00:00 Do You Speed Us Up On Your Podcast?

01:46 PR Edits Out Silences

02:38 Listener Email: Forgiveness Dilemma (Go Astros!)

03:54 Biblical Insights on Forgiveness

09:27 David's Flight and Absalom's Betrayal

17:48 Absalom's Defeat and David's Grief

20:54 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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It is Saturday and we are

down at the men's conference.

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We, we thought about doing.

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This live from the men's conference, and

then we just thought, we thought better.

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Nobody's gonna really wanna watch

this live because it's the same

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thing that you hear on the audio,

except just you and me talking.

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And it's slower because at least with

the podcast, you can speed us up.

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I don't like how slow you guys talk.

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Let me just double time this and I can

have it done in 10 minutes in real time.

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You can't do that, sadly.

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Not yet.

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I'd be curious to know.

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How many people listen

to us on double speed?

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Triple speed.

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Triple speed would be impressive

because I think we talk fast as it is.

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I triple speed us.

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You triple speed us.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I do it for quality control.

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I wanna know what the podcast sounds

like and make sure nothing sounds askew,

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making sure you're not preaching heresy.

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So I'll listen to us pretty

regularly, although not every day.

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I'll find a time to listen to it,

and I'll listen back at three,

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three and a half, sometimes four

if you're taking a long time.

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I don't think I'm the only one.

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Yeah that's fine.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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One speed is hard.

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Especially with some of

the podcasts out there.

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So I wonder who out there listens to us on

on double speed, the challenge with that.

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Is that you're training

yourself to hear faster, right?

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To listen faster.

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And I wonder I think it does, it has

carry over to real life where you become

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intolerant of slow speakers and that's

not helpful in a church setting because

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there's lots of different speeds.

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Or the person that has to think

between their statements that pauses.

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And you can see the wheels turning

as they're trying to come up with the

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next thing that they're trying to say.

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And you're like, can come on.

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What?

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Come on.

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What is what?

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It takes so much restraint

for me not to jump in.

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I've practiced this for years

where I don't jump in the

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middle of someone's thinking.

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But I do.

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I will seed your point.

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That is a challenge.

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And here's something funny.

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I edit our podcast every

time we do it, and I cut out.

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The long silences.

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Did you know that?

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I did not.

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I cut that.

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That doesn't surprise me.

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I cut out the long silences.

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Who needs that?

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Nobody needs that.

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And if they want it, they can pause.

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You can add your own long

silences if you want them.

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But I cut them out when

they're longer than one second.

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I'll remove them.

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So you just cut that part out?

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I did.

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Okay.

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I did alright.

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You wasted my three seconds.

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But for them, didn't matter.

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It's an act of love.

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Act of love.

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Is that what that is?

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I guess I save us like

four seconds every episode.

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For sure.

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Good.

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Maybe even somewhere.

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Sometimes it's to 10 seconds.

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So if they've listened to all of our

episodes ever, then they've probably

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saved like four minutes in their life.

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Maybe.

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You're welcome.

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Yeah.

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I don't do it for the accolades, but you

can send a thank you card anytime to yeah.

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Pastor Rod Gomez, compass Bible

Church 2 9 1 South Preston Road.

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There you go.

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Hey, we have an email.

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Do we wanna hit the email today

or do we wanna hit it tomorrow?

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You brought it up now.

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We can do it tomorrow.

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Alright, then we're gonna hit it today.

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Okay.

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It's a significant one.

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I would've done less googly if I'd known.

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Okay.

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We're only three minutes into the googly.

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Only.

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We'll see how it, we could save.

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We'll see how long is no.

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Let's do it now.

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Okay.

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We had an email written in on the

subject of forgiveness and it's

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a two part, a two part question.

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Really.

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The first part had to do with the scenario

the scenario being the building off

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of what happened with Carmelo Anthony

and Austin Metcalf not long ago now,

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here in Frisco, nearby where we are.

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And this is a difficult one.

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She asked the question that the

writer does and says, Hey let's

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suppose that Carmelo is truly

repentant for what he has done.

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And he wants to seek forgiveness.

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Obviously, Austin Metcalf, the man

he murdered, is not here to give

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him forgiveness for stabbing him.

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So he asks Austin's family to forgive

him for stabbing and killing Austin.

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Is the forgiveness for that act theirs

to give, or would the forgiveness

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come from God on Austin's behalf?

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And she says, I hope that makes sense.

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Because she's looking at

Excel spreadsheets all day.

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No, it does make sense.

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It's a great question.

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What about the Astros part?

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Do you wanna put that in there too?

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Nope.

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Okay.

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The Astros are not ahead of the Rangers

anymore, so she doesn't want me to

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put anything about that in there.

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Oh.

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'cause that would not be good

for, the Astros fan in her heart.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, this is a tough question.

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Here's what I'll say, and I mentioned

this the other day with regards to

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forgiveness and whether or not when

Jesus tells the disciples, when you

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forgive sins, they're forgiven in heaven.

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And when you withhold

forgiveness, they're withheld.

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He's not giving them the power

to forgive sins on behalf of God.

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In other words, we can't, if.

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If your kid punches another kid

in the face, you can't go to

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your kid and say he forgives you.

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In other words, you can't absolve your

own child of the offense against another

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person's child, let alone can we absolve

any one of their offense against God.

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So even when the offense is against, I.

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Is against us in this scenario.

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Let's say, and this would've been

great had it been the case, but let's

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say Austin had survived this attack.

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Even if at that point Carmelo Repentant

had gone to Austin and said, Austin,

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please forgive me for what I did to you.

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Even if in that moment Austin

was willing to forgive Carmelo.

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It still would not have absolved

Carmelo before the Lord.

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So there is a horizontal transaction

of forgiveness and there is a

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vertical transaction of forgiveness

that needs to be considered here.

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So in this case, Carmelo could seek

forgiveness from Austin's parents, and I

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think rightly because he did sin against.

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Austin's parents by taking

away their child from them,

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by by murdering their child.

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And so to go to Austin's parents

and say, will you forgive me?

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They're, he's not in, in that sense,

asking them to forgive on Austin's

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behalf because they can't do that.

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But he is asking them rightly to forgive

the offense against them, which is that

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he took their child away from them.

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They can forgive.

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Forgive Carmelo for that, should that ever

happen, but again, even in that scenario,

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Carmelo's sin against God is not absolved.

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There's the vertical component

and the horizontal component.

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Horizontally.

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We can forgive other people, but they

need to do business with God when it

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comes to their offense against God.

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And that is in keeping with what

we've been reading about in our

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daily Bible reading with David.

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When David sinned against Bathsheba and

Uriah and everybody else involved in

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that, then yeah, David could go to them,

not Uriah obviously, but the others

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and seek their forgiveness for the sin

that he had committed against them.

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But David's correct in Psalm 51 when

he says against you and you only have I

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sinned, and he's saying that about God.

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So he knew that.

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Ultimately the rec the absolution

that he needed was not a man granted

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absolution, but a God granted absolution.

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So he needed forgiveness from God.

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And that's true here.

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God can't lemme rephrase that.

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Car Austin's parents cannot

forgive Carmelo on behalf of God.

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They're not in that position.

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Carmelo has to be right before God

between him and God and Him and God alone.

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And so they can forgive the offense

against them horizontally, but they

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can't forgive his offense against.

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God.

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Any thoughts on that first part Pier?

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Yeah, the only thing I would offer to

accentuate that I agree with all that,

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that you just mentioned, and I would

say on top of that, the Christian's

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position has to be one of forgiveness.

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This is one that's really hard.

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Jesus talks about this.

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If we've been forgiven much, we also

have to be for willing to forgive

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as much and perhaps even more.

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Here's the thing, we're never gonna sin.

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No one's ever gonna sin against

us more than we sin against God.

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And therefore God expects

us to forgive others.

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I know that you're asking this about

their forgiveness of him, but on our

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side, if someone were to come to us

and say, I asked for your forgiveness

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about this and that Peter says,

should I do it as many as seven times?

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And Jesus says, Nope.

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A lot more than that.

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Basically multiply that by infinity.

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That's how many times we.

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That I want you to forgive people

that ask for your forgiveness.

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Now, here's my re here's

my question for you.

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PPJ.

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If someone doesn't ask for forgiveness,

do I still have to forgive them?

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And therein on the part of the person

that's been offended, there's still

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a horizontal and vertical component.

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Your thirst for vengeance

has to be rolled over to God.

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So in that sense, there is a release, if

we want to think about it that way, rather

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than the idea of full forgiveness where

you are releasing your right to demand.

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And exact your definition of justice

in this sit situation, you're gonna

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roll that over to God and trust.

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When God says vengeance,

his mind declares the Lord.

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You're trusting him to

execute justice in that.

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And so in that sense, you are freed

from the bitterness and the anger

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and the the cloud that otherwise

this would hold over your heart.

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But there are offenses that are gonna be

done against you wherein that horizontal

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relationship may never be reconciled.

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If that person doesn't come and seek

forgiveness in contrition and ask

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for that there may be situations

where that earthly relationship

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is never going to be reconciled.

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There, there's not gonna be a point

where the two of you are going to

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be on board with each other and able

to sit next to each other at church

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again and have a meal together.

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There, there may be those circumstances

and granted, we pray and hope and trust

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that within the church, those are few

and far between because in the church,

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to your point, pastor out our offense

is never gonna be as great as the

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offense of God against our own sins.

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So we need to be ready

to forgive one another.

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But sometimes when somebody

doesn't seek our forgiveness,

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that relationship earthly.

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Speaking is going to come to an end.

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But still in those moments, we need to

be able to release and to surrender our

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thirst for vengeance and justice to the

Lord trusting that he's gonna met out

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justice according to his perfect plan.

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Yeah.

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One of the ways I heard that

heard about, that talked about was

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there's attitudinal forgiveness.

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The forgiveness where you have

the attitude toward a person that

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says I'm willing to forgive you.

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I've released you to use your words,

and then there's transacted forgiveness.

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Where forgiveness actually is

exchanged between both parties,

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the offended and the offender.

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So attitudinal forgiveness demanded of the

Christian transacted forgiveness only when

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both parties are willing to cooperate.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The second part of the question,

let's deal with that one tomorrow.

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Okay, how about that?

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Yes.

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So part two for this question,

tune in tomorrow for that one.

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And then you also said Go Astros.

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Is that what I heard you say?

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I didn't, because the Rangers are actually

just behind the Seattle Mariners in second

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place in the division and the Astros.

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I can't see them anymore.

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They're in the rear view mirror

somewhere, so she doesn't want

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me to talk about that, okay.

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We won't, anyways go Rangers.

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Hey, let's get to our passage

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Go Dr.

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Teen.

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Second Samuel 16 through 18.

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We're doing in chapter 16 with

the continued flight of David.

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So David remember is running and

he's running from Absalom chapter 16.

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Here we find Zeba.

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Now we're gonna have to

flash back on who Zeba is.

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Zeba is the one that was

the servant of Mephibosheth.

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He was a part of Saul's

household servants.

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And David had been me, Mephibosheth

and had installed Mephibosheth as

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essentially for lack of a better way of

looking at it, part of his own family,

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given him a seat at the royal table

given him all the possessions of land

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that were entitled to his father's

household and told Zeba has Zeba.

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You serve Mephibosheth, and so

we've got a unique situation here.

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That's difficult for us because we're

not exactly sure who to trust here

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because Zeba is gonna come with a

story that Mephibosheth is gonna have a

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different account of when Mephibosheth

and David are reunited later on.

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So we have to say we're not exactly sure.

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Who's telling the truth here?

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Because Zeba says, Hey, Mephibosheth

is staying behind because he

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thinks this is the moment that

he's gonna get the throne back.

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And he despises you, David.

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And I'm here because I'm the one

that's really, truly loyal to you.

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I side with Mephibosheth in

this encounter because I think

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number one, Mephibosheth is lame.

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So he wouldn't have been able to

get there without Zebra's help.

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And I think Zeba knows that.

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Number two.

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Absalom made a play to the throne.

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So it's not that like the throne was

vacant and Mephibosheth could have been

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like, oh, we're gonna have elections now.

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I'll be the one to sit

on the throne again.

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There's somebody on the throne

still, and it's Absalom.

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And Absalom has the power

and the strength right now.

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So for Mephibosheth to think

like Zeba iss saying, Hey,

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I'm gonna get the throne back.

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That doesn't make any sense.

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And I just, I think zebra's a smarmy guy.

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So that's my read on the situation.

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But that's the first encounter.

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After that, then we get Shiia.

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Shiia is a guy, he he's a different

difficult guy because he's gonna

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show up and he's gonna be cursing

David as David is fleeing.

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I believe Shiia is a member of the tribe

of Benjamin, which is Saul's tribe.

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And he's cursing David and throwing

rocks at David, and they're

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saying, Hey, let's go kill him.

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And David says, no, because

maybe God is the one who ordained

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this and and to be the case.

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And so he says, we're not gonna do this.

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And so there, there's Zeba and Shiia

as his way on his way out of town.

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Meanwhile, the rest of the chapter

flashes to Absalom entering town.

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So David's leaving, Absalom's entering,

and when Absalom enters he does so

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and commits a great offense in that

he takes all of David's concubines

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and goes up to the rooftop and spends

time with them to keep it pg in a way

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that would've been defiling to David

and his concubines there and flexes.

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And tries to make it look like,

Hey I'm the king now look at me.

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And this is a power grab from him.

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Absalom does, wicked does evil here.

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David is running.

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It's still not a good situation.

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At chapter 16, I guess

a couple notes on this.

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One of the things that you should

notice is that a hit the Fell who

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was previously David's counselor,

is the one behind Absalom's

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willingness to violate these gals.

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So that's important because you

seem to get a sense of some of that.

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Betrayal and the hurt that

David has in the Psalms.

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It could be that when David's talking

about the betrayal of a specific person,

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he could be talking about Absalom, but

he also could very well be talking about

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a heath fill who was David's counselor.

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He would've been one of the

guys that is considered someone

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David could rely upon and give.

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Hard words and input to some

of David's big decision.

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So that's an important

person to keep in mind.

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And also I think it's interesting at

minimum I don't know exactly what to do

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with it except to say that I think one of

the things that's endearing about David is

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that he's entrusting himself to the Lord.

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Even as he's being cursed.

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He says Maybe God has told him to do this.

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In fact, he says it

more strongly than that.

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God told him to curse me.

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This shimmy I guy.

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So I'm gonna let it happen.

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And perhaps he says, God will

look down on me and hear what he's

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saying, and then he'll repay him.

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With, he'll repay me with good

and he'll stop him at some point.

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Such a fascinating interplay because I'm

not sure I would've done that, right?

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I would've said, dude, I'm the king.

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I'm still the king.

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Even if I'm walking away from the

city you need to stop and have one

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of my guys go and cause him to stop.

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But he doesn't do that.

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I find that so fascinating.

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Again, for all that you

can say evil about David.

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You can say so many good things.

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This heart is a posture of.

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I don't know, childlike trust.

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Lord, you'll have to take care of me.

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I'm not gonna do anything

about this guy 'cause I'm gonna

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trust you to do something.

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Yeah we just talked about that with

the idea of forgiveness right there.

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There's a measure of

that with forgiveness.

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That's what we're doing when

we're saying, Hey, we're gonna

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trust you, God, to, to deal with

this in the way that you see fit.

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Yeah, that's great.

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Trust I hit the fell.

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Maybe you could say as a guy that lacked

integrity, which might be something

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relevant to, to what's going on in

the life of our men's ministry right

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now with the retreat that we're on.

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Just trying to draw connections there.

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Oh, in integrity?

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Yes.

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The theme, the, anyways,

you can cut that part out.

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I'm gonna keep it.

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Alright, great.

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I rarely cut anything out.

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It's just awkward Hey, this didn't land.

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I was No, that's okay.

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I was trying to make a, I was

wondering where you were going with it.

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I didn't realize you were setting me

up to swing because, and especially

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with the a, a hit that fills words

that he proved to be a man of.

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Not much into whatever I quit.

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Hey, chapter 17, speaking of a hit

fell we're gonna see a hit fell.

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Give abso some advice.

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That was actually really

good, wise, strategic advice.

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A hit fell, says it is time to

strike while the iron is hot.

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He's running, he's going to

be in a state of disarray.

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He's not gonna be expecting this.

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He's gonna be in a state of vulnerability.

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Go get him.

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Go kill him.

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And honestly y'all, if Absalom had

done what a heel suggested right

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here, I think Absalom wins the day.

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And I think maybe even David

dies in that situation.

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And yet God had ordained for Hai to

be there and with no reason, honestly,

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because this was not only right to

Absalom, it seemed right to the rest

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of the counselors in the room too.

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And yet Absalom because of

God says let's hear from Hai.

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And in a hit the fells you can almost

picture him in the background just.

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His Gabber is Flad.

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He's sitting there going I

don't know what to do with this.

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Why are you consulting him?

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I'm the guy.

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Even David used to trust me.

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And who is this HAI guy that

you're gonna ask about this?

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So Isha comes in and he

says, no, don't do that.

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Here's what you need to do instead.

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David's gonna be ready for this attack.

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You need to go this way instead.

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And Absalom listens because why?

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Verse 14, the Lord had ordained to defeat

the good counsel of a hit the fell so that

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the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.

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And so God.

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Is the reason why all the

questions, why would he consult Hoi?

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Why would he believe Hoi?

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Because of verse 14.

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God ordained that it would be that way.

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And so as a result of this,

Hoi sends word to David warns.

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David says, Hey David, this

is what you need to do because

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this is what's coming your way.

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I.

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In that way, God uses HAI to spare David's

life and save him from a hitha fell's.

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Otherwise wise and shrewd counsel there

a hitha fell is not gonna take this well.

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He he thinks, man, what more do

I have to live for if my role has

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been undermined by this outsider?

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This guy Hai.

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So he goes home, puts his affairs in

order, and ends his hi, his own life here.

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Chapter 17 is a.

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Is a bad chapter for

Absalom on that front.

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One of the things that may stand out to

you as odd is why a hit thetical would

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respond so dramatically to, to something

that's seemingly small in its effect.

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It's like saying, okay there's

a 25 cents offense here.

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Let me just take a $10 response.

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It doesn't seem to add up until

you recognize that under the Old

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Testament mindset, the honor,

shame culture is a driving force.

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It still is today.

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It's huge.

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Eastern mindset is honor and shame.

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You do certain things because of the

honor that belongs to you and your family.

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You don't do other things because of

the shame that could potentially, I.

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Ruin you.

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And so a hit the Fell's response

only is understood in light of

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the timeframe that he lives in.

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The shame that would've come along

from this situation would've been

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unbearable to the point where it

might've been more honorable for

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him not to live than it would be for

him to live and carry the shame of

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saying my, my wisdom was overcome.

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Another take on this is that he knew

the end, and that's another possibility.

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He understood what this was gonna lead to,

and so he's just expediting the process.

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They're going to lose if they do what?

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What who shy says.

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And so he says if that's the

case, I'm gonna die anyway.

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When David comes back, he's gonna

execute his opponents, his enemies.

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And so I'll just get to the process

before they do it better than I

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better I do it than they do it.

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Yeah.

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Earlier in this, right before this we

have another one of those situations

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where God allows and permits deception.

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It appears as part of his divine plan

in order to accomplish the greater good.

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When the spies come or when the

woman is hiding him as, and Jonathan

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and the men of Absalom come to the

woman's house, she says, oh I don't

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know what you're talking about.

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They've gone over there and the reality

is she knew exactly where they were.

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She was hiding them.

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So here's very much the Core 10 boom

situation right here biblically for

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us, where she's hiding somebody that

needs to be preserved, their life

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needs to be preserved and God, at

least at this time, seems to ordain the

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deception in a way that is permissible

in order for the greater good.

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All right, chapter 18.

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Chapter 18, under Joe Abs command.

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Here, David is gonna go out and

lead the charge, and lead the battle

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against, this is weird to say, against

Israel against Absalom, we should say.

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And Absalom's men are gonna suffer defeat.

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And in the process, Absalom is con of.

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Very vulnerable position where

he is suspended by his neck

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between these tree branches.

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And some have suggested,

maybe it was by his hair.

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Either way, he can't get down.

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He's caught in midair.

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Somebody tells job about this.

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Joe EB says why didn't you kill him?

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And the guy says, because David

told us not to, which is true.

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David said, treat my son gently.

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And job says, we're not doing that.

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Takes three Javelins and.

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Ends his life with three spears.

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And then it says on top of that

there were other men that gathered

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around and continued to attack the

body, and it seems like potentially

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even abused the corpse afterwards

as far as doing violence to him.

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Then they take him, they throw

him in the middle of the road,

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they pile a bunch of rocks on him.

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So this is not an honorable end

for Absalom, nor is it an honorable

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treatment of him after his death either.

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And following this, there's two runners

that come back to tell David of the news

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and they think that it's gonna be met

with good news and rejoicing from David.

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But David, all David can think

about is the death of his son.

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And so he mourns over the death of Abso,

he grieves over the death of Absalom, and

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we're gonna see that's gonna impact his

relationship with Israel and specifically

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with Joe Ab in the coming chapters here.

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This is where Joab is something

of a questionable character.

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There's times where he does good things

and there's things that you admire

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and perhaps even say this is good.

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This is one of those

times where I'm confused.

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I'm not sure.

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'cause I do think he does

the right thing both times.

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Killing Absalom was the right move.

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That's my hot take.

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And I could be wrong on that, but

I think he did the right thing.

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He needed to do that for the

sake of the unity of the people.

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Even though David didn't want that,

David didn't know what was best for him.

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And so I think Job does

something that's necessary.

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And I think job's also gonna do what's

necessary in this upcoming chapter.

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But I think David is clouded because

of his relationship to his son.

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And this is again.

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Part of the problem for David, he

is not doing what he needs to do

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because of the people involved.

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And this goes back to what we were

talking about either yesterday or

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the day before, that our allegiance

has to be first and foremost to God.

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When Jesus says this in the New Testament,

he says, your love for me ought to be

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like you hate your mother and father

because your love for me is so great.

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Of course, he's not

telling us to hate them.

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Scripture tells us to honor our

mother and our father, but Jesus

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is making the point by hyperbole

saying, we need to make sure that.

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In our allegiance, Jesus is always

first place, practically speaking.

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That has a lot of impacts

for how we live our lives.

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If we're wise enough to discern those

things in our culture, especially in

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our, I don't know our culture where

the family is the, it's a thing.

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It's a thing here.

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People do the thing people love

putting their family first.

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They talk about work life balance,

which I think is a good thing

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generally speaking, but sometimes

families can idolize their family.

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Where their allegiance to their

family is clearly greater and stronger

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than their allegiance to Christ.

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Now, that's not.

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Always the choice.

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But if there ever is a choice,

let it be true for you that you're

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not choosing family over Jesus.

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Jesus must be first.

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And in fact, when you love Jesus

most, you'll love your family best.

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That's a good line.

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That's that man.

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Put that on a shirt.

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We should, yeah.

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And then I also agree with

everything that you just said.

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Not that one.

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Not that one.

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Yeah.

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Alright hey, lemme pray and

then we will be done with this

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episode and move on to the next.

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God, we thank you for this day and we

we want to love you most to be able

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to love others best and help us to

do that and to figure out what that

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looks like for us and how to balance

all of those obligations that we have.

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Lord, I know that's a hard thing.

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It's hard to figure out how do I

love you most and love my spouse as

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you're calling me to love my spouse

and my kids, and so forth and so on.

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This is something that we need wisdom.

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And that's why it's so good that

if we do love you most, we're gonna

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spend a lot of time in your word.

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We're gonna spend a lot of time with the

Bible, and you've given us some clear

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instructions and guidelines and helps and

admonitions and encouragement, and you've

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given us your spirit to take these things

and actually help us to live them out.

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And so it's not a, just.

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Strange out there.

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Call to, to love you without any

guidelines as to what that looks like.

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You've given us your word to help

express how we love you and what

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that should look like in our lives.

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So I pray that we would be people

that love you well through the word

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and we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep your bibles.

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Y'all in.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said