00:00 Intro

00:03 Men's Bible Study Recap

00:45 Breakfast Burritos vs. Chick-fil-A

02:31 Exodus 30-32: Instructions for the Tabernacle

03:35 The Multi-Sensory Worship Experience

04:41 Atonement Tax and Holiness

06:17 New Testament Worship and the Holy Spirit

09:54 The Role of the Holy Spirit in Old and New Covenants

12:57 The Golden Calf Incident

17:06 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up folks?

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It is a special edition since we're

recording on Saturday after Pastor Rod

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has just Poured out his heart and soul

exposing the scriptures to our men this

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morning at our men's Bible study I am

presently without heart or soul right now.

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It is gone for that very reason.

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Yeah.

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No, it was great though, man I

thought it was really helpful and

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and Apropos certainly evergreen topic

talking about irreproachability.

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Mm hmm.

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Thank you.

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Appreciate that.

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Yeah, it was good.

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It was good Our men responded.

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Well, nobody got up and stormed out which

was I was worried about a couple people

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did walk out though There wasn't a storm,

but they did walk Yeah, I think they were

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getting more coffee from the Chick fil A.

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I assume the worst.

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I assume they were offended and upset.

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And even though Stephen came back,

I still took it, took it to heart.

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You should have.

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You should have.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to put, I'm going to put Angelo

on blast a little bit here because our

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ladies, they got breakfast burritos

from, yeah, from Valerie's and granted

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they had to go through it to get them

because they, the order got messed

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up and they had to make them day of.

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Oh no.

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Oh no.

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I'm just saying that the bar

has been set by our ladies.

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They got breakfast burritos.

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We do Chick fil A only because

it's what we've always done.

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Maybe we need to start thinking

outside the Chick fil A box

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and start picking new things.

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They're really easy to work with though.

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So I don't blame us for using them.

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They're just order it, pick it up.

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And remember they used to deliver

it to us at one point when we were,

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you know, the big fish in the pond.

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They did.

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Yeah.

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Not so much anymore.

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You know, I was watching Lewis Azuma

was at men's Bible study this morning.

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Good job, Lewis.

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And yeah, at one point I looked over

and I was watching him and he was

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like, he was like a mouse over his

chicken sandwich as he was eating it.

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It was very intentional, but

he was eating this sandwich.

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And then I remember that he

worked for Chick fil A duration.

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Yeah, he's a former Chick fil a employee.

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That he is.

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It was like watching Tiger

Woods putt is what it was like.

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It was like just this like he's

this is his his element here.

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He's eating that which

he worked to support.

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The heavenly manna.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, I like Chick fil a.

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Not a bad breakfast.

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They're great.

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It's not bad.

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It could be a lot worse.

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But does Valerie's have the

coffee and the fruit platter?

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No, so we would have to Supplement

I didn't get any fruit today.

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I yeah, I didn't even actually see the

option I think I went after probably the

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fruit had been dispatched Well the way

that guys were serving the fruit was in a

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cup They had just a cup thrown in the and

they were scooping it up with the cup and

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makes perfect sense Makes perfect sense.

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Yeah, one of the guys was like this.

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I gotta wear at men's bible study because

this is what we have That's right.

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Get the spoons out of here.

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It wasn't a big gulp or anything though

So no, at least it was a smallish cup.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, let's jump into our text

exodus 30 31 32 we are still in

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instructions being given for the

construction of the tabernacle.

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More instructions for the tabernacle,

for the worship of the people,

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instructions for the altar of incense

the bronze basin, the anointing oil

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are all given within this chapter.

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So the altar of incense

is what it sounds like.

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It was much smaller than the burnt.

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Offering altar.

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This is going to be the place where the

incense was offered as a as a soothing

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aroma to the lord And so that is going

to be created that is going to be built

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and made for the tabernacle The bronze

basin would have been for ceremonial

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cleansing washing And so that would have

held a large amount of water for the

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priests in their purification processes

and then you had The anointing oil

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and this is interesting we get Pretty

detailed instructions at some point

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here on what the anointing oil was

to consist of and who was allowed to

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use it and what it was supposed to go

on, what it wasn't supposed to go on.

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But this was not just like your, your

canola oil that they were pulling down.

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There was a recipe for

this anointing oil here.

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Not to be duplicated either not to be

duplicated or imitated or no imitations

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accepted Yeah, what I find interesting

about this chapter and some of the

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chapters that we've covered actually

is that it struck me anew that Every

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part of this worship was multi sensory

In other words, God, wasn't just

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communicating to them through one sense.

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It wasn't just music.

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It wasn't just what

they felt on their skin.

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There was smell and taste even

because of the priests eating the

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food the whole human person was

engaged in the act of worship.

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And I think that's really interesting

because it tells me that worship is

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meant to be something that takes all of

our senses and directs it toward God.

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Now you can't do that as much today, but

we still have some of that communion.

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We taste and touch and smell.

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Something that's meant to

reflect the sacrifice of Christ.

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And so here we see God interacting

with us in a very condescending way.

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Not in a negative sense,

obviously, but in a positive sense.

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God is communicating with us by

saying, when you worship me, you're

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bringing your whole person to me

and you're giving all of that to me.

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And it's telling us

something about who he is.

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I think that's a really cool

thought that kind of gave me a

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fresh appreciation for our worship.

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Yeah Another interesting thing here that I

didn't know previously is is the atonement

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tax The the tax that they were to pay as a

reminder that God had it had caused God to

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deliver them They purchased it that hey,

I have redeemed you you're paying me back.

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Yeah, and that that was an interesting

Note there that they were to pay

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that every time that they came for

for worship and regardless of who

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they were rich or poor It was all

the same number same amount Cause

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that soul costs the same to redeem.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just a reminder here as we read

through these things, God takes

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his holiness seriously and thus the

holiness of those who will serve him.

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Aaron and his sons are to be consecrated.

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That means to be set apart as holy

that they may serve me as priests.

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We talked about this and, and even

this morning, just in, in men's Bible

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state, you're talking about us as

men being living lives of blessing.

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that consecration, that life, that

life of holiness before the Lord,

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because we don't want to drag the

name of Christ through the mud.

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You brought up the, the articles that have

been written over all the pastors that

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have fallen in our area recently and how

Christ takes the hit every time that a

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guy falls like that and goes through that.

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So just a reminder, man, God takes

holiness seriously in our holiness,

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seriously as representatives of his.

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And so it's important.

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And we see that even through these

specific details of the worship of the,

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the Israelites during the wilderness.

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So God spoke to Israel

through these means.

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This was the worship that was

communicated to them and how he

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expected them to worship him.

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Very precise.

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There's a lot of room for

interpretation, I think.

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So we talked about the fact that

there's precision in what he asks for.

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And yet there's there's some, there's

an element of artistic design.

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A holy ab and bezel.

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I'll get to choose, you know,

putting all this stuff together.

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Does God have a different

expectation in our worship today?

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Here, super precise.

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This is how you worship me.

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This is when you worship

me, morning and evening.

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I want this kind of smell.

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I want this kind of approach.

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Has God changed his mind or has he changed

his approach with New Testament worship?

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In a sense, Yes, in the form, but no, in

the, the concept he still desires to be

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worshiped in a way that honors him in a

way that is, is reverential in a way that

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is not overly casual or flippant, but

there's more freedom in what that entails.

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I mean, you look at the book of acts

and what they were doing with the early

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churches, they were gathering together,

breaking bread in each other's homes.

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They're gathering for

the teaching of the word.

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We draw a lot of the

principles out of that.

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There's a, an.

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Early, early, early church document called

the didache which is informative for how

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we do church today, because it was, it's

one of the earliest forms that we know of.

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And it's right within a stone's throw of,

of when the epistles are being written.

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And it gives us a glimpse into how

church was being done at that time.

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And that's kind of a, a thought.

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Foundation and format for why we

do things the way we do things.

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So it's different.

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We don't have anointing oil.

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You go to someone, the higher

churches, the more liturgical churches.

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So yeah, they're going

to have more of that.

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And it's rooted back here

in the old Testament.

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It's rooted to practices like this.

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But do we have anything in the

new Testament that specifically

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commands that to continue?

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We don't.

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But the, the heart behind

it should be there.

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Absolutely.

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And probably that's, I think what's

most helpful here is the heart that God

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wants us to have when we approach him

to worship is serious and thoughtful

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and calculated, not calculated in a,

in a negative sense, as though we're,

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we're, we're tracking every single.

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Moment of it, but in the sense that

we're giving God intentional and

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thoughtful worship That's instructive

for us And even though our worship does

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look different If we could take our

understanding of who God is revealed

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in these chapters in his worship We

should be able to Bring him more.

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I don't know now.

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I mean today is sunday, right?

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Yeah, today's sunday.

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It is that that should influence

the way that we approach god in

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worship on a regular sunday morning.

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Yeah Yes, it should yeah chapter 31

you mentioned these two guys But we've

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got these two men who are identified

to lead the efforts in constructing the

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tabernacle Bezalel and oholia and god

even says of bezalel specifically I think

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it applies to oholia, but it's directly

said of bezalel that he filled him with

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his spirit Which is we're talking about

the spirit this morning in church.

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In fact that recently was Chatting with

somebody who said man i've heard more

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about the holy spirit In the last handful

of weeks going through the Gospel of John

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that I've heard in a long time in the

church, which I find while encouraging.

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And we're going to be talking

about this morning, but I stumbled

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across it in the Nicaean creed.

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I mean, the, the Nicaean creed

again, 83, 25, not scripture, but

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informative, just like the dedication

written in very close proximity to

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the founding of the early church.

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The Nicaean creed says the Holy

Spirit, that being God, he is to

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be worshiped and glorified as God.

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And I think that's, that's the

balance that we have to figure out

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here as the spirit Equips the church

and his roles to glorify Jesus.

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We're going to look at that this

morning in John 16 that he says,

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Jesus says he will glorify me.

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That's what the spirit's

job is, but he's still God.

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And so we need to recognize that

and revere him and reverence

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him and worship him and glorify

him as God because he is God.

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And how we do that is, is unique.

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And I was encouraged reading this

because he's doing here what he

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does for us in the new Testament.

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It's, it's different.

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But it's still in inhabiting.

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It's in dwelling Bezalel, not in a

salvific sense, but it's, he's being

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filled and empowered and equipped to be

able to use the gifts that he probably

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had naturally to be able to use those for

the service of God and in service of him.

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And so we see that here with Bezalel.

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That's a, That's a cool scene

that we see with the spirit

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being involved in equipping and

empowering them to serve the Lord.

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It's a big question, but I think

it's worth asking, how would you

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identify the major differences between

the Holy Spirit's role in activity

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under the old covenant versus his

role in activity under the new?

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Yeah, I would say a good word in the

old old covenant is the word empowering.

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When you see the Holy Spirit

rush upon King David or rush upon

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King Saul, It was empowering.

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It was equipping for a task at hand,

whether it be a war, which it often

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was, or a leadership moment, which it

often was, but it was not a ceiling.

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So we've, we talked about that last

week is one of the things that the Holy

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spirit does for us as new Testament

believers, the Holy spirit does for us.

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Seals us as a guarantee

of our future inheritance.

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That was not the old covenant methodology

of the spirit That's why david prays in

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psalm 51 Take not your spirit from me.

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That's that's not something a new

testament would christian would pray

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Because that's not on the table if you're

in christ You've been sealed with the

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promise to holy spirit as a guarantee of

your future inheritance So we're not going

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to pray with king david take not your

spirit from me because that's not even a

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possibility But the holy spirit was not an

indwelling a permanent indwelling presence

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in the old testament the way he is with

the church in the New testament That's

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encouraging and comforting that once we're

given the spirit under the new covenant

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He doesn't depart right once he's truly

taking residence in someone's life It is a

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permanent residence and here's a question

that i've talked about with others before.

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What do you think about this?

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Does the spirit reside in

and with us after we die?

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That's That's a brain twister In our

glorified state do we need the spirit's

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presence the way that we need the spirit

Beer's presence with us right now.

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That's the question.

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And yeah, even today, so John 16

today, we're talking about the spirit's

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role in guiding us into all truth.

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That word guide means to take

us deeper into knowledge.

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It's not to guide us or lead

us from point A to point B.

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It's lead you deeper is to help you

understand it better is, is his role.

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Illumination is the doctrine that

we talk about the spirit's role in.

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We need that now because even as Jesus is

saying in John 16, he's not here with us.

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I'm going away, but I'm leaving you

the spirit and the spirit is going to

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do all of these things in eternity.

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We are going to be with him and

he's going to be with us and

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we're going to be in his presence.

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Will we need the spirit?

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In that capacity, we're

going to need the spirit.

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What's the spirit's capacity in eternity?

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I don't know, man.

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That's fascinating to consider.

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My sense is that he, he will stay with us.

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That's my guess.

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And I think part of it is the

privilege of having him with us.

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I think that's, what's going to make

heaven heaven is that we will perfectly

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enjoy his presence and that his

presence will be with us continually.

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And I wonder, I don't have any evidence

for this outside of my intuition.

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If it is his presence within us, his

glorifying work, that is the reason

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we can be confident we won't sin in

heaven because we are glorified and

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we understand that in some mild way.

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We think, okay, we are now brand new,

but I think it's probably my guess,

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the work of the spirit, the power

of the spirit staying with us for

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the rest of eternity that guarantees

we'll never sin even in heaven.

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Yeah.

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Interesting.

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Which would cause us to glorify

him for our sinlessness.

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Because we're aware of that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I get it.

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I get it.

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Chapter 32.

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This one, the golden calf, you're

probably familiar with this.

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If you've read the old Testament before,

this is a low point, the lowest of low at

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this point the Israelites, Moses has been

up on the mountain and they're frustrated.

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They're like, where is he?

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Let's do something.

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Aaron, make us gods to go before us.

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That's 32 verse one there.

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And Aaron just folds.

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Aaron is, is just a shmarmy

guy in this whole interaction.

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Cause not only does he do this and does

he fashion it and does he say, here's your

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gods, but then when he's confronted on

it later, he says, well, you know, they

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came to me and said, Moses is gone and I

just threw it in and out came this calf.

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And he just, he doesn't even take

responsibility for his part in this.

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He doesn't repent.

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I mean, this is not a godly

grief that he feels over this.

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God tells Moses while he's on the

mountain, Hey, you need to go back

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down because they've turned aside

verse eight out of the way that quickly

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out of the way that I commanded them.

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And we've talked about that man.

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Israel talks a big game.

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We'll obey everything that

you command us to do, God.

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But even before Mount Moses is down the

mountain there again, they're, they're,

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they're going after these foreign gods

and of gods of their own creation here.

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And this is the first time that we get God

saying, Hey, Moses, step back because I'm

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going to blow them up and start over with.

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And Moses intercedes.

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And this is why Moses is a type

of Christ because God's wrath is

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averted by Moses's intercession

on behalf of the people of Israel.

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And Jesus is the greater Moses in the

sense that he's going to fully avert God's

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wrath against us because we're guilty.

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And God's wrath, as Ephesians

two says, burns against us.

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We are by nature, children of wrath.

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And Christ is the one that averts

the wrath of God by absorbing

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the wrath of God on our behalf.

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And that's why he's Better than Moses.

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Moses is not the one that's

going to suffer for the people,

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but Jesus is going to do that.

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But here is the first time that happens.

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It's not going to be the only

time, unfortunately, that that

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happens, but his appeal is God.

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Remember your promises.

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Don't let the nation's glory

over the fact that you will

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have appeared to have failed.

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If you destroy the people

and it says that God relents.

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I think God is teaching Moses more

than God's changing his own mind here.

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That's my take on on

the relentless for sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I think it's worth highlighting

since we just covered it recently with

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the men It was Moses desire for God's

glory That he appealed to him saying

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please don't do this because it's

your glory on on display here Right.

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We want to protect your

reputation and your honor.

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So please don't do this I think that's

really insightful and helpful as we think

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about praying for others We're interceding

for them where we should do it with the

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same intentionality that moses does and

with the same purpose We want to see

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god glorified and glorified That's why

God, we're praying these certain things.

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Yeah.

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I think it's important to note two things.

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Number one, chapter 32

of Exodus is a big one.

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It's worth remembering in your mind.

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Where does the golden

calf incident take place?

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Exodus 32.

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We're going to come back and we're going

to see this theme pulled out in different

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places, but something worth noting.

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Secondly, is that the Levites really take

center stage here in a very good way.

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And this is why later on, we're

going to read the book of Leviticus.

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And it's going to be for the Levites

because their work is now given

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to them based on this incident.

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They rise to the surface because they

stand with Moses and now God's going to

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reward that faithfulness by saying, okay

I'm going to remove the requirement for

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the firstborn to be set apart from my

purposes And instead i'm just going to

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take the tribe of Levi Because they they

do good here and they honor the lord.

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They're passionate for his

glory as is Moses Who of course

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is from the tribe of Levi?

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And so this is all around a good thing for

them anyway, not for everybody, because

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they're also called upon to do some of

the dirty work that needs to be done.

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Yeah.

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3000 people dead as a result of this.

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Yeah.

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This is not just, Hey, I'm going

to grind this up and make you

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drink some gold dust water.

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People die as a result of this sin

and we should feel the weight of that.

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Eternity is at stake here.

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A lot of times we don't think of

eternity too much in the old Testament

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because it's not, the concept does not

develop much in the old Testament, but

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there's eternal souls that are dying

and going away from the presence of God

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as far as his goodness and his mercy

and his kindness and his, and they're

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going to Be cut off from the people.

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I mean, that's, that's that

cutoff terminology there.

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I think this is more than just a,

the, the punishment of physical death.

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It may have just simply been that,

that they're, they're dying and

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then still going to go and be

part of God's eternity with him.

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But who knows all that to say

there's severe consequences

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here for their, their actions.

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Yep.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, keep us from such presumptuous sins

from the pride of saying we're good.

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And look at us and we're going

to boast and say, God, we'll do

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everything that you command us to do.

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And yet how quickly can our hearts

go astray, protect us from that.

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God, we pray help us to be men and

women of integrity here at our church.

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We desire that we long for that.

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We want your name to be glorified

through everything that we do.

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And we want nothing that we do to

bring shame upon the name of Jesus.

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And so we ask that you give us that

favor to be successful in that pursuit.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your bible student

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the daily bible podcast.

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We'll see you then folks.

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Bye