In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss upcoming events such as the men’s Bible study, evangelism outreach, and the Compass campout. They then delve into a serious and tragic incident involving two high school students, exploring theological implications of God's sovereignty and human responsibility. The episode wraps up with a discussion on the biblical story of Samson in Judges 13-15, examining his actions and how they align with God's plans. The episode ends with a prayer for a grieving family and community affected by the tragic incident.

00:00 Introduction and Weekend Plans

00:13 Men's Bible Study and Fun Activities

00:55 Evangelism Outreach and Community Efforts

01:24 Compass Camp Out and Weather Concerns

03:29 Tragic News and Reflections on Life

08:37 Theological Discussion on God's Sovereignty

12:39 Judges 13-15: Samson's Story

20:11 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up people?

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It is what day is it?

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It's Friday.

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Happy Friday, April 4th week.

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That's you made it to the end of the week.

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Good job everybody.

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Well done.

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And we've got a full

weekend in front of us.

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We've got men's Bible study tomorrow.

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Men.

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Make sure that you are

planning to be there.

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Make sure that you're registered

so that we get enough food for you.

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I don't know what we're having this week.

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Burritos.

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Burritos again.

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Chick-fil-A breakfast burritos from.

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Valerie's.

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Valerie's?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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That's right.

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I'm pretty sure that's it.

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I'm mostly sure that's it.

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And if I'm wrong, then

I just said mostly Sure.

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And say completely.

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So you should come either way and

you should bring people with you.

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Bring your neighbor.

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Yeah, you should.

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Definitely.

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And I talked to Angelo and there's gonna

be some fun games going on ahead of time.

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I'm not gonna give away what

they are, but, all right.

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He had a target like leadership

thing this week and they games.

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They used the games there, so he's

borrowing them and bringing them

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over to men's Bible study for that.

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Sounds fun.

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I can't wait.

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Yeah.

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What else have we got

going on this weekend?

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We've got oh, the evangelism outreach

on Saturday after men's Bible study.

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Some people are meeting up at the

church to go out and begin our effort to

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reach 4,000 homes around our community.

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40,000 homes.

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It's exciting.

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Yeah.

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4,004.

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Four.

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Yeah.

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Close.

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Yeah.

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40 LF yeah, around our community here.

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We're gonna be doing that

on Saturday, also on Sunday.

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So my family and I'll be

there on Sunday for that one.

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After the service, we're going

out to the neighborhoods again.

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And then I think we've

got another round of that.

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Happened in the week after.

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Or maybe the week after that.

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So that's coming up.

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We've got the Compass camp out

coming up in just over two weeks.

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People are excited about that.

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About a week and a half.

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I think we have more signups for

this than anything else we've done.

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I ever I think you're right, period.

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I think you're right.

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I didn't realize people

liked camping so much.

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They like outside.

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They like outside.

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Yeah.

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Let's hope that the weather accommodates.

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I agree.

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Agree.

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That is a big asterisk.

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Yes.

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Because we don't know what's gonna

be happening in the next two weeks.

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And according to ponder on

weather, it is severe storm season.

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It is severe storm.

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In fact, we're in the

midst of that right now.

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Yeah.

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Every night it's like, Hey, Hale's coming.

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Yeah.

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So squeeze your cars in.

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Good luck.

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You're breathing in as you're

pulling your car in the garage.

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Here's my question.

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If you get hail and there're big

hail and there's coming through

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your window, what do you do?

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So I keep, 'cause he 'cause

ponder hey, have more than one

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way to get alerts on your device.

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So that you can do what are you gonna do?

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I think he's more concerned with just not

being by windows, getting your kids outta

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their room so there's not flying glass.

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Should there be any broken glass?

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Getting to a central location

where there's no windows.

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That's what they always tell you to do.

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Okay.

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So stay away from a window.

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Exactly.

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That's the idea.

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That's the thing they're

trying to get you to say.

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That makes sense.

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Don't be.

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Don't be by something that could

break, that could kill you.

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Yeah.

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And that's the same with tornadoes.

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That's why they have you go inside to

a centralized room with no windows.

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That one makes sense to me.

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Yeah.

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I was unclear about how, what I'm

supposed to do with a hail and I, man.

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I think it contrary to what happened with

the Kelly's I think it's rare that you

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get hail that actually bust the windows.

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Yeah.

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Open.

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That's unique.

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So good on you Kelly's for having

that privilege that they're ready.

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They're but I think typically it's more.

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Just it's the damage it can do

to the cars, which some people

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in my neighborhood have those

inflatable car covers that Yeah.

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They put on their cars.

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Yeah.

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I've I've looked into those 'cause

I'm thinking, oh, that's cool.

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I can keep my car outside

and still do the thing.

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There are multiple hundreds of dollars.

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Yeah.

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I, a good one is like 600 bucks.

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Yeah.

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I just suck in my gut and squeeze my

car next to my wife's in the garage.

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That's what we've done.

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We're not spending that kind of money,

although they do look pretty cool.

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Looks like a spaceship.

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Yeah.

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Or a giant larvae, and

I guess it's a flex.

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It's look, I bought this.

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It's all your neighbors.

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It does look nerdy.

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So I don't know that it's a flex.

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Does it look cool or does it look nerdy?

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Because you're giving

conflicting things here.

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It's they're both.

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You can have something nerdy

looking that's also cool.

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Spoken like a true theologian.

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Truly.

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Hey, speaking of theologians not to be

a wet blanket on an otherwise cheerful

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podcast so far but I think, man,

something happened this week that is.

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Is tragic, horrific there are no there,

there are not enough adjectives to

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describe the horror of what took place.

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And that is that this altercation that

took place in, in Frisco there where

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one 17-year-old high school student

stabbed another 17-year-old high school

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student and ended up killing him.

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This hit home with a lot of, I

know our students and those that

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are in our student ministry.

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It hit home with my kids,

my two oldest at least.

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Though they didn't know either of these

two boys personally, I know my oldest

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Joshua has friends in school that knew

him and had interacted with him before.

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Man, you just don't think something

like this is gonna happen.

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And it was just a horrific, awful.

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Situation.

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That's actually garnered

national media attention now too.

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And this is right in our backyard here.

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And it just reminds us

of the brevity of life.

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My son was saying, I can't

believe he got up and left home

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that morning to go to school.

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And that's the last time his

parents saw him or were able to

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talk to him or anything else.

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And now he's gone.

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And just a hard for us

to wrap our minds around.

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And I just preached last Sunday

on the fact that God is sovereign

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over the details of our life.

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And now something like this takes place.

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Yeah.

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It's okay, this is where the flesh is

put on the bones of a sermon like that.

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And I, it's still true Today.

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God is still sovereign.

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God was sovereign over that altercation.

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God was sovereign over that young

man's life ending when it did.

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Psalm 1 39 says that he knows the number

of days that he has prepared for us

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before even one of them comes to pass.

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And so we, we look at this

and we say, what a tragedy.

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He died too young.

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He died too soon.

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And I understand the sentiment

there and I agree with that

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sentiment from our perspective.

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But from God's perspective,

it was on time.

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And the why behind it we may never know

we're hoping at this point in praying

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that he was a Christian and that her his

parents and his siblings are Christians.

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There's some statements that

they've released that would.

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Lead you to think that.

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And and yet we don't know for

sure, but this is a horrific

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situation that reminds us.

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I was talking to my kids yesterday and

just saying, this is Cain and Abel.

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This is this situation

with Moses in the Egyptian.

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This is David and Uriah.

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This is.

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This is murder that has been

around since the dawn of time.

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And this is horrific and tragic,

and we weep with those who weep.

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And I'd love to be able to tie a nice

bow on it for everybody, and I trust that

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the Lord is going to bring good out of

it because his word says that he does.

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Out of every circumstance that, that,

at least for those who love him, good,

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is the byproduct the final result.

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And maybe we'll be able to

hear about what that is.

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Maybe it'll be eternity before

we get to hear what that is.

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But we can trust when we can't

see that he is working good.

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And yet we can also say, man, this is.

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Horrible, and this is

horrific and this hurts.

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And our hearts break for his family.

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And we even have this desire for

justice to be done that's there as

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well, that I think is appropriate.

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And yet it's just a reminder

to that, that sermons.

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Our one thing in the vacuum, sometimes

of our auditorium and another thing

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when we face the headlines of the day

and have to reconcile the truth of

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God's word, not just on Sunday mornings

of the Bible in our laps, but while

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the headlines are splashing across the

screen and social media comments are

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being made left and right here it's

that there where it's so important for

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us to hold fast to the biblical truths.

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One student asked if.

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It's righteous anger to long for justice

for this kid to say, look, man, I hope

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this kid gets the book thrown at him and

even maybe even gets a death penalty.

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I'm putting words in the guy's

mouth, but this is the sentiment.

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This is the idea.

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Is it wrong?

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Is it sinful to say, God,

please judge this guy.

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It.

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Paul says, the government does

not bear the sword in vain.

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And so I think that there's a

righteousness of saying we want justice

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to be done in accordance with the law

that God has in instituted and instilled

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to be the execution of said justice.

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We have to balance that with the reality

that, no amount of earthly justice

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is ever gonna be able to satisfy our

longing for justice in this situation.

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We have to be careful not to go into the

realm of the grotesque wanting this person

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to suffer in ways that are not helpful

or right for us to be entertaining.

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And then we also have to understand, man,

ultimate justice is gonna be done either.

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On the cross through Christ.

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If this young man who committed

this crime comes to faith in

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Christ, or it's gonna be a justice

that he's gonna face in eternity,

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and that's gonna be true justice.

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But as far as can we desire that, that

the law is upheld and justice is done from

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a, a Romans perspective of the government

not bearing the sword and vain, I think

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that's an appropriate desire there for

saying, God, we want this wrong to be.

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Write it from even our perspective.

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You said a few moments ago that God's

the one who determines the start date

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of our lives, the end date of our lives,

and so God, it seems like you're saying,

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determined to end Austin Metcalf's

life at this particular juncture.

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Now, you're not gonna say this to

the parents, I'm sure, at least

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not right now, and not in that way.

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But it sounds like you're saying

that God is responsible for evil.

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Can you help clarify that?

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For those who are listening and saying how

does it, how is it not true then that God

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is behind every evil thing that happens?

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Yeah.

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The permissive will of God is to

be balanced by the understanding

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that if we go to job right, you've

got a situation in Job where Satan

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appears before God and says, Hey, I.

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Does Job Fury for no reason, reach

out your hand and strike him.

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And God says, you may afflict him.

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You may do these things.

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And so Satan goes out and Satan is the one

that is, is orchestrating the events of

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the downfall of job's, children, right?

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You think about death here,

Satan is the one that's bringing

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death to the children of Job.

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And yet it's in accordance

with the permissive will of God

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such that job is able to say.

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The Lord gives, the Lord takes away.

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So I will say blessed

be the name of the Lord.

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And so there is the sovereignty

of God without moral culpability.

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Moral culpability is charged to

the agents of evil, the agents

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of sin, the agents of death.

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In this instance, being the young

man who stabbed Austin Carmelo.

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Carmelo that is, he's the one that is

gonna bear moral responsibility for that.

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And ultimately, in the end, Satan and

his demons as well as the God of this

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world, the prince of the power of the

air will suffer for eternity as well for

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his own part in the suffering in that.

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I've heard atheist and other

critics of the, of our faith

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say if that's the case, then.

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It seems like everybody's a pawn

and God's just moving pieces on

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the chess board as he sees fit.

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If the agent's responsible and you're

saying the pawn is responsible what

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about the person moving the pawn?

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How is he not culpable?

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Yeah.

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Because in, in part, I.

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Scripture teaches us that he's

perfect, he's righteous, he's holy.

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And so we have to hold the things

that we see in concert with the things

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that we, that have been revealed

to us in the written word of God.

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And so there are times and this is gonna

be true not just with situations like

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this, but other situations when we can't

fully understand how these things compute.

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And that's because of our finitude.

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And that sounds like a cop out.

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And yet at some point

we have to get there.

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Otherwise.

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We, if we can explain everything

about God, he is no longer God.

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He's a figment of our imagination.

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And so there are times where our finitude

is off most often felt in situations.

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We feel like we need an explanation

that we don't get, that we can't.

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We can't have, that's

not ours to, to bear.

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So if scripture says that God is holy,

then that means that God cannot be evil.

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God cannot be a perpetrator of evil.

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When James says, let no one say when he

is tempted that he's been temp, being

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tempted by God, for God himself cannot be.

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Cannot tempt anyone, nor

can he be tempted by evil.

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We have to take passages like

that into account with our

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reconciling of this situation.

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So God is sovereign over these things.

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God is orchestrating and man is

a hundred percent responsible.

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And those two truths look like they

compete with each other, and yet the

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Bible holds them intention with each

other and that's ours to do as well.

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Yeah, and I think the lived

experience of every person that.

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Is listening to this podcast or

not, is that you're choosing, you're

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making a choice right now to listen.

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You're making a choice right now to do,

maybe you're driving or do something else.

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You're choosing these things.

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Your personal experience doesn't

negate the fact that scripture says

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God is sovereign, but it does highlight

the fact that you are responsible.

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You can feel that responsibility

because you choose to do things.

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So when God does orchestrate everything,

he doesn't do it apart from the

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will of the person who's doing the

thing he operates in and with, and

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through the wills of those who do it.

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What does that mean for us then?

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Means that the person who does it

isn't saying, I have to do this.

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God is making me do it.

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The devil made me do it.

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No, you are a willing subject doing

the will of the enemy, or even doing

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your own will, that's fallen and God

is still orchestrating everything,

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but he's not doing it apart from your

willingness to accomplish those things.

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A lot of times those in

our theological camp.

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Will be accused of being

the puppets on a string.

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If not the robots,

you're just a marionette.

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And my response has always

been, maybe that's what it is.

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And yet I don't feel the strings,

I'm not consciously aware of

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the strings on a daily basis.

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And so from my perspective, as I'm

living out my reality, I'm making

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these decisions in these choices.

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Now my theology informs me that those

are decisions and choices ordained

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by God, but we, there's no autopilot

button that we push in the morning to

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get up and just go about our lives.

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And we are responsible for

those choices in the end.

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And those choices are going to produce

results that ultimately in the end

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are gonna run, redo to the glory of

God even in a situation like this.

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That's right.

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With that, let's turn and

cover judges 13, 14, and 15.

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This is a familiar stretch of the

book of Judges and so we've been

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going for a little while here.

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Thanks for bearing with us.

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I think it's important for us to address

these things, and this is one of the

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reasons why we record this fresh.

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Every year.

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And don't just cam these because we

want to be able to address things

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like this when they come up so that

we can real time think together on,

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man, how do we process these things?

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How do we navigate

what's going on in life?

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Because I get one shot a week.

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Pastor Rod, you get one shot

a week with the students and

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then once a month with the men.

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That's right.

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This allows us to, to have a shot every

single day with you guys to help you think

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about what's going on and how to navigate

things from a pastoral perspective.

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Yep.

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Judges 13.

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You've got Sampson.

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Samson shows up.

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The Philistines are oppressing Israel

this time as a result of Israel's

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continued rebellion, as is the

common refrain throughout the book.

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And God appears to Samson's

parents as the angel of the Lord.

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So here it is again the incarnate

second member of the Trinity.

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And the angel of the Lord tells

them of Samson's impending birth and

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the expectation that he should be a

nazarite from the womb until his death.

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So that meant there, there were gonna

be things that he could and couldn't do.

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One of the things he was gonna be

prohibited from doing is cutting his hair.

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That's gonna obviously factor

into Samson's life later on.

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So chapter 13, the birth of

Samson Sampson comes on the scene.

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His parents are told about him.

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He's gonna be a Nazarite.

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Chapter 14, Sampson.

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The story is now focusing

on his adult life.

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He takes a wife from the Philistines,

and this is so fascinating to me because

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that's an act of disobedience, right?

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Because God prohibited the Israelites.

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We, okay, let's talk about this

from a biblical perspective.

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We were just talking about.

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Man's actions, responsibility

and God's sovereignty.

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Because the text says that he did

this, which we know was a, against

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the law of God because Moses commanded

the Israelites not to intermarry

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with the people of the land.

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And yet God, the text also says that God

ordained it to be so that he might enact

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justice and vengeance on the Philistines.

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And so God is using this

act of disobedience from

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Samson as a means to bring.

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J.

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Justice and punishment against

the Philistines, which is one

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of those brain pretzels again.

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Yeah.

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Verse four says, it was from the Lord.

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His mom.

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Mom and dad didn't know it was from the

Lord, that these things are taking place.

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And that's an important feature because

scripture unashamedly says God is in.

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It's see sovereignly in

control of everything.

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Yeah, it does.

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They're not blushing.

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They're not saying, oh, this might

not make sense to, they just.

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They just assert this, like

this is just the fact of the

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matter and I appreciate that.

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Yeah.

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And that kind of clarity is

helpful as we think through the

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implications of good and evil.

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Clearly whoever's writing judges,

Samuel, perhaps is not struggling

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with the fact that God's in control.

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They just assert, they assert

it as a matter of fact.

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And certainly that's the way that

you and I should feel about it.

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God is sovereignty in control.

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There's nothing that could

be outside of his control.

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If he's God, yeah, it would be

impossible for him to not have control.

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So how we put those pieces together

often are hard brain pretzel, as you say.

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But I don't know that God expects us to

necessarily understand how he intimately

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involved himself in human creation.

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I think we're just expected to

trust him as we do for most things.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The plot thickens here because on

his way Samson kills a lion, and

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then he passes by the lion again.

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There's some bees making honey in the

lion carcass, which is, that's weird.

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Super gross.

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But then that inspires this riddle.

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And so Samson goes and tells the

Philistines this riddle, and he's Hey,

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what's, where can you get something sweet

of something that would normally kill you?

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And they don't know.

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And so they go to his wife

and this is gonna be a common

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refrain in, in Samson's life.

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Samson doesn't make the best

choices when it comes to women.

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Let's just put it that way.

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Yeah, I know.

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It's crazy.

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And they find out the answer.

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And then one of my, one of my

chuckle moments in scripture comes

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in verse 18 when he says, if you

had not plowed with my heifer.

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You would not have found out my riddle.

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I love that he calls his wife a heifer.

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Clearly he didn't love her that much.

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Clearly not unless heifers

were well-regarded.

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Yeah, maybe, or maybe he's just

saying If you hadn't used my wife,

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maybe that's the implication.

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Either way it's not the best it's

not the best connection there that

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Samson makes husbands hear are wisdom.

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Don't call your wife a heifer.

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Don't call your wife a heifer.

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That's a general rule of thumb.

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Maybe not.

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It's a bad move.

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So here's a question then.

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Yeah.

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Samson violates his nazarite vow

by taking honey out of a carcass.

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Why doesn't God leave him at this point?

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And that's a great question.

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I don't know, other than the fact

that God wasn't done with him from his

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perspective of what he wanted to do.

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Yeah.

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'cause it seems like Samson goes

out of his way to violate every

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opportunity to break his Nazareth vow.

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And yet, in his mind.

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At the very last thing, the

last vestige of that vow Yeah.

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Is his hair.

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And for some reason it seems like

scripture would affirm that, why

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God doesn't take it away during

these other occasions when he

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uses the jawbone of a donkey.

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That's another carcass, yeah.

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He's breaking it all over.

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It seems like in the period of the judges,

at least for Samson, God was merciful.

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Because he had a plan to fulfill with

him, as you're saying, and that's the

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reason why it, it wasn't considered

fully broken and why God remained with

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him in his strength, which also suggest

with which also suggests that the

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nature of his strength was not physical.

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No.

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Wasn't that he had big muscles, or that

his tendons were in the right spot.

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It was the fact that he was spiritually

endowed with supernatural power.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I think again, we've mentioned

about the judges were not the most

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morally upstanding group of people.

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It's not like these were

the cream of the crop.

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These were, say it again.

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Yeah.

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These may have been, more sense

of omission versus this cutting

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the hairs, the high handed

sin, because Samson knows that.

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Intentionally that this is

gonna be a breaking of the vow.

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But this is the one that he

doesn't do though, right?

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Like these other ones are,

he's the one doing it.

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Oh, the hair, you could say he

wasn't directly responsible.

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It happened to him as

a result of his Yeah.

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Relationships.

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Yeah.

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And I think it ultimately we fall back

on verse four that you read and that

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is that, that this was from the Lord.

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He was setting all of this

up to get to the point.

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Of chapter 15, right?

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And in chapter 15, he takes Delilah

and Delilah becomes his wife.

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And the the Philistines are

like, Hey let's let's get him.

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And so they, I just shake my head

at Samson every single time and

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go, dude what were you thinking?

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And she goes to him multiple times and is

Hey, what's the source of your strength?

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And he, every time he you would

think that he would be like, maybe I

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shouldn't say something to you anymore.

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Maybe I shouldn't be with you anymore.

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He seemed to try to kill

me every time I tell you.

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Here's the thing here's the thing.

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I noticed this time reading it

that I hadn't noticed before.

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And maybe you've seen this

since the very beginning.

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It hit me like a ton.

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Bricks, probably.

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Probably.

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I have.

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Of course you have.

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Of course you've seen it out.

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You've seen it all.

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You've seen this thing backward

and forward Every time that

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she says, Hey, what's a secret?

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And he tells her it says that she has

men in hiding or waiting to jump on that.

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Yeah.

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But when she says, Samson, the

Philistines are upon you, we don't

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know that they actually show up.

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Like they could stay hiding.

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So it seems like maybe she's testing him

every time, and maybe they're waiting for

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her to give them the thumbs up to say Yes.

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He's really actually unable to

move, and so maybe they stay in

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the house until whatever happens

and he leaves or what have you.

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But I think they don't actually show

up until his hair actually is cut off

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and he's actually weak and she begins

to taunt him or whatever that means.

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So I don't know that

they actually show up.

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So maybe he's just oh,

she's just playing a fool.

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Yeah.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Yeah.

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Which and it is probably important that

we stop right now and talk about the

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fact that we're talking about chapter

16, which is tomorrow's reading.

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Oof.

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And that's on me what happens in 15,

chapter 15 totally got scan is he

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gets Delilah, he catches 300 foxes and

he burns down the Philistines crops.

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So that's what happens.

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That's why they're upset with him, and

that's why they're coming after Delilah.

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Delilah to get to, and that we

will talk more about that tomorrow.

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But that's chapter 15, three.

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River Fox Giving Taste.

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Yeah, we're just, yeah.

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So there you go.

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We're keeping it real.

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Y'all we're keeping it real.

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Yikes.

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Okay.

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D Donkey Jawbone.

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Yeah.

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Thousand men.

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Yeah.

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Carcass breaks.

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That breaks the vow again.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And now the Philistines are really

mad and Delilah is gonna be.

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Not a good person.

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I wonder what's gonna happen.

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I have no idea.

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Tune in tomorrow to find out.

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Lemme pray for you.

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God, we think you that you are sovereign

and we certainly do pray for the

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Metcalf family, especially right now.

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God, we just pray for if they're are

believers of yours, that, that they would

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be comforted Lord, that you would surround

them with other Christians that would be

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able to comfort them and remind them of

a piece that transcends understanding.

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I cannot fathom father of.

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Another piece that would suffice.

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In fact, there is no other piece that

would suffice right now in the midst

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of the heartache and the suffering and

the questions and the mourning and the

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sorrow and the anger and the, all of it.

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God, I just pray that you would

especially be with that family right now.

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God I pray for, just their church,

if they are involved in a church

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to be faithful to them, to remind

them of truth and to keep pointing

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them back to Christ and back to you.

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And God, I just pray that you'd

preserve them, especially their kids.

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God, I pray that you would

just either save their kids

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through this process or hold on.

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Tight to them through this process, God,

as they re wrestle with losing their

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sibling and all of this, God, just the

heartache I pray for the community these

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schools that were involved in this.

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God, we just ask that you would show

yourself to be truly God in the midst

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of this and a source of hope and

comfort in an otherwise senseless

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and hopeless and horrific situation.

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And God, we trust that good

will come out of this and we ask

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that would be evident to all.

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Before too long, and we

pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said