00:00 Introduction and Weekend Plans

00:31 Church Service and New Sweatshirts

03:04 The Purpose of the Sweatshirts

05:05 Exodus 25-26: The Tabernacle

13:45 Matthew 21: The Triumphal Entry

22:46 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

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Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and happy Saturday.

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Happy Saturday.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I hope you take the day off since

you've been working all week.

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Working hard all week long.

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Yeah.

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My kids were supposed to have my boys

were baseball evaluations today and they

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canceled those 'cause it's, I think it's

still supposed to be pretty cold today.

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Not freezing necessarily, but still

pretty cold that, and it's probably

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pretty slushy too, if it is melting mud

and all sorts of nasty things out there.

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Yeah, that's true, that's true.

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But our plan is to be in person tomorrow

for church, so we're excited to be back.

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Yeah, I think we talked about it

yesterday, how much we've appreciated the,

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this time at home and time with family.

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I did not appreciate not being

together as a church family last

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Sunday though, so I'm excited to

be back with everybody this week.

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You know, I would agree with that, but

I also enjoyed that there's something

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special about being home with the fam.

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And we watched the sermon, we

watched Pastor Mark on his his

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video, which my kids were thrilled

when they saw the background.

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Everybody was asking, is that real?

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And so I texted Pastor Mark, if you

know what the video is, you saw it.

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I think it became pretty evident

pretty soon that it was real,

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because you could see the.

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The fog from his breath as he was teaching

and notably absent was any fog from

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Pastor PJ's breath as he was teaching.

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It didn't seem like you cared

as much as Pastor Mark did,

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but pastor Mark's was fun.

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The kids loved it, and we watched

yours of course, together as a family.

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And so it was cool.

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It's not church, it's not the

same thing, but I did find it

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to be better than I expected.

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Yeah.

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That's fair.

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That's fair.

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Well, tomorrow, hopefully you're

planning to be with us because if

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you are there tomorrow Oh yeah.

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You're going to be there.

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Yeah.

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Well that's good.

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That's good.

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You're gonna get some swag

to take home with you.

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And so if you show up to church and

you're like, oh, man, you know what?

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I'm kind of cold.

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We got you covered literally because

we have a brand new sweatshirt

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for you that says on the front.

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In fact, if you watch the sermon

from last week you saw it.

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I was wearing it.

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It says, to live is Christ on

the back says to die is gain.

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It's got our church name on

the side of the arm there.

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And so we want to give this to you

because we want you to wear it.

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We want you to wear it.

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We want you to represent our church.

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We want you to represent Christ.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so these are gonna be our gift to you.

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We've got a initial run done.

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Now, pastor Rod, I.

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And you know me, I'm always quick to say

that I was wrong on something, right?

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I'm never stubborn about anything.

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So never ever have I ever known you

to be stubborn about anything, bro.

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Just straight up like putty,

putty in my hand, melted in

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keeping, I put in the microwave.

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And it's even more flexible like

that all the time, in keeping with

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that that characteristic of who I am.

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Man, people are saying for the next

run of these sweatshirts or the

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next slide that we do, you know,

what they were saying would be

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really cool, is a black sweatshirt.

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Oh, interesting.

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Cool.

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So I'm not gonna say that you were the

one that suggested the black one, but

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it may have been that and I may have

picked the green one out, but it wasn't.

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It just, yeah so there you go.

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So there are people that are saying,

Hey, a black one would be really cool,

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so maybe the next run will be in black.

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I'll tell you what the genesis of

this whole thing, and this is why

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Green makes sense to back you up here.

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The genesis of this sweater was

that we wanted to give you an easy

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on-ramp to talk to your neighbors,

talk to your friends about Christ.

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Sure.

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We slapped our church sticker on it.

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We want people to know that you

belong to Compass, but we also

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want people to know that more

importantly, you belong to Christ.

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Mm-hmm.

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So to live his Christ to die

as gain is a really great.

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Everyday kind of thing that you could say.

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And it's peaks, it peaks the

interest enough for people to

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say, what do you mean by that?

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Or I remember one of my students

who had their sweater on it was

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something very similar to this.

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They were standing in line somewhere

and someone saw the back of

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it, which said, to die is game.

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And they said to her, are you okay?

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Do you need counseling?

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Do, can we talk?

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And she says, no, look at the front of it.

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And then he realized,

oh, you're a Christian.

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You're one of those people.

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And so it starts a conversation.

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It'll be a fun thing for you to wear.

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It'll look good.

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It'll feel good.

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What a great thing for you to do,

and we'd be happy to print off

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more of these if you'll wear them

and get yourself in the community.

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Maybe for the summer we'll make some

sleeveless workout gear with the

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same thing on the front and back.

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Who knows what we got cooking.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, exactly.

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If they create good conversations

for you, good gospel

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conversations, praise God for that.

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And then the other thing

too is let us know.

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We would love to hear that.

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We'd love to hear, Hey, I

was wearing my sweatshirt.

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Somebody asked me about it.

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And so I got to share Christ with 'em.

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We just talked about that.

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In fact, last Sunday is the importance

of that, that being our mission.

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That's what we're here to do.

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So, that's part of the reason why

we wanna provide these sweatshirts.

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So be there tomorrow

to get your sweatshirt.

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And we have 'em down through size small.

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So if you got really little ones these,

this is more of a run for our, probably

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our, true north ministry on up because

it's more geared towards the adult

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sizes than it is anything younger.

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If you want swag for your kiddos,

maybe talk to the pastor, mark in

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in Ally about that and see what they

might be able to come up with there.

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But.

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Hey.

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Hey.

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Kidman is making so much swag.

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They are.

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I don't think we could if they,

if we're encouraging them.

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They're already made, they've

already made 15 things.

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I'm gu I guarantee you that's true.

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Take that back.

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I'll be out this weekend.

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I take that back.

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You don't need any more stuff

for your kids, so, enough.

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No.

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Well, hey, let's jump into

our David Bible reading.

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We are in Exodus 25 and 26, and then

we are gonna be in Matthew for the

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triumphal entry in Matthew chapter 21.

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Chapter 25, we get into starting to talk

about the construction of the tabernacle.

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The tabernacle is different

from the temple, which I don't

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wanna take that for granted.

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This is not the permanent

dwelling place of God.

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That's why it is a tabernacle, which is

the word for or the concept of this tent.

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It's a temporal dwelling place.

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And so this is going to be

where God is gonna meet with his

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people throughout the wilderness.

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Wanderings the 40 years of

wilderness wanderings, and really a.

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Up until the temple is gonna be built

by Solomon, the Ark is even gonna

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reside in Jerusalem in a tent itself.

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So, this is gonna be God's dwelling place

and this is why he cares so much about it.

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He's gonna go through in chapter 25, all

of these different instructions for the.

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Furniture initially

here of the tabernacle.

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So that's gonna include

the arc of the covenant.

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That's gonna include the table for the

show bread to be placed upon it, and the

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golden lampstand to provide the light.

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But in chapter 25, notice verse eight,

it says, let them make me a sanctuary

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that I may dwell in their mist exactly

as I show you concerning the pattern of

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the tabernacle in all of its furniture.

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So you shall make.

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That's worth note because

if you think about.

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The New Testament may remind

you of a passage from Hebrews.

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In Hebrews chapter eight, the writer

says They serve a copy and a shadow

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of the heavenly things for when

Moses was about to erect the tent.

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That's the tabernacle.

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He was instructed by God.

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See that you make everything

according to the pattern that

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was shown you on the mountain.

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So the writer of Hebrews

is calling back to Exodus.

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25 9.

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This is what's happening.

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Apparently Moses is not just being

told what this should look like, but

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God is showing him some sort of visual

representation as he's telling them

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what this should look like for what

these elements should be as Moses

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oversees the construction of them.

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And one of the cool things about

this, and we're gonna see a lot of

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repetition in these coming chapters,

the arc of the covenant, as God shows

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in the pattern's, gonna be revisited

almost word for word in Chapter 37.

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Same thing for the table of the show,

bread and the golden lamp stand.

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What we're seeing here is God saying,

Moses, this is what you're going to make

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and here's how you're going to make it.

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In the coming chapters we're

going to see, and this is how

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Beel and a holy yeah did it.

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They executed almost precisely

word for word What we're gonna see

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here, so this is the beginning.

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We're gonna have a little sandwich

in between, and then we're

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gonna see this again later on.

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But these elements.

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The tabernacle are important because

they all represent something significant

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about their relationship with God.

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I don't know if now's a good time

for us to talk about that, or

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maybe you want to visit this back

in the next, the coming chapters.

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Yeah let's wait.

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Let's hit 'em in the coming chapters

as we get back to that, because

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it does repeat so much of it.

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I think it'll be helpful.

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We can bring some of the more

significance in that point.

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That's great.

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Let me make a plug for, I think it's

called the Tabernacle Experience.

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I forget if that's the precise

language, but there's several

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companies that kind of float around

doing a lot of the same thing.

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We were in California when we saw this.

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This was in about the San Diego area

when we were in South Orange County.

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We got to go to this biblical tab

Tabernacle experience where you go to

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a Lifesize setup of the tabernacle and

they give you these earphones to wear, or

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these headphones to put over your ears,

and then you take a self guided tour

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through what is the tabernacle, at least

what they think would be a really good

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artistic representation of the tabernacle.

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It was.

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So cool.

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Hear me on this.

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So cool.

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So worth it.

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So valuable.

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I don't even know what

the tickets cost anymore.

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They were probably 20 bucks a pop and

myself and my two sons went well worth it.

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Highly encourage you.

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If there's ever something like

this in your area, go do it.

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You'll thank me later.

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Yeah.

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It looks like there is something

called the Tabernacle Experience.

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The Biblical Tabernacle

experience, which seems to travel

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around to different churches.

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Yeah, that could have been it.

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If there's ever one in the

Texas area, well, Texas is big.

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If there's ever one in the

North Texas area, we oughta go.

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As a church.

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It would be so cool.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And to Israel.

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Someday we should go there.

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Well, amen.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Also, again, if you have the

ESV study Bible I think has a

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depiction of some of these things.

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Your logos Bible software will also be

able to provide you some visuals, even

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if you can just look at some of those,

it's gonna be helpful as you read this.

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'cause otherwise it's hard to track,

especially when you get into the

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construction of the tent itself, which is.

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Chapter 26 is all about when you get

into talking about all these different

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curtains and the rings of gold and the

bases of silver and the frames that are

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made of this wood and you've got the

goat hair, covering on the outside of it.

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It's easy to get lost in all of

this is what I'm trying to say.

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So if you have a visual representation

in front of you that you can read this

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and then look at the picture of it,

the artist depiction, whatever that

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is that's gonna be helpful for you to

to take note as you go through this.

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But something that always stands out to

me in chapter 26 is when he talks about

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the veil because the veil is always

gonna be that reminder that though God

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was coming to dwell with his people,

there was still gonna be separation.

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That it wasn't gonna be a free for

all the intimacy with Yahweh for.

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Old Testament, Israel is not the

same intimacy that you and I enjoy

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today through our relationship

with him by faith in Jesus Christ.

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And so there's the veil that's there,

and only the high priest is gonna

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be allowed to go through there.

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We're gonna get into the

priestly instructions later on.

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But this is something that

is, is even here as God is

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giving Moses the directions.

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Hey, there's going to be

separation between me and you.

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Yes, I'm gonna be there.

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But part of the whole purpose of the

tent even is to create a separation

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from the people to where the glory of

God is gonna really show up in earnest.

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So all of this, there, there's mercy

here and yet part of the mercy is in

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God veiling himself from the people,

lest they be consumed in their sin.

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And so this is part of the reason why the

structure is even needed at this point.

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Yeah.

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And what's interesting about those

curtains, the veil, is that there are

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Cher Beam skillfully worked in them.

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Now, if you remember the Cher Beam

show up first in Genesis chapter three,

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where that Cher beam had a sword,

that flame with fire, and kept Adam

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and Eve from partaking of the tree of

life after having fallen in the sin.

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And so what you see here, again,

I'm hinting at the symbolism, is

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that everything in the tabernacle

is meant to say something about

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God's dwelling with man and.

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And part of it is the access isn't

free the way that it used to be.

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There is a way to access God that

is prescribed and descriptive.

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You can't show up any way you want.

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You can't show up any time you want.

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There is a prescribed way, and even today

we can see that when we show up to God.

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You can't show up any way that you want.

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You can't say, well, I prefer

Buddhism and I prefer Zoroastrianism.

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I prefer Hinduism.

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You have to show up through Christ.

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He's the only entryway that

gives you access to God.

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Now we don't have to worry

about the chair beam.

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They don't guard us anymore because

we have free and full access.

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See, I can't help myself.

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I can't stop.

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Sorry.

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But let me just say

that's important stuff.

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You gotta pay attention to that.

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Yeah, no, for sure.

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For sure.

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It is the other thing too, that, and I

know it was a different culture and he

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was in the presence of God and God was

showing him these things, but this is

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a lot of detail for Moses to remember.

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As he comes down and relates all this.

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God was certainly I think with him and

with his mind to be able to help him.

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But it often convicts me too of just

how much we have voluntarily doled our

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own senses to what our brains should

be capable of being able to do and

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retain and understand and memorize.

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And for as much as I, I love the resources

that I have on my phone, my Todoist and

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my Notes app and everything else like

that I can't help but think, man I've.

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Exported a lot of the ways that I

can glorify God with my brain and

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my men mental abilities to these

apps and things that, that we've

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been given to help remember things.

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What a great point.

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I hadn't considered that

Moses had to retain all this

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in some way, shape, or form.

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Now, the easy thing that we could say

is, well, of course God en enabled

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him to do that, and that's certainly

true, but your point is well taken

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and we should feel the weight of it.

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I wonder if suddenly everything

disappeared, our internet and our phones.

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If our memory and our focus and

our ability to think would not

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improve, I'd be hard pressed to say

that wouldn't be a natural result.

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And in fact, there are people who.

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Encourage you to pretend like

that is in fact the case.

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Now, I think about one named Cal Newport,

who is a he's a college professor.

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He's written several books about the

deep life, which is a reference to

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what he would say is some of your best

hours of the day spent thinking and

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doing deep deep and difficult work.

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And so he talks often about not

using your phone as a distraction

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tool and not using, he, he doesn't

even suggest using any social media.

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Now, but you're right, we probably

have sacrificed much to our modern

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day sensibilities where we might

otherwise be better off if we

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abstain from some of these things.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's jump over to our New Testament

reading for the day, which is Matthew 21.

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And we get the triumphal entry.

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This is recorded here.

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It's recorded also in some

other of the gospels as well.

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I know John records it.

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I believe Luke records it.

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Is it present in all?

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Does Mark record it?

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I can't recall if Mark does have

a recording of the triumph entry.

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But.

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This is the moment.

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This is the launch of what

we know as the passion week.

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This is Palm Sunday as we observe

it in the liturgical calendar.

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The church calendar today this is Jesus

coming into Jerusalem, and this is gonna

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mark the beginning of the end for his

earthly ministry because this is gonna

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be the Sunday before he is crucified

and and goes through everything else.

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And so as he comes in

there's a lot going on here.

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There's a lot of Old Testament

ill imagery that's happening and

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fulfillment that's happening.

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Even as he tells his followers to

go and get the donkey to fulfill

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Zechariah nine where that's

quoted there in, in Matthew 21 5.

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Behold, your king is coming to you,

humble and mounted on a donkey.

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On a coal, the full of a beast of burden.

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That was a royal mount for a king

who was coming in peace not in on a

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wared, but a king that was coming in,

in, in victory and coming in peace.

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This fulfillment here from Zechariah

nine, then you have the shout of the

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crowds, Hosanna to the son of David.

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Blessed is he who comes

in the name of the Lord.

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That's Psalm 1, 18 25.

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That's a Messianic attribution.

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So much so that the Pharisees later

on are going to chastise Jesus and

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say, you need to silence the crowds.

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Do you not hear what

they're saying to you?

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And this is when Jesus is gonna say,

yes, but have you never read out of the

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mouth of infants and nursing babies?

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You have prepared praise.

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And that's from Psalm eight, two.

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So Jesus is stepping into his

messianic identity more and more.

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And he's doing this because, as John

says, his hour has come now, this

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is the beginning of the hour of the

glorification of the Son of man.

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And it's gonna happen here

with the triumphal entry.

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So Jesus is doing a lot here, including

cleansing the temple, which I hold to

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be the second cleansing of the temple.

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I think there's two, I think there's

one at the beginning of his ministry and

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then one here at the end of his ministry.

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I know some have argued, well, it's one,

but John puts it towards the beginning

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and Matthew puts it towards the end.

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I think this is a unique one

that's distinct for Matthew.

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Amen to that.

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I would agree.

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O one thing I wanna point out

here is that you have both

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expressions of anger take place.

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First, you have Jesus righteous anger

when he enters the temple and he

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drives out all who sold and bought.

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He overturned tables.

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He said, it's written, my house

shall be called a house of prayer,

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but you make it to dinner robbers.

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Here you see a righteous expression

of anger, which on the one hand

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tells us that anger in and of itself.

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Doesn't have to be sinful.

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However, Jesus, of

course, is a son of man.

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He is a son of God, and so he's

under control not under control.

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He possesses control of his emotions.

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In ways that we probably don't know,

at least in this level of maturity, you

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see anger also expressed, but sinfully,

so by the Pharisees and the scribes,

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verse 15, chief priests and scribes say,

saw the wonderful things that he did.

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The children crying out

and they were indignant.

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They were sinfully anger, angry at Jesus.

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And so Jesus of course,

responds to them about that.

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But here you see two pictures and two

paradigms of what anger looks like.

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Here on the one side, you see anger

out of a righteous sense of, jealousy

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for God's glory, and I think also

for the access of the Gentiles into

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the court where they could pray.

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On the other hand, you have anger

born from jealousy and threat.

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They saw Jesus not as the coming Messiah,

but as someone who is going to upset

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their stability and their leadership.

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And so both of those pictures help us

see a little better, what anger should

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look like and what we ought to be warned

against, how it can express itself.

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Yeah, this is quite the show in, in, so

in John six, I believe it's John six,

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that's where the Disciple or Jesus'

brothers want him to go up to the

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temple with them, to the Feast of Boots.

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And Jesus says I'm not going

up with you at this time.

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And yet this is what they were looking for

is what happens at the triumphal entry.

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And the difference being

again, is the hour.

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It's when is the moment of glorification.

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'cause Jesus shows up, he

does all these things to step

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into his messianic identity.

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He's not hiding it anymore.

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And then once he gets there,

he cleanses the temple.

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And then he says there in verse 14

in the blind, and the lame came to

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him in the temple and he healed them.

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So he's doing all these miracles on

top of this and this is him just.

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He's making waves now.

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He's saying, okay, it's the end is coming.

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It's near and there's no shying

away anymore at this point.

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Right, and of course Jesus

because he knows his hour.

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This is exactly when he's gonna

reveal all of those things.

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It's exciting.

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I wish I was there to see this.

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You know that question.

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People often ask, like, if you

could be at any place in human

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history, when would it be?

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I would want to be here at

the last week of Jesus' life.

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I wanna see him interact with people.

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I wanna see what it looks like when

the religious rulers, because in

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our minds we, we craft a story.

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And this is a story.

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Certainly it's not less than that though.

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There's a lot more happening that I'm

sure Matthew, mark, and Luke and John are

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saying we're not telling you everything

John says as much in his gospel, but

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I would love to be there to smell the

smell of the air, to hear the sound of

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their an antagonism and their anger.

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I just wish I could be

there to see this all.

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Yeah.

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The rest of our section verses 18 through

22 he, again is taking the Pharisees

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on head on, and he's gonna make this

statement here about the fig tree.

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And he's saying this, I think about

Israel's leaders when he says, may

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no fruit ever come from you again.

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And the fig tree withers at once.

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And so Jesus is really doing all of this.

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He's stepping into the conflict,

stepping into the moment.

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And and this is going to end ultimately

in the Pharisee saying we've gotta do it.

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We've got to end up taking him out.

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We've gotta.

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To kill him.

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Do you think it's fair, as some

have argued to say that the voices

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crying out, Hosanna are the same

voices that were crying out, crucify

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him, what, four or five days later?

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I don't see a distinction between

the crowd, so, maybe not May,

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maybe not in a technical sense.

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Maybe there's different people that

assemble, but I think the audience

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that's in view I think the gospel

writers are intending for us to see a, a.

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Homogenous whole.

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The crowd is often depicted in

my understanding in the gospels

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as a character that is, it's not

several people making up a crowd.

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It's the crowd is itself

a character in the show.

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And in the show the crowd is often fickle.

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And so I think it's the same people in

that it's meant to depict the same kind

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of crowd, although not necessarily the

same precise people, if that makes sense.

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Yeah.

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What would you say to that?

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I would agree.

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Yeah.

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'cause we can't.

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We don't have an attendance role to

be able to say yes, it was exactly

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the same people that were there.

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The at the one that

was there at the other.

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But I would agree with you, especially

when you consider I think we want

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to give people the benefit of the

doubt, but even as close as followers.

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Were crushed after the crucifixion.

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They walked away going it was all a lie.

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He failed, and that's what we

find out in Luke 24 with the

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disciple on the road to Emmaus.

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So I think we, we can't expect

the crowds to believe better than

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his closest followers believed.

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And so I think there's something to that.

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You're right, that the

fickleness of the crowds there.

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What would you say about verse 22?

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This seems to be a blank check for prayer.

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He says, whatever you ask in prayer,

you will receive if you have faith.

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This is often co-opted by false

teachers and those who proclaim a

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health, wealth, and prosperity gospel.

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But what say you, pastor pj,

can we take this to the bank and

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declare things on behalf of God?

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I think we have to read this verse

in light of the rest of the corpus

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of Christ teaching on prayer.

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And we know that's true, that if

we ask anything in his name, right?

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And so we have to talk about what

does it mean to ask in his name?

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Well, it's to ask him for his glory

and in accordance with his will.

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And we have to trust that the fathers

gonna give us every good thing.

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If you being evil, know how to give to

your children what is good, how much more

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will your heavenly father give to you?

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What is good?

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So when we take those things into

account, we can understand here that

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there are other caveats, there are

other conditions to what we pray for.

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Besides just saying we have to pray,

believing that we'll receive it.

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Well, yeah, that's part of it.

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But we also have to pray for the things

that are in accordance with the will of

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God and for the good of his glory and

in our good, in accordance with what

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his def definition of those things are.

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So I think that's what

governs our interpretation.

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Right.

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I would agree with that.

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There's a lot of there's a lot of

shenanigans when it comes to the way

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that people talk about this, especially

for those who have large platforms

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and they have personal private jets.

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But if there is a ditch

that our camp can fall into.

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It's not taking this seriously enough.

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Sure.

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Because we're afraid of falling

into the health, wealth, prosperity

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camp, and I do think that's an

error we need to avoid certainly.

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But on the other side, I wonder if there's

things that God wants us to exercise

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a certain level of faith for and say.

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Pray for that.

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Ask me for that and take it by faith.

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You brought up and you continue to bring

up throughout your preaching fairly

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regularly, the ministry of George Mueller.

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Mm-hmm.

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Who in my estimation, as I read

his biography and things that are

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written about him, I think, man,

he's testing God over and over again.

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Mm-hmm.

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And yet God seems to answer

that kind of testing.

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So I think there is a I don't know

if there's a happy medium or if

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I'm just, it's a fallacy of the

middle ground to think that there

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maybe is a middle ground between.

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Where we typically fall as

conservative, reformed Christians

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versus where Mueller is.

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Maybe, yeah, between Mueller and

the health wealth prosperity guys.

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Yeah.

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No, that's fair.

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That's fair for sure.

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Well, speaking of prayer, let's

do that as we wrap up this edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, thanks for your word and

for this time together that

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we were able to spend in it.

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We pray that we would continue to give

thought to the privilege that we have in

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being able to draw near to you and do what

we're doing right now to pray Lord that

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we have access to your presence, that we

can draw near and boldness and confidence

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and seek mercy and help and time of need

that even as the writer of Hebrews was

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unpacking so much of what we have that's

so much better than the old covenant was.

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And so as we even read about the

tabernacle in the coming weeks and

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we read about these things in the

coming days, what help us to be

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grateful for the closeness that we

have with you through Christ and help

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us to take advantage of that as well.

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I think if we went back and explained

to some of the Old Testament saints

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the axis that we have and then they

were to look at our lives, I wonder

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if they would be aghast at how

little we take advantage of that.

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And so help us learn to live faithfully.

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And to seek you as much as we possibly

can to do as Paul says, to pray without

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ceasing, to live constantly dependent

upon you, and knowing that we can come

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into your presence at the drop of a hat.

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So we thank you for what a

glorious reality that is.

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Pray that we would live as such

that are using that and living in

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a way that, that honors Christ.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Hey guys, keep on going.

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Keep reading your Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow.

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That's gonna be someday for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you then.

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