00:00 Introduction and Valentine's Day Plans

00:29 Listener Question: Addressing Pro-Life Concerns

01:18 Biblical Perspective on Life and Abortion

02:56 Supporting Mothers and Adoption

06:35 Vaccinations and Ethical Considerations

07:52 Exodus 37-38: Tabernacle Details

17:11 Matthew 23: Woes to the Pharisees

21:17 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

21:47 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and good morning.

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It is Thursday and February 5th, and if

you are a celebrator of Valentine's Day,

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it is coming up around the corner here.

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So maybe make plans.

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Make those reservations order you don't

go out on the day of though, right?

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That custom bouquet you

never go out on the day of.

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It's Saturday this year.

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Yeah, that's the worst day It is.

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I go out around the Valentine's

Day, not on Valentine's Day.

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Yeah, who does that?

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Yeah, probably lots of people.

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We're not trying to throw

you under the bus here.

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That's true.

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You know, I had a

question come in recently.

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It's not through the

podcast normal channels.

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Okay.

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But it's related to something

that you did on Sunday.

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You brought up this gal from the

women's, from Preston Preparation,

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Preston Prestonwood, pregnancy

Center, Prestonwood Pregnant.

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That that was close.

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Yes.

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Prestonwood Pregnancy Center.

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And she made a passionate appeal for help

and for prayer to support the movement.

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And by that we mean pro-life, right?

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I had a conversation with somebody

after that, and they're not a Christian.

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But they were asking how do Christians,

and I guess he has talking points, he's

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heard things online, but how do Christians

deal with the question of the R word?

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Mm-hmm.

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And the things that happen after that.

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So if a baby occurs, there's a

pregnancy after that, why would you

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make the mother go through that?

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Yeah.

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Doesn't, isn't this one of those

times where it's justified Yeah.

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To do something like this?

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Why or why not?

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Talk about that.

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Yeah.

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I think we need to talk about the

separation of the life the mother is

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carrying from the life of the mother.

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And that's one thing that I

think the pro-choice the death

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culture doesn't get right.

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And that is that they deny that the life

has its own rights that that child has

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just as much of a right to live as anybody

else on the face of the planet does.

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And it's not even a question

of is it life anymore?

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That used to be the battlefield

for the question of Roe v,

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Wade and everything else.

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A lot of times now you'll get those

that are pro-choice, that will say, we

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don't have a problem telling you that

this is a living clump of cells, or

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whatever it is that they wanna call it.

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Fetus.

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Yeah.

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They're saying it doesn't have any

rights and which is Latin for baby.

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Yes.

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Even to the point of birth and to the

point of even sometimes now in some

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states, live birth takes place and

there's still a window where a mother

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can decide at that point even what to do.

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Yeah.

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California just extended it

like months or something.

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Yeah.

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Which is tragically and

horrifically wicked.

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So that would come back to the

scenario that you just asked.

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That baby is not guilty of the sin that

led to the conception of that baby.

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That what led to the

conception of the baby.

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Her horrible, sinful, no doubt about it.

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But that baby is life.

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And as Christians, we have to come

back to the fact that this life

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is a life that God has created.

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God doesn't create life on an accident.

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God doesn't say, oops, I

didn't mean for that one.

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So let's go ahead and take that one out.

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And that's whether that is.

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Is this instance, or you've got a

situation where they run the tests

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on the baby in utero and find out

that this baby is gonna be born with

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deformities or born with genetic issues,

cognitive issues, whatever the life

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is still precious in the sight of God.

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Now, long term, what does that look like?

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Are there situations where it might be too

much for that mother to raise that child?

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Sure you could see a scenario like

that, and that's where, as Christians,

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I think it's important that we do

support things like adoption and

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promote those options when necessary.

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But I think we can also understand and

believe that God's big enough to redeem

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a situation, even as horrific as that,

to cause that mother to love that child

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in a way that is just like any other

mother child relationship when someone

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responds with, that's incredibly cruel.

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It's cruel to make a young woman do that.

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She'll be reminded every day for the rest

of her nine months carrying that child and

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perhaps the rest of her life, knowing that

there's a child out there that has half

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of her DNA and half of this other guy.

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Yeah, it's cruel to make her do that.

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How would you respond to

someone who's saying, this is

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horrific to make her do this?

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She'd had no choice in the matter.

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Yeah.

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She's not a participant.

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This seems like an obvious case where

we want to mitigate her trauma and her

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suffering By, I mean, today there's

options where you can go to the pharmacy

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right within a few hours and get

something to cause things to be right.

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Flushed out or even in the mail?

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In the mail.

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I guess I say that only because

conception can take several hours.

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Yeah.

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After the deed is done.

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Yeah.

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So in theory then, if several

hours within that timeframe, she's

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able to go to the CVS and pick up

something to cause the uterus to.

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Reject its layer.

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Right?

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Is that okay?

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Can she do that?

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'cause that's not technically an abortion.

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And yet we don't know.

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Right.

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We don't know because we don't know

whether life was gonna conceive or not.

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And so I would say no.

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It, that, that would not be okay.

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And coming back to this, I.

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I think as the church, we should

be ready to walk through this

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process with this young woman.

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I don't think this is a situation of

just looking at her going, well, you

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can't because it's wrong to kill a

baby, and so you need to move on with

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your life and carry this baby, and

then you can give it up for adoption.

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And then the, there's the

bandaid and everything's fine.

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No, we need to be ready and willing

to walk through this and to love her

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and to help her see the gift of life

and to help her understand that this

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is a child that God has created

and that God is even giving to her.

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And I think.

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It pursuing her if she's not saved with

the gospel or if she is encouraging and

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reminding her of biblical truths and

biblical realities about this life and

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that this life is not the monster that

did this thing to her, but that this

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life is a life that is here and the.

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The better choice between

it's an awful thing.

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It's a cruel thing.

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Well, we have to say, okay, is

it more cruel to say we want you

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to carry this baby to full term?

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Or is it more cruel to say, no, we're

gonna go ahead and extinguish this life.

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We're gonna take this person out.

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We're gonna kill this person so that

you don't have to go through these

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nine months of a difficult season.

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And that's where again, we have to

put our money where our mouth is and

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be willing to walk through that with

her and support her and help her plan

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for this, and help her provide for if

that's necessary and so forth and so on.

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Yeah.

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Amen to that.

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Man.

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They, the problem that I see is that

the justice of the baby's denied, right?

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The baby is an innocent

bystander of this, right?

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He didn't choose it.

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She didn't say, oh

look, I'm gonna be born.

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Right.

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She and he are.

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Are just there, they just show up

and they have no idea about the

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circumstances that led to their arrival.

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But the baby doesn't deserve

to be punished, right?

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Any more than, a grandson of a

slave holder deserves to be punished

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because his grandpa held the slaves.

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He has nothing to do with that.

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Yeah, he might've benefited

from that, but it doesn't mean

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that he's morally culpable.

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And so, in a similar sense, we're

gonna say the baby is innocent,

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as innocent as they could be.

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Obviously we do believe in the

depravity of man, but the baby didn't.

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Choose to do anything evil.

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The baby is just a, an innocent bystander.

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And so we don't wanna punish the

baby for the dad's evil deeds.

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And we would always say that

a baby is an unmitigated good.

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A baby's always an unmitigated good,

even if the circumstances that led to

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that baby are an unmitigated bad, an

evil it gets complex because, I guess

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related to this then, lots of people

are concerned about taking vaccinations.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because what was used is an embryonic

stem cell, or multiple, mm-hmm.

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Stem cells.

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Mm-hmm.

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To create this vaccination.

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Do we apply a similar principle

to that, even though it might've

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been evil, what was done to

gain those embryonic stem cells?

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Is the vaccination something that we could

say, well, that's an unmitigated good.

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Assuming that the science is all there,

obviously there's complications with

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some of the latest mRNA vaccinations.

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Right?

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But is it a similar

principle at work there?

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I think it is.

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You taking the vaccine is not making

you complicit in the act that led

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to the development of the vaccine.

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Right.

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And if you've got the option of we

can just take these cells and destroy

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them and they can go into the ether or

whatever, or we can take them and there

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can be some good to be found in this.

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It's not that we celebrate the

act that led to that, but you're

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not complicit in the act itself by

saying, I'm gonna take that vaccine.

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Right.

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So we can still say we can honor

the life of that baby, right?

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And celebrate the life of that baby.

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Because even though the circumstances

by that led to that baby were

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evil, the baby itself, the

baby himself is an unmitigated.

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Good?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Big questions.

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Exodus 37 through 38, that's our Old

Testament reading for today, and then

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we'll be in Matthew chapter 23 for

the rest of the woes to the Pharisees.

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Chapter 37, we get more on the furniture

specifically with the tabernacle.

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So we've got the arc, we've got

the table, we've got the lampstand

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and the altar of incense here.

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In chapter 38, we'll get into the

altar of burnt offering, the bronze

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basin and the outer court there.

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So, this is a kind of the

heart of the Tabernacles,

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what we're reading about here.

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And one of the things that struck me this

time, I, we talked about how there's a lot

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of repetition in this section and there

is, I think in both sections it's there.

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But what.

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Stood out to me this time

reading it a second time.

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And again, this is one of the evidences

of why it's good to read these things

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multiple times is all of the gold that's

present in the tabernacle, just all of

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it is so many things overlaid with gold.

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Overlaid with gold.

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Overlaid with gold.

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It was a, it was an opulent.

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Edifice.

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The building itself was just beautiful

with the curtains and everything.

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But then when you walked inside,

it would've been brilliant with the

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lights from the lamp stand shining

and burning, and then seeing it

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reflect off of all of the gold there.

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This was quite the showy worship

center, for lack of a better term.

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Yeah.

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And what's interesting about that is the

closer you get into the concentration

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of God's glory the more gold there is.

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Mm-hmm.

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And the further out you get

from it, the less gold there is.

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And as we talk about this in

chapter, I think 38, we start

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looking at bronze which has to do a

lot more with the judgment of God.

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In fact, that's one of the things that.

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Sets Solomon's kingdom apart

is when they lose all the gold.

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It becomes bronze laden

as opposed to golden.

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So the closer you get to the

concentration of God's glory the more

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precious stones, the more precious

material metal is being used.

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And of course, the idea behind that is.

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God deserves the most precious God

deserves the most opulent, the most

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glorious, because he is those things.

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And even those things are just a

shadow and a flicker of the true

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glory that emanates from God himself.

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The making of the arc.

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The arc is his throne.

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He doesn't have a body.

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Obviously.

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John chapter four tells us God is

spirit and therefore he doesn't

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have a place to sit, but it is

representative of his throne.

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It's the concentration and this

is the arc that sits behind.

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The Holy of Holies that, yeah,

that curtain where it's protected.

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And so this is the thing that

you would only see once a year.

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This is the thing that everybody

would love to see today.

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I think it's, there's

one of above in heaven.

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I don't know if it's the original

right, but one is in heaven.

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And so the arc itself is probably

the highest and holiest of objects.

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But the table that that he's referring

to here in verses 10 through 16.

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This is the table of the bread, is this?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The shirt.

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The table for the bread.

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Yeah.

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So this one, if, when you

walk into the tabernacle, this

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would've been on your right side.

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The left side would've been the menorah

which is right below this section here.

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So left and right.

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The table for the bread is

where the bread would sit.

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And this is the representation

of God having communion and

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fellowship with the 12 tribes.

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There was 12 pieces of

bread there, a lampstand.

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That was continually lit, would've

represented the spirits and his work

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among his people, them also being

the light of the world, God being

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their light, the altar of incense.

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This is also sitting

right before the curtain.

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What did this represent?

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The altar of incense the.

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Sorry, sorry.

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Looking up something else while

you were asking that, is that x.com

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that you're on which is not, it's the site

that it sounds like it's, no, it's not.

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It's like Twitter.

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No, I was looking up something about the

lamp stand that I had a question about

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earlier, but the alter of incense that,

that aroma, that we talked about act Yes.

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Couple days ago.

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Whenever what it was for man or for God.

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Oh yeah.

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The pleasing aromas there.

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That's part of the pleasing

aromas that were part of the

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worship of the the incenses.

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I also noticed later on and we're

not there yet, but the smoke from the

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altar of incense or from the incense is

the cloud that covers the mercy seat.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which is interesting.

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Yeah.

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And I guess in part we see the.

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Alter, or we see incense at least

reappear in the book of Revelation.

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Yeah.

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And the incense represents

the prayers of the saints.

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They go up to the Lord.

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And so I think there's something

still connected in there.

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I think Genesis, or rather Exodus and

Revelation are connected in that regard.

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But the altar of incense, y that

this was not often touched either.

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So the arc and the altar, those

two pieces of furniture were

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the super most important ones.

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Yeah.

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They're the ones that are

closest to this century anyway.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I was curious when I was reading this

time around about the almond flowers.

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Why the lamp stand had

the almond blossoms on it.

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Oh, and the CAEs, I think it's design.

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No, it is design, but also the

suggestion was the almond blossom

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connected it to Aaron's staff.

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Because when Aaron staff butted the

representing his priestly authority,

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it was sprouting and budding and bo

bearing almond blossoms overnight.

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And so I didn't realize

that was an Alman staff.

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At least that's what the the resource

that I consulted, which is Ian

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Duge and Kent Hughes from numbers.

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And so their commentary on numbers

points to the fact that Aaron's

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staff would've sprouted own blossoms.

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That's after though, right after this.

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Yeah.

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His staff doesn't bud until later.

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Unless, yeah, I think we're before that.

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We are, before that I think

it's still a connection point.

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But what the re relevance is, they

wouldn't have known that at that time.

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Yeah, that's well pointed.

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Yeah.

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And then also just the idea of

life because the almond blossoms

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were some of the earliest blossoms

that sprouted in the spring.

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No, I don't know that.

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So cool.

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Yeah, and I guess that's a valid

question of how much we press symbolism

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in some of these things, like why

there's pomegranates that are woven

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in and why there's, these things

and that some of it we don't know.

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Yeah.

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And there is the mystery there.

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And that's where you're what you just did

is instructive because you're gonna have

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to say, okay, is there a symbol here?

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Well, let me look through

scripture and see has it been used

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elsewhere for a certain purpose?

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And that's a really helpful

way to say is a symbolism that

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I'm thinking about, is that a.

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A helpful way to approach this,

or am I just inventing things?

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Because you can get really creative

with scripture and there's some people

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that would encourage you to do that.

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We wanna be as tethered as possible

to the text, and that just means

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saying, that just means looking

at these symbols and saying, where

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can I see some of this connected?

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And scripture does a

good job of that for us.

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One of those symbols.

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I think your point about the bronze

is helpful too and 'cause you

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might be tempted to think, well

maybe bronze, is the burnt altar

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a higher melting point than gold?

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It's actually the opposite.

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Gold has a higher melting

point than bronze does.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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So this isn't just that they're

trying to make it more functional.

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I think your points either the

quality and the distance from the

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Holy of Holies, theirs is notable.

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The rest of chapter 38, we get more

of these materials, all the gold used.

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We're gonna start counting things up.

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We're gonna start giving numbers here

as far as how much we see the count

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of the men, again, as 600, 3,550 men.

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And that's keeping with the number

of those that left with Moses at the

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Exodus that we read about earlier.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so we see some consistency

there between those numbers.

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But this is.

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The Israel coming together

to say we're behind this.

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This is gonna be exciting.

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We want this.

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And I think seeing the effects in

Moses and even just Moses coming down

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the from the mountain with his face,

a glow, would've motivated them even

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more to say, let's get this done.

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This is a good thing for us to do.

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I still just wanna know

who these women are.

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Verse eight.

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He made the Bain of bronze and its

stand of bronze from the mirrors of

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the ministering women who ministered

in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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These women perplexed me.

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In case you're wondering, by the way,

bronze was used highly polished bra

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bronze was brushed to make it reflective.

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Yeah.

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And so that's what he's

talking about here.

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So the bronze alter and basin were, may,

maybe not as dingy as you might think.

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They were highly polished and

they came from the mirrors.

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What's so interesting here is that you

have women who are serving serving in

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the entrance of the attentive meeting.

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Which is, in my estimation, as

I understand that, that would

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be entering into the court.

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Is that how you understand

that, or would they be at the

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entrance of the actual tent?

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Yeah, I don't think they were at

the entrance of the actual tent.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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So this would have to be

like in the courtyard area.

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Right.

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They're standing somewhere.

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So this is fascinating

because I would expect.

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This is my expectation and this is wrong.

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Clearly, I would expect that if

whatever their function is, God would've

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said, and by the way, you may allow

the women to serve in this capacity.

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They can be the welcome team, or they

can be the hospitality team, and here's

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what they do and here's how they're

supposed to be clean and all these things.

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None of that in the text.

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Yeah.

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Not a single shred of

anything about these women.

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And here they are.

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They're just serving and

clearly this is okay.

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This is not looked down upon.

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This is not corrected.

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Moses doesn't have an issue with this.

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Aaron has no issue.

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This is just stated here,

like this is a matter of fact.

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Whatever's happening here,

it went without being said.

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It was one of those things like,

of course this is what's happening.

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And I wanna know more.

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The scripture says nothing else about them

except for one Samuel chapter two, where

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eli's sons Hni and PHUs and PHUs, yeah.

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Are doing things inappropriately

with these ladies.

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That's the only other

time you hear about them.

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Yeah.

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So I'm fascinated.

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I don't know what to do with that

other than to say who are they?

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I don't know.

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Yeah.

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What do you do with that?

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Give us a principle.

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They're the mysterious

things belong to the Lord.

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Secret things belong to the Lord.

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What's so interesting is that throughout

this whole thing, and we're seeing it,

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Moses is following the Lord to the T.

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Yeah.

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And that's what's so commendable

about Israel right now.

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Right.

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They're doing what they should do.

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Yeah.

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There are things that God didn't

tell them to do that they're

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like, we're just gonna do this.

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And it was fine.

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Like these women.

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Yeah.

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Certainly women were involved

in the cultic religions at the

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entrance of temples, right?

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As you're referring to For bad reasons.

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Yeah, for bad reasons.

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So maybe, maybe though it

wasn't all bad reasons.

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Maybe there were things that

they did that were, that made

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sense, that were beneficial.

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Maybe they had a serving capacity

of providing, they had to, yeah.

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Something.

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So they were doing something

here, and I think Israel's looking

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to redeem that in this role.

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That's a great, that's

a great take on that.

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It's just the absence is glaring to me.

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It's, it's one of those things,

God is so specific about what

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he wants, and yet, here we go.

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Here are you rest of

chapter 23 in Matthew.

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Then we started yesterday as

we looked at the first of.

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The seven woes, the first

three of the seven woes.

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Now we're gonna get into it.

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Woe 4, 5, 6, and seven in

the rest of chapter 23.

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And here he's gonna go much

more after their hypocrisy.

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He's going to talk to them about

them being like whitewashed tombs,

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which is quite an indictment.

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That's wo number six.

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Or wo number.

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Yeah, one.

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Number six, that they look good on the

outside, but inside they're full of death.

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One.

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Number five.

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Similarly, you're like a bowl,

a dish that looks good on the

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outside, but inside it's gross.

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You don't want to eat out of it.

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And he's just talking about, yeah,

you're righteous on the outside,

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but you, the problem is you're

not righteous on the inside.

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And this reminds me of.

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The Sermon on the Mount when Jesus

began the Sermon on the Mount by saying,

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unless your righteousness exceeds outta

the scribes and the Pharisees, you'll

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never enter the kingdom of heaven.

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The righteousness, the scribes and

the Pharisees had they were great

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externally, but as Jesus goes on

in the Sermon on the Mount to say

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that the problem is not all just.

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The external, but the

problem is the internal.

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The problem is the heart.

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Even as Jesus begins to go through and en

list those laws, you've heard it said, do

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not murder, but if you're angry with your

brother you're guilty of this again here.

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He's coming after the Ferris.

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He's saying the same

thing in a different way.

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You look good on the outside.

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You're righteousness on the outside.

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Fine, it's intact, but.

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Internally, you've got a massive

problem and that's the issue

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that you really need to solve.

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Yeah.

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I still keyed in on verse 23

where he says, you've neglected

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the weightier matters of the law.

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Yeah.

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Which tells me that Jesus understands

that there is a ranking of the laws.

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They don't all have the same

bearing at the same time, but he

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doesn't let them off the hook.

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He says, look, you should

have done the heavier things.

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Justice mercy, faithfulness without

neglecting the lesser things.

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And so they're not off the hook.

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He's saying, great, you did a great

job doing the itty bitty things,

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but you left out the most important

things, which here he identifies as

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justice, mercy, and faithfulness.

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Yeah.

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The final woe you scribes and

pharisees, you build the tombs of the

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prophets and decorate the monuments

of the righteous saying, if we had

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lived in the days of our fathers, we

would not have taken part with them.

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And so what Jesus is saying here

is, you're perpetuating the same

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problem that your forefathers did.

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You, you are building.

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Their tombs.

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You appear like you're honoring

them, but they were pointing to

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me essentially and me saying, and

you're missing it all over again.

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And so you are perpetuating this.

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It's as though their blood is upon you.

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Again, it was upon your

forefathers for rejecting them.

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It's upon you as well because

you're rejecting the message,

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even though you see the one that's

come to fulfill the message.

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Standing right here in your midst.

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In this last few verses here, I just wanna

point to your attention as you read this.

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Notice how Jesus talks to

Jerusalem and of course Jerusalem.

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He's not talking to the city, he's

talking to people in there, obviously.

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Here's what he says.

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How often would I have gathered you?

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And he says, you were not willing.

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He doesn.

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Point to the sovereignty of God.

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He doesn't point to God's elective choice.

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He points to their willingness and he

says, I would have done these things

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if you were willing to do those things.

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I think this is important and interesting.

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Important.

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Well, let me start with the interesting.

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It's interesting because scripture so

often what we understand God is sovereign.

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He makes choices and ultimately

the secret things belong to him, as

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we just quoted, Deuteronomy 29 29.

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Mm-hmm.

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But notice here he's saying,

I would've done these things.

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You weren't willing.

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It's not that I wasn't willing.

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You weren't willing.

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Right?

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So interesting and important,

important because we want to get

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the tenor of scripture, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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We believe everything scripture

says, and so we're gonna say with

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God, he's sovereign overall things.

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And at the same time, there is a

real, something that's happening here.

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There's a real choice

that Jesus is pointed to.

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You.

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Were not willing, I was

willing you weren't.

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So endlessly interesting.

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Don't simplify God.

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Don't put him in a box, as

some of my friends would accuse

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me of when I became reformed.

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Don't put God in a box here by trying

to simplify the way that this works.

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What we see here is that clearly

Jesus says you had a genuine

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choice, however that worked

out, but God is also sovereign.

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Yeah, no, for sure.

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And this is one of the reasons why y'all

we're not gonna get bored in heaven.

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We're always going to have more to,

to try to figure out about God and

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opportunities to ask more questions and

get more answers, because it's not like

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we're gonna get to heaven and immediately

understand how all this stuff works.

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We're gonna spend eternity trying

to understand more and more and

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more about who he is and how

he works and how he operates.

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That'll be fun.

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Maybe you'll have a podcast there still.

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Subscribe to our heavenly podcast.

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We'll compete with Paul and Peter.

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Oh, I think they'll win.

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Well, I'm gonna try outdo 'em.

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All right, let's pray.

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God, I pray that we would be hungry to

know as much about you as we possibly can,

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and that certainly comes from your word.

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And so I pray that you'd keep us reading,

keep us questioning, keep us asking good

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questions, not just letting our eyes

glaze over the page, but looking for

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things that we want to know more about.

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And so thanks for your word and the

opportunity that we have to know it

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and to read it and to understand it.

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Lord, make us more like Jesus as a result

of our time in it through your spirit.

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So we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles, y'all and

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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