00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:14 Daily Schedule Overview

01:29 Discussion on Media and Culture

03:31 Bible Reading and Reflections

03:53 Praying God's Promises

04:49 Solomon's Prayer and God's Response

06:24 Applying Biblical Promises Today

09:56 Understanding Repentance and Forgiveness

10:10 The Role of the United States in God's Plan

10:40 Interpreting Biblical Texts Responsibly

12:13 Applying Biblical Principles Today

14:14 The Importance of Praise and Gratitude

15:58 Repetition in Worship Songs

18:43 Concluding Thoughts and Reflections

Hey, welcome to another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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It is Friday, June 14th.

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Friday, June 14th.

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And we are back at you with a

second Chronicle, six and seven and

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Psalm 1 36 happy NEC kickoff day.

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Yes.

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Today is a day that we kick it off,

but talk us through the schedule.

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What are we doing today?

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Are we going to do this?

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The.

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The whole time.

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It's a different day.

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Yes.

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Do you think everybody cares

this much about, I think they're

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interested to know what we do.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Well, on Friday we have breakfast again.

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Uh, senior staff, pastors

are getting together.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Then 9:00 AM.

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Senior staff, pastors, and.

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The wives, they're doing

an activity together.

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They're going to the

natural bridge caverns.

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Yeah.

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I don't think we're

involved in that though.

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That's just the wives.

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No, it says senior in staff.

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Pastor's wives fellowship, right?

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That's senior staff.

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Pastor's wives.

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Fellowship senior staff.

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Pastor's wives.

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That's not senior staff,

pastors and wives fellowship.

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That's senior staff.

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Pastor's wives.

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What are we doing?

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Then?

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I have no idea.

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We're continuing to have team

building and per sessions.

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Oh all the way until lunch.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Then lunch.

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And then, uh, we have a break until

the conference kicks off and it

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kicks off on Friday evening at six

30 is the first plenary session.

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Pastor Bobby blinker.

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He's kicking us off.

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Okay.

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And then we have a breakout that night.

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Yup.

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Eight to 8 45 and then we go to bed.

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Yep.

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Basically not as much fun.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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So that's what we're doing today.

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All right.

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I can see that that was helpful.

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Anyway.

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Don't even take that long.

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Well, Matt, was it helpful

inside out to comes out?

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I don't know if that's going to

be any good, but that's just,

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what's on my calendar as well.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I, I, yeah.

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Um, no, not, I don't know.

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I'm just not optimistic about

anything Disney anymore.

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I feel that skepticism.

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I'm a bit of a cynic

about their stuff too.

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Right?

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I saw a thing on X, where there

was a Jurassic park cartoon.

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Where there was a two characters

that should not have been.

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Doing stuff, doing stuff together.

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And it was a kids cartoon.

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It was like, you know, it's

like meant for little kids.

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It's O a.

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I don't know the discouraging it's,

um, revolting in some way, I suppose.

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It's I feel like there's,

there's nothing safe.

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There's nothing.

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Don't don't trust anything that

showing up on TV right now, because

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it's going to have a bent and it's

probably not bent and your direction.

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Right.

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Which is tragic.

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Speaks to our nation right now.

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Not good.

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Right.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I it's, it's not a fun.

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Rhoda.

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To navigate.

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Yeah, especially as parents.

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I mean, you just can't.

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You can't just turn your kids loose.

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Not that you should, but.

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You really can't at all and

say, oh yeah, you can go watch

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that show or whatever you get.

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You have to stop and go.

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Okay.

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What is it?

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That's why it's shocking

when like, something like

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bluey is as popular as it is.

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Yeah.

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And they've held fast to a nuclear

family and, you know, moral values

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that we would affirm and, and.

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It's not a Christian show.

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I'm not saying that, but.

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I'm just shocked that it's it's.

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Survived at the woke.

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You know, pushback.

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For now.

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Yeah.

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And hopefully it stays that way.

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Yeah.

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He knows you can't ruin though.

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You can't ruin their theme song dead.

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Yeah.

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What are the best theme songs ever?

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Ever.

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It's up there.

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Yeah.

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That dad though, man.

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That that dog died.

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He puts everybody to shame.

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He does.

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Like, he's never liked to go away.

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I don't want to play very now.

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Like I can't, I two.

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Yeah, he.

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What's that called it there,

there was a term for that.

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Or you're watching bluey to get

dad shame or something like that.

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Yeah, there's a term.

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I'm sure you could use it for

when you file for your insurance

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and you see your therapist.

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Well, okay.

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Alright, fair enough.

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All right.

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Well, let's jump into our daily

Bible reading for the day.

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Shall we okay.

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We shall.

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Second Chronicles six and seven in

Psalm, 1 36, second Chronicle six is

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essentially a recap of first Kings

chapter eight, which we read yesterday.

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So I don't know that there's much there.

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Pastor, rod, anything that you want

to hit on in second Chronicles,

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chapter six, specifically.

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Yeah.

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So one thing I didn't bring

up yesterday that I think is

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worth highlighting for you.

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It's in verse 17.

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Solomon praise now, therefore,

oh Lord God of Israel.

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Let your word be confirmed, which

you have spoken to your servant,

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David and there, I think is

something helpful for us as we pray.

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It's good to take God's promises

and pray them back to him.

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It's good to say, Lord, this

is what you said, right?

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That's what I want.

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I want to do what you said.

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I want you to accomplish the word that

you promised, and this is what makes

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praying interesting and exciting because

when you start taking God's word and

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saying, God, I want you to do this.

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I think there's something really

tangibly cool and exciting

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about the process of prayer.

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So.

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Granted it being, being careful not to

take verses out of context and make them

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apply to you when they don't apply to.

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We're going to talk about that

soon in one chapter coming up.

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Uh, is, is you gotta be careful with that.

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But if you're confident, man,

this is a promise to Christians,

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or this is a principle that I can

apply to me or my family meant.

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That's a really cool pray.

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The promises back to God.

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That's taking God at his word

and that's a good instinct.

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You should do that even if

not exactly in this way.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Second Chronicles chapter seven,

verses two through 10, continue some

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parallel from first Kings eight.

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But before we get there, Verse one.

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Uh, this is something that

we didn't have in first Kings

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chapter eight recorded for us.

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And I don't know why, because

this is pretty significant.

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As soon as Solomon finishes per fire

comes down from heaven and consumed the

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burnt offering and the sacrifices and the

glory of the Lord then filled the temple.

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We talked about the glory

that we're filling the temple.

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But this whole idea of the fire

of the Lord coming down from

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heaven, it's pretty spectacular.

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I would think that would be noteworthy

to say, Hey, by the way, this happened.

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And it's significant here.

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So, uh, it's recorded for us in Chronicle.

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So you're not recorded for us in

first Kings chapter eight, but again,

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the priest can't enter the, because

this unique filling of the temple.

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In, uh, in this section right here.

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Verses 11 through 22, then God responds to

Solomon's prayer affirming that he would

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hear in respond when the people repented.

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But if they disobeyed, they would

also suffer the consequences

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and, and there's more weight.

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It feels like given towards that.

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Um, then there is given towards

the, the, Hey yeah, I'll do

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what you're asking me to do.

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It's it's heavy on the warning.

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Um, light on the, yeah.

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I'll, I'll do what you're saying.

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And, and that's appropriate because as you

said, this is a high point, but it's not

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going to stay high for very long because

they're not going to do these things.

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And the audience for Chronicles is

probably primarily the returned exiles.

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So this is a good reminder for them.

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Hey, you're coming back to

the land or re-establishing,

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but don't try for, with God.

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God is not someone to trifle with.

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Trust him, fear him and obey him.

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That's a big deal.

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Otherwise you're going to suffer

the same consequences again.

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Right, right.

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Let's talk about verse 14.

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Verse 14 of second Chronicles.

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Chapter seven says this.

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If my people who are called by my name,

humble themselves and pray and seek my

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face and turn from their wicked ways,

then I will hear from heaven and will

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forgive their sin and heal their land.

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Um, you've probably seen that

verse plastered across an

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American flag on Facebook.

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Yeah.

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Or something like that.

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Yeah.

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Some variation of that.

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Right?

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Right.

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And it'll say something like praying

for our country or praying for this.

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Listen, it is, it is good.

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It is right to pray for our leaders.

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In fact, we talked about that last Sunday.

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That's an important part

of, of our obligations.

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As, as believers, we should

be praying for our leaders.

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We should be cognizant that our leaders

are put in place by a sovereign God.

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But as, as we've often said

on this podcast, and we will

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continue to say we are not Israel.

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2.0 in the United States of America.

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So when we're approaching a passage of

scripture that is written specifically

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in the original context to the people of

Israel, we have to be careful about taking

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that and applying that directly to us.

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Are there principles that

we can pull from here?

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Is it good that we would pray that as

a nation, we would humble ourselves.

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That we would pray that we would

seek the Lord, that we would turn

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as a nation from our wicked ways.

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Yeah, that's that's good.

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It to pray for revival.

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That's an appropriate thing.

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That's a good thing.

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But can we claim the promise that God will

hear forgive our sin and heal the land?

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And it specifically that last part that I

want to focus on there, it will got here.

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If, if we had revival here as a

nation would got here and forgive sin.

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Yes, absolutely.

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Because that's in keeping

with this character.

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That's what God does.

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But as far as healing, the land

goes that that's a promise.

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That's specific to Israel

in the land of Israel.

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That's.

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That's a national promise for the

people of God, the covenant people

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of God, the people of Israel, we as

dispensationalist do not believe that the

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church has replaced Israel in that regard.

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So we can't take promises specifically

made to Israel and apply them to the

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church today saying, well, Partial

fulfillment in Israel, but, but

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full fulfillment in, in the church.

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So this was a promise given to

Israel in a specific historical

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context, anticipating exile.

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And the ultimate return from exile.

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So.

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I'm not comfortable taking a verse

like this and applying it to our

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country and saying, well, this is a

good verse for the United States again.

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Should we pray for revival?

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Yes.

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Will God hear and forgive?

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Yes.

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But to apply this there it's like

when people grab Jeremiah 29 11,

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and they say, well, we'll find, know

the plans I have for you declares

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the Lord, that verse and it's needle

pointed and put up on somebody's wall.

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It's like, well, that's my life verse.

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Well, no, that was a verse that God

gave to Israel right before he sent

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them into exile saying I still got you.

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And so we can't divorce the verse

from the historical context.

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And we gotta be careful about

doing that as the church.

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Would you say there's anything

wrong then it was still, I mean,

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supposing that someone knows that.

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So was it?

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Yeah, of course this is, this

is a direct promise to Israel.

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But the overlap is large enough such that

this is still a helpful, I mean, okay.

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So if my people who are called by my name.

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Humble themselves as course

that this talking about Israel.

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It's not talking about the United States.

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Uh, but let's say maybe this person

sees I this for Christians, for

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people that are called by Christ, they

humble themselves pray and seek my

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face and turn from their wicked ways.

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And.

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It'd be a pure church is

what they have in mind.

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And then God will hear and

he'll forgive their sin.

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Obviously we talked about that and he'll

do that maybe in their, in their mind.

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They're saying, yeah.

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He's not gonna, you know, give us a better

crop yield or, you know, take out the smog

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from the air, but it's, it's going to be

good for the people and the way that they

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understand healing, the land is more.

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I don't know, it's generalized and not.

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Uh, specified or specifically apply to,

you know, blight or crops, crop failure.

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What have you.

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Can someone still legitimately use,

this is what I'm asking or do you

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think that they say no, I can't use

it because it's specific to Israel.

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I wouldn't press it specifically.

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I think.

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We serve a God that responds to, I

think the, the, the furthest, our

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precedents, we serve a God that

responds to repentance and, and.

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He will forgive.

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That's where I leave it, because

again, just they're my people

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who are called by my name.

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The United States is not

called by the name of God.

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I in, and we can argue about, you

know, our forefathers are, are.

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You know, the founding

fathers of the nation.

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We're we're Christians there's debate

there, whether or not they were Christians

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or just deists and, and that's a

different conversation for another time.

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Uh, but, but we are not listening.

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I love the United States.

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I'm not dragging the flag to the mud.

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I'm just saying we're not, we're

not God's people in the United

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States is not God's nation.

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Right.

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And so I can't say that

this verse applies beyond.

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Okay.

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What's the G what's the universal

overarching principle that we've

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learned about God from this first.

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He cares that people would

see come in humility.

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And that, that there is

something about, yeah.

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Corporately.

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We should pray for revival.

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But this is an averse

that we take and apply to.

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Our nation and I, I would say even

more so that we don't take it and

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apply it to the church because I

think that does damage by allegorizing

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something that wasn't intended to be

allegorize by the original authors.

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So when you see this graphic on your

Facebook, Page as you scroll by it.

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When you respond, you do that.

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You did the click and hold and

then you hit the angry face.

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Is that what you're telling me?

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Exactly.

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Okay.

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That's what I thought.

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No, I, I typically just scroll by it.

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Yeah.

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Mute the person for 30 days.

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And.

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Yeah, no, but you penalized.

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It is important.

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Y'all.

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We, this is God's word in, and we don't

want to be flippant or overly casual

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in how we go about the interpretation

and application of God's word.

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We have to be careful about it.

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We have to be thoughtful about it.

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Um, The word of God can never

mean what it never meant.

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Um, it's, it's, there's a divine

author behind it, but there's

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a divine author behind it.

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Who's writing it in the context of an

unfolding plan of redemptive history.

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This verse applied to the people

of Israel during a specific time

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in the unfolding plan of redemptive

history for God's people, Israel.

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Again, there are principles about God,

their truth about God that are always

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true, that we can pull from this.

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But we have to be careful not to

take it and immediately just transfer

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it unilaterally across the board

and apply it to where we are today.

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In the process of preaching.

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We go through this every

single time we study a text,

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we say, what did the text mean?

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Then?

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What's the always true principle.

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And then how do we take that

and apply it to our lives today?

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Right.

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Uh, John Stott was a, is.

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I was a pastor and a theologian.

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He wrote a book called between

two worlds that talks about that.

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Very principle that the preacher

has one foot in the ancient world.

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As he studies the text and one foot

in the contemporary world, the modern

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world, as he preaches to his people.

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And so that's something that the preacher

has to do, but that's also something that

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we have to do as good Bible students.

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We have to think about

what did it mean then?

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What does it mean always.

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And what does it mean now?

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We call that the, the, the

tan method, as it's spoken of

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in our partner's discipleship

manual, then always now T a N.

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And that's a helpful thing for

us to do so that we guard against

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grabbing something and ripping

it out of its context and just.

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Draping the flag behind it and dropping

it into our current context today.

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So just to summarize then one of

the ways that you would apply this,

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if you were going to say, well,

how do I apply this today to here?

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Now you would say, God loves repentance.

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God responds favorably.

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When people repent.

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And even though we can't say that

we are the people called by his name

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that is America or north America.

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We can't say that.

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We can't say God responds to any

people who humble themselves and seek

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him and that he will forgive sin and

whether or not he heals their land is.

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S potential, maybe, maybe

that's possible, but.

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If they've got where to send revival in

the United States, I can't imagine how.

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There would, it would be,

it would affect everything.

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So maybe God would heal their land.

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Yeah, but that's not a

guarantee or a promise.

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Right.

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And especially, again, land has

such massive significance for

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Israel within the Abrahamic con.

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Covenant context, right?

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And so it holds a different

significance than, than the

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United States land does, but yeah.

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If, listen, I think the principles, they

are a hundred percent because if God.

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Said to, to his people.

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If, if you reject me and go

after other gods, I'm, I'm

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going to do all this to you.

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How much more?

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So is he going to do that to

nations that are not his people?

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Right.

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So I think the principle can be.

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Drawn in, in that sense?

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Yes.

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All right.

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That sounds good.

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Let's turn to Chris.

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Tomlin's favorite song.

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So I'm 1 36 Psalm, 1 36.

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All right.

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Um, 1 36.

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For rev.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Unknown author.

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Did the song by the way.

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Yeah.

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We did.

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God is faithful.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Unknown author.

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Uh, it was not Chris Tomlin.

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Uh, but thematically, the Psalm certainly

fits with the dedication of the temple.

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And I think that's why it's put

here in the context of our reading,

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but it has the repeated refrain for

his steadfast love endures forever.

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Uh, give thanks to him for the

steadfast love endures forever.

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And so this is a Psalm that is.

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Is fixing our hearts, fixing our minds,

fixing our attention on something

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that is good for us to do, which is to

praise the Lord to give things to him.

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Um, and that's something that I

think as Christians, perhaps we can.

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Be prone to, to neglect

in our prayer life.

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Uh, to spend time just in expressing

our gratitude to the Lord.

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That's one of the reasons why

I really do appreciate the,

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the acronym acts for prayer.

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Adoration confession,

Thanksgiving, supplication.

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Uh, which helps you just kind of

walk through your, your prayer time.

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We talked about structuring per

time, a couple episodes ago.

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This is another way to do it.

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So ax, actsh a adoration.

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So we spend time praising God,

which we see in the Psalms.

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We see this song.

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Um, where he says to him alone,

who does great wonders, his

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steadfast love endures forever.

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We spend time confessing our sin.

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We spend time thanking him.

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There's the T.

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And that's certainly present here

for the good things in our life.

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And that is.

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Going to frame then the final part of

our per time, which is S supplication.

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If we are truly thanking God for

the good gifts in our lives, man,

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that is going to really help us

pray and make our request in a.

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Uh, helpful manner when we get to

the, that part of our per life.

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So it's going to point

out the obvious here.

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This song is very repetitious.

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He tells me God's okay.

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With repetition and music.

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Huh?

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Even though it's maybe not the best

diet to have seven 11 songs, right?

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Every worship set.

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But it seems like God's okay with this.

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Yeah.

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I mean, he, he repeats, we've

talked about that before.

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Right.

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He repeats things.

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And one of the reasons he repeats

things is to emphasize it.

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So this is a refrain that's

emphasized after, you know,

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each thing that said there.

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So yeah, I get what you're saying.

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It just in what you're putting

down, there's a place for it.

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Yeah, there's.

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There's a place in a time.

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Not that again.

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I don't even know if we do

any songs that are like that.

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The seven 11 songs.

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But I've made fun of

that old worship song.

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We used to do the yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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That one I'd put outside the balance.

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What you really?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So why, why is that any different?

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Because there's a difference

in repeating his steadfast

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love endures forever and yes.

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Yes Lord.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Hold on.

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I'm trading.

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My sorrow is saying.

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It's affirming something.

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It's affirming the truth.

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So it's like saying, amen.

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He's not saying amen.

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Cause it's it's modern vernacular.

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Yeah.

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I'm trading my sorrows.

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I'm pretty much.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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A little.

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Amen.

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He does get to AML.

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Okay, well, he's using both

the Aramaic and the English.

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I think there's another.

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Like spreading my sorrows.

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I'm treating my sickness.

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I was trading.

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I'm laying it down for the joy.

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Lord.

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Yeah.

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Uh, affirming that he

wants to join the load.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes, Lord.

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Yes, Lord.

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Yes, Lord.

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I.

540

I seen that.

541

I see, I put that in the same category.

542

Granted it's.

543

If this is a, you know, 11th grade,

that's probably more like sixth grade.

544

But I it's it's within the same category.

545

Calling it sixth grade.

546

Well, I mean, is this really 11th?

547

I don't even, I'm just kind of, I'm

giving you the sense of what I'm saying.

548

Okay.

549

All that to say.

550

Uh, there's a place for it.

551

There's a place at a time for that.

552

I don't plan on doing

that song any time soon.

553

But now that I know that you hate it, we

might do it on the week that you're gone.

554

Uh, really quick here.

555

Um,

556

I forgot.

557

What if he got me off track?

558

Pastor Pete, I didn't.

559

You're the one that brought up.

560

I'm trading my sorrows.

561

I was just trying to make a point.

562

And now I don't know what I

was going to love forever.

563

What was going to be.

564

We'll sing it forever.

565

I'm about to say the most

profound thing I've ever said.

566

I don't remember you river

runs with love for me.

567

I will open up my heart.

568

And let the healer sent me

if you're going to recite it.

569

Why not just sing it?

570

You what?

571

Because.

572

I don't want a favorite CCM song.

573

I don't know.

574

Well, what's what comes

to your head first?

575

I have no idea first.

576

Whatever comes to your head first.

577

I don't have, I don't have one

that comes to my head first.

578

Okay.

579

I don't think that's a good practice

because it could have been the

580

one that was just on the latest

Instagram, real that I just saw.

581

That doesn't mean to me.

582

My favorite one.

583

She's the one that's there.

584

Okay.

585

It's indicative at least if something.

586

Oh, I like that song.

587

I do like that song.

588

Well, Anyway.

589

All right.

590

Well, I don't know what

I was going to say.

591

It's God's sovereignty.

592

He didn't want you to say it.

593

The most profound thing I was

ever going to say, I guess.

594

Yeah.

595

So.

596

Hey, I was gonna be good.

597

You bring your Bibles tune in

tomorrow for another episode of

598

the daily Bible podcast, let's use.

599

See you then.