00:00 Happy Birthday, Kristin and Phoebe Gomez!

01:55 Discussion on Parenting and Cars

05:54 Daily Bible Reading: 2 Kings 19

11:29 Daily Bible Reading: Psalms

15:39 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello, and happy birthday to

two of my favorite ladies.

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Yes, although certainly not

the only two of my favorites,

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one is my absolute favorite.

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The other one is a favorite,

but I have several favorites.

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Just to be clear, ladies.

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The first favorite who stands

head and shoulders above the

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rest is the wonderful, beautiful

magnificence and gloriously awesome.

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Kristin Gomez, happy birthday.

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Yay.

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I love you with everything

and for your birthday.

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I have set it up to be such that

Pastor PJ will sing to you right now.

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I take it away, pastor pj, I

hate to disappoint, but I try

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not to and you won't, and , see,

we're recording this on Saturday.

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Me and church is tomorrow.

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And I have to preserve my voice.

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Happy

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dude.

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You got a strong voice, man.

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Get outta here with that.

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Okay.

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One of my favorite ladies Phoebe she

doesn't even listen to this podcast.

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Can you believe it?

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That's really.

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I feel like that's rude her.

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I really, she doesn't even support me.

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Unbelievable.

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She has not encouraged me.

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Once this week in my work, I'm

seen come up to you and say, daddy

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and give you hugs and stuff, but

just it seems like empty words if

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she's not, yeah, I don't know, man.

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You can't win them all.

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Choose your battles as

they sit with parenting.

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Happy birthday, Phoebe.

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I know you don't listen, but

I love you and I'm excited to

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celebrate your third birthday on

the same day as your mother's boom.

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Very you to choose to be born

on the same day as your mom.

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So convenient.

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Kristen, thanks for being born as well.

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Yeah.

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Super thankful for that.

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Looking forward to celebrating

some time with you.

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That's awesome, man.

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Happy birthday ladies.

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Also, we've got some other people

in the church with birthdays.

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We stopped wishing

everybody a birthday on.

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We did that year one on this podcast.

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Yeah.

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We said, Hey, it's, that's fun birthday.

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Yeah.

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And it was fun.

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We just, we have a lot of birthdays

now and we would spend, thank God.

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We're already going long.

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Yeah.

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And so we would be like, happy birthday to

this person and this person, that person.

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And there's the acceptance speech

where they call in and they

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say here's why I'm thankful.

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Right.

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45 minutes later, we haven't

even gotten into the podcast yet.

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So if it's your birthday

today, happy birthday.

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We love you.

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Yeah.

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We do all the days.

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Even if we never shouted

out we still think about you

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and we're talking about you.

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Good things mostly.

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Yeah.

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We trust man.

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August is almost, here is July 28th.

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Dude, I need a car for Jacob.

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If anyone has a car they're gonna give

away or throw away, let me know, man.

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I'm trying to help.

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I've preached on this and I've

mentioned you twice as application.

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I've not said anything though to anybody.

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I've just been trying to, scout territory.

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I've been looking at the Facebook

marketplace ads and things like that.

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Yeah, I, and he wants, I know what

he wants and what he's gonna get.

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Corvette.

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I don't think he wants

a Corvette, honestly.

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It's on his radar.

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Get, yes, he's gonna get a Corvette

or a Hummer, an H two perhaps.

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When I drove by Salina

High School's parking lot.

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I was offended and appalled at

how many nice cars are there.

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There's, I think 80% of people that

drive vehicles at Salina High School

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drive nicer cars than I've ever owned.

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Sure.

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Ever.

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Sure.

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And not that I'm, I don't begrudge that.

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If you got a great car, fantastic.

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I'm just thinking that's not the first.

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If I tell my son all the time,

if I had the money to just ride

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out, buy you a car, I still

wouldn't get you a really nice car.

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I need to get you a junker.

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And you gotta start there.

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Otherwise, you don't appreciate when

you finally do get the one with I, the,

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my first car, I wanna hear about yours.

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My first car did not have ac.

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The windows did not work.

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One did.

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I could roll it down manually.

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The others did not.

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But I love that car.

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I treated it so nicely.

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I washed it.

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I always vacuumed it.

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I kept it nice.

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I put an air freshener in there.

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I took care of it, like

my life depended upon it.

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And then when I got the car that

did have ac, I was just so thrilled.

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And I still love ac I,

especially here in Texas.

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Tell me about your first car.

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I had a, wait, let me guess.

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You're one of those guys in the parking

lot with a brand new Mercedes S class?

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No.

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No, because you were a preppy

kid, so I'm guessing BMW.

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No.

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No, it was a Mercedes, but Oh.

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But it was a, I think it was

a 12-year-old, 11-year-old.

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12-year-old Mercedes.

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And man it was, this is how good it was.

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I was driving into the parking lot.

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We, we had this dirt parking

lot and then it was up on a

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curb that you had to drive into.

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'cause we were lowerclassmen

and I guess I was leaving.

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So I was driving outta that.

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And when my car back tires hit

the pavement again, my muffler

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just fell off the back of the car.

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Wow.

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So I didn't.

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Know anything about cars at that point.

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I still don't know a whole

lot about cars at this point.

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So I got a car, you need the ler.

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And I looked at, I was like,

can I drive without this thing?

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And they were like, sure.

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Yeah.

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So I popped the making a lot more

noise that the before I was done with

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that car, the bumper, the front bumper

was bolted on like we manufactured.

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A connection onto it.

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'cause the duct tape gave out.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All that stuff.

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But now your bumper's not bolted on True.

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At least not inappropriately.

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So true.

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It's bolted on in the right way.

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In the right way.

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And now you have a spaceship.

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I do.

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Don't you appreciate that so much more

because of your first time with this brand

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new Mercedes nice class that you have.

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Yeah, I do.

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It's, this is the funnest car I've ever

driven and I don't take it for granted.

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I'm grateful for it.

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I don't know.

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That's why I don't want

Jacob to have a nice car.

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Yeah.

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I want him to have a junker like I did.

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Like Kristen Kristen did cheating

over there, but I don't know.

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We're looking for a car, so if you

happen to see a good deal Yeah.

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Or anyone's gonna throw it away.

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Maybe have them throw it away in my trash.

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My wife had a an explorer, but

it, we called it the exploder.

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The exploder, yeah.

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So I noticed that you have an

explorer, so clearly it did not

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dissuade you from getting another one.

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It may also be known as the explode

before we're all done with it too.

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What?

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It's just, it's created

its fair share of problems.

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Yeah.

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It hasn't exploded though.

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No.

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Everybody knows everybody, but

it was like, American cars don't

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have the best of reputations.

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Fair.

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Yeah, it is.

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It is large though, and I feel good

about my son being in a larger vehicle.

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I totally get that.

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Yeah, totally get that.

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But it's cheaper to take care of

a small, four cylinder Oh yeah.

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To buy new tires for

it, to all that stuff.

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Oh yeah.

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Everything, yeah.

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All altogether cheaper.

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Yes.

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Anyway, but if anybody has

a car, August is coming.

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And so I thought about that

because Jacob is starting school.

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All the kids are starting school again.

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Everyone's getting back

in the swing of things.

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Yeah.

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People return to church.

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We're looking forward to all those things.

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I look forward and I love consistency.

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I love schedules.

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So summer is wonderful 'cause they

get to spend more time with the fam.

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Yep.

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But I do miss the schedules.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I know we've got some people in

our church that work for Toyota,

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so they just need to go talk to Mr.

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Toyota and be like, Hey would

you be willing to Yeah I was.

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I'm hoping one day they just start

throwing their brand new cars that they

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crush after they're done testing them.

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Yeah.

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They isn't that crazy?

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It's nuts.

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I wish that they would just

throw them away to their.

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They're best friends.

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And their family members

and things like that.

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Here's one.

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Yeah.

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And some other pastors perhaps.

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You can't guarantee it's safe.

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That's okay.

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We'll do it anyways.

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That's alright.

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We'll take the risk.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let's jump into our

daily Bible reading today.

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Mean we're gonna try to be shorter than

we have been in the last couple days.

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Oh, we will be.

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We will be.

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Yes.

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Because that's what a pastor does.

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That's what a pastor's doing for Right.

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Short.

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Short, pithy speech.

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Yeah.

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Not saying too much.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So two Kings 19.

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This is ground we've covered.

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This is again, Hezekiah's

response to Sinna rib drying

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up and him seeking the Lord.

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God intervening.

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This is where the rabbis shaka gets sent

back and then when the angel of the Lord

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comes out and ends up taking out 185,000,

this is, we've got some of Isaiah in

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here as Isaiah's prophesying the fall

before the angel takes out the 185,000.

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Again, this is a benefit to the

chronological plan is we have a

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context for this 'cause we've been in

Isaiah and now we're back here in two

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Kings, and it reminds us That's right.

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Isaiah's prophesying during

the reign of Hezekiah.

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Isaiah has a relationship with these

historical other figures in Israel

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at this time, including Hezekiah.

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And this is this is that, that

situation, we're not gonna get.

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Yet we'll get there when we get to

chapter 20 into the end of Hezekiah's

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life, like we talked about the added

15 years and stuff, that's not yet.

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Chapter 19 is really just gonna be

about how God delivers Israel from

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Sinna and Assyria, which he is gonna do.

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By the way some people including my mom

occasionally read our transcript of the

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podcast rather than listening to it.

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Oh.

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So she texted me the other day very

confused about snacking on ribs and

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she and Kristen was like, Hey, pastor

Peachy hasn't even responded to that.

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And I said, no, he did.

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You just couldn't see it.

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'cause it's audio.

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And because I also cut out silences Yeah.

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That are longer than a second.

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Your laugh probably got taken out, so

people were probably confused by that.

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I also thought to myself, I said,

I think he said that last year too.

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I can't remember.

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I'm sure I did, but I think

you said it last year.

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Snacking on ribs is my thing, man.

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Yeah, that's how I remember his name.

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Yeah.

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So that's what this chapter's about.

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Second Kings 19.

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Anything in here PR that you want to

point out that we didn't necessarily

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see in the coverage of Isaiah's?

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I just wanna point out a theme

that I've seen and it's in

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verse 25, only this verse here.

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Have you not heard?

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That I determined it long ago.

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I planned from days of old what now

I bring to pass that you should turn

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fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

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This is God's super intending his

oversight of everything, including

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evil kings and evil nations.

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Doing what evil kings and evil nations do.

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And so I just wanna point out to

you, God controls all of that.

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He oversees all of that.

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And if you understand that rightly,

that is an enormous comfort.

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It's not comforting when you go

through the pain of those things,

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but it is comforting to realize

these are not unhinged evil entities

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that are outside the control of God.

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Perfectly maintains control to the

point that he's saying, look, haven't

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you heard I called my shots and I'm

telling you now what's about to happen.

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Take confidence that I will

accomplish my plan and purpose.

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What would you prefer?

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Would you prefer to wake up to a

world in which God doesn't know

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what's gonna happen and he's not

sovereign over the events and.

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All of this is happening and

he's witnessing happening, it

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happening and reacting to it

happening the same as we are.

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Or would it be more comforting to

know who God is, like we talked about

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yesterday at church to understand

something about him, to have a robust

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theology that allows you to trust

him even when you don't necessarily

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know what he's doing in the moment.

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That, that is a huge comfort to

us to be able to say, God, you're.

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So even when it doesn't feel like it,

I'm, I, my theology, my understanding of

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you from your word tells me you're good.

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And it also tells me

that you're sovereign.

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And so those are the two things

that I'm gonna hold onto and

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hang my hat on right now.

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And I'll trust that you're

gonna work this out.

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I think a lot of people

want to preserve that.

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Because they wanna protect human freedom.

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Can you talk about that

for just a brief moment?

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Preserve what, I'm sorry.

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Human freedom.

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Yeah.

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In other words, God doesn't

have control over those things.

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Yeah.

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Because he's endowed man with the

ability to freely choose apart

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from any intervention on his part.

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What would you say to that?

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Yeah.

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And the.

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The ultimate end of that is what is a,

actually a heretical doctrine that we

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refer to as open theism, which says that

God doesn't know what's coming and he

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is totally oblivious to what's coming.

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Now, that is not everybody who

believes in autonomous free will.

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There are those that would say no,

God, ordained a world in which free

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will would be what would take place.

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Or he saw everybody's choices

before he created the world.

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Yeah we don't.

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I think this is a nuance of the

atheist reason for rejecting God.

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We don't wanna be accountable to God,

and so we want a measure of free will.

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We want a measure of autonomy.

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We don't like the idea that somehow

my fate has been set or my destiny has

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been set, or whatever language you want

to use, or God has ordained my path.

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That, that grates against our

natural fleshly inclination to say,

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no, I am the master of my fate.

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I'm the captain of my ship my soul.

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And so the.

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Idea that man, I'm gonna submit

to God is something that,

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again the strawman against it.

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'cause you can strawman both sides.

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The straw man against God's

sovereignty would say, then we're

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just all puppets on strings.

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And what's the point?

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And I think that's where we o often

talk about there is a sense from our

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perspective while we are here, that

we are making real choices every

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single day and they are real choices.

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Whether or not we're gonna serve

and obey God and God can at the same

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time be sovereign over those choices.

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Even though we in the

moment don't experience that

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awareness, we don't feel that.

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And yet it doesn't change

the fact that he is.

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And so is he a hundred percent sovereign?

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Yes.

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Are we a hundred percent

responsible for our choices?

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Yes.

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Both of those things are

taught in scripture and we

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have to hold those intention.

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Yeah, we would call that dual

agency that then in any given

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act, there are two agents at work.

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There is God's agency and

that's always gonna be true.

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And there's the human agent

also making decisions.

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And this is how God can say through

Joseph, what you meant for evil.

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God meant for good Two agencies at work.

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The agency of his brothers, Joseph's

brothers that is, and the agency of God,

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one's committing evil in their works

and God is committing good in his works.

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He will always accomplish good because

he's sovereign over good and evil.

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Yep.

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Chapter 46 of the Book of Psalms, so

let's jump back into Psalms again.

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This is one of my favorite psalms.

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There's a lot of bands that have

done this musically recently

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even that are really good.

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We just read this for scripture reading on

Sunday, and so here we are with it as part

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of our D-B-R-I-I, I like it here in this

context and maybe yet last year I wasn't.

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As tuned in or paying attention

to it as much, but probably not.

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Thanks man.

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But just this idea of God's deliverance

of his people and the Assyrians.

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I think this makes a lot of

sense as to why it would be here.

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If you look at verse five, God is in the

midst of her, but is Jerusalem his people?

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She shall not be moved.

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He will help her when mourning Dawns

well, when did the angel of the Lord

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go out and strike down the 185,000?

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Overnight.

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And so when mourning dawned the

next day, what did they find?

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They found the Assyrians defeated and

gone because of what God had done.

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He will help her when mourning Dawns and

just the confidence of saying the Lord

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of Hosts, which is by the way the Lord

of Armies that were hosts means armies,

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the angelic armies, the angelic for

forces, the Lord of hosts is with us.

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The God of Jacob is our fortress.

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And then it ends in verse 10.

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Be still and know that I am God.

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I will be exalted among the nations.

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I will be exalted in the earth,

be still, and know that I'm

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God is a, it's be in awe of me.

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It's not so much about.

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Peace.

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Like sometimes we make it, hey, just

be still and know that he's God.

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It's be still and sit down.

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It's, yeah.

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Sit down and be quiet and

look, because this is who I am.

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You should do your own translation.

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I was trying to be careful not to

that's the PJ's translation of the

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Bible that might get me in trouble.

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But then the comfort of verse

11, the Lord of hostess with us,

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the God of Jacob is our fortress.

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Love Psalm 46.

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Amen.

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Psalm 80 then is a plea for salvation.

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And it's a cry as the Psalm

says to restore us, oh Lord, the

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God again, the Lord of hosts.

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And so it fits again that the situation

here of them saying, and this is

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similar, I think to, to Hezekiah's

prayer back in two Kings 19 or Isaiah 37.

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Think it fits a very similar situation

there where he's asking and praying

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in verse two, come and save us.

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He says in verse three

that we might be saved.

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Verse seven, restore us.

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Oh God.

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And so this fits that context again

of a city besieged by the Assyrians,

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afraid, not knowing what's gonna happen,

wondering how God is gonna deliver them.

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This psalm could have been written

during that time, or even on the

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backside of that, reflecting back at

that time saying, God, you are the one

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that does deliver us and does save us.

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Psalm 1 35.

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Feel free man to, to just jump in and

bail out the stinky ship at any time.

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Oh I feel free all the time.

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In fact, I make true and real decisions.

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You do every day.

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You do.

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You're like, yeah.

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I'm just gonna let that

one, I'm just gonna sit out.

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I'm gonna lay out on that one.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 1 35 is another Psalm of

appraise here and we could look

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at this again contextually with

what's going on and why it's here.

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Perhaps again the remembrance

of God's deliverance.

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Look at verse 15, though.

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The idols of the nations

are silver and gold.

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The work of human hands, they have

mouths but do not speak eyes, but do

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not see ears, but do not hear, nor

is there any breath in their mouths.

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Those who make them become like them.

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So do all who trust in them.

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That reminds us of what we've

been talking about in Isaiah.

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In fact, what we talked about yesterday,

about how God was saying how foolishness,

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idolatry is, and here in Psalm 1 35.

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The psalmist is pointing that out.

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That same thing out in

contrasting the idols with God.

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So similar themes there again, back

to what we've been studying in Isaiah.

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Yeah, I think it's really important

to see that idolatry, whatever it is

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that you worship, will have a necessary

influence on the shape of your soul.

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If you worship something like money

you become in some way, shape or

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form like the God that you serve.

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You become money oriented.

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Your mind thinks about money.

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Your mind calculates

everything in terms of money.

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If you're worshiping at the idol of

health and physical prowess, you think

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about everything in terms of your.

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Physical health and prowess you,

you calculate everything according

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to that thing, and so you become

shaped by the God that you serve.

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How freeing it is then to have a God

that shapes us according to love.

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He says to love him with heart,

soul, mind, and strength, and to

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love your neighbor as yourself

so you will know if you are being

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more conformed to the image of God.

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If you have love for him

and love for his people.

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It is really so simple

and yet so profound.

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Anything short of that, any other

God or idol is gonna misshape

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you and distort your soul.

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Alright hey, we said it was

gonna be a shorter episode.

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I think we we followed through on it.

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Nailed it.

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Yep.

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Let's let's pray and then we'll

be done with this this episode.

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God we thank you for, what we see in

Two Kings 19 and Isaiah 37, in, in Your

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Deliverance to the People and how in

the Book of Psalms that inspire these

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songs of praise and worship to you.

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And I pray that would be a reminder to

us, that should be true of us as well

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as we consider the way that you saved

to us and delivered us not from the

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Assyrians or the Babylonians or anybody

else, but from your wrath through Christ,

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Lord, what a a greater deliverance we've

experienced and how much more it should.

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Compel us to want to worship you.

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And so we pray that we would be a

worshipful people, that we pray that

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we would not misdirect our worship to

the false gods and the falses idols,

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but that we would direct it to you as

the one who has delivered us that our

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trust is not ultimately in our security

systems or in our jobs, or in our

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paychecks or anything else, even as we

think about just the deliverance from a

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daily basis of making it through a day.

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But our deliverance is in from you

that you are the one who sustains us.

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And so we thank you so much for that.

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We pray that we would

be a worshipful people.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep her in your Bibles tuning

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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be listening on, and we will catch

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you against tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.