Daily Bible Podcast: Men's Bible Study Recap and Judges 19-21

In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts recap the Men's Bible study, focusing on three key attributes for men: being able to teach, being hospitable, and being respectable. The discussion emphasizes the importance of being ready to communicate and defend the truth in various contexts. The episode also highlights the completion of the Book of Judges, specifically chapters 19-21, detailing the disturbing and depraved state of Israel during the time. The hosts emphasize God's sovereignty even amidst human wickedness and encourage listeners to interpret the Bible with faith and submission. Additionally, there are reminders about upcoming church activities, including door-to-door outreach for Easter invitations.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:03 Men's Bible Study Recap

00:14 Attributes for Christian Men

01:13 Hospitality in Christianity

01:44 Respectability and Its Importance

02:28 Breakfast Burritos and Fellowship

02:43 Sunday Sermon Preview

03:03 Communion and Its Significance

04:16 Outreach and Evangelism Plans

04:43 Book of Judges: A Grim Conclusion

06:00 The Depravity of Israel

06:47 Civil War and Its Consequences

09:21 The Aftermath and Lessons

11:47 God's Sovereignty Amidst Evil

12:43 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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It is Sunday and hey, we had Men's

Bible study yesterday, pastor Rod.

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How'd you think it went?

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It was, it happened.

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It happened.

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I.

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It happened?

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No, I thought it was good, man.

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It was it was encouraging.

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You spoke on three different attributes

for for us as men to to begin

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practicing and putting it into place,

and able to teach was one of 'em.

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So you told the men that all

of them have to preach a sermon

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before the end of the year.

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Is that right?

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That's right.

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That's right.

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So starting today, when you

get to church, one of the men.

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Unbeknownst to him is scheduled to preach

and he just has to be ready to jump up on

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the stage when we call his name at random.

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Yeah.

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It's like the Plymouth Brethren.

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Except, uh, we're just, we're

not gonna say, does anyone

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have a word we're gonna say?

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You have a word.

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You have a word.

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You have a word you will teach.

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Yeah.

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No, we didn't say that, but we did

say that every man has to be able, he

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should care about communicating truth.

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Totally.

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Doing so effectively and

defending it when necessary.

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And of course that happens

in a lot of different venues.

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It's.

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It's obvious in the family situation,

but a work context or even just

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hanging out with the buddies in

some kind of a, I don't know,

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team sport or something like that.

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There's gonna be conversations that

you all have that will require knowing

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the truth and defending the truth and

being able to communicate it well.

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So I charge the men to do that.

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Hopefully they're practicing it already.

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Yep.

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And to be hospitable as well.

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Yep.

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To see your home as a place for

ministry opportunities and not

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just a safe haven for you to relax.

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That, that's part of the biblical command.

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There's actually a lot more on

that than, at first I realized

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scripture's pretty replete with.

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Examples of hospitality.

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And within the New Testament, there's

verses that are peppered all around that

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not only assume Christian hospitality,

but charge it and encourage it.

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Romans chapter 12 says that we

ought to strive to show hospitality.

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So it's not like we're just saying,

Hey, I'll do it if the opportunity

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arises, but that we're seeking it.

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And then the first point that

you had since we're working

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backwards, was to be respectable.

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We're, yeah, respectable is a really fun

one because I really appreciate this one.

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'cause it's.

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External.

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You can't see a man's

respectability on the inside.

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But it showcases on the outside and

that respectability looks at everything.

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It looks at the way that you conduct

yourself and the way that you dress,

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the way that your hair or don't do your

hair or even the words that you use.

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And so we looked at actually three areas,

your words, your works, and your witness.

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And said, okay, based on these

categories how do you feel like you're

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doing in terms of respectability?

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I got to hang out with

one of the small groups.

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That was fun.

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Got to hear some of the guys

processing through those questions.

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I think it was a, it's a good morning.

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It was a helpful

conversation that they had.

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I enjoyed it.

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Benefited me as well, just hearing

them think through those things.

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So hope the men benefited

from the whole thing.

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And breakfast burritos.

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We had some really good breakfast

burritos from Valerie's.

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That was a win.

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There was, they were substantial.

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They weren't Chipotle

size, but they were hefty.

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They were, I appreciated that.

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Bigger than Chick-fil-A.

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Yes.

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That's for sure.

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Bigger than the Chick-fil-A's for sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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This morning we are

still in John's gospel.

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We're finishing up chapter 18

big section 12 through 40 today.

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Wow.

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But it's buckle up for

a long sermon, folks.

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It's not as long as you would think.

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I already preached Peter's denials

back in John 13, so we're covering

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some familiar territory there.

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And a lot of it's narrative.

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There's a lot of movement there.

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But four point sermon, and then we've got

communion today too, so Oh yeah, we do.

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The Lord's table, the Lord's Supper.

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In fact, you'll notice a

difference in our communion today.

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You will notice that is not

the chalky little disc in

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the bottom of the cup there.

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Thank the Lord.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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You're gonna have actual matsa bread that

has been broken and that was intentional.

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And just the idea of Christ

talking about his body broken.

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And that is, I think something even just

visually there that is, is important.

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Thomas Watson was reading a book of

his from the Puritan paperback series

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called The Lord's Supper, and he makes

the argument therein that he talks about

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that the ordinance is preached a sermon.

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And even a better sermon

than what's in the pulpit.

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He says, he said he did say that.

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Yeah.

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Now we may differ on that, but he

does say the ordinances preach that

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the visible representation there.

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And I agree with him on that.

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When we look at the elements,

we see the bread broken.

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And that's one of the reasons why

we're going to this broken matza.

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And and then the, we see the cup, and

even though we use grape juice, it's

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that red color, it's that dark color

that reminds us of the blood of Christ.

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And so it's a visual sermon for

us to take in every time we.

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We observe the Lord's supper together.

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And same with baptism, which is the

only other ordinance that we have

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as a Protestant church also preaches

in the death of the old man and the

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resurrection of the new man buried with

Christ and raised with Christ in that.

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There you go.

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That's what's coming up this Sunday.

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And then after church, we are

going out to hit more houses.

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Now, I wasn't able to get out today

'cause we had a meeting this morning,

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but we had quite a few people go out.

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I think a handful of people go out

and blanket some neighborhoods on

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Saturday as we're recording the set.

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That's why I say today.

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But Sunday we are also sending out another

team and I'll be there with my family.

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We're gonna go out and participate in

trying to reach some neighborhoods,

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reach some houses there, trying

to hit 4,000 homes before Easter

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with invitations to join us for

our Easter events and services.

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Should be a good time.

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Let's let's jump into the

water judges 19, 20, and 21.

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We are finishing the Book of Judges today,

and then tomorrow we've got a brand new

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book that's only gonna take us one day,

believe it or not, book of Ruth one day.

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And then we'll be in

First Samuel after that.

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But as we finish up the book of

Judges I made reference to it.

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I don't know if it was yesterday's

episode or the day before, but the

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book of judges does not end well.

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It does not end on a high

note and today's reading is.

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It's rough.

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Chapter 19, this is a disturbing chapter.

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There's no other way around it.

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The Levi in his concubine and basically

the story of it is she ends up.

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Being abused to the point of

death by the people of Gibbon.

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Gibeon was an Israelite town in the

tribe of Benjamin, and they seek

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refuge there overnight, and the men

of the city being wicked come and want

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wickedness to to, to satiate their evil

desires, and he provides his concubine.

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And she ends up dying as a result

of the abuse that she suffers.

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The Levite returns home with her and

sends an unforgettable message, we'll just

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put it that way sends an unforgettable

message to the 12 Tribes of Israel to

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reveal the atrocities that have been

committed there by the Benjamin Knights.

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But this is.

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This is evil.

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This is wickedness.

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This is not good.

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There's nothing in this

chapter that God is condoning.

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He's not condoning the

presence of a concubine.

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He's not condoning the presence

of what's going on in Gibbon.

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He's not saying that this is good

just because it's in the Bible.

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This is in the evidence of the depravity

of man and how the depravity of man was

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increasing because there was no king in

Israel during this time, and everyone

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did what was good in his own eyes.

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And if this feels familiar, like maybe

you've read something about this before,

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that's because you remember Genesis 19

where essentially the same event happens.

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This is the infamous section

about Sodom and Gomorrah.

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And so the point is, yes, it is

that bad in Israel right now.

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It is so bad there as bad as Sodom

and Gomorrah, at least in some

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sections and specifically that of Gia.

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So this is meant to highlight.

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Demonstrate how quickly and how rampantly

Wicked has grown in their own ranks.

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That's a bad situation.

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You're absolutely right.

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But that's the point.

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Things are not good.

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They're really bad.

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So bad.

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They're Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Yeah.

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So chapter 20 then.

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Justice gets brought to the table

in a human form at least when

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when the Israelites come out

against the Benjamin Knights.

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And what's even more atrocious about

this is the be Benjamin Knights.

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They don't.

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Turn over the wicked men of the city.

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They basically say, Hey, take a hike.

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We're gonna defend our people here.

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And so the tribes gather and that civil

War breaks out and the Lord allows it.

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And what's interesting is it takes three

attacks before the Gibeon Knights and the

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Benjamin Knights are ultimately defeated.

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And I think the reason is God is

punishing not just the Benjamin

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Knights, but all of Israel right now.

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This is God saying.

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To, to everyone, to the point that you

were just making, there's wickedness

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throughout the entire nation.

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This is bad all the way around.

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There's no good guys anymore.

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There's bad guys and batter guys.

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And and God is demonstrating that here,

I think as it takes three times, three

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rounds before the Lord finally gives the

victory that that was necessary to bring

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justice against the Benjamin Knights.

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Which I also think suggests too, that

when we obey God, that doesn't mean

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that we're gonna experience immediate

success when we do the right thing.

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In fact, to the contrary, we will often

experience opposition to doing the

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right thing not only from those who we

expect, but maybe those we don't expect.

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Here.

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The expectation is that.

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Israel would be successful in

squashing gibbon in this particular

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area the tribe of Benjamin

because of their evil wickedness.

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So they're confused, rightly they're

saying man, Lord, should we go up again?

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This has not been going well.

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We expect that you'd be with us.

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And yet God is deliberate and intentional.

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And the fact that he's telling him, yes,

I do want you to go again, don't stop.

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Keep being obedient.

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Even if.

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The outcome isn't what you expect,

and I think that's an important

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preaching point for all of us.

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Just because we're doing the right thing

doesn't mean we're always gonna see

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the right or the expected consequences.

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We leave the consequences

to him even as we obey.

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Yeah.

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You'll also note in judges 20 verse one.

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There's the phrase from Dan to Beersheba.

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This is the first time this shows up.

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You'll recall from our

episodes last week that Dan has

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resettled now up in the north.

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This Dan de bras Sheba shows up 1, 2, 3,

4, 5, 6 times in the Old Testament here.

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And it's a geographical phrase that

basically means it's everything

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from the north to the south, I think

it's called aism, is what what they

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use in grammatical terms for this.

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And so it's.

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It's meant to encompass everything from

the north, all the way to the south.

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Dan to Beersheba that

shows up in Judges 21.

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You're gonna see it quite a few

times in first and second Samuel.

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When we get into our study of the

text there, chapter 21, then things

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go from bad to worse or bad batter.

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Baddest worst.

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It's just, it's still just

a horrible scene here.

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Like I said, judges did not end well.

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Wives are are necessary for Benjamin

because the people say, Hey, we don't

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want Benjamin to be snuffed out.

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We don't want to lose this tribe

that is is part of the 12 tribes.

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And so we need to figure out now

what we're gonna do for the men of.

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Of Benjamin because the wives had

been wiped out during this battle

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against them during the Civil War.

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And so they take these 600 men that

are left over and they say, how

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are we gonna get wives for them?

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They have this holy convocation where

all of the tribes were supposed to

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show up, and there was one area,

there was one town, Jes Gi, they

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didn't show up at this event.

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And these Israeli Israelis come against

them and end up taking them out and

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taking the virgins from Jesh Gilead and

bringing them to the Benjamin Knights.

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There's still not enough for

the Benjamin Knights there.

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So they're like, what are we gonna do now?

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Then they go on and they end up

kidnapping the Virgin Daughters

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from Shiloh and taking them back

and giving them to Benjamin instead.

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So it's just, you just, God is nowhere

in this, as far as condoning any of this.

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This is not God's plan

saying This is what's good.

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Go do this.

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And I'm rubber stamping this.

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This is men trying to deal

with the consequences of sin.

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And realizing, man it's messy when we

have sin and we don't go to the Lord

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and we don't try to figure this out in a

way that's honoring and pleasing to him.

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It just goes from bad to worse to worser.

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So if there's a single man who's listening

to this and or even reading this story

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and saying, you know what Preston

Wood has a couple young ladies that

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maybe they just need to be kidnapped,

it's bad and made to marry me we

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would discourage you from doing that.

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Don't do that.

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Yeah, please don't.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's the book of judges.

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It's it's meant to set

up the depravity here.

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And it, we're about to turn the page

into Samuel in a couple days here.

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Samuel ruled around this time as,

as well and he was really the last

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judge because the people said,

we don't want your sons anymore.

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Samuel's gonna be a highlight.

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But Samuel's not in the book of judges.

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The book of judges is just

meant to show us that Israel is.

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Depraved and wicked.

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And like you pointed out, there's even

parallels with Sodom and Gomorrah here,

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which you never want any parallels with

Sodom and Gomorrah anywhere in your life.

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And judges is just a testimony

to what what man does when man

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rejects the theocracy of God.

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When it says here, there was no king

in Israel in that time, I think it's

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an indictment, not just on the fact

that there's no human king in Israel.

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But they had rejected

the Lordship of God too.

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They had thrown off his rule, his

reign, his his kingship over them.

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This is, at this time a theocracy.

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That means that God is the ruler.

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God is the the one in charge.

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God is the king and they're rejecting him.

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And that's gonna come to full

fruition there in in one Samuel.

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But this is just a bad book.

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Yeah, it is.

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But notice here in verse 15, in

chapter 21, it says that the people

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had compassion on Benjamin because.

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The Lord had made a breach

in the tribes of Israel.

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And so even though scripture never

charges God with evil or wrongdoing,

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it's scripture's not afraid to show

or to say yeah, God's behind this.

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Even though, yeah, it's evil.

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There's bad things happening.

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God himself is not actively.

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The agent of operation when it

comes to the commitment of evil.

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He's working through willing

subjects and he uses sin sinlessly

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through people who are sinners.

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Who will the sin to take place.

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So again, just notice that

scripture's not apologetic about this.

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I just find this so fascinating

'cause you would expect some kind

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of here's the way it works, or

here's what we're trying to say.

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And you see a parsing out of how

the word functions and what they're

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trying to communicate doesn't.

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Do that.

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I love the boldness of scripture.

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It just drops it in your lap

and says, deal with that.

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Yeah.

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God is sovereign.

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Go figure it out.

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Yeah.

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Or don't just trust it.

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Let's pray and then we'll be

done with another episode.

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God, we we need an increase of

faith even along those lines.

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It's easy for us in a vacuum to believe

these things, and yet when the evil that

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that you have ordained, befalls us and

shows up in our life it's a lot harder.

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So God, guard us.

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I pray against a, an approach to your

word that is governed by our emotion,

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governed by what we feel in the moment.

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Though you've created those feelings

and emotions within us we really

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wanna come to your word and read it

to understand what it truly means

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and not what we feel in the moment or

what we feel is right or feel is fair.

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Help us to suspect our feelings even,

and to choose to truly believe what

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your word says when we come to it.

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Lord your word needs no apology.

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And it, it demands none from us.

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It demands.

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Mission to it.

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And so we want to be those that submit

and obey you completely and fully, and we

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need your spirit to enable us to do that.

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And so we ask for that in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep your Bibles tuning again

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See you.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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