00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:04 Upcoming Surprises and Warnings

00:49 Trust in Christ, Not Government

01:27 Discussion on Church at Home

02:37 The Importance of Corporate Worship

05:59 Genesis 15-17: Abrahamic Covenant

12:40 Matthew 5: Teachings of Jesus

15:58 Addressing Modern Issues with Ancient Texts

21:19 Conclusion and Encouragement

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Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition,

the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Welcome back.

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Now, we should probably give them a

warning because it's Oh, explicit.

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Watch yourself.

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No, but tomorrow's episode, they

might hear some different sounds.

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Hey, hey, hey, hey.

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We, we, it's a surprise.

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Okay, nevermind.

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We're, we don't know what's

gonna happen tomorrow.

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So you just tune in like normal and

you let the things be what they are.

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Okay, there you go.

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Fair.

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You just do what Georgia did and when

you get the votes, just keep on going

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about your normal everyday experience.

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Ince.

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Wonder how you're gonna bring

that up in this podcast.

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You just go about your daily life and

then let's just call it a conspiracy.

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If you hear different things

on the podcast, it's a

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conspiracy is what that is.

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Unbelievable.

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I know we're late to the game, but.

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I've been trying to simmer

down is all I'm trying to say.

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You're not doing a good job of it.

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I am sied.

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Trust me.

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This is not where I was

days ago when I found out.

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I'm just saying I need, we need,

I need, we all need to put our

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trust in Christ and not in the

government is all I'm gonna say.

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Yes.

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Or the news media.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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I'm with you on that.

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All right.

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We're the same page.

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We're supposed that at all.

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Should we just get to the Bible then?

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I don't wanna rob you up anymore.

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No, I'm not robbed up.

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I'm perfectly contented.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Well, unless you have anything you

wanna talk about, we are now almost

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a week into your Bible reading.

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Yes.

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Which, good job, we're stoked for you.

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Yes.

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We're loving it.

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We're liking the plan.

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You're liking the plan.

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We're all liking the plan.

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Oh, I did have a question for you.

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You got a question and I'll let you decide

whether or not you want to answer it.

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Okay.

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'cause it's fresh.

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Okay.

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There are some churches, okay.

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Who chose not to do church?

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as we understand a church, you

know, the formal, I drive to the

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parking lot, I go to the church, I

do all the things, and we worship.

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There's a service and then we exit.

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Some churches decided that they were going

to do what they call a church at home,

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and that meant that they were going to.

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They were sending people curriculum or a

video, and that video had a worship in it.

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So there was a worship component

and their job was to facilitate

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something in their homes, and

that was what they were gonna do.

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Talk about that.

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What do you feel about that?

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What do you think about that?

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And let's clarify some, what we

think the expectation should be

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for a church, and whether or not

we like that, don't like it, why

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we don't like it, all those things.

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I guess it's just principally

you'll never find us doing that.

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I'll say that to start, unless

there's a really good reason not to.

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Like weather, right?

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Yeah.

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Like if there's a snowstorm, we, no, no.

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You'd snow even a snowstorm.

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Okay.

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Glad we're having this conversation.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Flesh that out.

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Keep going.

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I, it's, I would do everything

I possibly could to get there.

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Of course.

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Here's the thing, man, there is something

that takes place when the church gathers

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together corporately once a week to

celebrate the resurrection of Jesus

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Christ from the dead and to sit under

the preaching and teaching of God's

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word and to fellowship and through

prayer and encouragement and building

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one another up, string one another up.

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There's something intangible that

takes place in that, and I think

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the intentional fracturing of that.

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By sending everybody out to

their community groups or their

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small groups or whatever it was.

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I think that you lose something

that's inherently purposeful

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behind what church actually is.

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So I don't you add to that and this

isn't everybody's reasoning across

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the board who did this, but I know a

lot of them that I saw said, we want

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to give our staff a week off, and so

we're gonna let them be at home with

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their families and things like that.

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Listen.

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If we get large enough that

our staff is running, everybody

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can have that Sunday off.

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I'm still gonna show up and

preach like, this is church.

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I, I don't, yeah, we, we won't do this.

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This is not something that fits

in my wheelhouse for what I

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believe is right or what I believe

should take place in the church.

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Those pastors and elders made

a choice and they made a choice

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for their church, their body.

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But it's not a choice

that I clearly would make.

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You have some strong feelings about this.

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Where would you obviously it seems like

you're saying that they can do that.

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You're saying that, hey, that's

the choice that they made, right?

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That's they're gonna stand before the Lord

for that and you'll stand before the Lord

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for your decisions that you're making.

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Right.

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If you were to help us develop a

biblical theology about church and

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church attendance, in fact, I know that

you have a series coming up soon Yep.

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About some of these things.

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Maybe you can give us a the sample

taste tease about some of those things?

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Yeah, the church is called to

the theia, the called out ones.

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And from the very beginning, and this

is where we can look at different

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passages of scripture, for example,

Hebrews 10 that we should not neglect

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meeting together, which is our memory

verse 10, 24 and 25 for January.

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As is the habit of some, but to stir

one another up towards loving g dets.

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And you could argue, well, they're doing

that, they're meeting in small groups

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and they're still meeting together

and they're stirring one another up.

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But I believe that the heart behind

that, as we see through even the

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interpretation that is buoyed by

some of looking at church history,

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which, and tradition, which I don't

think we can dismiss outright.

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Is it as authoritative as scripture?

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No.

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But does it help us understand

what the intent is behind it?

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I think it does.

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I think the intent is the church

gathers together corporately.

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Now in the New Testament times,

they would gather in house churches.

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That was church, that's what it was.

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In our era, in, at our time, we don't

have the same setup to argue that a

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church is made up of a bunch of house

churches represented by all the families

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they gather together on the weekend.

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I don't think that's true.

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The church is a body of believers

that gather together under pastoral

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authority and direction, week in and

week out for the worship of Christ,

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the exaltation of Christ and the

observance of the two ordinances,

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which don't have to take place weekly.

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In fact, we know that we don't observe

either of them weekly, but that pastoral

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authority, that gathering together and

that's what I think is being forfeited

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by these churches that are choosing

to shut their doors on the last day

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of the year and say, go meet in your

community groups or go do church by

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yourself at home, with your family.

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That's not the biblical

picture of a church.

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A church is the CLE of the

called out ones coming together.

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Brothers and sisters in Christ that

are from all kinds of different

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backgrounds and everything else together.

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Together under the preaching

of the word, which is done

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corporately together as the body.

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Okay, that sounds good.

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Okay.

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Genesis 15 through 17 is

our Old Testament reading.

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And then New Testament we are in

the rest of Matthew chapter five.

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So Genesis 15 through 17 is Abraham.

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Okay.

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And that's the story for, like

you said a couple episodes ago.

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A lot of the rest of Genesis,

not all of it, but a lot of it is

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still gonna focus in on Abraham.

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Chapter 15 is the Abrahamic.

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Covenant.

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This is significant.

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This is the promise that God is making

to Abraham again of land, seed, and

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blessing, that he's going to be the

one that is going to be the progenitor

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of, ultimately the one that is gonna

be the blessing to the whole earth.

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This is the covenant that we

believe is still in, in action.

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This is an unconditional covenant

that God makes with Abraham.

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Meaning Abraham is a

passive party in this.

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God is the one doing this.

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He's the one that is committing to this.

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And Abraham is the one that is,

is the passive recipient of this.

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And by extension, all of

Abraham's offspring this has

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not yet fully been fulfilled.

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We believe that there's a future coming

when this will be ultimately fulfilled.

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The millennial kingdom is gonna be the

time when Israel receives the land that is

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promised here in the Abrahamic covenant.

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The blessing of the one who

is gonna be the blessing to

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all the nations of the earth.

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The coming of Jesus.

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We've seen part one of that,

but there's gonna be part two of

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that with the return of Christ.

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So the Abrahamic covenant is a

massively significant chapter.

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You mentioned Genesis chapter three

is a huge chapter in the Bible.

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Genesis chapter 15, also huge chapter

in the Bible that undergirds so much of

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what we read from this point forward.

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Chapter 16.

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Then we get into RAI and Hagar, and this

is another low point in Abraham's life.

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So again, we've got the high point

of the call of Abraham in chapter 12.

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And then you've got the low point there of

Abraham and Sarai when they're in Egypt.

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Then you've got another high

point of the Abraham at Covenant.

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Then you've got another

low point here with.

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Sariah and Abraham, where

Sariah goes to Abraham.

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And remember in Genesis chapter 11,

it mentioned that Sariah was barren.

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And so God has promised Abraham

these offspring and Sariah's gonna

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go to Abraham and say I'm barren.

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You can't have children by me.

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And so here's my handmaiden.

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Hagar.

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Why don't you have offspring by her now?

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We're gonna look at this

and say, look, polygamy.

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This is multiple wives or

multiple, partners here.

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What gives, well, God is

not condoning this at all.

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In fact, this is not a good

thing that happens here.

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This is a bad thing that happens here.

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Abraham listens to his wife again.

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You've got a problem there.

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Adam and Eve.

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You've got Abraham and Saray here.

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Abraham listens to his wife,

takes Hagar in and has an a child

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by Hagar who is going to become.

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Ishmael this is a massive problem that

you may not realize it, but you're

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still dealing with the ramifications

of this problem today because from

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Ishmael is going to come the entire

descendants of the Islamic people, and

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so Ishmael is the one that they trace

back to be the son of the promise.

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We're gonna read about Isaac

in a couple chapters here.

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Ishmael is the one that, that say

is the true son of the promise.

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Isaac.

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And so this is a dividing line.

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This is where the biblical story and

the the Quran, where they diverge

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is at this point and the Muslim

people look at Ishmael as the son

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of the promise instead of Isaac.

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This is a bad situation and

this was wrong for Sariah to do.

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This is wrong for Abraham to do.

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And it's a bad situation

that emerges from this.

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And I think it all emerges from

verse two, where Abraham listens

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to the voice of Sariah Abraham.

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Instead of leading and doing what

God calls him to do, he listens

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and he follows the suggestion, the

leadership of Sariah in this point.

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And because of that, all of human

history has struggled under the weight

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of the false religion called Islam.

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And therefore, what we have

here is a good example.

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God blesses him and God endorses,

at least in some measure.

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Abraham's prayer that

he would bless Ishmael.

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And that's a good thing.

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God is not responsible for evil,

but God does, again, he condescends

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and he, I would wanna say he

permits it, but he works with the

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imperfections of our human faith.

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And if anything, what you should

see in Abraham's life is the way

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that God interacts with his people.

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He loves his people, cares for his people.

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We can look at Abraham's life and say,

man, what a boneheaded move, because we're

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looking at it from our view, our vantage.

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We have all of the human history.

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Biblical history written

out for us but let's.

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Before we throw stones from our

glass house, let's be careful

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and recognize that we probably

would've done a much better job.

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Yeah, we have a lot more revelation to

work with, and we ought to see Abraham's

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life as a lesson for us to learn from,

but not necessarily to harshly judge and

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excoriate, because, oh man, if I were

there, I would've done it differently.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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Absolutely.

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In chapter 17, then we get

the the promise has been made.

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The covenant has been made with Abraham.

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This is what is going to happen.

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God has said, I've promised

to do these things.

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But now God is gonna say, there, there

needs to be a sign of the covenant,

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something that is gonna show that

you're part of my covenant people.

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And that's gonna be given.

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How about a laminated card?

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Chapter 17?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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A Letterman's jacket.

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Something QR code.

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Yeah, just something easy.

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Very non-committal.

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Right.

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Right.

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Instead, God says, no,

we're gonna do circumcision.

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And oof.

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Without getting into too much graphic

detail, I think one of the reasons is

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the concept of the promise of the seed

I think is there's a connection here.

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And that's why this is the sign that

God gives Abraham to be the sign of the

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covenant that God is gonna make with him.

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And so Abraham has to go through this

and from this point forward, Jewish

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males are gonna have to go through

this and the law is gonna eventually

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say, this is gonna take place.

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Eight days after birth because

they're gonna get smart and be like,

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wait, hey, we should do this before

they can remember what happens.

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Mm-hmm.

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But at this point in time, this is

the sign that God gives to Abraham.

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Notice also between chapter 16 and 17 he

was, Abraham was 86 years old, chapter 17.

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He's 99.

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Yeah.

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So this is more than a decade later.

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And Abraham does it.

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He does this.

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Yeah.

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He does this to himself,

does it to his family.

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This is before I'm sure they had some

kind of local anesthesia, maybe in

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the form of some alcoholic beverage.

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Perhaps a hard rock that they just close

your eyes, Abram, that is gonna hurt.

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I just, oh, he is a man of

faith and so here you go.

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You have both the very low lights, but

you also some really sweet highlights.

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Abraham is 99 years old

when he was circums.

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In the flesh of his foreskin.

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And Ishmael's son was 13 years

old who was also circumcised, and

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that very day, Abraham does it.

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So he's a man of action.

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He's a man of faith.

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Granted, is he making some

boneheaded moves here and there?

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Yes.

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But God uses this.

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Let's just remind you,

it's faith that God honors.

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Now granted, we don't

want an ignorant faith.

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We shouldn't be given that

we have a whole corpus of.

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Information and tools to learn from.

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But God does honor faith and decisions

that are by faith, out of love for

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him and love for his people are some

decisions that I think God can use.

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Yep.

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One thing that we want to note here as

well in chapter 17 is Isaac is promised

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to Abraham in this chapter, so God tells.

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Abraham, I have told you it's

not gonna be through Ishmael, but

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instead it's gonna be through another

son that you're gonna have, and

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this is gonna come through Isaac.

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And Isaac is the one that's

gonna be the son of Promise.

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And again, Abraham please for Ishmael.

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And God says, no I'm not gonna do this.

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And to your point, he does say that, I'll

bless you Ishmael but God doubles down

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and says, no, it's gonna be through Isaac.

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I've got another plan, and this

is gonna be the plan for you.

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Hmm.

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And it's not gonna happen right away.

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Right.

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Let's flip over to our New Testament

reading and we can finish up with

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the rest of Matthew chapter five.

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So we left off talking about

anger in yesterday's edition.

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We talked about the fact that the

law was fulfilled, but not abrogated,

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not set aside in the problem of

anger being something that, hey,

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this is a me measure of degree, but.

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The sin can still be sin there.

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He's gonna deal with the same

thing here, with the issue of lust.

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And he's gonna say, you've heard

it say, do not commit adultery.

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But then she's gonna say, if anyone looks

with lustful intent at a woman or, I

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don't want to make this only a male issue,

especially in today's society or a woman

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at a man then they've already committed

adultery with that person in their hearts.

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And so, again, Jesus has pointed to

the fact that this is a heart issue and

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this is meant to wreck his listeners.

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This is meant to cause all of

his listeners who are self.

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Self-righteous and feeling like

they're good enough or they're godly

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enough, especially the religious

leaders of the day, to just be

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wrecked to say, this indicts me.

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I'm guilty.

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So that they will realize

that's why he came.

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And so that they will realize that he came

not for the healthy, but for the sick.

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Because they have to

realize their sickness.

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And so Jesus is giving all of these

different difficult standards and

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admonitions and teachings including on

divorce and what's permissible when it

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comes to divorce on taking an oath and

whether or not you should take an oath,

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and how serious our words can be in

what we promise and vow to God on how

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we treat those who mistreat us, either

through retaliation or through just our

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attitude towards our enemies in general.

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Jesus continues to raise the bar and

raise the bar, and raise the bar, and

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raise the bar for everybody listening

so that they would say, how can

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anybody live perfectly in this way?

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And the answer is, well you can't.

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You can't, not that you

shouldn't try, but you can't.

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Actually do it not apart from his

power, not apart from his enabling

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grace by his spirit and those things.

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And of course we're looking at this

before Jesus sends to the cross

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and before he sends the spirit.

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So we're trying to put

the pieces together.

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And I guess one of the important

features of the Sermon on the Mount is

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let me encourage you not to read the

Sermon on the Mount in an isolated way.

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It's good to read it for what

it is, but also read it in the

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context of the whole of scripture.

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You, you can't look at this and

say, I'm gonna, I guess sometimes

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Christians will use this as a means

or an encouragement for passivism.

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Like we don't believe in police,

we don't believe in military.

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We don't wanna fight because

we don't think that's right.

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Jesus said, turn the other cheek.

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And that's true.

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Jesus does say that.

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But he doesn't say that that's

what the government should do.

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In fact, Jesus told his disciples,

carry a sword, and they said,

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well, we have two swords here.

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And he says, that's enough.

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He's not saying like every Christian

should be armed and dangerous.

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He's saying there is a right time

and a place to defend oneself.

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There's wisdom there.

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So take Jesus' words for what they

are, but also read it in the context

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of everything else that you know about

what Jesus said and also his disciples.

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A lot of people will look at the red

letters in the gospels and say, these

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are the words that really, really

matter, but what's wrong with that?

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It elevates the words of Christ

over the words of the rest of

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scripture as though the rest of

scripture is not also from God.

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And so we have to understand

that the words in red are red

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because of an editor's decision.

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And there's even disagreement,

for example, John chapter three.

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Where does the words of Jesus begin?

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Where do they stop the word John's Begin.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But all the scriptures, God breathe.

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We just read about that at the

end of last year, second of three

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16, all scriptures God breathe.

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And if that's true, then they all are

equally authoritative across the board.

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That's very helpful.

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Okay.

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A modern issue, and let's go to

the ancient text to see if we

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can address some of these things.

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Today, You talk about a man having

lustful desires for this person

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or that person, male or female.

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What about when the

attraction goes beyond?

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Humans, does Jesus word still apply?

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And if so, how?

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Beyond humans.

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Okay.

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So if the attraction is

up to an object Yeah.

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Or even to, here's another

modern example, an AI persona.

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I think the lust is the issue there.

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And it's an unhealthy craving for

something that is prohibited by

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God, something that's not yours.

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Specifically here we're dealing with

in the area of the sexual relationship,

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and God has given a wife to a man to be

the source of satisfaction for that and

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the man to the wife for the same reason.

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So to look outside that in any way,

shape, or form is to transgress what

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God has designed and his intentions.

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And that's where the sin comes in.

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So would you say then that someone who so

I don't wanna make fun of her, but the

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woman who married the Eiffel Tower, yes.

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She has a physical, it's emotional,

I'm sure, first and foremost, but then

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there's also a relational and perhaps

a physical attraction to that thing.

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Yeah.

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Is that sin?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think there's probably some other

mental issues that are going on there,

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and I don't mean that tongue in cheek.

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I mean, seriously.

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I think there's probably some other

issues going on with that person that are.

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Producing such desires, but

they're perverted desires.

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They're not desires in keeping

with what God's design is.

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God's design for marriage, God's

design for attraction is for a man

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to be attracted to a woman and a

woman to be attracted to a man.

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And anytime you leave, those bounds

then you're transgressing God's design.

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So yes, I would say it is.

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So a young man or woman who is

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spending a lot of time with an AI

chat agent and there's now emotional

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bonds and those emotional bonds are

becoming bigger and more excited.

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Yeah.

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And there's an emotional attachment

turning into a physical longing.

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Is that sin?

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Yes.

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Are we to understand that differently?

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If so, how?

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What are the nuances or the

qualifications for those things?

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Yes it's sin.

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'cause that AI agent is not a human being.

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It's not.

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We talked about the Imago Day a few days

ago, that which is creating the image

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of God in that creation account says

for this reason, a man shall leave his

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father and mother and hold fast to his

wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

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You cannot become one

flesh with an AI agent.

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It's not a possibility, and I know that

there are much more grand perversions

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that we don't need to get into on

the podcast as a result of that.

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But still, unless it's too God-breathed.

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Individuals, two individuals with

the life force of God within them

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that are coming together as male and

female then you don't have something

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that's in keeping with God's design.

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Yeah, that's helpful.

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I remember reading

Christopher Yuan's book.

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He said something catchy and pithy.

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Like, God doesn't want

heterosexuality or homosexuality.

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He wants holy sexuality.

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Yeah.

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Which I, okay.

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Yeah.

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You wanna quibble with that, but

I think the idea is what you're

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getting at is there's only one

defined prescribed means of Right.

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Physical expression.

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In God's design for humanity and any

other kind of expression, even if

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it is something that feels normal,

natural, maybe innate to your nature.

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We have disordered desires.

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Yes.

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And every person has that Christian.

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And on our job as Christians

is to identify those disorder

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desires and to kill them.

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Yes.

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They have to be put to death because

there's only one true expression.

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Okay.

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So talk to those people then.

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I don't wanna assume that

everyone is listening is.

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On the same page.

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Maybe they're feeling those tugs

and those yearnings to some kind

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of disordered desire for whatever.

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Fill in the blank.

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Yeah.

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Talk to that person, help them

work through some of those things.

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If you're a out there listening to

that, you're a Christian, I would say

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this is part of our job as Christians,

one of the, part of the fruit of the

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spirit is the fruit of self-control.

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Part of the.

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Reality of self-control is saying

no to ourselves and saying no

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to our sinful desires and urges.

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And so if you have those desires and

urges, I think recognizing and identifying

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them as sinful and as perversions

of what God's design is important.

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And then saying, okay, so what do I need

to do and how do I need to fight that?

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And if that means you need to bring

other people into that battle that

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can help you with that, then do that.

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Seek counsel, seek guidance,

seek accountability, whatever

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that looks like for you.

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But understand the gravity of what's at

stake here, because this is something

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that isn't in keeping with God's will.

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And does need to be put off.

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So, I wouldn't give ground to this.

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It's important to say no to our

flesh at the earliest signs of this.

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And so cut off the hand, even as

Jesus says here in, in the Sermon on

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the mount, gouge out the eye, cut off

the hand, throw it out away from you.

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Treat these things seriously

because of the threat that can

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be to your spiritual wellbeing.

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When you say gouge these

things out, cut 'em off.

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Are you, I know in, in

church history people had.

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Taking this quite literally.

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Yeah.

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Or do you intend to communicate

something akin to that?

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What are you wanting us to do?

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No, and Jesus didn't either.

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Because he would've been walking

around with a bunch of disciples

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without hands and without eyes

that would've been grotesque.

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This is a metaphor that he's using

for the treat it that radically treat

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it such that if do whatever it takes.

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Was short of actually physically

harming the body because that's a crime,

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that's a sin against your body, right?

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Yeah.

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To mutilate the body is

a sin against the body.

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So Jesus wouldn't be telling us

to sin by mutilating our bodies.

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Rather, he's saying,

Hey, treat sin seriously.

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Yeah and the right hand, the

right eye, the right side of

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the body was the clean side.

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It was the favored side.

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You think about Jesus being at

the right hand of the Father.

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So I wonder if there's.

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Something like whatever's

precious to you, be willing to

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get rid of whatever's precious.

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Yeah.

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Even if it's undignifying, in order for

you to fight sin, it is that serious.

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Yeah.

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And so if you are struggling with

these things one way or another,

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I mean it, confess it to the Lord.

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Deal severely with your sin.

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Yeah.

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Because Jesus would say it's worth it.

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Yep.

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Okay.

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I have a lot more questions, but I think

that's probably a good place to stop.

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Awesome.

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Let's pray.

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God, we thank you for the promise

that you made through Abraham, that

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he would have a son, Isaac, and that

through that son would come the ultimate

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descendants that would lead to Jesus.

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That is the reason why we're here.

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The reason why we have your Bible,

the word of God, the reason why

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we gather as a church week in and

week out is because of Christ.

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And so we thank you that your plan has

been in view from the very beginning.

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Even when you set out to, to create the

world, you knew what you were doing.

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All along and you've led us to this point.

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And so God, we are thankful for that.

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Thankful that we get to know Christ,

that we live when we live, and can have

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the riches of your word in our hands,

that we can trust you, that we can know

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the gospel, that we can set ourselves

to follow Jesus with all that we are.

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And so I pray that we

would do that as a church.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Hey, y'all, keep reading those Bibles.

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Stay on track.

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Don't grow discouraged.

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Don't give up.

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Keep doing it.

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It's so good what you're doing

and we can't wait to be back

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with you again on another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you then.

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Bye.

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