Joshua's Inheritance and Lessons from Frisbee Golf

In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts share updates from their Frisbee golf outing and dive into Joshua chapters 19-21. They discuss the allocation of land among the remaining tribes of Israel, the cities of refuge, and the Levitical cities. They also address the interpretation of Joshua 21:43-45, emphasizing God's faithfulness in fulfilling His promises and providing practical tips for engaging with scripture.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:13 Frisbee Golf Adventures

03:59 Community and Volunteering

05:35 Joshua's Inheritance and Tribal Allotments

08:45 Cities of Refuge and Levitical Cities

10:09 God's Promises and Faithfulness

15:14 Conclusion and Prayer

hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey, we are back for more of Joshua.

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We're finishing up Joshua pretty soon

here though I feel like Joshua was a

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kinda a flash in the pan a little bit.

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I like Joshua, but it's a great book.

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Yeah, great book.

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It is.

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Hey, something we didn't talk

about that is totally noteworthy.

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People are gonna love hearing about this.

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People will, people need to know that

we went Frisbee golfing on Monday.

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We did go Frisbee golfing.

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We didn't talk anything about that.

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We didn't.

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You're right.

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Actually, now that I think about it,

we took a day off to play Frisbee golf.

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With Jason.

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We played on our day off.

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We should say.

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Yeah, that's true.

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I guess we could take a day off

to do it, but yeah, that was fun.

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I think I think you got bit by the bug.

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I see you got stickers on your car

now that saved Frisbee golf or die

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disc golf for life, all that stuff.

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Yeah, no it was a lot of fun.

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That was my first time out.

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Not at a summer camp.

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Not just thrown it at a couple of Yeah.

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Random baskets.

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So this was pro level, a pro working

with a lot of amateur-ish people.

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Yeah.

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You and me.

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That is, yeah.

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That was fun.

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I didn't realize there was

so much more to it than.

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You would even dare to guess when

you're watching it casually throw

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in the general direction of that.

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Yeah, I guess it's like any sport really.

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It's like baseball.

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It's like, how hard could it be?

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They're throwing a ball.

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You hit it with a stick, you run

around a base, it's good to go.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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But it's a little more

complicated than that.

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So is Frisbee golf?

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Come to find out?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Jason's good, by the way, if you

are or Jason Cooper hit him up.

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He's a disc golfer extraordinaire.

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What do you call those people?

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A disc golfer?

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I don't know.

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He.

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He texted me that this, because he

played a second round after we left.

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He got a hole in, he got a hole

in one on that second round.

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Wow.

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Which one?

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Which hole number seven?

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I don't know which one that was

because I don't remember number seven.

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Yeah.

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I can't remember it either,

but I'm sure it was a good one.

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But he got it.

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Yeah.

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So good job, Jason.

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And yeah, it was fun.

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It was fun to go out and and play.

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That was fun.

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Nice weather too.

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It was perfect weather

and I think what made it.

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Most fun was that we were hanging

out, chatting about everything

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under the sun, which I'm sure is the

redeeming aspect of games like that.

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Yeah.

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If if you're gonna play golf, even if you

don't like the sport, that part is fun.

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Yeah.

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The one thing I would

give Golf the Edge for.

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And there's not many.

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But the one thing I would give it the

edge for is that you get the golf cart.

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This, there was no golf cart.

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True.

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I would like the golf cart though,

probably a little bit more cardiovascular

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exercise happening in this.

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But and I understand that

everyone who goes to a golf course

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actually rinse the golf cart.

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Some people actually walk those

things, which I think is crazy.

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Yeah.

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'cause it's so much fun.

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The best part about golf is the

golf cart driving the golf cart.

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Everything else is

peripheral to the main event.

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Yeah.

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Except after you, turn 16 and

get an actual car, the golf

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cart loses some of its interest.

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Not a lot though.

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I loved it, man.

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Every time we did a focal

point golf tournament.

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Yeah.

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I signed up to help because I

wanted to drive the golf cart.

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Yeah.

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Let me just drive around the course

with the golf cart and talk to

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people as they're sway in and cough.

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Before they swing.

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Right before the swing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's good i's mean.

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Stuff like that.

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That's fine.

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That's good.

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Yeah.

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We didn't talk about

Frisbee golf etiquette.

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I don't even know if there is.

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Do you agree?

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I, based on what I observed.

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There's none.

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When you knee, knee tapped him on

that one hole, I just, I thought

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that was a little outta line.

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But I went with it, winning at all costs.

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That's basically, that was

how I understood the game.

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Yeah.

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It, it's a little wheels off there.

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You're literally just going through

the woods and it's we're just

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gonna put a basket over here.

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Yeah.

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And here's a stream that you get

across and there's falling trees.

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Yeah.

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Mud pits.

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There's a chasm, slew of despair.

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Pit of snakes.

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Pit of snakes.

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Yeah.

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All those things.

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It was a good time.

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It was the weather again.

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Perfect.

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It was in little Elm.

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So if you care to go disc

golfing with Jason, invite

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yourself to Little Elm with him.

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McCord Park is what it is.

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That sounds right.

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M-C-C-O-R-D.

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And we did the red course or the red line.

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I don't what?

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Red Ts red tea.

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Yeah.

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Whatever that means.

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I think those are a little easier.

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Yeah.

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And we're grateful for that.

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That was fun.

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Yeah, it was fun.

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Yeah.

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And it's all community.

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Like he saw a couple of people out

there and he was calling 'em by name.

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One guy named Bear.

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There's a guy named, that's his real name.

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His real name is Bear.

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We found out.

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Yeah, he's apparently good

and likes to chop down trees.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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If the city won't do it,

he'll make it happen.

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Bear will make it happen.

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I think's, sounds a good guy.

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That's on his business card.

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I think we could use him on our setup.

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Team Bear, if you're listening.

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We don't know who you are, right?

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But we've heard good things about you.

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We'd invite you to join our setup team.

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Hey, speaking of setup team we're

always in I don't wanna say need

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in the sense of Hey, we just

need more bodies to fill holes.

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But we could always use help on our

setup teams, on our tear down teams.

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That's an evergreen need

for us as a church plant.

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Those of you that, that serve

regularly on those teams, we could

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always use more people on that.

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And so if you're out there listening

to this, it would really be great.

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We are, as a church plant.

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Spread thin in a lot of ways.

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We have a lot of people pulling double

duty, some triple, quadruple duty.

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And so if we can add more to our setup

teams, tear down teams, then, when we have

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people that are on the worship team or

in student, involved in kids' ministry or

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somewhere else like that it just really

helps us be more efficient at what we do.

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True.

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So if you're out there.

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Pondering, Hey, maybe I could

do a little bit more or maybe

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I can jump in and serve it all.

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Set up Team, tear down team are great

places for you to jump in at and it's

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a great kind of, I don't know, on-ramp

to serving in the church as well.

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If you're new to the church, this is

an area that we're not, we don't need

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to background check on you to get you,

helping with set up and tear down.

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And it's all on the job training.

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Exactly.

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And it's a great place to

build relationships with other

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people too, because you're

gonna be working side by side.

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Either loading the trailer, unloading

the trailer you'll have opportunities

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to talk and get to know people.

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And it's a lot of fun to to do it.

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And there's a sense of accomplishment too.

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I feel that every week, once the room

is set up, and then every week once

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it's torn down, it's the gym again.

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It's oh man, this is really cool.

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It looks just like it looked when we

walked in, and yet we did so much here.

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By having church in this

place, it's gratifying.

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Set up, tear down team.

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That's our shameless plug for that.

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If you are not actively serving

somewhere else, or even if you

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are and you want to do a little

bit more set up, tear down team.

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Great places to go please.

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Let's talk about Joshua

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We are again, like we talked about

yesterday, I believe it was yesterday's

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podcast where you asked me about

what to do when the Bible's boring.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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We're still in the sloth we're in the.

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The weeds, so to speak, walking through

some of this reading about these

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inheritances and remember our suggestions.

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A good atlas, a good study Bible.

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It's gonna do a lot of good for you.

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Look for something, some,

something to focus on, to pull

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out that you can think about here.

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This is relevant for us, maybe not as

directly relevant or accessible as Paul's

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writings, but still important for us.

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And so in Joshua 19, as.

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It opens up here.

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We're dealing with the inheritance for

really the rest of the tribes here.

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19 one through nine.

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You've got Simeon 1910 through

16, Zein 17 through 23 Iscar 4 24

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through 31 Asher 32 through 39.

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Naftali.

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40 through 48 Dan and 49 through 51.

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You've got Joshua's inheritance as well.

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So more of the tribes taking their places.

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And again, maybe pick out one of

these tribes and say, okay, I, I wanna

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know a little bit more about Asher.

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Find out more about Asher.

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Do a deeper dive on Asher or Dan or

some of these other ones on there.

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Yeah.

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A couple quick notes here.

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Number one, you'll notice that Simeon

is given a reason here for why they're.

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Inheritance is in the midst of Judahs

and it's here said because they're, their

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portion of Judahs was too large for them.

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And you should know that eventually

Judah absorbs Simeon into their

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territory and they disappear as a clan

even though they're technically given

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that little space in between them.

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So it's like a donut hole.

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Also noticed to that, for the tribe,

Dan, you're given information here

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that likely comes from somebody who

knew what happened in the future.

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'cause it says it here in verse 47, when

the territory of the people of Dan was.

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Lost to them.

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So initially, Dan has given some

really sweet territory that you

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know is right up next to the sea.

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They're given a little slice of land

there, and it's in the midst of the other

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tribes, but eventually they go way up

north and decide to do something else.

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So they lose their territory,

they lose their promised land.

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They're still within the parameters

of the promised land, but they're not

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originally where they're supposed to be.

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They go somewhere else.

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That's an interesting side note

there, that there, alluded to here.

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But that's a big deal and

there's reasons for that.

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They offer reasons for why they

do it, but ultimately I think

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that was a bad move on their part.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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And in fact, Dan becomes one of the

hubs for the northern kingdom idolatry

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to where the right, the altar, the.

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False altar is built

up in the area of Dan.

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It's where one of the golden calves that

Jere bone, the second erect is stationed.

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And Dan, when they resettle,

is gonna be in, in a place

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that's not good, by the way.

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From Dan de Beersheba, sometimes

you'll hear that it's references

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of the parameters, the borders

of the territory of Israel.

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So Dan being the farther, farthest

north border when they finally

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resettle and they get their ultimate

territory there, they're on the edge.

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They're right there.

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In fact, even you go there today,

they're right on the border of Lebanon.

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When we went there with our church

back in California in 2 20 19.

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It was more of a peaceful time in

Israel at the time, but we were able

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to walk right up to literally the

border between Israel and Lebanon.

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And we were in Dan right there,

right by where the altar of

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Jira had been constructed.

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Wow.

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And you can look over and see

straight into Lebanon there.

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So it was a pretty amazing

amazing time, amazing sight.

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Joshua 20, then we get

into the cities of refuge.

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Short chapter.

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Short chapter, cities of refuge.

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We've talked about the cities of refuge.

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Remember, for the manslaughter to

be able to flee to, and there were

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principles that they had to stay there.

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If they were to found to be not

guilty of premeditated murder,

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then they could stay in the city of

refuge until the high priest died.

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If they left the city of refuge,

then they were subject to

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revenge being taken upon them.

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But if as long as they were

within the walls there, they were

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protected, and they could be there

until again the high priest died.

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Once the high priest died, they could.

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Leave.

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So the cities of refuge are identified

here from multiple different tribes Here.

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You've got naf, you've got rem,

you've got Judah, you've got

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Ruben, you've got Gad and Manassa.

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All of those are gonna have

cities of refuge that are found

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within their borders there.

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Chapter 21 then gets into

the Levitical cities.

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And so the cities of refuge are a

subset of the Levitical cities, but the

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Levitical cities, remember the Levites,

they didn't have a tribal allotment.

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So they weren't gonna get the tribe

of Levi was not gonna get a particular

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boundary of land given to them

because the Lord is their inheritance.

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But they were still gonna be given

cities within all of the other

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tribe's, land allotments there.

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And so the Levites were given land.

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They were given land to farm, to

help them be able to subsist and live

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and have crops and things like that.

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Also where they could build

homes and have their residences.

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And so these cities are scattered

throughout all of Israel, and

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there's 48 of them in total there.

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So I have a question here that I

think would be worth us trying to

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tackle, and it's this very last line

in chapter 21 that says as summary

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summarizing what's happening here,

it says in verse 45, not one word.

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Of all the good promises that

the Lord had made to the house of

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Israel had failed, all came to pass.

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Now we prefer to read the

Bible grammatically histor, a

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grammatical historical approach.

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And we were not necessary.

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We don't infuse hyperbole

or anything like that.

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We try to read the Bible

as it offers itself.

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This is one of those sections here

that as a dispensationalist, it seems

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like there would be an issue with

this, because according to verse

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45, it looks like, it seems like

superficially, at least, that what is

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being said here is that the promises

for the land have been full fulfill.

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Filled.

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Is that what you believe?

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And if not, why not?

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How do we best understand verse 45?

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I think it's not as much exaggeration

or hyper hyperbole here, but

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it's asking, okay, what's the

parameters of this statement?

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All of the promises

that the Lord had made.

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What's the object of the promises?

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Is it all of the promises?

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Reaching all the way back to Abraham,

seeing this is going all the way back

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to the Abraham, a covenant scene.

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All the Abrahamic covenant is fulfilled,

or are we dealing specifically with the

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promises the Lord made to Israel regarding

the entrance into the promised land?

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Contextually, as we look back over

the recent history of God telling the

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Israelites through Moses and then through

Joshua, Hey, be strong and courageous.

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I'm gonna go before you.

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I'm gonna drive out the inhabitants

of the land before you and when

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you enter the land, that these are

the things that are gonna happen.

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This is the type of land that you're gonna

find, and I'm gonna settle you there, and

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I'm gonna give you peace there and give

you rest there, and so forth and so on.

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That's how I take this, is that

this is not referring back to.

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Every promise God had made since the dawn

of time to Israel, but more specifically

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contextually to the promises regarding

their entrance into the promised land,

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under the leadership of Joshua that he had

started to talk to them about even before

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that, during the time of Moses's Reign.

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So I don't think this is referring

to the fact that the Abraham

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and Covenant Good is done.

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Promises fulfilled, and

so we can set that aside.

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I think this is saying more specifically

the promise of the giving of the land

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during this season to the Israelites.

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Yeah.

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And we would, I would have

to agree with you there.

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It seems though, when you read

this section, thus the Lord gave

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to Israel all the land that he

swore to give to their fathers.

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Yeah.

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That's a, that's a tough one to tackle.

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Yeah.

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And they took possession of it

and they settled there and the

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Lord gave them rest on every side.

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Just as he had sworn to their fathers.

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Now, one of all their

enemies had what stood them.

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That's not true.

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We know that from the context

for the Lord had given all

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their enemies into their hands.

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And then you had that la

last summarizing verse in 45.

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And this is interesting because it

challenges me to say, okay, this is one of

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those sections where even though it seems

like it's saying without qualification.

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Everything that God had

promised had been fulfilled.

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And it suggests that even in verses 43

through 45, but as a Bible student, you

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have to learn to read not only in the

immediate context, but also in the larger

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context within where the book is located.

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And even within the book of Joshua,

you know that what's being said here

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is not an unqualified true statement.

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That is to say that the.

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People gained land and they lost land even

within this same book, which means that

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what's happening here is a summarization.

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It's not meant to be a broad brush

stroke and just saying, generally

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speaking, this is what happened.

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But more of along the

lines of God is faithful.

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He gave them what he

said he would give them.

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The job is not done.

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They're not finished.

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They're not.

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They're not done possessing

the land, but in terms of God's

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faithfulness, you can say without

qualification, he has been faithful.

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He's done what he's promised to do, and

it is so much so that basically what

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he's offered them is the opportunity

to take him at his word and to do what

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that, to do what they're supposed to do.

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But the fact that they failed

is no indictment upon God.

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It's really upon them.

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It's in we've talked about it before

too, as partial fulfillment, and

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I think that's what we have here.

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It's in, in the partial fulfillment.

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He was good on his word.

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Everything that he said would

come to pass him to pass.

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It doesn't say that it's

done being fulfilled.

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It just says that so far everything

that he is done is, has come to pass.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I've got this song down.

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I'll take you at your

word stuck in my head.

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That's a good one.

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That's a good song.

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It is a good song if you care

to do any research on this.

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'cause I did before I came to the mic.

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Yes.

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You can do I, I found a Master's

journal article rather a, an journal,

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a article within the Master's journal.

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And I can't recall the name right now,

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So look up Joshua 2145,

the Master's Journal.

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There's two parts, part one and part two.

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Specifically speaking to.

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Whether or not Israel had the

law or had the promises of the

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land fulfilled, they're free.

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They're on PDF.

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You could download them, take

a perusal, do those things.

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It was helpful.

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Yeah.

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Master seminary journal.

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The Master Seminary Journal, right?

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Yeah.

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Maybe I said the wrong thing.

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Just master jour.

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Yeah.

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Toward a biblical understanding

of Joshua 21, 43 through 45.

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That's the one.

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Yep.

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So if you Google Joshua 2145

Master Seminary Journal, first

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hit, that comes back, boom.

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Toward a biblical understanding

of Joshua 21, 43 through 45.

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And there's two parts, even though the

first one, I think part two shows up.

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I don't know if the first one shows

up first, but there's two parts to it.

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Yeah, there is.

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Second part is called Did God

fulfill Every Good Promise?

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Ooh dun.

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That's a hook.

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It is a hook.

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It was great.

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It was a great read.

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Good.

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Okay let's pray and then we'll

be done with this article.

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Yeah.

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We thank you for resources like journal

articles and others that we can dive

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deeper and benefit from the scholarship

of others that have gone before us and

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thought things about these things and

studied them in ways that we haven't yet.

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And so help us to be wise students of the

resources and stewards of the resources

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that you've given us to do just that.

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And so we want to know your word.

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We want to study your word.

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We want to become more knowledgeable,

not just for the sake of knowledge,

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but so that it really does help our

understanding of who you are, which in

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turn will transform us and increase our

faith and increase our confidence in you.

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You are still the same God today

who fulfills all of his promises to

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us as you fulfill them to Israel.

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We have different promises.

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They look different.

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And yet we know that you are

reliable and you are faithful.

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To to your word, and we're thank

thankful for that, that we can

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truly take you at your word.

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And so we pray this all in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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