00:00 Introduction

00:05 Discussing Friday the 13th

00:28 Mormon Mission Insights

01:16 Jehovah's Witnesses and Their Practices

02:28 Upcoming Plans and Classes

04:57 Reading Methods and Challenges

07:07 Book Recommendations and Bible Reading

08:55 The Ark Brought to the Temple

13:07 Solomon's Prayer and God's Faithfulness

19:21 Massive Sacrifices and Celebrations

21:07 Recap and Reflections from Chronicles

22:46 Concluding Prayer and Final Thoughts

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Friday.

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The 13th.

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Friday.

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It is Friday the 13th, and you're back.

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I am.

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That's what happens.

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Yeah.

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Friday the 13th and

then bad things happen.

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Things happen.

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I show up on the podcast,

and you're listening.

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Yeah.

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We're glad you're back.

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I think our listeners

are glad you're back.

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I gave them a brief synopsis of the

ministry comes up and sometimes we

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gotta go and respond to different

ministry situations and so That's right.

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That's why there's two of us.

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That's right.

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Which is super helpful.

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Yeah.

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We're gonna play tag team

again 'cause you're leaving.

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I am.

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You're leaving for what,

two years or something?

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Two years, yeah.

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Two years.

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Sab.

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Yeah.

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I'll be back at the end of two years.

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My, my Mormon mission has come time.

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That's good.

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How long do they go?

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Do they go for two years?

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How long is two years for the men

and a year and a half for the ladies?

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What do the LA do the

ladies knock on doors?

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Do?

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I don't know if I've ever seen a female.

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Yeah, they do.

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Really?

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Yeah, they go in pairs as well.

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Okay.

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And so they'll, they knock on doors.

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Although I'm sure there are some

specifications you can go online

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and look up their playbook.

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Yeah, they can put it all

out there for you if you're

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curious enough to look into it.

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But they tend to avoid, I

don't know, heavily male areas.

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Sure.

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So I think they're okay with families.

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That's been our experience with them.

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We had them come to our place more than

once when we were in Mission Viejo.

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And they would typically spend

time with my bride, which I think,

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I guess I understand that tactic,

but we enjoyed having them.

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They're lovely people.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And they're different than

the Jehovah's Witnesses.

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'cause Jehovah's Witnesses are

not allowed to proselytize.

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If you approach them, I think

they can talk to you in public.

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Yes, in those places.

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'cause they have to get permission

from the whatever organization

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or business, the grant.

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Yeah, that one too.

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They have to get permission to do that.

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So in those places, yes.

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I think they tend to just sit back.

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Oh, so it's more the

place that they're at.

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It's not their religion as much as

it is the place that they're at.

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Now that they say that, I last

encountered a couple Jehovah's Witnesses

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in Fort Worth and they were sitting

at the corner near the cattle drive

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area, but they were just sitting back

and they had their literature out.

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So it was clear that they were.

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Trying to send a message.

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So I guess it's not their mo that's, yes.

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It's also true that they find

themselves in places where they can't,

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like I saw them at the airport once.

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Yeah.

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They had a booth at the airport, which

I'm sure they can't yell out and say,

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come talk to us or anything like that.

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So I think there's part of it.

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And they, other part of it is

that they're just trying not to be

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contentious or cantankerous perhaps.

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I'm not sure.

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But yeah I do see them quite a

bit now that I think about it.

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But they do go door to door.

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I haven't seen them recently.

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I haven't.

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That's true.

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Any of them knock at my

door since being in Texas.

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But they do door knock.

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That's kind of their stick.

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That is true.

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They do.

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Yeah.

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'cause we had them in California.

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We had some come to our doors there.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, no, we are

going for a couple weeks.

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Not to more ary stuff, but we're

getting away, which will be good.

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And then I come back and like ship's

passing in the night you leave.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, this first one was

only just a as, as a breather.

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Yeah.

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The next one is the real one.

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So that'll be, the real one,

as in this one was fake.

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That other one's gonna be a

lot more restful, I anticipate.

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Do you have plans?

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Yes.

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For the first week, we're gonna New

Braunfels, and we have a timeshare

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down that we don't have a timeshare.

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We're borrowing a timeshare down there.

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We're sharing a timeshare.

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We're sharing a timeshare

with another family.

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We're not, we're sharing

a timeshare though, and.

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Then the next week we'll be back.

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But then I kick off my

classes for Southern.

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So Cool.

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I'll be in class all week.

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Awesome.

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What class?

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Something to do with biblical counseling.

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Okay.

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I forget the title of the class, but it's.

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Hosted or taught by Dr.

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Pierre?

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Jeremy Pierre.

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Okay.

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Which I really appreciate.

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I'm big, a big fan of his thinking

and his work, so it's exciting for me.

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Does he speak with a French accent?

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Does not sounds contrary to his last name.

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Name.

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He has a very clear American accent.

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Although, it's interesting I learned that.

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Doctoral level classes

are called seminars.

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Yep.

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I don't know why.

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Do you know why?

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I don't know either.

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Why can't you just call it class?

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I don't know the difference.

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I just know that it is a difference.

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Yeah.

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All of my classes are called seminars.

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I thought, okay, that's interesting.

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I wonder if it has to do with the

concentration and length of them.

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I don't know how your program works,

but when I was at TMS, they would

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do, I mean they were really intense.

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Those were intense.

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One to two weeks.

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Yeah.

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Intense.

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We were Tabernacle.

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They were actually Tabernacle seminars.

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No, but they were.

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You I may be different than

a class because of that.

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You, I was in class all day long

and you're longer period of time.

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Maybe that's what has to do with it.

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I don't know.

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Who knows?

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You are, right?

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I'm in class all day for a whole week.

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If only there was something like Google

to say what's the difference or GPT that

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would explain it to you between, but

you know how much effort that takes.

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You just have to, you have to

put fingers on the keys and

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then type out a thought seminar.

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And who's got time for that?

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Apparently I do.

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During a podcast, no less, a seminar and

class are both learning environments.

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Thanks Google AI overview.

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Oh, interesting.

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But they differ in their size,

focus, and teaching approach.

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Generally, a seminar is smaller, more

interactive, and often focused on

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discussion and student participation

while a class may be larger and

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involve more lecture based instruction.

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Interesting.

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So there's expectations that

I engage with the teacher.

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I enjoy that.

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I like that.

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Dr.

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Pierre will be upset if you don't,

'cause it won't be a seminar.

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In fact, I'm trying to read his book.

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This is the second time I'm

reading his book 'cause he has

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it as part of the recommended or

required reading for this class.

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It seems self-promoting, but Okay.

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A little bit, but it fits.

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And this is the second time I'm

reading through the book and I'm

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applying a reading method that you

suggested based on some YouTuber.

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Yeah.

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Who was talking about how to

read and I'm already over it.

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I'm like, I can't do, I can't do this.

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So this video that he, that you sent

was about how to retain what you read?

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Yeah.

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And basically he's saying,

read every paragraph.

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Yep.

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Summarize it in one sentence

and then build upon it each

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consecutive paragraph afterward.

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Make it make sense.

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Essentially.

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What's the argument of the author?

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Write it down.

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So you're stopping at every paragraph

to say, what was that about?

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And how does that connect

to the prior paragraph?

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Imagine doing that for a whole 300

or whatever, how many pages it is.

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It would take you like 13 years per book.

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It, would it?

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I'm pretty, I'm on.

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I'm only on month three

in the first 10 pages.

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So I've adopted that

method a little bit here.

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I'm trying it out, but not it's modified.

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I'm not connecting it.

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Ah, I see back Chainlink.

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Chain link.

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Chain link.

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I'm just writing a one sentence

summary for each paragraph, and I'm

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noticing because of it's natural

that the author's argument builds

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on itself that these sentences.

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Connect to one another as you go through

if you're summarizing it correctly.

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So I'm not trying to go back and say

and how does it connect to the paragraph

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before and the paragraph before.

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But the guy who suggested

it is some philosophy.

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Prophet University of North

Carolina and Chapel Hill.

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So he is not a slouch.

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No, he is not.

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I'm not saying he's he is wrong, but

man, that's a, it's laborious, intensive.

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Yeah, it's intensive and granted,

it does accomplish what you're

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looking for, which is to pay

attention to what you're reading.

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Yeah.

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I appreciate that.

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But boy, it really slows you down.

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Yeah.

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More than I care for hardback books.

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You run out of space,

like for paper books.

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You, yeah.

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I don't think you can

do it in a paper book.

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I try.

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I don't think you can even, yeah,

I don't think you can even try.

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I'll, I think you should just give it up.

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Burn the book.

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Yeah, buy the digital version.

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That's the only way it works.

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Like 20 years from now when I'm in

my sixties pulling that book off

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the shelf looking at it, I'm not

gonna be able to read it anymore.

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'cause my handwriting has to be so

small to exactly scrunch in the lines.

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You know what doesn't suffer

from size is a digital book.

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'cause I can make it 15 font in 20 years

maybe we won't have the digital books.

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Yeah.

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It's a risk I'm willing to take.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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That's fair.

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I'm replacing some of my books.

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Paper books not replacing them, but

I'm getting the digital copies as well.

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Of course.

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So if you could afford to do both Yeah.

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That's the best of all worlds.

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Yeah.

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Because then you can have

the benefits of each of them.

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Yeah.

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But most people just

can't afford to do that.

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That makes sense.

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For a few books, I want both.

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Yeah.

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Like the Bible, I.

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So we recommended reading on the

back of the worksheet every Sunday.

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And so for the minor prophets, two of

'em have stayed the same 'cause they're

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general commentaries on the minor

prophets that I think are valuable

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for people to pick up and have.

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But I've all, I've been trying to

change up the other two each week.

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And this week we're gonna be studying

the book of Obadiah, which is the

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shortest book in the Old Testament.

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And so one book that I

wanna highlight for you.

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And you made me think about this

because I just did get the digital

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copy of this, because I had the

paper back and got the digital too.

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There's a book by a guy named Michael

Vlock, V-L-A-C-H, and the book is

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called, has the Church Replaced Israel.

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So we're gonna be talking about some

pretty heady things this weekend

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regarding Israel and the church.

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Dispensationalism those concepts.

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Eschatology is gonna come back

up again because that's what the

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book is dealing with by and large.

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And it's important for us to

understand some of these things.

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So I'm gonna do my best to break it down

in a way that is helpful, relevant app.

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Applicable, but that book by Michael

Vlock is super helpful, called,

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has the Church Replaced Israel?

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It's a great treatment.

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We'll help you understand where

we're coming from, by and large as a

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church as far as our understanding of

Israel's future and where the church

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is in God's plan on all that as well.

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So has the church replaced Israel?

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Good pickup for you if you're

interested in such things.

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Let's jump into our

Bible reading for today.

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That wide margin Bible,

though you could probably fit.

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Notes on each paragraph

in that deceptively.

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I don't think that's true because even

though the inside has wide margins,

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it's hard to write on the inside.

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It's really hard to write

on Totally on the inside.

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'cause you're at a weird angle.

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So I love this Bible.

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This is one of my favorite tools.

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It's got heft, it's got,

the details are excellence.

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Yeah.

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And the smell.

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Is intoxicated.

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Oh, the leather.

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Oh yeah.

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Every time I open it up, like good.

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It is next in line to the coffee.

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So good.

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So good.

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Which you have been cutting

out or drinking less of?

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I've been bringing more back into my diet.

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Okay.

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I stopped so I could reacclimate to being

sensitive to it, so I'm back on it again.

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That's good.

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That's good.

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Happily believe so.

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Good to get back on the Bean.

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That's right.

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Alright.

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First Kings chapter eight.

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The arc is gonna be brought to the temple

and so remember the arc has been in

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Jerusalem, but it's been dwelling in a

tent, and that was David's whole point

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back in second Samuel Chapter seven

is he said, Hey, the arc is in a tent.

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I'm in a palace.

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I need to build a house for the ark.

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The built a house for God and God

said, no, it's not gonna be you.

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It's gonna be your son.

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Solomon has done that now.

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And so now it's time to bring

the ark and put it in the temple.

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So in the first 11 verses here,

that's exactly what happens.

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The ark is brought to the temple and

placed inside the Holy of Holies.

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The holy of Holies again.

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Is that spot that is over.

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The spot that we believe is the location

where Isaac was offered by Abraham.

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Also the place where David built the

altar at the end of his reign when

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the plague was stopped there on the

threshing floor of Aruna, the Jbe site.

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Or yeah, Orin Aruna, either one,

depending on the version that we're

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looking at there or the recording there.

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And so that, that's the Holy of Holies.

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The arc is brought and placed in

there, and this is marked by a

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massive celebration and sacrifices.

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So much so that the number of

animals offered could not be counted.

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It says there in verse five.

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And so this is this is.

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You just a monumental day

and the arc is in its place.

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The glory of the Lord then fills the

temple, much like when the tabernacle

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was completed under Moses' leadership.

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So we're seeing a lot of kind of

replication of what happened with the

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tabernacle, but this time with the temple.

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And it's a way of God saying, I, I accept.

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I accept, quote unquote, the

invitation to come and dwell here.

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I told you I was gonna dwell

there to make my name dwell there.

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The temple fits my specifications, and

so here I am, I'm gonna be there, which

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is must've been encouraging because I

imagine it was nerve wracking building

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all these things according to the

specifications and design that they

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were supposed to be built and going.

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Are we getting this right?

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'cause with God, there's no almost.

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It's either you did it

or you didn't do it.

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And so when God comes and dwells in the

temple, the glory takes a residence.

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I have to imagine that the craftsman,

Hiram Solomon they all breed the

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sigh of relief at that point.

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Now, here's something interesting.

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I don't know if you caught it at

the beginning of chapter eight.

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It says here that in verse one,

actually, so let just read all of

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verse one so you get the flow of it.

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Then Solomon assembled the elders of

Israel and all the heads of the tribes,

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the leaders of the father's houses,

of the people of Israel before King

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Solomon and Jerusalem, and get this

to bring up the arc of the covenant.

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To be of the city of, out of,

rather, to bring up the ark of

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the covenant of the Lord out of

the city of David, which is Zion.

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So he's saying we're bringing

the ark out of the city.

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But isn't the temple in the city?

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How are you bringing it out, but

also bringing it in at the same time?

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And the short answer that I found

is that at this point in time,

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the temple the temple area was

not considered Jerusalem proper.

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And so it wasn't thought of in that

way until, I guess at some point.

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After the temple had been established

and the presence of the Lord manifesting

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his presence or manifesting his

glory in the temple, and people

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began to associate the two as one.

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So as you think about Jerusalem, remember

the size of Jerusalem has changed

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over the course of several years.

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The expanding of Jerusalem happened

largely under King Solomon's

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reign, starting with David.

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David took gbu.

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Which became Jerusalem and then expanded

its borders and its territories.

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And it fluctuated a living city would.

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There's growing territory and shrinking

territory depending on the season.

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And in this case the temple site

was not considered Jerusalem proper.

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It wasn't considered Zion.

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It was considered it.

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After the fact.

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So there's something interesting

for you to take a look at.

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Yeah.

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And if you go there today, it, the Temple

Mount is definitely within the walls of

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Jerusalem, but you're right and even still

today, you can go to Jerusalem and they'll

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point to a portion of Jerusalem, the

city and say, this was the city of David.

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And so there's even today a, an

element of old Jerusalem, so to

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speak, that is the city of David.

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And it stands out as different

from the city as a whole.

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That's right.

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And even the terminology, Zion, that was

applied later too for, because it was

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at some point a a hill, a mountainous

hill that was a fortress is, was a, as

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a fortress that was protected, that was

meant to be an outpost of their defense.

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And so at some point, Zion began

to be associated with Jerusalem.

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You'll often see that terminology

applied to the city of Jerusalem

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throughout the scriptures.

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And I don't exactly remember when it

actually is adopted, but here it is Zion.

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So it's outta the city of Jerusalem, outta

the city of David, Jerusalem, which is

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Zion, and then into the city of Jerusalem.

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It's confusing, but just remember you're

working with his history unfolding.

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So even though it can be a bit tricky

to trace what's happening, if you just

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slow down enough to find out and use

your study Bibles, use your logos,

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Bible software, whatever it is that

you do use, it's not too difficult

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to untangle some of these knots.

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Yeah, one chapter eight

verses 12 through 21.

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David or David Solomon rather reminds

the people of God's faithfulness to

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them in fulfilling the promises that

he had made to, to David about the

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temple and the completion of the temple.

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And that's just a good thing for us to be

reminded of too, that God keeps his word.

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God keeps his promises.

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In fact, that's one reason why like we're

gonna be talking about this weekend.

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That's one reason why we

are dispensationalist.

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We believe that there are.

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Yet unfulfilled promises of God that

are specified for his people, Israel.

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And we believe that God will

not lie nor change his mind.

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He's gonna fulfill those promises.

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And so here Solomon is pointing to a

near term fulfillment of a promise that

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didn't take very long to be fulfilled.

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But even we're gonna jump into one Peter.

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In in the fall, and and this is

second Peter, where Peter writes

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this, but he says, don't count the

Lord's patience as slowness or don't

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believe the people that are saying,

where is his promise of returning.

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And so even for us today, we still

wait the fulfillment of promises.

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And yet we can look at passages

like this where Solomon is saying

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God has been faithful to keep his

promise, to fulfill his promise,

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and know that if he was faithful to

fulfill the promise about the temple.

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He's gonna be faithful about

sending Christ back too.

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It's not ours to know the

day or the time or the hour.

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You just preach on that to the students

at student ministry on Wednesday night.

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But he is gonna fulfill that

promise at some point, and

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we need to be ready for that.

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Verses 22 through 53, then we get

Solomon's prayer, which acknowledges

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God's greatness and the reality that

no temple could truly contain him.

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So Solomon was humble enough to know

God, I've built this house, but I don't

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pretend that this contains you in your

fullness, that nothing man can make,

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can contain the God of the heavens.

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But he prays.

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In this, that God would be attentive,

keeping his eyes and ears open towards

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the temple so that when people pray

to him and repent of their sins, he

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would hear and respond appropriately.

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So this is a rhythmic prayer of

Solomons as he goes through and says,

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Lord, if you're, if this happens

and your people pray and repent,

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then please see, hear and act.

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And Solomon goes through over

and over again and lists all

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the different ways he's asked.

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Asking God to respond, asking

God to intervene, and God is

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going to eventually respond to

him and say, yes I will do this.

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But this is Solomon's prayer saying,

God please hear the prayers for your

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people that are from your people

that are offered from this place.

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Yeah, this is such a cool prayer

because what it does is remind

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us what we have in Christ.

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Solomon here is.

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Praying and he's asking God

basically to be gracious.

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He's saying, you're gonna read the words,

listen and hear a ton of different times.

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It's a repetition.

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It's the rhythm that you're talking

about, PPJ, that he's throwing out

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there to say, Lord, please hear us.

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Please respond to us when we

pray to you this direction.

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When we come to your temple.

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Please respond to your people.

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And I guess that their hope

ultimately was well be.

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'cause God, you said you would,

you said you would hear us.

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We can look at a prayer like this and

say, God, hear us on the basis of Christ.

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Hear us because of what Jesus will do

or what Jesus has done on our behalf.

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In John 14, Jesus says, whatever

you ask in my name, this I will do.

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We can be confident.

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That God will hear all of our prayers.

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Whatever we're praying for, he will

hear them because of Jesus Christ.

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This is guaranteed access.

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Or Solomon prays, calling God to honor

his promises, which is a good thing.

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We could say, God, you

have given us Jesus Christ.

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You have promise to hear us.

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And he says He'll do what?

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We ask that the Father may be glorified

in the Son, and he says, if you ask

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anything in my name, I will do it.

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Jesus has given us a

blank check to fulfill.

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Unlike Solomon, who could only glimpse

the glory that was to come, we can

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now see it in its full or beauty.

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God answers the prayers of his

people verses 54 through 61.

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Solomon concludes his prayer, lands

the plane with a benediction of praise,

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and he's worshiping God here for his

faithfulness and then challenging.

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The people there to be faithful

in response to God's faithfulness.

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And so I was thinking about

it in terms of vehicles.

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Everybody has their brand of car that they

like to buy, and the reason that you like

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to buy that brand of cars is because if

it's reliability, it's trustworthiness.

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You've had experiences in the

past, you've driven those cars for.

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Thousands of miles, sometimes

hundreds of thousands of miles,

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and you know that it's gonna last.

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And so they have your loyalty.

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So Solomon's basically doing

that with Israel, saying God

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is reliable, he's trustworthy.

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You can depend on him to be faithful

to his word, and now there's a

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positive and a negative side of that.

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Positively you can depend on God to be

faithful to the promises that he's made,

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to bless you for obedience, to honor

you know, your reverence of him, and to

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take care of you and to provide for you.

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The negative side of that is, man, you

can trust that God will be faithful

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to his word, that he will judge you

if you're gonna be disobedient to him

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in, so in verse 61, he says, let your

heart therefore be wholly true to the

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Lord our God, walking in his statutes,

keeping his commandments as at this day.

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Hey, God is faithful, trust him.

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And that's the conclusion

here of Solomon's message.

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Yeah, I love how he says in verse 56.

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Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to

his people, Israel, according to all that

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he has promised, not one word has failed.

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Of all his good promises, which

he spoke by Moses, his servant.

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And so what you see here is something

that Joshua says as he's preparing to

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hand off the baton, so to speak, he says.

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All the promises that God has

made to us, he's fulfilled.

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What's interesting is that Joshua hadn't

completed the conquest as God told

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him, but he could say to this point,

everything that we've been promised

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by God he has not failed to fulfill.

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And Solomon is echoing these same

words, and this is even more true for

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us today, who have been able to see

again, the promise of the Messiah that

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all of the Old Testament points to.

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We've seen him now play out.

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At least part one of his coming to

us of his being born of a virgin

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of his, where he's gonna be born in

Bethlehem, what he would be doing,

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Isaiah 53, that he'd be cut off.

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We see all these things that God

has promised and is fulfilled.

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And if he's promised all these

things and he's fulfilled them,

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what reason do we have to doubt him?

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Man, so many good reasons

for us to trust him.

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Just as you're saying.

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PPJ, he's that reliable

Honda Civic that never fails.

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It's very specific.

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Specific.

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A 2013 blood red Honda Civic.

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So reliable.

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Hey, by the way.

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Yeah, my son.

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Is now officially a licensed driver.

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Dude, congrats.

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Jacob.

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You passed, man.

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That's awesome.

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Isn't that cool?

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That is awesome.

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That's great.

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Good man.

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That's exciting.

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I get a thing on my Facebook that

says, beware driver, I know you this.

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I do.

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This is your favorite thing.

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It's my favorite thing.

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I'm gonna tag you in it and

say, PPJ endorse this comment.

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D beware drivers.

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Do that.

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DFW be on the lookout, please.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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PPJ wants you to know, I want you

to know and why don't you warn them

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about my son too, since they're, I

might as well He's already there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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This concludes with

another massive sacrifice.

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And when I was reading this,

I was thinking to myself,

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man, this is interesting.

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I would've loved to, to talk to Solomon,

to say, okay, Solomon why 22,000 oxen?

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Why not 23,000 oxen?

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Like at one point were you

like, okay, that's enough cows.

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Keep it going guys, keep it going.

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120,000 sheep.

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This is just it's quite

literally overkill.

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I think to just honor the.

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The edifice to honor the place and

to show that this is noteworthy.

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It's interesting that there are peace

offerings that he's honor offering here.

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These are not guilt offerings,

these are peace offerings.

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And it's, celebrating the relationship

that is there now, present in the

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edifice of the temple between God

and his people, Israel, and the peace

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that exists there as a result of that.

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And so he's saying, we're

gonna celebrate this with all

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of these different offerings.

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But it was quite the scene I imagine.

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And I wonder, given his wealth.

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Percentage wise how much this was?

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I don't know.

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I don't know, honestly, I don't

know the answer to that question.

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Yeah.

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But I do think there is something

about the proportional giving.

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We tell people to give until it hurts.

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Yeah.

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That's what Jesus calls us to.

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I think that's what faithful giving

looks like under the new Covenant.

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And so for him, I wonder if

this is what it took for him to

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feel the pain of the sacrifice.

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Could be and that would point

to his wealth, his opulence and

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God's blessing of his ministry.

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But also notice that in the New Testament,

we have something of a corollary.

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It's not exactly a one-to-one, but

Judas is mad when this gal Mary pours

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out this expensive ard on Jesus' feet

and washes his feet with her hair.

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He gets upset about.

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It's dude, what are you doing?

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This is.

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Pointless and stupid we could

have used in this for the poor.

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And of course he's got ulterior motives,

but Jesus says, no, this is good.

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Your grand is sacrificed.

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Whatever it is never too much for Jesus.

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So whatever that is, if you're

thinking about sacrificing to the

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Lord, insofar as it's, I don't

know, I don't wanna qualify it, but.

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It's not foolish.

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Yeah, it's a good sacrifice, man.

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Do that with joy and let the

naysayers nail all they want.

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Yeah.

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Tell 'em to go get some hay.

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Alright, second Chronicles chapter

five, you'll you'll notice his

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shoulders in in length in what we just

read, but it covers a lot of the same

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material that that we just covered.

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The arc being brought.

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Into the house of the Lord.

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The chronicler breaks things up a little

bit more and spreads things out than than

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one Kings chapter eight, which is let's

just use 66 verses to cover all of it.

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And so in this portion that we're

reading today, a lot of this is just

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a reminder of what we've just seen.

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But again same thing that

the arc is brought in.

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Verse 13, the house of the Lord

was filled with a cloud so that the

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priest could not stand a minister

because of the cloud for the glory.

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The Lord filled the house of God.

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Yeah.

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Two Chronicles five recaps.

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A lot of what we just read there

in, in one Kings Chapter eight,

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and it'll continue in chapter six

because they cut off the dedication

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versus the blessing of the people

and his verbal prayer to the Lord.

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But one thing I do appreciate

that's in Two Chronicles five that

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isn't in the Kings the king section

is what they sing together for.

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He is good for his steadfast

love endures forever.

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That seems to be one of

Israel's greatest hits.

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Yeah.

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Like they just sing that.

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All the time for he is good as steadfast.

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Love endures forever.

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In fact, I was surprised

as I thought about this.

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Chris Toman is the only one that

I know that has done it the way

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that I think scripture does it.

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And we just I'm reading through the

Psalms and I know that you are too as

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we're ahead of the plan a little bit.

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Yep.

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There's that psalm where it

says, God has done this for his

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steadfast love endures forever.

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Yeah.

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God has done this other thing

for his steadfast love endures

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forever, and that's what Tomlin did.

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He did the same thing in this song.

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It was a bit repetitive, but

that's what the Psalm does.

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That's in tomorrow's reading actually.

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That is in tomorrow.

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Okay.

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Fantastic.

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As we talk about that I'll.

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Shorten up my sentence about that,

but I think it's really special.

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That's so cool because this is

a constant refrain of scripture.

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This is the constant

refrain of a believer.

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God is good, his steadfast,

faithful, never ending.

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Love continues on and on.

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So cool.

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It is.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we we thank you that we worship

in a church in that it's not the

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same as the temple as amazing it

would've been to be there and see the

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glory of the Lord fill the temple.

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In a visible way like that.

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I'm thankful that we can worship you here,

that we don't have to go to Jerusalem,

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that if families move or are relocated

or going on vacation, you can go to

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another church and worship you there.

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That the way that we worship you looks

different today under the dispensation of

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the church, and that's such a good thing

and we're thankful for that blessing.

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But Lord, it is such an amazing thing that

you chose to make your name dwell, your

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presence, dwell, at least in part with

your people, Israel, during this time.

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And I pray that we would feel the.

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The sense of awe and reverence

about that, and that would even

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carry over into how we approach you.

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On Sunday mornings, we

worship the same God.

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It looks different, and it's

a little bit easier for us.

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But that alone should cause us to be even

more careful about how we approach you.

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Not to be overly casual or too

flippant in it, but to revere

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you the way that you deserve.

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And so we thank you for your word to

help us, encourage us that direction.

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We pray all these things in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said