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Chapters

00:00 Holy Week Recap

05:21 Judges 18

08:34 Judges 19

12:49 Luke 10:25-42

17:34 Closing Prayer

18:26 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Welcome back.

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We are in Judges 18 and 19 today in Luke

10 25 through 42, but it is Monday and

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coming off of a Holy week where you've

got Ash Wednesday, you've got Monday,

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Thursday, you've got Good Friday.

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The whole Easter season

is now Extravaganza Day.

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Extravaganza day.

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Jesus.

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Who's, is that part of the Holy Week?

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Someplace day, resurrection

Sunday, Easter Sunday.

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Let's kick that around for a second.

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Yesterday was Easter.

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And some people are very

passionate about, we should call

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it Resurrection Sunday, not Easter.

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Sunday we did extravaganza.

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Some people would say, man that's

catering to the culture too much,

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so let's just shadow box with that.

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I'm not thinking about anybody in

our church because I haven't heard

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anybody come up to me and say,

Hey, we shouldn't be doing this.

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Or How dare you refer

to it as Easter Sunday.

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We should call it Resurrection Sunday.

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But let's talk a little bit about why

we do the things that we do this way.

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It's same thing with Fall Fest.

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We talk about this same time around.

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Fall Fest event.

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But it's good to come back to this and

remind everybody why we do what we do.

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Well, let me just start by saying

if I had a clean slate and I could

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pick what I wanted to call the day

and there was nothing else I guess I

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probably would pick Resurrection Sunday.

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I would agree.

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But I don't get that sort of power.

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No one came to me and said,

what are we gonna call this day?

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That's crazy.

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Some of it is that we are.

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Using the term Easter, because that's what

people understand the day to be for sure.

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And so we use that term because that

communicates to people who would

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not understand if we used another

term, what we're talking about.

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And the argument then is, well,

you don't have to necessarily.

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Come to that level.

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Well, there's nothing necessarily

wrong with using the word Easter.

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There may be better words, and that's

why I even suggest if it was up to

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me, I might pick a different word.

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But we want to communicate to people

in a way that is most helpful to them.

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If we're inviting them to Easter service,

people who haven't been to church in 20

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years are gonna know what we're talking

about and we can redeem that term, right?

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We can redeem that word

and we can use that word.

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To a way that glorifies God

in the pursuit of the lost.

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And so that, that's one way to explain it.

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There's others, but that's how I

would at least begin to explain it.

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Yeah, for sure.

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And I would agree with you and I think

in our context, we can extend grace

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to each other because we understand

what we mean when we say happy Easter.

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Nobody's saying, I'm worshiping this

false, pagan god that was associated

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with Easter and how dare I bring that up.

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I think we can extend that charity

and love can believe the best

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about somebody and say, hey.

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You know what?

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Happy Easter.

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Yeah.

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We can definitely say Happy Easter.

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Happy good Friday.

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I don't know.

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We've got a lot of listeners

to the podcast though.

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'cause so many people on Good

Friday had a comment about that.

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They wanted to talk about that one.

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Yeah.

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I got lots of happy Good Fridays

that directed at me on Good Friday.

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Yeah.

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And we do extravaganza because

man, we had an opportunity.

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We had, I think around, give or take, 270.

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Kids 10 and under do egg hunts.

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We had more than that because

there were some that weren't.

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That were beyond that, the age

for egg hunts that were still

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there with their families.

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And then you take all of the

parents that were there and

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doing the egg hunts as well.

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Those are all people that came to

our campus that we had a chance to

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talk with and share the gospel with.

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And we had some people in our church that

were doing that because our outreach team

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got together and said, Hey, we want you

to really focus on sharing the gospel.

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We had that, but I saw so many of

just our, I use the term regular

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people, not pejoratively, but just

I saw so many of our people just.

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Striking up conversations with people

in the church that had showed up for

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this extravaganza event, which, yeah.

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Is it crazy to, to have 9,000 Easter

eggs and to fill them with candy and

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to do all of these different egg?

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Sure.

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Yes.

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Is it insane to have just enormous

bounce houses in the gym and we're

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doing face painting and balloon animals?

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Yes.

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But it's an open door for us to be a

light to the community and share the

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gospel with people who otherwise, yeah.

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Wouldn't be there in doing that.

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And so that's why we do it and

we're not gonna apologize for that.

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I don't think it robs anything from

the significance of the weekend.

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I don't think it's discordant

with the feel of the weekend.

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I think it's appropriate.

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I think it's a good thing for us to

take this, that everybody expects

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things like this and to say, we're

gonna contextualize, we're not gonna

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compromise, but we're gonna contextualize

to reach people in the community.

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That's right.

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And.

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Hopefully you would agree with this.

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I would say this very definitively

that we don't compromise what we do

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on Good Friday or on Easter morning

with any of these other things

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that, that may be a compromise.

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We could have Pastor PJ dressed

up in an Easter bunny outfit.

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Right?

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We could That that was you that

we were gonna do that with.

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Well, I'm just saying we could,

we can go back to the record.

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We could, we could, yeah.

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Things like that.

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That's a silly example, but we

could do things like that to try

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to appeal to people in a desperate

attempt to get them in our doors.

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For sure.

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And we're gonna be careful not to do those

things when it comes to our Good Friday

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services or Easter morning services.

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Yeah.

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And there's nothing inherently

wrong with them, with those things

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that we do at EXT Extravaganza.

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In fact, I think there's a lot of

great things about them, but we're

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also careful to delineate Yeah.

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To make clear that what we're

doing at Extravaganza is not.

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Easter morning celebration.

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For sure.

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For sure.

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Well, let's jump into our

daily Bible reading tomorrow.

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I want you to talk to us about one

of the next events that's coming up.

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Also something that comes out of the

brain of the kids Ministry department, and

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so we'll hit that tomorrow so there's a

teaser for you guys to tune into tomorrow.

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We're ament, we're a department.

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You guys can be a department.

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I'm deeming you a department.

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It's gotten to that level now.

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Anyways judges 18 through 19.

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So we talked about it yesterday.

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We shifted already into this scene.

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It began with Micah.

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Micah creates this carving

image, which again was.

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Problem number one.

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And then you have him recruit a

Levite to be his own personal priest,

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which again is problem number two.

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That's not anywhere in the Bible.

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Is that commended to say you

should have your own personal

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priest and then what happens?

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Well, you've got the trap of Dan and

the Dan Knights are kind of scoundrels

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in a lot of different ways, and they.

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Come across Micah and his Levite and

this silver shrine thing, and they

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think to themselves, well, wouldn't

that be cool if we just took all

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of those things for ourselves, the

shrine and the Levite at least.

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So that's what they do.

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And what you have in chapter

18 is really in so many ways,

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a grand perversion of the.

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Occupation of the promised land because

you've got Dan here who had left their

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allotted land and now they were journeying

through still the promised land.

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They're not leaving the boundaries of

the promised land, but they'd left their

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tribal allotment that had been assigned

to them by Joshua at the beginning.

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They're wandering.

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They take this Levites and this shrine

for themselves to be their cultic symbols.

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Then you'll notice in the chapter they

send spies out to spy out the land

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that they're looking to settle in.

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That sounds familiar, doesn't it?

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And then even look what

it says in verse nine.

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It says, arise.

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Let us go up against them

for we have seen the land.

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And behold, it's very good.

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And will you do nothing?

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Do not be slow to go and

enter and possess the land.

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As soon as you go, you will

come to an unsuspecting people.

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The land is spacious for God

has given it into your hands.

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A land, a place where there's no lack

of anything that is in the earth.

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Now, this was part of the promised land.

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Is this part of the Promised land

God had given to the Israelites?

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Yes, but I don't think.

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We should read that into this

statement from the Dan Knights here.

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This is the Dan Knights deciding we're

gonna do what we want to do here.

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And even the language that they're

attacking and unsuspecting people

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and innocent people, a peaceful

people, even just is meant to cause

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us to say nothing about this is good.

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And I've said this many

times, so hopefully I'm not

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repeating myself too much.

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But you need to look for those.

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Indicators, as you read the Old

Testament, it can be really easy.

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And even with this narrative, I

think it would be helpful to at

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least refresher yourself about what

happened in the previous chapter.

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I know chapter 17 wasn't assigned today,

but it would be helpful for you to.

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To at least refresh your memory.

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If not, go back and read that when

you're doing a passage like this,

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because you need the context and you

need to be looking for how the author

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presents this story in the New Testament,

you're gonna see clear imperatives.

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Do this, don't do this.

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There's plenty of examples of the

church doing things that are sinful

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and Paul, ultimately God calling them

out for that in a very direct way.

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But the narrative of the Old

Testament functions differently.

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And so you.

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You see them talking about, oh,

God has given this into your hands.

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Is that the same exact thing as when

Moses says that sort of statement?

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Right.

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You shouldn't read this and think that's

the same type of statement, even if the

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words are the same, and you can tell that

by looking for the narrative clues that

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the author clearly leaves along the way.

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Right?

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Well, I'd like to say that, hey, things

are gonna turn the corner and get better,

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but this is the book of judges, so they're

gonna turn the corner and get worse.

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In chapter 19 because in chapter

19 what we find here is a,

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it just says a certain Levi.

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And remember, I think the author's even

intentional here In the last chapter, we

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saw a Levi not doing what he should do.

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Mm-hmm.

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In this chapter, we see another

Levi that's taking the scene here.

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I think he's even highlighting

the Levitical class.

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'cause these were supposed to be

the guys that were leading and

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setting the tone religiously.

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And as far as the, their

relationship with the Lord.

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And these guys are failing

miserably left and right.

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If it's that bad and corrupted at the top,

how bad is it throughout the whole thing?

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And we get a picture

of that in chapter 19.

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This Levi has a concubine.

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When we're reading these

things, you might protest.

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You might say, well, why did he have,

he shouldn't have had a concubine.

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You're right.

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This is not condoning it.

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This is not God saying,

and this was a good thing.

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Rather, this is just the

author saying, warts and all.

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This is the status of

the people of Israel.

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So this Levite has a concubine who

later is referred to as his wife.

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And sometimes those things

are used interchangeably in

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the Old Testament, at least.

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And he takes her and

she's unfaithful to him.

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So he goes after her and finds

her in her father's house, and

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he stays there for a while.

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The father tries to

compel him to stay longer.

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He says, no, we're gonna go on our way.

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They leave, they come to a

town in Benjamin called Gibeon.

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In Gibb and they go to stay the night

in Gibby there, but they're brought

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into one of the homes there and, bad

things happen from this point on.

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And parents, this is one of those,

Hey, this is a PG 13 at minimum kind

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of warning for you here with this

passage because bad things happen and

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the Levite ends up sacrificing his

concubine for his own safety and the

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safety of those in the house as well.

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And she ends up dying.

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As a result of this and the abuse that

she suffers at the hands of these Benjamin

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Knights who are Israelites mm-hmm.

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These are not foreigners.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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These are not the Philistines, these are

God's people doing these heinous things.

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And the Levite gets up in the morning

and realizes what's happened here.

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And it's just evil after

evil, after evil, after evil.

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And one of the commands that

God had given his people was,

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you should care for the soner.

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Because you yourselves were one

sojourner, and this is one of the greatest

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evidences of a perver perversion and

disobedience of that command that we find.

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So nothing is condoning

this as good in chapter 19.

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If you're tempted to read this and

say, why is God okay with this?

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He's not okay with it, but this is

some of Romans chapter one, God's

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turning them over to their own ways

because God is an immutable God.

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Just like he says he does, that

Paul does in Romans chapter one.

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God has always been doing that, and he

does that with Israel at times as well.

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And you may be reading this and being

like, oh, there's a story that seems

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similar to this, there's same things that

are happening here that I've heard before.

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And you'd be right.

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This is a parallel of what happens

in the account of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Mm-hmm.

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And that is an intentional narrative tool.

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That's an intentional inclusion.

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And even the way that it's talked

about is intentional by the author

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of Judges to remind you of Exodus.

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Oh, sorry.

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Exodus, Genesis 19 and the so

story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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And you should look at this and

say, this situation is so bad that

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the people of Israel, God's people

who have the law, who have even

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had his presence right, had Moses.

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These people, God's people have

fallen so far that they are

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committing the same crimes the same.

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The same sins against God that the people

of Sodom Gomorrah faced, and we know that

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the punishment that Sodom Gomorrah faced,

and so it would be right for the people of

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Israel to face that same exact punishment

for the sins that they're committing.

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Yeah.

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And God does that in the Old Testament.

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And that's something that is

at least in part A, a response

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to those who say, well, God is.

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Look at the genocide and

look at these things.

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And yet God does the same thing

to his own people that he does

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to those other nations as well.

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Because it's not about race and

ethnic ethnicity or one people being

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more valuable than another people.

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It's about the holiness of God.

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And that's what at stake there.

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And so what we'll pick up tomorrow

in the rest of what happens here.

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But again, parents, this is

the, I can't stress it enough.

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Be careful in allowing your little

ones to read through this one.

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You may want to read through it

with them if you feel like they're

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of age where they can understand

what's going on here, because it

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does get quite graphic, especially

towards the end of the chapter here.

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But we'll talk about what happens

with the rest of it tomorrow.

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Alright, let's flip over to Luke

chapter 10 verses 25 through 42.

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Luke 10 25.

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This is gonna be.

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A parable that we're familiar with.

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If you've been around the church for

very long or been maybe you grew up

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in the church and that is the Parable

of the Good Samaritan and that the,

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there's a lawyer who's not a lawyer

in the sense that we think of lawyers

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today, but an expert in the law.

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Somebody who knew the Old Testament

law, the Torah backwards and forwards.

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And this lawyer says, what must

I do to inherit eternal life?

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Jesus says, well, what is written

and how do you read it in the law?

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And he gives the same answer that

Jesus really gave love the Lord

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your God, with all your heart, with

all your soul, and with all your

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strength, and with all your mind and

your love, your neighbor as yourself.

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So he answers the same way that

Jesus is gonna answer that question.

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And Jesus says, you've done well.

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And so then the lawyer it says

in the text, wishing to justify

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himself, said, who is my neighbor?

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And that's, that was his

failure right there because

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he just teed it up for Jesus.

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And Jesus tells a parable.

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And not only is the parable remarkable

because the selflessness of the

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Samaritan who loved this man and

sacrificed so much to care for him, but

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because of, and we just talked about.

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Race racial issues.

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In the Old Testament, there were

racial issues going on here.

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There was racial tension between

the Samaritans and the Jews.

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The Jews looked at the

Samaritans as half breeds.

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The Samaritans were populated

after the exile as the.

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Gentiles, the pagans intermarried

with some of the Israelites

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there in the land of Samaria.

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And so that's why the Jews always

look down on the Samaritans and

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consider them to be half breeds.

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So when Jesus makes the hero of the story

of Samaritan, he's doing two things.

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He's confronting the pride of Israel, but

he's also saying, anyone is your neighbor.

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You can't count anybody out.

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And this is the standard.

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Who do you think we are in the

parable versus who do you think

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the hero is in the parable?

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Well, I think that we are.

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We could be any of them in some sense.

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We could be any of them.

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I guess what I meant by that

is I think the Samaritan, his.

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The standard that Jesus sets,

that I think that Jesus is

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identifying with the Samaritan.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I see what you mean.

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Yeah.

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Himself, that he's the one

that loved to that extent.

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Because you look at this and you say,

nobody would love anyone to that level.

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And that's kind of the point.

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Yes, yes.

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See what you're, and yet

Jesus loved us to that level.

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A hundred percent.

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And I do think, you know that,

that final phrase, right, the

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one who showed him mercy, right?

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And then Jesus says.

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You go and do likewise, go and show mercy.

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Likewise, Jesus is the ultimate, right?

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He is the ultimate good Samaritan.

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He is the good shepherd.

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He's the one who has laid his life

down for you and I, and so we ought

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to respond to that in a similar way.

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And don't forget that other commands by

Jesus indicate that even just giving a

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cup of cold water to somebody mm-hmm.

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Is an act of mercy that is like.

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It's not the cross, but it is in

its heart and its essence like

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what Jesus has done, and so.

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Do acts of mercy for people, do acts of

mercy for people, even if it's little,

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even if it's small, and if it's not

something you're comfortable with or

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it's not something that you've done

before, start with something small

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and God sees all of those things.

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Mm-hmm.

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God sees every single one of those

little things, and we should be the

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people who respond to Jesus' command

and hear that command go and do likewise

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and actually go and do likewise.

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Yeah.

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It's interesting.

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I a hundred percent agree with that.

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And then it's fascinating

to me though that Luke.

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Pre presents the next perioscopy

right after this of Mary and Martha.

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Because you have Martha

who is busy doing things.

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Yeah.

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And she's doing, she's serving

what we're just talking about here.

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She's serving and not only

that, she's serving the Lord.

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She's getting the table ready.

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She's preparing a meal and

she's doing all these things.

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And then we see Mary who's

sitting at the feet of Jesus.

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And Jesus says to Martha that

she has chosen the better part.

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She's chosen the better portion.

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So I agree with you.

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Yeah.

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We should be out doing those things and

yet we have to be able to serve from the

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tank and the tank has to be filled up.

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That's right.

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And I think that's what we

see here is Mary is filling

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her tank at the feet of Jesus.

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She's.

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Learning.

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She's studying, she's in the word,

she's with the word literally in that

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sense, so that she's gonna be able

to go and serve from a place of true

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devotion to the Lord and not just serve

as busy work and serve as a disconnect.

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What Martha's doing is not bad.

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But what Mary's doing is better.

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And that's Jesus' point there.

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And that's why I say the motivation

for our acts of mercy need to

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be looking back at Jesus being

the good Samaritan for sure.

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Right.

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And you have to do the study, do the

meditation, do the heart work like

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Mary's doing in order to understand

that, in order to have that be the

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fuel, to be the fire that makes you

go out and do the acts of mercy.

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For sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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But I know we, we as pastors, we'd love

our church to be characterized by such

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mercy that we would be characterized as

a church that loves well and that loves

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one another well and loves others well,

that loves those outside the church.

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Well, and yet we want to do this as

an expression of our devotion to you.

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We do wanna do this as we look

back at the ultimate model.

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The ultimate example of this.

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And we don't wanna do it because

we want the pat on the back.

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We wanna do it because

we wanna be like Jesus.

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So again, I pray that

we would do just that.

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I pray that we would

have our tanks filled up.

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Through time with you through daily

Bible reading and time, spending

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your word around other believers

and listening to your word preach.

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And then I pray that it would

overflow into acts of love and

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service towards others, that we

would take it and live it out.

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So we thank you for this example

that we see in your word, and we

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thank you for this time in it.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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