00:00 Welcome and Questions

00:29 Street Taco Debate

01:10 Texas Politics Talk

02:14 Tallarico Theology Concerns

06:28 Voting and Christian Duty

08:09 Deuteronomy Reading Intro

08:44 Remembering God’s Faithfulness

10:47 God Rules the Nations

12:13 Accountability and Mercy

16:00 Mark 11 Triumphal Entry

17:23 Fig Tree and Temple Judgment

18:48 Messiah Revealed and Prayer

20:42 Closing and Outro

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello, hello, hello.

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We're all three back with you

for another riveting episode.

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Hey, we haven't been getting very many

questions written into the podcast, so

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if you have questions out there that,

or your pastors at the church have done

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just such an excellent job of answering

all of your questions on all facets

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of life, bible theology that you have

nothing else to offer that's fine too.

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But I just figured if

you do have questions.

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I'd remind you, you can write

'em into podcast@composix.org.

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I have several people with

questions who wanted me to ask you?

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I, number one, okay.

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Why do you hate tacos?

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What is number two?

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What's your problem?

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Number three, will you repent of this?

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Number four, why do you hate tacos?

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I didn't say I hate tacos.

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I said I wasn't a fan of street tacos.

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They've grown on me a little bit.

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I still don't ever find

myself craving street tacos.

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So.

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And there were lots of people

in that room that morning, that

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infamous morning who heard your

statements and their hearts broke.

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Well, you should have

seen the letters we got.

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I know the letters piles

threatened to pile leave.

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The church Kelly's desk was just covered.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well, there were tears, bro.

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Hey, we had some.

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Political developments in our

state, and I know Pastor Mark, you

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particularly are, not that we don't

care about politics, but I know it's

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very much been on your radar a lot.

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And so let's talk a little, the shoe fits

a little bit about this guy James Alco,

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because our people may hear things like,

oh, well he's a Presbyterian pastor,

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he's a Christian, he's a believer.

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W we would take some issue with that.

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He's been all over social media lately.

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He has my ex feeded has been filled

with clips and sound bites of him, you

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know, saying things here and there.

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Pastor Mark, what are

some of your thoughts?

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How should we think about this?

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I know on the Republican side, we've

got some other things going on too.

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Now.

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We've been accused of being a MAGA

podcast in the past, and, uh, I, I

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do want to make it abundantly clear

to those listening unapologetically.

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We, I think all three of us

across the board would side.

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On the right side of the

political aisle on things.

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And that shouldn't be shocking

to anyone listening to this.

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That's who we are.

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And by the way, this podcast

again is really for our church.

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And I think by and large

our church is there as well.

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So, if you wanna turn us

off, you can turn us off.

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That's fine.

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But Pastor Mark, I'd love to get

some of your thoughts here on what's

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going on with Tallarico specifically.

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Yeah.

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Tall Rico is definitely

an interesting figure.

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I think that he's very deceptive.

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He's very deceptive.

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He sounds different than Crockett,

who he kind of unseated I think that.

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Crockett was very vocal,

very much an agitator.

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And I think he is a

very different demeanor.

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And, there's the Texas nice and

I think Tele Rico fits that.

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He also claims to be, well, I guess

it's an accurate claim in some sense,

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but he claims to be a seminarian.

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He claims a theological grounding.

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For a lot of what he talks about.

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And in fact a personal

theological grounding.

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'cause he says he's gone to

seminary, down in Austin, I believe.

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And so he uses those terminologies, those

words, those languages that you and I

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might use and might be familiar with.

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The problem is if you listen to him for

really even a few moments, you'll be

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quickly confused by the way in which

he applies some of these theological

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ideas that, that he espouses.

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Not just confused, but I

mean they're just wrong.

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He clearly is taking, this is a

great example of somebody that's

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reading our present culture into the

Bible and using a hermeneutic of.

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A political movement to try to interpret

what Jesus actually was dealing with.

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Yeah.

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One of the things I saw him talk about

and I don't have a ton of details

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on this, I just saw a brief clip,

but he talked about how Jesus was

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only ever corrected once by a woman.

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No man, that's this.

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Your Venetian woman.

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Yeah.

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No man ever corrected.

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Jesus, but wow, what an amazing thing

that Jesus didn't know something

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and a woman was the one that

helped him understand these things.

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Well, obviously if we understand the

divinity of Jesus we'll quickly be I

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used the word confused, but you're right.

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We'll immediately be like, oh, that is.

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Not correct.

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Right there.

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There's not a point in time when

Jesus is corrected by any woman

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or any man, in fact, right.

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Because he is divine.

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But that language and that

way of talking is enticing.

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Sure.

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It's especially when you are

tired of, and you know, there's.

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There's definitely things to

criticize about Trump, and I think

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one of those things is the tone and

the rhetoric that he uses, right?

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If you're tired of those things,

then you are going to probably

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likely be ready for something

like that, a kinder voice, right?

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Uh, and so I think.

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We actually face somewhat of a

risk with this election because

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I think a lot of Texans are gonna

go, oh, he sounds like a Christian.

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Yeah, he, he talks about the Bible

and that's, and he's much nicer.

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He's much nicer than Crockett.

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He's much nicer than a lot of

these people that we've seen.

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And so I think we're in for a

particularly heated race here.

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It's also interesting on the other

side of the aisle Ken Paxton, who

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didn't quite beat the incumbent, has.

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Has a number of um, I

don't know, personal flaws.

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Yeah, moral failings.

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Yeah.

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And it'll be interesting, and Mueller

talked about this on the briefing, so

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I highly recommend listening to him

today if you're interested in this more.

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But he talked about how it's gonna

be an interesting dynamic here in

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Texas if the Democratic guy seems

nice and friendly and wholesome.

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Oh, undoubtedly.

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And Ken Paxton is his opponent who has.

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His share of moral failing.

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So, yeah.

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And just for you as a Christian listening

to this, if you're thinking, well, he

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claims to be a Christian, we should

identify with this, and who cares about

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what side of the aisle they're on?

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He's an advocate for abortion.

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Mm-hmm.

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And even argues that the Old Testament

law teaches how a woman should go

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about having an abortion, which

is again, an unbelievable twisting

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and perversion of the scriptures.

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His comment about the Sian woman,

that she's the only one to ever

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teach Jesus anything, that's a

reference to when she came to Jesus

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and begged him to heal her daughter.

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And Jesus said, it's not right to

give the children's food to the dogs.

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And she said, yes, but even

the dogs eat the crumbs.

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That's what.

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Arico is saying she was

teaching Jesus something.

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There.

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Nothing in the text ever says that

rather Jesus commence her faith and

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then says, go your daughter is healed.

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Jesus didn't learn anything.

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He is undermining the deity of

Christ by a statement like that.

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And so, he is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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Not only should he not be

anywhere near a political.

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Lectern, he should be

nowhere near pulpit either.

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This man is dangerous in any way, shape,

or form that, that we could communicate.

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He's a danger, he's a threat.

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And you're right.

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He looks clean cut.

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He looks like somebody that you'd

want to hang out with and invite

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to a ball game, but he is no one

that we want anything to do with.

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Yeah and let me say too

you should go and vote.

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In the general election this

fall, these things matter.

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These elections have consequences

immensely, and so you should go and

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vote and I obviously think there's

places where your conscience may, you

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know if Paxton is the the guy that

may be an issue of your conscience.

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But it's gonna be a challenging

thing to pick between him and

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who you just described, right?

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Oh, totally.

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Somebody who is very much against the

things that we're against and ultimately

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the things that God is against.

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And there's never we talked about this

before, there's never a perfect candidate.

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Never every candidate

is gonna be a sinner.

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So often it really does truly come

down to we as Christians voting for

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the lesser of two evils and that

candidate, which aligns most with the

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principles that we find in the Bible.

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As explained in the Bible we're

gonna have to give an account someday

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when we stand before the Lord for

how we stewarded our citizenship.

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And that counts for how we cast our votes.

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Mm-hmm.

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So we need to be mindful of that.

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We need to participate, we need

to be active in these things.

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God, a sovereign, he's gonna put

in charge who he wants to put in

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charge, and yet at the same time, he's

given us the ability and the right

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to be able to go and cast a vote.

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And that matters.

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And you may think, does it matter

here in a state like Texas?

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It does.

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And here's evidence of why.

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If we take.

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The backseat approach to say,

well, my vote doesn't really matter

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because Texas has always been red.

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It's not gonna be long before

Texas turns purple, and then

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potentially Texas turns blue.

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So, we need to be careful and we

need to be on guard, not afraid,

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but we need to use our minds.

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We need to vote according to the

scriptures, and we need to take

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advantage of the rights that

God has given to us as citizens.

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All right.

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Well if you don't like political

talk, it's your fault 'cause you

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didn't write any questions into us.

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So you can write questions

podcast@compassantix.org.

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Well, I like politics so you do.

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I guess you do.

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I dunno.

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You can complain to me.

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There we go.

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All right, well, let's jump

into our daily Bible reading.

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Deuteronomy chapters one and

two and Mark 11, one through 19.

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Deuteronomy is obviously brand new book

that we're starting here, and we are, this

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is the last bit of Moses that we're gonna

get because this is the last book in the

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Pentitude, the first five books of the

Bible sometimes called the Torah or the.

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And so Deuteronomy second law, deutero

meaning second, namas meaning law.

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So this is gonna be a lot of going back

over stuff that we've read, but in these

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first two chapters, we're not doing that.

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We're really continuing on this

preparation bent that Moses is

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on to get the people of Israel

ready to enter the promised land.

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And one of the things that he's going

to do, one of the things that I really

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appreciate that he does here besides

in, in chapter one, appointing leaders

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and making sure things are organized,

but beginning in verse one or verse

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19 of chapter one Moses is going to.

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A lot of the history of Israel, he's

going to take this generation that

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is again, the generation about to

enter the promised land and remind

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them this is where we've come from.

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This is everything God has done.

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And so as you get ready to enter the

promised land, remember these things.

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Don't forget these things.

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Remembering history is such an

important thing for all of us.

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Those that forget history as it has

been said or doomed to repeat it.

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And I think Moses is just reminding

this generation saying, don't.

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Don't be foolish like the

generations that had come before.

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But remember what God has done, trust God.

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And as you prepare to enter the

promised land know that he's the

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same God for you, that he has been

throughout this whole time from

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back in Egypt all the way through.

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Yeah, I think remembering these

things is really important and we

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need to apply that in our own lives.

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We need to, when we're facing a challenge,

when we're facing something that frightens

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us, the first thing we need to do.

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Is, remember how God

has been faithful to us?

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How is he taking care of us In the

past, you know, when there was financial

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scares in the past, he took care

of you when there was health scares

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in the past, he took care of you.

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But I would even go as far as looking

back at Deuteronomy chapter one, you know,

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when you are facing personal struggles,

look back at how the God of Israel.

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Cared for his people and how he did

these things, like bringing them out

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of Egypt and how he cared for them in

the wilderness and on and on and on.

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So even go as far back as that.

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Yeah, it's such an important point

because we so quickly forget maybe

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not intentionally, maybe not even.

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We can still say, oh, I

remember what Deutero.

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One says, but we forget to

connect the dots for ourselves.

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Mm-hmm.

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And notice how God is constantly,

actively working on our behalf.

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And one of the ways that we do

that, thankfully God has encoded

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this for us, between two covers.

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We have these nice leather bibles

in front of us where you can

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look back at what God has done.

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The problem is not that we don't

have access, the problem is

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that we just don't practice that

access and recall these things.

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If we did.

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We would certainly feel different.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that I find particularly

encouraging, speaking of that it, given

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the world stage right now and everything

that's happening with geopolitics and Iran

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and everything else it's tempting for us

to say, man, it feels somewhat chaotic.

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But I want you to look at chapter

two verses 20 and 21, because

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this stood out to me even when

I was reading it this time.

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It said this, it's also counted

as a land of em, em formally

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lived there, meaning giants.

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That's a reference to these

people that were large giants,

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similar to the Nephilim.

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But the Ammonites call them this

word that I'm not gonna try to

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butcher on, on, on site here.

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But the wicked ones is

basically what it comes down to.

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And then verse 21 A people great

and many as tall as the chem, but

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the Lord destroyed them before

the Ammonites and they dispossess

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them and settled in their place.

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Man, we don't.

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We don't know when that took place,

but it says the Lord destroyed

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them before the Ammonites.

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It that, notice that word ammonites.

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It's not Israel.

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It doesn't say the Lord

destroyed them before Israel.

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This is such a reminder to us that God is

sovereign over the affairs of the nations.

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God is orchestrating nation against

nation and everything else like that.

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He is seeing fit to do

what he sees, right?

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And so here.

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God is fighting on behalf of the Ammonites

against the Anakin, and we don't know why.

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We don't know everything

that happened here.

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We don't have all the details there, but

this is another reminder for us that God

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is intricately involved in the things of

this world that can be a comfort to you.

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As you sit here and you look at everything

unfolding in this world going, is

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anyone really in control right now?

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The answer is yes.

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God is abundantly and absolutely in

control, and even down to the individual.

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It's not just that he's corporately

in control over nations, sovereign

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sovereignly overseeing them, but also.

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Over individual lives.

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And one that I don't want us to miss

before we transition to the next

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chapter or even to the New Testament

here is in Deuteronomy one, verse 39.

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We are good to remind ourselves here

of how God deals with his people.

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Look at verse 39.

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It says, as for your little ones

who you said would become a prey,

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and your children who today have no

knowledge of good or evil, they shall

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go in there to the promised land.

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And what we see here is that God is

making a distinction between those who

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are old enough to understand and violate

his covenants versus those who don't.

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Well, we don't have an age here.

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It just says they don't have

knowledge of good and evil.

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Which to me sounds like

a pretty young person.

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It's a young age where your kids can

say, yes, this is good, this is bad.

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Then maybe the moral category of evil and

good is probably a little older than that.

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But I think here we see God

does make a distinction.

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This isn't enough to build a whole

theology off of, to say that this

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is exactly how God deals with people

in all places and at all times.

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But I do see the principle

here laid out pretty clearly.

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The consequences are for those who

knew what they were doing as evil.

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Jonah four 11 is a another verse that

supports that idea and it says this,

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and should I not pity Nineveh, that

great city in which there are more

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than 120,000 persons who do not know

their right hand from their left.

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And so that would also give evidence

to the fact that God is saying that

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youthfulness that young age where they

can't, they don't know right from left.

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For some of us, you might be sitting

there going, wait a minute, which one?

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You're making the L with your hand.

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You're going, wait, do I know mine yet?

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And so we don't, to your point, we

can't point to a specific age here,

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but it does show that God is merciful

towards those that may have more of

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an ignorance and a just ignorance over

his ways and who he is than others.

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Yeah.

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It's probably less an age for each

person, but just a moment in time

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when you become aware this is not

just disobedience to mom and dad.

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This is an evil act that I'm doing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's an important thing.

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We talk about the age of accountability,

but it's probably not the most helpful

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way to talk about that because you

can't just say, oh, it's eight.

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Right.

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It's not true.

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Some people take a lot longer to

develop and some even because of other

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reasons outside of themselves right?

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May not develop until

that age, till much later.

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Sure.

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There are physical and mental

incapacities that make this really

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hard, and so it's better to think

about this in terms of God knows, and

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there's an age and stage whereby a

person becomes accountable before God.

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It's not that they're not accountable

beforehand, it's that God makes a

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concession to that age and stage

whereby he doesn't treat them the same

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way because he's a good and just God.

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And may I suggest if you have young kids,

not to say you're looking for an age of

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accountability, but as a way of knowing

your kids and as a way of caring for them.

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Look for when they begin to express

grief, that is not directly the

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result of them getting a consequence

or them getting in trouble.

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Yeah.

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Look for that in their lives.

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When do they express

grief over these things?

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That is kind of separate from

the sequence of events that have

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happened, and I do think that's

an important developmental point.

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And I also think that's a, it's their

conscience, you know, blossoming

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or however you wanna put it, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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I think that's a helpful thing

to be looking for as a parent.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I know our reform brothers and sisters

will say, well, this is why we baptize

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our babies, because that places them under

the protection of the covenant, and that

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puts them inside God's saving purview

until that age where then they're, but

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they're in the same position that we are.

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They don't know when that age

of accountability quote unquote

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is, or when that stage is.

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They're still looking for

more of a stage than an age.

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There and here we see that God's

doing this, even with gentile nations.

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He's not doing this just with

those that are part of Israel.

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He's showing mercy to those young.

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That are part of pagan nations,

even with Nineveh in the mm-hmm.

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The Book of Jonah.

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So, to stretch it, to say, well,

that's what infant baptism does.

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It brings the child into the covenant.

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I know a lot of times I believe there's

a passage in First Corinthians, second

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Corinthians, maybe where they points you

to, to compare baptism and circumcision.

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I I don't see the connection there.

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I think God is fair and just towards those

that don't have that ability to know.

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And I think we see that testified to

here in the Old Testament with Israel,

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but also with the Ninevites as well.

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Yeah.

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And just going back to what

we read, right, they have no

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knowledge of good and evil.

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Yeah.

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I think that's helpful.

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Yeah.

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All right, let's jump over to

New Testament to Mark chapter 11.

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And we get to deal with the Triumphal

entry, triumphal entry, which is

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a familiar text to us, one that

we're tempted to read and just

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think, okay, we've read this before.

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We know what happens.

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We read it in Matthew when we

were in Matthew earlier this year.

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And so we find it again

here in Mark's gospel.

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One of the helpful.

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Things that Mark points out

though is the passage of time.

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And so if you look on down towards

verse 11, he entered Jerusalem.

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So this is after the entry,

this is after the palm branches.

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This is after the Hosanna.

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Blessed is he who comes

in the name of the Lord.

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Jesus enters Jerusalem and he

went into the temple and it says

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there, when he looked around at

everything as it was already late,

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he went out to Bethany with the 12.

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I can't remember if it's Matthew's

Gospel or perhaps one of the other

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gospels that don't record this passage

of the night between the arrival

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and the cleansing of the temple.

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But Jesus is intentional Here.

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It, we mark records for us and tells

us Jesus went into the temple, which

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is what he's about to go and cleanse,

which is the rest of our text here

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that we're reading today, he enters on.

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At night after the triumphal entry, and

he looks around and he sees the money

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changers, he sees what's taking place.

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He understands the scene.

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Not that he didn't understand the scene

as God, but then he goes home and he's

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gonna come back the next day, and that's

when he is gonna cleanse the temple.

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And so Mark gives us some added detail

here that's helpful for us in the

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timeline of what's taking place during

this passion week, from the time

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that Jesus enters to the time that

his crucifixion is gonna take place.

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I think it's important to see here

that you have another sandwiching

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event that Mark is creating for us.

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Jesus cursing the fig tree on Monday

in verses 12 and through 14, and then

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that next section in verses 20 through

25, he explains what the lesson is.

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Well in between those two pieces of bread.

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You have Jesus cleansing the temple, and

so it seems as though Jesus is equating

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the fig tree with the temple at Jerusalem.

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Yeah.

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The temple showcasing little to

no fruit and therefore mm-hmm.

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It is under Jesus' judgment.

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And so you see a really beautiful, and

I think this is partly why he separates

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this, because he's trying to create some.

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Clarity about what this

fig tree represents?

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Yeah.

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I just have to point out, going back a

little bit, but I just have to point out

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that I, I don't think people here are

confused about what's happening here.

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This isn't just some random celebration.

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This isn't just the people suddenly

being like, oh, this guy, this guy is.

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Worthy of all this celebration and of

all this festivities, I think they're

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very much looking at this in light

of what Solomon did as he entered

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and took his throne in First Kings.

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And I think they're seeing

correlations between these two things.

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Even the very fact that he's on a donkey.

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So I just wanna point that out

because there was a point in my

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life where I just thought this.

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Kind of seemed random.

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It kind of seemed like the celebration

was kind of picked at random.

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But it very much is not.

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Yeah.

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The Old Testament of course, Zacharia too.

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And Zacharia prophesize and says,

behold, your king is coming to

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you lowly and mounted on a donkey.

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Jesus in, I think we talked about

this back in, in the Matthews account

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too, Jesus is no longer shying away

from his designation as the Messiah.

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He's stepping into it fully and

understands that and what he's

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doing here is he's signaling,

he is the messianic king.

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And yet in the divine twist that God

has, he's not the king that they expect.

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Mm-hmm.

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He's not going to be the type of

deliverer that they're looking for.

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At least not yet.

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He will be, but not yet.

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And that goes back to again,

why he's cleansing the temple.

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He's saying you guys have missed the

point on so much of what's happening here.

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This is a broken system, and

the way it's working is not

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the way it's intended to work.

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I'm here to be the fulfillment of

all of these things, the fulfillment

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of the temple, the fulfillment of

the sacrifice, everything else.

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And yet it's gonna look different

than what you expect it to

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look even for the disciples.

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We know that from Luke's Gospel, not

to get too far ahead, but they were

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crushed after the death of Jesus.

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They didn't get it.

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And they didn't understand, and they did

eventually, but he's not shying away.

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He's saying, I'm here.

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I'm the Messiah.

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I'm the king.

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Yes.

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Cry out Hosanna.

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Blessed is he who comes

in the name of the Lord.

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Compare that to earlier in Mark's the

gospel where he had over and over and

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over and over and over again, said,

don't tell anybody what you've seen.

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Don't tell anybody

what's taking place here.

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Jesus isn't shy away.

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Now he's here to be that

king in that Messiah.

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All right, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Lord, thanks for the richness and the

depth of your word that every time

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we come to it, we can learn something

new about who you are, that we can

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appreciate something different.

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Lord, even as we were talking about

earlier in this episode, that we can be

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comforted by going back and remembering

who you are and who you were with Israel

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as the same God that you are today.

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Even though you operate differently

through the, our relationship with

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you and the church, you are still by

character and who you are the same God,

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and we can trust you in the same way.

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So, uh, pray that you would.

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Make our faith robust in you that we

wouldn't be paralyzed with anxiety

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about anything, be it elections or the

war going on or anything else, but that

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we would trust in who you are, in your

goodness and your character, and seek

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to be faithful to you through it all.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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We'll keep reading those bibles and

tune in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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