00:00 Introduction and Snowstorm Update

00:30 Reflecting on the Ice Storm Experience

01:15 Alex Honnold's Free Solo Climb

01:55 Can Extreme Sports Glorify God?

03:01 Risk Tolerance and Appropriateness

06:32 Exodus 16: Manna from Heaven

10:49 Exodus 17: Water from the Rock and Battle with Amalekites

15:00 Exodus 18: Jethro's Advice to Moses

20:40 Matthew 19: The Rich Young Ruler

24:48 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We are doing this a

little bit differently.

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We are snowed in and so we're recording.

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Via Zoom.

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So we're thankful for technology,

but we are not unfortunately in

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office or maybe fortunately because

otherwise we might be spun out on

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the side of the road somewhere.

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It was pretty nasty out there.

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This is one of the worst ice storms that

I can remember being in, in Texas, even

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when I lived in Missouri, this was bad.

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But we're thankful that we still

get to record over Zoom while we

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continue the Daily Bible podcast.

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Yeah, I'm bumed not to be in the office.

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I enjoy being around people.

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At least having people

hustle and bustle around me.

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I can hear Ali's voice

in my ear right now.

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I can hear Kelly as I walk

past her desk in the morning.

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I'm just missing these things.

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Yeah.

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However, I really have enjoyed this storm.

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This has been awesome.

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The power stayed on the

heating was always working.

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I really appreciate that.

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And just having a forced slowdown

and shutdown down of everything.

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I don't know.

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It's kind of cool.

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I like it.

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We haven't had this since 2020

and I appreciate this 'cause

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it's a much smaller dose and one

that I welcome, quite frankly.

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So this has been nice.

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I like it.

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I'm glad that we're exiting it

though, a few days at a time.

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Great.

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But much more than that.

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I don't want to deal with that.

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Thank you very much.

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Yeah.

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No I am with you.

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I'm with you.

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One of the things that we got

to do during our slowdown is

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we watched the Alex Honnold.

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Climbing of the giant skyscraper

in Taiwan, so it's like

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the fifth largest building.

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Tallest building in the world.

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And he climbed it with no ropes.

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He free soloed this building.

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And it was nerve wracking, man.

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There were times like my

palms were sweating and I

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was just sitting on my couch.

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It was one of those situations

where you're like, this is crazy.

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And so that led to a question that was

submitted to the Daily Bible podcast.

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Not via email or a text, but by

somebody that I share my house with.

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So my wife said, Hey, I've

got a question for the podcast.

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And rather than say, well, you have to

email it, I said, okay, well what is it?

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And she asked, do it, do it.

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Got an email.

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She asked the question, can somebody

free solo to the glory of God and her?

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What she's driving at

there is the question of.

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The stewardship of our lives.

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Is there a point at which we would draw

a line and say, okay, I don't know if

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you can do that thing to the glory of

God, because it crosses a line into.

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Other areas where, for example,

the stewardship of our bodies.

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Is it wise to go out and

free solo a building?

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Now I can tell you I can't free solo to

the glory of God because I don't have

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the skillset to be able to do that or

the confidence to be able to do that.

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So I'm falling off that building

probably like five feet off the ground.

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But for this guy, he has trained for

this, he's technically skilled at this.

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He knows what he's doing.

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Now, to my knowledge, I

don't think he's a believer.

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But if he was, could he do

that to the glory of God?

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And I guess if your expertise is such

that you have that confidence, y yes.

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But it's an interesting conundrum of

the risk versus doing it in glorifying

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God by saying, look at what my body is

able to do as you created me to do at.

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Yeah, this is interesting because I think

this really comes down to a question of

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risk tolerance and risk appropriateness.

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Risk tolerance.

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Everybody has a different level

where they're comfortable making

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decisions, and most of us are

comfortable enough driving a vehicle.

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Although that's incredibly risky.

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Yep.

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When you comes down to it, it's one

of the ways that people most often

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lose their lives driving is risky.

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And yet we do it every day because

we fancy ourselves capable enough

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to do that without compromising our.

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Health to any great degree.

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Other people race cars,

they don't just drive cars.

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They race them around a circular track

and they go hundreds of miles per hour.

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Their risk tolerance threshold

is greater than mine.

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And then even further that, you talk about

people that fly airplanes or people that

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do climb rocks for a living or for fun

or whatever else that people are doing.

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Risk tolerance is a personal question

that requires a personal assessment.

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Someone's risk tolerance could be quite

high, in part because they have a high

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threshold of professional skill sets

like you just talked about for this Alex

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character because he's a professional,

he is been doing it for so long.

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I trust that for him, even though it is

risky, it's not as risky as you jumping.

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On that building or even us driving a

car, maybe his ability to climb a rock is

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greater than my ability to drive a car.

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And so his risk taking tolerance

is higher for good reasons.

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Risk appropriateness would be the second

consideration for me in terms of whether

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or not it's right to take the risk.

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And I think this is what

it, your wife is getting at.

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And this is where I think.

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You could say in the same way that a

seal team member or a scuba diver

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or a parachute, all these people can

do their jobs of the glory of God.

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I think risk appropriateness is

this a wise stewardship of my life,

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isn't it appropriate risk and for honnold?

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I suppose it is.

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It could be, at least if someone

is able to do that, I could.

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Let's just imagine Alex comes to

our church and he's telling us,

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Hey, I have this big climb and.

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Where was it?

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Korea, ti Taiwan, Thailand,

Taiwan I have this big climb.

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I have an opportunity.

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It pays this many millions of dollars.

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I'm sure Netflix is a

Netflix thing, right?

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Yep.

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I'm sure they paid him a lot of money

and he's saying, look, I could do this

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and I feel really confident in my skills.

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If he applied the same mentality to this

building that he did to El Capitan right.

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So he did that.

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I'm sure he applied the

same mentality, so mm-hmm.

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The diligence to prepare and to plan.

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So for him it was still risky, but

not nearly as risky as it might be

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for us to jump in an airplane or

get into car, something like that.

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I don't know.

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Those are considerations

that I think are fair.

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So I would say it's possible

in theory, at the very least.

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Yeah.

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It was super interesting listening

to him talk about it afterwards.

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I guess they paid him about

half a million dollars, which

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for me to free SIL building.

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I'm like, okay, that's one

year's work for you, man.

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Let's be clear.

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It's not but he said they paid me

for the spectacle, not for the climb.

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Which was an interesting comment

that he made because he did the climb

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because he loves to do the climb.

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He was like, I don't care what you

I'm climbing this, even if you don't

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pay me anything, because he, it's a

thrill for him to be able to do that.

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But I guess his comment was they

paid me for the spectacle for the

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privilege to watch it, not for

the climb itself, interesting.

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But yeah, so I'm not gonna be free

climbing any buildings anytime soon.

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But it was fascinating to watch

man, scary moments in that thing.

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For sure.

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Well maybe if it's part of a

sermon series, taking risks for

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the glory of God and maybe you're

preaching while you free solo.

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Oh, that's a good idea.

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The outside of the building.

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And I'll just, if we get a church

with a steeple someday, maybe

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I'll free solo the steeple.

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I'd like to see it.

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Alright, well hey, let's jump into

our DVR for today, which is Exodus 16

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through 18, and then we'll be in our New

Testament reading in Matthew chapter 19.

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Exodus 16, we get the Israelites having

just come out of the glorious victory

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of going through the Red Sea, and they

are in the wilderness now and they begin

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to complain almost right off the bat.

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And I just have found myself just more.

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Convicted of how likely the Israelites

I can be in my own life As I've been

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reading through this and in some of the

chapters in advance, just how quickly

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we can go from God providing God doing

something great for us, and even in

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the small things to then turning and

saying, yeah but what about this?

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But I don't have this.

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Okay, God, it's great that you brought us

through the Red Sea, but now we don't have

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food, so what are you gonna do about that?

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And so they're grumbling and they're

grumbling against Moses and Aaron, and

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yet Moses and Aaron are gonna say, Hey,

you're not grumbling really against us.

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You're grumbling against the Lord.

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And rather than just immediately

destroy them, God shows them great

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mercy and grace and patience, and he

provides for them this promise of bread.

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And it's not gonna be that immediately

he's just gonna say, here's the bread.

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He's actually going to provide

it for them via a test.

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And he's gonna say that he is gonna

say, I'm gonna test them whether

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they will walk in my law or not.

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And so he is gonna give

these stipulations.

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He's gonna say, you're gonna wake

up in the morning, you're gonna go

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out and gather a certain amount of

bread that's fit for the day at hand.

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If you gather too much the next

day, it's not gonna be good.

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It's gonna rot.

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If you gather too little, you just

need to gather what you need in

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other words, except for the Sabbath

day the day before the Sabbath,

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they were to gather twice as much.

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And so that's what God does.

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He provides it.

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The people said, what is this?

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As they saw the bread,

they said, what is it?

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And that's really what they called it.

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They called it manna, which I believe

is a word that means, what is it?

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And so it was there every single

day and they found it to be true.

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If they took too much, then it would

rot if they took too little or if they

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took double the day before the Sabbath.

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It lasted all the way through and yet

God was seeing that for those that

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didn't trust him, this was a test to

say, do you trust me or do not trust me?

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But again it's the grumbling coming

right off of this amazing miracle

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walking through the Red Sea.

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They don't go to Moses and say, Hey

Moses, can you go to the Lord and

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see if he can provide food for us?

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'cause we're hungry.

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They go to him and they say.

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They complain.

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They say, we wish we were back in Egypt.

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And that desire to go back to Egypt

is something that's gonna plague them

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throughout this time in the wilderness.

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Yeah.

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What's so interesting about that is they

start off misremembering their history.

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Verse three says, oh man, what?

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That we have died by the hand of the

Lord in Egypt when we sat by the meat

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pots and we ate bread to the full.

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How wonderful was that

time in Egypt, guys?

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You remember how good it was?

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Apparently this took off.

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People believe this and said,

yeah, no, that was good.

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Our memories can so betray us so quickly.

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And I think Israel's a really good example

of that because when they misremember,

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then they mistake what's happening.

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And your point is well

taken here, they rumble.

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We grumble and it demonstrates a lack of

trust, a lack of care for God's provision.

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This grumbling that we do, as

they did, is against the Lord.

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And that's exactly what he

says here in verse eight.

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It's not against anybody.

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You're grumbling to Moses, but

it's really against the Lord.

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You're grumbling to Aaron, but

it's really against the Lord.

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You're grumbling to your parents.

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But it's really, again, so Lord,

and I think that's an important

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thing for us to remember because God

controls the weather even though.

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Some people maybe don't like the

snow when you complain out loud

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to no one in particular, you're

complaining against the Lord.

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And that's a really powerful

reminder for all of us.

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So much so that Paul reminds us in

Philippians chapter two, he says, do

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all things, everything you do, do all

of that without grumbling or disputing.

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This is an important chapter

for us because we really haven't

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grown out of this as a church.

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We're doing a lot of what Israel

does, even if it's not publicly.

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Maybe we're more private grumbler

and we are public, but it's still

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a really good lesson for us.

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We should really, and I think the

women's retreat, somebody talked about

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this, maybe it was your wife actually.

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It's a really good reminder for us.

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This is the never ending evergreen

point that we should take.

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We don't wanna grumble against the Lord.

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And that's exactly, we're

grumbling against when we

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allow ourselves to do that.

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Yeah.

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He says there at the end of chapter 16

that the Lord provided this for 40 years.

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And so we see the faithfulness of

God to continue to care for the needs

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of his people all the way through.

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In fact, it's gonna be noted that

as soon as they enter into the

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promised land, that the man has stops.

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And so this is something that starts

here and it's gonna continue all the

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way through with the people of Israel.

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Chapter 17 they move

on, so they're making.

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Progress, and they're making

progress towards the mountain

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of the Lord, Mount Sinai.

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And that's gonna be where the

law is gonna be given eventually.

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But they're making progress towards that.

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And as they're going along,

they run into another problem.

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And that is now that there's

not enough water or really any

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water for the people to drink.

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And so the people, again, grumble against

Moses, they grumbled about a lack of food.

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Now they're grumbling

about a lack of water.

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And Moses goes to the Lord.

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And again the complaint that

they bring is, why did you bring

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us up out of Egypt to kill us?

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And so they're again, looking

back over the shoulder.

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And wanted to go back to Egypt.

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And so the Lord, again is patient

at this point and says to Moses,

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go and take your staff and hit the

rock, and water shall come out of it.

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And so that's exactly what

he does here at Horrib.

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And the water flows and satiates

the thirst of the people.

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But again, God is still patient

at this point, but his patience is

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ultimately eventually gonna wear thin

over time with the people of Israel.

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Yeah.

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And one of the things that

we didn't mention yet is.

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God doesn't initially

respond to their grumbling.

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Kind of gives into it.

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Hmm.

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He willingly elect, he willingly

supports them and blesses them despite

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the fact that we know they, they

deserve to be chastised for this.

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But you're right, as we get to chapter

17, this whole section here is just

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a continual spiraling down for them,

which tells us that sin, if it's

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not dealt with, is going to grow.

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Sin is like a weed.

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It doesn't need a whole lot

of water for it to grow.

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It grows pretty easily by itself.

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And so here.

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As they complain at the waters of Masa

and Rabba it is evident here that they're

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continuing a pattern that will eventually

grow into something that destroys all of

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them, and they do die in the wilderness.

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They are gonna die before they enter

the promised land, but not before they

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encounter some really genuine obstacles.

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Yeah.

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And it seems to be that, that maybe

what God is doing here is he's

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being patient with them to try

to show them over and over again.

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You can trust me, you can

trust me, you can trust me.

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And so freeing them from Egypt, taking

them through the Red Sea, giving them

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the manna, giving them the water from

the rock, and then what we read about

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next in chapter 17, giving them victory

over the Amalekites, that he's kind of

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showing them, I'm gonna provide for you.

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I'm going to protect you.

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I'm going to fight your battles,

the things that have promised

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about the promised land and

driving out the inhabitants.

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Here's a glimpse of that.

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So here come the Amalekites.

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And Israel has to go to battle.

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And we see Joshua introduced

here and Joshua is gonna be the

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commander of the armies of Israel.

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And they're gonna go out to battle

and Moses is gonna hold his hands up.

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And I can't remember who it was,

but somebody recently was talking

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about that, that that was a, probably

a gesture of prayer that he's not

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just holding his hands up just for

the fun of holding his hands up.

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But he's probably, it's a

posture prayer before the Lord.

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And this is when Israel experiences the

victory as Moses is interceding, as Moses

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is in treating the Lord on their behalf.

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The Israelites have victory.

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And yet when Moses' hands drop they

end up running or they end up fleeing.

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And, and so again, Moses is gonna have his

hands propped up there by Aaron and her,

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and the Lord's gonna give them victory.

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But I, I wonder if this is just God again,

being patient with the people trying

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to get them to see you can trust me.

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How faith that I'm gonna bring you to

where I told you I was gonna bring you.

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Yeah.

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This is a curious account

because I wonder the same thing.

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It's possible that the hands

being raised are a prayer

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posture that would make sense.

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We've seen that before, but the thing

that causes me to scratch my chin is

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where he says in verse nine, tomorrow

I will stand on the top of the hill

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with a staff of God in my hand.

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So he's holding up not just

his hands, but the staff.

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Yeah.

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And I think there's at

least some symbolism there

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about God fighting for them.

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The people clearly can at

least see some of this.

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I think, at least that's my impression.

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They're able to see whether or

not he is holding up the staff.

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And so maybe there's a

morale connection to it.

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But the easiest interpretation

would be, it seems like prayer.

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But then why is he holding

the staff and how is, how are

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those two things connected?

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And because it, Texas in

tele specifically, that this

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is the, that he's praying.

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You're left a little bit of guesswork

here, but I'd like to think that

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whatever's happening, it's Moses

demonstrating to the people our reliance

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is on the Lord and not on ourselves.

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We are sring ourselves to show that

God is the strength behind our efforts

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and what a good reminder for us.

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It's the Lord who does

the good work through us.

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And even though this may not be

prayer, it's still works perfectly

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to say we should be people of

prayer because this is how we

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demonstrate our reliance on the Lord.

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Yeah.

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In that theme of We Need, the Lord

carries on into to chapter 18 then with

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Jethro, and again, we were introduced

to Jethro back in Midn and he, as

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he was called rural back then, he's

referred to as Jethro this time, and

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Jethro is going to come to Moses.

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And I think there's a couple things

here but one of the key things

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here is Moses is gonna be shown by

his father-in-law, you can't do it

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all either, Moses, you need help.

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You need not only the

Lord's help, but you.

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You need the help of others in the midst.

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You need other leaders to come alongside

you and help you with the responsibility

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that the Lord has given to you.

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So continuing that theme of trusting in

the Lord, not trusting in themselves.

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God uses, I think, Jethro here to

deliver that same message to Moses.

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Do you think Jethro's conversion

is recorded in this chapter?

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I've heard that before.

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That in chapter 18, verse 11,

when he says, now I know that the

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Lord is greater than all Gods.

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That some people said, this is

the moment that Jethro becomes

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a follower of the God of Israel.

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This is the moment that Jethro is

all in with Yahweh after he hears

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what God has done through the

Exodus and everything else that

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God had done to deliver the people.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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It's too soft in my

estimation for it to be that.

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In fact, I wondered reading that very same

thing if Jeffer wasn't already a follower

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of Yahweh in some way, shape or form.

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He is priest of Midian, so he's got

some kind of religious responsibility.

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And he doesn't ever seem

adversarial to Yahweh.

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But neither can I say that he ever

gives a full throated endorsement

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as strong as what we have here.

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But I'm not sure that, that tells me

with confidence he's converted or he's

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a, he's aligning himself with Yahweh.

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I'm not sure if he had always

been, or if this is a new thing.

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I'm not ambivalent, but I'm

not convinced either way.

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What would you say to that?

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Yeah I'm with you on that.

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I don't know that I would press it

far hard enough 'cause I don't think

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there's enough evidence there to press

it and say, yes, this is his conversion.

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But it is interesting because

he was a priest in median of a

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foreign God when Moses was there.

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And so at some point he has to leave

that off and turn to the god of Israel.

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When does that happen?

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I don't, so that.

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That would change the game for me.

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'cause I always thought that he was

a priest of Midian, but that it was

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never specified a priest to whom?

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So if I could see that there

was like, he's a priest of an

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unknown God, I think about him.

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And in a similar way to the

way I think about, Melek.

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Okay.

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Melek appears out of nowhere,

and yet he has an allegiance to

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Yahweh that we can't explain.

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I lean toward that explanation for Jethro

slash rule in the same way now, because

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Moses doesn't seem to offer any qualms.

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He marries his daughter.

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And I'm just thinking, okay, maybe

there's a loose connection to

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Yahweh there or an uninformed one.

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I clearly God operates and

he has different people,

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different pockets of people.

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That, know him and worship him,

although not identified through Israel.

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Yeah, I think just because there

wasn't really a, an official

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Israelite priesthood at this point.

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I, I'd assumed, and you're right, it

doesn't say an ex is two 16 is where it

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talks about him being a priest of Midian.

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And that's all it says is

he was the priest of Midian.

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But I guess I'd always assumed

just because there, there wasn't.

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A known priesthood.

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There wasn't a law system with the

nation at this point, 'cause there

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wasn't really much of a nation other

than the populace that this was a

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foreign god that he was serving.

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Yeah, I guess because it doesn't tell

me, I've always given it a pretty

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open hand and saying, I don't know.

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Maybe, maybe not.

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I, and I can't tell.

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So eight chapter 18 could

be interpreted either way.

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Maybe he does become a follower of

Yahweh, or maybe he's just always been

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and now he has greater clarity and

he's extolling the virtues of God.

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In any case, what I do see

here is commendable for him.

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He's giving Moses, here's another factor.

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God used him.

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Let's just suppose he is

not a Yahweh follower.

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God used him.

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To instruct him how to lead people.

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Yeah.

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Talk about something interesting because,

okay, so you, we didn't make this

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connection in the last chapter, but in

chapter 17, Aaron and her have to help

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Moses fulfill what God desires, and so

these guys have to hold up his hands.

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God strengthened Moses.

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By strengthening him through

the means of others, and I

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think that's an important point.

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God often will send us help, but not

necessarily by making us more spiritual,

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spiritually capable or physically capable.

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He will help us by means of

others as he as in the case of

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Aaron and her and in chapter 19.

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Rather as in the case of

additional leaders who can bear

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the responsibility with him.

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So I think both chapter 17 and

18 speak to Moses need for help.

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One God sends Aaron and her and then

the other God sends Jethro to say

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you need to do things differently.

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Who if again, if he is a pagan

priest, speaks even louder to me

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than if he were a follower of yah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And the men that Moses is

to choose are qualified men.

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And so in that sense, we can look back

at this and even though this isn't

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the church, and this isn't the same

thing that the qual the men that God

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is gonna bring alongside Moses here

need to be men of upstanding character.

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They need to be men that are

qualified men that fear God.

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Are trustworthy and hate bride and place

such men over the people as chiefs of

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the thousands and so forth and so on.

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So, Moses is looking for men to help him

here at the advice of his father-in-law.

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Not just anyone will do

but he wants qualified men.

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He wants the right men to be able to

come alongside him and help him in that.

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And so there is some, foreshadowing for

what the church is supposed to be as well.

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And we'll get there later

on in the year, but.

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When we think about the church

leadership, it's the same thing.

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A church shouldn't be led by one

man who's doing all the work.

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A church should be led by a plurality

of the elders that are serving

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together and working together.

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That's been God's model from the

outset with Israel, conveyed by,

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again, Jethro here, and then it's

also gonna be his model for his

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church in the New Testament too.

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All right, well, let's flip

over to the New Testament.

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We're gonna be in Matthew chapter again,

19, and we are in verses 16 through 30.

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Matthew 1916 through 30.

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It starts out with one of the more

familiar parables, and that is, and

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I guess it's, it doesn't just start

out, but that's this whole section.

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And that is the parable of the rich

young ruler, or not the parable.

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I'm sorry, this isn't a parable at all.

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This is an actual account.

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A rich young ruler comes up

to Jesus and says, what must

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I do to inherit eternal life?

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And Jesus says to him, well,

you know the commandments.

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And the man says, well,

I've done all those.

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And then Jesus says, okay, well

here's what you have to do.

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You have to go sell what you possess.

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Give to the poor and you'll

have treasure in heaven.

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And then come follow me.

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And I think what we should note here

is that Jesus, what he does here

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is I, he identifies the idol that's

preventing this man from following Jesus.

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That's Jesus' point here.

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If this had been a womanizer,

he would've pressed in on that.

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If this had been somebody who was,

profane, he would've pressed in on that.

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This was somebody who had made an idol

of his possessions, and that was what was

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impeding this man from following Jesus.

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And that's why Jesus said to him.

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If you want eternal life, you

have to be able to follow me.

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And if you wanna follow me,

that means you've gotta sell

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all that you have because that's

where your heart is right now.

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And so that's why he goes after this

and then tells the disciples, only with

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difficulty will a rich person answer

the kingdom of heaven, which prompts

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the disciples to say, well, how is this

even possible then who can be saved?

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Probably because they would've often

looked at a man like this who's righteous

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and has great possessions and said,

whoa, God must be blessing this man.

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If Jesus is saying, well, this man's

not worthy of entering the kingdom,

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they're looking at their own lives

and saying, well then who can be

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worthy of entering the kingdom?

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And that's why Jesus says,

with man, this is impossible.

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But with God, all things are possible.

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And then he gives them an

encouragement that there is

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eternal rewards waiting for them.

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Because Peter says there, we've left

everything, Lord, what are what about us?

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And Jesus says, there's gonna

be a reward for you, not just

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here but more importantly there.

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And this is where he says, you're

gonna sit on the 12 Thrones

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and judge the nations with me.

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So, again, this is not about if you

have money, you can't go to heaven.

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This is about if you have an idol

that's impeding you from following

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Jesus, you can't go to heaven.

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And that's what you have to get rid of.

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Yeah.

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This is really a follow up to what Jesus

was talking about several chapters ago.

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Now we read it, I don't know when

we read it, but Matthew chapter six,

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where Jesus says that we're to lay up

treasures in heaven, where Moth and Russ.

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Destroy or not where Mo, Mo and Russ

don't destroy and where thieves cannot

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break in and steal or where your treasure

is there, your heart will be also.

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And I would fully agree, he's exposing

this young man and saying, look, you

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say you, you want to be my disciple.

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You're willing to leave everything

and that you've not broken any laws.

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Well, let's just show that you've

actually broken the first commandment

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to have no other gods before me.

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And so one of the things that makes

having riches difficult, that it makes

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it difficult to leave your kingdom, to

enter god's when you have a lot of money.

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There's always going to be

this tug in your heart to say,

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well, I like being my own God.

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I like having sufficient

resources in myself.

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I like being able to do these things.

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And the problem is not that he has the

riches, the problem is that the riches are

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his master and not the other way around.

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For those whom God can entrust

riches, it's the person who can

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say, my riches belong to the Lord.

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They're at the Lord's disposal.

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You can do them, view with

them, with however he pleases.

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I might use 'em to invest here,

or I might spend them over there.

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But ultimately a rich Christian is

gonna say, my riches are not mine.

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They're the Lord's.

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And that's the distinguishing factor

between the rich young ruler and.

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And a Christian who says, all of

my wealth belongs to the Lord.

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One Timothy chapter six

also speaks about this.

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He says, it's hard for people.

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Paul is agreeing with Jesus and saying

that it's hard for people have a lot

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of, who have a lot of money to, to enter

into heaven because riches can become a.

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A temptation, a snare that leads

people into senseless and harmful

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desires, and that plunges people

into ruin and destruction.

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And this is where we get the famous

verse, or the love of money, is

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a root of all kinds of evils.

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And so this is important for us as

modern day Christians, because most

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of us who listen to this would be by

global standards, wealthy and rich.

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You may not feel that way, but we

are, and this passage speaks to us.

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We need to have a loose grip on the money

that God entrust to us and make sure

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that we can stay within our own hearts.

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This money is actually God's money.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Alright, well let's pray and

then we will be done with this

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episode of the DBR podcast.

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That we pray that as we just read about

and talked about, that we would learn to

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trust you and and not trust in ourselves.

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That we would not need the same object

lessons that Israel experienced to be

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able to understand that, but that we would

learn, as you say in the New Testament

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from these things written down in the

Old Testament for our instructions,

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or help us to examine our own lives,

to see where we might be relying on

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ourselves instead of trusting in you.

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Where we might have a grumbling or a

disparaging spirit that is complaining

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rather than being thankful for the

things that you've given to us would

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reveal those things and help us to be

those that are humble and grateful for

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all the good that you provided for us.

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So we thank you for this time.

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We thank you for your word.

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We thank you for technology to be able

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forward to things getting back to normal.

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But we thank you for this time of rest.

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In Jesus name.

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Amen.

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