00:00 Introduction and Weekend Weather
00:20 Super Bowl Excitement
01:11 Controversial Halftime Show
02:08 Christian Perspective on Protesting
07:56 Daily Bible Reading: Leviticus
14:35 Daily Bible Reading: Matthew 24
20:06 Conclusion and Prayer
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Back to another edition of
the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:What's up folks?
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:We are back with you on Saturday, so
hopefully you're enjoying your weekend.
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:Some beautiful, sunny, 70 plus degree
weather here in Texas this weekend.
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:We had.
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:Below freezing temperatures for a week.
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:Yes.
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:And now we're back at mild spring
temperatures and it's great.
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:I love it.
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:It's great.
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:I love it.
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:Windows open.
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:This is what I signed up for.
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:Everything else.
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:Yeah.
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:We got the Super Bowl coming tomorrow.
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:Oh, you, I know you knew that.
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:I know you.
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:That's great.
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:You got all your gear, all your swag.
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:That's right, man.
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:Go Chargers.
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:They're not in it.
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:They're okay.
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:Well then I don't care.
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:But although I do care I
like to watch the Super Bowl.
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:Yeah.
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:I do think it's interesting,
especially when it's a good game.
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:I do find it the cultural.
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:Conversations after the commercials.
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:I find that to be fascinating and
enjoyable and even what it says about us.
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:Yeah, I think it's a
really helpful mirror now.
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:So I do enjoy I don't
know where to find it.
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:I'm hoping it's gonna be on one
of the apps that I have currently.
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:That'd be nice.
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:Usually, usually it is, they
try to make it accessible
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:with local channels and stuff.
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:I don't have any I have a streaming
services, so hopefully one of
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:those, actually I only have YouTube.
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:I pay for YouTube.
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:Even though you don't need to, I pay for
that 'cause I don't like commercials.
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:It's great.
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:And do have the NFL app.
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:It might be there.
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:I hope it's, I hope it's there.
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:That one would make sense.
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:Okay.
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:We have a question.
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:Well, lemme tie it in.
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:Okay.
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:Okay.
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:Super Bowl, the halftime performer.
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:This Super Bowl.
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:Oh, who is it?
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:Is your favorite?
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:My F Yeah.
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:Justin Bieber.
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:Bad bunny.
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:Congrat.
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:Oh.
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:Oh yeah.
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:That's my second favorite.
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:To be clear.
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:No, I, okay.
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:Full disclosure, I have
no idea who that is.
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:I just never heard of one of his songs.
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:Okay.
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:So it's a his.
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:I'm with you.
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:Yes, it's a hym.
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:I thought I was a woman at
first, but the controversy.
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:About this and it has led
President Trump to even say,
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:I'm not going to the Super Bowl.
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:And it's led Turning Point USA to
say, we're doing our own thing.
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:Their own Super Bowl, their
own Super Bowl halftime show.
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:Oh, okay.
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:So Turning Point USA is gonna offer
their own Super Bowl halftime show.
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:Kid Rock is performing at that one.
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:Oh, I.
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:It's because Bad Bunny has made
it patently obvious, number one,
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:just immoral as immoral can be.
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:Number two, he's made it blatantly obvious
that he is opposed to everything going on
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:right now as far as immigration reform.
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:And so there's actually betting
lines on whether he will make a
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:statement during the Super Bowl
halftime show about ice specifically.
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:Wow.
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:And.
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:The way that connects to this is the
question that we had written in was a
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:question about Christians and protesting.
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:Mm.
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:And so we've got a lot of people
pro protesting today on multiple
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:sides of many issues out there.
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:But why don't you frame
the question for us?
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:Okay.
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:So it is simply this, is it biblically
supported to politically protest
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:issues, whatever they happen to be?
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:We know this is an American privilege.
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:We have the freedom of speech, and part
of that freedom of speech is to protest
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:as long as it's lawful and peaceful.
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:This happened famously, most
recently during the during COVID
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:lockdowns, the George Floyd riots
and Protestings were taking place.
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:And there was large gatherings
where the government said, we're
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:gonna let this happen because
this is a freedom of speech issue.
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:We're not gonna clamp down on this.
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:It was famously an issue because
churches were locked down.
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:They weren't able to get
together in a similar way.
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:So the question is simply,
is this okay for us to do?
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:Is this lawful, is this biblical?
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:Is this even encouraged?
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:And some to some extent.
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:Sure.
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:How would you understand this?
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:So a few thoughts.
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:Number one, has given us our
rights and he's given us the rights
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:that we even have in this country.
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:Now, let me distinguish that the
rights that we enjoy as Americans
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:are not biblically guaranteed rights.
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:And so if we lose those rights, it's
not that we can point to scripture and
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:say, we are biblically guaranteed the
rights that we have in this country.
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:And we can't argue that because there
are Christians all over the world that
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:don't have the same rights that we do.
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:Hmm.
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:And so we get.
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:Them and they're a stewardship
from the Lord for us to use
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:voting, so forth and so on.
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:So as such, the right to go out and
protest exercise, freedom of speech is
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:something that we have as an American.
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:We can steward that, right?
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:As long as it is not leading
us into sinful behavior.
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:And so we need to make
sure a couple things.
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:Number one, what we're protesting
is biblically supportable that
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:we are going out to protest.
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:For example, let's use the issue of
ending the life of a preborn child.
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:Okay.
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:We would say it's biblically
commendable to protest and to say We
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:are against the termination of life.
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:We are against that, that's wrong.
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:And we would stand against that.
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:And if we have the opportunity to go
and rally and make our voice heard as
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:a people and we're gonna stand up and
say March for Life, things like that,
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:yes, we're gonna participate in that.
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:I think that's biblically commendable.
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:I would say.
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:Second, we need to make sure that we
are not that, that we are not certainly.
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:Crossing the line with our heart
attitude and our heart posture
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:in this, that we're not sinful in
the manner in which we protest.
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:Certainly they're not
protesting necessarily.
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:Something I would say is biblical
supportable, but everything going up in
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:Min Minneapolis right now, the protests
that are happening right now, the
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:violence, the vitriol, the hatred, the
language that's spewing forth a Christian
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:would have a very hard time participating
in that protest in a way that is
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:biblically something that you would say,
yes, this is a good and right thing to do.
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:And then third we have to
understand that we are.
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:Strangers and aliens in this world
that we're never going to get to a
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:place where we would probably say,
as Christians, I don't have anything
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:that I would protest against.
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:I think as long as we are in this
world and this world is governed by
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:the prince of the power of the air,
we as Christians are gonna always say,
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:there's something here that isn't right.
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:And so we can't be those that are
always looking for opportunities
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:to protest, that are always looking
under every rock to find something
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:to protest and stand up against.
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:So I guess that's a long answer to
say, is it biblically permissible?
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:I think so.
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:Permissible, yeah.
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:But not necessarily biblically encouraged.
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:I don't know that I would say
that it's a necessity for somebody
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:to participate in protest.
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:That it would be something
that I would say, yeah, you
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:should, you need to go do that.
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:I suppose it in part for me would
rely upon what you mean by protesting.
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:Protesting can be done
in a few different ways.
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:And the way that I think we're
most often familiar with, the way
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:that we're tempted to think about
is the one where people march.
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:They hold signs and they chant things
together in unison, and they do so
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:in a place that is highly symbolic.
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:Usually it's peaceful and it's ideal form.
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:It's peaceful.
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:Yeah.
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:And so if that's what you mean, I
would say, I don't think there's
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:a category for that in scripture.
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:I don't think they even
knew what that was.
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:They had riots, right.
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:And I think about the riot and Ephesus.
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:So we have a category for.
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:Unpeaceful protesting and non
peaceful protesting a riot where
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:when Paul's preaching the gospel
and he's speaking against their
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:gods and so they say, we need to go
away with this guy, kill this guy.
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:Or even something similar to what
was happening in Jerusalem or yeah,
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:Jerusalem, when Jesus is being
tried there was close to a riot.
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:So PIL wants to t it down by saying,
all right, I'll release him to you.
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:You killed this guy, but I
want nothing to do with it.
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:Right?
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:So I see riots in the Bible
and those are frowned upon.
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:Obviously those are not good situations.
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:Anytime they show up,
they're not for good reasons.
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:Protesting as we understand
it today in:
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:I don't think it has a category in
scripture, so I would, I'm gonna
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:have to do some work here, which
tells me does God want us to voice
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:his truth in venues that are public?
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:Absolutely and clearly in the
ministry of Paul in his first,
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:second, third missionary journeys.
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:Part of his mo.
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:He wants to go to places where he can
be heard and be given an audience.
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:Now, this is not protesting in the
strictest sense, but you see public
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:profession taking place in an area
where he can get maximal bandwidth.
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:Jesus, if you want to call it
this, did something very similar.
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:He wanted public attention
for what he was saying.
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:Paul, at the Opus, he's in front
of the Greeks and they're saying,
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:well, he'll you more about this.
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:Tell us more about this
religion that you believe in.
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:That said, I think it's appropriate
for Christians to use their voice
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:if they have one to make inroads for
for change, whatever that looks like.
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:And I know there's lots of different
ways that we can approach that.
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:So I don't think protesting is biblical
in the sense that it's there, but the
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:principles that underlie it, speaking
for truth, speaking up for those who have
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:no voice using your political power, and
Christians as a voting block do have it.
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:And I think we're crazy not to use it.
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:We should use it.
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:If we can agree about what
we should use it for, I guess
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:that's a different conversation.
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:But absolutely.
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:I think scriptures would encourage
us to use the resources and the
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:stewardship even in Matthew 25, the
talents, what we think about talents
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:in terms of what our, what we can do.
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:Well, all of us have a talent,
a resource of voting power, and
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:we'd be crazy not to utilize that.
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:Yeah, I would agree.
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:Yeah.
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:I'm with you.
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:Let's turn to our DBR for today.
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:We're in Leviticus one through three.
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:If you've got more questions on
that clarifying questions in that,
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:we'd be happy to pull the thread on
that a little bit more Rebuttals.
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:Rebuttals, Leviticus one through
three, and then we'll be in
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:the rest of Matthew Chapter 24.
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:So we're starting a brand new
book, dude, Leviticus, this is fun.
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:It is.
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:And this is such a fun book.
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:There's a lot in here, man.
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:There's a lot in here.
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:I you say it was your favorite book.
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:I don't know this.
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:Still your favorite?
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:I don't know if I'd go that far.
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:Number one, Leviticus, number two.
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:Song as solo.
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:Yeah.
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:Clearly as a heads up, if you're reading
through this with your family, if this
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:is your first time in Leviticus in a
long time, or if your kids are reading
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:it on their own, just know Leviticus
deals with some pretty adult level
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:conversations, adult level things.
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:It's probably wise if you're.
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:Having your kids read through the
Old Testament to read through these
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:sections with them to be able to
help them understand what's going on.
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:And maybe you wanna read ahead
of them a little bit on that too.
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:Leviticus one through three.
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:What stood out to me this time
as we're getting into this is,
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:here's how you're gonna do this.
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:So the Tabernacle's now set up here's
how you're gonna do everything.
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:Here's the instructions for all the
offerings and the sacrifices that
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:are gonna need to be done here.
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:And God has very specific instructions
because he wants Israel to be different.
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:He wants them to stand out.
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:So he's gonna begin talking about
the bowls, and he's gonna talk about
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:sheeps and goats and birds and all
kinds of different offerings here.
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:What I found fascinating
this time is with.
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:Specifically the burnt offering
here that the worshiper is
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:the one that kills the animal.
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:I was in my head, I don't know why I
didn't see this before, thought that
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:the worshiper brings the animal, but the
priest is the one that kills the animal.
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:But in verse five, it says, then he
shall kill the bull before the Lord.
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:That's the worshiper.
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:That's the one that brings the bull.
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:And so the priest is the one that's gonna
take the carcass then and go and offer it.
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:But the worshiper is the one that has
to participate in the bloodletting in
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:the execution of the animal itself.
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:Yeah.
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:Which is interesting because the title
of the book would lead you to believe
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:that this is primarily for the Levites,
and I guess you could say that Yeah.
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:Leviticus comes from the Greek subin,
which is a, which means that the
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:word means pertaining to the Levites.
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:So most of these religious cultic
instructions and cultic, not in a
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:negative sense, cultic as pertaining
to the cult, the religious cult of.
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:Judaism this is pertaining to what they're
to do, and it is primarily ink spilled
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:for how they're to conduct worship.
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:In the Hebrew Bible it's
not as complicated as that.
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:It's just any cult, which is I think, is.
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:Pretty bad name, but
that's what they called it.
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:We call it Leviticus because it
relates mostly to the tribe of
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:Levi, who by the way, don't forget.
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:The reason that they're given these
instructions is because they are
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:now in place of the firstborn.
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:Remember we looked at this in the
book of at Exodus where God says,
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:the firstborns, you have to redeem,
but now he's saying instead of the
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:firstborns, I'm just gonna let the.
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:Tribe of Levi is spec, specifically the
men over 20 and up, I think through 50.
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:They're gonna take the place
of the firstborn in Israel and
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:they'll be the ones who conduct
worship services at the tabernacle.
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:Notice that God does give permission
and you've brought this out before for
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:those that can't necessarily afford
to bring the full bull or the goat or
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:the other animals that he provides.
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:Caveats for that.
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:He says, look, if you can't do this,
bring something, bring what you can bring.
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:And for many it looks like that was
the turtle doves or the pigeons that
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:they would bring to, to offer in
place of the larger animals that maybe
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:the family couldn't afford or they
didn't have access to at the time.
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:Yeah, this is the pattern and this is what
God is calling us to and or not calling
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:us to, but calling Israel to at the time.
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:And it's important to know that this
is not completely unique to Israel
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:offerings and sacrifices were offered by
other nations, but this is God saying,
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:this is the way I want you to do it.
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:This is how you're gonna do it with
me, and this is what's successful.
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:Acceptable, and this is
what's not acceptable.
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:I think it's interesting in chapter
two that God tells them to season all
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:of their grain offerings with salt.
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:God is not eating this
food as it's being offered.
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:God is not eating the grain here,
and yet he calls it, seasoning it
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:and he says, you shall not let the
salt of the covenant with your God
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:be missing from your grain offering.
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:There were those that.
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:Pointed out, or at least some of the
commentaries that I read, that salt was
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:impervious to the heat of the offering.
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:And so the salt would remain.
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:And so it was almost a reminder of God's
covenant love and the persistence of his
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:covenant, so that after the, that was
gone, the Israelites would be left to,
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:to see the salt leftover and be reminded
of God's covenant faithfulness to them.
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:Peace offerings in chapter three.
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:You've got all kinds of these
different categories here.
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:And so the categories are notable for
us, burn offerings, sin offerings,
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:grain offerings, peace offerings,
wave offerings so much sin offerings.
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:We're gonna get to, I
guess in chapter four.
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:But this was something that.
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:Essentially suggested that Israel was
gonna be perpetually offering animals on
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:an ongoing basis here at the Tabernacle.
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:And one of your favorite verses here,
verse 16, all fat is the Lord's.
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:What's that about?
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:It is my favorite verse.
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:No, there were some things that
the priest were not to eat, so they
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:were given specific instructions.
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:You can eat this, you can't eat this.
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:And the fat, I don't know if
it's the richness of the fat.
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:I don't know if it's the,
this is some of the choice.
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:Parts of it, and we're saying
we're giving the best to the Lord.
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:And so that's why the Lord gets this.
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:But the priests were prohibited
from engaging in the fat.
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:So the gristle, if you let gristle on
your meat, which I'm not a big fan of,
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:that you couldn't have been a priest.
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:I don't mind it if it's good.
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:So, is it okay then if someone,
if a Christian company takes this
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:and puts us on a workout shirt,
is this okay for them to do that?
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:All fat is the Lord's, as
tongue in cheek, as a joke.
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:As long as they're ready to explain
that's not exactly what that means.
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:All right, well notice here, and
you guys have seen this, right?
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:This is a violent, this
is a violent religion.
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:Violent as in, there's lots
of blood being Chad here.
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:And there's animals being burnt.
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:They're being filet, they're being
cut open and certain things are
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:being taken out and other things
being sacrificed here and there.
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:I need you to see this in part and
not be, not immediately recoil.
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:I know as Americans, we don't slaughter
any of our own meat, and so we're not
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:used to seeing animal death in this
particular way, but I want you to see
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:that God institutes this because this is
how they're going to relate to their God.
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:Sin is the problem.
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:The sacrifices are the
temporary, immediate solution.
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:This is God making a picture for them
to say, your sin is so grievous that.
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:Something else innocent, and I'm using
air quotes here, innocent needs to die in
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:your place to keep our fellowship working.
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:And this is how there to dwell with God.
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:This is how God's going
to dwell with them.
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:And so all these things that you're
seeing that probably repulse you a
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:little bit, need to be internalized
as this is what sin does.
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:It creates barriers between me and God,
and something has to die in my place for
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:me to enjoy this fellowship with God.
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:So as you read this, if you get a
little queasy reading this stuff,
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:I just need you to see this is
important because we don't do.
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:And it's not because this isn't
necessary, it's because Jesus was the
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:necessary sacrifice on our behalf.
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:Praise God.
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:We don't have to apply Leviticus in
its sacrificial code, but the only
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:reason why is because the lamb of
God was sacrificed once and for all.
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:If it weren't for that, these
would all still be binding.
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:Yeah.
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:And thankfully, thankfully they're not.
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:And that was a violent death too.
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:Yes.
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:Jesus did not go out peacefully.
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:Yes.
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:He went out peacefully.
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:He didn't go out without.
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:A lot of trouble.
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:Alright, let's flip over
to Matthew chapter 24.
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:As we finish up here, Matthew chapter
24, we are continuing to talk about the
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:signs of the times and he's going to
give us some more on the tribulation
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:period here, as well as give us.
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:Some parables about the coming
end here, the coming of the son of
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:man, the lesson of the fig tree.
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:Maybe not parables so much as some
explanations here, but you brought
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:up verse 24 and you couldn't get
there 'cause we weren't there yet.
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:So why don't you unpack
verse 24 a little bit for us.
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:You were gonna talk about this yesterday.
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:Verse 24, the false Christ
false prophets are gonna arise.
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:Was that the one I was looking at?
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:You.
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:I could talk about it.
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:The one you mentioned.
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:I don't know if that's the
one that you had in mind.
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:Alright, well, false Christ and false
prophets will arise and perform great.
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:Si.
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:This is scary.
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:Great signs and wonders so as
to lead astray if possible.
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:Even the elect.
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:Okay, let's cut to the quick here.
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:Jesus is calling the shots and he needs
you to see that there's going to be
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:a time, a period of human history and
hopefully you're not around for this,
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:where there's gonna be convincing Christ.
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:And convincing prophets,
why are they convincing?
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:Well, because they arise and
perform great signs and wonders.
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:Jesus warns us that the next time
that we should experience and expect
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:a rash of signs and wonders are during
this particular time of human history.
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:The eschaton the last days.
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:And so he says, you gotta be aware of
this because these guys are seriously
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:threatening in terms of their deception
ability if you're performing science.
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:Beyond what David blamed and what
he does, by the way, it's pretty
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:remarkable Sometimes I wonder if
whether or not he's made a deal
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:behind the scenes with somebody, but.
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:Jesus says beware.
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:And so what you see here is pretty
scary unless he says in the second
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:part of the verse so as to lead astray
if possible, even the elect, which
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:tells us that it's not possible.
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:If it were possible, they would
even be led astray because this
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:is how powerful the delusion is.
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:That's something to be aware of.
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:I don't think it's something you
personally have to be aware of
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:unless you're around for that time.
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:But hopefully you're not.
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:Yeah, hopefully none of us are.
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:And the way you make sure that
you're not gonna be there is
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:getting right with the Lord.
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:Now, before that time
comes, that's a good call.
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:He talks about the second
coming, what it's gonna be like.
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:He says, look it's going to be
after the tribulation period.
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:The days the sun is gonna be dark.
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:The moon is not gonna give its light.
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:The stars are gonna fall from heaven.
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:And then it says they will appear,
then will appear in the sky, the
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the tribes on earth will mourn.
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with Jesus coming back on the clouds
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not coming back as the one that
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he came at the first appearance.
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he's encouraging his disciples.
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look you need to be ready for this.
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on the tree, you need to be able to
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statement in verse 34.
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:He says, this generation will not pass
away until all these things take place.
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:That may lead you to think He's
talking about the immediate context of
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he's talking about the interpret the
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signs, that generation is not gonna
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takes place as the tribulation begins.
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:It's not gonna be a prolonged,
drawn out, multiple, decades thing.
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it short for the sake of the elect.
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happen within the time of those
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things as they're taking place.
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revelation with general revelation.
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tree would've been general revelation.
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:This is how God explains
himself in creation.
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:Scripture says, scripture constantly
points us to general revelation.
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:We're not we're not the kind of people
that we only look at our Bible and say
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our understanding of the world around us.
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:It is our primary lens, but we
use this primary lens to look at.
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that God gives us access to.
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God that we should make use of,
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through the lens of scripture.
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:Verse 36, concerning that day in hour,
no one knows even the angels in heaven
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knows when he's coming back?
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:What is, I don't know, for
200, man, I'm with you on that.
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because I wonder if this was an
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:He's still got the human form though.
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Philippians two, he's been exalted and
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:Well, if you want to go like
that he knew here too then.
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was the veiling of his glory.
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fully is undone now in his exalted,
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humbled to the point of, I, I don't
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:think the kenosis, in other words,
is a permanent state of Christ.
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:I think it, I agree.
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work that he came to do.
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:I agree with that and a
hundred percent I would agree.
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:I would, I'm just making the point.
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highest level of his exalted glory
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the end of the ages, and so, right.
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or whether he has it.
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:After the great white throne judgment
where he is exalted and all of his
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:I don't know.
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:I guess I'm ambivalent in terms of when
he gets it, but I don't know if he does.
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:I just say He knew here too.
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kenosis, Jesus emptying himself out.
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veiling his deity, doesn't mean that
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:As I understand it.
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:Yeah, that's fair.
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:Rest of the chapter, he's gonna
convey this need to be ready that
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:we should be ready for his return.
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:And he talks about the faithful and
wise servant is the one that is found
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:doing what his master has given him
to do so that when the master returns,
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:He's ready for the return of the master.
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as the church, that we should
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:be ready for that as well.
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:Let's pray towards that end and then
we'll be done with this episode.
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:God, make us such a church that's busy,
about the work that you have for us to do
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:that's busy, about the great commission
that's busy about seeing disciples made
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:for your glory and for the kingdom.
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:And so we thank you for the opportunity
to do that, the opportunity to serve you.
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:We pray that we be
faithful towards that end.
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:Amen.
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:Hey, keeping you reading your
Bibles, y'all, and if Jesus doesn't
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you again tomorrow for another
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