00:00 Happy Mother's Day!
00:28 Mother's Day Sermon: "God's Perfect Plan for Imperfect People"
01:45 Men's Retreat Announcement! MORE TIME!
06:09 Discussion on David's Military Campaigns
12:40 Psalm 20 and Trusting in God
15:16 Practical Trust in God in Daily Life
18:49 Let's Pray
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Hey everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:What's up folks?
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:Happy Mother's Day.
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:To all the moms listening,
we are that's right.
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:So thankful for you.
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:Y'all play such an important role
in our lives, in the lives of the
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:kids, in our church, in the lives
of whatever children that you have.
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:We're grateful for you moms out there.
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:It's hard work.
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:I my wife will sometimes look at me
and be like I don't want your job.
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:And I look back at her and I'm like
I don't really want your job either.
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:That kinda works out nicely though.
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:It does.
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:God, it's like complimentary roles.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Interesting.
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:Yeah, no we're thankful for you
moms out there and we actually have
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:a gift for you today at church.
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:Yeah.
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:We want to honor you towards that end.
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:And we thought of today's sermon title.
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:As we thought about you restored God's
perfect plan for imperfect people.
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:Yes, pastor PJ named it with you in mind.
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:So we hope you come and hear
about how God can use, even you.
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:I think it'll be an encouraging
message despite the title.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah, that is funny.
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:I didn't, I did not consider that.
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:Oh, sure.
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:That's okay.
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:It's okay.
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:Yeah, no I'm not trying to,
a little playful ribbing.
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:I don't want to anger all
the moms in the church.
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:That's not on my to-do
list, that's for sure.
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:Hey we had, speaking of Mother's
Day, it always falls this way,
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:but we had spring tea, our lady
spring tea yesterday on Saturday.
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:And your wife spoke, shared her testimony,
Shea Azuma spoke and gave her testimony.
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:Wow.
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:And my wife spoke on Fannie Crosby.
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:And her life story and how God's
grace was so instrumental in in
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:her life beyond the fact that she
was just a blind hymn writer, which
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:is most of what I knew about her.
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:But she was pretty powerful.
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:Any relation to Bing Crosby?
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:Nope.
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:I don't different people.
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:I can't say that for sure, but,
certainly a different time.
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:Yeah.
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:Okay.
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:Yeah, but I heard good things.
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:I heard that the testimonies
went really well.
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:I think our ladies showed up and
showed out and just always a good,
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:fun event for them to do that.
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:So well done ladies.
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:We're excited for y'all that you guys
have that time, and hopefully it continues
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:to bear fruit in the coming days.
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:Yep.
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:Speaking of coming days.
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:Hey, we've been saying, Hey man, you only
have, in fact I saw all of your emails.
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:They hit my inbox this week.
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:Saying you only have two hours.
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:Last I spammed people, man.
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:I was just un unashamed, ding.
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:Like 24.
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:That show with Jack Bauer.
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:Have you ever watch that?
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:I did.
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:I did watch that.
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:Yeah.
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:And so it's that I countdown clock.
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:Yeah.
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:That's going on there.
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:Good.
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:I was waiting for that.
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:But the good news is you actually
still have more time then.
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:I don't know if I'm gonna promote it.
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:We're gonna announce it tomorrow or today?
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:Today at church.
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:We're gonna announce it today at church.
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:And ask the men one more time.
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:Hey we'd love to have you there.
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:Yeah.
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:And when we would, we think this
is gonna be well worth your time.
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:But no more.
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:No more emails.
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:I'm just gonna leave it open and if people
wanna register, that would be super good.
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:Yeah, that'd be awesome.
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:And they can do that online@compasstx.org.
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:That's right.
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:Under ministries.
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:You can go to Men or right
there on the homepage.
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:No package could just search
it and I bet it'll come up.
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:Compass to Ntx.
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:Men's Retreat.
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:Just, or just men's retreat?
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:I'm gonna try right now.
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:You're gonna Real time
men's Google Men's Retreat.
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:Not Google.
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:I'm going to search Men's Retreat.
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:Oh, on our website?
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:Yeah, on our website.
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:And the first thing that pops up.
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:Is session two from Kelly
Atterbury, a message from the
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:series at Women's Retreat.
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:So don't do that.
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:Don't search men's retreat
on our don't go there.
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:One would wonder why it does not work.
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:That seems like a pretty obvious, if
I type in men's retreat, you would
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:think it would bring up, it would come
with men's retreat, a men's retreat.
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:Yeah.
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:Hey, Danny Mayer question.
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:Yeah, we were gonna have to contact
our web administrator here, right?
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:Who?
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:We don't know his name, but
his initials are Danny Mayer.
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:Yeah.
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:So if you guys ever have
any issues with our website.
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:No, we're thankful for Danny.
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:He does a good job aside from this
snafu there, but I don't, who knows?
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:I don't know.
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:Okay.
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:Kelly's not speaking at
this men's retreat, though.
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:Kelly Atterbury is a great speaker.
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:Gifted and certainly capable, but she
will not be speaking at our men's retreat.
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:Capable, not qualified.
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:Yeah.
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:Not qualified for this event.
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:This is for men and
ideally you have a men.
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:Teaching.
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:Exactly.
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:In our case, we have three men that are
teaching myself, yourself, and Mark.
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:So Mark Self, it's not Yeah.
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:Mark Self.
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:It's not even gonna be like, oh, I get
to hear the same guy over and over again.
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:It's just oh, you're gonna get variety.
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:Yeah.
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:Variety is a spice of life,
as some people say it is.
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:So it'd be great for you to sit
under the teaching of all three
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:of us, and I hear it's Trinity
to be diverse, so That's right.
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:We've got a Viking in Mark who's speaking.
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:You've got me.
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:I'm a German and you've got you.
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:I've got me.
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:Yeah.
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:It's funny 'cause when we talk
about diversity, we usually don't
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:mean diverse white people, right?
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:We mean diverse other people.
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:So I, I don't know a reverse
Oreo we got going on here.
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:I don't think I'd like that.
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:That wouldn't be good.
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:No, it's gonna be an awesome retreat.
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:The theme is integrity and we're
talking about just super important
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:topics and subjects that are
gonna hopefully be very readily.
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:Applicable to your life.
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:So we want you there pr if a guy's
out there and is Hey I think I
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:can only make it on Saturday.
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:Do we still want him there?
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:And it would be worth your time.
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:We're gonna have two sessions on
Friday, two sessions on Saturday,
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:so you can get there at the
beginning of the day on Saturday.
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:That'd still be a great use of your time.
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:Yeah, and I think well worth it just
because you'll get to be around the guys.
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:I think one of the most important parts
of a retreat is being with the men.
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:You get to develop friendships and to be
with people and to connect with them in
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:a different way than you otherwise would.
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:We're gonna have free time
activities on Saturday.
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:I think we're doing some
hiking, some soccer playing.
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:Lots of options.
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:Board game playing and assuming the
weather holds out and it looks like
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:it's gonna be better this year.
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:Last year we got rained in.
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:This year we actually might stand
a chance to have some nice weather.
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:I do see some rain clouds this Friday.
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:But we'll see.
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:Maybe that won't.
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:Materialize.
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:Maybe not.
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:Maybe not.
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:Yeah.
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:So then you still have time to sign
up all that to say as you're listening
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:to this on Sunday, you still got
time to sign up, please do that.
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:If you're planning on going, please
don't be like, ah, I'll just wait
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:and call on Wednesday and see if
I can shoehorn my way in there.
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:Yeah they want a count.
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:So that was the hard line for us
is that the camp wanted to count.
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:They always do, they want a head count
to provide for food and all the things.
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:And that's the only stricture
that we're working with.
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:So if you are interested, please
sign up and if you're not interested.
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:Come talk to us and we'll
still encourage you to sign up.
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:We wanna convince you how good
this is gonna be and how worth it.
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:You'll find it.
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:Hey, I'm just took a sip of a
cup of coffee that I'm drinking.
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:1418 brand coffee that reminded
me of one of our church attendees
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:highly committed participant Abe
Kim a brought the coffee to us and
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:said, Hey, we just, we love you guys.
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:Just wanted to say thank you
and so here's some coffee.
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:That was awesome.
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:Oh, and so here I am.
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:I'm drinking my coffee about a week
and a half later after that probably.
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:Wow.
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:And I'm thinking about the Kim family.
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:Wow.
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:Good job.
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:Kims also, they're done with school.
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:This homeschool thing is crazy.
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:Like I found out the other day,
I'm like they're just done.
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:They've been done with
school for three months.
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:They're like done.
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:They're just three months ago.
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:They worked really hard and then they
party really hard during the summer.
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:That's the way to do it, man.
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:Yeah.
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:So anyways let's jump into our text.
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:Today we've got second Samuel 10
and one Chronicles 19, and Psalm 20.
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:We were talking before we hit
record, that this is the, this is
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:the last, Hey, look at David before
we're like, oh man, look at David.
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:Yeah.
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:So enjoy today because
tomorrow takes a bit of a turn.
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:Actually not a bit of a
term, quite a sharp term.
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:An unfortunate one.
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:Yeah.
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:Chapter 10, you've got this somewhat
humorous scene, although it wasn't
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:at the time but it's humorous
to us today to think about it.
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:You've got the death of the king, of the
Ammonites and David is trying to be a good
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:dude and wants to express his condolences.
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:And so he sends a, an envoy to.
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:Bring some gifts to say, Hey, I'm
sorry that you lost your dad, but
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:there's some wicked counselors here
and I don't know if this has ever
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:struck you, but this reminded me of
what's gonna happen actually after
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:Solomon with Ray Bo and Ome when Rebo
surrounds himself with some pretty stupid
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:counselors who give him bad advice.
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:And so here you've got the
same thing with a pagan king.
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:Some counselors that give him
bad advice, say, David's just
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:trying to spy out your land.
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:And they humiliate this Envoy.
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:And they shave off half the beard and
cut off their clothes at the waistline.
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:And this is not a good look for them.
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:And so David finds out about it
and he tells them to, Hey, you stay
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:at Jericho until everything has
grown back and you can get some new
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:clothes and then you can come back
and not be ashamed or embarrassed.
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:That stood out to me because Jericho.
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:Is a city that was destroyed by Joshua
and there was a curse put upon it.
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:Anyone who would rebuild it.
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:If you go to Israel today,
there's still a Jericho.
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:You can go visit the city of Jericho.
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:It's next to, it's adjacent to
the ancient city of Jericho.
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:So probably what this is it's.
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:Another version of Jericho part
two that was built adjacent to the
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:original city that was destroyed
during the conquest of the land.
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:So I don't think this is the
same Jericho that was rebuilt.
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:I think this is another city named for
the city that was destroyed, built in
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:close proximity to where the city I.
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:Itself had been destroyed.
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:And that's where David says, Hey,
hang out there and stop there.
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:Rest of the chapter is Victory for David.
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:David bows up against the Ammonites.
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:The Ammonites, get the Syrians.
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:And then, and this is the
beginning of an interesting
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:conflict between Israel and Syria.
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:That's gonna play out.
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:I.
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:Into the future.
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:But but the Syrians show up here to try to
help the Ammonites, that doesn't go well.
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:Then the Syrians try to say we could
have taken you in by ourselves.
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:And that doesn't go well because God
is with David still at this point
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:in his life, and David is winning
these battles and these victories.
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:Yeah.
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:This is the high point or the
last high point of David's career
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:as a military man, as a leader.
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:But it's one we're celebrating.
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:This is, again, to the.
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:Point to the fact that God's the
one who's controlling this David's
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:victory and success is not because
of his military prowess, although
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:he's certainly got something.
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:It is the fact that God is with him.
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:He's the one who's doing good through
him and David know knows this.
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:And I think David never forgets
this honestly, even though he's
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:got some major flaws that we're
gonna have to work through.
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:I think David truly is a humble
man who recognizes that God's the
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:one who's working through him.
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:There is a textual variant
between these two chapters.
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:And I guess lemme just 0.1
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:out to you right now before we get over
to First Chronicles and is in verse 18,
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:Syrians fled before Israel, David killed
of the Syrians, the men of 700 chariots.
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:We'll address that when we
get to First Chronicles.
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:One thing that I love here we talked
about David, the military strategist.
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:I think we see Joe Abs military
prowess here in this situation
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:because they're outnumbered.
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:It looks like Israel should lose this
battle, and Joe Ebbs says, Hey, let's
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:split our forces, and I just love
the trust in God, but yet I'm going
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:to, I'm gonna do my part in this.
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:Iss not a let go and let God, Joe
doesn't just say, okay, God, we're
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:just gonna rush headlong into
the enemy and trust you in this.
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:He says, no, we're gonna
plan and strategize.
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:And then I love what he
says to his brother there.
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:He says, look if God's behind
us, we'll have victory.
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:If not, we're done either way.
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:So here's what we're gonna do
and we'll see what God does.
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:And it's gonna be good because
God's the one that's gonna do this.
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:And so Joe Abs commendable in
this, as is his brother Abha
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:in this this situation here.
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:But yeah, I've always loved the.
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:The marriage of God's trusting God's
sovereignty, and yet saying, we've
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:gotta make sure we're doing our part
here on the ground as we, we draw
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:up for battle against these guys.
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:It's not a verse.
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:I know people often cited as a verse,
it's the sense Aris is saying God
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:helps those who help themselves.
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:I think Benjamin Franklin is the
one who popularized that idea.
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:It's not true in the sense
that it's not biblical.
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:There's not a verse that you could
point to that says that there is
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:a hint of truth in it, though.
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:In that God does use means to
accomplish his divine purposes,
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:and those means are often the
things that people look down upon.
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:Prayer, submission, surrender, but
it's also the strategic practical
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:planning that we do every day.
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:So keeping a budget.
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:Is a really practical way to strategize
where God wants to use your finances.
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:Keeping a calendar is a strategic
and practical way for how God
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:wants you to spend your life.
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:You get to choose how
you're gonna do that.
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:Now, God's gonna orchestrate your life
to his purposes and his desires, but it's
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:not without your active voluntary even.
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:I'll use that word, even though I know
we, we were, we're all thinking the
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:same thing because God is sovereign.
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:It's your voluntary.
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:Agency that God utilizes
to accomplish his purposes.
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:So don't negate that
it's not this or that.
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:It's this and that.
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:Alright, let's get over to the parallel
text then in one Chronicles 19.
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:And let's deal with this
textual variant here.
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:Where do you want us to go?
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:Verse 18 it's actually
verse 18 in both texts.
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:So first.
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:It's Chronicles 19, two Samuel 10.
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:They're both of verse 18.
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:So take a look here.
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:Syrians fled before Israel.
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:David killed the Syrians, the men
of, and here we go, 7,000 chariots.
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:40,000 foot soldiers and he
put to death choppa Chop Show.
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:Show that guy.
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:But anyway, 7,000 verses 700.
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:This one's a little easier to understand
and you probably would be able to say,
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:okay, I could see what happened there.
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:So obviously you have a difference
in number one, 7,001 700.
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:This has been a couple days since I
looked at this, but I think that the
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:large number of commentators will
agree with the 7,000 number and not
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:700 either are a possibility though.
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:And this is one of those scribal issues
where it's, okay, was it three zeros?
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:Was it four zeros?
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:This is one of those areas where
it's not gonna make or break
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:our faith, but it is there.
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:And these are the kind of things
that you need to be aware of.
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:They're not meant to disagree with
each other in that they're not.
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:It's not, they're not both true.
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:Certainly one of them is true because
they're both talking about the same thing.
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:And a good Bible exe will say,
okay, which one do I believe?
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:And this is where you have to go
into your due diligence and looking
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:at your various resources to say
which one makes the most sense.
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:Now the NET Bible will record 700.
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:Other Bibles will record
7,000 as the ESV does.
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but again, nothing to be a afraid of.
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40,000 horsemen in one and 40,000
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ground troops in the other one.
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there of some things that can get.
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:Psalm chapter 20.
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:Anything else on the parallel there
that you wanted to call out there?
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:Psalm chapter 20 is another Psalm
of David and we're not sure here of
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:the timing, but certainly fits the
tone of a victory psalm and so it.
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:Could be that this was written after these
victories or maybe after the victories
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:that we read about in Second Samuel eight.
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:But this would've been sung after
winning battles like those here.
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:And and this is a psalm of well wishing
upon the people that culminates in
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:the expression of great trust in God.
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:In verse seven, and we alluded to this
verse the other day, but here it is,
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:some trust in chariots, some in horses.
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:But we trust in the name
of the Lord our God.
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:Yeah, so it, you can see why it
connects here because you've got
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:these massive numbers of chariots and
horsemen that David and his crew and
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:Joe Ab and Abishai were up against,
and yet God gave them the victory.
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:And so it fits here that maybe David wrote
this psalm reflecting on that saying, man,
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:they trusted in their army, they trusted
in their chariots and their horsemen.
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:Even think back to the Exodus and Pharaoh
and his armies pursuing the Israelites.
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:Look, we're gonna trust in
the name of the Lord our God.
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:We're gonna trust that
he is able to do this.
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:And when we see the name of the Lord
our God what we're talking about there
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:is his reputation, his character,
who he has revealed himself to be.
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:We're trusting in him, his person.
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:That's what's referenced
there by the name.
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:And so it's not that they're carrying
a banner with the name Yahweh,
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:and they're looking at the banner
itself or the word itself going.
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:That's what we're trusting.
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:And it's meant to stand in for the
whole person there of God himself.
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:And that's where our trust needs to be.
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:And it needs to be there for us too.
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:Yeah, we've got a lot going on right now.
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:I just, we've been talking
about Epic City, right?
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:Yes.
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:That, that was in the news again recently
because the DOJ the Federal Department
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:of Justice is now doing an investigation,
launching an investigation into Epic City.
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:I saw that, I found in my heart,
my initial response was, oh, good.
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:This is a good thing.
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:I wanted that.
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:And yet I caught myself.
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:I'm like, wait a minute.
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:My, my trust is not in the DOJ
under this administration coming
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:in and protecting us from the
islamification of North Texas, right?
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:My trust is in a sovereign God.
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:Now, if he uses those means,
means great, praise God.
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:It's not that we should
not want that to happen.
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:I think it's a good thing and
I want it to be shut down.
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:I don't want the islamification
of our area at all.
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:It's a false gospel.
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:It's gonna lead more and
more people to hell, but.
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:Man, where's our trust in in, whether
it's that or in your health diagnosis
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:or you've got marital strife at home.
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:It, where is your trust?
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:We're gonna be like, Joe, Adam,
we're gonna, we're going do the work.
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:We're gonna think about how we
need to move forward and be smart
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:about that, and apply the wisdom
that we believe that we have.
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:But where's our trust?
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:In the end of the day?
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:We have to trust in him.
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:That's why things like accountability
so good, but they're lousy saviors.
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:Our trust can't be in
accountability to overcome sin.
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:Our trust has to be in our
relationship with Christ.
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:Our trust has to be in the
Lord to help us in that.
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:So a lot of people are gonna I
think, naturally wonder then, okay.
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:If I'm trusting the Lord,
then where is the line?
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:For instance if I have a strange growth
in some part of my body, should I go to
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:the doctor or should I trust the Lord?
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:If I live in an area where I
think, man, it would be prudent
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:for me to have an alarm system.
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:Should I get the alarm system and
spend the extra $35 a month or whatever
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:it is, or should I trust the Lord?
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:Should I get additional insurance for
my car with a very low deductible,
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:or should I trust the Lord?
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:I think a lot of these things
people are gonna wonder what
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:practically then do I do?
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:Should I throw caution to the wind?
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:Should I buy the insurance?
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:Should I, should I buy a gun?
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:If the criminal is trying to
open my door, do I trust the Lord
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:and pray, or do I call the cops?
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:Help answer some of those questions.
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:Yeah, I think discernment is gonna be
super helpful in a lot of this because
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:it's subjective in so much of this, if
security becomes an idol, then there
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:is a degree to which we can go too far
and we're no longer trusting the Lord.
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:We are trusting our Glock.
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:We are trusting our security system.
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:We are trusting the
neighborhood that we moved into.
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:And if you're up late at night and
you're not able to sleep because
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:you're afraid that somebody's
gonna break in your home, you're.
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:Not trusting the Lord.
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:Now, is it wrong to have
locks on our doors and things?
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:No, absolutely not.
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:You look at these cities,
they were fortified.
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:The Israelis dwelled with gates and they
shut the gates and they locked the gates.
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with David in Psalm 20, we trust
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:in the name of the Lord our God.
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:They're also gonna say, we're
gonna dwell inside walled cities
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:with gates, and we're gonna have
centuries on the post to watch out.
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:Even just wisdom in it.
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:Joab had to pursue some sort of
military training and so he did that.
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:He went out and got the military training
necessary to be able to command the
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:armies and to know, okay, I'm outnumbered.
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:What do I need to do?
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:I need to cover my front
side and my backside.
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:So we're gonna split because this
is a military process and thing that
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:works and it's proven to work in
the past, so we're gonna do this.
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:And so even there education,
you can see that's helpful
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:for us to go and pursue that.
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:That's not undermining our
confidence in the Lord.
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:It just comes back to me, and
this is why I say it's subjective.
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:We have to examine our hearts to say,
God, am gonna go so far, but I'm not
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:gonna go beyond the degree to where
I'm saying I don't trust you enough.
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:At this point, we have to get
to a place where we say, okay,
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:and now I'm gonna trust you.
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:And that's gonna be
different for every person.
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:By and large if you've got 40 locks
on your door and three alarm systems,
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:okay we might have a problem there.
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:We might have a, an issue of you're
not trusting the Lord with your
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:family's wellbeing and safety.
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:If you're paying an exorbitant
amount of money for car insurance
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:and that's impacting your ability to
be generous towards other people and
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:to give to the church, I would say.
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:I think we've got an issue there too.
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:But it's, I, you can't make an objective,
hard and fast rule across the board.
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:Yeah.
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:I think we have to find the way to go
to the doctor and yet not trust the
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:doctor or trusting the Lord to get the
car insurance that we need and to trust
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:the Lord and to to have the gun, if
that's what your family believes you
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:should do, and yet still trust the Lord.
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:I think of Psalm 1 27.
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:Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
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:So God has to be behind your activity.
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:And then just as we said here it
was noble of Joe Ab and Abishai
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:to do the things that they did
to strategize, and God used that.
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:God bless that.
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:The same thing is true for us when it
comes to living our everyday lives.
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:We have to make decisions that we say.
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:We're doing this as an act of
trust and not in defiance of that
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:trust, and that's often hard.
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:That means you have to be paying
attention to your heart in the first
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:place when you're spending money in
investing all your time, energy, and
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:resources into something to protect your
family or to to protect your nest egg.
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:What am I doing this for?
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:What's the motivation behind it?
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:Christian has to learn how to operate
in this world and do the practical
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:thing, strategize, spend, save, give.
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:And yet still at the end of the
day, say, I'm trusting in the Lord.
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:Even as I do these things, there
are evidence of my trust and
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:not evidence of its absence.
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:Yeah, let's pray and then we'll
be done with this episode.
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:God, help us to find that
balance, to walk that line.
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:It's so hard and and there's plenty
of reasons for us to fear whether it's
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:health related reasons or our security,
our safety, what's going on with the the
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:population of our area here in North Texas
and who's moving in and what's going on.
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:It's so many reasons we can find to.
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:To feel like we need to take
things into our own hands,
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:and yet we make lousy saviors.
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:We don't have armies.
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:We don't have chariots to trust in, but
we have security systems and we have
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:politicians, and we have, our doctors
or our health and wellbeing specialists.
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:Lord, we need to ultimately have our
trust anchored to you because even
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:if we have the best of all of that,
if you desire to call us home, you're
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:gonna, you're gonna bring us home.
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:And so gotta increase our faith in you.
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:Help us to.
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:To rest in you and not to be a fearful
people to be wise, but and to take
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:advantage of the resources that you've
given to us to protect our families
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:and our homes and everything else.
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:But also at the end of the day
to say, look, Lord, your will
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:be done as Joab does here.
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:And what a great example that is.
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:I thank you for that example in the
text and just pray that we would live
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:We pray in Jesus' name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:Happy Mother's Day, moms Keep your Bibles.
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:Tune in again tomorrow for
another Daily Bible podcast.
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:We'll see you then.
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:Bye.
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:you against tomorrow for another
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:Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said