00:00 Intro

00:56 Valentine's Day Plans and Restaurant Recommendations

02:23 Let's Talk about the BIble!

02:33 Exodus 36: Generosity and Vision

05:47 Exodus 37: Building the Tabernacle

08:34 Exodus 38: Completing the Tabernacle

09:52 Reflecting on Numbers and Miracles

11:07 Application and Unity in the Church

13:36 Prayer

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Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the daily bible podcast.

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What's up?

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Yo, hey valentine's day is coming up It

sure is just flash news flash warning

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for our men folk out there What are

you hoping to get for valentine's day?

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Yeah.

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A knife pair of socks.

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Sure.

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New shirt.

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Yeah.

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Watch.

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We've never been big Valentine's day.

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People guys don't like love.

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Yeah, exactly.

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No, I don't want to be the obnoxious.

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I've been the guy in the past.

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It's like, I don't need a Hallmark

holiday to tell my wife I love her.

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And we don't, but, but there's

nothing wrong with this one.

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No.

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If you need an excuse to go out

and take your wife out for a

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date, then by all means go for it.

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It's a good thing to do.

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I think we always just.

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We're not big on on crowds.

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I'm not big on crowds.

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I'm not big on like long waits

at restaurants and stuff.

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So We fell into a habit of saying,

okay, when is Valentine's Day?

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Let's go out and celebrate a couple

of days before a couple days after.

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Oh, yeah.

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We're all about that, right?

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Because it's like, okay, we'll do

our Valentine's Day dinner a few

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days after when nobody else is out.

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Nothing special or significant

about the day itself.

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Right?

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Right.

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So are you going to take

Kristen because everybody wants

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to know to text your house?

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You know, I do like it now.

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I'm not, I'm not, I'm not mad at that, but

that's not going to be our favorite spot.

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We really like Randy's.

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Randy's is good.

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We really enjoyed that.

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And, and particularly

the jalapeno poppers.

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I've not had that yet.

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You got to try.

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And there's one of the cheapest items

on the menu is eight bucks or something

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like that, but they're delicious.

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They're fresh jalapenos.

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And so they have a kick that you

never experienced unless it's fresh.

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It was great.

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So we, I'd like to go there

again, if it's a possibility.

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Fair enough.

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Fair enough.

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Yeah.

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I mean, and I've been going to blue goose.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's right at Eldorado in

between Maine and Eldorado.

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Is that like a, is it a bar?

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It totally is.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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We've been going there and all

of our Presbyterian brothers and

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sisters were raising a glass.

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Do a Bible study.

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No, it's a Mexican food restaurant,

but it's blue goose and cookie

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society is right next door.

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So it's like dinner.

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Oh yeah.

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I'm going to grab a cookie.

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Yeah.

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They're good cookies, man.

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They are good cookies.

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They are indeed.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So Valentine's day is coming up.

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Just be aware of that, man.

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If you need to order

something, order something.

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If you need to make dinner

plans, make dinner plans.

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Yeah.

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And it's.

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Good to go out of your way to do

something to show your wife, that

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you love her and vice versa, to

show your husband that you love him.

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It's just a good practice.

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Even if it's, even if it happens to

be associated with the day that the

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federal government says, Hey, we're

going to make this day a day of love.

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Okay.

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Whatever.

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We don't need it, but it's a helpful

reminder that it's good to express love

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and to showcase what a good mayor should

look like with or without the day.

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That's fascinating.

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You've now got me wondering what Trump's

going to do about Valentine's day.

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And you said the federal government

has to, what is he going to,

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what edict, what executive order,

what exile is he going to do?

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Yeah, we'll see.

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Oh man, anyways, let's jump into

our Bible reading for today.

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Exodus 36, 37, 38.

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I feel like I've read this before.

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Yeah, I feel like we were

just talking about this.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 36, notice Bezalel and

Oholiab, they're here now and

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they're going to get to work.

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And so, do you think people

did that with him all the time?

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Of course, even back in his day.

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Yeah, what tune is that?

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I don't even know what's the holy night.

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Anyways, the people respond again

in just overwhelming generosity,

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giving you the point that Moses

has to say enough, no more.

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Yes, Lord, do it please.

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And thank you Lord, calling it down.

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So they've, they've got plenty

and Moses says that's enough.

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We've got enough for the task at hand.

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And that's just, I mean, one thing

that I've thought a lot about in

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church planting and being a lead

pastor, and we've had conversations

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just about this too, is.

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Casting vision and Moses must've

been a great leader in doing this.

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Because remember the people said to Moses,

we don't want to hear directly from God.

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We want.

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To hear from you let god speak

to you And then we'll hear

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from you What god says to you?

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And so moses is able to cast such a

vision in a picture for the worship of

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god in the way God wants to be worshipped

that the people are willing to give

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sacrificially and generously probably

a lot of what they They plumb plundered

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from egypt on the way out, right?

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Sure, as far as the gold and everything

else like that, but but moses is just

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he's doing it, right He's telling

him this is what the vision is.

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This is what we need to do

because God is worthy of this.

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And the people respond.

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They're like, here, here it

is to the point that Moses

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has to say, okay, that's good.

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We're good.

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We've got enough.

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And probably what's also on added to that,

in addition to what he's preaching and

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communicating, which is funny, isn't it?

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Because he was saying, look,

I'm not good with words, Lord.

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And yet God uses him

for that very purpose.

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But on top of that, it was also

Moses life that displayed the

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reality of what they believed.

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Such that in chapter 34, when

he comes down from Mount Sinai.

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His face is shining to go back to

the conversation about God's glory

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and how he's now reflecting that.

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So they saw in him not only the truth

testified from his lips, but also

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the truth testified from his life.

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There was evidence of his relationship

with God that he was communicating with

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the God of heaven, the God of earth.

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And so they saw the reality of that.

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They saw the authenticity and

they responded accordingly.

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I think that's instructive

for pastors today.

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A hundred percent.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It reminds me of the, the DC talk song.

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What if I stumble?

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What if I fall?

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That came out back in the nineties.

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I don't know that one.

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There was a clip at the very beginning.

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It was a quote from somebody.

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I can't remember who the original

author is, but the quote was this,

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the greatest single cause of atheism

in this world is Christians who

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acknowledge God with their lips, but

denying by their lifestyle which is not

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leadership per se, but just all of us.

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And that's kind of what our charge

to the men was this past weekend.

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Like all of you have something to lose

if you compromise on your integrity

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on if you don't live above reproach.

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So, okay, since you seem to know

all the things CCM why did Michael

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Tate step down from the newsboys?

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I did see that.

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Speaking of DC talk.

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Yeah.

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I don't know it, but it seemed to

have shocked the newsboys because

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they've released a couple of

statements trying to like, they're

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trying to wrap our minds around this.

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There's rumblings, there's

rumblings about some sin.

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That's, you know, being threatened to be

revealed or it's going to be revealed.

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And he's trying to get ahead of it

and try to keep the band out of it.

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Which today it's a sad, it's sad to

say, well, okay, here we go again.

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Maybe anyway, if you don't know about

that, no, no need to look it up.

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That's like when you're like, Hey I've

got, I was going to tell you a secret,

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but nevermind, I'm not going to throw you.

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Wait, what?

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Don't look at my Instagram.

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If you don't want to know.

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Everybody's asking me about

this and don't go here.

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If you don't want to

know where I get this.

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Hey, I just got a note from my wife.

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My, my son is pitching right now.

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Oh, cool.

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Go Josh.

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Go Josh hit a home run.

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No, that's the opposite.

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You know, we don't want

home runs right now.

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That'd be bad.

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I would bet anyways.

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All right.

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Exodus 37.

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So 36, they're bringing

everything for the tabernacle.

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And again, just that they're

bought in, they're all in and

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it matches chapter 26, right?

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It's 26 and 36.

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So hopefully it's easy to remember.

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That's good.

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That's good.

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Is it 27 and 37?

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No.

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Okay.

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Well so 37 Bezalel is on the scene

here and he's going to make the

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arc the table, the lamp stand.

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And all of this is again, in

accordance with the instructions

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God had provided to Moses.

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So when we get to Hebrews

in like eight months.

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Nine months, something around there.

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They're going to talk about the writer

of Hebrews is going to talk about

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the, the, as Moses, according to the

pattern Moses received on the mountain.

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And that's kind of what we're

talking about here in there.

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He's talking about the better tabernacle,

the better sanctuary, but here we're

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seeing the literal one where Moses

was shown, this is how it should be.

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This is what it should look like.

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And that's something that I've always

wondered, okay, is this God saying

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Visually to Moses this what it is or

just simply verbally telling Moses.

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This is what it is I mean was there

a picture of this that Moses had

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to be able to come back and try to

Recreate that verbally himself or was

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this just all it's like how do you

prefer to put IKEA furniture together?

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Do you like the verbal written

instructions or do you like the pictures?

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I'm a pictures guy pictures are helpful.

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Oh pictures for sure Yeah

Yeah, that's a good question.

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I've never thought about it that way,

but I've always assumed It was God just

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speaking to him telling him this this

and this right and then the artistic

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freedom was given to Bezalel and Aholiab

But it says in Hebrews according to the

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pattern that was shown to him on the

mountain and does shown necessarily mean

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Visually could not be shown verbally.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Yep.

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Yeah Yep.

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Yep.

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Well, chapter 37.

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Yeah.

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Bezalel is going to be

doing all these things.

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He's building the ark.

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He's building the table.

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He's building the lamp stand, which

talk about a trembling task, a fear

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inducing task, building the ark where

the glory of God is going to show up

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on the mercy seat between the cherubim.

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There, that, that must've been an honor.

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Yeah.

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Versus the lamp stand.

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That's still important, but it's like,

Hey, this thing's going to give light.

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This thing's going to be where

the glory of God shows up.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But the spirit was

empowering him for that work.

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So I wonder if there was, maybe there

was trembling and that probably would be

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appropriate, but one wonders if there's

also a sense of, yes, this is exciting.

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Maybe something like it is to preach.

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Preaching is a trembling activity,

but I get excited when I'm,

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when I'm ready, I'm prepared.

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I know my text, I'm ready to go into it.

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There's a great level of excitement,

even as there's also a great level

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of humble trembling that I'm not fit

for the task in an ultimate sense.

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Yeah.

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Maybe something like that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, chapter 37, by the way, corresponds

to chapter 25 20 37 25 36 26 37 25.

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Yeah, you may not want to memorize this

But yes chapter 37 corresponds a chapter

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25 in Exodus 8 6 7 5 3 0 9 8 6 7 8 6 7

5 is that it that doesn't feel right?

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I think so 8 6 7 Yes, I think so Jenny?

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Okay.

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Well, I don't know.

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It feels wrong for some reason.

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I think it's 8 6 7 5 3 0 9.

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All right.

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You keep talking.

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We're going to get an

email about that for sure.

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Let me look it up.

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Bruno and Nani.

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They're going to know

they're going to let us know.

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All right.

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Exodus 38.

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Then we get the construction of

the tabernacle being completed

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at this point and it's completed

with the making of the altar.

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For the burnt offering, the bronze

basin and the courtyard itself.

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And the, the tabernacle

was designed to be mobile.

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One thing that I noticed here is it does

not mean that it was going to be light.

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I was looking at some of the measurements

here and in the, the construction

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here, the silver alone was estimated

to have weighed somewhere between.

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Two and a half to three tons just

of silver and then bronze, another

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two and a half to three tons.

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I suddenly feel better about our chairs.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Our stage pieces.

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Not that bad, right?

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Cause they had to break these things

down and Karen beat, but it was all the

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basins, like the silver basins for all the

poles and everything else that was heavy.

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And we see shekels and we're

like, Oh, shekels, whatever.

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But that's how much, I mean, this is a

multi ton edifice that they're having

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to break down and, and carry with them.

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A lot of people for that.

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My back already hurts and we're

not even using half of this.

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It does.

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What did you find out?

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Everybody's dying to know it is 9.

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For some reason it just didn't sit right.

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I don't know.

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There's, you know, in my old

age, some things just don't

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feel the same way they used to.

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Well, you know, tomorrow 40, I guess

tomorrow, according to this pocket.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You're right.

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No.

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So, wow.

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Yep.

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So, yeah.

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Anything else beyond 38?

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Oh 38 we're already on 38.

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Yeah, I got through 38 You were looking

at I was looking at phone numbers.

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That's right Okay, so one quick note here

at the end of 38 notice the in verse 26.

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There's 600 3550 men It's identifying

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that we're looking at a conservative

number of anywhere between two to three

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million people total 600, 3, 550 men.

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The numbers themselves leave us a

little bit of a struggle here, as

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we talked about previously, when we

jumped into this in the first place,

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those large numbers are problematic.

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When we start thinking about all that

it would take to support these people

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where waste would go, water needs and

supplies walking in constricted parts

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of the desert, how they would do that.

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Now we're not, we're not.

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Man, there's no problem whatsoever in

the Christian mindset to say, could

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God not have done A, B, C, and D?

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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There's no problem on God's

part to say, I can handle that.

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The problem on our part is okay.

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What, what did he do?

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Did he do this miracle to supply

them with food and water and shelter?

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Because he did do miracles.

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The sandals never wore out.

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They had mana for for their

wilderness wanderings.

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He did those things again.

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The problem is not whether god could

do it It's whether did god do that?

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What was the miracle?

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Was it taking three million

people through the desert?

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Or is there a smaller number that

he sustains them with because that

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would make more sense when they're the

smallest Were you guys not the smallest

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and most insignificant trembled around

them if they had three million people

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People would tremble at their size.

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So we have to do some exegesis here

to figure out what's the real miracle

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and it's no injustice to god to

say Oh, it's three million versus.

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Oh, no It's a much smaller number

But god sustained them and kept them

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through the desert and protected them

against all their potential threats and

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enemies In fact in your small groups

this week in your community groups

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this week as part of our application

from the sermon this past weekend, so

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In John 16, it says that the spirit

of truth will lead you into all truth.

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So one of the things we're going to be

talking about in our community groups is,

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is there truth outside of biblical truth?

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The answer is yes.

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So one of the, the areas that we have to

get to is what do we do when, how do we

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triage Competing truth claims especially

in the area of evangelism, but also within

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just the unity of the bride of Christ.

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There are things that we can choose

to get really worked up over and,

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and divide fellowship over that

aren't worth getting worked up

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over and dividing fellowship over.

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And if you've got somebody that's going

to come in and say, for example, I don't

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think it was actually, 603, 000 men,

because that would be 3 million people.

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And I think it was a

smaller number than that.

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And they've got legitimate arguments

for, for why that might be.

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You don't need to look at them

and be like, Hey, you're a heretic

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and you've denied the inerrancy

and authority of scripture.

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Get out of my face.

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And I, I think we can be quick

to pull the trigger on that.

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I know I can, I I'm ardent defender

of the inerrancy and authority of

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scripture, and I have strong convictions

about those things, but I also.

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Think that that they're a bigger fish

to fry and we need unity as a church as

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as much as we can again that that Famous

statement that I butchered before and

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I'll put you again In since all things.

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Oh, yeah in essentials unity in non

essential liberty and all things

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grace So I think we need a little

bit more of that, but those will be

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entering conversations I trust in the

community groups about how do we triage?

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Something that is worth Making a stink

over or saying, we really need to stand on

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the battleground for this particular truth

versus something that we can say, okay,

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you know, we can set that one aside for

the sake of unity or an evangelism work.

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We can revisit that later, but let's

deal with, with what really needs to

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be dealt with right now, which is.

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Jesus and the gospel and the fact that

you need to be saved And we should also

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not confuse the kind of subversive spirit

that says did god really say right that

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that that exists And we don't want that.

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We're not trying to do that What we

are trying to say is we it's there are

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questions in the bible that it brings up

itself that we have to say Okay, what's

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what's god trying to communicate here?

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It's not that god's unclear It's that we

are sinful recipients and sometimes it's

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harder for us to wrap our minds around.

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What's god communicating?

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what's he conveying and it takes a

little more effort than it just to You

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Then just a passing superficial reading.

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So that's what we're arguing for

deep, thorough, understanding reading.

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And that takes time.

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That takes effort.

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And I'd even say it takes godliness.

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Yep.

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There's a kind of spirit that

is more receptive to God's truth

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than a spirit of criticism.

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And we're not trying to develop that we're

trying to be humble and receive God's

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word for what it says and not what we

wanted to say or what our tradition says.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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Well, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, give us a posture, a mentality, a

humbleness, a humility like that to really

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just seek to know truly what your word

says and not to draw conclusions based

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on tradition or based on anything else,

but really truly to, to want to know

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what you want us to know from your word.

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And.

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in how to take it and

apply it to our lives.

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So we're grateful for the, the,

what we call the perspicuity of

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scripture, that it's, it's readable.

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It's understandable that we can read it

in a language that makes sense to us.

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That's an act of grace and condescension

from you that we are so thankful for.

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Help us to appreciate the gift

that we have in your word as we

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continue to read it day after day.

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And we thank you for the reading

that we had for this day.

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And we pray this in Jesus name, amen.

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