00:00 What's Up!?

00:04 Men's Retreat Recap

01:25 Listener Question: Amon and Tamar

04:59 Bible Reading: 2 Samuel 22 and 23

11:22 Discussion on Psalm 57

15:08 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's happening?

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It's Wednesday after men's retreat.

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We had a great time out at Mount

Lebanon Baptist Camp with with our men.

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We talked about integrity pr.

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Do you wanna give a a recap

on how the weekend went?

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The weekend went, it

was about 26 hours long.

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Give or take four sessions,

lots of free time.

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Maybe not.

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Lots of free time.

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A good amount of free time and

lots of fun games by our MCs.

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Mark and Angelo did a great job.

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David and Angelo did worship.

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That was really cool.

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We had a great time altogether.

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I think anyone who goes, you can

ask 'em whether or not they had

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any regrets about doing it, and

I'm confident they're gonna say no.

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That was totally worth the time.

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In fact, we're.

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Planning already for the dates for

next year's men's retreat, and we're

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just about ready to pull the trigger

on that to say, okay, we wanna do

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these dates, so be on the lookout.

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We wanna give you plenty of time, min

heads up that you'll be able to take time

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off and come with us, and we trust that

you won't regret spending time there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's always a very good time.

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And yeah the relationships that

are formed connected, watching

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those happen that's a lot of fun.

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And Jared Bradley was standing

on chairs with a cooler on top

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of his head, and if you weren't

there, then you don't know why.

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So you'll have to show up

next year to, to find out why.

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Jared Bradley had a

cooler on top of his head.

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He's typical.

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That's typical Jared Bradley behavior.

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When I went to dinner at their

house, I think he did it a couple

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times so it's within character.

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Yeah.

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Not totally outta line.

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Hey, we did get a question submitted

for us to to a kick around together

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first Samuel, and the question has

to do with Amon and Tamar, and the

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question comes in and basically

Amazon's reaction after the situation

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with Tam, with Tamar there, where.

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It says in the text that he hated her with

a very great hatred so that the hatred

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with which he hated her was greater than

the love with which he had loved her.

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And so the question is basically

surrounding that, that idea of love,

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because it doesn't appear that what

Amon has for Tamar is love, but

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rather we would classify it as lust.

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And so the question comes in.

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Is there something else going

on there behind the word love?

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He the writer Christiana asked my point

is just that clearly he lusted after

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her rather than loving her in the word

and the negative context of the word

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lust and our current use understand

there would have probably fitted better

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in this context, in the word love.

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I, I get his point.

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I think we're not to take this as

a love that is a biblical love.

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Certainly not a love that is

commendable for what a husband's

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supposed to have for his wife.

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That's certainly not what Amon

felt for his sister Tamar there.

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And this is a good, helpful note

for us, that sometimes the context

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helps us understand the word words in

English show up in a certain way that

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we can read the word and say, okay.

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Does that word mean?

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This, does it mean this?

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How should I understand this?

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And when we read the context, that

will fill in a lot of the blanks for

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us and a lot of the missing space.

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I think the writer's inclination there

and his assumption that this is not,

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a biblical love that is the love of

a husband for a wife is accurate.

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And we can see that by the fact that

this is, the context bears that out.

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What we find there with Amon and his

relationship with Tamar shows up there.

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Yeah, I, it doesn't say lust, it says

love, but it's reading the rest of

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it, not reading one verse at a time,

but reading the whole of it gives

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us an understanding of how we're to

interpret that in that situation there.

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Yeah, the word is aha aha.

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And that, that doesn't make sense

to spell it out 'cause it's Hebrew.

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But based on this I would agree with

Pastor pj, the way that you understand a

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word has a lot to do with the context in

which it's found, which is why we have

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lexicons, which say this is how the word

is used in all these various places.

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And this is probably the only place

I'm aware of in the New Testament,

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or rather the Old Testament where the

word is used in the context of lust.

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And here's my thought

about that in particular.

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If the word is the same and it carries

significance throughout the Old Testament

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scriptures as being the word for lust or

for love, and it's used here to reflect

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lust then here's my thought about it.

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I think the writer is trying to

create even greater heightened scandal

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around the use of it in this context

because it's evident that this is

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not the kind of love that God would

endorse, and it's the very word that

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God uses for His love for Israel.

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And so I think it takes the word.

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Takes it through the mud and intends

for you to be appalled at it.

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This isn't love at all.

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This is the exact opposite of love.

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This is something that's meant to draw

the reader's attention to something

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that clearly is the opposite of what

it presents to be, which is amons.

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It's Amons word for it.

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It's the same word that he says

at the beginning when he is

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talking to his friend, Jonah Dabb.

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He saying, look, I have I have

this great love for her and

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I can't do anything to her.

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I can't pursue her.

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And so I think the point

is that it's not love.

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It is in fact lust, even though the word.

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Is technically speaking a hav, which is

for love, it's being used in a very wrong

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different sense than its normal usage.

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And that's the point, I believe.

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Yeah, good question though.

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Shows that you're paying attention as

you're reading the text, which is awesome.

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And so if you guys have questions,

don't forget, you can always write

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an email at podcasts@compassntx.org

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and we will get to it on an episode.

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Let's get into our reading for today.

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We're in second Samuel 22

and 23, and then Psalm 57.

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And so second Samuel 22 is essentially

Psalm 18, just here in second Samuel.

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And so you'll remember a lot of

the Psalms are written by David,

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and so here you have David.

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On the scene in Second Samuel 22,

and what he pens here is a lot of

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basically the content of Psalm 18.

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And it's a psalm of praise for

God's deliverance of David.

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Again, David's keen awareness of God's

sovereignty over his life shows up the

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outcomes of the battles that he fought.

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Look at verses 40 through 41.

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In the psalm, you'll, David says,

for you, equipped me with strength

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for the battle you made, those

who rise against me sink under me.

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You made my enemies turn their back on me.

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Those who hated me and I destroyed them.

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And so David is aware of the

one who fought the battle.

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The one who's worthy of the victory,

even though David was the one or

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his armies were the one executing

the actual outcome of the battle.

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That the content that the ability

to win was theirs because God had

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sovereignly ordained that should happen.

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And David knew that.

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He's the one who gave David

the victories that he enjoyed.

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He's the one who answered David but

didn't answer David's enemies, as

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David would say, when they called

on the Lord, he did not answer them.

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But when David called,

he did answer David.

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So Psalm 18 here in the, its

historical context, we find

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it in two Samuel Chapter 22.

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Yeah.

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One line that stands out that's

always interesting to me is verse 36.

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It's that's that weird line

that says it's your gentleness.

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That made me great.

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A weird place to put

that weird idea at least.

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But I think the idea that he's trying

to convey is that, that it is God's

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condescension, his willingness to

do a kindness to David that has

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protected him and established him.

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And I think that's true not

only for David, but also for

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us in a different extent.

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Obviously, it is God's condescension

his lowness, his gentleness, which

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enables us to be who we are in his sight.

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It is for sinners that Christ died.

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It is not for those who have it all.

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Put together is not for

the best and the brightest.

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As Paul says, not many of you're wise.

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Not many of you're noble.

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And here David recognizes the fact,

and it's David's humility to be

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aware of this that makes him such a

inspiring and motivating character.

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And I think, again, for all of David's

foibles, it's stuff like this that

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causes you to say, okay, he gets it.

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Great sin.

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But man, he's got a great savior and he

is also got great humility to suit it.

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Yeah, it's interesting that word

is rendered differently in other

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translations, gentleness, E-S-V-K-J-V

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But then you get into CSB,

Christian Standard Bible, NS B,

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new American Standard Bible, NIV,

Holman, Christian Standard Bible,

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those all translated as help.

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Your help made me great.

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The net Bible, the LL, some

English bible that, that says

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willingness to help made me great.

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Which makes a little bit more sense than

the word gentleness there, that, that.

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The Lord's aid, which goes to your

con the idea of condescension, that

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the Lord was willing to come down

and condescend and help David in

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this by answering his prayers, by

delivering 'em from these enemies.

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The other glosses bring that out a

little bit more than gentleness There.

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Second Samuel Chapter 23.

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Then we get into some of David's

last words, at least publicly here,

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and that's what verse one says.

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These are the last words of David.

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And they take the form of what's

known as an oracle or a message here.

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And so second Samuel 23, 2, it

says, the spirit of the Lord's.

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Speaks by me.

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Notice that David was aware,

at least in this instance, that

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he was speaking the words that

were given to him by the spirit.

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That this is separated out from

maybe his normal conversations.

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He was aware of this, and there's

moments that you have this show up

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in the Bible where the authors were

actually aware that the words that

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they were speaking, the words that they

were writing were words that were being

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conveyed with the power of the spirit.

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You think about Paul in one

Corinthians multiple times, he'll say.

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I say this, not the

spirit, but I say this.

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And so Paul's saying this isn't

necessarily inspired what I'm about

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to say here, but what I say is this.

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Versus the other times

he'll say, you know what?

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This isn't me.

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This is the spirit of God

within me who's saying this.

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And so he is aware of the content there.

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And it's interesting that David here

seems to be aware of the fact that

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this is more significant than simply

his own musings on his deathbed or

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towards the end of that verse five,

David says, for does not my house stand.

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So with God for he has made with me an.

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Everlasting covenant and

ordered all things and secure.

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And so here's a reference back to the

Davidic Covenant in God's promise to

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be faithful to that, an everlasting

covenant, that it's not gonna go away.

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It's not gonna be abated,

it's not gonna be replaced.

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Verses eight through 39.

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Then he gets into a list of

the mighty men of David here.

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And so there's some notable men here.

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Abishai shows up in here.

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The brother of Joab Benia shows up.

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The man who jumped into the snowy pit

and killed a lion Uriah, the Hittite

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is the last name mentioned on the list.

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And sometimes the last can, we

will often say, last but not

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least, the last can draw honor.

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And so it's interesting that Uriah,

the Hiti is the last name on this list

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here of the Mighty Men in chapter 23.

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Yeah.

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One quick note here.

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Look at verse three of chapter 23.

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It says here the second half of

verse three, when one rules justly

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over men ruling in the fear of God,

he dawns on them like the morning

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light, like the sun shining forth on

a cloud this morning, like rain that

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makes grass to sprout from the earth.

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And so even though we have lots

of examples of bad leadership,

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unjust leadership, we would say.

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Good leadership, godly leadership,

a kind of leadership that

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the fear of God is evident.

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That is good for people and ultimately

David is saying this with an

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awareness of his faulty leadership

and is pointing to the ultimate

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leadership that we all need in Christ.

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But man, when we see glimpses

of that here and now, I.

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Yeah.

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And we see Christ-like

leadership on display.

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This is the value and the benefit

to the church and to people

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in general for that matter.

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Good leadership is something

that God gives to his people

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and it's a gift from him.

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What a pray for this and ask God to

continue to give us good leaders.

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There are rarity and

they're not guaranteed.

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Bad.

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Leadership is often the norm, the default,

but good leadership is a gift of God.

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And here are the benefits

found in second Samuel 23.

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Yeah.

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And it requires work on that point.

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Be a good leader is hard work.

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I think that's one thing that, that

I'm learning in ministry is that it's

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not something that comes natural.

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That if you don't set yourself towards

it, like I was preaching on Sunday, if

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you don't decide to follow Jesus as a

leader, which is where good leadership

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is born and following the example that

we have in our savior, then you're

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gonna default to a self-centeredness.

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And and that's so easy to slip into

that because that is the easier route

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to go rather than to work hard at

being good and faithful as leaders.

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And so prayer.

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Is absolutely necessary for good

leaders in the church, good leaders in

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our nation, good leaders in your home.

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All of those areas for sure.

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Alright, Psalm 57.

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Psalm 57 is written here by David.

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Interesting placement of this

because it says a victim of David

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when he fled from Saul in the cave.

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And so I, I.

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I don't know why it shows up here.

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Pr.

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Any thoughts why the editors

were like, Hey, we're gonna

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throw this in after Saul's long

gone and David's on the throne?

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I do not know.

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I don't know.

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All I can say is that the editors

of this plan are not infallible.

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No.

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And neither are we.

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No.

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Who are we kidding Here?

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No one here is fallible.

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So we're using the plan.

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It's not always as.

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Precise as we might like.

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In fact, someone about a Bible not

too long ago, and it was called

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a Chronological Bible, and they

thought, oh, I'll just read along

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with Pastor PG and Pastor Rod

because it's a chronological bible.

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And they're like, Hey, you

guys aren't following the plan.

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And they're, of course we are,

whatcha are talking about?

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My, my Bible's got, it's got a little

section here and a little section there.

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And so it, it was a truly

chronological plan and that it was

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trying to supplies up verses Yeah.

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And chapters to fit into.

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A chronology.

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Yeah.

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And it's not always pretty.

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That said the chron chronological

approach here has its pluses and its

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minuses, and I don't know, maybe they

just thought, let's just shove it in here.

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We forgot about this one.

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Let's put it in now.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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It's totally possible.

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I could absolutely see that happening.

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Yeah.

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That, that chronological bible.

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I know which one you're talking about.

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I think ESV even publishes it.

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It's it's almost more of a harmony.

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So you get a harmony of the gospels.

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It's gonna intersplice the story of

Jesus' life throughout the gospels.

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And you're gonna read a few verses

here from John and then a few verses

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from Matthew and so forth and so on.

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And those have their place.

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They do.

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Those are helpful.

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And in fact, I think John

MacArthur has one called, one

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Inspired Life, one Amazing Life.

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It's something one something life.

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There's an adjective there.

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Yeah.

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But it's a harmony of the gospels.

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Yeah.

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And I found it really helpful.

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It's a great tool to have but ultimately

everything has its shortcomings.

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Yeah, in Psalm 57 here, it breaks

down basically into David's petition

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for protection from God and then his

praise to God for that protection.

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Again, we know the story of him on his

run running from Saul and everything

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else, but it's interesting the way

that, that he opens the prayer and

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it that is with this ask for mercy.

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He says in verse one,

Lord, be merciful to me.

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And we talked about mercy recently.

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Somebody wrote in an email that was to me,

not necessarily the podcast, so I won't.

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Share the name, but it was

an interesting concept.

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The person who wrote to me said,

'cause it was on the heels of a

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sermon that I preached where I

talked about Mercy and I talked about

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Grace, I think it was two weeks ago.

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And he said, mercy seems to

be that which births grace.

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That basically mercy is the foundation

of grace the bedrock of grace, which I

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hadn't really ever considered before,

but I guess it makes sense, right?

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That we would first have

to not get what we deserve.

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To then be able to receive

what we don't deserve.

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That mercy has to be the undergirding

foundation of God's grace.

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Even that, that at the base level,

we need him to be merciful even

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before we need him to be gracious.

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And splitting hairs

maybe a little bit, but.

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I see the argument.

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Yeah.

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And one wonders as well though,

if it's because of God's gracious

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disposition that he is merciful.

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Yeah.

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So it's a, which came first?

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Chicken or the egg.

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And in God's economy, because God doesn't

develop he always has these things.

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And we, we believe in this simplistic

nature of God, not that God's

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simplistic in the sense that you

third grade education versus I don't

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know, a doctor or something like that.

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It's that God is singular in his nature

and we talk about who God is, and

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we talk about the attributes of God.

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We're not talking about a person and the

way that we're talking about one another.

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We have more or less things according

to personality and according to

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our sanctification, God has all

things in perfection, and none

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of those things are without.

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None of those things are

with any flaw or error.

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There's no spec in them.

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So to even talk about some of these

things that we discuss about God

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is treading on territory of things

that are way above our pay grid.

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Helpful, necessary.

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Yeah.

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But we also have to be careful when we

start to make some of these distinctions.

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Not that they're bad, they're good.

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We write textbooks for them.

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We have theological textbooks that

make all kinds of distinctions.

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You just gotta be careful

with those things.

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Yeah, for sure.

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For sure.

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Hey, let me pray and then we

will be done with this episode.

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God thinks your word, and Lord we pray

that we would know when we need to tap

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out like we were just talking about and

say, God, you are our God and we are not.

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And we understand that and we want

to confess our finitude in that,

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but we also wanna apply ourselves

and ask good questions and turn

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over the rocks in your Word.

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And so help us to do that too, we pray.

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And so thank you for this time and

thank you for your time our time,

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and the word that you've given

to us today to spend together.

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We pray all this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said