00:00 Introduction and New Year Reflections

00:37 Appreciating the Present

01:36 Construction and Community Updates

02:31 The Importance of Daily Bible Reading

03:08 Spiritual Growth and Consistency

07:25 Exploring Genesis: The Flood and Nephilim

12:46 Debating the Extent of the Flood

17:01 Transition to the New Testament

17:31 John the Baptist and Jesus' Baptism

22:06 Conclusion and Encouragement

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hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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We're already in, this

is, we're in the year now.

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No longer New Year.

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This is so good.

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I can't believe it.

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It's 2026.

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It's 2026.

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I cannot believe it, even though

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Future me cannot believe it's 2026.

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That's right.

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It's one of those weird.

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Everyone talks about it.

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All the old people say it.

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And I hate that I'm joining the

chorus, but I'm just gonna say it.

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Time goes faster as you get out there.

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Right.

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And it's weird.

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It really does.

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Things don't feel as slow

as they used to feel.

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Yeah.

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I think the phrase is the days

are long, but the years are fast.

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Yeah.

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Long and short.

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Yes.

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Right.

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Something like that.

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Yeah.

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I am trying so hard to appreciate my life.

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I'm naturally thinking

about the next thing.

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I'm a planner, I'm a future forecaster,

and I so often just lose sight of what's

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in front of me enjoying the weather.

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For instance, Christmas

weather here was phenomenal.

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I was so stoked, I was so thankful

because it's not expected.

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I don't expect Texas to have, what

was it, 75, 80 degrees on set on.

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Christmas morning.

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Yeah, it was amazing.

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We had the windows open.

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Here's the thing about Texas weather.

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You never have the windows open.

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And we live near a concrete

production facility.

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I don't know what it is.

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They just see plumes of smoke going into

the air with regularity from this factory.

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There's one near the DNT and then

there's another one, Burnco, I

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think is what they're called.

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They're right.

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Over outer loop.

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They're always sending stuff in the air.

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So naturally I keep my windows

closed on the, for the most part.

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But Christmas was just so beautiful.

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We opened the windows and

even though people were sick,

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we still enjoyed our day.

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It was so sweet, so precious.

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I don't want the years to go by

and me look back and say, I didn't

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appreciate the things I had.

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Yeah.

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I'm ready for the Dallas North

Tollway to be done, by the way.

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Well, I think we're getting close 2028.

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Yeah.

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So we're two years out, man.

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Almost there.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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I'm done.

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Are you gonna use it the dump

trucks and everything else?

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No, I will.

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Take longer to go down

Preston to save money.

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You just don't want the

construction workers.

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Right?

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You think that when the D t's

done that construction stops?

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Well, I just come mean,

come on, come on, man.

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Less, less of it.

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I don't know.

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In the gigantic semis with the

dump trucks and I don't know the.

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I think it'll be the cement

trucks and everything else.

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It'll be less concentrated.

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Yeah.

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In that one area.

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But I don't think it's going

away for the next 20 years.

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Maybe not.

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I don't know the expansion that we're

experiencing, unless we stop growing.

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If we stop growing, then you'll see a

lot less of that because it won't invest.

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Right.

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But if we continue to grow in

this area, which is our whole

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purpose of being here, then it is.

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We should expect to see that

for the rest of our lives.

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Yes, we should.

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Yeah.

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Hey, couple quick questions.

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People are asking, everyone's been

sending in messages and questions.

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Can you remind us why this is so critical

to the life and health of the Christian?

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You said this at church on Sunday.

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The Bible being central to our

existence and it's a great investment.

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I don't feel like that every day, though.

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When I read, sometimes I read my

Bible and things are exciting,

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and I feel blessed by what I read.

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There's something in it that says

something to my soul, and I'm like,

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that's exactly what I need to hear.

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Other days I'm tired

and I'm less connected.

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And what I read feels totally alien

to what I'm going through in my life.

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So remind us, give us a few principles

for why we need to do this, even when

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we don't feel like it, even when it

feels like we're just walking in mud.

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Yeah, so I talked about this a little

bit in in my sermon on Sunday, just

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about the idea of when you go to the

gym for the first time in a long time,

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you can lift your weights and you feel

like, man, this feels really good.

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And you feel like, man I must just

be putting on gains like crazy.

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And then you go home and you look in the

mirror and you see the same exact person

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that you saw before you went to the gym

because it takes more than one time.

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And then you go and if you commit to

it, if you look at the person that you

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are, day one, when you go to the gym

versus the person that you are, day

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365, after going to the gym every day

for a year, you're gonna see the gains.

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You're gonna see the dramatic change

take place at that point, but it's

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gonna be incremental along the way.

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And you're gonna have those times when

you go to the gym and you're gonna just

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say, I'd rather be anywhere else but here.

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I don't want to be here today.

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I don't wanna do the weights, I

don't wanna get on the treadmill.

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I just, I don't feel like it.

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My heart's not in it.

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And yet you're still gonna do it.

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You're gonna go through it.

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And even those times that you feel

like you're just going through the

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motions are still contributing.

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They're compounding.

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The effect is compounding so that

at the end, when you look at who you

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were, day one versus who you are,

day 365, you're gonna see the gains.

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It's the same thing when it comes

to our time in the word of God.

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If you say, man, I've had two great days.

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Daily Bible reading, so I should

expect to look in the spiritual

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mirror and see a totally different

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Well, you're probably gonna

be very similar to who you

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were still at the end of 2025.

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But over the course of the year, if you

keep going, even at those times where you

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feel like, man, reading the genealogies,

going through the book of numbers, I

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feel like just going through the motions.

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It's gonna have that compounding effect

such that when you look at your spiritual

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snapshot at the end of 365 days versus

your spiritual snapshot at the beginning

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of the year, you're gonna see the gains.

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And so keep going, keep pressing on.

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Even during those times, it

feels like, man, this is hard.

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Or man I feel a little bit bored

by what I'm reading right now.

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Trust that God's spirit is at work in

you, and taking in God's word is always

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gonna have a good effect on your life.

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How much effort should we expect to

exert when we're opening our Bibles?

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In other words.

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If I don't feel excited by what I'm

reading, it's kind of hitting me.

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It's dry.

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I'm not quite sure what to get out of it.

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And I got limited time.

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Should I expect to exert a ton

of effort when I'm reading?

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Is it supposed to feel, I guess you

talked about it like a gym, should,

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everything that I'm doing in the Bible

feel like work to a certain extent, yes.

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But like this, proverb chapter two, which

is what I preached on this past Sunday.

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It begins this way.

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He says, my son, if you receive

my words and treasure up my

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commandments within you, if you

make your I attentive to wisdom,

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incline your heart to understanding.

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Call out for insight.

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Raise your voice for understanding.

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And then he says, if you seek it

like silver and searkh for it like

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hidden treasures, then you will

understand the fear of the Lord.

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If you think about somebody who's out.

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Mining for things, looking for gold,

looking for silver, looking for

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riches there's work involved in that.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's not an easy process.

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That's right.

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And yet it's worth it.

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And so the work becomes part of the joy

of the process because of the excitement

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of, what am I gonna find today when I'm

painting for gold, when I'm digging?

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And looking for the

aura that's so precious.

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What am I gonna discover?

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What's gonna be there?

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And unlike the gold miner, you can be

guaranteed that you will find something

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if you've got the spirit in you and you're

gonna pray and you're gonna go after it

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and you're gonna do some heavy lifting.

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You're gonna find something that

you can take away from your time

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in the word each and every day.

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That's at least some small nugget

that you can walk away with going,

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okay, this is something that I

can be encouraged with today.

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Super helpful.

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Okay, one final question then.

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I don't wanna become a Pharisee.

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I knew they knew their Bibles really

well, and I'm concerned that when

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I do this every day, even though

I'm not feeling it, that I'm subtly

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crafting my heart into a thea mode.

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In other words, I would be really

good at knowing my Bible, but

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not really good at seeing what it

points to and being obedient to it.

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Yeah.

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And that's where, again, not to

continually go back to my last Sunday

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sermon, but Proverbs, we need to link it.

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Proverbs two, one through 11.

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Jerry Bridges said of this passage,

he said, this passage makes it

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abundantly clear that God's word is

meant to produce transformation in

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the heart of the person that reads it.

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He talks about it leading to the fear

of the Lord here, the fear of the Lord.

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Is gonna be realized in a

life of obedience to him.

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To avoid being pharisaical.

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I think we need to remember why

we're reading God's word, which was

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my second point this last Sunday,

that God's word is meant to create

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in us a fear of him that is gonna

produce a life of obedience to him.

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And there's good to be found in that.

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There's reward to come for us if we

live a life of the fear of the Lord,

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which is a life of obedience to him.

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Well, that's really encouraging.

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Why don't we start practicing what you

just preached and jump into Genesis.

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Yeah.

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What are we in Genesis six through seven?

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Six through eight.

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Six through eight.

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That's right.

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Not six seven.

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Not six seven, but six eight.

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Six through eight.

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There's not a, there's not

a saying for that one yet.

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There's not yet.

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At least maybe we're gonna start it.

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I hate Genesis six.

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Remember coming off of Genesis chapter

five, all the different generations

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we see death compounding, and then

it ends in Genesis chapter five

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with Noah and his progeny here.

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We'll get to them in a little bit

here, but Genesis six is going to

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establish why the flood, which is

coming, is going to have to come.

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And that is that the situation

on earth had gone from bad

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to worse, to worse to worse.

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So to Worsest it's just wickedness.

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Everywhere.

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In fact, it says in verse five,

the Lord saw that the wickedness

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of man was great in the earth, and

every intention of the thoughts of

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his hearts was continually on evil.

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And it says, even the Lord regretted

that he had made man on earth

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and it grieved him to his heart.

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So this is not God saying, oh man, I

made a mistake, but this is God giving

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us a picture of the sorrow that He had.

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Over the wickedness of mankind on earth.

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That this is Moses writing in such a way

that we would be able to understand some

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emotive capacity in a God who is who

transcends our own human emotions here.

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And this is meant to cause

us to understand just how

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serious the situation was here.

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So much so that God in the rest of

chapter six, is going to announce

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and proclaim to Noah, Hey, a flood

is coming and he's gonna tell Noah,

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you need to prepare this boat.

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And then we know the story in chapter

seven, chapter eight the flood does come.

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And God is gonna preserve this family

in order to ultimately preserve

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creation through the flood waters

that are gonna come upon the earth.

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Okay.

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Thank you for that.

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And we're gonna back up and we're

gonna just scoot this truck on.

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Back to verse one, which you

conveniently did not talk about.

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We would like to know with definitive

clarity, who the Nephilim are and

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who the sons of God are and what

they're doing with the daughters

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of men.

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Here's the thing, I used to think

the nephilim were the offspring

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of this union, of the sons of

God and the daughters of men.

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Okay?

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But it clearly says in verse four, the

Nephilim were on the earth in those days.

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Okay?

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So they were already there.

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The Nephilim were a race it

appears of giants, of super humans.

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They were still human beings,

but they were a massive race.

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We've seen examples of this or we

will see examples of this later on.

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When you look at somebody like Goliath

you look at these massive figures and

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the Nephilim were an offspring, a group

of people genetically that were massive

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individuals it seems, and they were

known to be mighty warriors as well.

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And so they were.

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Famous for this power.

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They're there during this time as

well, but the sons of God, the

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best understanding I have is

that these are fallen angels.

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These are angelic beings, demons

that inhabited human bodies

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and came to cohabitate with.

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Daughters of men the human women

and that they were confronted by

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God, they're gonna be punished.

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We just read recently, I think it's second

Peter, talks about them being confined

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to chains of darkness and utter gloom.

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Mm-hmm.

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Jude talks about this as well.

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I think that's these sons of

God, these angelic beings that

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are coming and cohabitating and

going into the daughters of man.

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Okay.

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That's weird.

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It's horribly weird.

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And horrible on top of that, to

borrow the words you just sent here.

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Okay.

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I so many questions

that we have about this.

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Mm-hmm.

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Okay.

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I thought the Bible said that angels are

neither married nor given in a marriage.

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And that's probably one of the

most common proof texts against the

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interpretation that these are angels

interacting in a physical way with humans.

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aNd that's where I would say, I think

it's possession of human bodies.

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I think it's possession of fallen

men, which goes to some of the

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wickedness that has taken place on the

earth here, that these were wicked.

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Men that had given themselves

over to being utilized and being

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possessed by demonic beings that

use them for these purposes.

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So weird.

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Okay.

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Can this still take place?

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The reason why I would say no is only

because of the dramatic punishment that

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we read about in second Peter and Jude,

that these angels, these specific angels

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were thrown into this pit and confined

to chains, and it seems that they're

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not free to roam the earth anymore.

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That they're not free to, to

perpetuate these things anymore.

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That would seem to imply to me that this

was a one-time thing and that this is

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not a common practice going on anymore.

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That this was like the pinnacle of

fallen demonic activity that God said

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this is not gonna happen anymore.

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And so he's reserved them for an

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ultimate punishment

that's yet to be dealt.

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That's inference from what I

know of the rest of the passage

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and the rest of the text.

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Yeah.

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But that would be my conclusion.

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Okay.

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And you would say that the nephilim

are a separate people to those who

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are the offspring of these two?

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It's my best read done on verse

four, that they were already on the

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earth in those days when the sons of

God came into the daughters of man.

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So it can't be that it's

the offspring of them.

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Yeah, I guess the reading is, at

least in the ESV is ambiguous.

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I'll have to take a look at that.

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But I've understood traditionally,

most people see the Nephilim as the

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product or the result of these Yeah.

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Two different things.

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MacArthur and his one volume

commentary agrees with that

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read that they're not the product,

that they were there presently on

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the earth when this took place.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I don't know how some of

the other translations render

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it, but I've heard it too.

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And that's why growing

up, I had always heard.

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Yeah.

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The nephilim are the offspring

of these sinful, fallen beings.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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We could belabor this and I

don't want to, I just wanted to

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clarify what you were saying.

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Alright.

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So we now need to go into the flood

and I guess you can probably cover

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this in chapter seven and eight

'cause we need to talk about this.

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But we do have questions.

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Yes.

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Oh, there are questions.

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Yes, but I do have answers too.

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You have answers.

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I have answers, yeah.

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You have questions and have answers.

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So my take on this is I hold

to the traditional view that

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this is a universal flood.

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I know there are opposing views to that.

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There are some that suggest

that it was more local.

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But my position on it is a, I do

believe that this is a universal flood

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because I believe that the problem of

corruption was a universal problem.

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I don't believe that it was.

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Located only in the general

region around where Noah was.

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I think this is an indictment

against all of God's creation,

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all against all of humanity.

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And when we look at his plan for the

creation mandate and some of the language

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repeated after Noah and his family

leave the ark, it seems to be, this

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is a recapitulation of the creation

narrative where Noah's being told, be

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fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.

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And so my position is that I do

believe that this is a universal

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flood that is being described

in chapter seven and eight.

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And God preserves Noah.

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And his family through the flood.

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What is interesting is if someone were

to ask you, how long was Noah on the

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ark, you would say 40 days and 40 nights.

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Most people would, but it actually appears

say that he was on the ark for about

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eight months when all was said, done.

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Close to a year maybe even some change.

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There's different calculations, but yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's a long time.

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Yeah.

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So the 40 days and 40 nights was how

long it rained, but not how long the

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flood waters persisted on the earth.

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Yeah.

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The ESV study Bible and the.

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If I could read my writing here,

there are two sources that suggest as

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long as 370 days on the ark after the

accounting of the flood, and then the

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subduing of the flood as the earth

took time to return back to normal.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So the scriptures say that

everything on the earth shall die.

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And chapter seven we see some

of the important features here.

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God's the one who shut him in.

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That's really important.

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Really cool God.

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God is the one who shut Noah

and his family in there.

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Yep.

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Lots of people thought Noah was

losing it and you'd have to understand

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where they're coming from because

they hadn't had rain before the

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Earth to that point was producing

moisture via the canopy, whatever.

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That was kind of a greenhouse situation.

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And so rain wasn't a thing for them.

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It wasn't until God told Noah,

Hey, build this ark, here's what's

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gonna happen, that things began to

materialize in this particular way.

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And so now another thing that stands

out to me here in, in addition

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to the fact that God closed him

in, and this is chapter eight.

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Well, we'll come back to this in a second

here, but they were on the ark for a

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whole week before it started raining.

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Did you catch that?

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They were there for a whole seven days.

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This was a dramatic display

of Noah's faithfulness.

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Verse 10, verse 10.

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After seven days after seven days, the

waters of the flood came upon the earth.

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It was after, so there's seven days

where he's waiting, just hoping,

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okay, I guess I'm waiting on God.

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Yeah.

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Noah is a man of faith and that's why he.

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He's considered a man of faith

and this is why God preserves him.

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It is his faith that

God honors and esteems.

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And of course the ark itself is a picture

that would eventually point to Christ.

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All who are in Christ are saved

from the flood waters of God's

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wrath and no one else outside of

that, which is why we are exclusive

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when it comes to the gospel call.

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We believe that the gospel alone through

Christ alone is the only way for someone

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to be right, because we have pictures

and evidence of it everywhere beforehand.

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Okay.

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Here's my question and I think I have an

answer, but let me just ask this question.

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Okay.

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For those who believe that the flood was

a local flood, they have their reasons.

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Uh, Coal rats, all the earth mm-hmm.

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Is used in a lot of different ways

in the Old Testament, and they'll

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say that sometimes it's used

in ways that are non universal.

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Right.

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But to your point, is it possible

that the earth at the time of Noah

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and Genesis chapter seven was Pangaea

because then you could say, yeah, it's

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a local flood, but it has universal

effect on everybody who's in that area.

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Because Mo, if most of the

earth is water, would it really

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make all the difference then?

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Yeah.

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There's a genealogy coming up, I

believe that's gonna talk about

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when the earth was divided.

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And there's a question,

I believe it's, yeah.

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In chapter 10.

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Yeah.

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There's a question right before

the Tower of Babel, right?

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Whether this was Pania or

the Tower of Babel, I think

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it's probably Tower of Babel.

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Yeah.

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Same.

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It's possible.

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It's possible.

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It could have been panga at this time.

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Yeah.

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Because we never read about

that in the scriptures, right?

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Scripture doesn't tell us, Hey,

there was a panga and then the

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continental drift and all those things.

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What would you even say about?

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Is that legit?

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It's not anti-biblical to suggest

that that could have happened.

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That there was a large singular

continent that threw something as

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catastrophic, like a global flood

would break off the continents and

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cause drift and now you see it today.

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If you see them on a

map, they kind of fit.

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Right.

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I never thought about that prospect

and that to me would make a lot more

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sense if God would say all the earth.

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He could mean that because

all the physical land that

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was there was right there.

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Was there.

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Right.

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And he could cover the whole thing.

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Right.

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I haven't thought about that before.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's interesting.

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I don't think I've considered that

either, but it's possible for sure.

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Alright, thank you.

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Yeah.

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We rest our case.

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Alright.

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Should we jump over to the New Testament?

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Yeah, man, we're just having

so much fun in Genesis.

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Okay.

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Genesis, so good.

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Keep reading, keep reading Genesis.

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Alright, Matthew, chapter

three in our New Testament.

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Jesus has been born, he went to Egypt.

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Now he is back from Egypt and is

settled there in the region of Nazareth.

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Now in chapter three, we are going to

get into the earthly ministry of Jesus.

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So we're fast forwarding way far.

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Now we're fast forwarding almost

30 years depending on when he

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started his earthly ministry.

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But he's gonna have a

forerunner before him.

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And that is John the Baptist.

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So John the Baptist is introduced

here in chapter three, and he's

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gonna be coming with a message.

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Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven.

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And is at hand.

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This is the one who's gonna

fulfill Isaiah's prophecy.

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That there would be one who is the

voice of one crying in the wilderness.

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Prepare the way of the Lord.

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Make straight his paths.

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This is John.

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And John is a bold character.

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John is a faithful man,

a bold character to you.

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You preached on John recently in our men's

Bible study just about how's a beast.

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John is a man of resolve

and he's not afraid to.

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Take on the spiritual leaders of the

day and even to call 'em to bear fruit

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and keeping with repentance and not to

presume to say, well, we've got Abraham

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and this is a challenge to us to remember.

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God doesn't have any

spiritual grandchildren.

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So if you are of the lineage of a

family who's been faithful to the

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Lord, you were raised in the church.

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Your parents were raised in

the church and everything else.

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Make sure your faith is your own

and that there's evidence of that

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because it's not about your pedigree.

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And so we don't trace our.

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Tribal lineage the way that the

Jewish people used to and say, well,

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we're good because we are part of the

tribes of Israel, but we can trace

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our lineage through a godly family

and say, well, I'm okay because I had

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godly parents and godly grandparents.

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It's not necessarily true.

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You've gotta have your

relationship with Jesus.

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And so John is calling out

the Pharisees saying, you're

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trusting in the wrong thing.

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You're trusting in your pedigree.

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Your pedigree is nothing.

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You need to repent and bear

fruit in keeping with repentance

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for the kingdom of heaven.

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Is at hand, and John is setting up the

arrival of Jesus, who does come on the

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scene in the rest of chapter three and

is baptized by John in a, an interesting

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scene where he is doing this to identify

with those that he came to save, not

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because he had any sin, but because he

came to identify himself with the people

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that did have sin that he came to save.

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John's a fiery preacher.

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And this, even though I think most of

our common sensibilities would not be

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excited about a preacher like John, if

we were had the opportunity to listen

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to someone like him for example, someone

like a Paul washer, perhaps that's not

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often a popular style of preaching.

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Yeah.

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And I think because there's a lot

of reasons, but John, he shows

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that God uses people like this.

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Yeah.

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Certainly this is not the exclusive

diet of God's people, but.

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There's a place for something like

this, and I'm not gonna, I'm not

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gonna call the preacher on the corner

and say, you shouldn't do this.

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This is rubbing people the wrong way.

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I remember seeing a video, in fact, of a

preacher who is on the corner, and one of

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the thinking about whether or not I wanna

say this now, a celebrity in our culture,

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in our area challenges him and says, do

you think that this is doing any good?

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You calling people.

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They're going to hell, they're

gonna be judged by God.

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And the street preacher says, I'm just

doing what scripture, calls us to do and

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I'm being faithful to present the gospel.

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And so this person was vehement in

their opposition to this street preacher

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to say, look, this is unhelpful.

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You're turning people off to

Christianity, you're turning people away.

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This is not the right way to do things.

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John shows us at the very

minimum that there are times when

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this is appropriate and right.

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And good.

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Yeah.

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Not saying every time, just saying

that God shows us through John.

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There is a time.

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Okay.

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What would you say to

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that person?

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The celebrity who was saying, this

is the wrong way to do things.

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You need to be more

accommodating to our culture.

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Let me try again.

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He didn't say that.

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He said something to the effect

of, look, if you wanna be

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effective, you have to be winsome.

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And this is the opposite of Winsome.

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You're universally calling

people to repentance.

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You have no relationship.

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They don't know you.

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You're rubbing people the wrong way.

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You're yelling from this thing, you

know, he's on a soapbox or whatever else.

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So he's making points that

we would say, okay, that's a.

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Fair point, but is that enough to tell

someone, Hey, don't street preach because

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this is gonna rub people the wrong way.

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I think we have to be wise as

serpents and innocent as doves.

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I think we have to be adaptable and

flexible and if we find ourselves

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in a situation where we are creating

more of a conflict where we are.

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Creating a more of a distraction

in a negative sense than

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we are a positive sense.

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I think we need to ask ourselves, okay,

maybe this isn't the most effective

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means of trying to reach this group

and these people at this time, but

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I don't think we can paint a broad

brush to say it's never effective, or

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we should never do it, or it's never

an okay pursuit or at the earliest

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sign of opposition we have to bail.

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I think it's just a matter of,

we've gotta examine our hearts

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and make sure that we're not the

angry preacher, we're not the angry

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prophet standing up on the soapbox.

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And if.

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We have an opposition.

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Maybe it's we're willing

to get down and have that.

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Truth and love conversation

with that person.

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Yeah.

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And maybe that's what

God wants us to do there.

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But yeah we need to be

adaptable and flexible.

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It's a wise response.

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Okay.

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One final comment here on chapter

three, and I just wanna point it out

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to you 'cause it'll be really helpful.

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As you read chapter four when he

says this, verse 17, behold a voice

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came from heaven and said, this is my

beloved son with whom I am well pleased.

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And so, God the Father

affirms his son Jesus.

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Which by the way, dad's take a note from.

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The Heavenly Father affirm your sons.

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Yeah.

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Let them know that you care about them and

appreciate them and can encourage them.

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But you notice in chapter four,

that's the very thing that

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the devil's about to attack.

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So heads up on that.

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Alright, well let's pray and

then we'll be done with this

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third episode of our year here.

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Well, we are just in awe of your plan

for human history from the universal

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flood to Jesus being baptized and

just wrapping our minds around how we

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got from one point to the next point.

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And even that reminder that the ark is

the deliverance, the ark is that source of

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salvation for Noah and his family and that

ark is Christ for us who are in Christ.

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And Peter makes that comment in

that equation as well, the or which.

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The ark, which corresponds to this

baptism, which corresponds to this, which

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is the ark that union with Christ is what

saves us, what delivers us from our sin.

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So we thank you so much that

Christ came to be obedient to you.

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We even see that here in

Matthew chapter three, with his

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submission to being baptized.

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We're so grateful for Christ obedience,

which led him to the cross so that we

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might be declared righteous in your sight.

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And we pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Well, hey, you guys, keep going.

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You're doing a great job.

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You've got three in a row.

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This is a streak.

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We're going for four tomorrow.

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