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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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No, I, yeah.

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Agree with you.

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I think you're right on that.

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Yeah.

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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.

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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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And they talk about singing.

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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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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said