Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Mark Finale

01:02 Pride Question From New Dad

01:53 Healthy Pride vs Sinful Boasting

03:42 How to Spot Sinful Pride

05:53 Can You Be Proud of Yourself

09:53 Deuteronomy Reading Begins

10:39 Moses Hands Off to Joshua

11:41 Succession and Ministry Legacy

13:02 Joshua Commissioned for Hard Times

14:08 Why Songs Stick

15:01 Earworms and Worship Focus

16:07 Building Daily Reminders

16:47 Vengeance Belongs to God

17:24 Scripture as Your Life

18:15 Luke’s Orderly Account

19:09 Zechariah’s Unbelief

20:46 Mary’s Honest Questions

21:16 John Filled With Spirit

23:29 Regeneration Before Faith

25:03 Prophecy Links to Malachi

26:02 Closing Prayer and Sendoff

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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 up Chris?

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Hello.

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We are back, three of us again

here in office and I know Pastor

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Mark that the end of Mark you are

particularly passionate about.

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You weren't here to record it with us,

so I didn't know if you had anything

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else you wanted to chime in on the

end of the gospel of Mark there.

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I love the ending of Mark.

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Because it is so brutal.

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Yeah.

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It's brutal.

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Unless you are convictional, that extra

little bit there should be there if

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you believe what it ought to be, which

is that, it just ends on that note

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of I don't know, complete unknown.

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Yeah, it really is.

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It is a brutal ending.

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But I love that because what does it do?

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It prompts you as the reader to say.

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How does that reflect on my life?

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What do I do with these things?

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How do I respond to Jesus?

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And I think that's beautiful.

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Yeah.

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I think that's beautiful.

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Well, that's good, man.

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That's helpful.

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Well, we're glad you weighed in.

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I thought about you.

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'cause I was like, I know

he likes this ending.

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And yet.

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It we recorded on Saturday, so you

weren't in with us on that one.

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But we did get a question from a

new dad who, when you're a new dad,

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you tend to have some pride towards

your newborn child that you have.

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And you look at the child and you're like,

you're perfect and you'll never sin ever.

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And this is gonna be great and fantastic.

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So he wrote in and he said,

are you proud of your kids?

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If so, what's the distinction between

this kind of pride and the cine pride?

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Or is there not a distinction?

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And then he says, similarly, are you

proud of your work, proud of your

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church, proud of your accomplishments,

your wives, your degrees?

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He says, I just heard Mr.

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Rogers saying I'm proud of you and

I hope you're proud of you too.

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And he said, I'm not sure how to feel

about everyone's favorite neighbor.

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So that's the question.

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Well, you said it too.

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Remember you said, I'm proud of you, Josh.

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So I thought he was riffing off of

the back of what you said previously.

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So Mr.

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Rogers says it.

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Yeah.

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Pastor PJ says it.

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Yeah.

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How does the Bible feel about all that?

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Yeah, Paul says it multiple times.

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In the New Testament.

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He's careful to say we're not gonna

boast into any man in the sense of

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a sinful boasting, but he also says

things like, in Second Thessalonians

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one, four, therefore we ourselves

boast about you in the churches of God.

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there's another text where

he says my pride is in you.

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Yeah.

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Second Corinthians seven, four.

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I'm acting with great

boldness towards you.

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I have great pride.

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In you.

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So I don't think the feeling of being

proud of one's children or proud of

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one's work or proud of one's as he

lists a few other options there, I

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don't think it's inherently sinful so

long as our pride leads us to exalt God

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or worship God because of what we see

in that person that we are proud of.

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So when I'm proud of my kids, I'm

proud of my kids because I see them

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walking after the Lord, and that

causes me to be thankful to God for

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what God is doing in their life.

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I'm not proud of them saying, look at me.

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Look at what a great data I am

and how great they're turning out.

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Right now.

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But rather saying this is an

opportunity for me to glorify God.

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So that's my take on it.

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I think there is a good pride that you

can have in your children or in your

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spouse or in your church, and I think

we see that from the Apostle Paul.

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I think that's exactly right.

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I think you're spot on.

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I think one way to think of it

too is, what kind of thoughts

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do you have about your kids?

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Those will ref, those will

reflect what your intention is.

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Are you looking at your kids and saying

like, wow, they are so much better

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than little Timmy down the street.

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They're so much faster on the track

team or they're walking way faster than.

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Poor little Susie who may not ever

walk, what are those sort of

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thoughts that are running through your

head as you think about your kids?

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Or are you giving God praise

and Thanksgiving when they

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take their first step?

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Or when they do really great on a

math test, what are you turning

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to as you think about your kids?

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That's gonna reveal the

sort of pride that you have.

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And that'll also, I think, be a

clear distinction of what kind of

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pride is right and what is wrong.

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Yeah, the only thing I would add

to that is that there is clearly

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a pride that is wrong, and the

scripture uses the same word to talk

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about both kinds of experiences.

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Paul says in one Corinthians 1531, I

protest brothers by my pride in you,

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which I have in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

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I die every day.

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So there is a way that you can

use the word that is negative

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and it is sinful, but there's

clearly a positive aspect of it.

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And I think that would just be

the defining marker for us is

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asking, is this a sinful pride?

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And I suppose maybe it would be worth

you guys quickly chiming in then what

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would sinful pride look like and how

can you distinguish that when it's

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your pride over your boys or your

girls or your church, even your staff.

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You said, you've said that to the staff

before, pastor pj, I'm proud of you guys.

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You guys are finally doing things.

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I appreciate something like that.

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What would be a marker of

a sinful pride in people?

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How do you know both of you guys?

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Yeah.

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I think sinful pride is

gonna terminate in the self.

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And so it's about you, you feeling

better about you, you feeling

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better about your accomplishments?

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You feeling better about the things or the

people that you have surrounding yourself?

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If I'm proud of my athletic prowess,

which I'm not by the way, 'cause I don't

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have much of any of that, but let's

say I did in an alternate universe.

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Then I'm boasting in

something that's about me.

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I'm seeking the glory.

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I want people to think better

of me because of the thing

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that I'm saying I'm proud of.

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Rather than saying, man, I'm proud

of the church because the church

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is really demonstrating what it is

to be faithful followers of Christ.

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The church is being alike, causing people

to look at the church and glorify God.

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And so God is the one that, that gets the

ultimate glory through our pride there.

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So the sinful pride, I think,

terminates on self, and I think a

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biblical pride terminates on God.

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Yeah.

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And to build on that, in agreement

with that, I think what are

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the, what does the pride do?

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What actions flow from that pride, right?

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Are you, spending more and more

money on your kids so that they can

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be better and better compared to

everybody else in some sport, right?

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Or are you proud of their accomplishment

and so you're spending time.

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With them and enjoying the

accomplishment they've achieved.

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Right?

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That's really simple, but those

sort of differences, although

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subtle, really do reflect the kind

of pride that is in your heart.

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What are you doing with

the pride that you have?

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What is the result of that?

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Pride will help distinguish what kind

of pride it is, whether good or bad.

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Let's apply that then to this

idea of being proud of yourself.

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Talk about that.

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Mr.

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Rogers said, I hope

you're proud of yourself.

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And for some of us who have, worked

hard at our job for 20 years, or, as

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a mom, you've put in a lot of effort

and time and raising your kids.

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He gestured at me when he

said, as a mom, I don't know.

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I gestured out loud to everybody.

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I have loud gestures there for everyone.

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Pastor Mark.

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Anybody at all if you're proud of so

let's just say it's a good thing too.

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You put yourself through law school you

paid all these money and you worked a

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part-time job, and you did full-time

hustle and you got through law school.

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You passed the bar.

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Great.

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Is there room to be

proud of yourself then?

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Is there a biblical place for that or is

there a better way to talk about that?

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That you would say, well, I

wouldn't say this, but here's

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something I would say instead.

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Pastor Peach, you talked

about this on Sunday.

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You said something like, when people

say nice things about you, you say,

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oh, no, no, not me, it's the Lord.

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Is that the same mentality here?

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Yeah, I was just thinking I don't believe

that we find a place anywhere where, for

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example, Paul says, I'm proud of myself.

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I'm proud of how well I did.

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In fact, often Paul says,

I'm not gonna boast.

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And he says if I have to

boast, let me show you.

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Lemme tell you what I'm gonna boast about.

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And then he goes on to say, I'm

gonna boast about my weaknesses.

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I'm gonna boast about the things that.

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That magnify the Lord in my life.

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And even later in Philippians,

Philippians, Paul says if you

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want to compare resumes, if you

want to see something that you

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should be proud of, here's mine.

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And he goes off and he says, I'm

the Hebrew of Hebrew, of the tribe

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of Benjamin, so forth and so on.

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And then he gets to the end, he says,

but all of this I count as rubbish

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in light of the surpassing worth

of knowing Christ Jesus is my Lord.

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So what I see in the New

Testament, at least from Paul.

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Is a continual deflection of

anything that would be misconstrued

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as him glorifying himself.

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Rather he's gonna say, let me tell you

about what God has done in and through me.

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Let me give God the glory through this.

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And I think that's the model

that we should pursue as well.

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Paul says in Philippians two 16,

I wanna be ho holding faceted the

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word of life so that in the day of

Christ, I may be proud that I did

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not run in vain or labor in vain.

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Does that change your mind at all?

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Would you be able to say, well,

that's clearly evidence that you

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could use it in a positive sense?

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He says in one Corinthians nine 15,

I'm looking at the same word and its

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connections here, one Corinthians nine 15.

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I would rather die than have anyone

deprive me of my ground for boasting.

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But again, there he's

not boasting himself.

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I think he's boasting and this is

what God is doing in it through me.

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And I'm not denying that.

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Yeah I would say it is possible to do it.

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It is possible to do it, but I think

you're right in suggesting that the way

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that we do this has to be christocentric.

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We want Christ to get the

glory for the work that we do.

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I don't think there's anything

wrong with saying, man, I'm

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proud that I was able to do that.

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And in the next breath,

say, thank you, Lord.

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You gave me grace for this.

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You s you de supported me with people and

finances and breath and the ability to

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think and produce this and that thing.

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I think it all does terminate on the Lord.

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But there's nothing wrong with honoring

what God has done in you and through you.

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It makes me think of First

Thessalonians one where Paul goes

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on and on and on about how great the

church is, but again, he's turning.

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To immediate Thanksgiving, right?

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He talks about the good things

that they've done, but he turns

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immediately to Thanksgiving.

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And so I do think that

that should be our posture.

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I think in the American lingo and the

way we use the word proud, or the way

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we use the word pride, it typically when

it talks about ourselves, when we use

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that in our context of our immediate.

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Person that tends to indicate

something that is not right, right.

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Sinful.

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But we can speak of it, of our

kids and we can use that term.

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And it doesn't necessarily

connotate that it is sinful or not.

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So I think some of it is a little

bit of just the way that we as

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Americans use that word, pride.

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So we need to look at

the Bible and I think.

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Maybe that reconciles some of

the questions you guys were

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just talking about there.

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Yeah.

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I think part of my reticence is we are

a very selfs, saturated culture, right?

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Self-care, self-help

self, everything else.

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It's all about, self-esteem

and in all of those things.

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And I think that seeps into

the church a little bit.

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And that's what my reticence is to

say that I would ever wanna say, man

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I'm so proud of what I've done here.

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Rather than saying, how can I

make this about what God has done?

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And yeah, he used me Sure,

and I'm the vessel for that.

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Great.

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But I don't think I would

want to say, man I'm proud of

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myself for what I've done here.

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All right, let's jump into our

daily Bible reading for today.

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We are in Deuteronomy chapter 31

and 32, chapter 31 of Deuteronomy.

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We find the transition from or the

beginning of the transition from

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Joshua or from Moses to Joshua.

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Moses is 120 years old at this

point, so you really get three

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stages of 40 years from Moses' life.

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You've got the first 40, which is when

he's being raised there in Egypt, and then

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he kills a man in Egypt and has to flee.

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He goes to Midian, he's in Midian for

40 years before the Lord sends him

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back to free the people from Egypt.

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And then he's spending the last 40

years of his life in the wilderness

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leading the people of Israel

through the wilderness, up to the

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banks of the Jordan River, but not.

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Himself eligible to

enter the promised land.

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And so that's where we find in chapter 31.

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Somebody else is gonna do that.

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Who is that other person?

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It's going to be Joshua.

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But before he gets to Joshua, he reminds

the Israelites of who the true leader is.

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And we find that in verse three, the Lord

your God himself will go over before you.

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So Moses is going to lay hands on somebody

else and say, this is your leader.

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Obey this guy.

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But nonetheless, he wants to make

sure that the people understand

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the true leader of Israel, the

true one that they need to follow.

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The one that's gonna go over before

them is the same one that's been

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leading them the whole way, and

that is the Lord that is Yahweh.

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And so after doing that, he then turns

to commission Joshua in their site, which

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I think is so important because anytime

you succeed a leader who has been around

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for a long time it's a hard job, right?

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We think of the death of John

MacArthur recently, and we

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think of who's the next guy up.

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And I've heard other pastors before that.

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Are well known.

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And another pulpit say, I would never

want that job because you've gotta

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follow that guy and it's always gonna

be, well, that's not the way he did it.

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Well, here, Moses being able to commission

Joshua in the side of the people of

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Israel, I think is removing a lot of

that because the people are gonna be

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able to see Moses was behind this guy

and so we should follow this guy too.

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But more importantly, they're gonna

see God wants this guy to be the

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next leader for the people of Israel.

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Yeah.

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And one of the things that you

see here is that God's work's

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gonna go on, the leader dies.

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The leader's gonna go to where God

wants him to go, is gonna do and live

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as long as God wants him to live.

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But after the leader goes, and

this is true for any church that's

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faithful, God's work will continue on.

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And that's what's so

encouraging about this.

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I do love the fact that Moses instructed

by God creates a succession plan.

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And I think it's so important.

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I don't know that it's.

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Always prudent to do that to

have someone at the ready at

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all seasons of ministry life.

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But it certainly is prudent that God is

saying, I want you to do the handoff.

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It's important that you pass the baton

and for the sake of the people, to your

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point, this is essential for the people

to say we rally around this next guy

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because our first guy gave the high five

to the next one and said, this is my guy.

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Please follow him.

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Doesn't always work out well, but

it is a good practice to be aware

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that this is how God thinks that the

organization of Israel should work,

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and I think that's really important.

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I think that's an excellent point.

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So sometime before you turn

120 years old, pastor Peach.

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Oh, that would be, we'll

figure out something.

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Could you imagine this

guy living to one 20?

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I don't, I don't think

I, yeah, I don't want to.

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How old do you want to

live until, I don't know.

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I don't, my phone tells me, don't think

you wanna live 20, like 39 years left.

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That's, that's what, yeah.

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But when that time comes, it's

gonna be in the blink of an eye

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and you're gonna be like, Lord,

just gimme a couple more years.

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No, that's true.

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I guess future generations

and continuing ministry.

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That's fair.

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Yeah.

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You're gonna wanna see all of that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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How about when Joshua's commissioned?

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It's not a super

encouraging commissioning.

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Not at all.

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Whenever verse 16, the Lord said to Moses

Hey, then this people, they're gonna

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rise and they're gonna go after foreign

gods among them in the land that they're

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entering, and they're gonna forsake me.

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They're gonna break my

covenant that I made with them.

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Then my anger will be

kindled against them.

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So this is who Joshua gets to inherit.

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He's like, gee, thanks.

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Appreciate that and he keeps on

saying, be strong and courageous.

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Joshua.

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Joshua.

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Really though, be strong and courageous.

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Please, just so you know,

buddy, be strong and courageous.

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It's gonna be really hard.

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Well, it is gonna be hard, but it

does prove the point that the courage

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that Joshua has to, has can't come

from his success leading the people.

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Right.

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It has to come from.

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The Lord is God.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Because if he's gonna be courageous,

and he's also gonna know that these

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people are going to do nothing

effectively that he will want them

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to do, that courage can't come from

his success in that particular role.

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Amen to that.

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And I also, I love the fact that

Moses, to help them remember, he's

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like, I'm gonna write you guys a.

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It's gonna be an Earworm and

it's gonna be on the Israel's

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top five songs all year long.

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And then he is like, here,

let me bust it out for you.

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He's like, it's like when ba PJ was

quoting Eminem on in the sermon on Sunday.

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Mm.

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My palms are sweat is a revisionist

history Mom's spaghetti.

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And I'm like, oh, pastor PJ is,

those kinds of earworms are really

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helpful 'cause they're instructive.

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That's why in our kids' ministry.

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It's basically all music.

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Right?

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Well, and we'll interrupt it with a

few minutes of teaching, but most of it

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is like music songs and hand gestures.

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It's not quite all music.

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We do a lot of music though, but

we do it intentionally because?

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Because music has a way in the human mind.

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Yes.

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That is different and maybe more

permanent in some ways Yeah.

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Than just a regular spoken word.

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Oh yeah.

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Like it, it really is.

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And it's hard to fully understand

or explain, but it's a really

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important part of what we do in kids'

ministry for that specific reason.

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Alright.

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I'm still mad that I got cars for kid in

my head, like 1, 8, 7, 7 cars for kids.

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Well, and he even says

that it's going to be that.

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'cause in verse 21, he says, this

song is gonna live unforgotten

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in the mouths of their offspring.

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So you called it an earworm.

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I had that written down in,

in the margin of my Bible as

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well, and that's what you see.

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So as you read through chapter 32, this is

going through and recalling a lot of the

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events of the history of Israel so that

they'll remember these things in order

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to go, oh, wait a minute, I should stop.

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Which is a good reminder to us too, even

as adults on Sunday mornings, we show up

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in for worship and we're singing these

songs and we know a lot of the songs.

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And one of the things that's easy for

us to do with songs that we know is to

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sing them without really considering

and thinking about what we're singing.

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And that's the danger of an earworm,

that's the danger of something

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that can get caught in your mind.

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That's the danger of something that can

become so familiar that it just, it plays

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as soon as you wake up in the morning.

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If we're not thoughtful about the

words that we're singing, then

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really it's not doing, it's not

accomplishing its intended end.

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But we also need multiple types of

reminders, which we also see throughout

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the story of the people of Israel.

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Right?

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Right.

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They have earworm songs like this, right?

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They have altars that they set up, right.

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There's different places, geographic

locations, that are intended

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to remind them of this or that.

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Full factories.

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Yeah.

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And then there's obviously all of

the law that has embedded in it, many

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reminders of these things, which.

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Obviously we're not the people of

Israel, but we ought to structure

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our lives so that there's many ways

throughout our days that we remember

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the truth about God in different ways.

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That's a great point.

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Earlier in the book of Deuteronomy chapter

six, he's saying, look, as parents, your

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job is to saturate your life with it.

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As you walk on the way and as you talk

and put it on your walls and put it

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everywhere it's a really helpful way for

us as parents and even just as Christians,

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to think about the fact that I need my

whole life to reinforce my most basic.

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And cherish commitments.

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And if I don't do that, it's

not gonna happen naturally.

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The world is not designed to make

me love and worship God better.

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It's designed to do the opposite.

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What a great point.

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Anything else from the Old Testament

before we jump over to Luke Chapter one?

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I guess verse 35.

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Yeah.

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Verse 35, chapter 32.

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Here it says, vengeance is mine and

recompense for the time when their foot

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shall slip for the day of their calamities

at hand and their doom comes swiftly.

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Paul's gonna pick this up in

Romans 12 and say, vengeance

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is mine, I'll repay as a Lord.

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So don't take vengeance yourself.

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The Lord is the one who is

gonna be entrusted with that.

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He's the only one who can be trusted

with that, who will execute perfectly.

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Our justice is short.

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Fleeting and we can't ever know

that we're being precise in

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our just response, but God can.

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And so when it comes to our sense of

justice, God understands that clearly.

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And he says, let me handle this.

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You're not equipped for this, but I am.

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I also just wanna point

out verse 47, right?

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For it is no empty word for you,

but your very life, and by this

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word, you shall live long in the

land that you are going over.

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The Jordan to possess.

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I think we need to look at our Bibles.

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They have these few books right at

this point in the history of Israel.

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But we have the whole Bible.

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We have the whole Bible and

it needs to be our very life.

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We need to see our Bible reading

day by day to be very much our very

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life in a similar way as Moses is

calling the people of Israel to see

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their Bibles, preach it in order

that we will live long and prosper.

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Yep.

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Start.

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If you want a Lamborghini point number

one task mark, that really took a turn.

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That's not what my point was.

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Just to be clear, if there's any

confusion, we're gonna clip that one.

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We're gonna just clip it.

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If you want a Lamborghini.

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Alright, let's jump over

to Luke chapter one.

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Luke's gospel is set out in a unique

way because the author of it, the

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who is Luke, sets out to write to

this man named Theophilus to Sam.

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I'm writing to you an orderly account

that's informed by eyewitnesses in

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order that you might have certainty

about the things that you've been told.

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I love that with Luke, he's saying, look

we're going to get down to bras, tacks.

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We're gonna find out for sure

if you can really trust the

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things that you've heard about.

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And so this is this personal

correspondence, I believe,

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between Luke and Theopolis.

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This is part one, at least

acts as part two of this.

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And he says he gets these

things from eyewitnesses.

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And so Luke is putting it out there

saying if you've got a challenge

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to anything that's happened, this

is, I'm going to primary sources.

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I'm gonna eyewitnesses on this.

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I'm not talking to somebody who

talked to somebody who heard that

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this happened, but rather I'm getting

this straight from the mouths of those

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that saw these things take place.

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So Luke's gospel is set up that

way, and then we get right away

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into the foretelling of the

birth of John the Baptist, which.

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I appreciate for a couple of reasons.

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Number one, just the timing of God.

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So Zechariah was on duty in the temple and

was chosen to burn incense at this time.

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Now that would only happen for a

priest once in his entire lifetime.

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And so that was the moment that God

chose to meet with Zechariah through

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this angelic being that shows up

to tell him you're going to have

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a son and that son's name is gonna

be John and Zeer I meets him with.

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Unbelief and I put unbelief there

because Mary's gonna also ask questions

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as we've talked about, I think before.

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But Mary is almost commended

for her questioning, whereas

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Zacharia is disciplined.

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Because Zacharias is not a Lord.

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How can this be?

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But rather a really, seriously,

this isn't gonna happen.

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How could this even happen?

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This isn't, this is impossible.

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And God meets him by

saying, you know what?

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You're gonna be mute until

the birth of your son, John.

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And then we read about the rest of

it, which is really what is gonna

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take place in, in this situation.

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I think Zacharia and.

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Well, and his wife, Elizabeth, fill

the place in the narrative arc that God

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does over and over throughout the Old

Testament of the woman being barren.

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Mary isn't right.

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There's no indication that she's barren,

but I think you see that here and you.

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In a similar way, see the questioning and

the lack of faith and, excuse me, the lack

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of faith, and that I think is supposed

to harken back and remind us of all the

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people who have come before who were

like that and then we get something new.

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Mm-hmm.

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With Mary and Jesus.

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Right.

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There's something new and it's, I think

it's supposed to say, show us in our

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minds like this is something different.

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This is something different

than what's come before.

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Yeah.

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What a good point.

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And also I think what it shows us is

that there is a way to, there is a way to

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talk to God and ask sincerely perplexing

questions and not be chastised by him.

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For that.

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The Psalms give us lots of examples.

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The lament Psalms ask How long, oh Lord.

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I think that Psalm 13 and we have here

how Zach arise, how is in some way, shape,

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or form based on God's read of his heart.

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A doubting kind of question that, that

shows that he doesn't trust the Lord.

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Mm-hmm.

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He doesn't think the Lord can fulfill,

whereas Mary's is clearly the opposite.

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One thing that I always love seeing

that is, is just so fascinating to

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me, and it speaks to the way that

God saves us, is the fact that John

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the Baptist was filled with the

Holy Spirit from his mother's womb.

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Verse 16, verse 15,

rather says that from the.

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For, he will be great before the Lord.

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He must not drink wine or strong

drink, which we think means that he

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had a Nazarite vow that was for life.

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That's probably what that means.

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This is some speculation that

it could be something else.

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But it says here that he will

be filled with the Holy Spirit,

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even from his mother's womb.

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And then verse 17, that he will go before

him, the Lord in the Spirit, in power of

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Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers

to the children and the disobedient

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to to the wisdom of the, just to make

ready for the Lord a people prepared.

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I think it's fascinating that God

saved John as far as I can tell.

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He re he regenerated him.

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In the belly of his mother.

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Yeah.

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Amazing.

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This is mind blowing to me, but it

speaks to the fact that God does

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create real people in the womb.

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They're real people, even

before they're outside the womb.

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It's just a matter of location.

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We don't call someone a non-human who's

in Utah versus a human who's in Texas now.

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We have to respect that, and this is what

the Bible tells us over and over again.

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These little people in mom on

mom's womb are little people.

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They're just smaller and they're

weaker and therefore worthy of

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our of our greater protection.

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But the second thing I would wanna

point out here is that regeneration

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clearly is one of these mysterious

operations of God where we don't

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know when or how, or why God does it.

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And I don't want to build a whole

theology off of this and say, if you're

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saved or regenerated in the womb, like

John, I would simply say though that

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this is a mysterious working of God.

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This is first and how we

understand salvation to work.

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Regeneration is first, and then

God makes it so that we can

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repent and put our faith in him.

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John is one of these rare

and interesting exceptions.

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So would you hold open the

possibility of somebody that.

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You are regenerated in the womb.

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Oh, yeah.

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I think that's what John's doing here.

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I think John's unique though on that.

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Yes, that's what I'm saying.

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Yeah.

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I think John is unique.

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Okay.

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Is what I'm saying.

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We shouldn't all expect that, but I.

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Clearly could not say it doesn't happen.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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'cause we would say the normative practice

is you're regenerated as part of the

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process of coming to faith in Christ.

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Sure.

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I don't pretend to know how that works.

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I just know that it regeneration

would precede your conversion.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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And I, for our listeners here who

might be confused by that, would you

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mind explaining that one of y'all.

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One of you all people, yeah.

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Regeneration being born again.

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This is the question that

Nicodemus asks Jesus.

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Jesus when Jesus says, unless a person

is born again, he cannot enter heaven,

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and Nicodemus doesn't understand, and

Jesus says He must be born by water in

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the spirit, born by water, we believe

refraining to natural birth, but born

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by the spirit being spiritual birth.

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So you are brought from death to life.

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So Ephesians two.

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Dead in your trespassing and sins

to made alive together with Christ.

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That's the process of regeneration,

which yes, to Pastor Oz's

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point does happen before faith.

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You have to be born again before you

can believe, because somebody who's

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dead can't put their trust in Jesus.

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That's called the Ordo Solus.

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If you're gonna look up in your

theology textbooks about that and

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the ordo there's some disagreement

about where those pieces fit.

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We believe that God has to make someone

be born again, to be made alive in

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Christ before they're able to turn

to put their trust in Christ, which

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will result in their conversion.

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They're converted from being dead to

alive, to being safely secure in Christ.

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So when people ask, well, well,

how's, how long can someone be

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regenerated before they're converted?

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And of course the definitive

answer that Pastor Mark is gonna

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give us is, go ahead, pastor Mark.

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Definitive answer About

one and a half seconds.

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One and a half seconds.

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Yeah, because he's measured it.

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Of course.

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I have put it in spreadsheet.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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The average number.

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Oh, it's not average.

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Oh, that is precisely,

ask the exact number.

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Yeah.

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This introduces fun questions

and they're short answers.

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We don't have all the answers

to those questions, but it's

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interesting, nonetheless.

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Fair.

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I know we're running outta time.

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Yeah, but can I just throw

No something in there.

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Yes.

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Throw somebody.

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Look at what is told to Zacharia and then

go back and read Malachi three and four.

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That's all I'm gonna say.

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You want us to do that right now?

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No.

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No, no.

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Okay.

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Just everybody turn your

Bibles over to Malachi chapter.

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Pastor Rod, will you please?

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I'm just saying there's, I think

some of the reason to what we talked

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about earlier, why Zacharias is.

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Condemned for his response.

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Yeah.

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Is because of what he ought to have known.

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Oh.

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From Malachi?

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From Malachi and other places.

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'cause there's some prophecy

being fulfilled in the

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birth of John the Baptist.

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Indeed.

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Yep.

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Alright.

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You preached a sermon on Malachi?

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I did.

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You can go back and find

that at our website.

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Yep.

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Just type in the word Malachi.

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Yeah.

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Well you gotta go to Compass n tx.

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Compass go to, I go to our

websites majoring in the minors.

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That was the series.

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Even though I didn't preach all

the minor profits, which I know

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you guys were major in most of

the minors, I didn't say anything.

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You were just waiting to get there.

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I was thinking it, but I wasn't saying it.

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Majoring in 10 outta 12 miners I was

practicing is what that one was about.

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Practicing self-control, self editing.

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Alright, let's pray and then we done.

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Lord, thanks for the the examples

that we see in scripture that

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do cause us to be in awe of you.

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Like the birth of John the Baptist

and the fact that he was in dwell by

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the spirit from his mother's womb.

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Or that is a mystery to us to

even think about the act of

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regeneration and how that happens.

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And all of us who are in Christ

know that it happened at some

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point in time in our lives.

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And we all know people who we are

praying right now that you would cause

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it to take place in their life as well.

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So we would ask for that.

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We would ask that the gospel would take

root, that their eyes would be open,

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that they would be able to see and

understand their need for Christ, and

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that they would respond in repentance

and faith to the truth of the gospel.

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Use us in whatever way.

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You see fit in that process.

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We pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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We'll keep her in your Bibles

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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