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Evaluating Other Churches and Joshua's Final Farewell

In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, Pastors PJ and Rod begin with a discussion on how to humbly and rightly evaluate other churches in the community, emphasizing prayer and a focus on shared core beliefs. They then transition to a detailed study of Joshua chapters 22-24, covering Joshua's final charges to Israel, the return of the Trans Jordan tribes, and the importance of clinging to and loving the Lord intentionally. Joshua's famous declaration 'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord' is highlighted, along with the covenant renewal and the eventual apostasy of the next generation. The episode concludes with reflections on the importance of raising the next generation in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Also, Pastor PJ agrees with everything Pastor Rod says.

00:00 Welcome and Introduction

00:32 Discussing Different Theologies

01:41 Humility and Prayer for Other Churches

08:04 Joshua's Final Charge to Israel

13:33 Reflection and Application

18:36 Conclusion and Preview of Judges

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PJ:

Everybody welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up?

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What's up?

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What's up?

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It is what day is today?

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It is Saturday.

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Saturday.

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Hopefully you're enjoying your Saturday.

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I think the weather's supposed

to be a little bit nicer.

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It rained earlier this week.

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Was supposed to rain on Friday,

and I think we're turning

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in a corner a little bit.

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Beautiful weather.

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Should be in the seventies

and eighties here in Texas.

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This is the good season.

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This is the time to come visit Texas.

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If you want to come visit

Texas and you're not from here.

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Come now.

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Right now, get on a plane.

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You can be here tomorrow for church too.

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And and worship with us.

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That'd be great.

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So right now, jump online, find a ticket.

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Come visit us.

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Hey, I was talking to somebody this

week, had breakfast with someone who was

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just, we were talking about different

sex of theology from what we embrace.

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Not aberrant, not heretical,

but it got me thinking about.

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Just how we consider and think

about some of these other churches

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as we drive around our area, we

see a ton of churches in our area.

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Not all of them are great.

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Not all of them practice, the strictest

adherence to biblical theology,

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the way that, that we would, and

there's a lot of differences there.

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So pr how can our people think about.

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Some of the other churches

that pepper our landscape here.

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Driving by, we'll see other denominations

that we might look at and go, oh

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man, I've heard something about

that denomination, or I've heard

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something about this denomination.

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Or, oh, that's pastor, Wes

and Pastor Susie that are our

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pastoring that church there.

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How do we think about all the people

that are represented by the cars in

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those parking lots when we drive by?

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Or how do we think about those churches

when it comes to the realm of Christendom?

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Broadly speaking here, how can we,

how should we rightly and humbly

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think about these other congregations

that litter our landscape?

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Rod: I have several thoughts

about that, and I would have to

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start with what, where you ended.

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I think the practice is one of humility.

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I.

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Even the good things that we have

that we can feel good about, confident

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about, feel conviction about, or things

that God has given us by His grace.

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And so I would start with that

awareness, that man I love where I'm at.

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I love the church that I'm part of.

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I love the things that I know

and I feel reasonably assured of.

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I'm thankful for those things and I.

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I can thank God, even as

I pass other churches.

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Thank you for putting me where I am.

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I could have been there, I

could have been at the mosque.

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I could have been born in this

other place and time and I could

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have gone to this other thing.

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There's just so many different

possibilities of what could have

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been, and that's not the case.

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I'm here.

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So I think the humility is

gonna be the starting place.

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But secondly, I think one posture that we

could have there, and there's multiple.

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And one of the first ones I think I'm

gonna say, I wanna pray for that church.

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If I'm tempted, as I often am candidly,

to look at other churches and to

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look down on them and say, man.

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Okay.

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If that's what you think is the

right thing to do, you're gonna

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stand before the Lord for that.

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And maybe there's a mixture

hopefully it's a good mix, largely

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in favor of a righteous indignation

of saying, man, that's wrong.

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What you're doing is not the best thing.

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I could still pray for them with an open

heart and say, Lord, please bless them.

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Give them a pastor that knows

what he's talking about.

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And even if it is a Pastor Susie, I

can still say, Lord, do good to them.

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Help them to know the

word and to trust it.

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I came from a charismatic

background, which had female pastors

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and all sorts of things, and.

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My, my theology fundamentally changed,

so I know those kinds of changes are

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possible, although they're not likely,

I can pray for them and ask God to bless

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them, and that's what I want him to do.

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And when I say bless, I don't necessarily

mean that I want that particular

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denomination or that particular church.

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People to necessarily do better

and to reach more people.

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In some ways we're on the same team and in

other ways we can more thinly divide that.

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So I'm gonna pray for their

good, however God defines that.

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But I'm also to rally back to where

I started I want to pray ultimately

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that God's Capital C Church succeeds.

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So I don't know what's

happening in those doors.

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I don't know what the leadership

team is talking about or

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what they're praying about.

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At the end of the day, I want

Jesus to succeed in fulfilling

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his work in the church.

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And I know that we're not the only one.

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So I want God to take the

capital C Church, all the

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believers and all the creation.

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And I want him to use them mightily.

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And that means if he's gonna bless the

church down the block, man, sure do that.

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I wanna be behind that.

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I wanna support that.

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I have many more thoughts about those

different churches and denominations,

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but those are some of a few that I have.

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What would you say Pastor pj?

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PJ: Yeah, I think we, we are like-minded

in that, where my mind went with him.

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'cause he was asking specifically in,

in a certain situation is Philippians

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chapter one when Paul's in prison

and he's sharing the gospel even with

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those that he's in prison next to.

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And then he hears that from some,

that, Hey, these people over here are

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sharing the gospel because they're

trying to make you jealous of.

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Maybe the converts that they're

getting or maybe the fact

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that they weren't in prison.

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They're able to share the gospel

freely, and they're like, look at us.

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We can take Paul's celebrity,

whatever their motives were.

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They say, look they're doing

it for the wrong reasons.

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Over here.

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We disagree with this about them.

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And Paul's response is, look, whether

in pretense or truth I just am.

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Thankful that the gospel

is being proclaimed.

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And I think that can help us when we

drive by these churches, if we can

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say and pray, because we won't know.

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'cause we're not there on a Sunday.

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But if we can pray, God, may that

church have a biblical gospel.

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That's what we want

more than anything else.

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If we could drive by a church and

say, God, can we I would hope that

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we would agree on tier one issues.

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On every tier one issue, the inerrancy

of scripture, the authority of scripture,

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the deity of Christ, the exclusivity of

Christ, the need for faith and repentance

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in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins.

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If we could pray that those things

would ring out from the pulpits

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around our metroplex here, then the

secondary issues are issues that.

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We can agree, hey, some of these are more

important than others, but at the end

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of the day we're brothers and sisters

in Christ, and we were even talking a

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little bit this morning too, that we have

a unique luxury in our culture to parse

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out some of those finer differences and

distinctions on those tier two issues.

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Versus if it was illegal to be a Christian

in our nation, than we would have a much

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different perspective of Pastor Susie down

the street telling people to repent and

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believe in Jesus than we do right now.

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I'm not saying that, that it would

be right or that we would lose our

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convictions over what is right.

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But we would have more of a sense

of unity as the bride of Christ

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pushing back the darkness together.

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I agree with your sentiment there.

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I think humility is important to that.

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And and we should pray that God

will raise up more solid churches.

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That's why we're here.

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We wanna see that happen.

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We wanna see him multiply

churches through church planting.

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And we wanna see more solid biblically

grounded churches emerge here.

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But we also want to be sensitive to

the fact that God's working in all

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different types of churches as long

as those tier one issues are there,

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Rod: yeah, just to balance that and

help our people understand we don't

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think all churches are equally good.

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True.

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Just to be a hundred percent clear, yes.

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We do not think that.

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We think, in fact, many churches

have capitulated compromised and

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abdicated their responsibility to

issue a clarion call, to repent

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and believe in Jesus Christ.

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Hundred percent.

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And they're teaching mostly their

own ideas and their words, as opposed

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to saying, what does God's word say?

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Help us communicate that Lord so

that your people are well fed.

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They're understanding what their call

is, they're understanding what their

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role is in their life, and in their work.

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So we can pray for them and be

well wishers on their behalf.

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While at the same time, recognizing,

and the longer I'm a Christian,

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the longer I do my thing as a

pastor and study God's word.

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And the more I read about what it

means to be a pastor and to be a

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Christian, the more I'm affirmed.

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Okay, we're doing it right.

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Are we perfect?

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By no stretch, but we are doing it right.

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I'm convicted of that.

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I feel that, I feel burdened for that

and for other Christians who go to.

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Churches that are less robust, I feel

a burden for them because I think

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they don't know things that we know.

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They're not learning the

things that we're teaching.

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They're not understanding the things

that they need to know as Christians, and

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therefore they're gonna be less mature,

less healthy, less strong, less effective

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in all the areas that really matter.

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So while we can say, look, we pray for.

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Pastor Susie and those other churches

down the block, we don't think that

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they're equally good and that, and

they would say the same about us.

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Let's just be clear about that.

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They would look at us and

say, you guys are legalists.

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You guys are too stringent.

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You guys care too much about

minor details or what have you.

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So we're not just saying, it's us

looking at them saying they're deficient.

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They're looking at us and

saying the same thing.

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We're dishonest about it and

saying, look, we pray for them.

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Yeah, but we're praying

probably differently than

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how they might pray for us.

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And when it comes to aberrant

congregations, like the Mormons,

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like the Jehovah's Witnesses,

we're gonna say they're, we're not

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praying for them to be blessed.

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We're praying for them to repent

and believe the true gospel

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and believe in the true Christ.

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PJ: Yeah, that's a good word.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with everything

that you just said just now.

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Not everything.

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Everything I've ever said, always say.

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Yeah, always.

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You agree with, it's not a blank check.

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Rod: I'm taking it blank check.

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I'm gonna cut that out.

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I'm gonna use that before every podcast.

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I'm gonna put Rod.

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I agree with everything you just said.

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PJ: That's not what I said.

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Alright, let's jump into the word Joshua.

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22, 23, 24.

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Some good things in here.

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Joshua 22, 1 through nine Now that the

Lord had provided rest for their brothers.

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The trans Jordan tribes are released

by Joshua to return to their homes.

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So remember, they had been over there

fighting on behalf of Israel as a whole

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because when they first asked Moses,

can we stay here, Moses said, yes,

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but you gotta help your brothers, your

kinsmen settle the promised lands.

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So they've done that, and now they're

freed up to go back, but he commands

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them as they're going to remember the

law and to keep it in a quasi covenant

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renewal with these two and a half tribes.

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So Joshua's concerned that

they not drift from the Lord.

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Because they're not gonna be nearby.

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They're not gonna be where the

rest of the tribes were gonna be.

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And they're opting for that.

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They're choosing that.

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And again, we talked

about that originally.

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I don't think this was a wise

decision for them to be so far away.

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And that leads to what happens next.

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In the second half of chapter 22,

those tribes go back and they build

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an altar there, and they build an

altar on the other side of the Jordan.

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And the main tribes.

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Catch wind of this, and it they raise a

flag that they're concerned about this.

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And Phineas, same Phineas the famous

Phineas, he leads this delegation

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back to, to confront these tribes

and says, what are you doing?

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This is not what the Lord commanded you.

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This is, you're not to bring

offerings or sacrifices anywhere

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but the designated place.

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Remember, we've talked about that he

had chosen a place now, Shiloh, where

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he was gonna have the tabernacle.

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That's where the worship

was supposed to take place.

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Not here on the other side of the

Jordan and the tribe say, look,

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we're not doing this to use it.

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We're doing this as a witness so

that future generations will remember

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that we're still part of Israel.

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And so their concern was,

we're going back across here.

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They felt the disconnect so much so

that they were worried that future

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generations are gonna be like, wait a

minute, you guys don't belong to us.

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You're even on the other

side of the Jordan.

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This is the promised land.

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Not that.

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And so they build this altar as a

testimony to say, Hey, no, we belong.

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We're part of you.

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This could have all been avoided.

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This

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Rod: the acrobatics they had to go

through to, to make a statement and

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saying, look, we're one with you.

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We belong to you, you belong to us.

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If they had just gone over and

stayed there that would've been fine.

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And God, it's interesting, God

acquiesced God allows them to

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do this, and so he knows full

well what's about to take place.

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But it's interesting that God allows this.

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I'm surprised by that.

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I guess it's a, it's in a similar vein to

him, allowing Dan to forsake their current

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land land allotment and moving north.

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This is interesting though.

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Interesting development.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with everything that

you said it's one of those when,

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as parents, you let your kids make

decisions that you know are not the

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best decisions for them to make, and

yet you know that they're not, this

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is not gonna end in their demise.

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They're gonna suffer for this.

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They're gonna realize that this is not

the right decision, but you're gonna

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let them make that, and you're gonna let

them reach that conclusion on their own.

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And that's part of.

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Of parenting, and I think maybe

that's what God is doing here too.

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That's a good call.

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Chapter 23.

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Then we come into Joshua's final charge

to Israel before he is gonna end up dying.

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And in this final charge to Israel, he

is going to give them just some great.

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Reminders of the importance of

their relationship with the Lord.

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Verse eight.

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He's gonna encourage them and charge

them to clinging to the Lord their God.

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Just as a the picture there holding

fast to God is something that is,

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that translates for us to today.

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We've been talking about, man, how

do we pull some things out with

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the boundaries and everything else?

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These are things that, that apply.

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Easily for us clinging

to the Lord your God.

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And verse 11, be careful.

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Be very careful.

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He says, not just be careful.

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Be very careful to love the Lord your God.

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That again, intentionality.

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You're not just gonna wake up

and stumble into obedience.

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You've gotta be careful and

thoughtful and intentional about

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your obedience to the Lord.

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Verse 14, he reminds them

about the faithfulness of God.

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Again, as the foundation for this,

remember how faithful God has been to you.

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And so just as God has been faithful

to bless you and bring you into

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the land know that if you disobey.

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The opposite's coming.

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He's gonna be just as faithful to

end up turning against you here.

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Chapter 23, Joshua's laying

things out saying, Hey, love

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the Lord and be faithful.

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But remember if you're not, God will

bring the discipline against you.

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He will bring the judgment against you.

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Chapter 24.

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Then the Lord here reminds

Israel of all of his faithfulness

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again to, to them throughout the

generations verses one through 13.

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There he's walking through just

the way that he has blessed them

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and brought them to where he is.

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And then we get a rather famous statement

here from Joshua in verses 14 through 15.

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He says, now, therefore, fear the Lord and

serve him with sincerity and faithfulness.

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Again, the intentionality there.

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Put away your faults, gods.

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And then in verse 15 he says, look,

if it's evil in your eyes to serve

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the Lord, choose then this day whom

you will serve, whether the gods

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of your fathers or the God of the

Amorites and who land you dwell.

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But as for me and my house,

we will serve the Lord.

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And so he draws the line in the sand

and says, Hey, make your choice.

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Choose today who you're gonna serve.

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But as for me and my house,

we will serve the Lord.

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Rod: I love how he

antagonizes them a little bit.

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Because you're like,

yeah, we're gonna do that.

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He says, no, you're not gonna do that.

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You are gonna say that, but you're

not gonna, it is too hard for you.

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You're not able to serve him.

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He's a holy God.

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And they're like no.

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We're gonna do it.

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Really, Joshua, we mean this.

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I just one those, I don't know how this

transpired, but it just, I read it funny.

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It sounds like he's antagonizing

them the whole time.

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You're not gonna do this.

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Fine.

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Okay.

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You say, so let's let's consolidate this.

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If you think that's really what's gonna

happen, but your words are right on, man.

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I appreciate that.

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I love the idea and the mindset

of saying, look, we're just, we're

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gonna cut off everything behind us.

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We're gonna make a decision.

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To do what's right to serve the Lord.

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And no matter what we're gonna,

we're gonna go that direction.

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And notice Joshua says for me

and my house, he can't he can't

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communicate for everybody.

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Even though he is their leader, he knows

he's about to go the way of the buffalo.

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And so he's saying for me, for my house,

what I can control, my family, what we do,

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we are gonna, we're gonna serve the Lord.

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And I think that kind of mentality, if

that were present here today, we'd have

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a lot more strong families because men.

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Who are willing to do this are

gonna say, look, I can't control

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what my neighborhood does.

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I can't control what my government does.

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I can't control the laws that my

government enacts, but I can control

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what happens under my roof and by God's

grace I'm going to, I'm gonna do that.

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I heard someone talk about the kind

of leadership a man possesses in

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his home, that he has an iron hand

covered with a velvet glove that

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he leads strongly, but he doesn't

do it in a harsh, overbearing way.

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And I think that's what Joshua

calls us to, to love the Lord

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with that kind of ferocity.

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And of course, the gentleness that's

required of a father and a husband.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with everything

that you said and the people's

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pledge think we're all in.

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We're gonna do this.

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Joshua, he says, take this seriously

in verses 20 through 22, reminds

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them of the gravity of this choice.

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When he says, here you are witnesses

against yourselves, that you have

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chosen the Lord to serve him.

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And they said, we are witnesses.

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That's a, when you know the

future of what's coming.

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That's a bone chilling.

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Statement from that, even

though he says it against

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Rod: yourselves now, you're not witnesses

for yourselves, but against, yeah.

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In other words, he's

anticipating their inevitable

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PJ: departure and I guess they

just don't get it, or they don't

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think that's possible because

they're like, yep, we're witnesses.

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We're willing to be that

we're on the same team.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with everything that

you said verse 19, to your point

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when he says, you're not able to do

this for the Lord is a jealous God.

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I don't think it's that the Lord

gives commands that we're unable to.

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To do.

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I think everything that the Lord sets

out and calls us to, we're able to do.

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He doesn't say jump over a 20

foot building in one bound.

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That's not a commandment.

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But to do it wholeheartedly and to

love the Lord, you, God, with all

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your heart, with all your soul, with

all your strength, that is something

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that we can't do to perfection.

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Because of our sinfulness.

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Because of our brokenness.

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tells them, you can't do this

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to, to the degree that you're

saying that you're gonna do it.

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But that doesn't mean you shouldn't.

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Give effort.

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In verse 23, he says, put away the

foreign gods that are among you.

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And I like this statement.

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Incline your heart to the Lord that

again, intentionality, incline your heart.

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Cause your affections to be for the Lord.

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And that's not something

that happens accidentally.

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You don't wake up with your

heart inclined to the Lord.

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You wake up with your heart,

inclined to your flesh.

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And it's only by prayer and time in

the word and time around the believers

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and that intentional discipline of your

mind and your body, and your life, that

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you will find that you're living a life

with your heart inclined to the Lord.

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And so just that was true for them.

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It's true for us today too.

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The benefit we have is the spirit dwelling

within us to help us in that endeavor.

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But it still requires, our participation

in that that same effort too.

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That's right.

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So the chapter wraps up here.

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Joshua sets up a covenant with the people

again and sets up a stone of remembrance

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to serve as a witness for future

generations saying, Hey, this is gonna

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be there to remind you of this covenant,

of your agreeing to do these things and

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to obey the Lord and to pursue the Lord.

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And then the book, of course,

ends with somebody else picking

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up the narrative there with

Joshua's death at 110 years old.

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Rod: Verse 31 is interesting 'cause

it says Israel serve the Lord all

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the days of Joshua and all the days

of the elders who outlive Joshua.

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That's a good thing.

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That's a great thing, in fact,

that they serve the Lord and

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that they were faithful to him.

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But in just a chapter, two chapters,

maybe as we go into the judges.

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We're gonna find out that there's

the, there are only one generation

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removed from all out apostasy.

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Because even though Joshua and his

elders, I suspect were strong leaders,

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that doesn't guarantee that the next

generation's gonna do the right thing.

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Are there any lessons that

you can think of that would be

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helpful for us to take from this?

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'cause that's discouraging.

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We can plant and water and do all

the right things and still have

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the next generation go bonkers.

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PJ: I would agree with everything that

you said I'm reminded of, mueller,

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he was talking about the presidency

when Trump first took office and

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was doing a bunch of good things,

and Mueller said, this is great.

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He said let's not say anything else.

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This what he's doing, a lot of

what he's doing is really good.

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But Mueller said, for there to

be lasting change, this is gonna

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require another four years.

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Another president and another president

after him, and another president after him

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that are gonna continue these policies.

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Otherwise they're just gonna be undone

by the next guy that takes office.

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I think if we're not.

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Intentional to be praying for that

next generation on a regular basis

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and doing everything that we can in

our power to try to raise them in

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the discipline and instruction of the

Lord and teach them things like this.

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You need men to be teaching your

sons as they're growing older.

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Hey, when you get married and you

have kids, you need to teach your

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kids the things of the word you

need to have your kids in church.

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Here's why we've had you in church.

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Here's why we've put you through

Adventure Club, or why we've had you

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in student ministry, or why we have

you at this church, because this is us.

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Doing what God has called us to do

with you, and someday you're gonna

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get married and that's gonna be your

responsibility with your kids as well.

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So don't just focus on that next

generation up, but even instill that

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vision with that next generation up

for their role that they're gonna

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play in the future generations.

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Your grandkids, your great grandkids,

and how they're there to continue

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to perpetuate this, hopefully this

faith that's gonna result in future

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generations being strong in the

church and the church not apostate.

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Is that.

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That was good.

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Good.

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Okay.

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I didn't know if you had a particular

angle or something on that, but Nope.

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No, I had no angle.

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I was just giving you

opportunity to tell us how it is.

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Awesome.

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Awesome.

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Hey, seven books down.

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Seven books down already this year.

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So good job.

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Keep going.

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We've got judges, next Judges

is gonna be a rollercoaster.

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It's gonna go good.

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It's gonna go bad.

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It's gonna go good.

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It's gonna go bad.

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You've got a left-handed king,

you've got a fat or a left-handed

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judge who stabs a fat king.

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You've got all kinds of stuff going on

here, so can't say that word anymore, fat.

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You can't.

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That's offensive.

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Rod: Gotta use a, that's what it is.

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Different words.

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I dunno what the words are though.

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I don't know what the right

one is, but I don't know.

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I don't think

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PJ: you can say that.

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It says the fat closed over his sword.

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Yeah, the fat.

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Yeah.

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And other things happen

too, so That's true.

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You'll have to tune in though

to find out what, so let me

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pray and then we'll be done.

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Got thanks for another book

under our belt this year.

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We don't want to just have books

done as a way to check a box or

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be somehow legalistic to think

that we're more acceptable to you.

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Because look at us.

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We've done all these things.

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We wanna boast not in

ourselves, but in the Lord.

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Use the word that we read, that

we intake, that we ingest to

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cause us to be more like Christ.

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And so we thank you for that opportunity.

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Even as we read books that.

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Like Joshua aren't on the surface at

least super clear about how it relates

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to our relationship with you all the

time, or how it relates to Christ.

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We thank you for the knowledge that it

does, that we know it does as Jesus,

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even on the road to Emmaus with the

disciples, opened up the word and

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showed how everything points to him.

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And so give us a wisdom to know

how that works and how to do

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that with humility and care.

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And so we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading Bibles and tune in

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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