00:00 Hello!
00:04 Discussing the Psalms and Future Plans
00:34 Teaching Repentance to Children
11:39 Balancing God’s Glory and Our Good
13:18 Psalm 107: Deliverance and Gratitude
17:18 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer
18:02 Outro and Podcast Information
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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.
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:It's a little bit more robust today.
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:We've got two Psalms, not just one Psalm.
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:I dunno if we're gonna finish.
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:I know too many just buckle up.
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:'cause in a couple days we've
got like 10 Psalms in one day.
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:Why do they do this to us?
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:I don't know.
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:We will never.
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:Understand, never, ever, and as long
as we keep doing this plan, which
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:is I think the plan for now-ish.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Maybe we'll switch, maybe in August.
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:We'll just do a new plan.
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:We'll make a call just midstream.
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:Just be like, we're not
gonna do this one anymore.
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:I used to do that, but
my by boarding plans.
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:I'm bored of this one.
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:I'm gonna go to do a new one.
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:Jump around.
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:Yeah, jump around.
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:Like, how's the jump around?
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:Yeah.
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:Hey, I got a question for us.
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:It actually was brought to
mind because I saw our kids at
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:Compass Post on social media.
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:On our ex account, there
we're about to get shot at.
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:No, it says this weekend your
kids will learn about repentance.
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:When Israel returned from
exile, they discovered they
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:were still struggling with sin.
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:They needed new hearts to
truly turn from their sin.
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:Your kids are gonna learn
that true repentance also
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:requires a new heart from God.
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:So there's a lot here.
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:But I guess my thought is
man, how do we avoid raising
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:little legalists in our church?
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:Because we're teaching them all of these
things about godliness and holiness, which
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:is all good and right and proper, and we
should and that, and we wanna do that.
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:That's why we're doing this.
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:But we're teaching the doctrine
of repentance to a bunch of
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:kids who, most of whom, if not.
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:All of them, but most of whom,
we'll, we will leave room there,
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:most of whom can't truly repent.
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:And so how do we, what's our
thought process behind that?
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:I think it's probably helpful
for us to, to revisit that.
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:What's our thought process
behind teaching kids doctrines?
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:Like repentance when they're at an
age where they can't truly repent?
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:What do you mean about can't truly repent?
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:Explain that before we answer that.
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:The repentance of second.
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:Second.
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:Corinthians seven the
Godly repentance, right?
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:Feeling a God godly sorrow that
leads to repentance versus a
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:worldly sorrow that produces regret.
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:I think our children, before they're
saved, before they're regenerate, they
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:know the worldly sorrow of getting busted
by mom and dad or getting in trouble at
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:school or whatever it is that leads to a
sorrow that they're willing to say, I'm
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:sorry that I did this, but the true godly
sorrow of having sinned and that sin is.
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:Ultimately an offense against God.
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:And so I want to clear my conscience.
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:I want to separate myself from
this, you know that's not possible
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:for somebody who is unregenerate.
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:It seems like we are calling
these kids to, to do something
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:that they're not able to do.
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:Now, granted we're not telling them you
have to go and repent now, but we're
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:teaching them about something and holding
this up and saying, this is what's good,
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:repentance is good, and yet at the end
of the day, they're not able to do that.
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:And so how do we make sure that we
as parents and as a church, are not
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:producing an army of little legalists
as we're calling them to godliness
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:and holiness that really they're
not able to replicate and produce.
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:Yeah, I guess my quick answer,
and I definitely wanna hear
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:what you have to say about this.
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:My, my quick.
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:And dirty answer from the hip here
is that we can't be responsible for
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:what their hearts can or can't do.
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:We can be responsible for putting
before them what is true, what
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:is right, and what is good.
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:And so we entrust that God can light the
logs of our faithfulness at some point in
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:the future, and that's what we're doing.
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:We're putting the wood, stacking the
wood, as it were into the fireplace,
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:trusting that God will sump.
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:At some point, light the fuse
and cause the whole thing to
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:be a blaze with love for God.
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:And all the training and all the teaching
that we put into the fireplace up until
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:that point will serve its ultimate and
noble purposes in helping our young
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:people truly understand what's happening
and what's happened to them through the
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:process of regeneration and how to direct
their hearts to God and repentant faith.
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:So I think that's our ultimate posture.
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:We're humbly entrusting our kids to God.
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:We can't guarantee it.
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:We're talking about the birth
rate on the last one last episode.
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:And even then we're assuming
that a kid born in a Christian
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:household is probably gonna make
a Christian profession of faith.
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:Maybe we hope for that.
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:We want that.
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:But unlike Islam, there's no guarantee.
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:Just because you're born into a
certain family doesn't mean that
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:you're gonna become a child of God.
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:But we do pray for that.
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:We do pursue that.
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:We stack the logs and trust
that God will like the flame.
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:That's our ultimate hope.
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:And we entrust God with
the entire process of that.
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:What would you say?
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:Yeah I agree with what
you're saying there.
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:And we do this because it's, it, in part
we have to ask what's the alternative?
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:Do we just entertain these kids while
their parents are over in church and we
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:say, when you get to be a certain age,
then you can learn about these things.
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:At some point we're gonna have to say no.
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:We're gonna start teaching them biblical
concepts and in scriptural ideas and
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:ideas that are connected with the gospel
because they need to know these things.
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:And these are the, this is the
seed that's sown on the path.
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:And yes, God is the one that's gonna.
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:Cause the growth and we're
praying that some of the seed
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:falls on the fertile soil.
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:But we have to sow the seed.
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:We can't just hands off go we will let
you come to that realization on your own.
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:Or, don't worry about being sorry for sin.
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:Because you can't truly repent.
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:We, we, this is a good
thing to call them to.
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:This obedience and this obedience
sorrow and and holiness and godliness.
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:Because ultimately someday we want
them to come to faith in Christ.
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:And I think we've said it before in
different contexts, but there is,
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:and this is not the most comfortable
thought to think about, but
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:there's, even for those that never.
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:Will come to faith in Christ.
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:It's good for us to teach them godliness
and holiness at this age because it's
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:going to keep them from some of the
wrath and judgment that they might
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:otherwise inco incur because hell is a
place of judgment that is, is graded.
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:Not all judgment is equal in hell.
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:And so even the fact that we are raising
our children to be upstanding citizens,
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:even if and we pray and plead and beg that
God will save all of our kids, but even
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:if that, for those that, that maybe he.
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:Doesn't them being raised in the
church hopefully to grow up following
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:biblical morals and principles is going
to help them in the long run in, in,
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:in the sense of eternal damnation.
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:Which again, not a comfortable thought.
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:None of us want to entertain that
thought, but that is still something
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:that, that is there that weighs on the
side of why we do what we do as well.
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:Yeah.
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:Every family, every.
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:I don't know.
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:Every societal institution is
undergoing the process of discipling
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:their kids to think and believe
and behave in a certain way.
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:The Christian Church is not unique.
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:We've just been doing it for so long
that we have catechisms and we have
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:processes where we do this on purpose.
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:In fact the word indoctrination, if you
take out the negative connotation is a.
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:Is a word that all of us do.
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:We all indoctrinate, we're all
teaching our kids how to think.
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:Liberals and people that are vehemently
opposed to what we teach are doing
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:the same thing for their kids.
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:They're indoctrinating them with the
thoughts of, Hey, if you feel like you're
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:this gender versus that gender, great.
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:And then they'll support that with all
sorts of things that help reaffirm their
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:decision to walk in their footsteps.
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:We do the same thing.
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:We're unashamed about it, we're
clear about it, and we're trying
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:to do it in a way that we think
this is what God's word says.
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:And so I'm gonna be faithful
to deliver to the truth.
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:And what you do with the truth
ultimately is your decision.
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:And again, we're stacking the, we're
planting the seed, we're stacking the
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:wood, and we're trusting that God's
gonna do something great with it, and
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:we're gonna peripherally pursue that.
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:But to let them or to
operate under the guise.
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:The ideology that, oh, they're gonna make
their own decisions is patently false?
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:Yeah.
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:You're teaching, everyone's being
taught, everyone's being discipled.
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:The question is, what
are we discipling with?
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:Yeah.
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:And ultimately we're using our Bible.
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:Yep.
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:Yeah.
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:Great.
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:So hopefully that encourages you
parents out there, that's the
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:environment that your kids are
stepping into in our kids' ministry.
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:We do take it seriously.
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:I know Mark takes it seriously as he
leads that ministry and we're grateful
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:for his leadership on that front too.
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:That's right.
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:Hey, let's you jump in today.
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:Psalm 1 0 6, 1 0 7.
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:1 0 6 is an honest look at the history
of Israel and the psalmist does not wear
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:any rose colored glasses as he looks back
over his people's past and recounts all
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:the times they sinned against the Lord.
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:So he could have gone back and
said, here's this high point and
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:this high point and this high
point, and look how great we are.
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:And we did this, and then we repented and
look how awesome we are here and there.
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:But instead, man, he goes through
and here's all of our warts.
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:This is all the times that we failed,
and this is all the times that man,
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:God was ready to be done with us.
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:And yet his kindness,
his grace, his mercy.
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:And so he balances this in this chapter
with a focus on yes, the punishment
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:for their sins, but ultimately that
the Lord shows his abundant mercy and
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:grace by not completely wiping them out.
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:And so the history of Israel given
here in Psalm oh six is so good.
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:And that's an area that I think.
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:And I was just commenting on this today
with you and I and Mark and Lewis.
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:I'm reading this book on the development
of the doctrine of the Trinity, and
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:what struck me in reading this is it's,
fourth century ad the heavy hitters
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:are still trying to figure out how do
we understand the trinity, how do we
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:explain this and what we take for granted.
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:E even though admittedly today, it's
still a very difficult doctrine, it's
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:not something that we anybody can clearly
explain to us, and yet we understand
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:one God, three persons to get to
that place of one God, three persons.
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:Took 400 years, 300 years post Christ to
really crystallize some of this ideology.
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:And, some of the heresies that are
out there, albeit yes, are dead wrong
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:and heretical like modalism, that God
is sometimes the father, sometimes
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:the son, sometimes the spirit.
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:That emerged I think honestly
outta somebody that was
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:trying to understand how God.
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:Shows up in scripture and how we're
to understand these three people the
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:father, the son, and the Holy Spirit.
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:How does all this work together?
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:So all that same, and it just got
me thinking about church history and
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:how grateful I am for the people that
went before us that wrestled hard with
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:these things so that we can now study
doctrines like the Trinity without having
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:to go maybe we should be Mo Modalist.
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:Or maybe, s was right.
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:Maybe, 'cause his arguments,
he's just trying to rap as a.
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:Mind around this.
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:We should be thankful for our past, but
also I think there's something, Allah,
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:Psalm 1 0 6, to learn from the errors of
the past in the church and to say, okay,
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:we wanna avoid some of these things too,
so that we can make sure that we are
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:being the church that God wants us to be.
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:That's exactly right.
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:The errors of the past are often called
heresies, and that's what we learn from.
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:Yeah.
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:We still use some of the names today
to define the errors that are to be
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:avoided and sometimes we, we fail to
explain why heresies are heretical.
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:A heretical idea or understanding
about God or the word emerges
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:from someone who probably is
sincere as you just brought up.
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:There's a book that I read about that,
just about, maybe about a year ago,
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:two years ago at this point by David
Alister McAllister called Heresy Uhhuh.
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:I forget if it's Alister
McAllister, one of those two.
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:He talks exactly about this
and that people don't often
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:understand what the word means.
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:But today, when we understand the word
heresy, it means something that is so
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:aberrant and so different from what is.
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:Understood in the text that it does
violence to the very foundations
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:of our understanding of God, the
gospel, salvation, things like that.
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:So when you're talking about heresy, we're
talking about something that's really
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:bad and really destructive to our faith,
which is why we are so opposed to them.
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:What's really interesting is that.
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:The church, to your point, pastor PJ has
done so much where we're:
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:Yeah.
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:Our church is 2000 years old.
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:Our roots go all the way back to
the very beginning with the apostles
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:and with the early disciples.
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:And so we've had 2000 years to hammer
out some of these really difficult
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:issues and we now have textbooks
called systematic theologies where you
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:can read a really well put together
concise, consistent doctrine of the
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:church and doctrine of last things.
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:And I, we just, we read
it like, oh, this is nice.
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:Yeah.
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:We don't realize it's taken us.
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:Years of hammering it out, people
thinking it over, studying their Bibles,
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:accessing the languages, and putting
languages together to give us these rich
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:resources that we now can just pull up
on our phone, in the middle of a day.
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:And you say, okay, lemme just
read about the atonement.
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:Yeah.
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:No big deal.
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:We have such an embarrassment of riches.
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:It is not even funny.
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:It is wonderful.
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:And we would do well to take it
full advantage of all the resources
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:that we have at our fingertips.
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:Yeah.
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:Psalm 1 0 6.
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:A good representation example of
remembering the past in a way to
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:benefit the future generations,
our present generations.
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:One quick word about Psalm 1
0 6, I didn't realize we're.
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:Moving on.
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:Okay.
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:Psalm 1 0 6.
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:I wanna point to you two verses that
go together that are super cool to see.
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:Okay.
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:You ready for this?
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:I heard you say yes.
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:Good.
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:Psalm 1 0 6 verse eight.
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:Yet he saved them for his namesake that
he might make known his mighty power.
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:This is something that all Christians
are super comfortable with.
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:Christians like us anyway.
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:We believe God does all things for
his glory, his honor, his power,
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:et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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:It's for his power to be displayed.
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:Fantastic.
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:Okay.
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:Scoot on over on your
page to Psalm 1 0 6, 45.
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:For their sake, he remembered his
covenant and relented according to
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:the abundance of a steadfast love.
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:So who's it for?
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:Is it their sake or his sake?
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:Yes.
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:Yes.
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:This is one of those questions
that have two answers.
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:It's for both.
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:God is.
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:Passionate and zealous for his glory.
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:But don't make the mistake of thinking
that he doesn't care about you.
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:He does what he does for your sake,
even though it is for his sake.
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:It's also for your sake.
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:What's good for God's glory is
good for your good and you ought
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:to be comfortable with that.
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:This is such a cool thought.
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:I hope you circle those, connect
those two thoughts together.
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:'cause this is one of those cool places in
scripture where it's in the same chapter.
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:His sake and their sake.
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:They're not mutually exclusive.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:That, yeah.
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:That's what's so amazing and.
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:We used to tell our college students
all the time the gospel's not about you.
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:You're not the hero.
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:The this life is not about you.
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:And yet we get to benefit from the gospel.
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:We get the, to be the
recipients of the love of God.
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:We get to, to enjoy heaven
and eternity with God.
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:And ultimately it's still
even in that not about us.
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:It's about the exaltation of Christ.
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:But we are brought into that
in the, at the same time to, to
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:be able to enjoy those things.
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:It's a gracious, loving,
merciful God in that sense.
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:For sure.
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:Yeah.
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:He brings us into it in a really.
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:Powerful real way.
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:We're, we share his glory.
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:That's, that almost feels wrong to say.
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:But we will share in the glory of God.
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:Even though he's the one
who gets the ultimate glory.
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:That's fascinating to think
about all these things.
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:Being co-heirs with Christ.
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:Correct.
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:Crazy.
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:Yeah.
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:Alright.
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:Psalm 1 0 7.
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:Psalm 1 0 7 is about deliverance.
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:And this Psalm counts all the times.
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:The Lord had spared his people
and and was faithful to them in
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:spite of their circumstances.
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:And so the re repeated refrains
here to note are the words.
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:Then they cried to the Lord in
their trouble and he delivered
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:them from their distress.
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:And then following that, just a few
verses later, each time is this.
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:And let them thank the Lord for his
steadfast love, for his wondrous
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:works to the children of man.
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:So those two things,
they cried, he delivered.
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:And then the response is, let
them be thankful for that.
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:And I think that's such a good reminder
for us to be a grateful people, a thankful
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:people for our salvation in Christ.
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:Never to get over that, never
to treat it as common or banal.
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:That man, God saved me for
my sins and I'm justified.
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:I'm forgiven.
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:I've got a future with Christ.
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:But to always be.
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:Find reason, at least there to start
to give him thanks and praise for
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:what he's done for us eternally.
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:And Israel, again different
circumstance, different situation there.
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:They didn't know salvation the
way that you and I know salvation.
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:So how much more should we be
grateful and thankful people
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:because of what God has done for us?
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:Amen to that.
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:And I, I couldn't.
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:Help but wonder if verse 29 was in the
minds of the apostles the disciples.
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:At that point when Jesus is
walking on the waves and when he
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:says, oh yeah, cease be still.
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:Verse 29 says, he made the storm be still
and the waves of the sea were hushed.
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:I think this was their experience,
and I don't know if they
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:thought about this passage.
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:Maybe they did.
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:I was assume so.
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:Yeah.
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:But when Jesus does what he does and he
says, peace be still to the waves and
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:everything suddenly becomes dead silent.
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:Yeah.
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:I could understand why they would
be terrified because here it's e
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:evident, they cried to the Lord capital
LORD, Yahweh in their trouble and he
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:delivered them from their distress.
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:He made the storm be still, Yahweh
alone possesses the ability to do what
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:Jesus does, and therefore their only
conclusion is this is more than a man.
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:Yeah.
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:I don't know if they're
able to say, this is Yahweh.
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:I.
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:But they could say,
this is not a mere man.
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:Yeah.
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:In fact, even verse 30, they were
glad that the waters were quiet and he
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:brought them to their desired haven.
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:Yep.
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:There, there's accounts in the
gospels where he calms the storm
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:and then immediately they're
Okay, how did we get here?
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:Teleportation.
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:And that's why they say, who is this?
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:That calms the, I agree
with you a hundred percent.
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:I think that would've been there.
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:In fact, I was listening to something
earlier that the Jewish youth.
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:At this time would've had the
Torah memorized, but also much
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:of the Old Testament memorized.
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:And so the, it's likely, if not very
likely, that the disciples in the boat
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:had Psalm one of 7 29 in their memory
banks, and they were ready to pull it out.
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:And so when they see this happen,
they're like, wait a minute.
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:I know that I've seen this somewhere.
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:Where did I see this before?
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:Oh, yeah, Psalm 1 0 7.
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:Now, they wouldn't have known the chapter,
but they would've said I we've read about
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:this in David Psalms, we know about this.
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:Yeah.
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:That's so interesting to think about.
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:We read stuff like this all the time and
I don't think we appreciate because we
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:are so familiar with it what it would
be like to be in that situation Totally.
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:To have God the father appear out of
a cloud and say, this is my beloved
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:son with whom I'm well pleased.
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:Or to have Jesus say peace
be still to the stormy.
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:Yesterday we had a pretty gnarly storm.
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:Yep.
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:I mean it wasn't super cra it
was crazy for a few minutes.
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:And we had some clouds that were
circling above our neighborhood.
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:But I just imagine Jesus goes outside.
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:He is like, Hey, stop.
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:And everything subtly just, yeah.
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:That would be so surreal.
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:It would be And terrifying.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah, because it, the, it says in the
text there that the waves were stilled.
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:It's not like they.
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:Gradually petered out and yeah,
the boats slowly stopped rocking.
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:It was just boom, placid, calm water.
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:Yeah.
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:With no, no movement there.
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:That would blow your mind.
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:Oh, totally.
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:Would.
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:You'd be terrified.
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:Yeah.
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:You do what?
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:Every other person in the scripture
who encounters the holiness
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:of God, you do what they do.
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:You fall down.
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:Yeah.
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:And say who is this?
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:I'm terrified.
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:I'm gonna die.
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:Yeah.
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:And you have every reason to believe
that unless you're in Christ.
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:Yeah.
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:Benjamin Franklin, I believe it was
used to do experiments with oil on
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:how to calm waves and stormy seas.
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:Oh.
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:And so he would use oil that would go out
and it would end up suppressing the waves.
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:I don't know all the signs behind it,
but he was doing experiments on how
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:you could use oil to calm the waters.
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:Oh.
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:But I don't think he ever
calmed the entire sea.
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:Probably not.
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:Yeah.
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:That's pretty cool though.
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:Hey, let's let's pray and then
we'll be done with this episode.
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:God, we are grateful for Christ.
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:We're thankful for just the joy
that we have in knowing him.
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:The joy that we have in knowing the
God who calms the sea and the storms.
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:And we're thankful to be
able to make connections like
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:that backs to Psalm 1 0 7.
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:That's not something that would come
naturally to us, but we're grateful
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:that your word is so cohesive, so
unified, that the story is one story.
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:Coursing throughout the entirety of the
Old Testament and the New Testament.
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:So help us to grow in our understanding
of that and our appreciation of
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:that as well as in our understanding
and appreciation of Christ.
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:We're grateful for the deliverance
that we do have in Christ because
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:of his death on the cross for
our sins and his resurrection
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:that we just celebrated recently.
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:So we thank you for all
this in Jesus' name, amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep reading your Bibles, tuning
again tomorrow for another edition
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:of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:See you.
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:Bye.
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:you against tomorrow for another
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:Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said