00:00 Welcome Back + Spring Training Banter

01:16 Easter Strategy: Launching a Series & Church Calendar Tease

03:38 Ramadan Reminder + Learning Islam (James White Book)

06:22 Numbers 3: Levites, Firstborn Redemption & God’s Order

08:20 Textual Discrepancy Explained: Inspiration & Textual Criticism

11:46 Numbers 4: Levite Duties, Setup/Tear Down, and God’s Organization

14:25 Mark 3: Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit—What It Means Today

17:01 Mark 3: Jesus Redefines Family as Those Who Do God’s Will

20:40 Prayer, Wrap-Up, and Podcast Outro

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Hey, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy day.

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Happy Friday.

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Opening spring training Friday.

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Oh, man.

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I know you've been waiting

for this day for a long time.

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Uh, it's, uh, it's on

my calendar somewhere.

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It is, perhaps, yeah, because the

baseball season under spring training

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baseball, American religious calendars.

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There it is.

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MLB calendar.

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Yes.

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There it is.

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Yeah.

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Under American religious calendars.

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Awesome.

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Love that.

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Yeah, spring training

is officially underway.

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Game start today.

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And baseball spring training

is, what does that even mean?

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Well, for, for people who don't know,

obviously we know, obviously, yeah.

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It's the preseason of baseball,

so the superstars don't play a lot.

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They'll play maybe one inning, two

innings, and then it's a lot of the

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young guys, they get reps and it's

guys that are still trying to make a

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roster after they've been in the league

for 13, 14 years and, and they're,

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this is their last shot to play.

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So that's what a lot of spring training

is, but it means that the season's

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right around the corner, which I'm

excited about 'cause I love baseball.

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How far is this like a lint thing where

you put ashes on your head and the,

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the sign of your baseball team and

then it's 40 days till the first pitch?

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It's close to that man.

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Wow.

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I mean, it's probably, this is

religion a month and a joking.

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It's probably a month and a half.

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Yeah.

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Of, of spring training.

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So, oh man.

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It, it's old, but the

first day is exciting.

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It's like, oh man, we're here.

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The, the season's here,

it's, it's real games.

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They don't count, but it's,

they're playing other teams.

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So, well, I guess it's similar with

Easter when we get to the Easter

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sermons is these are the real sermons.

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These are the ones that count.

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Yes, yes.

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These are the ones where people

come to church for the first

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time in perhaps a long time, even

several months for some of them.

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Speaking of which I saw on the

Instagrams the other day that there

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was a strategy that this guy was.

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Promoting on helping your

church capitalize on Easter.

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And he said, rather than just making

it one sermon, rather than being

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like, Hey, join us for Easter, you

know, resurrection Sunday, we're gonna

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talk about the resurrection of Jesus.

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He said, what you should do, it's

a great idea, is you should make

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Easter Sunday your launch point.

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Yeah.

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For a series's, a great idea.

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And invite people to say, Hey,

if you're looking for meaning, if

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you're looking for purpose, join

us for this four week series.

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If we launch on Easter Sunday, great.

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Great idea.

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I, I think it's ambitious

in the right ways.

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Yeah.

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And I think if you have a compelling

enough, this is one of those

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times where I think being topical.

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Topal, I like to say is permitted and

even perhaps encouraged because you're

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gonna get people there who are not

coming for a variety of reasons, right?

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And usually they're Christian ish.

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They're Christian adjacent, at least where

they attend Christmas and maybe Easter.

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So you have a chance of

capturing people to say, you

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need to be here and here's why.

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Yeah, I think it's a great idea.

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Yeah.

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Are we doing that?

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Not this year.

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Just because it was too late in

the game for me when I saw that.

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I mean, we're still, we're

a month, we're 40 days away.

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That's true.

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Mm, that's true.

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I, I feel like though, man, it, it just

chops up first Peter too much right now.

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'cause we just took that break coming

out of the, the fall and, and into

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Christmas and then, so I feel like we

just are dipping our toes back in first.

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Peter.

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I'd hate to, to pull the e-brake and

jump out of First Peter again, but, mm.

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Well maybe next year.

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Alright, I'll plan my

preaching calendar better.

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Alright.

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Fair enough.

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Which I know you'd like me

to do in general anyways.

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Well not be better just in advance or just

at more advance, just having a, you know,

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well, we've talked about this before.

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They don't need to know.

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Yeah, no, no, no.

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For sure.

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Sermon.

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Our sermon and service calendar

will be possibly changing soon

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though, so we ought to That's true.

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Be on the lookout.

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That's a, that's a, uh,

that's a hook for some people.

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Well, who might wanna show up to

church this Sunday, be at church and

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don't miss important announcements.

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Yep, yep.

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I wonder what it could be.

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Anyways, numbers three and four.

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In Mark chapter three.

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We don't have any questions to answer,

so that means those that are listening

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have not been, and that's okay.

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Asking us questions.

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That tells me that we are so

comprehensively doing each podcast.

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We've done it.

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We've anticipated their

questions sufficiently, or they,

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they have no other questions.

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None.

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So good.

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Good job.

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Us.

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Yes.

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Win.

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We're patting us on the

back as, as we say this.

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Hey, hey.

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Ramadan has started.

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Yes, it has recently.

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Do you celebrate that?

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I do not.

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Okay.

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You should not celebrate it.

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We'd encourage you not to, but we would

encourage you to pray for those who are

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celebrating and that's a good reminder.

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And then you, of course, you'll

see people walking around re you

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know, you remember when we were at

Frisco's founder's Classical Academy?

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Yep.

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You remember that time?

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I do.

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There was a, there's a mosque

not too far down the block.

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Right.

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And I remember on Wednesday nights.

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We would be closing up shop for student

ministry and I'd be driving past it.

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There'd be a ton of people at that mosque.

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Yep.

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So pray for them if you see it.

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Or even if you don't see it, just

know that they're in their season of

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fasting throughout the day and they

come together at night and they, they

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do their, some of their religious

activity they eat at night together.

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And it would be good for you

just to keep that in mind.

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Right.

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By the way, there's a book by

James White that I'm listening

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to currently on Spotify.

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Oh.

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About Islam.

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And I am trying to pull up the, what

every Christian needs to know about

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the Quran and it's Oh, yeah, yeah.

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Heard that one On on Spotify, if

you've got Spotify Premium, you get

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some free audible books that you can

listen to, audio books that you can

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listen to each week or each month.

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And so it's on one of those.

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So if you got Spotify premium, you

can listen to this, but whatever

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Christian needs to know about the Quran.

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I was convicted when I had a, a

evangelistic conversation with a Muslim

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and he knew way more about the Bible Yep.

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Than you know about the Quran.

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I know About the Quran, yeah.

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So I just thought to myself, man,

I, I need to, to brush up on this

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and I appreciate white, white is an

academic thinker and he is an apologist

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in the sense of a guy who knows his

stuff really well and can make a,

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an adequate defense for our faith.

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So, that's available on Spotify.

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If you're interested, what every

Christian needs to know about the Quran,

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should I read much into the fact that

you're just listening to it on Audible?

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Is it, is it not worth having

in the library or are you

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just still testing the waters?

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I just saw it on Spotify and

I was like, you know what?

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Let me, let me just listen to this because

I'm, I'm trying to, I'm reading right now.

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You and I are actually at different

stages, but reading through the same

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church history series and then, whoa,

you know, I've got the reading that

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I'm doing for preaching and for,

for other things like that of it.

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So to add that other book in,

yeah, touch right now at this point

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was just a lot, but I can listen.

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I had some time my commute just

getting ready in the mornings where

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I'm like, okay, I can listen to a book.

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And so I thought, let's listen

to this one and see how it is.

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But I'm just about.

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The three, four chapters into it.

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So far it's good.

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Alright.

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Yeah.

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Well I'm gonna put it, I have it in

Kendall, but I'm gonna put it in the

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shopping cart as a physical book.

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A physical book.

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Yes.

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We were just talking about this.

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We were, yep.

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Yeah.

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'cause physical books are, uh, helpful.

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Yeah.

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I, well, jury's still out on my

side, but I, I'm enjoying, I, so I'm

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an avid digital book collector.

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Yes.

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But I've been trying physical

and I'm enjoying it.

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Yes.

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Really enjoying it.

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There's something novel and fun and

even exciting about holding it in

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your hand, and I was just saying it

feels more satisfying to finish it.

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I would agree.

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Yes, I would agree with

that a hundred percent.

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Well, let's jump into our

daily Bible reading for today.

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We're in numbers three and four, and then

we are gonna be in Mark chapter three.

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So numbers three and four, we get into

more of God's order and plan for the the

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different nations, specifically for or

not the different nations, the tribes

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specifically for the tribe of Levi's.

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So the Levis are gonna be

addressed here They are for Aaron.

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And so you'll notice that in verse

five, it says, the Lord spoke to Moses

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saying Bring the tribe of Levi near

and set them before Aaron, the priest.

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They may minister to him.

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And so their job is to serve Aaron.

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That is help Aaron with the

duties of the tabernacle and

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also to guard the tabernacle.

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And then from here he's gonna get into

all the various families of the Levites

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and where they were to be or where

they were to camp around the tent of

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meeting around the tabernacle there

as their jobs pertain to the various.

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Things that they needed to do.

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So we get numbers here.

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The total number of Levites that

we're gonna find, at least that are

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qualified here to be able to serve from

a month old and upward, over 22,000.

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So 22,000 Levites.

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We find that in verse 39.

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But this is more of God

saying, here's the order.

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This is what's.

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Supposed to happen.

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And then chapter three goes on to talk

about the redemption of the firstborn.

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Now, the Levites were, we've heard

time and time again already, and

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we're gonna read it again more in the

future, that the Levites were the tribe

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that God said, rather than taking the

firstborn amongst the people of Israel,

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I'm gonna take the Levites to be mine.

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And so this was the way of redeeming them.

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Well, here we get.

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That specifically, all the firstborn

males, according to the number of

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names from a month old and upward

that was listed were 22,273.

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That's for the whole nation at this point.

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Well, there's 22,000 levies.

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There's 22,273 firstborn.

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God has a God of detail, and so he wasn't

gonna just overlook the 273 firstborn.

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Extra there, there was going to be a

redemption price for the 273, and so

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they were going to have to pay five

shekels per head and to take them

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according to the shekel, the sanctuary.

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So again, God's detail, God's

attention to, to detail in his order.

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We see here in chapter three.

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Which actually raises the question

because if you add the numbers

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of Koha, Marri, and Gersen, you

don't get 22,000, you get 22,300.

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So there's a discrepancy in the

text and to the point that you're

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just making the best and the most.

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Faithful way to see that is that

this is likely a textual corruption.

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Which is something that we

don't deal lightly with.

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We don't wanna just toss that anytime

we see something that says, oh, this

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is not exactly fitting but it seems to

be the most likely given the fact that

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we're dealing with tallies here, numbers

that add up to one thing or another.

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So a textual corruption

does that in any way.

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Influence or change our understanding

of the doctrine of inspiration and

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a plenary inspiration that is every

word of God proving true every

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word of God, being inspired of God.

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How do we handle something like that?

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Yeah, no, it, it doesn't

challenge our view of plenary.

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Inspiration because what we're dealing

with is the original documents.

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When we talk about the doctrine of

inspiration authority in Errancy, we're

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saying the original documents as were

originally recorded, written down by,

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in this case Moses or by the other New

Testament authors, when we get in the

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New Testament or Old Testament authors,

that those were inspired by God.

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Those were the words.

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So when we talk about a textual

corruption we're talking about the fact

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is the manuscripts were copied over

time, that the numbers got messed up.

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That somewhere along the lines, one of

the scribes wrote it down incorrectly.

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Which on that note Wes Huff.

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Is another apologist that I've grown

to respect quite a bit recently.

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And he's got a video on YouTube

with one of the guys from Midwestern

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Baptist Theological Seminary and

Midwestern Baptist is where our

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own director of student ministries

got his master's degree from.

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And so we have a great deal

of respect from them, but

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there's a professor named Dr.

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Peter Gry.

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And so Wes Huff and Dr.

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Gry tackle the issue and the

video is called Textual Criticism

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and Changes in Your Bible.

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And so this is a great resource to deal

with what we're talking about right here.

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Textual criticism does what we're

talking about when, when we hear the word

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criticism, we think that's a negative.

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We're critique criticizing the Bible.

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That's right.

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Not really what it is.

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It's rather to look at something with

a critical eyes to look closely at it.

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And so they do a great job

kind of explaining that.

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But that's what we're dealing with here.

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The, at some point when Moses wrote down

the numbers, the numbers were accurate.

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At some point in time the

scribes made a mistake.

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And those mistakes can happen many

different ways, but it seems as

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that's what we're dealing with

with the textual corruption.

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And at the end of the day people who

study things like this who are textual

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critics, again, not negative connotation.

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Have come up with a number of

something like 98, 90 9% accuracy

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in terms of transmission,

which is incredibly remarkable.

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The more we find textual documents,

the more we find manuscripts

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things in all sorts of different

formats, the more we come to realize

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what we have in our Bibles, the.

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Is highly accurate.

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Yeah.

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We are so used to 100% accuracy

and precision, again, modern day

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accuracy that something like that

could shake up a Christian to

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think, well, my Bible's not true.

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You know, there's textual

corruptions in there.

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And, we would admit that there are, but

there's so few and none of them have.

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Any bearing on any major doctrinal

or even minor doctrinal issues.

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Some of them are just more like,

oh, what do we do with that?

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Right.

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Some of the more famous ones

are the Johanan edition that we

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read about, where the woman is

caught in the act of adultery.

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She's thrown at Jesus feet.

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All those things.

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That's one of them.

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The end of Mark is another one,

or we have a textual corruption.

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We believe it's an addition to

the text that we don't believe

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was original to the text.

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And here's the coolest thing, is that

our Bible editors will note that for us.

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Yep.

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They're not hiding it.

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We're not trying to do

this massive coverup.

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There's no conspiracy here.

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It is honest Christians

dealing honestly with the text.

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Well, in chapter four, we get into what

the specific duties of these three tribes

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or these three Subtribes three families

within the tribe of Levi are gonna be.

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So you've got, again, koha, you've

got Gershon, and you've got Marri.

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And so we're gonna get into what

those duties are going to be.

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And we see here that there was an

age range for the Levites to serve.

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They could only serve.

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From 30 years old and

upwards to 50 years old.

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So they had 20 years of good service

to the Lord where they could help

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with what these situations required.

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In chapter four, if you're on our setup

and tear down team, you should feel,

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a kinship with this chapter because

this is all about what it looks like

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to tear down the tabernacle and then

to set it back up again and what

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the different responsibilities were.

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And there were different teams that had

to do different parts of the tabernacle.

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Just like on Sunday mornings when we

finish up with our service, there's

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different teams that help with tearing

down different things in the church.

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Now, differences, we don't have any

holy of holies or we don't have any

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sanctified furniture in the church.

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And so you're not gonna get struck dead

if you mishandle the pulpit or the

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stage pieces or anything like that.

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But.

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But they did.

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And so this was something they had to

be really careful about as they were,

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were doing this and this was something

that was gonna free up the priest.

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So notice Aaron is not really involved

in this process, but this crew, the

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rest of the Levites, and this is part

of the reason they were given to Aaron,

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is to help him with this process.

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And they were gonna tear down

and they were also going to

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be transporting it as well.

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Again, I'd like to notice that here,

God, God is organizing these things.

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It is, it is God who's behind us.

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Notice in verse one of chapter four

says, the Lord spoke to Moses and

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Aaron saying, let's take an, let's,

let's count our people and let's

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find out who can do what work.

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And then I'm going to assign different

families of groups to different,

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work within this tabernacle.

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So moving the furniture or carrying

the holy things, that kind of thing.

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And so I, I want you to see here

just how, how clear and how.

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Careful God conducts and

orchestrates their commitment

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or their work in the tabernacle.

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I think this is fascinating, this,

this just, this gets me excited.

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These are the small things when

when you're reading your Bible,

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you can just easily pass this up

without even thinking twice about it.

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And yet I think this reveals

to us who God is and what he's

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wanting us to know about himself.

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And part of that is just reading

between the lines, so to speak.

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There's a bad way to do this where

you start making up stories and you

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get really flexible with what's there.

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But I don't think I'm reading

between the lines too much.

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Would you say so?

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I don't think so.

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This, this is a, this is a, I think,

a really natural reading of the text

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saying, look, God is organizing,

yes, God's the one who's doing this.

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And this is very similar to what he

does at the beginning of creation,

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where he says, let there be light.

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Let the larger light, a larger

light rule the day, let the

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lesser light rule the night.

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God is organizing and orchestrating all

of human history, all of human creation,

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and this is something that never ceases.

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In fact, Hebrews chapter one, I

think tells us that he's ongoing

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in his participation, his active

participation with creation.

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Yep.

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Well, let's turn it over to

our New Testament reading,

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March chapter 3 22 through 35.

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We get a, a passage we've covered a

couple times already, and, and I guess

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only once because just covered Matthew,

but chronological reading, we got to the

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gospels towards the end of last year,

so it still seems pretty familiar to us,

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but this is the blasphemy of the spirit.

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And here again, the, the direct.

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Sin involved was attributing to the devil

what Christ was doing by the power of the

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Spirit, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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So going back to Jesus' baptism,

Jesus is, as he's brought up outta

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the water, it says the Spirit

descended upon him like a dove.

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And so this was the anointing of Jesus

for the power of his earthly ministry.

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In fact, I think we've recommended

the book by Bruce Ware, the Man

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Christ Jesus which is a, a great.

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Study of how Jesus in his

humanity demonstrated perfect

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dependence upon the spirit.

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And so a lot of what we look at

what Jesus is doing, he's doing

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in the power of the Spirit.

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And so as Jesus is doing these miracles

and casting out demons and so forth and

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so on, when the Pharisees charge him and

say, you're doing this by the power of

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eligible, or you're possessed by alible,

Jesus is saying, whoa, whoa, whoa you're.

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Attributing to Satan, what the

Holy Spirit is doing, and that's

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the blasphemy of the spirit.

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And Jesus says that, that's a

sin that's not gonna be forgiven.

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Those that committed.

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With that explanation then, it seems like

it's not possible to commit that today.

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Would you say that?

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Yeah, I think I said earlier, I, I go

back and forth on that only because.

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I, I wonder if, if that's what

it is, attributing to Satan,

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what is the work of the spirit?

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Is that possible to, to do today?

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Could somebody look at the work of

the spirit today, who is still active?

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Mm-hmm.

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And attribute the work of what the

spirit does today to the enemy, to

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Satan, to demonic powers instead.

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Yeah, and I, I guess I would say that

it is possible to commit the blasphemy,

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the Holy Spirit, although probably not

in, in with that precise of language.

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I would say it's just, it's the willful

rejection of the work of the spirit.

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Yeah.

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In that subjective sense of an objective

reality is available to every person

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where God can make known to somebody.

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I'm working and I'm convicting,

and I'm the one who's behind

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this Jesus and this gospel.

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And someone can have a

sense of That's true.

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I, I resonate with that.

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There's something in me that tells me

that's true and that makes perfect sense.

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If someone would say,

I'm gonna project that.

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Well, of course there's no salvation from

that because you've sealed your fate.

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There is no other way to salvation, beyond

the spirit, awakening and bringing a

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dead centered life to make them aware.

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I need this, this, to me, connects

with the, with what the Hebrew

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author talks about, someone who.

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Senses the spirit and yet falls away.

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They share, they

participate in the spirit.

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Mm-hmm.

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And yet falls away.

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I think this is that person.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I could get there too.

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The end of chapter three, we go back to

what you brought up last episode, and

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that is Jesus' family is not really a

huge fan of what he's doing right now.

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So they show up again.

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They're outside the house and,

and Jesus is told, Hey, your, your

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family's here and they're here.

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I think, again, if we look back,

because they, they feel like Jesus is.

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Kind of going awol on them and, and

embarrassing the family name a little bit.

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And Jesus then makes the

statement, he says, well, who,

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who is my family, essentially?

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And he says, my family are

those that do the will of God.

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This is my brother, my

sister, and my mother.

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And, and I think there's some correlation

today to looking at when, when we

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conceive of our family, ideally we want

our family to be our immediate family,

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our blood family, and our church family.

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As parents, if, for those of you parents

that are listening to this, we want to

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lead our kids into the bride of Christ.

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We want to lead our immediate

family into the family of the church.

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But there's also, for some, the reality

that the church fam is the more intimate

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family that they have, then their

actual family, because their actual

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family isn't submitted to the Lord.

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Their actual family

isn't following Christ.

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And so for them those that do the will

of God alongside them doing the will of

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God, those are the ones that are truly

their kin, their mother, their brother,

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their sisters, and so forth and so on.

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So for, I guess all that to say

for some your church family is

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your family, and really ultimately

for eternity, that's the reality.

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We just as parents are praying that's

gonna involve our children as well.

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Or maybe as a spouse, you're

praying that that's eventually

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gonna involve your unbelieving.

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Wife or husband as well.

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And God can do that.

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But in the meantime, man, our

main family is our church family.

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I think Jesus is probably

very offensive here.

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Yeah, he would have to be right.

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Yeah.

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Because I think in a normal human

relationship, you would probably look

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at something like this and be like, oh,

that's, that's kind of messed up Jesus.

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Like, we're your family, right?

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Blood is thicker than

water, as the saying goes.

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And that's true in our Western culture,

especially so in an eastern culture where

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to your point like you're, you're hurting

the family name here, we need you to.

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Cease and desist and Jesus

straight up, I mean, back backhand.

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I can't see it any other way.

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This is profoundly offensive.

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I, I just can't see it otherwise.

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And so here's what I think that's

why that's important for, besides

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the obvious, I think Jesus is

redefining the family tie here.

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He's redefining what the priority is.

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Yeah.

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Now we believe that sure, blood

is thicker than water, but I would

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say spirit's thicker than blood.

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Mm.

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The spirit itself, himself rather binds

us in ways that are eternally significant.

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Where a family line is, is for life.

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That's a big deal and your genetics play

a role in who you are and the way that

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your personality is shaped, I suppose.

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But the spirit's priority is evident here.

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Jesus is redefining what the

greatest familial ties are.

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It used to be family and for most

of us, I think it still is, you

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should be committed to your family.

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Paul's gonna later say, look, if you

don't provide for your family members,

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you're worse than an unbeliever.

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So he is not saying, forget your family.

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Run away with the church,

and go live in a monastery.

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What he is saying though, in terms of

priority is Jesus, people are first.

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Yep.

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That's crazy.

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That is crazy.

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I guess jaw droppingly, again,

offensive would be the word.

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And Jesus is like, this is the way it is.

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And I think the early church had a

leg up on us in understanding that

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because of the persecution that they

went through, when all of a sudden

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they realized, man, we need each other.

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You know, a desperate way.

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I think I.

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Church is so convenient for us that

we don't have that same awareness

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of, man, I need these people that

I stand shoulder to shoulder with

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on a Sunday morning and worship.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Next to the same way I think,

oh, I need my family members.

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And yet, if the persecution gets

turned up in our country, at some

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point I think we will realize, man.

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Yeah.

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Those in, in the church.

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We need them.

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They are our family.

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Let it be though, that you

don't need persecution for that.

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For sure.

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Totally.

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Let's work at really valuing

the relationships that Jesus

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has established, and again, the

Spirit is the one who unites us.

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Yeah.

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There's something special about being

in Christ with another believer that

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you can say, man, I, I don't know

you that well, but because we share

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the bond of Christ, we're close.

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Yeah.

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I love that.

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Yep.

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Well, let's pray.

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God, we desire to have that sort of

a church, that sort of a church that

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loves one another to that extent,

that views each other as brothers and

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sisters in Christ and as parents, in

Christ, and that we have that kind of.

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Affection for each other.

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And so, God, I just ask that you

would help us to live that way to

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live in light of those relationships

and that we would be a church

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that is stronger as a result.

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So we pray this in Christ name, amen.

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