In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts start with a light-hearted discussion about an upcoming lunar eclipse and share personal anecdotes about the moon. The conversation then shifts to the topic of AI and its implications, highlighting a Chinese AI bot managing multiple social media accounts and debating the concept of AI possessing intelligence and consciousness. The podcast then delves into Deuteronomy chapters 5-7, discussing the repetition of the Ten Commandments for a new generation, the Shema, and God's electing love for Israel. They emphasize the parental responsibility to teach children about God's truths and cover the instructions for the Israelite's conquest of other nations, underscoring the importance of trusting in God's strategy and wisdom.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:03 Lunar Eclipse and Moon Talk

00:52 AI and Social Media Concerns

02:15 The Nature of Intelligence and Personhood

05:23 Deuteronomy 5: The Ten Commandments Revisited

07:48 Deuteronomy 6: The Shema and Parental Responsibility

11:54 Deuteronomy 7: Conquest and God's Electing Love

17:09 Conclusion and Prayer

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edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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The moon will be totally

eclipsed in much of the Western

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hemisphere, the 13th and the 14th.

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So tonight.

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Oh man.

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Isn't that cool?

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Dude.

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Blood moon.

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Yeah.

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I guess it was Monday night.

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We were at one of my kids

baseball practices and the

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moon was like three quarters.

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Yeah.

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I woke up on Tuesday morning

and it almost was full.

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That's crazy.

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How did that happen overnight?

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It just, and it was giant too.

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It was low.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Optical illusion I hear.

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It looks big to me,

but it's not even real.

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Do you hear that?

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You didn't land on the cheese.

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You never landed on it.

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Yeah, it's flat.

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But if you want to see the

moon and especially red hues,

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tonight would be the night.

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That's awesome.

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We'll go out and look at it.

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You should.

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One of my kids the

other day I was walking.

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I was like, look how bright the moon is.

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He's actually, it's the sun that's bright.

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It's just for fun.

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I'm like, you punk.

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Did he put up his glasses like this?

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And yeah, actually dad, actually father.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let's get our weekly check in on

how AI is going to destroy the world.

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Did you see the tweet that I

sent you about that AI bot from

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China that's running over 50

social media accounts at once?

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No, I didn't see it yet.

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It's crazy, man.

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It's not checking my social media.

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It's a Chinese agent here.

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I'll, I've got to pull it up right here.

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It's an extra wide monitor

that this is Chinese AI bot.

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That's cool.

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Yeah, so terrified.

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This is normal computing that multiple

processes at once is what your

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computer does all day, every day, just

because you could see an AI doing it

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in front of you changes the dynamic.

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Yes, but it's what's happening in

interacting on a, on social media.

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This is not background

processes on my laptop.

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This is front ground processes.

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I'll grant you that, but it's,

this is what a computer does.

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And it's I guess intelligence

is a hard word to, to identify,

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but that's why we call it AI.

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So I think, yeah, that's cool.

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I'm for that.

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Great do it, but tell us that you're

AI, I guess I'd want to know that.

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So Elon Musk commented on

this post on Twitter and he

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said more human than humans.

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No, that's stupid.

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Sorry buddy.

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Yeah.

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You swung, you missed.

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You can't hit them all.

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You can't hit home runs

all the time, buddy.

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Yeah.

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No, this is crazy though.

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It's nuts to watch a machine just do in

human beings can't compete with that.

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In that realm, because it's doing in

microseconds, what takes our minds so much

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longer to be able to process and type out

and post a good post and say the right.

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thing.

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So that does bring up the question

about what is intelligence.

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Yes.

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And some people call that a

misnomer because a computer can't

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have intelligence as we have it.

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But then what is intelligence?

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Is that something a machine can actually

even possess in the first place?

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What do you think about that?

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That's part of personhood, right?

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Intellect will and an emotion.

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Yes.

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Some people say yes.

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Others might say no that's part of our

definition of a personhood is even as we

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think about the personhood of God What's

what's his name's book that just said?

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No, that's not the case that's a I

know We've talked about that before

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and most recently when we talked

about the Trinitarian debate, right?

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That was one of the elements that's

brought to the table about defining

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what personhood is and if you say

intellectual motion and will Then

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you're using a schema that doesn't

belong to scripture I don't know.

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I haven't studied it enough to say yay

or nay, but yeah, it was brought to my

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attention that maybe that's inadequate.

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Yeah.

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And I guess the reason it's the person

that conversation comes up is it,

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is intellect inherent to personhood,

which I would say AI is not personhood.

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It's not, I would agree with you on that.

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So if in, If intellect is more than

computations, then, and there's

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something spiritual about the intellect,

then that's where we would have

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to say that it's not intelligence.

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Yeah.

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There's a famous he's a, I

don't know what role he has at

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Google chief technology offices.

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No, that's not it.

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But his name is Peter something.

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I can't remember it.

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I thought my head right now, but he

wrote this singularity being nearer.

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Anyway, his idea is that we're all

going to upload our consciousness.

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Some kind of supercomputer.

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And then in that way, we're going to

be able to stay alive for much longer.

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This is how we're going to achieve

eternal life as Christians understand it.

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Is it possible in your mind and

your thinking to upload your

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consciousness to the cloud?

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No.

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Why not?

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Because it's not, it's.

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It's disconnected from the soul

and I think our consciousness

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is informed by the soul.

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I think it's Ray Kurzweil.

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That's not Peter at all.

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Sorry.

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Go ahead.

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Cause I searched Google exec Peter AI

and it came up with Peter Norvig and

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I don't think that's the guy's name.

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Ray Kurzweil.

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Ray Kurzweil.

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So I think there's something

inherent within us in our

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intellect that is connected to

the immaterial part of our being.

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And I don't think you can

separate your conscious from that.

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Not spiritual component of yourself.

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Okay.

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So can a computer then have consciousness?

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Not in that sense?

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No.

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Cause it doesn't have any,

it doesn't have a soul.

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I would agree.

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Yeah, this is one of the areas where,

not Christians, but transhuman and

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post human people are arguing about

whether data can possess consciousness.

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And I think both of us are

going to say that's impossible.

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Humans are image bearers

that are given consciousness.

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And I think that's part of our.

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DNA, in terms of, our spiritual DNA.

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That's what makes us human

is that we possess human

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consciousness that comes from God.

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This is the gift of life.

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A computer can't have that.

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Even if it sounds like a person,

it feels like a person, it's

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doing person like things.

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All it's doing is mimicking what is

human and pretending to be human.

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And granted it can be helpful in a lot

of different ways, but it's not human.

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I would say don't confuse

data with human consciousness.

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They're not the same thing.

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I would agree.

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Yeah.

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A hundred percent.

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Good.

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We've solved all the world's problems.

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Fixed.

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Now let's move on to Deuteronomy

five, six, and seven.

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Deuteronomy chapter five.

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We get the Decalogue part two.

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Here are the 10 commandments

given from Moses again pretty

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much in the same form that they

were given the first time around.

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Here he's giving them an encouraging

faithfulness from the people in order that

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it might go well for them in the land.

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Again, the promise of

if you listen and obey.

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Good things are going to happen.

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And so he's going over

the 10 commandments again.

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Why go over the 10 commandments again?

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As we've pointed out lately,

this is a new generation.

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This is not the same

generation that received the

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10 commandments back at Sinai.

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This is the next generation up.

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And so he's going back through them

and basically again goes through all

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of them beginning in verse seven,

all the way down through verse 21.

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He's walking through the deck of

log here and saying, be careful.

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He says at the end here, be

careful to listen and to obey.

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to obey.

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He's saying this in verse 32 through 33.

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Be careful, be thoughtful,

be wise about this.

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So 10 commandments given again in

Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter five.

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Now, PR there's a lot

more than 10 commandments.

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Why do we so often highlight the 10

commandments outside of the fact that

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they are highlighted in scripture?

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Both in Exodus 20 and here, I think they

helpfully provide an encapsulation, a

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distillation of the rest of God's laws.

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And in many ways, some people think, I

think there's something to this, that

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really the rest of the Pentateuch is

an exposition of the 10 commandments.

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It's talking about the ways

in which Israel failed to do

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this, but the 10 commandments

are in part God's distillation.

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He's the one who gave them to Moses

on the two tablets of stone of saying,

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this is what I'm looking for from you.

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This is what I want you to do.

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They reflect the Mosaic covenant.

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They also reflect the character of God.

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They are a perfect encapsulation of what

it means to love God and love neighbor.

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The first four deal with love for God.

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Second half deal with love for neighbor.

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So again, you have a really

helpful distillation of the

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entirety of the law, but even then

you could still say you could.

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You could narrow it down further, which

is what Jesus does with the scribe.

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When he says what's

okay, what's the what's?

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The totality, what's the

summation of the law?

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Again, love God, love people.

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Yeah.

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What do you think?

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And I would agree with you.

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And it just the way that it

is helpful in diagnosing.

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There's a reason why Ray

Comfort goes through the 10

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commandments with his evangelism.

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You walk through this and it's

okay, yeah broken, broken.

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And and so rather than, Hey,

have you bought a goat and

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it's mother's milk lately?

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No, I haven't done that.

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So I guess I'm good.

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Why is it, is that in this chapter?

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Is that in this?

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I don't know when this is.

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He repeats.

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You're gonna have talk about that.

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The goat and its mother's milk.

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Yeah.

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Didn't we?

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I think we already did.

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I think we talked about it,

but I don't feel settled.

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I feel like we need to talk about it more.

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Okay.

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We'll talk about we get when we get there.

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Yeah.

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Chapter six.

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Then as we get into chapter six, this

chapter lays out the key to longevity.

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In other words, how to be careful.

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He's been saying be careful.

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Be careful.

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And now in chapter six, he's

going to give some good guidance

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as to this is how to do that.

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The people needed to fear the Lord

and to keep his commandments and

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also to pass them on to future

generations so that the Lord would

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be honored by Israel at all times.

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It wasn't enough just for this generation.

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So God's going to make provision for that.

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And in chapter six, we get.

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The Shema, which is Deuteronomy

six, four through nine.

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This is still recited by faithful

Jewish families every single day.

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Even today, not my family, not even

though we're Jewish, I choose not to.

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I heard about somebody else

recently that's Jewish.

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Is that right?

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Yeah.

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In our church.

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Shalom brother.

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Yeah.

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I think it's a sister.

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Shalom sister.

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Yeah.

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Oh oh, Priscilla Rapido.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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I had no idea.

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There you go.

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We're gonna, you know what?

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We're going to do some

Jewish worship songs.

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So Priscilla, which also

means that Naomi is Jewish.

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That's right.

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Because passed through the mother, dude.

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We're going to do that.

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Ha.

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Nagila, ha, Nagila, ha.

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What does that mean again?

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Can you, I don't like to brag bro.

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Just, let's just keep going.

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Okay.

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We'll keep going then.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, the Shema today.

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It's a great passage.

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It's good to recite.

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It's good to remember these things.

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Yeah.

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And I love the charge here to the parents.

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That's the thing that I always am

impressed upon and also challenged by is

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just as parents, we have an obligation

to make sure that the next generation

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is being taught the things of the Lord.

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And that is what Moses is

commanding the people to do

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here in Deuteronomy chapter six.

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He wants them to remember God.

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He wants them to know

God from a young age.

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And that is why our kids men takes

the approach that our kids men takes.

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Even at church, we're not here

to replace the job of parents.

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You as a parent, Listen to this.

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You have the primary responsibility

to teach your children and to show

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them that the things of God's word

and to tell them about who God is.

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We're here to come

alongside you, Pastor Rod.

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You always use the term with

student ministry, co championing.

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We're here to do that.

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We're here to be a support

network, but that's.

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This is why we're not just throwing on

a VeggieTales movie and calling it a

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day and kids, man, for a lot of reasons.

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Yeah.

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But we want to make sure that the future

generations know about who God is and

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we're not going to apologize for that.

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And people will lob the accusations.

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You're brainwashing them.

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Listen, if this is what is true, And

what's at stake is what's at stake,

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which is what we are convicted that it

is true and that we know what's at stake.

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We would be unloving and cruel not to

teach our children about the Lord from

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the moment that they are first able

to comprehend the English language.

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And even before that.

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Absolutely.

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Every, everybody, even if no one

wants to say it this way, everybody's

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brainwashing their kids with something.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just because Christians happen to be

more obvious about it and we're more

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systematic in our approach doesn't

change the fact that everybody does it.

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We just do it according

to what God's word says.

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And therefore.

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What we're doing is not brainwashing.

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Actually, I guess you could say

brainwashing in the positive sense.

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We're cleaning their brain of the

nonsense that the world might teach.

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And we're putting true stuff in there.

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So call it what you will.

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And this is what everybody does,

but we're supposed to do this.

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This is what a parent's job is to do.

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This is what a church's job is to do

to help the people know what's true.

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So I don't want to apologize either.

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We're on board with this.

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This is a good thing.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Do you know my sixth and 10 through 15?

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He's the reason for this is because

the danger would be that they would

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forget they would forget the one who

brought them, so to speak, that they

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would forget that God was the one who

brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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Verse 12 and out of the house of slavery.

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It's the Lord, your

God, you shall fear him.

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You shall serve him by his name.

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You shall swear.

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He said, don't go after other gods.

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Remember me.

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And that's why he wanted them to do this.

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So there's a, I was just talking

to Mark this week about this,

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that so many of the teachers that.

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We'll come to Mark and say,

Hey, I love our curriculum.

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I love the foundations of grace curriculum

that we use or in a venture club that

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we're getting ready to launch here.

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I love studying systematic theology

that is good for them as well.

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And I think we see that

principle here too.

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One of the reasons why we are to

teach our kids is not only for

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their good, but also for our good.

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That's right.

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It's a safety, safe safety net

for us to make sure that we're

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remembering what God has done and the

good things that he's done as well.

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So it's a both end here.

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And I think it was a both end for Israel.

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Absolutely.

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All right.

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Chapter, anything else

on chapter six there?

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Nope.

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Okay.

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Chapter seven.

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Then we get into some words about

the upcoming conquest and some

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instructions there in and about what

they were to do versus one through

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five God commands total destruction.

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And we did talk about this, that that

justice is It's total destruction.

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Justice is not everybody gets off.

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Everybody gets the same

chance that's not justice.

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Justice is complete

and utter annihilation.

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Grace is the fact that not

everybody is completely destroyed.

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And we talked about the fact that

we don't really want God to be fair.

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And it's really not our place as

fallen human beings with a fallen

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understanding of what is fair

to hold God to our standard of

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fairness, that doesn't even add up.

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We are broken in our ability to

understand things from his point

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of view, from his perspective.

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And so for us to put God in the docket

and say, you're wrong and you're unjust

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for doing this is a non starter to begin

with but complete destruction versus

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to devote everything to destruction

devote to the Lord through extermination

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is what's going to take place.

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Yeah.

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He says, don't intermarry versus

three through four, destroy their

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idols and their places of worship.

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God was so concerned that we talked

about it in yesterday's episode

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about being him being jealous.

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This is an example of God's jealousy

here, God's jealousy for his glory.

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He understands the threat that these

nations would pose to his people

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and the way that they would be

alluring the people away from him.

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And that's why he says,

this is what you have to do.

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And there's no compromise here.

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Yeah, it is perfectly right

of God to do it this way.

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Now, if we just take a step back for

a second and think about who's the

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one who's telling us these things, if

there is a God, and if he is Yahweh,

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and if he is all these things that he

says he is, man, we, granted, there are

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ways that we can deal with this that

are intellectually satisfying and even

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helpful to our own consciences and souls.

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But if this is God, then we don't have

the right to point a finger at him.

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This is good.

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And we want God to be good.

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We want him to be infallibly good.

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If he were anything other than that,

we would be terrified and we have

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no hope to base our confidence upon.

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This is the God that you want.

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He may make you uncomfortable, but

that tells you're not worshiping

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a God after your own image.

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You're worshiping the God of the Bible.

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Which will make you

uncomfortable because he's God.

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I expect that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter seven, verses six through 16.

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Then we get into this section about

God's electing love specifically

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when it comes to Israel here.

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And this is where we get into the section

where he says, it's not because you were

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this, it's not because you were that in

verse seven something that This has come

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up quite a few times in our podcast.

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But verse seven, he says, it's not

because you were more in number

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than any other people that the Lord

set his love on you and shows you.

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And he says, for you were

the fewest of all peoples.

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Now that could.

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It's probably not thousands is probably

tribes or clans here, but I don't know

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that it's necessary to read it that

way because if this is him referring

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back to Jacob and his sons as the

originators of the people of Israel,

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then, yeah, there were 12 of them.

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And so of course they were

fewer than any other one.

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Yeah.

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So at some point they were

the fewest of all people.

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So there's no doubt about that.

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So this doesn't necessarily mean,

okay, ha, this must be mean that

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the numbers can't be 600, 000.

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They could still be 600, 000 and

still look at this and be like,

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yeah, at some point in their history,

they were the smallest of all.

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Totally.

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But yeah but basically God is.

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Telling Israel something

that's good for us to hear too.

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And that is it's not because of

you that I chose you in fact, in a

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lot of ways, in spite of you, you

weren't really a great choice to make.

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And yet I still set my affections

on you for my own glory.

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And that's basically what he's doing.

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And he ends in, lands the plane in

verse 17 through 26 by saying, and

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so the call on you is to trust me.

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Trust in the Lord.

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Don't be afraid of the people.

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Don't be afraid of the nations

that you're going into.

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Trust me because I've got you

and I've got a plan for you.

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Yeah.

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What was interesting to me is verse 22.

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He says the Lord, your God will clear away

these nations before you little by little.

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You may not make an end of them at once.

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Less the wild beast grow

too numerous for you.

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So God is giving them strategy in

addition to the specific marching orders.

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He's saying, look, I can't have you

go in there and take it, take them

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all out at one time, which would

explain the nature of their conquest.

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It wasn't all at once.

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It was piecemeal.

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And part of this is that in the

divine wisdom of God, he's saying,

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look, if I give it to you all at

once, you're not going to be numerous

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enough to care for the whole land.

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So God is.

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orchestrating their timing.

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He's orchestrating their strategy

and and taking all these people out.

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But he's from the end to the

beginning, he's putting it all

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together in a beautiful, organized,

even helpful way for them.

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This is the kind of God that we serve.

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And again, I appreciate when I see things

like this, because it tells me that

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God is not accidentally doing things.

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All the things that they do.

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Even when it's including their

sin is God saying, I'm making wise

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provision for you so that throughout

your life, you'll know that it's me.

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I'm the one leading you, but also

this is for your good, the timing,

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the execution, all of this is of God.

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And if that's him here with Israel.

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And he loves them.

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They're his treasured possession.

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But Hey, guess what?

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You're also his treasured possession.

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If you're a Christian, God cares

for you in much the same way.

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Later on, Jesus is going to say, look,

if God numbers, the hairs on your head,

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he knows every single hair on your head.

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And in fact, the number is always

changing because hair is falling

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out and new hair is growing in.

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He keeps measure of all those things.

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If he cares for your hair,

he cares for the sparrows.

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He cares for the lilies of the field.

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Surely he cares for you.

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And that's a really great takeaway.

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Yeah.

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In fact, Peter.

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Applies the language of the

old testament to the church.

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He says you are a chosen race a

holy nation of people for God's

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own possession That's right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey let's pray and then we'll be done

with this episode God we are so thankful

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for that reality that we didn't have

to measure up that we didn't have

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to Hit a certain standard for you to

be affectionate towards us that you

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set your affections on us before the

foundation of the world, as we believe

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that the scriptures teach and that

you chose us because of your own grace

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in mercy and kindness towards us.

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And Lord, we don't want that to puff us

up as you were in encouraging Israel to

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be humble about where they had come from.

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Lord, we want to be humble as well, but

we also want to be grateful and thankful

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for our standing with you and not

feel like we have to apologize for it.

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Or to to try to justify you.

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You are righteous.

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You are just, and it's not ours

to try to prove why that is.

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You are the standard of those things,

and so God, help us to be a grateful

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people and a people that worship you.

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In response, we pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep you in your Bibles and tuning

again tomorrow for another edition

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