00:00 Introduction and Listener's Question

00:27 Is Trusting in Money Wrong?

01:00 Biblical Wisdom on Financial Preparedness

02:04 Trusting God in Difficult Times

04:46 Exodus: Consecration of the Firstborn

06:19 Remembering God's Deliverance

10:06 God's Guidance and the Red Sea

13:46 Faith in Action

14:42 Moses' Song of Praise

15:47 Discussing Worship Songs

16:14 Singing at Work

17:42 The Power of Jingles

18:39 Biblical Lessons from Exodus

21:12 Jesus on Marriage and Divorce

24:19 Welcoming Children

25:48 Concluding Prayer and Farewell

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Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Good morning, and we have

a question to answer today.

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It's been a few days since we had

a listener submitted question.

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This one comes from Matt who wants

to know, suppose a husband says

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to his wife, I'm so worried about

what would happen if I lost my job.

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His wife replies, don't worry.

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That's exactly why we

have an emergency fund.

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We have six months

living expenses saved up.

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So you have plenty of time to find a

new job if something like that happens.

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So his question is this, is this

line of thinking wrongheaded or

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even sinful by trusting in money

rather than trusting in God?

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If so, what might be a

right response to the wife?

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If not, what does it look

like to trust in money?

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That's a good question.

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Yeah I don't think it's

wrong to have trust in money.

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Yeah.

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To trust in me.

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No, I don't think it's wrong to

have a nest egg or a safety net.

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An amount of money saved up so that if

something happens you do have that kind

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of safety net to be able to continue to

maintain your living expenses and things

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like that while you do look for a new job.

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I don't think that that is trusting in

money so much as that is being wise.

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The writer of proverb, Solomon

commends the ant for working

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hard and preparing for.

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The winter in preparing

for tougher times ahead.

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And so as Christians, there's a wise

stewardship that looks like saving as

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well as also trusting that the Lord

is the one that gives and takes away.

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And so our trust in money is such

that we need to say, okay, the Lord

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has provided these things so that.

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Yeah.

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If I lose my job, we can maintain

and stay on our feet for a few

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months while I look for another job.

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We look at that and we

say, this is from the Lord.

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Just as much as your paycheck every

single week that you get it, or

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two weeks or whenever you get your

paycheck, is also from the Lord.

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What looks like trusting in it is saying,

we're good by ourselves, we're fine.

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We can.

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Pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

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We don't need help from anybody.

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We're self-sufficient.

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Look at us.

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We saved all this money.

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We made the right investment decisions.

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We're good because we've got

our living expenses nailed down.

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That's where we get into the idolatry.

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That's where we're trusting not

in the Lord to provide anymore.

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We're trusting in ourselves to provide.

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So I think if in a situation

like this, you look at that.

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Six months of living expenses and you

would say, God, thank you for providing

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this for us because it's need needed

for such a time as this for us to

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be able to continue to operate while

we look for or I look for a new job.

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So I don't think it's wrong to have that

and to use it as your time would see fit.

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I don't think so either.

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I wonder if his question is more.

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About her response saying, well, we

got six months of emergency fund.

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And I guess if love believes all

things and hopes all things, first

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Corinthians 13, I'm gonna assume the best.

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This is a Christian

wife, Christian husband.

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They're both living for the Lord.

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This is their desire.

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I think in a casual

vernacular you could say.

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It and intend not to say, because our

trust is only in the riches that God

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has provided and instead communicate.

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God has taken care of us.

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We have six months like he's

taking, we're gonna be fine.

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God has taken care of us.

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We've been prudent.

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We've taken wise precautions against the

potential storms of life like many people

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are doing right now in preparation for the

winter event that we just went through.

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I don't think there's anything

inherently wrong with that.

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And I don't even think there's anything

inherently wrong with saying what you say,

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as long as what your heart knows to be

true is not, we're trusting in the money.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I think that's really what

your question is getting at Matt.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's a similar, in my mind, a,

a similar quandary of saying.

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I just got diagnosed with

pancreatic cancer, but praise

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God, the best pancreatic cancer

surgeon is in the heart of Dallas.

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He's right here in my backyard.

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Thank God for that.

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That's awesome.

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It might sound to the non

discerning listener that I'm

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really thankful for the surgeon.

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That I'm putting all my eggs in the basket

of this surgeon's gonna save my life.

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, that's not the case.

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It really is.

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Thank God that we have that provision.

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Thank God that he supplied this

person in my neck of the woods.

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What a great providence.

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It's knowing where the heart is and

that's the harder thing to discern

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with the, with that kind of answer.

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But if out of the overflow of

the heart, the mouth speaks,

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then you would say, well, what's

your hope in though, sweetheart?

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Yeah.

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Is your hope in the money

or is your hope in the Lord?

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And that might warrant a conversation

between you and your bride during

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the next date night, perhaps

as you talk over your finances.

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But nothing inherently wrong with saying

that as long as your heart is in the right

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place, the Lord's the one who provides,

I'm gonna trust him and I'm gonna save.

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I'm gonna trust him, and I'm gonna

go see the pancreatic doctor.

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I'm gonna trust him.

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And I'm gonna buy water to hold

us down during the winter storm.

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Yeah, no, you're right.

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I think your perception is right on,

on his angle on this question too.

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And so maybe the wife.

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The better response is, you know what?

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Our trust is ultimately in the

Lord, and we can be thankful

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to him that he's provided this

living expenses for us to have.

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So, I'm not concerned, I'm not worried,

I'm not anxious about these things.

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You're right.

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That's that's probably the angle that

he was after, which makes more sense.

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So thanks for writing in the question.

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Matt, my questions as always, Matt.

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Hopefully you and Hannah and

Robert Robbie are doing well.

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All right, well, let's jump

into our DVR for today.

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We are in Exodus chapter 13, 14, and 15.

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Chapter 13 is gonna deal with something

that is unique to us because we don't.

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Do this the same way.

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And that is the consecration

of the first point.

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The word consecration

means to be set apart.

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To be consecrated is to be set apart

as useful to the Lord or for the Lord.

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And in part what was to happen was the

first point of all the animals were

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to be set apart or given to the Lord.

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And that seems to be an, a

sacrifice of those animals.

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And yet the first born

of man, if you jump down.

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To the bottom of my page, I dunno

where it is on your Bible, but verse

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13, he says, every first born of man

among your sons, you shall redeem.

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So there was something that could be

offered in place of the firstborn son

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that the Lord would take your, essentially

purchasing back your firstborn son.

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And this is going to be another

reminder of what's just happened of

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the exodus that's gonna be perpetual.

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It's gonna exist

throughout all generations.

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It's gonna be a reminder that by a

strong hand, the Lord brought us out

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of Egypt from the house of slavery.

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In fact, four times there

in Exodus chapter 13, God

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repeats that by a strong hand.

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The Lord brought us out of Egypt.

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We see that theme over

and over and over again.

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And so the consecration of the firstborn.

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Just like having that Passover meal

and the other elements, the feast of

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unleavened bread and everything else

that will get to later, all of that

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was meant to point back to this event

because of its massive significance.

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And so in chapter 13, the consecration

of the firstborn was meant to remind them

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every time they had to sacrifice that

firstborn lamb, every time they had to

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sacrifice that firstborn from the cattle.

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This is God reminding them of

the exodus and even every time

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they offered a lamb in place of.

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Their son or an animal

in place of their son.

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This is a reminder of the exodus.

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And that's so fascinating too, because

you'd have to say how could they forget?

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Look at verse three again.

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Moses said to the people, remember this

day in which you came out from Egypt?

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How is it possible that they could forget

such an incredible, spectacular event?

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I think we fall prey to

it as Christians today.

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I think there, there are times that we

take for granted our standing before

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the Lord, and there's times that we go

through the motions of our lives and yet

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there's those opportunities for us to

remember the cross, to remember the death

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of Jesus for us and the resurrection.

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And all of a sudden we're brought

back face to face with that

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reality that, oh yeah, I was.

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Depraved, I was a wretch.

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I was separated from

God and I needed Jesus.

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And so I think we by nature are

prone to, distance doesn't make

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the heart grow fonder when it

comes to remembering things.

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I think distance makes things grow fainter

as far as our affections are concerned.

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The further away we get from the original

event that the less likely we are

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to appreciate it to the same degree.

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That is so true.

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I think of Hebrews chapter two where he,

after talking about who Jesus is and how

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Jesus is superior than the angels, he

says, therefore, we must pay much closer

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attention to what we have heard less.

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We drift away from it.

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Mm-hmm.

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Drifting is the default for us.

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Mm-hmm.

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And this.

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Why it's so surprising to read it

here in chapter 13 of Exodus Moses

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is saying, you, you're gonna forget.

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You're just gonna be tempted

to forget what just happened.

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So you have to remember, this tells all of

us that we have to practice active recall.

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Passive recall is good.

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Read your Bible every day, but actively

recalling it and reminding yourself what

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God has done for you is gonna be critical.

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Because if Israel could forget

it, who just experienced these

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visible manifestations of the

incredible SA salvation of God, then

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certainly we could do the same and

we have a far greater salvation.

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Hebrews is gonna tell us we have

a much more superior salvation

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that needs to be remembered less.

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We drift away from that.

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So we have to be careful not to forget.

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We have to actively recall.

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I also wanna point out to you

another principle that carries over

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into the New Testament, and that's

the principle of the first fruits.

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It's not the first fruits here,

it's actually your firstborn, right?

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But that just goes to show you that

God is, Lord over all of your best.

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Your firstborn son or your firstborn

is precious to you for obvious reasons.

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And yet God says that's mine.

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You don't.

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You don't enjoy the privilege.

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No one could enjoy the privilege of

the firstborn except for the Lord, and

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I think that's an important feature

for us to understand about our God.

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It's not extravagant to give

God your first and your best.

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It's normative when Jesus honors.

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The woman who pours the expensive nard

on his feeds and then washes his feet

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with her hair, one of the disciples,

and probably all of them, followed

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Judas lead and said, why this waste?

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This could have been used to,

feed the poor and do provide all

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of these social justice concerns.

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And Jesus says she's done a good thing.

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This is a good thing.

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Mm-hmm.

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In other words, this is appropriate.

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Mm-hmm.

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She just wasted a year's

worth of money on my feet.

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This is worth it.

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She anointed my body for its burial.

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This is totally worth it.

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You can't out sacrifice God.

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Yeah.

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You're gonna give your first and

your best, but Jesus was also given

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who is God's first and his best.

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Mm-hmm.

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For us.

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And so just notice here.

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Your first and your best is acceptable.

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It's appropriate and it's because God's

gonna go above and beyond and outgive you.

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He always does.

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Yeah.

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I don't think anyone gets to heaven

insist there and is like, God, I wish I

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had not given as much to you as I did.

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Totally.

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I think there's a lot of

people that probably say,

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God, I wish I had given more.

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I wish more.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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It's those, again, those faithful

saints that you know, brother John

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and Sister Jane who is, everyone's

wondering, how are they so glorious?

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Right?

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Who are they?

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Right.

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It's like, well, brother John, whatever

he did, you know, I don't even know.

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Right.

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I'm just excited about the prospect

of seeing that happen and man,

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I want a seat at that table.

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Yeah.

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Aiming for that.

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Yep.

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End of chapter 13.

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It's interesting because we get these

two visible elements that are going to

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confirm that God is the leading that

Israelites and it's gonna be this.

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Pillar of cloud and this fire.

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And why it's interesting to me is

because what happens right after this?

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So we're introduced to the pillar of cloud

in fire here, that God is leading by.

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And then the very next chapter, he is

going to lead them into a spot that

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seems impossible for them to escape from.

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He's gonna lead them up against

the Red Sea with Pharaoh's

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army closing in from behind.

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Now, where did Pharaoh's army come from?

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Well, it says in verse eight, the

Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh,

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the king of Egypt, and he got up

and he pursued the Israelites.

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And so the Lord again is.

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Ill after Pharaoh and

getting glory over Pharaoh.

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It's not enough that he

just took out the firstborn.

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It's not enough that he

just let his people out from

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amidst the Egyptian slavery.

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He wants more than this.

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And so Pharaoh's heart being heartened

by the Lord is gonna chase the Israelites

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down and God leads them into a situation

where they can't deliver themselves.

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God's not done showing Israel.

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I'm the one that's freeing you.

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I'm the one that's saving you.

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I'm the one that's delivering you.

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And so he brings them to the Red Sea.

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The people grumble.

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And they grumble in fear.

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They say, it would've been better

for us to serve the Egyptians

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than to die in the wilderness.

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And then you see in, in contrast to

the grumbling fear, the confident

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leadership of Moses, Moses stands up

in verse 13 and says, fear not stand

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firm and see what God is about to do.

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And so after this, then the Lord says

to Moses, here's what is gonna happen.

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I'm gonna harden the

hearts of the Egyptians.

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And they're gonna pursue.

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But this is what I want you to do.

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And this is the scene with

Charlton Heston, right?

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He's holding the staff out and

the Red Sea parts and God's

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people walk into the waters.

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And you gotta just imagine even that

was an act of faith to, to step into

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the waters of this sea that were Yeah.

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Granted piled up.

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But at the same time, to believe that

they were gonna stay piled up and the

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Israelites have to walk through there

and they go through to the other side of

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the sea, and then Pharaoh's army says,

we can get there through there too.

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And God throws them into

confusion and mucks up their tires

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with mud and everything else.

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And then ultimately

God causes the red sea.

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Crash back on top of them and

wins the final victory over

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Pharaoh by defeating his army.

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And so this is just a unique

thing, end of chapter 13.

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Hey, I'm gonna lead you with

these two visible things.

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And he unmistakably leads them

straight into a situation where

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only he could deliver them two

observations from these two chapters

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here, specifically the end of 13, and

there's one out of 14 at the end of 13.

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I just want you to see here God takes

the long way for them in verse 17.

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He leads them.

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But not in the short way.

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He says in verse 17, lest the

people change their minds when

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they see war and return to Egypt.

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And so he takes the people around by

the way of the wilderness toward the

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Red Sea, and this shows that God is

more than happy to delay your plans.

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In order to determine that you stay the

course, which is ironic because he takes

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them off course to keep them on course.

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Isn't that crazy?

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Mm-hmm.

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I love this about God.

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This tells me that often when we are

delayed in what we think should happen,

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God is often doing it for our good for.

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This is what Romans eight tells us.

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We quote this all the time.

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God works out all things for our

good, for those who love him and who

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are called according to his purpose.

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Well, this is one of the ways

that he works out for our good.

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He delays us.

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I want you to see God's

hand in your delays.

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Mm-hmm.

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Sometimes it is your sin, and

it might be because you're doing

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something foolish, but often even

in your sin, God is using this.

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To accomplish his good

purposes in your life.

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And in fact, you might even argue

it's sin for them to be afraid.

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God's gonna care for them.

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God's going to encourage them.

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God's going to, he's

gonna provide for them.

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And yet he says, I'm gonna take them

the long way so that they're not led

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and they're not misled, rather, and

because cause, because of their fear to

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run away, God knows their weaknesses.

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He deals with it.

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He compensates forward.

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He does good.

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Verse chapter 14.

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You mentioned this, but I think

it's such a beautiful picture

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of what faith looks like.

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Faith is willing to walk and

actively obey God, even though

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this may not work out well.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what the future holds.

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I don't know.

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When's God gonna stop holding the water

of the walls and let it crash down on me?

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Christians do the same thing.

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We don't walk with between water.

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We're walking between sin and death

and saying, God, you have to hold

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all this back from crashing upon me.

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And I'm gonna take active steps of

obedience and know that even though

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I deserve both your just judgment

and punishment, I'm gonna still take

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the walk and I'm gonna trust that

Jesus will withstand all the judgment

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and just wrath that I deserve.

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We walk, he protects.

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I love the activity of faith here.

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It's not passive.

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Our faith is not meant to be experienced

as just a wake up and things happen to me.

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Our faith is very active

and anything less than that.

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Is either deficient faith or

defective faith, chapter 15.

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Then we.

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Find Moses and the Israelites responding

to the deliverance that God has just

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worked for them by going to him in song.

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And so Moses writes a song to praise

the Lord for what he has done.

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And the reason being, number one, I

think worship is the natural is most

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naturally expressed in song for us.

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I think that's why we tend

to love to sing and we love

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to sing praises to the Lord.

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And that was true back here as well.

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And then number two, this

is another way to remember.

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Music has always been a mnemonic

device for us in that it caused.

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Us to remember things.

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The tune stays in our minds, and the tune

associated with the words causes us to

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remember the content of what we sing.

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And so as Moses is doing this, he's

doing this so that people in future

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generations will sing this song, the

Song of Moses, and they will remember

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what God has done through the exodus and

through getting glory over the Egyptians.

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Shout to the Lord all the what

other songs stick in your,

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what songs are in your head?

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Worship songs that refuse to leave.

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And do you want them there?

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I could s of your love forever, I guess.

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That's a good one.

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Yeah.

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In the secret.

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In the quiet place.

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That's basically all your

youth group songs in the still.

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Yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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For sure.

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Are there any songs that are in your

head that you do not want there?

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Worship songs?

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Yes Lord.

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Yes, Lord Yes.

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Yes, Lord.

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Hey, unless you guys start getting

snarky about repetitive worship songs,

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you read through the Psalms and tell me

that there's not a lot of repetition.

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Yeah.

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Come on.

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There is.

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Come on, there is.

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Come on.

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Stop throwing rocks at the CC.

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Yeah.

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No, I can't think of any that are in

my head that I'm like, ah, I wish I

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didn't have to think about that song.

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Yeah, I don't typically.

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Complain about it.

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I like when worship songs pop up.

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Yep.

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Other people don't though.

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One place that I worked

did not like my singing.

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Yeah.

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The boss would constantly call it out.

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Who's that?

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I'm not gonna say that

in the person's name.

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Come on.

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You think I'm crazy here?

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I don't wanna burn bridges.

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But not everybody was ha

IS So if you work with me.

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Or live with me.

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Yeah.

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I just sing kind of randomly.

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I'll just sing a song that comes to mind.

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I'll just let it out.

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I don't keep it in.

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I feel like the best way to get rid of

it is to just let it run its course.

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And so I don't always sing like the whole

song or anything, but I'll sing and I

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just, one of those things, this is true.

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Oftentimes Pastor Rob will walk into

the office in the morning singing or

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whistling, usually singing, not whistling.

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Singing.

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Singing, yeah.

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Singing, singing a song.

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As he comes in and he's

walking back to his office.

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He's singing a song, so.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, it doesn't bother

me all that to say, oh God.

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Well, clearly it didn't stop

me either from whoever the

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last person was that said that.

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That's true.

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True.

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I just kept on going forward anyway.

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I love that they sang.

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It's such interesting as

I think about our culture.

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We're not a singing people.

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Yeah.

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Like, not truly, but there are times when

we do, I think about that killer song.

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Oh yeah, no.

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Whatever that song is, jealousy.

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It will, I don't know what the song

is called, but yeah, that's the

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one I've seen videos of hundreds of

thousands of people singing that song.

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Like in a stadium?

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Yeah.

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Or that, that white white stripes.

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White stripes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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People love to do that and they

get amped up and, you know, there's

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just fired up doing these things.

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But when it comes to just the regular

movements of life, we're not a

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singing people, but we should be.

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Christians are singers because we have so

much more to celebrate than anybody else.

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You know who understands this though?

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Is ad companies because the jingles.

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The jingles.

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Yeah.

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That's why the jingles exist.

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That's why you remember them

from the time that you grew up.

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Years.

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Yeah.

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It's awful.

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Yep.

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I think it's brilliant though.

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ITT marketing, they get it.

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So if someone were to say, Hey,

I've got a jingle for Compass

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Bible Church, north Texas.

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How would you feel about that?

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It depends.

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Did you hear the lady

that came up with the Dr.

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Pepper jingle?

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Yeah.

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Dr.

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Pepper baby.

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Yeah.

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It's good and nice.

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And now it's actually on a Dr.

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Pepper commercial.

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I don't know what she got

paid, but it wasn't enough.

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Right, because that is so catchy.

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It is.

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I was so impressed and Do you

know how she got that song?

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No.

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She was dreaming.

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And she said I woke up with this song

in my head and I had to get it out.

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Isn't that crazy?

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That's crazy.

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And it's not like super

profound, good and nice.

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Like it's good and nice.

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It's good.

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And uh, but it fits so well though.

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It does.

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I'm like, that is on brand.

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I'm stoked for her.

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Yeah.

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I don't know her from Adam, but

I'm glad she got paid either one.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, chapter 15 ends with a low note.

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Well, well, yeah.

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Lower the people are in the wilderness.

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They've just seen all this

amazing, amazing things.

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Moses just taught this them

this great song to remember.

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And then they find that they don't have

enough water and the people grumble

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because the water they do have is Bitter.

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Mara, now, the name Mara is gonna

show up in the Book of Ruth as well.

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It's a word that means.

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Bitter.

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And this was Naomi.

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She changed her name to Mara because she

felt like the Lord had dealt bitterly with

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her, but the people grumble against Moses.

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And so Moses goes to the Lord and

the Lord is gonna be patient and

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gracious and merciful to them,

and he's gonna give them water.

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But in the midst of this, there's a

foreshadowing of the mosaic covenant

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that's coming not too distant here, that

says, if you will diligently listen to

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the voice of the Lord your God, and do

that which is right in his eyes, and give

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ear to his statutes and his commandments.

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I will put none of the diseases

on you that I put on the Egyptians

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for I am the Lord your healer.

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So God is introducing this contingent

relationship that he's gonna have with the

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nation of Israel when it comes to the law.

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So, this is setting the stage for

where we're gonna go from here.

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It's complaining in bitterness is stupid.

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Yes.

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Heard it here first.

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That hot take, you're not gonna

find anywhere else, nowhere

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else, but here's the thing.

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We all know that and we all still do it.

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That's true.

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We ought to.

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That's true.

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Really do better at this

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The year we nix grumbling and

complaining and but honestly, man,

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like even you saying that, like we

should hold each other accountable

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to that, I'll hold you accountable.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate that.

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And I'll do it in a grumbling way.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate that too.

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And I'll hold you.

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No, but we as a church should right.

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We shouldn't just let each

other grumble and complain.

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We should.

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Hold each other accountable

to say, Hey, this is not good.

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We shouldn't be doing this.

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this is not what we're

called to do before the Lord.

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Yeah, Paul says it I think

it's two 16, Philippians two 16.

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Do all things without grumbling.

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Without grumbling and complaining.

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Yeah.

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Complaining is another way.

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But yeah, grumbling,

disputing, complaining.

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And I think the reason why scripture

is so replete with that command is

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because we're just so easy to do it.

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Prone to it.

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Yeah.

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So prone.

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Yeah.

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Hey, Exodus 19 real quick.

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We've got verses one through

15 in the New Testament here.

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This isn't Exodus 19, one through 15.

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Nope, not Exodus 19.

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Matthew 19.

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Sorry.

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Thank you, man.

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I would grumble and complain about

the fact that you have to point

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out all my imperfections, but

then the God wouldn't for clear.

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I don't even know if they heard

that you were muted the whole time.

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I was muted.

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Oh, I think I was, anyway, I

don't know if I press that button.

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How long have you been muted?

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I don't know.

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Oh, no, we don't know.

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Pastor Rod's with us.

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If you guys, there's no, you've

been muted this whole time.

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Not the whole time.

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No.

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I turned it on and off.

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I think we're okay.

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But anyways he corrected me.

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I said X is 19.

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We're in Matthew 19 for the New Testament.

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I clarified.

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I was saying, I clarified.

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Not corrected.

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That's clarifying for our audience.

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That's fair.

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Hey, the Pharisees are still after.

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Jesus.

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And so they are trying to trip him up.

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They're gonna ask him a question

about marriage, and he says,

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what is the deal with divorce?

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Is it lawful to divorce

one's wife for any cause?

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And Jesus answers in accordance

with the law and says what?

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Therefore God has joined together.

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Let not man separate.

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They said to him, okay, but then why did

Moses allow for this divorce to happen?

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He says It was because of

the hardness of hearts.

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And then he says this, whoever divorces

his wife except for sexual immorality

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and marries another, commits adultery.

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Jesus is holding up marriage as

something that is immensely important

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and something to be preserved and

guarded and defended at all costs here.

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And I know that Paul expounds upon the

doctrine of marriage later on and gives

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some other teaching as far as when it's

appropriate or okay to seek divorce.

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I don't think we need to pit.

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Paul against Jesus here.

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I think what we need to do

is see that Jesus is saying

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marriage is in insanely valuable.

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It's something that is special because

it's defined by God, created by God,

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and we need to be very careful about

doing anything to bring any sort of

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marriage to a dissolution or to an end.

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I'm more interested in the

fact that Paul adds to this.

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Is that not, does that

not stand out to you?

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Yeah.

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I think that tells me that the authority

of the apostles and those who wrote

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scripture were operating at the same level

of authority that God was operating at.

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Jesus in the flesh that is,

and on top of that, that all of

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scripture is breed out by God.

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This is also Paul, and all

of it is profitable because

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all of it comes from God.

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You're right not to pit them against

each other because you don't pit

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friends against one another, right?

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You put enemies against each

other, and so this tells me

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that what Jesus says here is.

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True and accurate revelation, but

it is not comprehensive revelation

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in that it tells you, maybe

exhaustive is the better word.

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It's not exhaustive.

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It is comprehensive.

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This is his desire for marriage, but

it's not exhaustive in terms of what is.

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All that they need to know about marriage.

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Paul will later come in one Corinthians

chapter seven and make some clarifications

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that help us understand a little more

about this, but you should read the point

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nonetheless and feel the weight of it.

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Marriage is meant to be lifelong.

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Yep.

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Short of the person dying.

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Otherwise, if you're,

if you married poorly.

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You're gonna work it out.

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Yeah.

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And God and so far both parties

are humble hearted before the Lord.

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Again, we return to humility.

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God can make your marriage

wonderful and beautiful despite

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the fact that you married poorly.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Real quick here, he does address the

teaching of Euch, and we won't get

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too far into that, except that when

he says there are Unix who have made

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themselves Unix for the sake of the.

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Kingdom.

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This is metaphorical.

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This is, I think, him addressing the

gift of singleness, which is something

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else that Paul picks up on in one

Corinthians chapter seven as well.

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But this is somebody who chooses for the

sake of the kingdom not to be married.

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And there are different reasons for that,

whether it be for the sake of missionary

669

work or ministry work or whatever it is.

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Some people have the gift of

singleness, and that's what Paul

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and Jesus are addressing here.

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What Jesus is addressing here in Matthew

19, and then our section ends with him

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again, holding up children as a paradigm.

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And he says to the disciples who

were trying to keep the children

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away, let them come to me.

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Let the children come to me for, to

such belongs the kingdom of heaven.

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And that reinforces that

humility, that humble posture

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that you were talking about.

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Not childish, but childlike in our faith.

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What gives.

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With Why were they pushing kids away?

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Oh, I was like, what?

683

What happened here?

684

Yeah, what happened there?

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I find it fascinating that the disciples,

and maybe let's best case scenario here,

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first Corinthians 13, maybe they're

trying to protect Jesus time and say,

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look, you don't got time for this Rabbi.

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Please.

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There's other people that,

right, they wanna see you.

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They wanna talk to you.

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And I think it is so.

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Interesting and instructive.

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Men are not typically kid

people, and I understand that.

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But here, notice, and it says the children

were brought to him, which suggests to

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me that the children were the passive

actors, the active actors or the parents.

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Mm-hmm.

697

Mm-hmm.

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Saying, will you please bless my kid?

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Mm-hmm.

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And that makes perfect sense.

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A mom and dad saying, please

put your hands on my son.

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Bless them, my daughter.

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Bless her.

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And regardless, the disciples

pushing away the kids.

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This tells me that Jesus welcomed kids.

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Yeah.

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Men ought to welcome kids too.

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There.

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There should be a kind of demeanor

in a person that says, I recognize

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this little image bearer.

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You know, I saw a video the other

day of a, just a YouTube guy.

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And he was disparaging, not disparaging,

but he was very negative on kids.

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He didn't want to go on this Disney

cruise because he says there's

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so many families and kids there.

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And I, it is not about that.

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And I thought, what a sad reality a

lot of our culture is antagonistic

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toward kids because they think that

they're big downers and they drain

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all your money and they don't move out

at 18 and they cost a lot of money.

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And they eat everything in your pantry.

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They stay out.

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They smell.

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Sometimes they smell.

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Yeah.

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Scripture is very pro-family.

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Pro kids and I hope we are too.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Amen to that.

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Hey, let's pray that we're done with

this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we pray for a church of

strong marriages, a church

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that is also pro family.

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Even as Pastor Rob was just saying

that we want to value what you value

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and certainly you do value the family.

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We need strong family, strong families in

our church, strong families in society,

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help the church to be taking the lead

in that and setting the pace on them.

735

Thanks for this time and your word, and we

look forward to another episode tomorrow,

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should you delay in sending Christ back.

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Lord willing, we'll be back again as well.

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So we pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles, tune in with

us again, like I was just saying,

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Lord willing tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you then folks.

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Bye.

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747

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