00:00 Welcome and Pastor Mark

06:10 Deuteronomy 11 Obedience

08:47 Deuteronomy 12 Worship Center

11:56 Deuteronomy 13 False Prophets

16:13 Mark 13 Temple and End

19:06 Prayer

19:48 Podcast Outro

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to Tuesday's edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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And by the way, if you're

wondering, where is Pastor Mark?

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Remember Pastor Mark

is, why is he not here?

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He's joining us Tuesdays and Thursdays

for recording as he's in office with us.

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But then Saturdays, which is when

we do these three episodes he is

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not in on Saturday with us, so he

may occasionally jump in with us.

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But if you're going, where's Pastor Mark?

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He'll be back.

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Don't worry.

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We've heard the masses, we've heard.

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Uproarious ERVs Applause

that people love Pastor Mark.

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Yeah, I heard good things.

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I recently, I was talking to some people

and they're like, I like Pastor Mark.

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He's a great addition.

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Yeah.

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And my wife said, he's got insights

that you and Pastor PJ never talk about.

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He's so much smarter than you.

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And I like him way better.

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And I'm just kidding.

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But she did compliment him quite a bit,

saying he has insightful things to say

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and I thought, yeah I like him too.

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I just find him, he's a lot more fun.

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A third party.

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Sure.

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When it's two against one even better.

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Yeah.

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That's when I love that we

get to do fun things together.

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We get to laugh.

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It's enjoyable.

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Well, pastor Mark wanted

to do Saturday with us.

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We're not gonna say no, no, we're

gonna say bring it, but if he

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doesn't and he wants to be with

his family, then okay, fine.

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Yeah.

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Draw the lines where you will, buddy.

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Yeah.

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My mom listens to our podcast.

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She likes his contributions, so.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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He's fun.

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I like him too.

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Anyways, we're gonna keep 'em around.

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We are gonna keep 'em around.

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Hey, don't forget, we've

got extravaganza coming up.

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That's part of our Easter outreach.

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So if you've got candy that you can bring

to the church or even swing by the church

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offices, I know it would be appreciated.

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We're going for 9,000 eggs this year.

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Wow.

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That's a lot of eggs.

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That's a ton of eggs.

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Well, we want eggs and candy.

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In the eggs?

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Yes.

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If I'm not mistaken.

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Yes.

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And by the way, chocolate's the way to go.

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Lemme just tell you

it's gonna melt easier.

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Yes.

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So hopefully it's not a really hot

day, but chocolate is so much better,

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by the way, I didn't tell you this.

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Okay.

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All right.

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I'm telling you something for

the first time, breaking news.

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Well, we Okay.

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On a whim?

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Yes.

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We're watching this random

YouTube video, okay.

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About this company that makes

Turkish delights in Turkey.

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It's Istanbul.

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Okay.

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Do you know this company?

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No, I guess they're very famous.

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Okay.

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They're very popular.

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They have a location in

London, Istanbul and Frisco.

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Maybe, hold on.

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I don't think it's in the States yet.

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There's another location that's a big

location anyway the, it's called Hafi.

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Mustafa.

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Okay.

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And they make these circus delights

and Christian and the kids got

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some from some local shop because

of Edmond from the line Yeah.

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Chronicles the morning, right?

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He sold his brothers and sisters

in, or his sister and brothers.

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Sisters.

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Sisters and brother.

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Yes.

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Anyway, he sold his siblings in for some

Turkish delights, so I thought, how fun.

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I bet these are tasty.

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So I ordered them from Istanbul.

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That's intense man.

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They came from Istanbul,

so I ordered some.

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They came within three

days, which I was shocked.

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You order something from Istanbul,

Turkey and it came within three days.

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Days.

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I could not believe it.

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I could not believe it.

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Anyway, we got this box of Turkish

delights and I must say I'm a fan.

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What flavor?

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There's some, I'm looking Variety.

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Variety pack.

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Okay.

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Because I don't know what to get.

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Like, I dunno what they taste like.

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I had no idea.

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I don't even know what they're made of.

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There's rose flavored Turkish to delight.

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I think I tried it.

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I'm not sure.

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Ah, I did not know.

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I just got it.

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I thought, this will be fun.

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It'll be fun for the kids.

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And it's from Turkey, which I

told the kids, which makes sense.

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Bible Land.

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This is where people, this is where

some of the first churches were planted.

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Yeah.

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In Turkey.

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Yeah.

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Macedonia.

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So I thought it was really, it

would be really cool regardless,

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even if I didn't like them.

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But I, it turns out I really enjoy them.

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Hafi, Mustafa, Turkish Delights.

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I recommend you try them.

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I'm on Grand Turkish bazaar right

now, so, I don't really know

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anything about that, but it makes

sense that they're made in Turkey.

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'cause otherwise it's false advertising.

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These say traditionally

handmade in instant Bowl Turkey.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Best delight.

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You can try.

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I mean, I took them at their work again.

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I watched a YouTube video Yeah.

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Of their whole production

process and their expansion,

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and I was like, you know what?

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I'm gonna do this.

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So I liked it.

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This says the order will be sent as

vacuumed, which, you know, it's a

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good site because there are words that

are capitalized in the text here that

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shouldn't be capitalized, but they are.

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I see.

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I would I ordered directly

from ha's Mustafa.

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Okay, well this guy, I don't

know anything about it.

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I'm gonna send, wait.

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No, I see.

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It says, ha's Mustafa on here?

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Brand.

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Brand.

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That's brand.

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One of the brands that you can brand.

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Brand from the Grand Turkish bazaar.

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You should go Huff's.

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Mustafa.

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At least there's for the fun of it.

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Okay.

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You guys could read Lion Witch in

the wardrobe, order some of these

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Turkish delights and try them and

see if you're, if they're worth

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you trading your family in for.

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So it, they weren't Turkish delights,

but back when we were in California,

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I used to go do a men's Bible

study with a group of Armenian.

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Guys that were there.

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Oh, and they did street

tacos, I'm guessing.

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And you loved them?

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No, because I know you love street tacos.

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No, but one of the guys, his wife would

cook and she would make the best food.

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It was amazing.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so I know we have some

Armenian people in our church.

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Mm.

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I'm just saying if you've got

some grandmas want to street

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tacos and make dinner, I would

gladly accept the invitation.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So I'm feeling a bit weird now because

you're super amenable to Armenian

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food, but when Mexicans make you

food, you're like, that's all right.

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Not Armenian food.

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Didn't, we're not talking

free will food, Armenian food.

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We're talking to people.

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Not the theology was soft.

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It was, well, who knows?

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Are they Armenians who are making

Armenians, making Armenian food?

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Have you asked them?

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We don't know if they were, it would

be because of God's sovereignly

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allowing them to make their food.

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Well, I'm gonna pray that God would

sovereignly make you enjoy street tacos.

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Okay, well, let's get into our Daily

Bible podcast, but Hafi, Mustafa, Mustafa.

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Which means lion in Turkish, I believe.

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I think that's Musa.

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Mufasa is that Lion King?

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That's what it is.

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Mufasa.

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And that's not, I saw an X.

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There were these guys who

were singing like, ah, yeah,

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the guy that translated it.

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Yeah.

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He said, look, it is a lion.

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Yes, I saw that too.

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That's all this whole time.

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For years I've been singing

that and I had no idea.

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Yeah.

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And with the translation is actually

worse 'cause I'm taking out the OMG part.

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Yeah.

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That they say, look, it's a lion.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Sorry.

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Crazy if you know what

we're talking about.

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That's the translation of the Lion King

at the beginning opening scene where

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that person is singing in the background.

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But that's crazy that Mufasa

makes Turkish delight too.

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So, yeah, and James Earl Jones, I

don't know if he gets a kickback

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from this, but his family would

appreciate if you buy them.

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Didn't he die recently?

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I don't think it's recent.

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I think in the last 10 years.

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Okay.

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Well, but he's no longer with us.

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He is no longer with us.

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That's correct.

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Yeah.

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Alright, well, hey, Deuteronomy,

chapter 11 through 13, Deuteronomy

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11 gets into talking about the land

that the Lord your God is giving you.

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The land is the repeated focus here

of Moses' words in this chapter, and

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there are reminders about the blessings

which are gonna come from obedience and

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the curses which flow from rebellion.

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We're gonna get into a lot

of that in Deuteronomy 28.

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But we see some of it here and what

I've started to do this time running

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through is circling when I see an if.

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Then formula in the law, because

there's a lot of those where God's gonna

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say, if you obey, if you're careful,

then I'm gonna do this to bless you.

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But if you disobey, then

you need to know this.

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And so as we read Deuteronomy,

one of the things that we should

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understand is when Israel.

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Is going to rebel against God.

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They cannot plead ignorance.

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They cannot say, wait a minute.

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We didn't know that it

was going to involve this.

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We didn't know that we were

gonna have to suffer this much.

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And I think there's a correlation there

for us in the New Testament as well.

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I don't think anybody who's

exposed to the truth of God's word.

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Can say at the end of the day,

wait a minute, we didn't know that

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there wasn't gonna be a second

chance for us after we died.

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And that's one of the reasons why

Jesus even says to the one that's

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given much, much is gonna be required.

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And those that have been

exposed to the word of God have

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already been given so much.

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When we think of the wisdom, the

truth, the knowledge that we have

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here, and we need to pay attention

when it says if this, then this.

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Right?

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And part of that is if you love the

Lord, then you will do what he says.

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11 one says, you shall therefore

love the Lord your God.

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And keep his charge, his statutes, his

rules, and his commandments always.

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We've seen this now several times over,

and he's not done saying this, but it's

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important that you see Moses repeating

this these, I don't know, four or five

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sermons that we read about in Deuteronomy,

is Moses trying to marshal everything

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he can to influence the people of Israel

to give their full and their all to

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the Lord, to the point where you're

saying, look, if you guys do good.

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Good things happen.

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Yeah.

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This is how life works.

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And if you rebel, then bad

things are gonna happen.

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And so he says verse eight, you

shall therefore keep the whole

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commandments everything that God says.

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Now, don't go to the left.

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Don't go to the right.

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Stay faithful and focus on what

God says, and you can't go wrong.

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Now that requires him to work at it

and that, that's why he says here.

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You shall lay up these

words of mind in verse 18.

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You shall you'll put them in your

heart and you shall bind them.

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He is doing everything you can possible

to make sure that you are tethered to

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the word of God all day and all night.

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And in no generation is it easier

and harder to do that than today.

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Easier because you have so many options.

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Harder because you're so bombarded

by so many different, fun, exciting,

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dopamine inducing distractions.

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In fact verses what is that?

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18 down through 18 through 21.

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It's essentially the Shama repeated

again here from chapter six.

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Right.

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Alright, dear Army 12, then this this

chapter is gonna lay out the plans

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for a centralized place of worship.

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So when they get into the promised

Land, it's not just gonna be, Hey

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everyone, worship wherever you want,

but God is gonna say, I'm gonna

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put my name in a specific place

and that's gonna change eventually.

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Obviously we know today

that that is Jerusalem.

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It's going to move there eventually,

but it's going to be in a couple of

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different places before it gets there,

and that's where the tabernacle would be.

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But no longer are sacrificing the

offerings gonna be permitted just

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anywhere that the Israelites saw fit.

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But instead, they were gonna have to

bring their offerings to the Lord out

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a place that he was gonna designate

for these things to take place.

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He was gonna say, this is

where you shall bring your

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offerings, and yet he's gonna be.

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He's going to conceive to some

and say if you can't make it,

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if it's too far, it's okay.

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Here's what you should do

instead in those situations.

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Yeah.

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Such an interesting, complex

combination of God's firmness and

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saying this is the way it is, and

also his condescension to say.

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But also if this were to happen,

here's another way to do these things.

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Okay.

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Let me go back.

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We talked yesterday.

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Was it yesterday, about the

destruction of the people?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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One of the things that God is particularly

concerned about is that they not be

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influenced to worship God the wrong way.

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Which is why he says you can't

tolerate living with people like this.

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And so he says in verse four, you shall

not worship the Lord your God in that

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way, but you shall seek the right place.

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And that's why in verse three, he

says, you shall tear down their altars

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and dash in peace their pillars,

and burn their asim with fire.

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He doesn't want them diluting

or compromising the pure

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unadulterated worship of Yahweh.

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Now, if I could just draw a quick

parallel, if you'll allow this.

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We need to be as ruthless with our

little sins in the camp that they

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were with sinners in their camp.

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They were told it's dangerous for

you to let them live near you.

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You can't have them close by unless

they entice you with their sin.

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And the same thing is

true with our sin today.

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It's not a person usually

it's just a practice.

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There's And in your phone, I know, I

heard some people to, to your sermon.

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They deleted their Instagram.

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Yeah.

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And I think, man I hope,

yeah, that's a great thing.

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I hope we can take that same

mentality and apply that everywhere.

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'cause it's more than Instagram, although

it's not a small player in the game.

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There's so many areas where we

allow little sins to dwell with us.

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Yeah.

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And we tolerate them.

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And I think the same mentality

of vigorous, even violent.

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Work against our idols would do us a great

deal of service so that we might worship

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the Lord in purity and unadulterated

love and affection, which goes back

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to what we've been talking about in

one Peter, is our identity as exiles.

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That sounds exhausting and if it sounds

exhausting to you, I think you get it.

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And I often think of the older saints

that I've seen towards the end of

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their lives who can't wait to be

done, who can't wait to go to heaven.

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They're not.

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Excited to leave their family, their loved

ones behind, but they don't fear death.

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And part of the reason is because

they can't wait to be free from

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the battle that it is here in our

flesh, to continually have to root

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sin out in all of its influences

everywhere we find it in our lives.

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And so I think when you see a seasoned

believer, an older saint who's nearing

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the end of their life, that's one

of the reasons why they're so ready.

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It's not just because they're physically

tired, they're also spiritually tired

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of having to live here as exiles and

continually battle the temptations

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that pull us towards the sinful

things all over the place here.

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Chapter 13.

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The word devotion is probably a word

that could sum up this chapter and

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it's devotion in a couple senses.

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Devotion to the Lord, but also devotion

of anything to your point that is

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a threat to the purity of the Lord.

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Devotion of those things to destruction.

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And he talks about false prophets here.

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He talks about testing them and what

to do with them and to give them no

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quarter, but to put them to death.

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This was not anything that was

to be entertained softly here.

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And we still see.

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False prophets today.

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It's, we're not stoning anybody, but

maybe there, there should be more done

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than is and there's a lot, I think we

talked about Mike Winger recently, but

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Mike Winger has been doing a lot about

some of the Bethel Church movement as

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well as IHOP and KC and some other people

where if you have a background in that or

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you have family members that have gotten

wrapped up in that, I would encourage

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you to check out winger's videos.

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He's doing some pretty thorough

expose work on just the.

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The insidious nature of the false

prophecy that's taking place today, even

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in those churches and in those places.

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Do you think it's possible that God can

still be doing good work in a ministry

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like that even when the main leader

himself is compromised, that maybe the

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founding person of a b, C ministry,

can God still be using those things

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or should, or would you recommend

that someone just altogether distance

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themselves from it, assuming that the Theo

I, I know the theology were different.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Assuming those things,

all things being equal.

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All things being equal.

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I think.

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Especially because those movements some

of them are so large, it's like what

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we're talking about with some of these

cities devoted to destruction, right?

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It could there be genuine believers

in the midst of some of these churches

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that are truly saved, that are truly

growing, even though this guy behind the

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pulpit is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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I'd say probably the

exception to the rule.

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Can I say assuredly that no, there's

not any good being done in their midst.

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No, I don't think I

could argue that either.

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I think there probably is some genuine

good being done there, some genuine

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believers in those places because

of our theological differences.

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I, if I had an opportunity, I would

say, Hey, I would love for you to.

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Reconsider your positions

on some of these issues.

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I think there's better

places for you to be.

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But I can't say throw the baby out with

the bath water completely either, right?

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And so it's important that you

do your due diligence that you,

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as Moses says here, take care.

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Take care.

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Be careful that you're paying attention

to what's being taught and that you're

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listening to the words that are.

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That are being sent out from the

leadership, especially when it

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comes to the teaching of the word.

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Speaking of, let me just jump back

then to verses 12 through the end

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of the chapter here in chapter 13.

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I think this is important.

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This is another difficult passage, but

it's one that I think you should see

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we talked about yesterday, where God

sends them to destroy these peoples.

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And here's what he says in chapter.

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13 verses 12 through 14 18.

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I'm gonna just summarize for you.

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He says, basically, if there's a

city in your towns, in Israel where

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they're following a false God, you

are to go make a diligent search.

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You'll make a search and ask diligently.

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And if it's true that that's happening,

you devote that town to destruction.

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It doesn't make you feel

better in some sense, right?

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But it should make you feel better.

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That God is just, yeah, he's fair

in the way that, well, he's just

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he executes justice consistently

and in his way and in his time.

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Now, one thing I think we could say

here is that God operates with people.

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In a gracious and compassionate

way, and I would trust that,

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that's not gonna be untrue here.

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I think he's gonna call, they're

gonna call them a repentance and

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say, here guys, here's your shot.

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Don't do this right?

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Let us plead with you.

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Turn the other way.

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Turn to the living God and be healed.

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I just, 'cause it doesn't

say that I can't say that.

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I don't know that happened.

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I think God would have given

them a chance if there was an

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opportunity for repentance.

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Yeah, I think so too.

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And we see that we were talking offline

before this with Rahab, God gave,

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there was at least an enough knowledge

that existed in Jericho, right.

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Of who God is in the power.

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That it got Torah rehab and

Rahab was like, Hey, wait a

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second, I wanna fear the Lord.

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What does this look like for

me to get out of this place?

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And God honored that with her.

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Right now.

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We got Ruth the Moabite, right?

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Who, whose mom was not the

best evangelist, but still

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God used her and yeah.

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And scripture says that the

Moabites were not allowed into the

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assembly of the Lord up into the,

I think you said the 14 generation.

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Yeah.

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So clearly we have to put pieces together.

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And make sense of texts that

it seems like, oh man, that's

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a clear statement of scripture.

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Don't, no Moabites allowed

in the congregation?

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Well, clearly there was a carve

out for those who repented

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and turned from their sins.

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Yeah.

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Allah, Ruth.

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Yeah.

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Let's go to March chapter 13.

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March, chapter 13 is our New Testament

reading verses one through 13.

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And so it starts with

Jesus, with his disciples.

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It comes out of the temple.

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And so again, during this passion week,

he's leaving the temple, going into

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the temple, coming outta the temple.

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And as they leave, one of

the disciples points out how

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beautiful the temple is to Jesus.

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And Jesus makes a statement.

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He says, do you see these great buildings?

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There will not be left here, one stone

upon another that will not be thrown down.

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Now that is, I believe, a reference

to the destruction of the temple

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that's gonna take place under Titus.

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Vespasian and the Romans in 70

ad this is also in the shadow

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though of Jesus, the true temple

being marching towards the cross.

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And so the destruction of the earthly

temple, there's gonna be destruction

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of the temple of Christ, and he's

gonna rebuild it in three days.

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Well, we see that elsewhere in the

gospels, and he's referring to his

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body here, but I think this is, he's

looking at the temple saying, don't

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be so impressed with these things.

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These things are gonna fall.

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There's something else that you

need to be impressed with instead.

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And it's almost as.

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His interaction with the woman at the

well in, in Samaria when she says,

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which mountain's the right mountain?

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And Jesus says, I tell you the truth,

it's not this mountain or that mountain,

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but God desires those to worship him,

to worship him in spirit and truth.

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So I think that's what's going on

here in, in chapter 13 a little bit.

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Right.

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And I would also add too, one of

the things that you might see here,

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he says in verse 10, the gospel

must first be proclaimed to all

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the nations before the end comes.

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Essentially, I'm gonna synthesize that

now we're dispensationalist and we also

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believe that God is able to come even now.

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That there's he's not waiting on

something like this to say, well, I'm

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not coming yet until this happens.

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We believe that this is connected

to the larger eschatological picture

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where God is saying this, the ultimate

end is going to come and these

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are some of the attending events.

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But we also believe that prior to

this, Jesus can say, look, it's time.

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I'm gonna rapture up my people and begin

the final countdown as it were into the.

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Ultimate end of days.

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So I, I wanna read this carefully

and say, okay, what is it telling me?

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How does it want me to be prepared?

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But I don't want you putting your hope in.

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Well, great.

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The gospel hasn't gone to all

four corners of the world yet.

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I'm safe at least for

a little while longer.

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Right?

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Maybe not.

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Don't assume and don't

presume upon the Lord.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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And that's so much of this is

talking about those end times.

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There will be, you will

hear rumors of wars.

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Wars will be present.

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Do not be alarmed.

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This must take place,

but the end is not yet.

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Our sending pastor does a, a q and A on.

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You can find his podcast on Spotify.

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Asked Pastor Mike on Spotify.

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There, I was listening to it this week.

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Somebody called in and said, Hey, pastor

Mike, can you address the war in Iran

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and how it relates to the end times.

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The wars and the rumors of

wars and things like that.

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And basically he said, look, I

can't be too specific with you.

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I'm not gonna sit here and tell you

it's unrelated, but I can't sit here

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and tell you that it's specifically

the fulfillment of this part of it.

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Because all he says here is

you're gonna hear about wars and

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you're gonna hear about rumors.

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And the reality is these are

the beginnings of the end.

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This is the birth pain.

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So you need to be ready.

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And that's kind the point that

he was making as well in that.

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Yeah.

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That Pastor Mike's a good teacher.

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He is.

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He should do a church.

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He should, he should, might be good.

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I think it'd be okay.

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Yeah.

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All right, let's pray and they'll

be done with this episode.

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Lord, help us to live ready for

your return at any point, and

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we wanna be faithful to that.

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This ties back into what we were talking

about not tolerating sin in the camp.

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As believers, we don't want to

be found unready, unprepared.

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We don't wanna be found entertaining

sin in our lives when you return.

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And so help us to be zealous for

godliness and for holiness, Lord, so

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that we are ready when you bring us

into the reality of our future with

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you, which is gonna be so sweet.

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Where we don't have to worry about or

fight sin anymore because it will be gone

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vanquished finally, once and for all.

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We can't wait for that day,

and that causes us to say,

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come quickly, Lord Jesus.

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But until you do, may we be

found faithful in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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And we'll keep reading those bibles

y'all, pastor Mark will be back with

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us tomorrow and tune in for another

episode of the day, we Bible Podcast.

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