In this edition of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss the importance of fellowship events like the student ministry gathering at Pinstack in Plano. They emphasize the importance of building relationships in the church, relating it to the phrase 'relationships are the currency of the kingdom.' The conversation also delves into the theological balance between fun and teaching biblical truth. The episode then transitions to a detailed walkthrough of Leviticus chapters 26 and 27, explaining God's blessings and curses tied to obedience, and outlining the vows and valuation laws for Israelis. The hosts offer insights on vows in the New Testament context and discuss their personal fellowship experiences in community groups. The program wraps up with a prayer for integrity, generosity, and worship towards God.

00:00 Welcome and Weekend Plans

00:49 Importance of Fellowship in Ministry

03:16 Community Groups and Fellowship

04:26 The Difference Between Men and Women

05:03 Bible Reading: Leviticus 26 and 27

09:58 Discussion on Vows and Tithing

14:20 Closing Thoughts and Prayer

15:13 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up?

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It's Saturday.

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Hopefully you're getting

some rest and relaxation and

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getting ready for the weekend.

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Getting ready for tomorrow, getting

ready for Sunday, getting ready to come

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and worship God with your church family.

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Hopefully you're not sick.

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Hopefully you're not sick.

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Yeah.

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And if you have a student, send them

to the pinstack event this afternoon.

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Boom.

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Pinstack event down in Plano,

right off the toll road.

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That's right.

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I believe.

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I, yeah, that sounds about right.

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I've not been there yet.

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But I've seen all the

pictures and it looks amazing.

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Does it?

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That's great.

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I haven't been there either.

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It's bowling.

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It's laser tag.

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It's chicken tenders.

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I saw that chicken

tenders and French fries.

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Yeah.

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It's going to be amazing.

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I don't know where else you

can get that on a Saturday.

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Nowhere.

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Yeah, this is the okay.

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There's a lot of places, but

this place looks really nice.

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It looks like it's brand spanking new.

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And you can't get the fellowship with.

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The student ministry of true

north you cannot come to north

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texas only at pinstack plano.

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That's the only place exactly Which

is important I think You know, a

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lot of student ministries will build

their Identity on more of the event

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based the fun the atmosphere that

totally and there's in our theological

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camps There's a resistance to that.

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There's we need to teach

them the Word of God.

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No fun.

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Yeah, I'll buy it but this is equally

important and I think You've made that,

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that point before with some of the emails

you've sent out to parents but broader

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audience, people listening to this,

how, why, what makes this important?

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Why have parents spend money on this?

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Why put this on the calendar?

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Why do this when it's, you're not going to

be gathering them up together to say let's

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talk about the importance of bowling as it

relates to your relationship with Christ.

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How has the, what's the payoff?

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What's the positive on this?

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One of my old pastors used

to say relationships are

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the currency of the kingdom.

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And by that, I think he meant that

relationships are the thing that

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really make the Christian faith

attractive, make it workable, viable.

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Make it kind of work period.

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It's how we do business, so to speak.

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And so one of the things that we want to

be aware of, and we're teaching people,

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the Bible, they don't do that in a vacuum.

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We can't just transmit Bible

information and expect that

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to transform someone's life.

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It has to be done in the context of

relationship where people feel loved

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for cared for, honored, understood,

respected, yada yada, on and on it goes.

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And really some of the best

ways to do that are the

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things that a family would do.

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When you're having some family time,

you're going to go and play, you're

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going to walk at the mall or whatever.

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You're going to go do stuff together.

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That's what a family does.

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And so the church is a

larger extended family.

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And so we try to do families

type things where we're together,

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laughing, spending time, having fun,

talking about everything, talking

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about nothing, just doing stuff.

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And when we do that, what we

find is we create a context

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where people are more engaged.

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Willing to let their hair down and to talk

about real and important things because

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there's the context of trust and care

that makes everything else make sense.

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And so we don't divorce the things

that God has joined together.

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We don't tear us under fun

and relationships and Bible.

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We think all of those things fit

together and God has designed us.

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As human people embodied people

that love to have a good time.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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There's everything right with that So

we put those things together We never

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want to be the kind of ministry that

saying hey, all we do is talk about

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the bible And that should be enough

for you Why aren't you mature enough to

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just love the bible and can't you just

come and be excited about the bible?

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Because no one's that god didn't

design us to just be bible people He

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designed us to be people and that's

why we do everything that we do.

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We want to have a holistic ministry that

appropriately emphasizes biblical truth

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love for christ love for his body You Yes,

but that doesn't mean we can't take a nerf

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gun to someone's face every now and then

it's part of the fun of being a Christian.

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And that extends even into

our adult ministry as well.

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And that's one of the

benefits of community groups.

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Maybe not the nerf gun side of

things, although maybe though

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you're with, yeah, come on.

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The Kim's group gets a little bit crazy.

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Sometimes I think they, they're,

I heard they're the most unhinged.

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I that's, I'm going to visit

them in a couple of weeks here.

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So I'm pretty sure I'll find that out.

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But.

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But with our community groups, I think

every community group has it's not

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like people show up and they walk in

they immediately sit down They're like,

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let's get to the Bible one right now.

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Yeah I think there's, I know for

my group there's a fellowship time

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where we're hanging out together.

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We're talking, we're catching up

and we have dessert together each

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week and rumor has it, you guys

barely even get to the questions.

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You guys are getting so much fellowship.

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That's true.

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Two and a half hours of fellowship

and 15 minutes of the applications.

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Exactly.

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Yep.

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Because, yeah, because I know the

guy that preaches the sermons and

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he feels weird about discussing

the sermon that he preached with

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a bunch of people in the room.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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How good was the sermon guys?

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Let's talk about that.

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Let's talk about what was your favorite

part on a scale of eight to 10?

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What was the funniest

thing that the guy said?

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Yeah, and the people that

don't have anything to say we

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kick them out of the group.

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That's right Yeah, that's how

you keep a group of high quality.

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Yeah but you guys are talking, you

fellowship, all the fun things,

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that's what our community groups do.

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They create that, those

relationship contexts for people

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that make fun of each other.

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Yeah, exactly.

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All the things.

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Yeah.

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That's what a family does.

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All of it.

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In fact it's last night now, but Friday

night our ladies got together offline and

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had a ladies night where they were hanging

out and just spending time together.

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So that was, Oh, this is ladies night.

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Yeah.

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So typical guys though, none

of our guys have been like,

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Hey, can we do the same thing?

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We have enough time to get her guys.

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We're done.

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None of the guys have been like,

Hey, we should get together

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and hang out and do stuff.

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There's gotta be one guy

in every group though.

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There's always one.

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Yeah.

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It was like, guys, we should

do something and everyone else

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is okay, I guess you're right.

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We should.

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It's not going to be you though.

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I don't know who that

would be in our group.

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There's not going to be you.

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Yeah.

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Come on, Tim.

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Step it up.

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Yeah.

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Tim Morgan.

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Yeah morgan steps in morgan you

and tim work together step it up.

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There we go.

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There we go hey, let's jump

into our bible reading.

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We are finishing up the book of

leviticus today leviticus 26 and 27

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chapter 26 is real easy to remember

it breaks down into blessings and

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curses and this is The stipulations.

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This is the contractual agreement

that God is entering into with his

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people after the giving of the law.

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He says, look, if you do these

things here, the blessings

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that are going to come.

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If you're obedient, it's going

to bring good things to you.

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Agricultural blessings blessings of peace.

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Shalom is the word there

versus six through 10 there,

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Abrahamic covenant fulfillment.

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Elements here.

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Verse nine.

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I will turn to you and make

you fruitful and multiply you

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confirm my covenant with you.

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Again, the interweaving of the

Abrahamic covenant in the Mosaic

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covenant here, God's presence being

with them versus 11 through 13.

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He promises and says, I will

be with you as your God.

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You will be my people.

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That's an illusion that is pointing

to ultimately the final realization

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of that is going to be Revelation 21.

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In fact, in Revelation 21, God is going to

tell John that he will be with us as our

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God and we will be with him as his people

and that's going to be on the new earth.

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Earth.

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And so that's not really going

to fully be realized until then.

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But this is the holdout

of the promise here.

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He would be with them.

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And in the immediate sense, that's

going to be through his presence

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with them in the tabernacle and

then eventually in the temple.

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And so that's God's offer there.

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If you do these things,

here are the blessings.

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But then on the flip side, if you don't do

these things, if you're disobedient, these

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are the curses that are going to happen.

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And there's a general

escalation of each of these.

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That was meant to be disciplinary,

though, not destructive.

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God was not going to wipe them

out and forget about them and

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start over again from scratch.

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But if they ignore the discipline, these

curses are going to increase in the

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nature of their tragedy as time unfolds.

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And so there's, again, like the blessings

there's counterparts, agricultural

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curses, there's wild animals.

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There's war induced plague and famine.

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There's war induced atrocities, just

a lot of things that when you read

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these the drive should be, I don't

want to experience any of that ever.

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And that was the point.

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That was what God wanted the people

to walk away with and going, I

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don't want any of that to happen.

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And so what do we need to do?

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We should be obedient to the gap.

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And he always gave them

an escape clause too.

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They always had the opportunity to escape.

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Escape from the escalating disciplinary

response that God would give them.

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It's basically the old Testament version

of first John one, nine in verse 40.

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But if they confess their iniquity

and the iniquity of their fathers in

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their treachery that they committed

against me and also doing these things.

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So that I had to do

all these other things.

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And he says in verse 42, then

I'll remember my government,

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my covenant with him.

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So God was always willing and ready to

forgive and to reconcile and allow them to

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enjoy the covenant promises and blessings.

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If they would simply

acknowledge their sin.

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And you see a little bit of this.

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In the time of the Kings, when you have

good Kings and you have bad Kings and

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you have some Kings that are cutting

down the Asherah and drawing close to

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God again, and having a national kind

of repentance and a national revival

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and other Kings that would dig the knife

even further and say, Oh, we did a sin.

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We're going to do even more sin.

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We're going to repeat

the sins of Jeroboam.

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So all of this to see, you're

going to notice as we make our

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way through the Bible again, that.

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God is faithful to his covenant promises,

but he's also faithful to the covenant

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disciplinary responses as well But

god was always willing to forgive if

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they were willing to draw near and

confess their sin You brought up kings.

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Do you think we see a similar

pattern in the book of judges?

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Or do you think it's less

that and more just god's?

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Mercy in raising up judges because I

don't know As i'm just going through

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my mental rolodex of the book of judges

There's not a lot of direct repentance

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that we see I don't think there but the

people definitely cry out You Because of

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the oppression of the foreign nations,

because God, the people rebel, God brings

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a nation in to judge them, and then they

cry out and he raises up a judge there.

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It seems maybe that's more

just God's mercy than it is.

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Amen to that.

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I would agree.

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I think it's God's mercy

in the book of judges.

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I think in kings, you have a much better

view of a good king because God says this

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was, this is a good king, never in the

Northern kingdom, but he always makes

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it clear that the good kings get God's

good favor, which makes perfect sense.

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And the judges, I can't

see almost any of that.

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And not think this is entirely

god's mercy because he was under

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no obligation to respond to them.

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They were sinful They were doing the

wrong thing and god showed them mercy

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despite the fact that they didn't earn

it Yeah, and this is hopefully a reminder

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as you're listening to this I know you

know this but the idea that there's

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still time for repentance for anyone

in your life right now somebody that is

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Has walked away from the Lord somebody

that you thought was a believer who is

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demonstrated that they're not Somebody

who is not ever Looked like they're a

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believer and you've been praying for them

There's still time for them to repent and

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come back to the Lord In fact that the

Scripture say that repent while there's

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still time drawn near to him while there's

still time and God will abundantly pardon.

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And so there's not a point at which from

our perspective we can look at anyone

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and say that person is beyond the reach

of God's grace or God's mercy to enable

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them to repent and come back that may

exist in the category of of God's economy

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where God may Romans one, turn somebody

over, but we don't ever know that.

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And that's a mercy and

that's a grace of God.

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And in our lives to be able to say,

man, we can always go to somebody

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and say, Hey, come back to the Lord.

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There's time you can repent and

return and he will forgive you

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and you can be restored and you

can be brought back in amongst the

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place in God's family at any point.

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You're never beyond that.

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No one's ever beyond that.

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From our perspective.

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And then to that.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 27 there.

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Any anything else on, on 26?

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I'm good to go.

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Okay.

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Chapter 27, then we get into some of the

vows and I talked about this a little bit

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with the year of Jubilee, but these are

the valuations that are set for anyone who

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vowed themselves or an animal to serve the

Lord and then desire to redeem it later.

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Again, the remaining useful years between

the time of their decision and the year of

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Jubilee could be bought out from the Lord.

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And so if somebody pledged

themselves to Temple Service.

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And they needed to go back on that

they could buy themselves out from that

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dedication to the tabernacle service.

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And that could be offered to the Lord

and that would be given the amount of

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time between that and the year of Jubilee

or an animal or whatever it may be.

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And so this is within the economy of

Israel here, as they're wandering through

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the wilderness, these are ways that, that.

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Society would operate.

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If somebody changed their minds on

something, there was a, there was an

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escape clause, there was a way out.

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There was something they could do.

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And that had to do with redeeming them

with the cost associated with the value

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between that day and the year of Jubilee.

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Yeah, this is interesting because

I don't know, we don't see a lot of

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this in the new Testament church.

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We don't see people making vows.

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I think there's evidence maybe a

Nazarite vows in a, as an effect

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with Paul We see it again in the old

Testament maybe James and John perhaps.

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And I guess we'll talk about that when

we get there in the book of numbers,

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but it's interesting because I don't

see very many people doing this and

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I don't even know that there's a

culture where we would say, Oh, I

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vowed it's accepting giving campaigns.

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It's like one of those things

where somebody might give, I'm

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going to vow to give 10, 000 to

the building fund or whatever,

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but you don't see stuff like this.

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And I'm curious as to why we don't do it.

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I don't know.

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Maybe you have any thoughts on that.

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Yeah.

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I, other than I think so much of our

worship to God, Today is spiritual

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and spiritualized that there's less

of that I'm vowing this I'm vowing

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myself in this act or I'm doing this.

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It's less ceremonial.

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And I think the vow smacks more of

ceremony than it does the freedom of

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New Testament worship, the way that

we experience it today as redeemed

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members of the church of God.

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Would you discourage anybody who says, man

I, God has just blessed me with this job.

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I want to vow this much money to the Lord,

or I want to vow this kind of service.

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Are vows in vogue?

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Are they still something that

Christians should indulge or even

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practice in some measure, or are they?

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Something part of the old testament

covenant that we should disallow.

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Yeah, I mean I would say carefully even

the end of the chapter he talks about

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tithes in verses 30 through 33 We talk

about tithing in the church and a lot of

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people are like, oh you know giving to the

church Tithing is 10, but if you go back

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to the old testament that the tithes were

numerous there were You were given a lot

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more than 10 percent in that capacity.

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So I think we have to be careful

about saying we want to do what they

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used to do in the Old Testament.

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If somebody was going to, could

I say it's sinful for somebody?

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Say I'm gonna vow, this

I'm selling my house.

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I'm gonna vow 30 percent of the profit.

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Then I'm gonna get to the I'm

gonna give that to the church.

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No, I'm not.

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I'm not gonna say that's sinful

or wrong, but I would say

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be very careful about that.

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I think maybe we see a little bit

of perhaps in the book of Acts as

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people were selling what they had

and they were giving it to the

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church for the support of the church.

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And then you've got Ananias and Sapphira

show up and they're like, Oh yeah, we

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sold the house for this much and here's,

and we're giving it perhaps that was a

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situation wherein there was some sort

of vow that was taking place there and

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they were going back on that pledge.

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And so I think we have

to be careful on that.

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Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.

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I don't want to be, I don't want

to create law where God has freed

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us, but I don't think this is it.

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Maybe it's, I guess it's his law because

he's telling us how to deal with it

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in the old Testament, but it just

seems oh, that's a cool heart posture.

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Like I want to give something to the Lord.

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He's been so kind to me or

he's done something good.

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I want to honor him with this vow

of, I don't know, myself or temple

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service, or I want to give a certain

amount of camels to the Lord.

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I don't know.

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It just seems cool.

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And I, I wonder.

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Why something like this hasn't

endured and maybe the point of it

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is just that it's Old Testament and

it doesn't need to be carried over.

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We have something newer and better

in Christ, or maybe it is there.

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We just don't call it the same thing.

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Jesus isn't very fond of odes, right?

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No, don't say, don't just let your yes be

yes, but I don't know that an oath and a

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vow are necessarily in the same category.

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Yeah.

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Although it's interesting in this chapter

that a lot of this chapter is devoted

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to how you get out of the valve if

you're in it and you need to get out.

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Yeah.

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All we see a lot of

misapplied vows, right?

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Jeff does vows when that comes

in mind in terms of being the

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most egregious and it's evil.

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So yeah, I guess I'm going to

think about this a little more.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I yeah.

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That's a, I don't know.

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You know what you should value you

should vow to listen again tomorrow

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to another episode of the Bible.

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I can't vow that You can't I because I

don't look I'm part of every episode.

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I don't know that I listen

to all of them That's true.

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I listen to a lot of them because I

have to go into the editing now So I'll

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do I'll take stuff out add stuff I was

trying to get you to record your voice so

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I could use the AI to put your voice in

my phone Your voice is out there right?

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Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna find a system

that will let me just strip your voice.

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Don't and utilize it.

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I have no doubt.

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I'll record an intro.

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I'll record an outro.

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I'll record an ad and you

would never use it nefariously.

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No, of course not.

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Ever.

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Never.

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All right, guys, let me pray.

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God we want to be careful with what we

say that we will do or won't do for you.

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And we want to be faithful to our word.

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We want to be men and women of integrity.

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And I got it.

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It's a good thing to devote things to you.

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I think it's a good thing for us

to have that posture towards you

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to want to use ourselves or our

resources to worship you, to serve

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you for the good of the community,

even as it's part of the church Lord.

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And so give us that generosity towards

you of our time, talent, treasures,

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everything that we have helped us to

be a church with the Adapt mindset,

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anything, any place, anytime.

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And that we would be willing to worship

you with everything that we are, whether

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that's a formalized vow or not, we want to

have that posture towards you as a church.

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We want to be ready because of

how much you've done for us and we

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want to live faithfully before you.

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So we ask that you would enable us to

be that type of church and allow us

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to have that posture in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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