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Easter Weekend at Compass April 3-5

Men's Retreat April 24-25

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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Easter Weekend Details

02:47 Listener Question: Bad Reviews

07:51 Judges 6-7

15:27 Luke 8:1-21

21:24 Closing Prayer

22:13 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Pastors PJ, Rod, and Marc are

not able to make it today,

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so I'll be doing the podcast.

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We're on Judges 6 and 7 and

Luke 8 one through 21...

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April Fool's!!!

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Here's the real podcast...

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey guys.

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And hello.

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We have pastor Mark's back with us,

obviously, and he pointed out as

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well as a handful of you pointed

out that I made a mistake in the

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time for our Good Friday services.

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So, pastor Mark, why don't

you correct for everybody's.

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Enlightenment, even though they

already know I'm correct for me.

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What time the Good Friday service is at?

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Good Friday services are at 10:30 AM and

4:23 PM See, that's not helpful 'cause

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that's just muddying the waters even more.

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No, they are at four

and 5 34 and 5:30 PM Yep.

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At Founders, right.

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Where we normally have church.

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Yep.

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And for families who have kids, they

may be wondering, is there childcare?

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So Kidman, pastor, extraordinary,

there's up to four years of age,

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which is typically what we do for

these sorts of services, and we just

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find that that's a good age for.

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Those other kids that are a

little bit older to be in service

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for a couple of these services?

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We have throughout the year.

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Yeah.

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And if you're a parent going, okay,

is my kid gonna be able to listen

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to Pastor PJ for as long as he

normally preaches for Good Friday,

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we are gonna do a shortened service.

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So this, the whole service is

only gonna be about an hour.

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My message is gonna be around 20 minutes.

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We're gonna do communion

together, we're gonna have some

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songs that we'll sing as well.

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So it is gonna have a different

feel to it than our normal

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Sunday morning service does.

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But Sunday morning.

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We will be back and we'll have

everything is a full go for kids,

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men, and everything else, right?

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That is right.

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Yeah.

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And that's two services.

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Don't forget Sunday morning.

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We're switching to two services now,

officially nine o'clock and 11 o'clock.

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So plan your attendance accordingly.

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And don't forget, Saturday we've

got an event planned on Saturday.

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Pastor Mark, talk to us

about, we've got weather.

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On the forecast right now.

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So if it rains, are we canceling?

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If it rains, should we just

say, oh, we're not going Tell us

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what's happening if it's raining?

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Well, God has blessed us being at

Founders Prosper because we have

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ability to do it inside, which was

not something we had last year.

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And so if you'll remember

last year we had rain and we

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couldn't carry on with the event.

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So we had it after service on Sunday.

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We're not gonna do that this year.

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So if there's rain, we're, we'll either

move to the parking lot if there's not

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active rain at the end that morning,

or we'll move into the gym if there's

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what is currently on the forecast,

which is what if there's passive rain?

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If there's passive rain, if

there's passive rain, what if

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it's passive aggressive rain?

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It's passive.

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Like hail is hail.

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Passive aggressive rain.

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Yes.

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I don't know.

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Then we will just do it in the field.

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Just to be passive aggressive.

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Back to the rain.

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Alright.

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I like that.

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Sometimes I feel like sometimes rain

is passive aggressive, like when it's

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just nailing you right down the neck

as you're trying to run through it.

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Or it's just hitting you square on

the glasses and you're going, come on.

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Really like.

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So, yeah, I think it can

be passive aggressive rain.

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Yeah.

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It's, and sometimes it feels like

it just hits you for some reason.

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Right?

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Not people around you.

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Yeah.

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It's just a storm cloud

right over the top of you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, we've got a question

from one of our listeners, pastor

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Rod, do you wanna set that up

or do you want me to set it up?

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You should do it.

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I should do it.

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Okay, I got it.

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So this question writes in, it says, my

question stems from one of the recent

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problems with a home service company that

was hired and communicated continuous.

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Problems to their owner with their

service, and nothing changed.

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So they hired this service company,

they didn't do their job well.

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The writer of this question

said, we communicated it to

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the owner of the company.

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Nothing changed.

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We've since let that company go,

but the service was so bad and

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costly to us due to their errors.

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That part of me wants to write a review

of them to save others from the heartache.

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But I've paused and I'm curious,

and here's the question.

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Is it more loving to leave a

one or two star review of a bad

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company service restaurant knowing

your name is attached to it?

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To your review.

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For example, Google Reviews,

Facebook, Yelp, if anybody

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still uses Yelp out there.

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So that's question one.

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Number two, is it more loving to not

leave a review at all and maybe have

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others experience the same treatment,

whether it be financial loss, poor

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service, bad meals, et cetera.

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Basically just let it go.

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Tell others privately if they

ask, but don't say anything

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publicly or third option.

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Would leaving a bad

review affect my witness?

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Sticking to facts and reasons why

the bad review was left, not using

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all caps and exclamation points

to just be angry in a review.

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So there it is.

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What say y'all, I think you

should leave an honest review.

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And if that means that the

number of stars you give them is.

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Less than five.

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I think that would be

perfectly acceptable.

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I do think it's appropriate in our

American economy to help others find

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the best services, find the best goods,

find the best products, and I think we

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should take advantage of the economic

system we have and the rating system.

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We have to do that.

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Now, of course, you could be hostile,

you could be vindictive, you could

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be angry in your reviews, and I

would of course advise against that.

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Amen to that man.

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I don't have any problem

writing a negative review.

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I'm not likely to do it unless I

feel strongly that it's not worth

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other people using their service.

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And that I would consider that an act

of love, both to the one who's doing

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the work and the ones who are gonna hire

for the work because that person or that

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company, if they're not doing quality

work, they shouldn't be doing that.

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You should find something else to do.

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There's a, there's a.

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Hammer for every nail as the saying goes.

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And so maybe that's not

the right fit for you.

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This is feedback for your good

and for the good of others.

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I have no problems at all, leading,

honest and perhaps critical feedback.

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And is it gonna affect your witness?

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I am gonna say.

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Perhaps it might, it might be that that

person, somehow has some connection

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that somehow figures out that you go

to such and such church compass, Bible

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Church, and then they don't want to come.

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I guess that's possible, but I'm gonna

say that I don't think that that should

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be a motivation not to leave a review.

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Yeah.

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Speaking truth is a key part of

what it means to be a believer.

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So I think we can do that in a

helpful way for other people as an

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act of love towards other people.

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I think even the fact that she jokes

about it or the asker jokes about it

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and says, well, it's not all caps.

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I'm not using exclamation points.

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I think that's.

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Yeah, a good parameter.

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Yeah, you need to make sure that you're

not trying to be vindictive or that

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you are not angry in leaving your

review and you're not sliding these

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people or ad hominem attacks against

their character or anything like

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that, that you're just simply saying,

Hey, before you use this company,

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know, here's my experience with them.

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This might be helpful for you to

understand and lay it out for them.

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Or, I went there and this was

my experience here with the

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service at this restaurant.

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It really was difficult

for me to want to go back.

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You may have a different experience,

but I'd love you to know this

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ahead of time before you go.

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I think there's ways to do it where

we're not after vengeance in our critical

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review, but really just after saying, Hey,

this, in my heart of hearts, I truly do

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have the best interest of, like Pastor

OT was saying, not only other people

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reading the review, but also the owner

or the company, if they're gonna check

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their reviews, which they should, we

check ours and looking at it and saying,

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oh, hey yeah, we need to address that.

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That's not a good thing to do.

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Yeah, I left a bad review just

recently on Compass Bible Church.

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No, I saw your one star

review for our podcast, bro.

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Don't think I didn't see that.

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Yeah, that's going down.

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I tried twice.

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I tried right after this.

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I tried twice.

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Do you wanna share your review or no?

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I mean, it's not excited.

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Shouldn't It's not.

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It was at a dealership.

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It was at Kia.

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They.

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I think many people have left bad

reviews at dealerships, so I don't

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think it's a particularly compelling

story, but I have, and I did it Yeah.

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Hoping that they would, you hear the

term constructive, and that, that

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could be taken in a, cliche way.

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Mm-hmm.

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I did leave a constructive review

because there was some serious problems.

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Should we be just as prepared

to leave positive reviews then?

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I think so.

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I think that's fair.

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I don't think there's a necessity for

that, but I do think that we should

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leave positive reviews because we

want to promote things that are good.

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Yeah.

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We want to encourage people who are

doing excellent work and so I think

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it is appropriate for us to to leave

great reviews when that is, is helpful.

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Yeah, good.

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There you go.

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Asked and answered.

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If there are follow up questions,

feel free to shoot some more our way.

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Well, let's get into

our daily Bible reading.

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We're in judges six through seven

and Luke eight, one through 21.

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Judges six through seven.

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Judges, six opens up and again,

we have the people of Israel.

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Surprise, surprise, doing what

was evil in this side of the Lord.

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And so here comes the wrath of God.

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They're gonna be delivered

over to the Midianites.

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God not only delivers them over to the

Midianites, but also in verses seven

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through 10 sends a prophet on top of

that reminding them of why they're in the

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position that they are, but then at the

same time exhorting them to trust in God.

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So this is a little bit of an interruption

to the pattern that we've been seeing, and

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that it's not immediately to the judge.

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It's not immediately to the

redemption in the mercy of God.

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First, we're gonna see that Yahweh's

gonna send a prophet that's gonna tell

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them, Hey, remember, this is why you

are where you are and you need to.

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Trust the Lord and leave off the

simple things that you're doing.

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And then we get to the judge, and

this is one of the more well-known

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judges for us in the book of Judges.

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This is Gideon.

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Gideon is a man who is going

to waver in his calling.

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He's gonna be called by the

Lord, the angel of the Lord.

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We can banter that around if

we want to again, but we don't

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have to shows up to call.

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And to commission him.

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And in verse 13, Gideon wants to know

where this powerful God that he's

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heard all about is and why he hasn't

delivered his people from the Midianites.

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And then through this interaction

that he has Gideon's married, aware

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that he's speaking with the angel

of the Lord and he is overwhelmed.

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In response in verse 23, the Lord.

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Through this Angel at least tells

him not to be afraid, but gives him

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instructions on what to do to begin

purifying the nation of Israel.

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And so he's gonna go, he's gonna go

Chuck Norris to do a hat tip towards

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somebody who just recently passed

away, professing believer that we hope

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and trust is in the presence of the

Lord right now, but he's gonna go.

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Agro and tear down the alter Baal.

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But notice when he does it at night.

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Gideon is a timid leader.

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Even after this encounter with the angel

of the Lord, he does it at night because

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he doesn't wanna be exposed, although

that's not gonna really work for him.

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And then that's gonna, I think, set up

where we're gonna go in, in chapter seven.

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God's gonna really want to say, okay,

Gideon, you're gonna know for sure

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that I'm the one that's empowering you

and empowering your leadership here.

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One thing that stands out to me about God

is that he does often tell us reasons why.

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And granted he doesn't do this in a

cycle of the judges so much, but he

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does do this through his word in verses

seven through 10 where he explains to

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them, he sends a prophet to them to

tell them and he gives them a heads up.

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Here's what's the issue,

here's the problem I see.

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And the fact that God is a

communicating God, we take for

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granted, but should not be done.

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So God does not always speak as

freely as you might feel like he

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does through the pages of scripture.

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In fact, you might be tempted like.

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Gideon to say, Lord, would

you please just gimme a sign?

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Would you just tell me?

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If you would just speak to me and

verbally communicate your will to my

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life, then I would certainly listen.

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Well, you see, in Gideon's life,

that's not always the case.

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He was not satisfied with one God,

one time, God speaking to him.

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He had to have more than once,

so I would question your own.

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I don't know.

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I would be suspicious

of your own motivation.

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If you are constantly asking God,

God, just gimme a sign, tell me.

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Don't make decisions from

fleece , on the ground.

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Don't make decisions

from clouds in the sky.

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Don't make decisions

from guts in the feeling.

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Make decisions from the

word God has spoken.

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And God continues to speak through

his word, and that's the most reliable

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means by which we make any decision.

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Gideon was weak in asking

for these things, and God is

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happy to condescend to him.

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But remember, Gideon does

not have what you and I have.

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He had a small portion of scripture.

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We don't even know how much he

did have, but we have something

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far better, far more robust.

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We have the whole canon of the word of

God, and that's a far greater blessing

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to us than God speaking to you over.

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I honestly I heard of somebody making

a decision about where to move from

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seeing a train go by and seeing the

freight that said a certain name

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on the freight, and they're like,

I'm gonna move that to that place.

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Serious.

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Wow.

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They felt like God had

spoken to them that way.

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And I understand.

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I guess I get there's something

enchanting about that and kind of

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exciting to say, oh, maybe God's speaking

to me through these various signs.

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And maybe he did.

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I'm not gonna say nay for certain,

but I will say he does speak

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through the word of God, certainly.

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And that's a far better tool

to make decisions than to say,

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Leslie's lay out the fleeces.

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So work us through that.

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You say it's not an absolute no.

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It sounds like you're saying that

there is a place where God may use

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a sign for communicating with you.

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Yeah.

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How do we interpret that though?

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Like how do we know if it's the train

or if it's the plane or whatever it is?

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Right.

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How do we go about.

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Understanding that, 'cause

we do have the word of God.

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Yes.

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And the word of God is

definitive and clear.

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And if there is a place for those

signs, how do we go about doing that?

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That's a great question.

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And I think for me the way that I

would approach that is to say I want

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at least, I don't know, I'm not,

I'm just gonna give a number, not

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that this number is scientifically I

validated, but I'm gonna say I want

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95% of my decision to be scriptural.

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I'm gonna leave room for 5% of it

to be like, God is just throwing

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people at my for instance.

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Let's suppose you wanna move

to North Texas to be part of a

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church plant, and you're deciding,

man, do I want to do this?

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Is this right for me and my family?

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You might have someone say, man I

feel like God wants you to leave to

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this, to go to this church plant.

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And maybe they didn't even know that

you were talking about that, that

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would be something for me to say.

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Oh, interesting.

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Mm-hmm.

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I'm gonna consider that I may not put

all my stock into that, but I will

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weigh it and I will think about it.

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I want it to be 95% biblical, thoughtful

full of integrity, full of prayerfulness.

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And then I'll be open if

God wants to send signs.

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My way to be sensitive enough to

say is this you Lord, knowing well

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enough that I'll never be able to

fully know what certainty yes, he has

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spoken through the cloud or through

the freight train or whatever else.

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95% Biblical.

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I'll say that, and I'll leave room 5%.

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Give or take to say, well, maybe got those

other stuff your way to give you insight

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beyond what you're currently discussing.

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And I think that's helpful.

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Even as we look at what

Gideon demands of God, right.

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Is he entirely wrong to do that?

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I'm gonna say probably not,

but there is certainly things

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he does that are questionable.

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So you would say there's a time

for us to ask for the fleece.

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Me, either of you?

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No I guess I wanna be careful.

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95% biblical says I'm making a

decision from the scriptures.

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Yeah.

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But I'll leave 5%.

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And again, those are just

numbers I'm throwing out there.

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To give you a sense of how I wait,

this where I, I'll leave room for

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maybe God wants to redirect me.

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Right.

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So I don't wanna say

yes, lay out your fleece.

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Mm-hmm.

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I don't wanna say, shake the magic

eight ball and see what God says.

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I wanna say know your Bible

and make decisions from that.

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But also that God does move through his

spirit and he moves through the people of

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God and he speaks in a variety of ways.

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And sometimes that is

subjective experience.

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I don't want to rule that out entirely.

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That's what I'm getting at.

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But I wouldn't say it's a good

idea to make decisions from

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subjective experience primarily.

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That's super helpful.

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And I think God does what

he does with the fleece.

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There's nothing in here by the way,

that says this is commendable,

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that Gideon does this, but God

responds to it because God is.

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God is gracious to Gideon.

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God is merciful towards him.

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'cause God could have looked at Gideon

and been like, you're not the guy.

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You don't have enough faith.

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You're not believing in me.

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How much more do you need from me?

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I'm done with you.

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And moved on to somebody else.

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And yet God's patience and mercy

with him is say, okay, yes, fine.

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I'll make the fleece dry.

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And the grass we.

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Fine.

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I'll make the grass wet and the, or

the fleece wet and the grass dry.

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I'll do what you need me to do, Gideon.

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And then that even carries over

into chapter seven, which we

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haven't really gotten into yet.

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When God then tells this man who's

weak in faith, Hey, I'm gonna pare down

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your army all the way to 300 people

from your thousands and you're gonna

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take them and go do battle again.

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I think God is patiently.

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Looking at Gideon.

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But even with that, not leaving Gideon

in the state of doubt, but challenging

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his doubt and calling on Gideon to say,

Gideon, I want you to believe in me more.

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I want your faith in me to increase.

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And he's doing this, I think the whole

way, even with the instruction to tear

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down the alters of bail to the fleece

interaction, to then saying, I'm gonna

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pare down your army and you're gonna

see the power that I will display

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here, which is going to, I think,

equip Gideon for the rest of his time

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as a judge over the people of Israel.

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All right.

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Let's jump over to Luke chapter eight

then for our New Testament reading.

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Luke chapter eight verses one through 21.

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Right away in Luke eight verses one

through three, here we have some of

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the notable ladies that are called

out who are supporting Jesus and

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the disciples in their ministry.

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And so this is Mary Magdalene.

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This is also Joanna, the

life of the wife of Chua.

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Here's a name, pastor Mark.

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You guys haven't any more kids?

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You can Yeah.

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If you're looking for a

baby name, there's one.

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CHOA or Za.

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Yeah.

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Herod's household manager.

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That's interesting, isn't it?

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You've got the household manager of

Herod, who is one of the band of the

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followers of Christ here, and then

you've got Susanna and many others who

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provided for them out of their own means.

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And so that's really neat.

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You don't often see that the women

in their role of how they supported

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Christ, and yet Luke makes.

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A point to say, Hey, these women were

there and they were helping the disciples

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do what they were doing, go about

and doing the teaching and preaching

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and healing and everything else.

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So neat that we see them even maybe

forerunners of the deaconess in

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one regard there, as we see in in

the beginning of Luca eight here.

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From here we've got the parable

of the sower, which all three of

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us are gonna be dealing with in.

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Great detail at our men's

retreat, which is coming up by

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the way, April 24th through 25th.

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So men, if you haven't registered yet,

or ladies, if you're listening to this

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and you've got a husband or you've got

a man somewhere in your life that you

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would like to be at this men's retreat,

then this would be the time to say,

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Hey, there's still time to register

for the men's retreat, but we're

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gonna be tackling this parable there.

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We talked about it in Matthew, but

again, this is about the type of.

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Fertile soil that the Lord is

looking for, and the soil being

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the receptivity to the word of God.

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And that's the key thing in this parable

that Jesus talks about here, is how is the

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word received and what is the fruit that's

born as a result of the word received?

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It's not just about what I profess.

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But it's also about the impact

that it makes on my life,

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and that's important for us.

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One of our distinctives is we work

to proclaim a biblical gospel.

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And this is one of the dividing

lines there, because we would look at

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this parable, I think, and all three

of us would say, the only genuine

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believer in this is the final soil.

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The others are not.

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Whereas I think you might have some

that say, but the other show signs

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of life they profess faith and so

they must be saved then because they

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believe, they confess with their mouth.

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So they're Christians,

they just fall away.

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We would say no.

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Genuine faith transforms the life.

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Genuine faith produces

evidence and produces fruit.

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And so that's indicative of what part of

the message of this parable really is.

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What do you guys make of this

specific phrase in verse 15?

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It is the one who holds fast

in an honest and good heart

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and bears fruit with patients.

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So if I was gonna write this,

I would just say good heart.

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Why is honest a word that's used by Luke

here, why is that qualification made?

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Why do you think this is?

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The text that I'm gonna be

preaching from for our last session.

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And I think, so both of

those words mean good.

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You got kalos and agathas.

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It's saying good, good.

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It's another way.

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You're using a synonym.

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I think Luke is trying to capture

Jesus' point, which is the kind of

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heart that responds well is a heart

that is good through and through

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honesty, sincerity, receptivity.

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There's a humility about it.

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As we're gonna make the point

in this series of sermons for.

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The soil that it is the condition of the

heart that determines the fruitfulness

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of the response and the condition of

the heart Here in verse 15, is the a

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heart that has been transformed, and

that shows us that it takes an act of

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God to respond to the word as we should.

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And so we're gonna elaborate

on that a whole lot more.

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There's a ta, a taste test for you,

a Costco size sampler, but there's

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a lot going on here that I'm really

excited to explore with you gentlemen.

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The other parable that we find out

here is the lamp hidden under the jar.

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Nobody lights a lamp and then puts

it under the jar, puts it under the

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bed, but sets it on a stand so that

it will give light to those in the

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house as it's put other places here.

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You also have the promise there that

nothing is hidden that will not be made.

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Manifest, nor is anything secret that

will not be known and come to light.

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So this speaks of hidden sin.

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This speaks of the idea that we can't

think that there's something that we're

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getting away with, even if we don't

see the immediate discipline there.

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It will one day be exposed and

God delights to do that in the

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life of his children as well.

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One thing I wanna point out here

that I think is so interesting and

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something that we might be tempted

to, to read past quickly, is the fact

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that in verse two and in verse three,

you find out that these women who

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follow Jesus are disciples of Jesus.

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They're not just they're

not just the groupies.

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They're not just those who are

supporting the guys by making their food.

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Now, maybe they did, I don't know.

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But what I do see here is

that Jesus qualifies them.

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Now they are listed next to the 12th.

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There were the 12th who were with him.

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In verse two, and also some women who

had been healed of evil spirits and

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infirmities Mary called Magdalene,

from whom seven demons had gone out.

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Joanna, you mention all these people,

and I think it's interesting that Jesus

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had he permitted women to follow him.

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That would've been very unusual for

a rabbi of any degree in that age.

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The fact that Jesus allows him to be

his disciples and even dignifies them by

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listing them in the same breath as the 12.

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It tells me they played a very

special role, and that special role

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continues in a very practical sense.

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You'll see here in the end of

verse three, they provided for

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the disciples out of their means.

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So it's not just that these women

were disciples themselves, but

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they were also wealthy disciples.

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Who used the resources that God entrusted

to them to support Jesus' ministry?

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You can say a lot of things about

Christianity, but you can't say

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that it looks down on women.

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Here, women are esteemed

and they're honored.

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They're given a place of discipleship.

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Mary sits at the feet of Jesus

and Jesus doesn't condemn her

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and say, gets a work woman.

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He says she's chosen the better portion.

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Martha, be okay with that.

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I'm not gonna tell her not to do that.

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Now, Chua he might be the very reason we

have any insight into Herod's household.

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Because she, there's an insight here.

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Maybe it was Chu's wife who's like,

Hey, Jesus, here's what's going on, on,

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on the inside, and so there's a lot of

cool things that are happening here.

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Again, as you read this, you might read

that quickly without a second glance,

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but I think that's pretty exceptional

given the ancient Near Eastern mentality.

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Jesus honors and welcomes the women.

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Yeah, that's huge.

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Huge.

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EE, even the, them being some

of the first witnesses to the

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tomb is another reason why.

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Why we point to you for

the veracity of scripture.

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Because in this time their testimony

would not have been held in high regard.

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Right.

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And yet Jesus and God does hold

their testimony in high regard.

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Wouldn't have been even, wouldn't have

shown up in scripture if it were up to

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the ancient near Eastern first entry mind.

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Yep.

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Well, hey, let's pray and they'll

be done with this episode.

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Lord, thanks for these details

in scripture that we get to see.

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And even if we've read this time and

time and time again there's more there.

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There's always gonna be more there

every time we come back to your word.

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And so whether it's a, perhaps a less

familiar passage like we're dealing

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with in judges with Gideon and with

some of these other passages there, or.

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Something in the gospels that we just read

afresh with a different perspective, or

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we see something that we've never noticed

before, like Chua the the wife of Herod's

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household manager, that, that's such a

fascinating detail that we get to see and

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absorb and even just ponder over it even

though we don't have all of the details.

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We have more that we can

learn about who you are.

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And about the way that you've

orchestrated all these things.

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So we pray that we would continue to

be good students of your word and learn

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more and more with each passing day.

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We pray.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep reading new Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See ya.

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