repentant rather.

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God loves that and God wants

to do good things for those

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who possess those qualities.

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He does.

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He does like people who don't

make other people say what they

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didn't say over and over again.

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Amen, bro.

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Amen.

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Do you have something

specific in mind or nothing?

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You're just, oh yeah, that was a really

good application for somebody out there.

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Do you agree with everything

I said on that one?

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No.

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Okay.

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Hey, verses 29 through 40

then, or hello, where am I?

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Where's my head space?

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Verses one through 28 of chapter 11.

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That's, man, that's where

I get, that's what I get.

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That's exactly what I get.

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God's showing me favor.

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He is.

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In spite because he is a merciful guy.

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That's why.

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That's right.

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That's why.

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Anyways, judges 11, then

impatient over their misery.

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God raises somebody up to

deliver them, and this time

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it's gonna be a guy named Jha.

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And Jha does do this.

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He delivers them from the Ammonites.

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He, in verses 14 through 27,

basically he warns the Ammonites

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to consider Israel's history.

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He's saying, Hey, look at what God

has done in us and really you don't

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think he can deliver us from you.

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And how the Lord had done so

much for them already who were.

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Were they to think that they would

be able to stand against Yahweh?

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And so JTA stands up and comes through

the aid of his people, comes through the

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aid of the Israelites and delivers them.

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But unfortunately, in the process, upon

returning to his house he had made a

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vow, which is known as JHAs, tragic vow,

and that's why you know the name jta.

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If you know the name jta, you

know the name for what happens

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in the rest of the chapter.

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The vow was not necessary.

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But once he made it, now he had to pay it.

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He had to be faithful to

it according to the law.

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And so this vow was that he vow

to the Lord, I will offer to you.

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I will sacrifice to you the first

thing that comes outta my house

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to meet me when I come home.

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And I don't know if he had a

cat, he probably had a cat.

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'cause he's that's not a big loss.

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I'll just throw the cat on the burn

offering pile and call it good.

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Call it good.

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But no it's actually his daughter,

his only daughter, his only

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child that comes out to meet him.

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And she's there and she says,

father, why aren't you rejoicing?

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And he tells her the vow that he had made

and she says, okay, let me go and mourn

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for my virginity with my friends and then

come back and you need to do, as you,

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you had said to the Lord that you would

do, we talked about this last year.

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I remember we did, even looking at my

notes from last year, let's talk again.

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Yeah.

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If this is metaphorical, this is

a metaphorical offering that he

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devoted her, consecrated her the

way that Hannah did with Samuel,

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devoting him to the temple, right?

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Or to the service of the tabernacle there.

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It's possible there's enough

ambiguity there that you can go there.

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Although the language of the text,

if we're gonna take a literal

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grammatical historical approach

to the text it seems like.

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He did what he vowed he would do.

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Now, God detests human sacrifice.

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That's on the flip side of this.

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And yet we also have to understand

God doesn't condone this.

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He doesn't say this is a good thing,

but this is also pointing to the

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seriousness of vows and how seriously

a person's word was at the time

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and Jetta's obligation to do this.

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So the reason why I, I.

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I, I don't love going literal, but

the reason why I tend towards that a

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little bit is even the response to the

fact that they would the women would go

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and they would remember her virginity.

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They would do this

thing every single year.

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It seems like she's gone, it seems like

this is a memorial, not like a Oh she's

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just over here at the Tabernacle in

Shiloh, it seems no she's no longer there.

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I agree.

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And I think as a, every time I

come to a text, I try to read it

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fresh and just see how it hits me.

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Every, it's like when you put your

foot in a river as the saying goes, you

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never step into the same river twice.

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It's a different river.

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I.

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It's because you're changing.

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And I think that's the way that

we approach the word of God.

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Often we see some of the same things

that we've read before and say, oh, I,

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I didn't think about it that way before.

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As I read through it again this year, I

tried to just have a blank mind and say,

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okay, I'm just gonna try to take it in as

if it were my first time reading it again.

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And I walked away saying,

I think he killed her.

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I think he sacrificed her.

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It just feels like that's

where the text leads us.

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And although there's some difficulties

in terms of oh, why is she weeping for

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virginity, then why wouldn't they just

say, Hey, we're gonna weep for your life.

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Seems more obvious.

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But that would've been a big deal, right?

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Yeah.

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Marriage was a big deal.

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Having kids is a big deal.

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So the fact that they would weep

for that would make sense in a

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culture like that would be reading it

according to the eyes of the people,

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the audience at that point in time.

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So that makes sense to me.

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And I think this is again, meant

to showcase the fact that even

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the best in Israel at this time

were just complete knuckleheads.

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He says, look, I've made a vow.

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I can't take it back.

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And that wasn't true.

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Leviticus five gives us an

option for if you make a rash

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vow, you say something foolish.

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There is a way to deal with

that, and it requires a sacrifice

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ironically not your daughter.

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So it's one of those things where I think

the point is, look how bad things are.

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Look at what they're doing.

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Look at what they're saying.

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Look at how they're dealing with these

things and to show that even the best

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right here are just the absolute worst.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's ke

keeping with Samson too.

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Samson is not a good dude either,

and there's just depravity after

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depravity in his life too that we

have to point to and reckon with.

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And yet he was the one that was

judging Israel during that time.

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So these are, these, judge, these

judges are a judgment, right?

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They're not, or I guess you

could say some of them have some

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redeeming qualities because they do

positive things, but they're still

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very broken in their characters.

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And I think this is meant to show us

here's what happens when people unmoored

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from God's grace and God's leadership.

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This is how they live.

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I think there are periods in

our history where you could look

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back and say, yeah, we did okay.

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As a nation, as a people, when you have

strong, good leadership, good things.

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Tend to happen here.

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We're seeing largely bad leadership

where there are some exceptions to

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the rule where they're doing some good

things that God would be pleased by,

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like delivering them from their enemies.

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But by and large, these

are not examples for us.

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At least not in the positive.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We're gonna talk about that concept

of God's judgment of a people.

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We're gonna talk about that

a little bit on Sunday too.

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'cause still God's plan for Israel

is developing now and we are not.

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In any way, shape or form Israel 2.0

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as the United States.

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But I, one of the plans that we're

gonna be talking about, or one of the

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things that we're gonna be talking

about on Sunday is that God's plan is

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never arrested and it's never stopped.

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And we're looking at a time right

now, even in our culture here in the

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United States where we're seeing,

I think we're reaping some of the

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fruit of the godlessness of our.

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Last, what decades, handful of

decades that, that we've seen.

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Even here in our backyard we've got this

epic, Islamic city that's being planned.

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This 400 acre masterplan Islamic

community where they want it to be

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a Sharia law place and broadcast the

call to prayer over these loudspeakers.

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You've got a massive one

that's planned up in McKinney.

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Now you've got a gigantic Hindu temple.

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And then you just look around our nation.

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It's, this nation is far from what

it once was as far as the nation.

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It was under our founding fathers

and the Christian principles

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and everything else like that.

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And who knows where it's gonna go as

far as where we are now versus where

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it'll be 12 years from now and maybe

we have a Muslim governor and a Muslim

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president at that point, and there're

surreal lobbying practice openly in our

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nation and where do we go as the church?

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And I think we just need to understand

we're not guaranteed about anything.

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And yet God will always

be working his plan out.

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God's plan does not guarantee

our wellbeing and our

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safety and we're not Israel.

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But we also can't think that we're exempt

from God's discipline in our nation.

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And if he was gonna judge his people,

then certainly we could expect that,

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that he will judge us for being a

largely godless nation while giving him

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lip service on the side of things too.

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And I think as the church, we just need

to be aware that the landscape could get.

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Darker and yeah.

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Right now we've got a different

administration in place, but that

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comes and goes and that changes

with every four years, obviously.

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So we don't know what the future's

gonna hold but God's still

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sovereign even over the wickedness

of what's going on right now.

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He's still on the throne, like

we talked about last Sunday, and

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we'll talk this Sunday a little

bit more, developing that further.

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So we're not post-millennials, correct?

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Correct.

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Just making sure.

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Okay.

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If that's the case, what would,

if you could wave a magic wand.

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And you could do some important things

in the church to cause her to be salt

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and to be light, to do what she's called

to do during this season of history,

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whatever it is that you would call it.

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What would you do now?

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What do you think the church really

needs right now in order to do good

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work in preparation for the future?

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So let's just say we do have an Islamic

governor and someone in the White House.

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Yeah.

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All those things that you just mentioned.

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How would you prepare the church?

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What would you do?

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What are, what's maybe one thing that

you could say, if I could just do

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this thing for the church man that

would prepare us and equip us to

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do battle in the best way possible.

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Not physical.

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Yeah.

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Not trying to say kill anybody,

but to do spiritual battle.

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Honestly, something that, that has

come up a couple times recently,

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conversations with people, and then

I saw him talking about it too.

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Something from the guy who

is his name is Escape Me now.

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He.

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Does evangelism on the

street in Ray Comfort?

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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He said, look if you are afraid to

share the gospel with someone the

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thing that you need to pray for

is not less fear, but more love.

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Love for the person that's lost.

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And if you have a greater love for

the person that's lost, then your

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fears that are holding you back from

being willing to share the gospel

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with them will be overcome and you'll

be driven by your love for them and

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your love for the Lord to be obedient

to, to pursue them with the gospel.

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I had a conversation with somebody else

recently going, Hey, look, if this happens

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and we get these Muslim communities and

everything there, we need to recognize

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that they are deceived and they are.

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People that are destined for hell, and

rather than looking at them as a threat

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to our, our civil liberties and our rights

as we're Christians and we've grown up

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in America and the land of the free, the

home of the brave and, get, go back home

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or whatever, you, people are tempted to

say to these things, we need to look at

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these people and go, they need the gospel.

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They need to hear the gospel and if

persecution is coming, then man, we

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need to step up and be evangelist.

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That's the way we can do the greatest

damage to the enemy is to see more

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people come to faith in Christ.

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So I, yeah, we could go, we need

more doctrine, we need more theology.

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We need to know our word

better, we need to pray more.

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All of those things.

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Yes.

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And I also think we need to

love the lost more than we do.

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That's really encouraging

and powerful thought.

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What about for the Christians here in our

church in particular who are listening in,

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they're saying, okay, how do I do that?

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What would you suggest?

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Yeah getting to know them.

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Making sure that you've got

lost people in your life.

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That it's not just a nameless, faceless

concept of somebody who's lost.

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So finding, a neighbor or somebody in,

in, in your workplace and spending time

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with them, having them over to your

house, getting them into your kitchen,

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having meals with them, vice versa.

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Too busy doing church things.

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Slow down.

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We can't be so busy doing church

things that we're not, and that's

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one of the things that we was on our

heart when we planted this church.

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We wanted to build in margin to say,

we want you to have space that you're

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not at the church every single day of

the week, and you've got time to have

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that family next door over for dinner.

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You've got time to meet with the

family that is on your kids' baseball

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team who are Hindu and say, Hey I'd

love to, to spend some time with you.

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Get to know you guys.

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We're not gonna love people we don't know.

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It's just, it's not gonna happen.

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And so for us to be a church

that's gonna love the loss,

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we have to know lost people.

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We can't just sit here and be like,

okay, God, help me love the loss

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by just bringing somebody into my

life that's ready to hear the gospel

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and repent and believe immediately.

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It happens every once in a while, but

far more often it takes us putting in

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the time to pursue people, get to know

them, and hopefully win them over time.

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Yeah, that's a good point.

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We've still got one more chapter, right?

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Chapter 12.

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Yep.

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We need to touch on chapter 12.

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Yeah.

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Civil War breaks out between the

ephraimites, the Trans Jordanian tribes

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again, and and Israel and they're

mad that jep the, didn't include them

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in the battle against the Ammonites.

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And so the ephraimites bow up

and they are ultimately defeated.

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And their fugitives are executed

if they failed to say this word,

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shibboleth correctly or properly.

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And so that was the revealer, there was

a way they would say it that wasn't,

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that was a dead giveaway, that they

had an accent that was from across

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the Jordan and they're executed for

the rebellion against the main people

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of God there in the promised land.

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So this goes back to the

foolish decision to be.

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Camped out across the Jordan and to set

themselves against the people of Israel.

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But yeah.

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Then chapter 12 continues and goes on

from here through the end of it with

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just a, another 25 years or so of

various judges in Israel that are raised

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up to help and judge the people and

deliver the people throughout that time.

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Really fascinating to see here that

Israel began to develop dialects.

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Yeah, I never thought

twice about that until I.

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Read this and I think a commentator

mentioned this, like there was dialect.

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Oh there's dialects.

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Yeah.

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Enough time has passed that.

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Yeah.

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That's crazy.

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Interesting.

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Yeah, because they were a people

traveling together, you would think

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that they probably had the same dialect.

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Probably no dialect.

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I guess now trans Jordan tribes are,

have having their own way of saying

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things, which I find fascinating.

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Yeah, it is.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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Which I mean, makes sense.

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There's different ways people,

even just in the south.

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Yeah there's even here in

Texas, Florida South, there's

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Georgia South, there's, yeah.

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You got that Southern draw.

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I still haven't received it yet.

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Yeah.

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I haven't received that second anointing.

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Yeah.

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But y you say all the time, and

sometimes when you're preaching,

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you're like, now listen, y'all,

I'm about to tell you something.

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Y'all need to hear.

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I'm like, pastor pj.

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Hold on, cowboy.

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Yeah, hold on.

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You know when I, yeah.

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When I get passionate, when I get, if I

talk to somebody who's got a draw it comes

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out, it's oh man, it's my true colors

are coming out oh, yeah, I feel it, man.

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But when you rode him with that

horse too, that was too much?

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A little bit.

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Okay.

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I'll leave the horse off stage this week.

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Thank you.

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Hey, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, give us a love for the lost.

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I want us to be that type of church and

to do that we, we have to know the lost.

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And so help us to care enough about

our neighbors to find out whether

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or not they are, and to care enough

about our coworkers to find out

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about whether or not they are.

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And if they are lost, God, we don't

wanna just retreat and look at them as

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something that's gonna defile us or.

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Or a threat to us.

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But God, we wanna pursue them with the

good news of the gospel 'cause that's what

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they need to hear as we needed to hear it

at some point in time when we were lost.

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And God, make us a church that is

passionate to reach people for Christ.

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And we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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