Chapters

00:00 Sunday Welcome Update

02:02 Resource Recommendations

08:29 Deuteronomy 26

12:52 Deuteronomy 27

18:02 Mark 15

24:21 Prayer

25:10 Outro and Podcast Information

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Resources

The Moody Bible Atlas

Satellite Bible Atlas Historical Geography of the Bible

Envy: A Big Problem You Didn't Know You Had

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Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition of the

Daily Bible Podcast in Happy Sunday.

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Happy Lord's Day to all of you.

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Yeah.

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We hope that you're making

plans to be with us at church.

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We have just a handful of

weeks left actually of church.

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No.

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Well, maybe depending on

when the Lord comes back.

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But do you have inside knowledge?

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I don't.

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We only have two more

Sundays after this Sunday.

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Of church being one service.

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Wow.

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So three weeks total, including this week.

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Dunno how I feel about that.

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And then we're moving to two services.

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It's exciting and at the same time

it's a little bit trepidation.

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Inspiring.

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Daunting.

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Daunting.

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Yeah, it's daunting.

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That's a better way to say that.

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I am nervous about what I'll

feel like after the end of two,

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we used to do three sermons.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Three services.

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And so every now and then we'd fill

in for Pastor Mike or sending pastor.

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I don't know what you felt

like at the end of those.

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I was done.

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Just don't talk to me for at

least a good day and a half after

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that because I needed to recover.

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Yeah.

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And when I talk for long periods of time,

my voice gets all wispy and it sounds like

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I'm a late night dj not trying to do that.

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Just what happens.

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My voice loses steam.

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Right.

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And I just can't, I just can't

talk to anybody after that.

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I try so hard.

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I'm straining by the time I'm done.

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So, two services after doing, what?

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Two years?

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Three years?

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Yeah.

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How long has it been?

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Two and a half years.

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Yeah.

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Of one service has been luxurious.

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It's been great.

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It's been great, but I think

two is gonna be good as well.

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We're excited about the change and the

opportunity it's gonna give us to grow

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and just continue to see people grow in

their own faith, even just personally.

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And nobody's gonna have to just

serve one service and not get

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to attend main service either.

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Now we get the opportunity to do both,

and so that's an exciting thing too.

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I'm excited that you'll have two

shots at the sermon, which means

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if I go to the second one, I

will likely get a better sermon.

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That's my thought.

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What do you think about that?

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Sometimes it works that

way, sometimes it doesn't.

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Sometimes it works out that, hey, the

first one was actually the better one.

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Why do you think that is?

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Sometimes you think, well, maybe

I need to make a change here, make

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a change there and you make the

change and it ends up not being as

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helpful as you thought it would be.

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Mm.

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Okay.

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Well, at the very minimum, you'll

have gone through it the first time.

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And you'll have a sense

of cadence and rhythm.

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And so the second time, I still think it's

probably gonna be net positive overall.

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Yeah.

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Hey, we want to give you

guys a couple of resources.

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We've been talking about them.

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Well not give them to you, but

we wanna recommend them to you.

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Recommend them to you.

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That's a better way to put it.

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I guess.

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Maybe we should do a couple of giveaways.

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We haven't done that.

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Maybe.

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That would be fun.

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That would be fun.

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Yeah, we should do that.

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We can incentivize their

review leaving their list.

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Yeah.

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If you leave five stars and above.

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We will consider you as part of the

raffle that we're gonna give away one

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of Pastor Peach's recommendations.

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Right now, I think this is a bribery

thing but hey, can we do that?

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That I'm happy to do it.

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Happy, I'm happy to do it.

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Well, let's put your card on the line too.

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That's the grand giveaway.

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Well, one of 'em is and

both of 'em are atlases.

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One of 'em is a little

bit more text heavy.

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So lemme start with that one.

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That one's called the

Moody Atlas of Bible Lands.

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Now Moody, Atlas Moody,

not as in like it's broody.

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It's not like upset with

you or it's an emo atlas.

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It passive aggressive.

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But moody, being Moody Bible Institute,

moody Publishers, this one was first

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put out in 1985, so it's been around for

a long time, but it's really helpful.

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It gives again, a lot of detail.

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It's gonna be more text heavy.

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It does have the maps in it as well.

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Like I just opened to one dating

that has the rainfall of Palestine.

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So you can, if you curious.

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Okay, it's talking about

rain and scripture.

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It's talking about droughts.

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This is something that's gonna help you

understand the geography a little bit more

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and what the weather patterns are like.

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It's got things where David's flight from

Saul, you'll be able to trace that and

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also it's gonna explain what the maps mean

and that's where the text heavy can come

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in handy is it's not just you looking at

a picture assuming things, but it's gonna

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give you some more direction on that.

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So the Moody Atlas.

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Of Bible lands.

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That's one that is helpful.

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The Atlas of Bible lands.

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Now that one's presently on Amazon.

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It looks like it's about $37 here.

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It's got five stars, 28 reviews,

and you can get it if you order

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it right now, you can get it.

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It's one of those overnight items.

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And which, what's the year on that one?

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'cause I'm looking at this one.

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This one looks newer than yours.

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This one's copyright.

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1985.

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Oh, 85.

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Well, no, I think they've

recently updated it.

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'cause this one's, yeah.

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Get this guys.

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February 4th, 2025.

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They updated itself.

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20, 25, 20 years.

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New images.

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Oh, this looks way better than yours.

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I put mine off my bookshelf, so you

know, you should, it's been a while.

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You should get this one.

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Yeah, since 85.

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Apparently I could update.

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You had that one on your shelf.

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Maybe I could do both.

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The second one is called the

Holy Land Satellite Atlas.

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This is Volume one.

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It's by Roar Productions.

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ROHR.

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Productions.

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This is one that I had to get.

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Back in college.

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And it gives, like I said, satellite.

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And so it's got really rich pictures,

like if you've ever looked like at a

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Google Maps and done the satellite view

of a region, that's what these are.

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But it also has the biblical

cities listed there.

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So, this is helpful for

labeling if you're into that.

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If you want to do your own mapping,

this is a great resource for that.

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In fact, that's what I

had to do in college.

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I had to go through.

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And mark out on here, different

cities, different things, what

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the biblical resources were.

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And you can do that with

something like this.

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So the Holy Land satellite Atlas

Volume one is there multiple volumes?

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You know, I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure this one is.

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Pretty thorough.

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Is this the publisher?

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I see it.

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William Schlagel is the publisher.

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Okay, so this one also

has an updated edition.

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Yours is, looks like it's

from the 14 hundreds.

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This one here is, the

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So Satellite Bible Atlas Historical

Geography of the Bible, second edition.

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So 148 pages.

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This look like a huge book too.

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This is gonna take substantial

amounts of space on your shelf.

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It's tall, but you

would say it's worth it.

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Yes.

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Yeah, it's a good one.

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It looks nice.

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Good to have.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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There you go.

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So there's two that I would recommend to

you and we're gonna try to do a little bit

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more of that as well and to equip you guys

with some good resources along the way.

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Yeah, that one is 38 bucks.

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That one is also on the Amazons, and

it doesn't look like you can get it

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overnight, but you can get it soon.

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Yep.

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And again, these are helpful as you read

through the Bible to be able to look

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at those things and say, oh, okay, now

I've got a visual for what I'm reading.

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And again, logouts will do this for

you as well if you've got an atlas

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there, or, I know accordance has Atlas

programs built into them as well.

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But some of you don't have logos or

accordance and you just like the good

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old fashioned hard copy in your hands.

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That does raise a question.

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Then which one do you recommend they

get if they do have logouts and I do.

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You do?

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I know Pastor Mark does as well.

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Should they get it on the

logos or on the hardcover?

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What I love about logos is its

searchability, and that is you can look

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in the factbook and search a topic like

David's flight from Saul, and if you

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have an atlas in your resources that.

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Has some information about that.

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It's gonna show up in your search results

from Factbook and it's gonna hyperlink it.

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So you can click on that.

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It's gonna pull the atlas open right

away in logos to that particular picture.

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Now you can find that in one of those

atlases that I just recommended to you,

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but you're gonna have to do a little

bit more legwork to, to search for it,

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to find it, to flip open, to make sure

that you're in the right spot on that.

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So that's why I might recommend

the digital version if you

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are inclined that direction.

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Alright?

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Or both if you.

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Want the best of both worlds

or both of you want the best?

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I have been doing that.

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It's an expensive habit.

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Yeah.

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I don't like it.

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But you do that for a particular reason.

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Do you wanna share why you get

the digital and the paperback?

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Oh, well, okay.

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Yes, so I've been reading a lot more

paper lately and I've been finding

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that to be quite enjoyable, and

I'm also still getting the digital

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version of the books that I read.

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Esp the ones that I like.

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I guess for some they don't need

the digital, but only because I

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want to be sure that I glean all

the highlights and notes that I

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got from my paperback version.

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It's easier to do on Kindle or

logos, and then I can get it into

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my what some people call a PKM, a

personal knowledge management system.

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And then I can search my highlights and

interact with them and use them when I'm

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pulling stuff out for my sermons and or

even papers that I'm writing for school.

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It's helpful to have it in a repository

like that rather than saying, oh,

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I know that's in one of my books.

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Where was that?

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I can't, or, what was

the name of that guy?

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So it's just easier if

I have a digital copy.

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It makes it easier for searchability

and for identifying highlights

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and making better notes.

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Right.

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Which, by the way, you use it more

robustly than I do, but I use it for

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things as well and I appreciate it.

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And that is read wise.

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Super great.

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Yeah.

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If you don't have that resource, maybe

look into it, especially if you've got

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a large Kindle library or you'd like to

highlight in your Kindle books or even I

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use it their reader app because I'll find

so good links to articles online and I

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can save it to the reader app and number

one, I can save it and read it later, but

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I can highlight in the reader app as well.

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Yeah.

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But what read wise the app does is

it will call up a lot of things,

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but one of the cool things is if

you've got an iPhone, iPad, it.

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Probably works for Android as well.

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It will have a widget where it will

pop up reminders of your highlights

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every single day, and you can set how

many you want, 5, 10, 15, whatever.

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And you can go through and be reminded

of different highlights that pop

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up there on this widget for you,

which is a good way to remember.

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Oh yeah, I forgot.

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I read that.

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I highlighted , that.

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Jumped out to me.

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, it's a new thing to do when you've

got five minutes rather than jumping

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on social media or something like

that, that isn't as productive always.

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It's a way to be

productive with your time.

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It is one of my favorite

apps in my workflow.

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Yeah.

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I will never get rid

of it, so Help me God.

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Read Wise.

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Read Wise.

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Wise, yeah.

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Read Wiser.

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Yep.

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Well, hey, speaking of reading, let's

jump into our daily Bible reading.

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That's Deuteronomy 26 through 27.

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In Mark 15.

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Deuteronomy 26 begins with, well, really

what the whole chapter is about, and that

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is the first fruits that when they were to

enter into the Promised land, God wanted

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them to give him the first fruits of the

promised land as an expression of their

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gratitude to him as an act of Thanksgiving

to him, as a way to care for the helpless

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and the priest and the Levites as well.

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So this was to be something that

they needed to do, and this was part.

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The law that he wanted to make sure

that they were going to practice.

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Remember God was concerned and he

has been this whole time that they

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were gonna get into the Promised

Land and think we've made it look at

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us, we got ourselves here, and that

that was gonna lead them to forgive

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him and to end up drifting from him.

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This was gonna be one of the ways to

say, okay, we're committed to you.

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In fact, this was costly to give

the first fruits, to give the best.

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It was an act of faith because they

had to trust that the rest of the crop

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was gonna come in behind these things.

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And so we.

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Sometimes equate this to the modern day

practice of giving for the New Testament

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church that we're not giving tithes.

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We do give from the top.

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Now we don't give after we've paid

everybody else and everything else, and

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then at the end go, okay, God, here's

our leftovers from what we have left.

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We give from the top trusting that

God is gonna provide what we need

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for the rest of our income as well.

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Right.

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The importance here is that for

so many of us, we know the draw

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that it is to say, this money is

my protection and my security.

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They don't feel any differently.

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You're absolutely right, and Deuteronomy

26, this is just as much an act of

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faith for them and maybe even more

so than for us because we can say,

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well, I can pull out a loan if I

need to cover the basic expenses.

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But they didn't have that, right?

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They didn't have a loan.

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They had to go and say we trust

the Lord to provide our daily.

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Needs and for them that

meant something for us.

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You got refrigerator food.

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You could always pull something out.

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You could go to the pantry, pull

out some dried goods, or pull

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out some canned goods for them.

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They trusted the Lord to deliver on

food for them daily, for many of them.

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Okay.

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I have questions then about

giving because you brought it up.

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Okay.

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When it comes to giving, then

you talk about giving from the

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top and not from the bottom.

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Not after all you.

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After all you spent that being the case,

then lots of people struggle with debt.

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They're in debt either because

of this reason or that reason.

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Let's just pull that part out.

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'cause I know that can play a role.

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Sure, sure.

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But they're in debt and they feel tight.

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Money is really, really tight

from week to week, month to month.

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If there's extra, man, I'll

give it to the Lord, but to give

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something from the top would put

me under water for that pay period.

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What do you say to that?

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I still think it's good if you're in

debt and you're trying to pay down debt.

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I think it's still good to, to

get into the practice of giving

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to the Lord and to continue the

practice of giving to the Lord.

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I don't think going into debt

is a reason to, if I can put it

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this way gently rob the Lord.

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To be able to pay your human creditors

because of debt that you're in.

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And not all debt is sinful.

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I'm not trying to imply that

it is, but I do think it's wise

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even if that means okay, I'm not

paying as much towards my debt.

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I know for example, Dave Ramsey's

out there and I don't know where

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he falls on this 'cause I haven't

heard him specifically, but I know

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he's big on getting out of debt as

quick and fast as you possibly can.

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I would say.

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That's a good principle, but not

if it costs you, your faithful

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obedience to give into the Lord.

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So I think giving to him and giving

to him from the top helps us as well,

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because a lot of times that then can

inform some of the other decisions

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that we're gonna make through our

month as far as our spending goes.

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Maybe we're not gonna eat out if things

are tight, maybe we're not gonna, rent

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that movie, or maybe we're not going to,

maybe we're gonna cancel Netflix for this

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month to be able to pay something else.

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I think that's the better choice

than saying we will see if we can

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give this month after we've paid

everybody else that we owe because

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it's gonna be a tight month.

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Right.

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And Dave Ramsey, I believe does

encourage Christians to still give

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to their church even while they're

focusing on getting outta debt.

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Are there any exceptional circumstances

where you might say, okay, oh,

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that one, that would make sense?

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I would say, okay, for a

season you should not give.

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And I guess , I'm assuming a

principle that, I'll just say

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for all of you, the New Testament

does command Christians to give.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's not an option.

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It's not something that we can

elect not to do just because of.

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Whatever reason.

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Are there ever times though, are there

any exceptional circumstances where you

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would say that might make it make sense?

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And I am sure there are.

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Okay.

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Well I guess that, that, that's enough.

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Yeah.

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You would say this is a general

practice of faithful Christians.

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Yeah.

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There are always gonna be

exceptional circumstances.

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We can't always anticipate what those are.

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Some kind of financial disaster right.

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Comes to mind.

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Right.

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You become the person where

charity is needed and not

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where charity is being derive.

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From you become an object of the

church's generosity, is what I'm saying.

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Yeah.

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Besides that though, the New Testament,

even though we don't do the tithing

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system any longer, God is not

asking us to tithe off of our money.

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He does ask us to give.

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We are called.

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We're called to support our church.

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We're called to support our pastors.

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That's not an option

in the Christian life.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Chapter 27 is a chapter that's

about two mountains, and we're gonna

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have Mount Garris and Mount Eal.

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And Mount Garris is going to be the

mountain that is going to be associated

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with blessing and Mount eal the

mountain that's associated with cursing.

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And this is gonna be pertain to after

they enter into the promised land.

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And Moses is gonna give them instructions

when you enter into the promised land.

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You shall read the curses of judgment

from Mount Eal, and you'll shall

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read the blessings that are gonna

come from obedience from Mount Garin.

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And so Moses is gonna set that up.

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And this was right before chapter 20.

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Eight, which is tomorrow's reading,

but this is right before he

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gets into saying these are what

the blessings and Cursings are.

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So he's given them some instructions.

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Separate this out.

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And it's interesting that he does this,

that he says, Hey, there's two mountains.

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I want you to read the blessings from

one and the cursings from the other.

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I think it's really it.

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I don't know that we should read too

much into it other than this is a helpful

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visual to separate these things out,

to say, okay, look over here on the one

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side you have blessings and good things.

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On the other side, you have

cursing for disobedience.

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I don't know what Mount Eal looked like.

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Maybe my satellite atlas can show me, but

maybe Mount Eal was some really hideously

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ugly, barren mountain that reminded

people of the barrenness versus Mount

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Garine may have maybe was more fruitful.

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Who knows?

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But this was a visual to

help people think about.

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Their obedience to the Lord.

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That's an insightful

observation in and of itself.

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The fact that God goes out of his

way to meet his people where they are

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reaffirms my understanding that God

is constantly condescending to them.

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He's treating them not as

he would expect them, as in.

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He's saying You should know better by now.

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And sometimes he does say that.

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No, no doubt.

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But he condescends to his

people for their good.

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We do this with our kids.

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If we care about them, we're gonna say

things in ways that they'll understand.

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We're gonna ask them to fulfill

responsibilities that are suitable

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to their age and the maturity.

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And God does a lot of this with us.

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He does it with Israel.

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He's saying, I'm gonna make

this really plain for you guys.

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I want you to stand in two separate areas.

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With two separate mountains and it's

probably more likely these are in

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our minds more close to hills Yeah.

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Than mountains.

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'cause it'd be really hard to

hear from one peak to the other.

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So they're more likely big hills that

they're saying, here's a stark contrast.

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Blessings are as stark and as

different as two opposing mountains.

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You live this way.

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This is the blessing.

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You live that way.

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Here are the curses and they're as

distinct and they're as separate as these

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two pillars that we're now standing on.

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And I'd hate to be the people on

the curse side, that's for sure.

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I don't wanna be on that side.

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Right, right.

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I wanna be on the blessing side, but

it is important to see that God does

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this for us, and he does this today.

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Even as we read our scriptures, he

doesn't reveal to us all our sin at once.

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He doesn't tell us all

that we long to know.

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He only tells us what we need to know.

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And this I think, is an evidence

of God's mercy toward us.

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Part of the curses that

he talks about here.

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He talks about how we treat the foreigner

and we've come across this multiple times.

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The alien, the surgeon of the

foreigner and God will often tell

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his people, treat them well because

you were this in the land of Egypt.

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And today in our culture,

some have taken that.

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Applied that to the way that we are called

as a church, at least in their eyes,

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to treat those that are here as what we

would refer to as illegal immigrants.

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And that's a big hot button issue

in our culture and society today.

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And there are people that are

saying, Hey, the church needs to love

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them because this is what the Old

Testament commanded, just like the Old

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Testament said, we need to welcome the

foreigner, the stranger, the soner.

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We need to do that with those

that are here illegally as well.

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And I think one key difference there

is that adjective that we put before

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the word immigrant, we're not.

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Talking about somebody who's

here, sojourning on a visa.

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We're not talking about somebody here

who's an immigrant that came across

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according to the ways that they should.

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We're talking about some somebody that is

here that has broken the law to be here.

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And I think that's the difference

in the way that we approach it.

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Not that we close our heart or that we're

cold hearted or hardhearted towards them,

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but I just think it's important when

you listen to that and you hear that.

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'cause sometimes somebody on social media

is jumping on going, this is what we

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need to do and this is what we should do.

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That we as a church, remember that

it's not a one for one correlation.

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The laws of Israel and the ways that

things worked back in that society and

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the way things work in our society.

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Today are not one for one correlation.

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And that should have a factor in how

we think about these things as well.

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Well, even our law provides

exceptional circumstances.

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Sure.

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Exceptional.

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So if someone's fleeing their

country because of persecution right?

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Or war or something like that we have

cutouts for just such an occasion.

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Right?

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So even as a nation, I don't think we've

been, by and large closed hearted and.

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In the recent administration,

things have turned up really hot.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because it is such a big, hairy, messy

issue and because now we've also seen

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fraud not only in Minnesota, in Wallace's

backyard, but also in our own backyard.

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Right.

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Governor Abbott has been

talking about that as well.

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And we even had someone come

recently to our door Yep.

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Talking to BA Mark about some of

the fraud that's potentially taking

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place in our own neighborhood.

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So we're sensitive to these

issues and what we want to avoid.

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Is sounding like political talking heads.

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We don't wanna sound like and I, no

offense to these people, we don't wanna

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sound like Candace Owens or Ben Shapiro.

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We don't wanna sound like any

other talking heads for sure.

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Their side, our side, whoever's

side, we wanna sound like Jesus.

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And what that requires of us then is to

have a level head and a caring heart.

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It doesn't mean that we don't.

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Follow the laws.

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In fact, to the contrary, you and I

would both say that the laws of the land

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are generally to be abided by, unless

they tell us not to obey God, which

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of course is not the situation here.

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So we care about the sojourner, we

care about the widow and the orphan.

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We care about people, but we

also care about upholding the

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righteousness and justice.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Well put, let's jump

over to Mark chapter 15.

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Mark chapter 15, verses one through 26.

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Jesus is now before Pilate.

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And you remember the reason why Jesus

had to come before Pilate and not just

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appear before the Jewish Sanhedrin was

the Sanhedrin did not have the authority

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to sentence him to death, not death

for the crime that he had committed.

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A blasphemy, not death for the.

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The crime that they're gonna put

before Pilate, which is basically,

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hey, he's stirring up sedition.

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He's claiming to be a king, and

the Jews are shrewd about this

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because Pilate doesn't really care

if Jesus is committing blasphemy.

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According to the Old Testament.

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That's not really moving

the needle for Pilate.

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But if Pilate hears Jesus has claim to be.

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King, that's when he's gonna get really

nervous because Pilate is a man serving

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under the authority of the emperor.

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And so if the emperor catches wind that

in Pilate's district, somebody's claiming

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to be king, and that's going unchecked,

then that's gonna look bad on Pilate too.

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So the Jews know what they're

doing and that's why Jesus

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ends up in front of Pilate.

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'cause Pilate does have the

authority to execute Jesus.

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But Jesus is before him.

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Pilate's gonna interview him.

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He does ask him that question

right there in verse two.

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Are you the king of the Jews?

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And so he's going after

the heart of the issue.

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Jesus says, you have said so.

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We talk.

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About that recently on in, I

think in Matthew's account.

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And what was Jesus really doing there?

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Well, Jesus was affirming that that's a

colloquial way at this time of saying yes.

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What you have said is true.

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Indeed, I am the king of the Jews,

and Pilate continues to press

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him, but Jesus is gonna remain.

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Silent there.

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I, Isaiah 53 talks about Jesus as a

lamb that's silent before its shearers.

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And here we see an example of

this that Jesus is not interested

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in making a defense because he

knows what's in front of him.

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Remember the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus.

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It was abundantly clear to him.

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Not that it wasn't before, but.

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Jesus, it was confirmed he was

going to the cross, and so he

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knows what's in front of him.

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And so Pilate is here.

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Pilate is engaging with Jesus.

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He's trying to get a response from him.

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He's trying to get something

and even still, Pilate still

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tries to, to save Jesus.

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So to speak, though Pilate is not an.

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A good man in all of this, but

he just doesn't feel comfortable.

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Sens sentencing Jesus to death for

something he doesn't feel is worthy of it.

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He's looking at this poor Jewish

rabbi, and even though he says, I am

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the king of the Jews, he answers in

the affirmative nothing about Jesus.

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Nothing about his appearance or

anything else would threaten Pilate.

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And so Pilate still tries with

the release of Barabbas to get him

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out, but it doesn't go that way.

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Ultimately we know because of God's plan.

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One thing that stood out to me this

time was in verse 10, chapter 15,

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verse 10, it says, and this is a pilot

talking about the religious leaders.

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He says, for he perceived that it

was out of envy, that the chief

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priest had delivered him up.

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Which I never, I dunno,

envy's not a good thing.

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But I never realized

how deadly it could be.

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They envied Jesus.

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It wasn't that he was, I mean, he

was upsetting their political power.

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He had humility.

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Humiliated them in front of others,

thereby casting shame upon them.

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And they wanted his role.

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They wanted his prestige, they wanted

his influence, they wanted his position.

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So much so that they're willing to

say, we're gonna kill you for it.

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We're gonna shame you and humiliate

you like, like you did to us, and we're

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gonna do it in such a way that we inherit

the honor that you've been receiving.

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I never saw it in that light,

but I realized afresh about how

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devastating sin can be, especially

sins that you look down upon, sins

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that you don't think much about.

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I wonder if many people even consider

envy to be all that egregious of a sin.

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And yet here it is so evil and

so sinful that it's willing to

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put Jesus to death for envy.

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Yeah.

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And if that is something that piques

your interest, if that's not a

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subject that you've thought much

about, our sending Pastor Mike Fbar,

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he wrote a book called Envy, A Big

Problem You Didn't Know You had.

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It's got an orange cover.

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It's got these eyes that are looking

enviously at somebody else on the cover.

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It's a great book.

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Good series.

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I remember he preached a series and then.

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Took that series and made it a book.

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I remember when he preached that

series, it was a helpful one on that.

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What do you make, if anything, as Jesus

is then mocked by the soldiers and

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abused by them, beaten by them and then

they lead 'em out to, to crucify him.

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I found this interesting that they

talk about Simon, who is the guy

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that's gonna carry the cross, but then

Mark adds these additional details.

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Simon of Cyrene, who is coming in from

the country, the father of Alexander

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and Rufuss to carry his cross.

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It's just interesting that

Simon is identified and his sons

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are included in that as well.

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A unique detail, maybe something

that stuck out to Peter.

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Maybe Peter knew these people, or maybe

they became followers of Christ later on.

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Who knows?

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But they're included

here in Mark's gospel.

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I have to believe that these two fellas,

Simon and his sons, Alexander and Rufuss,

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are known to the first Century church.

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They're They have to be.

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Yeah.

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Mark doesn't explain it.

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And I assume the reason why is

because everybody knew them.

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Yeah.

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It's like, oh, , I don't have to

tell you who these people are.

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You know who they are.

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So that would be my assumption then.

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That's why he doesn't explain it.

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Yeah.

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That's why it seems to us random,

because they all knew who it was.

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In fact, Wes Huff made this

point recently on a podcast.

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This guy's has been making the rounds.

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Yeah.

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I am so thrilled that

God is using this guy.

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He's so humble, he's so articulate.

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And what I really like is he

doesn't overplay the hand either.

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He's so careful to say what is

true without saying more and

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speculating on things that.

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As Christians, we might accidentally

do because we're just taking

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someone else's word for it.

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He's so careful, and I appreciate that.

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He was on the Diary of a CEO

podcast with Stephen Bartlett.

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It's one of the most popular

podcasts in the world now.

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Joe Rogans is most popular, but

Stephen Bartlett isn't very far behind.

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Anyway, he's on the podcast and he

talks about this very situation here.

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So, it's well worth listening to Stephen

Bartlett, Wes Huff Diary of a CEO podcast.

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He does a great job defending

the gospel with someone who.

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He's not a Christian.

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He's not quite antagonistic, but

he has some pretty hard-hitting

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honest questions that West does.

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Just such a great job answering.

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Yeah.

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And again, note here in verse 25, just the

simplicity and there they crucified him.

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There's so much that went into that.

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And yet all the gospel writers

basically just sum it up with a simple

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sentence there that crucified him.

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And that is the linchpin of our faith

without his death we're not forgiven.

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And the resurrection is equally important.

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'cause without his resurrection

we're also not forgiven.

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But this is such a massive thing just

described as they're, they crucified him.

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And if I might make one recommendation

he recently passed away.

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In fact, it was just last year and it was.

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Tragic situation.

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Terrible circumstance, but Jubilant Sykes.

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Yeah.

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Used to sing at Grace Community Church.

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He has a, he used musical theater.

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He used to sing professionally.

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He's recorded a song that you

probably know called, were

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You There When They Crucified?

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My Lord.

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And Jubilant does the, my

favorite version of that.

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So if you wanna listen to a great

song, jubilant Sykes, were you

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there about this very situation?

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Yeah.

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It's a goosebumps song.

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Oh it's especially live, yeah.

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Oh.

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Oh yeah.

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Alright, well hey, let's pray and

they'll be done with this episode.

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Lord, we can't wait to

be in your presence.

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It was even just thinking about

jubilant right now is in your presence

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and he is with his Lord that he

was singing about during that time.

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And as amazing as it is to sit

and listen to that song and to.

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To feel the feel wrapped up in the song.

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And the words of that song is,

someday we're gonna be with you,

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we're gonna be in your presence,

which is gonna be far better.

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And so we'd long for that day.

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We look forward to that day, and

it's because you were crucified

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that we can hope in that day.

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And so we are so just in awe

of that, humbled by that fact.

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And I just ask that we would live God

faithful to you in response to that.

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We want to be a godly church.

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We want to be a church

that is useful to you.

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So help us be that as Christians, as

individual Christians, as we seek to

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be that together as the church as well.

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And we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Keeping your Bibles y'all, and

tune in again tomorrow on Monday

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morning for another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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