00:00 Intro Things
00:11 The Big Announcement Tease (We're Not Buying a Building)
01:12 Church Bus and Cyber Truck Discussion
03:27 Voice Issues and Health Update
05:42 Biblical Insights: 1 Chronicles 13-16
15:00 The Importance of Music in Worship
17:09 Closing Remarks and Prayer
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Hey everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Pothole podcast.
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:Hello and good Lord's Day to you.
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:It is the day that we told you to
make sure that you're at church for.
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:We'd like you to be there.
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:We'd like you to be there.
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:Everybody's been asking everybody.
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:We've been getting so many tweets.
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:My mom even texted me.
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:She said, what's the big announcement?
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:Oh wow.
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:She's texting you.
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:Huh?
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:She texted trying to get
privileged information.
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:She's trying to find it out.
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:How dare she?
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:She did me told her.
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:Of course you did.
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:Of course you told her.
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:I don't know yet.
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:'cause I just got the text and
we're recording this early.
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:Oh.
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:So I haven't yet decided.
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:So if you wanna sway me one way
or the other, I'm hoping for
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:her, I'd be okay with you telling
your mom as long as she can keep.
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:Keep it buttoned down.
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:She is very active on social media.
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:She posts all over the place all the
time and she's Hey, I've got news.
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:If you want insider information.
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:She was retweeted by Dr.
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:Moeller not too long ago.
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:She is the mole.
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:If we have any, if we have a mole,
it's it's her, she she leaks things.
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:No, we are excited about today.
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:And we want you there and we don't wanna
spoil it for you if you're not there yet.
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:We're not gonna give the announcement
out just yet, but tomorrow's podcast
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:maybe if you're gonna find out about it.
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:Yeah, you'll find out.
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:You'll find out for sure.
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:It's it's good Stuff's stuff
you wanna hear from us.
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:And we do want you to hear from us.
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:Yeah.
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:We don't want it to be from somebody else.
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:Hey, just to be clear.
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:Just to be, are we getting a building?
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:We're not getting a building.
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:We're not getting a building.
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:We're not buying anything.
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:We're not buying, we're not getting
a bus or something like that.
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:Nope.
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:A church bus would be fun.
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:I used to have I didn't have a church
bus, but I used to be connected
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:to a church that had a church bus.
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:Man I wonder, it's more of a van
actually, but the idea, yeah.
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:I wonder how that would
work in today's culture.
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:As long as there's windows
and it's not white, it's know,
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:looking all creepy and weird.
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:Yeah, no, that's true.
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:No, I just wonder because you're right.
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:People used to drive the van
through the neighborhood and
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:kids would come out and Yeah.
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:Come to church.
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:Yeah.
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:Pick them up.
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:Families would.
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:Yeah.
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:That'd be an interesting concept.
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:Maybe we could give it a try.
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:Drive through all the bougie neighborhoods
around and be like, Hey, come to church.
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:I don't know that they would do that.
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:Yeah, I don't know either.
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:Unless we get a cyber truck
that might sway a couple people.
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:Did you hear that?
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:Our own Mark Kogan, our director
of kids men donating a cyber truck.
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:No.
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:But he and Julia went on a date
and they test drove a cyber truck.
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:Is that right?
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:They did.
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:Just for Yucks, huh?
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:Yeah.
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:Or is he seriously considering one?
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:I wouldn't be surprised if
he seriously considering one.
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:No, but it's down at
at the shops at Legacy.
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:You can test drive Tesla's down there
at the real the shop that's there.
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:And what did he say?
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:He loved it.
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:Of course he did.
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:I asked him about the wire
steering 'cause it's yeah.
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:Much more responsive.
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:And so they tried that out.
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:He was like, you get used to it.
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:And but they just said the
dashboard is just massive.
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:It just goes on for 10 feet in
front of you and you sit much closer
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:up in it than is you're used to.
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:You're sitting almost
over the front wheels.
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:And so he said that was a little
bit difficult to get get used to.
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:But there's a guy in our neighborhood who.
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:Drives one that's wrapped
in an American flag graphic.
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:Oh, I've seen that one around.
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:Yeah.
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:And he's hard to miss.
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:He's a, he does wraps for a living,
so he bought the truck and wrapped
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:it to be able to write it off.
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:I think it's such a brilliant idea
'cause it's such a standout vehicle.
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:I've thought about like why
doesn't our church get one?
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:I.
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:You're volunteering to take
the hit if I have to do it for
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:the sake of the gospel, bro.
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:Okay.
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:Alright.
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:Look, I am at a pat.
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:There we go.
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:Anything, any place, anytime.
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:So if anybody wants to donate a
cyber truck to Pastor Rod, I will
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:wrap it with our, you will wrap
it with Pastor PJ's face and a
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:compass, a very small, comparatively
small Compass Bible Church logo.
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:Mostly Pastor PJ's face, though.
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:I'll just tell you right now, and like
an angry expression, like I'm preaching
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:Byron Brimstone with a web link.
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:Best pastor ever.com.
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:Oh my goodness.
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:Is that still live?
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:I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
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:Yeah, I bet you it is
pj@bestpastorever.com.
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:Yeah.
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:Wow.
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:That's one.
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:Hey guys, thank you for
praying for my voice.
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:I'm almost there.
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:I'm not there yet, though.
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:I'm planning, hopefully to sing this
weekend, but, woo, whatever I have.
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:You, some of you can still hear it.
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:If you have a good ear, you could
still hear some of what's in there.
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:But I don't have my upper voice.
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:I don't know what, I don't know.
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:I don't know if it's allergies.
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:I just got some blood tests recently.
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:Yeah.
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:And I'm, as, I'm as healthy as
I, I probably could be at my age.
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:I'm actually pre-diabetic.
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:I was told that I'm right on
the verge of being pre-diabetic.
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:Isn't that everybody though?
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:Like technically, yes.
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:Yes.
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:But I might like my, I don't know.
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:It's a point before.
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:I'm technically pre-diabetic,
so I'm looking at that.
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:But otherwise, I'm.
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:I'm healthy so I don't
understand what's going on.
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:Keep for that.
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:Yeah.
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:So is it that you're, you can't hit your
falsetto or like just your chest voice
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:can't get it to the, where you used to?
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:My chest voice is fine.
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:My chest voice is great.
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:Yeah.
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:The lower register pretty good.
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:It's when I start hitting the head voice.
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:Yeah.
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:It feels like there's a cotton ball.
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:On my vocal cords when
I hit my head voice.
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:Okay.
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:So if I push it, I either squeak
or I don't have any voice up there.
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:Squeak crazy.
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:That's amazing.
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:Isn't that crazy?
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:Yeah.
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:It's yeah, it's not like a teenager again.
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:So anyway you could pray for that.
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:Please keep on doing that.
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:I would like to have my voice back and
I don't know why God keeps doing this
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:is the second time this has happened.
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:The first one.
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:Paralyzed vocal cord, half a vocal cord.
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:Anyway.
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:Yeah.
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:And now I don't know I'm afraid to go
see the laryngologist or laryngologist
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:and find out what's going on.
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:I didn't even know there
was a laryngologist.
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:Yeah.
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:The, so the, yeah.
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:The ear, nose, throat person can
specialize in the vocal cords.
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:And that's the name of the
person I just mentioned.
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:Gotcha.
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:So he's guy.
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:Okay.
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:So like the singers
they go to this person.
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:Yeah.
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:And they put the scope down your throat.
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:Which, when they did that was so cool.
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:Yeah.
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:They put it through your nose and it goes
all the way down the back of your throat.
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:I think that's in.
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:Endoscopy.
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:Sure.
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:Somebody's gonna correct us on that one.
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:Sure.
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:We're talking out of our
lead way out of our lead.
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:I just know that when I
did it, it was so cool.
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:'cause they had the live feed and
they're looking at your, and they're
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:so they'll say okay, sing a note.
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:It was really cool to see and
I wish I'd taken a video of it.
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:'cause it was so fascinating
to see your vocal chord.
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:It was amazing.
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:They just, they vibrate together.
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:It's weird 'cause it's all
maybe this is TMI, there's.
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:Oh, saliva, phlegm, Fleming.
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:Yeah.
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:All sorts of things back there.
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:Phlegm.
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:Anyway, you practicing your
Hebrew before you went in there.
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:Basically, please keep on praying.
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:Thank you so much for your prayers.
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:I look forward to more.
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:Good.
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:Good.
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:We're well.
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:We enjoy you singing, so we're glad
that your voice is getting back.
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:Hey, one Chronicles 13 through 16.
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:That's our our work today
that we've got cut out for us.
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:And so as we jump in here in one
Chronicles 13, David and Israel
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:decide to bring the arc to Jerusalem.
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:But in doing so, they
make a massive mistake.
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:So let's catch up here.
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:The arc you remember has not
been in Jerusalem because it was
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:carried into battle, and then
they were like, wait a minute.
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:The Philistines were trusting
in the arc, not in God.
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:And so the Philistines captured
the arc and then the arc was sent
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:back and it's been MIA for a while.
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:They, although there's a moment
where it mentions that Saul called
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:for the arc and we didn't really
comment on that, but that's, I.
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:That's, I can't remember exactly
the passage there, but I think it's
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:towards the end of Saul's life when
he's up against the Philistines and
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:it says they called for the arc, but
there's a potential there that instead
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:of arc, it was actually the what's
the vestment that the priest wore?
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:The EO Yeah, thank you.
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:The eod, not the arc that
he was calling for the EO.
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:And there's reason being because
in the context he's calling for
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:it in order to seek God's will and
direction in a particular matter.
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:That really was never done with the arc.
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:They wouldn't go to the arc.
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:To seek God's direction and will and
besides that, to our knowledge, the
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:arc is still chilling where it was.
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:And that's, we know that too
because David goes to bring it
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:up here in one Chronicles 13.
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:So it seems when it said in the text that
Saul called for the arc, that there was
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:probably a textual corruption, that it
was probably the e thought instead that
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:he was asking for there in that context.
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:But David says, no, we
need to bring the arc back.
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:It's time.
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:And so he goes to do this,
but he makes this mistake.
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:And the mistake that he makes is they
don't obey the law, which committed
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:that the arc should be carried on poles.
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:Instead, they take the arc and they put
it on this cart, and the cart's gonna
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:be pulled at behind the oxen here.
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:And as happens from time to time,
the oxen on the journey back they
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:stumble, they go to fall, and za who's
nearby, reaches out to steady the arc.
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:And in so doing, God gets
angry and kills Za on the spot.
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:Then David gets angry.
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:And says, fine, I'm not gonna do this.
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:And leaves the ark in the house
of Obed Edem who was nearby there,
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:says I'm not doing this anymore.
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:We're not bringing this up.
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:This was supposed to be a day of
celebration, a day of victory, and God
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:killed Za for simply trying to help.
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:And so David is throwing this pity party,
making za out to be the innocent one here.
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:And yet I always love
Sproul's comment on this.
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:I always go back to this, that USA's
greatest flaw was thinking that the.
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:Ground was dirtier than he was.
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:That the arc would be mor defiled by
the touch of the dirt on the ground
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:than the touch of a sinful human being.
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:And and I think that's dead on what's
going on here but one Chronicles 13, this
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:is the first attempt that doesn't go well.
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:Yeah, I think the challenge for us is to.
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:We could do something similar.
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:We don't know, have an arc, we don't
have priests and Levites, so we don't
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:get to see some of the exalted nature
of how God presents himself to Israel.
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:They have that advantage.
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:On the other hand, we have the
advantage of being post cross post
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:resurrection, post the glory of God
being poured out rather the wrath
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:of God being poured out upon Jesus.
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:And so we have a better idea
of what God's holiness demands.
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:And yet, ironically, we probably
struggle more to hold God in high
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:regard and to treat him lowly because.
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:We don't see things like this.
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:Nia and S are the last people I know
of that are immediately dealt with.
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:In the church age.
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:Yeah.
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:God doesn't intend to do this very often.
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:If ever, I guess I don't
know of any stories.
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:I'm not saying that they're not
happening, but I don't know of any yet.
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:The problem remains that we can treat
God lowly, and this is why our church
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:says this is one of our distinctives.
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:We aim to keep a high view of
God because we recognize it's not
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:just that we're ex, we're not.
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:Lifting God up as though he were lowly.
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:We keep a high view of God because
that's the reality and this, these
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:are stories that are meant to capture
some of that for us so that we are
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:reminded to keep God in high esteem.
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:He often, I don't know he
mercifully allows us to.
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:Sinful to do sinful things, but he doesn't
do that because he's afraid or because
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:he's impotent, rather it's his mercy.
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:We should never take that mercy
for granted and presume upon him.
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:I wonder if we see an example of it
maybe in one one Corinthians five, I.
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:That when Paul says, there
you're to deliver this man to
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:Satan for the destruction of his
flesh so that his spirit may be
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:saved in the day of the Lord.
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:I could see like physical affliction,
but the kind of immediate, you're dead.
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:Yeah.
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:You sinned against God.
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:You took the communion in an unholy way.
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:Boom.
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:You're dead.
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:That doesn't happen to
my knowledge very often.
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:I think you're right on that.
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:Then chapter 14, we get into a situation
that, that parallels the events that
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:we just read about in Second Samuel
chapter five with the two battles.
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:And so here we have, I think this is
our first instance of reading the same
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:thing again but this time through First
Chronicles rather than through Samuel.
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:And so we're gonna see this quite
a bit through the rest of of
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:first and second Chronicles in
our study of first and second.
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:Second Samuel, but the, these there's
a lot of similar ground covered here.
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:One thing of note though, in second
Samuel 5 21 it says that David's
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:men carried away the idols that
were left behind by the Philistines.
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:So you might read that and
think, oh man, that's not good.
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:Why did they take these idols?
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:That may be I.
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:Tempting them to go and worship
them, or maybe you're gonna give
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:them the benefit of the doubt.
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:And that was the ancient near Eastern
custom where they would take them and
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:they would put them in the temple of
their God and flex over 'em that way.
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:Maybe that's what they
were trying to do there.
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:But we get some clarity here
in the first Chronicles account
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:because in one Chronicles 1412,
we read that they actually took
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:the idols and they burned them.
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:So these are, this is an example
where you've got two situations and
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:they don't contradict each other.
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:But it's, that one doesn't give all
the detail that the second one gives.
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:And that's why the Chronicles and Samuel.
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:Parallel is so good for us to read
these things in concert together
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:because it's gonna add color and add
layers, add depth to our understanding
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:of the scripture in the accounts
of what actually took place there.
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:So they didn't take
the idols to keep them.
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:I.
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:They took them to burn them, to
destroy them, which is what they end
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:up doing First Chronicles chapter 15.
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:Then here we got David bringing the
ark back this time the right way.
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:And so bringing it back this time, the
right way he does have it carried by
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:the Levites here this time in accordance
with the loss of David is very careful.
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:And in fact, I think in
the second Samuel account.
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:That will read it even talks about them
sacrificing something every so many
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:steps here it just says they sacrificed
seven bulls in, in seven rams, I believe.
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:But this was a time where David
was gonna be very intentional, very
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:careful to do this the way that
God had committed them to do it.
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:And so that's what we read about here.
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:With David celebrating, and that's
what this was, it was a party.
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:In fact, first Chronicle 16 is gonna
build upon this, with this song of praise
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:when the arc is installed in its tent.
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:But everybody's excited
here except for Mical.
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:Mical is despising David, and again,
the Samuel account will give us a
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:little bit more of an understanding
of that, but Mical is certainly not
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:happy that the arc is coming back.
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:Not so much that she's not
happy with her husband.
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:Her husband isn't the
king she wanted him to be.
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:And that that is evidencing itself here.
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:But ironically, the contrast is David
is the king that God wanted him to be.
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:And that, that's a good reminder for us.
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:And sometimes I.
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:Following the Lord means that
your family even may hate you.
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:Your family may des despise and
detest you, and yet you need, at
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:the end of the day, need to be sure
that man, if you are following the
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:Lord, that's the better portion.
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:That's the better place to be is to
be in a place of obedience to God
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:rather than a place where you've got
marital bliss and everything's good
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:at home and everything else like that.
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:It's, it is better for you to be faithful
to the Lord and obedient to him than to
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:compromise in order to have unity at home.
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:Amen to that.
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:Yeah.
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:Jesus said it came to bring division.
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:And often even though we don't practically
experience that on a day-to-day basis
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:it should be that our commitment to
him is so high that our comparative
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:love for others looks like hatred.
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:That our commitment to Jesus is our
highest and greatest allegiance, and
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:that is gonna cause problems for us.
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:Yeah, it is, for sure.
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:Chapter 16, this chapter gives a much
greater level of detail on the ARC's
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:installation in Jerusalem than we find
in Second Samuel six second Samuel six 17
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:through 20 is, is basically it there, but
here it's gonna expound much more on it.
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:Verse two.
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:You've got an interesting situation here
where David brings the assembly together
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:and he it says there blesses the people.
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:And I believe also it's in this
context where he's offering.
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:And so that's a, a, a.
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:Unique situation because that was usually
something reserved for the priest.
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:Now I think there's multiple
ways to look at this.
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:Either David was given
special ability to do that.
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:Yeah.
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:When David finished offering the burnt
offerings and the peace offerings,
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:or what we're to read here is when
David finished doing this through
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:the acts of the priest, pastor Rod.
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:Do you have a view on
that one way or the other?
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:I tend to think that he's,
wow, this is challenging.
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:I think it fits nicely to see him
functioning in a priestly like role.
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:He's wearing the linen EOD in verse
27 at chapter 15, and because of his
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:unique position in Israel's history,
as the one who pointed forward to
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:the ultimate True and better David,
I could see that making sense.
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:Although it would be un unusual, highly
unusual for a king to do priestly type
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:things without anyone batting an eye.
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:But it I think that makes the.
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:Best sense given his future
pointing to the anti type Jesus.
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:Yeah, I would agree.
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:Yeah.
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:In this this chapter we get here psalm
that appears, shows up right in the middle
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:of the chapter and it's meant to do that.
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:You, you've got something in Hebrew
called a chiasm which is a way that
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:sometimes the chapter was written to
emphasize something and the point of
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:emphasis was the center section here.
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:And that is this praise psalm
which is in found in verses eight.
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:Eight eight through 36 there.
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:And this is something that is
meant to draw our attention
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:to this, our focus to this.
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:You've got the Levites being appointed
in Jerusalem right before that.
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:Then you've got the All Levites being
appointed in Gibeon right after that.
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:You've got David blessing all
Israel to open the chapter.
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:Then God blessing David
to end the chapter.
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:And so it's in this stacked point
to emphasize this praise psalm
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:that we find here right in the
middle of of one Chronicles 16.
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:Any other notes on First Chronicle
16 PR that you wanted to?
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:Call out.
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:I no, let me just say this
'cause I do have things to say.
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:I have lots of thoughts.
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:You guys might have caught that by now.
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:I want you to pay attention
to something unique to David
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:that still influences us today.
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:Now, David's in responsible for a lot
of positive change in Israel's history.
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:And in particular, one of the things
that he's known for is he institutes the.
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:The class of Levites who are
responsible for Israel's worship.
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:He's also the guy who's
writing all these psalms.
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:Yeah.
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:He's writing so many psalms that
some of them, this is I think Psalm
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:1 0 5 that we're looking at mostly
here in, in first Chronicles 16.
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:Just notice the role that music plays.
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:And this is the first time in Israel's
history where there's a formal class of
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:people that are now called the musicians.
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:They're the ones who to write songs.
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:You got people whose names are
now recognized as the songwriter.
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:You got asap, you got David, of course
you got, as Ezra, he I forget who he read
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:this morning or who I read this morning.
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:You guys are gonna be on
a slightly different plan.
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:But anyway, just notice the role that
music plays in Israel's history and
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:now how Today because of what David
did, we now possess their songbook.
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:We sing many of their songs today.
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:I.
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:I want you to see how important it's that
God gives us this resource and this access
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:to showcase how important singing is.
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:I know you're expecting this from
the worship pastor, and this is
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:not gonna be my job for forever.
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:I don't think just doing it
right now as we need the role.
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:But I just want, I want you
to see singing's important.
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:We typically do it for our kids.
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:We make our kids sing, we make
them learn all the songs and that,
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:Genesis acts, those vitus, the songs
that teach the Bible, that man.
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:We don't outgrow this.
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:This is a grown man, the king of Israel,
who points to the ultimate king of Israel.
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:In fact, even Jesus, before he
was go gonna be crucified, he sang
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:a hymn with his disciples, grown
men singing I, and it's so unusual
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:for us today in 2025 to do this.
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:But I just want to reinforce the fact.
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:Singing and music is super important in
God's economy of what worship looks like.
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:It's more than worship,
it's more than singing.
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:That is, but it's not less than that.
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:Yeah.
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:And we even see that's part of the early
church from the very beginning, it was
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:something that they were practicing
together not only in Acts, but also in
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:the diday, which is something that is
not scriptural, but it's a, the oldest
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:representation of what the early church
was like that, that we have, I believe.
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:Hymns in, in the DECA as well.
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:This is something that was intended by
God to be part of our worship services.
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:That's right.
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:Absolutely.
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:100%.
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:And it's it's a good thing for us to do.
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:I agree.
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:So come ready to sing on Sunday.
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:Yep.
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:Let's let's pray.
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:God, thanks so much for your
word and thanks for music.
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:We're grateful even for the way
that music will stick in our ears.
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:It will stick with us throughout the day
and we will remember these things and sing
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:these songs as they pop into our minds.
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:We're grateful for that.
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:We pray that you would do that
for us, that you would keep your
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:truth coursing through our minds
in good music, good songs, things
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:that, that cause us to worship you.
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:And we're grateful for the example
of that we have in scripture.
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:So we pray for a great rest
of our day in Jesus name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep reading your Bibles.
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:Tuning again tomorrow for another
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:See you church.
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:Bye.
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:Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said