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01:05 Upcoming Church Events

02:20 Discussion on Zephaniah

05:12 Judgment and Hope in Zephaniah

12:19 God's Musical Affection

15:59 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It's gonna be awesome.

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We are in the book of his zephaniah today

and this is not one that we covered in

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the minor prophets, so I'll go ahead and

say that before you get a chance to there.

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Pastor out.

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I know that you were just

chomp I was gonna say anything.

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I'm just smiling.

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There's no way you were not gonna say

I was not gonna say a word anyways.

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It's not because I don't like Zephaniah.

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It's not because I've got

anything against the letter Z.

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It's just.

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It didn't make the cut

as far as the scheduling.

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Yeah I'll talk to him when I get to heaven

because I know he's crushed about this.

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I think he feels shorted.

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He's already in the minor prophets.

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Probably wears that as a stigma and now

he's I guess I'm not good enough to be

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preached during the minor prophet series.

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I'm sure there's plenty of other

pastors that have preaching

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during the minor prophet series.

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Hey.

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Zef and I, there's not a

whole lot that we know about.

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The prophet himself, he prophesied

during the time of Josiah.

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So you remember, we're reading about

that in Second King, second Chronicles.

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Josiah was a good king, and he was one

of those good kings that was actually a

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good king for the duration, except for

this end with Pharaoh, Nico, which we're

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not exactly sure what happened there.

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But the prophecy that comes

during his reign is a little bit

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interesting because there's not all.

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Roses and daisies in the book of Zanni.

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In fact, Zephaniah is gonna

be prophesying about judgment.

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In fact, verse four, right off

the bat, he says, I'll stretch

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out my hand against Judah.

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And then he talks about the idolatry

of Judah in the southern kingdom.

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There in the next handful of verses,

in fact, if you go down to verse nine,

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he says, on that day, I'll punish

everyone who leaps over the threshold.

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That's a weird saying.

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We don't often think about that, but it

seems that this is likely a reference

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all the way back to the time of one

Samuel chapter five, and in one Samuel

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chapter five, you had the arc taken

cap by the Philistines and they brought

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it into the temple of their God.

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The God day gone.

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And the God Dagon fell down onto his face

before the ark and his arms were found

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on the threshold of the temple there.

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So it became the tradition of these

pagan priests to not step on the

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threshold as they were entering

into the temple of their false gods.

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And so I think this is an

illusion to, again, I don't.

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Idol worship and idolatrous practices

having crept into the nation of Israel

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the southern kingdom there chuah.

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But yeah this is not all roses.

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And again, it's a reminder to us that

even though things are good and we might

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be obeying and we might be walking in

faithfulness to the Lord, it doesn't mean

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that there won't come consequences and

judgment upon us or against us for some

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of the sins that we committed in the past.

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I'm reminded of Romans 11, verse

22 that says, note then the

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kindness and severity of God.

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Here in Zephaniah chapter one,

we see a lot of God's severity.

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He's unhappy with sin.

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He doesn't like it.

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He's going to do things in response to

it, and those responses are not positive,

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happy running through the fields with

butterflies and rainbows responses.

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This is God's angry side.

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Not that he has a side, he's

singular in his expression.

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But this is important because f and I

reminds us God is not to be trampled

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with, we keep on saying this a lot

through the minor prophets but it's

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a recurring theme for a reason.

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God wants us to recognize that

we can't only think of him

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in terms of positive aspects.

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Or at least positive to us.

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We have to understand the

totality of who he is.

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As someone once said, it takes a

whole Bible to make a whole Christian,

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and that's why we read stuff like

this because it rounds out some of

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the holes in our theology about God.

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Yeah.

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The judgment part of the severity

is seen in the eschaton and that's

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picking up in verse 14, that the

great day of the Lord is near.

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This is pointing to that

time of the end time.

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So we've talked about this before

already in the minor prophets,

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and it's important to remember

that this is not a singular day.

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So even the.

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In verse 15, it says, A day of wrath

is the day, a day of distress and

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anguish, a day of ruin and devastation,

a day of darkness and gloom.

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The day of the Lord, as we

understand it, is going to entail

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all of the tribulation, period.

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It's actually gonna even stretch

through the millennial kingdom, and

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then culminate with the great white

throne judgment in the very end.

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And that is the pinnacle, that's the peak

of God's wrath as the dead are brought

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before the great white throne, and

they're ultimately assigned to the lake

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of fire for all of eternity at that point.

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So the day of the Lord is.

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The judgment that's impending for

Judah is meant to remind 'em of an even

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greater judgment that's going to come

in the end during the day of the Lord.

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I think what's even more interesting

to me is trying to figure out where

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chronologically these things are taking

place because you have under Josiah's

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leadership this incredible revival.

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He's leading the charge and

he's causing the nation to

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respond to Yahweh appropriately.

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So I think what's scary for me is

that Zephaniah, along with, who

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else did we read recently that

we, that was also a small, minor

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profit Zef and I was one of them.

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Nhem.

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Oh, nhem.

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Not really though.

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Anyhow, what I've found

interesting is that.

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Even though they had all the externals

going on, it seems like there is a real

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substantial part of the population that

was only going through the motions because

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f and I accuses them with using the words

like the name of the Lord and swearing by

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him, and yet swear by milam in verse five.

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And so consequently, his response of

righteous judgment is because in the

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secret place and in their hearts, they're

actually not fully devoted to the Lord.

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In fact, some of them

think that he's complacent.

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Verse 12.

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The Lord will not do

good, nor will he do ill.

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The Lord is just watching things unfold.

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And the Lord is saying

that's entirely untrue.

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In fact, you see something similar

in the book of second Peter, right?

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You have people, critics who are

saying, where's the day of the Lord?

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I thought he was gonna be coming soon.

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And then Peter says, with the Lord,

a day is like a thousand years.

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And he delays not because

he's lazy or he's.

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Unable to, but because he cares.

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He's giving you a chance to repent

and here it's much the same.

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Zef and I is crowd.

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Same idea.

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They think God's unwilling to do something

or unable to, and he's saying not at all.

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He's actually angry and he's

going to bring his just judgment.

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Yeah.

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I wonder too, Zef and I took the throne

at eight years old and it wast until I am.

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Yeah, sorry, Josiah, and it wasn't

until he was 16 that he began to

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really in earnest seek the Lord

there, or until the 16th year.

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So I guess he was 26, so he had 16

years between eight and 26 that he

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was still growing up as a young boy.

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So it's possible, even it was during that

time prior to his reforms, and maybe this

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is part of what led to his reforms is the.

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Confrontation from from Zephaniah and

the other prophets during this time?

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That's a fair guess.

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Chapter two is a sandwich of some

good news in between the rest of

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the book here, because he's going to

turn the attention to the judgment

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that's gonna come, not just against

the people of Judah, but also on.

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On God's enemies.

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And this is an extension of the

vision of the day of the Lord.

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And he's gonna now begin to bring in

visions of the millennial kingdom here.

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For example, in verse seven, the

seaco shall become the possession of

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the remnant of the house of Judah for

the Lord their God will be mindful

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of them and restore their fortunes.

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And then he talks about the tons of Moab.

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And so in chapter two, he's weaving

in hope for the people of Judah that

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there's this restoration coming.

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There's good times that are gonna

come during the millennial kingdom.

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And also pronouncements of judgment

against their enemies like the.

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Philistines earlier in chapter two, or

like Moab in verse eight, or like the

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cushite in verse 12, Assyria in verse 13.

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God is encouraging the people with

this message of hope that there

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is a restoration that will come.

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In other words, he's not

gonna make a complete end.

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That's a common refrain that we're

gonna read in, we're about to get into

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the book of Jeremiah, God talks a lot

about that in the book of Jeremiah,

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yet I will not make a full end.

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And it's just a reminder of God's mercy.

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And we find that here in the middle.

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Of the book of Zephaniah before he

returns to the theme of rebellion

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and judgment in chapter three.

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Yeah.

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I guess one note as you're reading

through chapter two, I don't think he

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gets to the enemy nations until verse.

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Three, certainly at verse four

but at least verses one, two,

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and perhaps three are speaking

in my understanding about Judah.

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So chapter two's title, if

you're reading from an ESV, says,

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judgment on Judah's enemies.

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And that's true because you do have those

four nations that are represented there.

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Philistia, Moab, Kush, and Assyria, but

at least in verses one and two, and I

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think in verse three, this is Judah.

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Would you have any thoughts about that?

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I guess I didn't read that, read

it that way, but I'm open to that.

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I see that.

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Yeah.

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I have no.

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No disagreement with that.

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Yeah.

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I don't disagree with the editors

very easily, but I think that

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he's talking about ju to here.

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Fair.

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Yeah, I can see that one.

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Chapter three.

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He certainly does return to the focus

on Jerusalem and and her situation.

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Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled.

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She does not trust in the Lord.

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She does not draw near to her God.

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And I think that's what

we're to take away from.

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So much of this is we read this through

the eyes of Christianity and we read

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this through the eyes of course,

we're supposed to trust God and God is

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sovereign and why wouldn't we trust God?

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And we know the stories in

the Old Testament and this is

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meant to cause us to, to be.

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Shocked that here God's people are

saying we're not gonna trust in him.

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We're not going to turn to him.

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We're not gonna put our confidence in him.

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The prophets and the priest as the

chapter continues, have been corrupted.

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And so that's another common theme

with the people of Judah and how God

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is gonna bring judgment against them.

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Is they are corrupted.

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They are doing wrong

by what they should do.

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They're ignoring warnings.

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They're not fearing the Lord.

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Verse seven.

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Verse eight.

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He pronounces, therefore

wait for me, says the Lord.

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And that's not a wait for

me, like a good thing.

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Hey guys, wait for me.

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This is wait for me because

I'm about to come in judgment.

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And he's going to unleash

that against the people.

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But I.

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Again, the Lord will

not make a complete end.

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Beginning in verse nine you even

get hope for the nations, which

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for us gentiles again is good news

and and the focus of other things.

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How about verse 15, though the King

of Israel, the Lord is in your midst.

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So here he's talking clearly

about the millennial kingdom.

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He says The King of Israel, and

then it's Yahweh is in your midst.

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That's, that jumped out to me this

time because this is the Messiah.

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That he's talking about

here, the King of Israel.

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And then he gives a further description.

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The Lord Yahweh is in your midst.

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And so a lot of times we'll ask ourselves

the question, should the New Testament

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era, Jews have expected a divine Messiah?

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And I think passages like this should.

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Caused us to think, yeah, to an extent.

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They should have expected this.

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They should have expected that, yes,

the Messiah would claim to be God.

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So that when Jesus makes the bold claims

to be one with God, before Abraham was

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I am other passages like that we read

about in John, it shouldn't have come

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as such a drastic shock to them if they

knew passages like this one in Zephaniah.

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Yeah, I would agree with that.

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I would only add one caveat and

that's that God used that kind of

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language also with the tabernacle.

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With the with the cloud of

fire and the pillar of smoke.

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True.

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So it's not uncommon

language, but you're right.

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I think what they should have expected

and what God delivered on were probably

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in the same category, although different

intensities where maybe they thought,

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oh, God's gonna show up in the temple,

or he'll be part of the tabernacle.

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But really God's no, I have a better plan.

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I'm actually gonna be there.

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I'm gonna show up in, in body and

flesh, and I'm gonna blow your mind.

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I, one thing, speaking of

things that blow my mind I just

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can't get over it in verse 17.

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He will rejoice over you with gladness.

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He will quiet you by his love.

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He will exalt over you with loud singing.

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I just don't imagine God

singing at all often, right?

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And yet here you have this famous

passage, which I don't think

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it's enough en enough press.

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God sings over his people.

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Now he's talking about Israel here,

so he's not talking about the church.

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Per se, but I don't think it's a stretch

to say if God's sung over his people

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under the old covenant, is it not a

stretch to believe that he sings over

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his people under the new covenant?

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Now, we don't have anything that

says that, but I think the fact

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that we are singers, the fact that

we are told to sing and make melody

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tells me that music comes from God.

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Singing comes from God, I

think, and therefore, I'm not

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surprised on the one hand.

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On the other hand, I'm shocked.

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I'm flabbergasted.

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On the other hand, how many hands

do we have on the third hand?

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On the third hand, I'm

saying on the other foot.

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Exactly.

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I'm starting using other digits now.

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I'm surprised and I'm not surprised.

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This is such a cool analogy.

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It's a such not even analogy.

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It's just a way to talk about

how God thinks about us.

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He is not just a.

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Passive in his affection for us.

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He's active and such to the

point where he sings over us.

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I think that's amazing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Music has always been a

part of human society.

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You go back to, even in Islam the call

to prayer is a musical call to prayer.

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You go to some of the other.

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Religions, even in Native American

society, there was a musical tradition

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to the Native Americans here.

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That was part of their culture

from before anyone came.

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This was not something that

was brought over with Western

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culture or anything like that.

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God is, has created us to be that way.

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And it seems here that he

is a musical God himself.

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I love that He will quiet you

by his love, but he will exalt

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over you with loud singing.

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God's gotta have a baritone

voice, I would imagine.

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You think so?

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I'd imagine, have you ever heard

that Mongolian throat singing

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where they can hit different

frequencies at the same time?

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No, you haven't heard that.

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It's fascinating.

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It's really, yeah.

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I can't do it, obviously, but I

think it's really cool that they

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can hit two notes at the same time.

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That's nuts.

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Which is bizarre.

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Yeah.

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And yet the way they

do it, it makes sense.

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It's, anyway, my point is if that's

capable from a human perspective, I wonder

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what God is able to do in terms of what.

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Sounds he can produce for sure.

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And the way that he does it, he

doesn't have throats like we do.

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He doesn't have vocal chords like we do.

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At least not God the Father

or God the Spirit, right?

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God the Son does.

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But all that to say, I bet it's gonna be

phenomenal and amazing, bigger and better

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than what we experience here, by the way.

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Genesis 4 21 is the first

mention of a musical instrument.

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Jule is the father of all those

who play the liar in the pipe.

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So early on in our creation's

history God designed people to be

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musicals such that this guy named

Jule is producing instruments.

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He's inventing things for

people to play songs on.

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I think that's really

cool and interesting.

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So you're right, it's part of what

it means to be human in different

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cultures and different tribes

and nations, but it comes from.

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The origination.

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The creator.

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The creator.

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Yeah.

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The creator.

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The God who gave us those things.

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Yeah.

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In fact, that's one of the ways that

we can share the attribute of creation

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with God, that is, is God as creator, is

not an unshared attribute because he's

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allowed us to be able to create things

like music and to engage in that artistic

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endeavor, which in more than artistic

endeavor, to your point it's how we

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image God, part of the way we image God.

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There you go.

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Everybody go out and invent an

instrument and write a song.

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Please do.

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And if you do, send it to us.

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A AI just wrote a song

for us at some point.

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I'm gonna play it for you guys.

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Yeah.

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It's called, I agree with

everything that you said.

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Yeah.

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You know what, everybody's been asking

me, everyone's been asking who the

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person is at the end of our podcast.

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His name is Bernard.

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It's one of the AI voices that we

have on the platform that we use.

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Yep.

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I think he sounds a little bit like

Morgan Freeman and Pete Burner.

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There you go.

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If those two guys put their voices

together, this is what you would get.

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And I think it sounds just like him.

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There you go.

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That's who it is.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we are grateful

for our church family.

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Even just the voices, the little voices

that we heard at the beginning of the

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podcast this morning is just a reminder

to us of your kindness to us of the

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people that we are here to serve.

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As we even talked about last Sunday,

that ministry is about people.

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People are the ministry.

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And so we are so thankful to have a

good church family that we love, that

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we get to labor for even doing this.

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This is a labor of love for us.

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We don't like to just sit in the

office and talk to each other

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that much, but hey, you know what?

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We do this into these

microphones and talk about the.

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Bible because we love our people and

we hope that it conveys that to them.

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So we thank you for this time

that we're able to do this,

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for the equipment to do this.

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We pray that it would

continue to bear fruit.

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We pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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