Historical Firsts and Deuteronomy's Prophetic Song

In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss notable historical events that occurred on this date, including the first Stanley Cup and the first Master's golf tournament. They also highlight the release of The Beatles' debut album and the tragic opening of the Dachau concentration camp. The conversation transitions into a detailed examination of the Bible readings from Deuteronomy 32-34 and Psalm 91, emphasizing Moses' prophetic song, the importance of accurate worship music, and the theological depth of biblical psalms. The hosts also address the dangers of false teaching, citing Paula White's influence on President Trump as a cautionary example. The episode concludes with a prayer for discernment and fidelity to true biblical teaching.

00:00 Welcome and Historical Events on March 22nd

01:46 Podcast App Recommendations

02:47 Deuteronomy 32: The Song of Moses

08:22 Deuteronomy 33: Moses' Final Blessings

09:38 Deuteronomy 34: Moses' Death and Legacy

12:55 Psalm 91: A Reflection

15:56 False Teachers and Discernment

18:16 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hey, it is a Saturday, March 22nd.

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Lots of firsts on March 22nd.

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The first Stanley cup hockey

competition was held for the

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first time in Montreal, Canada.

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So I know that you're a

huge hockey fan, Pastor Rod.

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And so this is a special

day for your family.

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Are you guys celebrate?

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We do.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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It's going to look a lot like a normal

day to us, but don't be deceived inside.

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We are celebrating so hard.

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All right.

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The first master's golf tournament,

also a sport that you love was

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also held on this date, March 22nd.

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That's back in 1934, actually.

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Wow.

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That's a long time ago.

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First master's tournament.

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There's nothing more boring

that I can think of then.

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Watching golf, except for playing golf.

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All right.

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We'll agree to disagree there.

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Yeah.

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I respect the skill.

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I won't deny that after taking a

couple of swings, I recognize that

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what they do is pretty impressive.

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I don't deny that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The Beatles also another first

they released their debut

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album on March 22nd, please.

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Please me.

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Yep.

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It's a 1963 on that one Yeah,

lots of things historically.

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Unfortunately, this was also the date that

Germany opened up its first concentration

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camp and so obviously that is not one that

is celebrated, but that was Dachau, the

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Dachau concentration camp, which by the

way if I know we give recommendations for

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a lot of theological resources, but if

you are a YouTube fan, there's a history

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channel on YouTube called the history

underground that would commend to you.

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Lots of really good videos.

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The host goes to these historical

sites, a lot of World War II sites,

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World War I sites, and walks the actual

battlegrounds, goes to the places,

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and he's a believer on top of that.

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So he's he keeps things very clean.

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He's a, he keeps things G's.

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He's walking through there.

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It's just super good content.

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So the history underground is the

the channel on YouTube, it's worth

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a watch, worth a subscription.

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Hey, one other thing guys, while I'm

thinking about it, sometimes I noticed

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that the, our website can, we can have

some quirky issues on the website and some

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of you are listening to the podcast on

the website, which we're so thankful for.

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We would recommend that you download

a podcast app and subscribe to it

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that way, either Spotify or whatever

your choices, Apple, Google, download

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them because we're pretty good about

loading the most recent up to date.

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File and sometimes we

get things can go awry.

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The wires can get crossed on our website.

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So the most the best thing you can

do subscribe to the podcast using

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a podcast app, by far the easiest,

most faithful way to get this.

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Yeah, I agree.

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That would be great.

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I use one called overcast.

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I think you use pocket cast.

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There's ones that you

can get subscriptions.

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If you're a power user and you're

into things like that, then

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maybe you want one of those.

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You can close the gap.

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You can speed it up.

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You can do lots of other

kind of amplify voices.

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Yeah, there's so many good

features for those things.

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Yeah.

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But I would agree with that.

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I would echo those sentiments.

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All right let's jump into

our Bible reading for today.

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We are covering, four

chapters technically though.

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One is a hybrid, but Deuteronomy 32

starting there Deuteronomy 32, we get

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this song and it's a prophetic song.

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It's a teaching song.

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It's a song of warning for the people

of what would befall them when they

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drift from the Lord and chase these

foreign gods in the promised land.

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So notice that Moses is writing this song.

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But he's writing this song prophetically

as God is giving him these words.

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These are words about the rebellion of

Israel and their drift from the Lord.

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And so Moses is going

to teach this to them.

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Notice in verse 15, we

get the name Jeshurun.

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J, how do you pronounce that?

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Pr.

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Is that it?

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Rin Je Run.

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S Je Run.

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Yeah.

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I think we talked about that last year.

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But did it's a moniker,

another name for Israel there.

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And so when you see that, just

know that he's talking about

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Israel means Upright ones.

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Upright ones.

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And I, he's using it ironically.

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Exactly.

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I was going.

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took the words right out of

my mouth because that's not

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what's happening right now.

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Verse 15, he forsook the God who made

him scoffed at the rock of his salvation,

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stirred him to jealousy with strange gods.

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Now notice this is not talking

about the wilderness wanderings.

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This is anticipating what's going to

happen in the the promised land here.

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Sacrificed the demons

that were no gods to God.

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They had never known you were unmindful.

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Verse 18 of the rock that bore you,

you forgot the God who gave you birth.

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And then he's going to talk about exile.

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He's going to talk about all

these things that are going to

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befall the people of Israel.

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So this was a song they were to.

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teach in order to instill a reverential

fear of God in the hearts and

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minds and souls of those that were

going to grow up singing this song.

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And and that's why, music

is so incredibly important.

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And one of the things that we're about

as a church and Pastor Rod does a lot of

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work on this is landing on songs that are.

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are truthful songs where the

content is going to remind us of

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rich, true, theologically accurate

statements about who God is.

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Music is such a powerful thing.

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And we've talked about this before,

but you probably have the earworms

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still in your mind of the theme songs

to shows that you watch growing up,

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or you remember the commercial jingle.

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God has created us as such a people

to connect music to our core memories.

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And when we can.

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Equip our church with songs that are

going to be singable and unfortunately

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not every song out there That's really

good theologically is good for the body to

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sing But when we can equip our church with

songs that are singable and songs that

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are true they're true about who God is

we want to do that because As those songs

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pop in your mind throughout the day and

you start singing along because your brain

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recalls the song that you sang on Sunday.

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We want you singing and thinking

right and true thoughts about God.

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So that's what governs our approach

to our worship music at our church.

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And so PR, I know this

is your wheelhouse here.

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You work hard on this

week in and week out.

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Any additional thoughts that

you want to give on that front?

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Maybe just one or two.

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Or six, actually six.

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I only have six.

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No, I would echo everything.

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We said, I'd amen that.

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And I just want you to know, we spent

a lot of time as pastors thinking

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about the content of the songs and

even the singability of the songs.

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I do look for songs that are earworms.

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I do that on purpose.

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I want songs that are very

infectious because I want you to

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sing them throughout the week.

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And I want them to come to

you all throughout the day.

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And a lot of our shaping musically,

whether or not we acknowledge

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it is going to be generational.

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Some of our shapings in terms of what we

like are genera gen generationally formed

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by what's popular to us at the time.

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So for some of us who grew up on hymns,

it's no wonder that we love hymns.

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For those of us who grew up on

CCM that is contemporary Christian

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music, it's no wonder that we

love those poppy CCM style sounds.

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So it's gonna take a lot of grace

for the church to cooperate.

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with themselves and not to fight about

things that aren't worth fighting about.

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And we try our best to

find that middle ground.

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And I know that everybody has

musical preferences and tastes.

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Some of us are very strong in those

tastes but we're working together

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toward the common good of the church

to the glorification of Christ.

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And that's ultimately the goal.

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So as we sing songs, just remember that's

a really important feature of this.

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But can I make one point about chapter 32

here, actually a couple of quick points.

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The first and probably.

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The most important here is that often

when people read Psalms or songs

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in the Bible, they they might just

say, Oh, this is really cool poetry.

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I like this, but Psalms usually are

chock full of good and profound theology.

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Let me just give you one.

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There's actually several points

in here, but I'll give you

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my favorite in chapter 32.

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And it's in verse four, Moses

says, the rock, his work is

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perfect for all his ways are just.

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It doesn't say that, does it?

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It says the rock.

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His work is perfect.

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All his ways are justice, which

you would expect him to say

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all his ways are adjective.

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They're just, but he doesn't say that.

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He says all his ways are noun.

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They are justice, which is essentially

saying this, what God does.

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Is definitionally justice.

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He can't do anything but good and

right and perfect, which is so amazing

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and profound to think about because

it means everything that God does

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again, by definition is that thing.

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He doesn't submit to an external

standard beyond himself.

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He himself is the

standard, which is amazing.

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Sit on that one for a few minutes

and let that one blow your mind.

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All his ways are justice,

not just justice.

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So cool.

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That's a great nugget.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's awesome.

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Worth pondering.

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And if only we knew the tune, the

tune actually to that, don't you?

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Can't you sing it for us?

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Yeah in Hebrew.

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Yeah I haven't warmed up.

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I sent you that reel of that guy on

Instagram who was singing that song

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wholly by, I can't remember who, Chris

Tomlin, who was singing it in Hebrew.

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In Hebrew.

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That was interesting.

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It was super cool.

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It was cool.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Chapter 33.

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Chapter 33.

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We get into Moses's final blessings

because the end of chapter 32,

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his death is again confirmed

that this is going to happen.

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So chapter 33, his final

blessings upon the people.

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And this is similar to the blessings

that we've read before from

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Abraham, but especially from Jacob.

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because he's going to go through

the tribes and he's going to issue

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a blessing upon each of the tribes

as he walks through this chapter.

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And so in chapter 33 yeah, we're

going to find him blessing all of

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the different tribes of the nation

of Israel as part of his departure,

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find part of his final words to the

to the nation here, Simeon's missing.

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And one of the leading reasons why.

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That we think is that because Simeon

eventually is absorbed into Judah, and

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so his absence is conspicuous as in

the fact that he's missing is a glaring

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absence and they would all be scratching

their heads thinking, what about us?

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What about Simeon?

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And it's a subtle, perhaps subtle

way of God saying your future, it's

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not going to be what you hope, right?

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You're going to be absorbed into

Judah, but that's down the line.

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So if you're wondering where Simeon is.

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A lot of people are.

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We think that's the reason why.

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That's one of the reasons we think.

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And also building upon that

too, part of the reason for

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that may be Simeon's failure.

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Simeon and Reuben both failed as their

roles as the leaders of the tribe.

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And that's why Judah

ends up taking the lead.

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And not that Judah was perfect.

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We've talked about that too, but

but that's one of the reasons why.

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Simeon fades out of existence there

chapter 34, then Moses is allowed to see

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the promised land and he's been told this.

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You got us told him multiple

times, hey, I'm going to let

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you see the promised land.

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And he does, he gets to

go up on Mount Pisgah.

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And he is able to look over and this is

not just like you and I climbing a water

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tower here in Texas and being able to

look out, we'd be able to see a long way.

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But I think this PR your thoughts

on this too would be helpful.

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I think God is giving him a supernatural

glimpse of the detail of the promise

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land from the top of the mountain here.

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I don't think this is just a

general look over the river

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and see a portion of the land.

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It seems like God's describing,

he's able to see a good amount

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of what the promise land is.

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I'm not going to pound

the pulpit on that one.

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But.

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That kind of stood out to

me this time reading it.

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That's interesting.

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I, it had not occurred to me,

but I suppose that's not outside

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the bounds of God's graciousness.

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In any case, I don't know

that he's suffering much.

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I think you've made mentioned before that

even though he doesn't actually step foot

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over the physical promised land, he does

experience a spiritual promised land.

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That's going to be, that's better than

what they would have enjoyed physically.

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So he's not hurting.

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I wouldn't feel too bad for him.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And he dies there and the Lord buries him.

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And it says there that we

don't know where he is.

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We know that he's buried there in the land

of Moab, but in the valley there, but we

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don't, nobody knows where his grave is.

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And just as well.

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Yeah.

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Otherwise they might've taken his bones

out and started, setting up a pillar or

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something as they're worshiping Moses.

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Yeah, that's a, that's

fortunate for their sake.

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It is.

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Although it's unique.

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Because, and I guess maybe it shows the

esteem they had for Moses at the time,

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because it's not the same with Abraham

or Jacob or Joseph or, their bones are

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all, we knew where they were and they

were buried in a certain location there,

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but God didn't want them to do that.

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Yeah.

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Moses is different.

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I love the fact that he dies

the way that I hope to die.

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It says here in verse seven, he's

120, not that I want to live to 120.

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That's not the part.

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The part that I like that I want

to emulate is his eye was undimmed

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and his vigor unabated, which

either means one of two things.

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One, that he was physically still in

his prime, that he was still doing

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really well, that God had protected

him, preserved him throughout that

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wilderness wandering, and he was

ready to keep serving and working.

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Which I tend to lean on that one.

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The other one is that it's just a way to

say, look, he was still doing pretty good.

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He was good for his age, 120,

but still feeling pretty good,

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still sprightly for his age.

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I think the first one is more is the

one I lean to because I think God

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preserved his people and it shows

that it wasn't because he could not

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have gone and fought for the Lord.

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In the promised land, but it was

God's judgment to say I'm taking your

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life deliberately Even though you're

still in the prime of your life,

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even though he technically wasn't.

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He was still very strong Very ready

God took him because it was his

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time He would he had been judged

so that would be the part i'd like

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to go out Undimmed bigger unabated.

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That's the part I like but I think

it's because of god's judgment that he

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ends up not going because he could have

fought yeah, and this is I Think I lean

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towards that as well because this For the

time would have been still an old age.

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Cause remember when Jacob is brought

down to Egypt, Pharaoh wants to see

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Jacob because Jacob is 120 years old and

Pharaoh's like why are you still alive?

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Like what's going on here?

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And so I'm with you.

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I think this is God has sustained

him beyond the natural ability

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for being sustained at that point.

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So Lord, please.

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Yes.

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Me too.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Let's go over to Psalm 91.

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He probably ate organic.

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He probably did.

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That was probably what was behind it.

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Not a whole lot of MSGs

in that guy's diet.

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I don't think he ever saw a Twinkie.

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That's for sure.

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Yeah.

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He, all of his food was RFK'd.

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It was all.

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RFK approved, you said?

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RFK'd.

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Oh, RFK'd.

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They've turned that into a verb now.

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Oh, the steak and shake fries now

are being fried in beef tallow.

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Right on.

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So they're calling them RFK'd fries.

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Give me some more beef tallow.

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Yep.

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We can use more, not less.

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Yep.

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All right.

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So Psalm 91, you're going to read Psalm

91 and it's going to sound familiar, but

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it's not a, it's not a word for word.

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This is not exactly the song of

Moses, just cut and paste it.

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There's similarities in language for sure.

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All right.

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But this is a psalm that's more brief

than what we read about in Deuteronomy

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32 and it seems to be more positive

than what we read about in Psalm 32,

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but some of the same concepts, same

ideas are communicated in this in this

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psalm of note, specifically look at

verses 11 and 12, these verses are

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going to be quoted by somebody that

you wouldn't expect to quote scripture.

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And that is going to be Satan.

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Satan's going to I'm going to quote

these verses to Jesus in the wilderness

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temptation, and he's going to say,

Hey, cast yourself off the pinnacle of

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the temple and you're going to be fine

because isn't it written and Satan quotes

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Psalm 12, that he's going to command

his angels concerning you to guard you

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and they're going to bear you up and

your foot's not going to hit a stone.

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And that's where Jesus turns

around and says, you should not

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put the Lord your God to a test.

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Yeah, that's interesting that

Satan is quoting Psalm 91.

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It's, it calls to mind when James says,

even the demons believe in shutter, right?

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If Satan is able to quote scripture,

then we need to make sure that our

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knowledge of scripture, we just

talked about this recently, the fact

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that we have the Bible is such a

blessing, but it's also a danger.

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Because if we're not taking it and

applying it, taking it and letting it

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transform us by the spirit's work within

us, then we're no better off than Satan.

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Satan knows the Bible probably better

than any of the rest of us know the

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Bible as far as being able to pull

it out and quote it whenever he

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wants to pull it out and quote it.

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Which is why someone quoting the Bible

doesn't automatically make them a

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safe person to listen to because while

it's true that someone who's a false

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teacher can really know the Bible

really well, or at least appear to

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be pretty well versed, they can still

mishandle the Bible fundamentally.

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It's like building a puzzle.

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There are times when you're building

the puzzle where two pieces can

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really look like they fit together.

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So close.

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In fact, that you might say that looks

right and that really looks right, but

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it's only until you fill in most of the

puzzle that you realize, Oh, those two

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pieces, even though they're similarly

colored and shaded, and maybe a little

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cutouts fit they as evident, they don't

fit now that I see more of the picture.

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And it's very much like that with

your Bible reading, the more of your

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Bible, the more you can see when

pieces don't fit together, the less

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of your Bible, the harder it's going

to be for you to discern, am I really

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looking at the right thing here?

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And a good false teacher can sound

smart and sharp and speak with eloquent

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tones and say things and sing songy

ways and make it just sound like they

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know exactly what they're talking about.

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You need to do well to know your Bible

so good, so well inside and out that

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you can detect it and discern it.

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And that just requires a lot

of time and energy invested.

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Otherwise you're vulnerable.

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Okay.

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So on that front there's been.

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Some photos flying around on X

over the last handful of days.

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So Trump has tapped Paula White to

be his personal spiritual advisor.

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People are going to look at that.

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Number one, they're going to

say, Oh, pastor Paula White.

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So I think most of the people listening

to us are going to throw the flag

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on the play already and say, Okay.

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Oof, but there's my short answer.

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Yeah.

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Beyond that, she is a known false teacher.

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She's a, she's health, wealth,

and prosperity to the extreme.

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And she has attributed God to

saying things that God has not said.

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So some in the camp are saying Hey,

look, Trump's got a spiritual advisor

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who's a quote unquote Christian.

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But what I hear you saying in part

is we need to be careful and not

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necessarily pump the fist and say

that's good that he's got Paula

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White in his ear because she's not an

accurate handler of the word of God.

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So that shouldn't necessarily

make us feel any better than if

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he were to have a Muslim Imam in

his ear quoting the Quran to him.

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Yeah, it's probably almost worse.

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That he has someone in his ear who's

giving him what seems to be and probably

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on occasion is sound Christian wisdom

But that's the problem because if you if

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one tenth, let's just be generous here

if seven tenths of what she says is true

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That 30 percent left over leaves him

Especially vulnerable to bad thinking and

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bad ideas because you tend to become like

the person you're listening to You tend

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to mimic your master and that's by design.

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God made it that way.

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That's what Jesus says.

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You become like who you follow,

you become like who you worship.

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So it's especially dangerous.

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And so we ought to pray that God would

put him in the position to be influenced

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by someone of high caliber and high

esteem of the word and high view of God.

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Otherwise you're right, man.

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That's a it's not a good situation.

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Yeah.

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I did see that also in that

room around the president.

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I heard that.

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Yeah.

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I was surprised by that.

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I wonder how he got a seat at that table.

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I think it's through his new,

he's working with James Dobson's

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ministry focused on the family.

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And so I think he stops

and he has the connection.

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Yeah.

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He's got a great name.

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You ought to make that connection

to spot there with Trump.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, sure.

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I'll call him up right now.

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No.

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Great.

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At least our governor gets to start there.

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Greg Abbott.

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He was just down at

Prestonwood Baptist church.

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Is that right?

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Yeah.

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He was there visiting their

school for special needs.

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Walked to the front of the line.

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I said, Hey, Greg.

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I didn't know he was there.

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I'm pastor PJ, which you

refer to me now going forward.

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Actually, if you want to

get technical, I'm Dr.

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Pastor PJ reverend.

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You're his highness.

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All right, y'all let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, keep us as pastor, I was just

talking about discerning people that

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we would know the word of God and

know how to handle it accurately and

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expose ourselves only to those that do

handle it accurately that we would not.

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Give our ear to false teachers.

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Anyone who would scratch an itching

ear or a tickle the ear Lord, we want

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to make sure that we are listening and

paying attention to and heating truth.

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And so help us to do that.

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And as pastors in this church, God,

we pray that you'd keep both of us

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as men of truth, that we would be

preaching the word that is true and not.

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Tempted in any way to tamper with

it or practice cunning or anything

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else like that, that we would just

present the word of God as it is

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in its power, and that we would be

faithful to its context as we do that.

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And so we ask that you would

enable us to do that, and do

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that we pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep your Bibles tuning again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye folks.

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Bye.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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