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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Googley

01:18 Follow Up On Tattling

06:53 Joshua 21

10:11 Joshua 22

17:00 Luke 6:1-26

23:31 Closing Prayer

24:19 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It's another edition.

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It's another edition.

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It's Saturday's edition of

the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It's a good edition.

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Yeah.

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Back when I was growing up,

my dad would get the paper.

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In fact, he still might, I don't know.

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He's that guy he likes the

relics of the eras gone by.

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I was always a fan of Sunday because

Sunday the comics were in color.

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Yeah.

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And so I would always grab the comic

page and they were color and that.

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Was always something that I loved,

but I would have to battle him during

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the week over the comics because

the comics also had the crossword.

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And so, oh, he would want

the crossword puzzle.

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So sometimes I was like,

where's the comics?

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And he had it because he was doing

the crossword puzzle, which I do

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now too, 'cause I've hit that age.

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So I do crossword puzzles.

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You do crossword puzzles

on the Apple News app.

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Oh, I do.

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News app, daily crossword puzzle.

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And their, wow.

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You know the mini one, the big one.

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Yikes.

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I'm trying to maintain my

brain capacity here, folks.

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Alright.

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Is that how you do it?

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They say that doing crossword puzzles

helps battle against things like early

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onset Alzheimer's and things like that.

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So, alright.

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Yeah.

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Because it keeps the

mind sharp and engaged.

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Well, let me keep your

mind sharp and engaged.

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Please do with some Bible

questions that have come in.

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We've, thank you guys.

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You know who you are for

sending in your questions.

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We appreciate them and we enjoy talking

about them even before we talk about them.

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Sometimes you spark debate in the

conversation before we even hit record.

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But today we have a qualifying

or a clarifying question related

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to tattling and tail bearing.

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Here's what it is, and I'm just gonna

summarize 'cause he helpfully does that.

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At the bottom of his email here,

he says, my question is whether you

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think tattling could originate from

a sense of justice in your kids, or

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do you think it's mostly from gossip

or some other starting place of sin?

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In other words, can your kids be tattling

for better reasons than simply sinful?

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I want to get my sibling in trouble.

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I'm angry at them.

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I don't like that they

had this and I got that.

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Is it possible that your kids could be

tattling, and I'm using air quotes here.

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Be for good reasons, for better reasons

than just sinful starting places.

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Go.

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It's possible.

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Is it likely?

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That's a different question.

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Yeah I don't wanna throw

my kids under the bus.

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I love my kids, but we

will, let's go ahead.

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But Annie, let's talk about Annie.

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No, if I had one.

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Yeah.

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Annie, you can just mute

this for 60 seconds.

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Yeah.

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Don't listen Annie.

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But my kids are typically tattling

because they may have a sense of

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justice, but they really, their sense

of justice is I want them to get in

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trouble for something that I've gotten

in trouble for in the past, or I

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want them to get in trouble because.

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I'm gonna get a sense of

superiority over the fact that

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they got in trouble and I didn't.

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I think that's innate in our fleshliness.

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I think that's just part of our

self-centeredness as fallen people.

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So I don't mean to be pessimistic, but

we need to view our children through

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the lens of who they actually are apart

from Christ and not view them who they

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want, who we want them to be in Christ.

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God may save them someday

and transform their hearts.

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And at that point, I don't think

they're gonna be tattling because

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they're gonna have a sense of saying,

love covers a multitude of sins.

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And so if I'm tempted.

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Tattle in that sense.

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Probably don't need to bring that one up.

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If this is something that I

really am concerned about this

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person's godliness and justice.

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Okay.

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I've got a Galatians six model to

go through, but in their fallen

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state I'm skeptical at best.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I have to agree.

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If the question, the way it's posed

is how I would state it, just as an

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affirmative thing, it is possible

that their desire is for justice.

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But I do think most of the time

it is related to the things you

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mentioned, pastor pj, I don't think.

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And my kids are younger, but

it's good to hear you have older

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kids and would agree with me.

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I don't see them coming to me with a

genuine sense of a pursuit of justice.

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They're looking for themselves

to be justified and I even that.

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Is something I'm trying to help them

understand is that there are authorities

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that are tasked with bringing about

justice and of course as an adults

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there's means to get justice through

those authorities, but it's ultimately the

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authorities that bring about the justice.

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So in a home, it is mom

and dad who God has.

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Instituted as the ones

who carry out justice.

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And my concern is if my kids become

part of that process where there

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are the informants, then they

are in a sense executing justice

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of their own, which concerns me.

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Now there's exceptions to that.

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There's maybe, there's different variances

that we can think about that maybe

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that would be appropriate, but by and

large I'm gonna say that, that's a not

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a place I'm gonna be comfortable going.

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So to summarize, our kids are little

sinners who are likely sinning

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when their opportunity arises.

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Is that what you're saying?

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Yes.

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You guys are such Calvinists.

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You guys are such Calvinists.

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But even if you have a saved, even if you

have a saved kid in your house, right?

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Even if you have a saved kid, I still

think that it's helpful to teach

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them the way that God has instituted

this, the structure of things.

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And I do think that one of the ways

that you can do that is by setting

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these parameters clearly for them.

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Yeah, that's a helpful way to frame that.

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I got older kids like you do,

but my kids are still old enough

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where they play fights or they'll

do things that annoy each other.

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And the tattling is far less,

and it's usually only one sided.

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Adam's usually tattling

against Jacob or something.

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I'm just gonna throw it out there.

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So the way it works.

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By and large though, we've gotten

to a place where it rarely happens.

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And part of it is that, the

older one is outta the house.

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He's working, he's out, ladies,

he's up early, that kind of thing.

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But for our girls, our younger

ones, that's an ongoing struggle.

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Like, why are you telling me this?

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What, why do you want me to know this?

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What are you hoping to have

happen because of this?

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And turn around.

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Go try this again.

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Come back to me when you

have something better to say.

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It's one of those situations

right now, but I do agree by and

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large, my kids are capitalizing on

opportunities to sin and to do so

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in a way that hurts their sibling.

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And this is why I love having siblings.

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I think this is such a good thing

for them because it helps them

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learn how to cope with some of their

base or instincts, their fleshly

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devices that come from their heart.

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It's a good conversation at minimum,

although it's never fun to deal with it.

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Yeah.

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As an only child, I don't know if you

guys could tell that I didn't really

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have that opportunity to work that out.

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Find me that feather.

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I'm about to be knocked over.

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Hold on.

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Where'd it go?

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Where'd that feather go?

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Yeah.

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Alright.

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But good question.

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And you may be the exception to the rule.

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I know he wrote in very specific

situations and even in this situation of

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going, hey, like genuinely didn't even

want his brother to be punished and.

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Awesome.

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And sometimes there are

children that genuinely have

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that concern for what is right.

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And I think there's an, in an inherent

sense of right and wrong, that can

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be stronger and some than others.

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And they really, truly

are zealous for that.

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And at the same time, they're

not sitting there going and I

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want my brother and my, I want my

sister to get in trouble for that.

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I'm just painting with a more general

brush here for the majority of

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families out there, the majority of

children out there I do think you,

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you made the comment about Calvinism,

but total depravity is a thing.

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And I think we see it far more often than

we see glimpses of the redeemed state

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and the common grace is a real thing too.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes our kids do do

better than we expect.

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And I think you said recently, pastor

Mark, that you should know your kids.

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Yeah.

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Know your kids well enough to

be able to discern their heart.

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At best you can anyway.

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Pray for that.

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Yeah.

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Easier said than done.

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Yes.

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But it ought to be the pursuit Indeed.

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Of, of all parents at all ages.

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Yep.

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Well, in particular when

they're in your house.

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Hey, let's get to our daily

Bible reading for today.

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We are in Joshua 21 and 22, and

then we are in Luke chapter six.

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Joshua 21, the.

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Finalization of the settlement of the land

if I can put it that way, continues here.

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And we see the establishment

of the Levitical cities.

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And so God is again still

fulfilling everything that

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he said he was going to do.

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The Levitical cities are important

because remember, the inheritance for

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the Levites was gonna be God himself.

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They weren't gonna get tribal

land, they didn't have a portion

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carved out, but within the other

tribes, they were gonna have their.

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Cities there, places where they

could reside, where they could

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establish their presence there.

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And again, I think what we see here is

God's intentionality with that because

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he was gonna have his representatives

scattered throughout the whole land.

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They weren't all gonna

be one in one location.

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And so the spiritual representatives

of God, the Levites, were gonna

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be scattered throughout the whole.

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Hopefully that was gonna have a

positive impact The way that you

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think of seasoning, you don't want

seasoning only in one part of a dish.

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You want seasoning spread throughout

the entirety of the dish, and

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so the Levites could do that.

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Being in all of these various cities,

they were to be the experts in the law.

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They were to be the ones that were

primarily concerned with serving

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the Lord, and they could be in those

cities to help those tribes know

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what they should do when it came to

obeying the Lord and worshiping him.

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It is worth, and maybe it's, maybe

you'll throw accusations at me,

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but it's worth having people who

are invested in you in this way.

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So it's in modern day, it is worth

having pastors on payroll to be

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able to study, to be able to mm-hmm.

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Know their bibles in a

particular way, in a deeper way.

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Perhaps it's worth that investment

and the people of Israel.

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Or by God's command making

that sort of investment.

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And obviously it's different in the

new Covenant, but it's an investment

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that is well worth pursuing.

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So the pastors are like, Levites,

we're gonna send you to Gunner then.

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'cause we feel like we don't have much

of a season to presence up in Gunner.

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That's right.

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So pack your bags Van Steen and

going to Gunner and Van Steen.

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Yeah.

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I love that.

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That's a great, that's a great point.

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And one I didn't connect with, but

I think one thing that's really

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cool that I didn't notice until

it was pointed out to me is that.

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Joshua 21 is a fulfillment

of Genesis 49 verse seven.

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This is where Jacob slash Israel says,

I'm gonna scatter Levi throughout Israel.

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Hmm.

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And at that point, you don't

really know what he's saying.

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You don't understand what the

content or the meaning of that is.

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But yet here we are in Joshua 21,

where now we see how that works out.

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It is a scattering.

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Mm-hmm.

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And it's not all bad.

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Mm-hmm.

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It wasn't a good thing when Jacob

said it, but it ends up being a

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good thing for Israel, that these

servants of the Lord are now.

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Are now scattered all about the land.

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They're peppered all

throughout every territory.

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And even fascinating beyond

that too, is the kotite.

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These guys are the ones who are

gonna have to care for the tabernacle

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temple, ongoings, the goings on.

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They're the ones who are the line

of the priests, and they're the

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ones who are sent in that direction.

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God knew what he was doing, even though it

was by lot, God still controlled the lot,

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which is an, that's an interesting idea.

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The lot is cast in the lap, but

every decision is from the Lord.

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Sometimes you might see me

wear my shirt with dice on it.

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That's the one I'm thinking

about all the time.

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'cause you like gambling.

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I don't, oh God.

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God is gambling here.

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Maybe not God.

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The priests are gambling.

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But God controls the role of

the dice here and he puts them

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exactly where he wants them.

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He scatters them and it's a, at first,

a bad thing, but it's now redeemed for

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God's glory to serve the people of Israel.

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Really cool.

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Well, on chapter 22, those eastern

tribes that we were talking about

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a little bit I think in yesterday's

episode, they're gonna go back home.

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They have finished their job.

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They fulfilled their , promised

their oaths to the Israelites.

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They came over, they helped

them get settled in the land

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and drive out everybody there.

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So they're going back home, but they're

gonna go back home before you do that.

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Yes.

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Can I ask you a question

about the bottom of 21?

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Sure.

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Huge.

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And I, yeah, we're gonna talk about

that, but I need you to address this.

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Yes.

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Verse 44.

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The Lord gave them rest on every sign.

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Just as he had sworn to their fathers, not

one of all, their enemies had withstood

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them, for the Lord had given all their

enemies into their hands, not one word.

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Of all the good promises that

the Lord had made to the house of

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Israel had failed, all came to pass.

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What do you think about that verse?

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It's, talk about that.

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I think it's true to the extent of

their obedience to the Lord that

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the, those that they went against,

they, they weren't withstood.

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And so I think what this helps us to see

is those cities that they, it says in

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the text, they failed to drive them out.

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It would indicate to me that they

failed to drive them out, not because

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those cities were victorious over them,

because then I think we would call

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into question the promises of God.

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I think if those, if Israel was

saying, we're gonna be obedient to God.

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And as he said, he's gonna drive them out

before, so we're gonna go drive them out.

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I think then we would say, okay, if they

weren't driven out, then God failed.

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But I think the fact that it says

they, they did not drive them out,

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they failed to drive them out.

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I think that shows that it's that

Israel said we're not gonna bother

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with them, or we don't want to, or

we're too afraid to go up against them.

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And so I think this verse indicating

as far as the promises of God and

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Israel's faithfulness to do what God.

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Asked them to do or commanded them to do.

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Not a single one failed.

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But Israel failed because Israel

didn't trust the Lord in all

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of the promises that he made.

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And that's why there were still some

enemies that remained in Israel.

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Now, I don't think those enemies were

the burn the saddle at this point.

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They, I think, had an inherent

fear of Israel to where

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there was rest on every side.

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There wasn't war, even as Pastor

Mark pointed out with with.

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One of the inheritance in a couple

episodes ago this week, there was rest

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on every, the land had re rest for

war, and I think that was taking place.

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So I don't see a conflict here, but

I do understand why you're asking it.

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The only thing that makes me wonder

is I agree with you, but you, we

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are, if we take that understanding,

we are reading an understanding that

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comes from other passages and other

parts of even Joshua into this.

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The way this is stated though

is pretty definitive, but again,

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I agree with you, but that is

one thing that causes me pause.

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Yeah, it does.

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It does read.

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With a certain sense of finality.

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But the thing is I can't read the whole

book of Joshua without being confronted

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with, well, this isn't exactly.

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Yes, it's true, but it's not true because

it they struggled in all these areas.

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This is one of those places where you

have to read your Bible carefully.

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I like the idea of reading my Bible

with the awareness of both the

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immediate context and the larger

context, and it helps us avoid

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some errors of understanding.

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If you only ever read one Bible

verse in, great, Coco likes to say,

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never read just one Bible verse.

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If you read the.

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Context.

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It gives you a sense of how God

intends for us to understand this.

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And I think Pastor Pge your, I think

the way that you're talking about it is

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the way that we have to understand it,

even though it reads with such a power.

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In fact, this is one of the reasons

why some people will say, well,

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see, there's editors in the Bible.

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It's written by different

people at different times.

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And here's a good reason

why you can believe that.

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Because someone came in here

and edited this into it, saying

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they, they fulfilled all of it.

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And then someone came in after the

fact and put all the failures inside.

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I don't think you need to do that.

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I think you just need to accept the

fact that this author has intentions

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that are bigger than just the

immediate verse that you're looking at.

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You have to look at the

whole to understand the part.

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You have to understand the

part to understand the whole.

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It's a both ways kind of conversation

in order to faithfully handle the text.

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I hope this is a good example to you.

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We're not done with this 'cause

we're actually gonna see something

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like this again in a chapter or two.

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Can I go to chapter 22 now?

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I think yeah, you can do that.

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Is that allowable?

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It's allowable.

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Okay.

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Well actually one more thing.

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Just kidding.

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I'm just kidding.

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I'm just kidding.

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No.

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So in chapter 22 the trans Jordan

tribes are going back across the

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Jordan River there, but they're gonna

go back with a charge that is going

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to say to them, Hey, be careful to do

what the Lord has commanded you to do.

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In other words, don't drift from the Lord.

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You are putting yourself

intentionally at risk.

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And we maybe there's a comparison here to,

to somebody who wants to move somebody.

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Is a key part of our church and here, and

they're going, Hey we're gonna move away.

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We're gonna go over here.

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One of the things that we will always

do as your pastors first and foremost is

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say, don't go to the east of the Jordan.

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Don't go east of the Jordan.

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And also hey, where are

you gonna end up at church?

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And I appreciated this.

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I just had a conversation yesterday with

a couple here in the office as I was

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talking to them and they were saying,

Hey, can, we'd love to get some counsel

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because we're considering moving there's

a job situation, things like that.

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And I said, well, what about church?

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And they said, well, we've looked

into churches in this area that

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we're considering moving and we've

looked at two or three of them and

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there's some solid churches there.

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They knew where they were gonna go.

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And we have a concern for that.

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And that's why we really want

to encourage our people not to

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move too far away because the.

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Further away you are from what's

taking place in the community and

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the body of Christ, the harder

it is to be an active part of it.

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And the more it's gonna be tempting

to, to drift away from some of the

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commitment to the body of Christ.

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And I think we see that a little bit here

with the warning to these trans tribes.

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Hey.

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Don't drift.

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You're going back across the

Jordan, don't drift from what God

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is doing here in the Promised Land.

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This is the promised land.

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This is where Israel's

supposed to be, don't drift.

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In fact, they even feel a sense of that

danger because they build that altar when

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they get over there to say, Hey, we don't

want you guys to forget about us either.

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And so I think chapter 22 is a good

reminder for us that being close to

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what God is doing is a good thing and

there's not good churches everywhere.

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True.

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Yeah.

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That's an assumption you

can make moving somewhere.

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Yeah, I've made that assumption.

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Yeah.

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I've moved to places and just made

the decision based off of the job

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offer or this or that, like this one.

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And I haven't, and I haven't

I haven't thought about that.

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I've assumed, I've assumed right,

that that's just gonna be there.

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It's just an automatic,

but it's not a guarantee.

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Right.

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And you can have a church, I don't know.

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Lemme just try to say

this in a loving way.

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You can have a church doctrinal

statement that's on point,

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like, yes, I agree with that.

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This, the preaching can

be so good and so great.

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But there's still something different

about being among the people and

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feeling what that feels like and

getting a sense of the people.

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In fact, someone recently

complimented us instead.

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I've been around a lot of

churches, but you guys have

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a really good community here.

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This is a good thing.

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I notice it.

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I feel it.

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It's more than just

superficial hiyas and goodbyes.

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And I was thankful for that because

I think we, we think that, we

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think, yeah, we've got a great

church, we've got a great community.

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It's helpful when an

outsider says that to you.

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And I just wanna encourage

you, if you're thinking about.

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Taking up your tent and

moving it somewhere else.

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Just be thoughtful about putting

in a lot of time and energy into

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finding the right church home and

knowing that it's more than just the

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doctrinal statements and the preaching.

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And I think chapter 22 is

such a good reminder because

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that proximity is important.

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We think that because of our

technology, it's not as big a deal.

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It still is though.

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It's physicality is so important when it

comes to being part of the body of Christ.

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Yep.

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All right, well, let's flip

over to Luke chapter six.

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And there's a lot going on here.

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Luke's condensing a lot in our

reading with what he just kinda rapid

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fire goes through, through here.

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And he even talks about

some of the beatitudes here.

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And there's a difference between,

or at least a, some suggests there's

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a difference between the sermon

on the mounts, which we read in

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Matthew and the sermon on the plane,

which some people attribute this

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to being here in Luke chapter six.

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So, note, pastor Rod, you were preaching

through Matthew with our student

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ministry right around the time that you

and Lewis made the transition there.

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But I'd love to get your insights on,

do you think this is two different

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occasions that Jesus is teaching similar

material, or do you think this is

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a, the same thing recorded different

times Once by Luke and once by Matthew.

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So we're reading the Gospel of Luke,

which is one of the synoptic gospels.

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You think about the word sin

synonymous, sin syncopation.

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I dunno.

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That's the only sin that came to my mind.

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Now, SYN usually means

something that's alike.

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Another thing.

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And so the synoptic gospels

share the same content.

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By and large, Matthew, mark, and

Luke all have a lot of commonalities.

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Now, the question that we have to

ask is, are we reading commonalities

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that are meant to say same time, same

place, and just the same content?

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Or are some of these commonalities

found in different places?

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And I would agree that, or I would

argue that the beatitudes that we're

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reading here, rather the the sermon

on the plane is a different time and

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place, although the content's the same.

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And that would make sense.

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If you're an itinerant rabbi and

you're going from place to place,

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you're gonna have your similar

sermons that you're gonna preach.

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And it's a different audience.

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So the content's gonna

be slightly different.

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But I do think this is a good

example of, though it's a same topic,

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it's different audience, different

time, different location, mark.

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I agree.

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I concur.

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You're, thank you.

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You're synonymous with him.

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You're, you're with him in that.

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Yeah, I am simpatico.

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How about, let's back up

beginning of our reading here.

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Why is the Sabbath such a big deal?

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Let's kick that around for a second.

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They try to trap Jesus

a couple of times here.

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The first time it has to do with

the disciples picking heads of

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grain and they're gonna accuse

the disciples of harvesting.

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And they're gonna say that that was work.

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They're breaking the law.

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This is part of the oral law, by the way.

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This is not the recorded law.

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And they're gonna say they're working.

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And so we're calling them

guilty for breaking the Sabbath.

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And then after this, there's

a man with a withered hand

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that comes into the synagogue.

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On the Sabbath and they're trying to,

again, see what Jesus is gonna do.

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Will he break the Sabbath by

doing work on the Sabbath?

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Why does the Sabbath

matter to them so much?

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And why do we not treat the

Sabbath the same way that they did?

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The Sabbath to them is very important

because it goes all the way back

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to the Old Testament where God in

fact commanded it and your children

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probably know the command to, to

honor the Sabbath and keep it holy.

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So it is appropriately, it some

sense, something that should

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be significant to these people

and they should care about it.

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What we're seeing though, and what you're,

you've alluded to is that they are using

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the Sabbath in some inappropriate ways,

in ways that God did not intended for it.

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Pretense originally.

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Yeah.

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And they're also using this

topic to try to ensnare Jesus.

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So we don't, when it says honor the

Sabbath we take, that we would set aside.

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That's not something that

we're beholden to anymore.

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See, this is where I think we,

we can overplay our hand because

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it's one of the 10 commandments.

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Yeah.

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I don't think we can forget

how big a deal that is.

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We're saying one of the 10 commandments

no longer abides or no longer applies to

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us in the same way that it did to them.

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And we are saying that yes,

we are, but it's a big deal.

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Yeah.

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So you ought to be careful.

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We need to be careful in the way that

we talk about that in recognizing

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that this is a big shift in the way

that we understand the law of God.

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The Sabbath pointed to the Sabbath

rest that Jesus himself would initiate

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by his death and his resurrection.

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What were you gonna say, pastor Mark?

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I cut you off.

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I don't remember, but.

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Based on what you just said now, so

should we be keeping the Sabbath?

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Some would argue that we should, and

they still have church on Saturdays.

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Are you part of that sum?

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I will sometimes go to those church.

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I'm just kidding.

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I don't.

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I'm okay with Saturday Church,

but I would not make it a law.

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And that's where I think we

would diverge with some and.

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Certain denominations within our

ranks, and there's even questions

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about whether or not those people

are even within the faith, right?

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In a true sense, because they're

adding something that has to

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be done to your salvation.

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They're called sabots.

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But you might know them

under different names.

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Seventh Advent Seventh Day Adventists.

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Right.

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They're saboteurs in that they believe

you have to go to church on Saturday.

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And they would say, well, look,

the Old Testament says, so it's,

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above all else, keep the Sabbath.

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Right?

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You just quoted it.

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Honor the Sabbath and keep it holy.

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We've diverged and we do that

in part because of the tradition

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established by the New Testament

Church when they met on the Lord's Day.

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It's called the Lord's Day 'cause

that's when the Lord raised

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from the dead, and that began a

new trajectory for the church.

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Later on, Paul would say, there's

neither new Moon nor Sabbath.

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Some of those Sabbath day regulations

and the observances have been

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fulfilled in Christ to the extent

that we are no longer bound by those.

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Now, that doesn't mean that we can't.

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I still honor the principle, which is

there's one day a week where we gather

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for worship and to honor the Lord.

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And again for Israel,

it was Saturday for us.

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It's now Sunday.

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I think the book of Hebrews

is super helpful too.

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Hebrews chapter four specifically,

he deals a lot with the subject

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of rest, and he says in Hebrews

four, four, he is somewhere spoken

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of, the seventh day in this way.

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And God rested on the seventh

day from all his works.

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And again, the passage, they

shall not enter my rest.

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Then he says, since therefore

it remains for some to enter it.

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And then he says we need

to strive to enter it.

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And he says in verse eight, if Joshua

had given them rest, God would not

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have spoken of another day later on.

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So then there remains a Sabbath rest for

the people of God, for whoever has entered

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God's rest has also rested from his works.

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So I think the writer of Hebrews there

is even saying the Sabbath is now

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fulfilled in the future rest that we're

gonna have in eternity with the Lord.

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And so that was always what the

Sabbath, I think was make the point

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to, is that the rest and the rest

that we were one day gonna have from.

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Everything now that Christ is

here, Christ is the Lord of the

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Sabbath that's fulfilled in him.

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And this future rest becomes the Sabbath

rest that we're anticipating now.

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So we're no longer perpetuating the

earthly shadow of it because we have

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the substance in Christ and we are

now already not yet enjoying that

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rest even in Christ as we look forward

to being with him in the future.

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One of the other things that might be

helpful for you, just as you read your

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own Bible, is all the other commandments,

all the other 10 commandments of the

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other nine are reiterated in the New

Testament in one form or another as

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commands, and the exception would be the.

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Specific command of the Sabbath

and keeping that specific day.

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So just as you read your Bible, look

for those sort of things because that's

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important and it's important for you

to even be able to identify what is Old

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Testament versus what is New Testament.

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Not just in terms of where your

page is split in your Bible, but

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in terms of how God is working.

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Yeah.

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That's good.

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That's good.

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Well, let's pray then.

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We're done with this episode.

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Lord, help us to read carefully,

even just thinking about this episode

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of these questions that we have.

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I pray that we would read carefully,

that we would read thoughtfully, that we

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read well Lord, that we would consult,

study Bibles and commentaries and ask

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good questions of the text and be able

to rest in the answers that you give us.

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We know that there's a lot

that we can't understand.

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The secret things do belong to you, but

I pray that we would at the same time.

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Lord, not just read lazily or not just

read in such a way that, that we're not

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really thinking about the implications

or thinking about the hard stuff.

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And so help us, Lord, to

wrestle with those things.

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And Lord I pray at the same time

that you'd protect our faith as

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we do wrestle with them and keep

our confidence fully in you.

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And so we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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We'll keep reading that way and

keep reading the Bibles and we will

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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