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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Googley

04:28 Joshua Overview

05:19 Joshua 1

07:45 Joshua 2

16:51 Joshua 3

19:14 Luke 1:57-80

23:47 Closing Prayer

24:41 Outro and Podcast Information

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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Hello.

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We are we are in the thick

now of March Madness.

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So I know as you are both avid, in fact,

I would say rabid college basketball

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fans who you, who do you have?

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Did you fill out a bracket?

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I tried last year.

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I see.

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We have this thing where I try to

make our staff a fun environment.

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I know it's hard to believe that,

because it's not all the time, but

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occasionally I'm like, you know what?

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It would be fun for our staff

is to fill out brackets.

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And I don't think I Lewis picked

one based on which mascot would

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win a fight, and I think I may have

gotten one other bracket turned in.

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Nobody else wanted to do it.

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So this year, no, that was last year.

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Oh.

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So I didn't know that you had

to turn it in like right away.

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I didn't realize it was

happening like that day.

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You have to turn it in before it starts.

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Well, I didn't know when it was starting.

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He just gave us, the XI

in, filled us in in March.

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In March.

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I didn't know.

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I didn't know.

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Well, what time of March?

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No one says it's like

March 1st through the 30th.

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I didn't know that.

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So there was a lot of

assumptions happening.

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Welfare, you gave it to me like on

February 29th or whatever, and then.

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March was the next day anyways.

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Do you care about it, pastor Mark?

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I don't even know.

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Do you care about March

Madness College of Basketball?

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No.

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Nothing.

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Nothing.

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No, nothing.

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Is there a sport that you mildly track?

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I follow baseball.

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Okay.

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Mildly.

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Yes.

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And we are actually watching Formula One.

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Oh, okay.

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On Apple tv?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, we're watching the Formula One series

season, whatever you wanna call it.

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Did you see the movie that was released?

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No, I didn't.

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We probably should.

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I don't know if it's good actually.

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So maybe I shouldn't say, probably should.

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I don't know anything about it.

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So it was by the same people that did

Top Gun Maverick, which is, no, it was

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one of my favorite movies of all time.

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That's what you named your dog, top Gun.

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Actually, Maverick is his name

after Maverick from Top Gun.

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Yes, gunner.

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So it has a ice man.

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It has a similar feel and by and

large, I'm trying to think back.

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I don't believe that there's anything

questionable except for maybe a little

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bit of language in it, but there's

nothing immoral, no immorality being

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glorified or anything else like that.

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So that's rare these days.

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I would commend it to you.

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It's a good movie.

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Maybe we'll watch it.

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In fact, I believe it's on Apple

tv, so you can watch it without

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even paying anything extra.

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Hey, look at that.

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Yep.

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So F1.

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Okay.

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Pastor, is there any, I think I

know the answer to this question,

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but are there any sports that

you mildly take an interest in?

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I will watch the Super Bowl.

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Yeah, I will too.

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I will watch maybe Game

seven of the World Series.

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Okay.

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If I'm not doing something else.

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Yeah.

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And I think that about, I'll watch Yeah.

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If I'm at someone's house, if I'm at

Pastor Mark's house and he's watching

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F1, I'll sit down and watch it with him.

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Sure.

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I was at the Ace's house one time and

we were watching soccer and I don't know

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anything about it, so I'm just watching

it, trying to enjoy it, so I could be

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a casual watcher of anything trying

to enjoy soccer, if that makes sense.

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Yeah.

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That was Jacob played when he was younger

and it was just as boring to me then, man.

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I liked watching him run around

the field, but it had no interest.

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I want to like it.

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In fact, it's part of being a man.

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You get a man card, I think.

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Sure.

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That says, once you start, you go to

the barbershop or you're just, talking

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around the fire pit, you start talking

sports, now you're in a conversation.

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Yep.

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And then you're connecting

and you're laughing and you're

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throwing shade at people.

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I can't do that.

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And I've tried a little bit.

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I'm like, I'm such a poser.

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I don't know anything about this.

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Sorry guys.

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I'm just gonna bow outta here

and then, humbly bow my head

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and just walk away and shame.

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There was just recently the World

Baseball Classic, which was televised

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and it was on and Venezuela ended

up beating United States in the

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championship match in the World Base

Baseball Classic, the championship game.

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Ironic.

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It was a good game.

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And yet at the same, yes, it is ironic.

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But it was kind one of those that you

were like, as a fan of the United States,

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you're like, oh man, that, that stinks.

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Although today I saw, somebody had a video

inside the Venezuelan locker room before

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the game, and one of their players prayed.

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One of the most theologically, like it.

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It could have been our pastoral

prayer on a Sunday morning, minus

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the fact that he was praying about

baseball at the same time too.

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Wow.

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But it was like.

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It was nails, it was doctrinally sound.

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Now it was in Spanish and they

were translating it, so subtitles.

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But I was listening to this thing going,

okay, this is like, I'm impressed.

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And so I just was encouraged that there

was somebody on that team who's actually

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an MLB player as well, who was taking

the lead to circle his team up before

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the game and pray a prayer that was all

about exalting Christ and glorifying God.

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And, walking in, kindness and love and

demonstrating and being ambassadors for

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Christ while they're out on the field.

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It was really cool to see that.

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That is really cool.

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Yeah.

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I didn't know there were

Christians in sports.

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A few.

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Just kidding.

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A few.

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Just kidding.

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I know Tim Tebow.

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Well, Tim and Azaria,

who shows up at church.

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That's true.

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With us, I got, we got friends.

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Yeah, we do friends in high places.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, let's jump into

our Bible reading for today.

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We're starting a brand new book.

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So we get into the book of

Joshua, the first of 12.

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What we call historical

books in the Old Testament.

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So, the name gives it away, but we've

come out of the law, which is the Torah.

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And so now we're transitioning into

a new section of the Old Testament.

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These are gonna be the historical books.

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These are gonna give a record of

the history of Israel by and large.

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And then we'll get into some of

the wisdom literature later on.

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Then.

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Now, obviously you've got the

prophets, the major prophets, and the

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minor prophets towards the end here.

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But this this book, most likely written

by Joshua, though the authors never

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named, and Joshua's a unique guy.

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He went from.

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Slavery in Egypt all the way through

the conquest of the promised Land.

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And there's not many, in fact, I

think just Joshua and maybe Caleb, who

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could lay claim to having that that

distinguishing feature to be able to have

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been in Egypt and witnessed the Exodus

and then be taken all the way through

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the full conquest of the Promised Land.

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Kinda unique as we, we think about

this, but the first three chapters here

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are Joshua really establishing, being

established by the Lord in chapter one.

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The Lord is gonna commission him and

tell him three times over, be strong

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and courageous for what he's about to

do and what he was going to need to do.

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And he's gonna need a lot of bravado here.

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I think a lot of times we think God

is driving the people out before.

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The Israelites, and that's

true, but they were still gonna

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have to fight the battles.

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They were still gonna have to go in

and go to war against some pretty

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imposing peoples at this time.

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So Joshua's commissioned and encouraged

be strong and courageous these three

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times over here in chapter one.

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And then we'll get into more in chapter

two and chapter three as far as what

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he does in the initial stages here.

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But anything on this opening here

with the commissioning of Joshua.

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I think it's important to see here

that God recognizes Joshua's state.

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It's so fascinating to me that

Joshua's someone that we would

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consider to be a man's man.

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He's strong, he's mighty, he's bold,

he's courageous, and yet God has to

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tell him over and over again, be very

strong and courageous, which suggests

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to me that maybe Joshua isn't all that

self-assertive or all that confident

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in his ability to lead, especially

when you're thinking about him taking.

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Over the job that Moses

has just left behind.

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, it's like being John

MacArthur's understudy.

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Nobody wants that job.

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Nobody wants to show up and be like,

oh, I'll do John MacArthur's job now.

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I'll sure I'll fill the pulpit.

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And I can imagine Joshua

feeling just like that.

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Only far more because there's

only one Moses and the only

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person who's ever gonna be.

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What am I trying to say?

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Who's ever gonna be compared to Moses?

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The next one in the line is

Jo is not Joshua is Elijah.

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And then you've got Jesus,

Jesus, who is also called Moses.

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And of course you have all three in the

Promised Land when Jesus is transformed.

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But here I see Joshua stepping

into a difficult role.

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He's weak and faltering perhaps.

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And so God tells Joshua,

look, I'm gonna be with you.

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I won't leave you or forsake you.

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And this is true for

us in Hebrews 13, five.

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Now the author of Hebrews quotes this

very verse, Joshua one, five, and he talks

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to Christians and says, this is for you.

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I'll never leave you or forsake

you, so therefore you don't

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have to worry about your money.

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You don't have to worry about what you're

gonna do, trust that God is with you.

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And so I take Joshua one five at his

word and I say, this is my verse two.

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Yeah.

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How about verse 17, when the people

say to Joshua, just as we obeyed

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Moses in all things, so we will

obey you, you say, oh, great.

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No guys, I meant you guys

got such a good track record.

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That is, I'm gonna be able

to count on that for sure.

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Definitely.

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That's right.

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I was like, your friend.

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It's like, I'll be there on Saturday

with my truck to help you move.

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And he's that one guy that's the

flakies of all of them, right?

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Yeah.

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It's, it doesn't go very far.

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It's like, let's aim

higher, let's aim higher.

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Well, chapter two, he

sends out some more spies.

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Last time we sent out spies,

things didn't go really well.

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And this time spies are going to do

better and they're gonna get to Jericho.

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Specifically.

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They're gonna be given shelter by

a key figure, and this is Rahab.

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Now, Rahab is a key figure, not just

because of what she does here, in that she

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hides the spies and she also gives them a.

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Alibi as the people come looking for the

spies and she says, well, they've already

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left and you need to pursue over there.

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And then she helps them escape later on.

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But Rahab is significant because she's

gonna show up in the line of Christ.

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And so when we look at the genealogy of

Jesus and Luke's gospel, Luke chapter

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three, or Matthew chapter one, I think

Luke chapter three specifically lists

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Rahab amongst the lineage of Jesus.

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And so Rahab is a significant

character and used by God in the

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lineage of the future Messiah, which

goes to show that Rahab not only.

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Hid the spies and

provided shelter to them.

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But when they find her, she is a woman of

ill repute, let's just put it that way.

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But it appears that after.

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The Israelites conquered Jericho that

she ends up finding and marrying an

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Israelite man of the tribe of Judah to

be brought into the lineage that would

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eventually pro produce the line of Christ.

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So rahab's a redemption story even

though we don't get the full redemption

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story laid out for us in scripture.

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It's amazing that almost the first

narrative account of the people going

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into the land is an exception to God's

instruction that they need to wipe out.

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Everybody.

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Yep.

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But I think it's there to demonstrate

that God has a heart behind that

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instruction that isn't just sort of black

and white as we might understand it.

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Well, I would say it's probably not

as, it's not as though it's a gray

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issue or a gray area, but rather

God is concerned with the heart

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of the people who are in the land.

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Right.

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Why is he sending the people of

Israel into the land to destroy them?

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It's because they are wicked

and because they're unrighteous.

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But we actually find this one

person and her family, Rahab, who

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is the opposite of that, right?

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And is willing when she hears of God's

people approaching to join God's people.

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And so what we see here is the mercy

of God carried out by the mercy of

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Joshua and the people demonstrating

what God really cares about.

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Talk to us then both of you,

if you will, about Rahab's

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deception and God's commendation

of Rahab in Hebrews chapter 11.

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Everybody remembers this one.

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We talk about this every year,

but such a good thing for us

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to recall and talk through.

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There's a weak or tender conscience

person who says, how can God commend her?

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And Hebrews 11, this is clearly wrong.

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You're not supposed to deceive.

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This is bearing false witness, is it not?

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Talk us through how you

theologically handle that.

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Yeah, I think, our sending pastor

used to talk about the wartime rules,

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the rules of war, and that there are

oftentimes in, in situations like that,

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exceptions to the black and white rules

of what is right and what is wrong.

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We often think of, was it Cory 10, boom.

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Or Ann Frank?

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I always get them confused.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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Awesome.

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Which you guys too.

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Who hid the Jews?

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10.

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Boom.

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It was 10.

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Boom.

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Yes, Anna Frank was

the one who was hiding.

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She was hiding.

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Her and her family were hiding.

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But Cory 10, boom.

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The one that, which is why I hesitated.

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'cause I was like, where

are we going with Yeah.

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Which one?

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Yeah, which one are we talking about?

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She was the one hiding the Jews and

the Nazis came and knocked on our

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door and said, are you hiding Jews?

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And she said, no.

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And none of us are sitting there saying,

you're sinning and you're guilty before

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God because you lied to the Nazis.

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And the reason being is because

the lie was in the service of what

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we would call the greater good.

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Now, I say that cautiously because

that could be taken and somebody could

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really run with that and use that to,

to commit sin blatantly and boldly

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and somehow twisted to, to show,

well, this is for the greater good.

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But it's really in these

situations, this is clear.

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The lives of the spies are on the

line, and Rahab knows that God is

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the true God, and she knows that

it's wrong to turn these spies over

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because he's the God of justice.

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He's the God that is the God of creation.

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So she's gonna side

with him over the world.

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And so she lies, she deceives, she.

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In order to serve the greater good

of the deliverance of the spies.

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Yeah.

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My view on this is formed by a

professor at Southern Seminary named dr.

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Moler.

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Well, no, not in this case.

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Dr.

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Hamilton.

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Oh, and the way he talks about

this is that he says there is the

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seed of the woman from Genesis, and

there's the seed of the serpent.

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And the seed of the serpent is.

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An adversary to God and to

God's people specifically.

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And there is times and places where the

seed of the serpent, as it were, rears

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its head in really pronounced ways.

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One of those might be.

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Exodus chapter, well, the first

couple chapters of Exodus, but

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where the midwives, I guess it's the

very first chapter of Exodus where

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the midwives are told by Pharaoh

to kill all the newborn babies.

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And what do the midwives do?

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They say, we're not gonna do that.

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And in fact, they deceive.

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The Egyptians and they say, actually,

the situation is this and that and the

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other thing, not really what's going on.

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And again, I think you see here, Rahab

is addressing the enemies of God and

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they are not as, and this is what, this

is, the way Jim Hamilton will define it.

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They are not deserving of the

truth in this particular instance.

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And so the modern day equivalence.

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To this would be if you are a missionary

going into a foreign land, right into a

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nation that is, is against missionaries,

and you would not be allowed to be

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there if you were a missionary, right?

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He says.

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There's no problem morally going

into that place and saying, oh, I'm

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actually here to open a business,

or I'm here to vacation, or I'm here

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for this or that, or the other thing.

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When you really aren't there

for that, you're there for the

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purpose of spreading the gospel.

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And so I think, through

the narrative account here.

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You don't see Rahab condemned.

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You don't see her explicitly

condemned, and you don't see

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her implicitly condemned.

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In fact, you see the opposite.

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I think you see her implicitly

rewarded and honored.

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And then in Hebrews chapter 11,

you see her explicitly commanded.

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Called out and commanded.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right, so both of you offered

helpful ways to frame this.

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There's the greater good and there's the,

they don't deserve the truth argument.

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Both of those are helpful.

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And you even helpfully brought up this

idea of being a modern day missionary.

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Is there any context wherein you would

say, in our average everyday lives

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here in North Texas or elsewhere in

the world where you would say, oh, this

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is necessary for me to do I am also

exempted by these same ideas, greater

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good, or someone not deserving the truth?

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Like if your wife comes down and

says, Hey, does this make me look fat?

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Yeah.

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Or your husband says, does this make me

look strong for the ladies listening?

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I don't think in our common

situation, common, average

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American situation, that there is

precedent for these sort of things.

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There might be, there might be.

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I'm not saying that there's nothing,

but I don't think that there's something

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in the daily life of the people of

our church here that would require

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us to be dishonest in such a way.

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Hmm.

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Yeah, I would probably agree without being

able to think through every scenario,

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I'm just running through my mind.

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Right?

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Yes.

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Maybe, maybe in the workplace somebody

might run into a scenario in which this

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might come to bear, but let me give

you one, just to throw it out there to

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give you some FOD or to work with here.

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Let's just call it a

physical abuse situation.

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Okay.

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To get outta that situation.

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Maybe there's deception that's needed.

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I'm going to my mom's, but realistically,

I'm actually taking the kids.

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We're gonna go to my dad's and we're gonna

be there for an extended period of time.

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Yeah, that's a deception.

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That's a lie.

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Is that something that God can

commend in the, in a similar

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way that he would commend?

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Rahab.

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Yeah.

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It's a horrible situation,

but it's a good example.

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Yeah I could get behind that and

say that's serving the greater

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good of protecting the wife,

protecting the kids, I think.

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But you even bringing that up

shows that this is going to be

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an extraordinary circumstances.

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This isn't something that's commonplace.

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Right.

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This is something that's gonna

be out of what we would expect

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in everyday normal life.

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Yeah.

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And the other example I think

that's like similar to that

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is, let's say the government.

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Comes to my door and says, we're

gonna take your kids because you're

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teaching them truths about God.

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They're probably not gonna say it that

way, but let's say that's the reason they

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come to my door , where are your kids?

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We're gonna take them from you.

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I'm gonna say, I don't know.

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They're not here.

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What are you talking about?

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Right.

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, I would be willing to do that, and

I think it , would not go against my

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conscience, and I don't think it would

be immoral for me to do that if I were.

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Protecting my kids in such a way.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Again, an extreme example.

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Yeah.

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Kind of not something again, in

the day-to-day life of our church.

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Yeah.

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Thankfully, not something that

we're encountering, but that would

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be an example that I could, that I

think would fall in this category.

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If I could add one, one quick thing as we

wrap up this chapter here is that Hebrews

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chapter 11, verse 31, says, by Faith

Rahab, the prostitute did not perish with

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those who are disobedient because should

given a friendly welcome to the spies.

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You'll notice that what it

positively identifies is what

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she does as an act of faith.

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It doesn't address what she does that

we're discussing, which is she deceives

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those who are trying to capture the spies.

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We would see them as a singular event,

but scripture is isolating that say like,

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here's how her faith was operational.

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Mm-hmm.

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And that's what scripture commence.

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Mm-hmm.

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Not saying that there's never a time

to do this, I suppose there are but I

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just want you to see here, scripture

is highlighting her faith, and that's

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where our hearts should be when even

when we're making decisions like this.

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All of these have to be acts of faith and

not merely acts of fear and self-defense.

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, I know it's hard to differentiate

those things, especially in the

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moment of crisis, but I just wanna

point out the faith is what's

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highlighted here in commanded.

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It's a great point.

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One chapter three, which is the last

chapter of our Old Testament reading.

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Joshuas gets everybody ready for the

crossing of the the Jordan River here.

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I almost said the Red Sea.

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And there's some parallels here,

and I think we're intended to

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see that there's a callback here

to what happens at the Red Sea.

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But Joshua gets them ready and orders

them to consecrate themselves again.

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That is a word that means to make

themselves wholly, to set themselves.

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Part this was gonna be a holy

event, not just a historical event.

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And I think that's significant here.

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Joshua wants the people to be crossing

over as the people of God, not just

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as the people that are going to

be ushered forward or led by God.

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They're his people.

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And so there's the consequ

and there's the worship.

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Element of this as well, which we're

gonna see even in tomorrow's reading.

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But in the rest of this, they're not

gonna simply cross at a low point and

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they're not gonna cross at low tide.

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God is going to do a miracle.

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This is a God thing.

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One the waters of the Jordan River are

gonna be piled up for miles back and

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the people are gonna cross on dry land.

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And that's where I think you get the

call back to the Red Sea because it was

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said there that the people of Israel,

Israel crossed on dry land when they

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crossed through the Red Sea there.

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So, there's the illusion.

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I think there's the.

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Concept there of this is the cult,

the fulfillment of the exodus.

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They started by crossing through

the Red Sea into the wilderness of

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Sinai, and then they were finally

ushered into the promised Land as

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they crossed through another body of

water this time again on dry land.

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One exceptional difference in

chapter three here is that the men

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the tribal leaders had to get their

feet wet before the water ceased.

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Yeah, that's a great point.

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In verse 13, it says, and when the soles

of the feet of the priests bearing the

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ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth

shall rest in the waters of the Jordan.

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Then the waters of the Jordan

shall be cut off from flowing.

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So they had to exercise a

great deal of faith before the

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God acted upon the miracle.

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That's really cool.

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I think that shows us that our God does

appreciate when we step out in faith, we,

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in fact, we use that terminology, we use

that vernacular stepping out in faith.

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I wonder if it maybe comes

from places like this.

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I've always wondered, do their wet

feet dry out as the water recedes?

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Wondering.

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That's pretty silly, but I've always

wondered that there's dry ground, but

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they do, they still have, wet, hamms

sloshing across wet hys and SLT shoes.

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I think it would be funny though.

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Yeah, I'd enjoy that.

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That's a, that, see,

that's a mark of pride.

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Not sinful pride.

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We talked about that, but that's a mark

of pride because you could say, I did

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this as an act of faith and the Lord,

look, look what the Lord is doing.

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Mm-hmm.

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I would want my wet feet and my wet.

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Gown to be there unless the water

receded from your feet and whatever

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clothing you were wearing as it

receded, that would be pretty cool.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's get over to our New

Testament reading, Luke 1 57 through

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80, and here we get the rest of the

story of the birth of John the Baptist.

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We've taken this interlude

from the time that.

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Zechariah was promised, Hey, your

wife is gonna have a baby, and

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you're gonna name his name John.

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And remember, Zacharia's

been mute this whole time.

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He's not been able to talk.

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And the birth happens and the people

go to say, well, we're gonna name

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him Zechariah after his father.

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This was something that was common.

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During this time.

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We've talked a lot about

the honor, shame culture.

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That would've been a way to honor the

father by naming the son after the father.

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And yet Zechariah makes his

gestures known to the people to

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say, no, we're not gonna do this.

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I wonder if Zechariah could have

saved himself some trouble by.

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Talking to his wife by drawing and writing

some things earlier to say, Hey, by the

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way, his name's not gonna be zacharia.

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It's gonna be something else.

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But he motions and says, no,

we're gonna call his name John.

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And the name John actually means

God is gracious or graced by God.

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But God is gracious.

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I think that's significant here.

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I think John the Baptist says

the forerunner of the ultimate.

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Display of the grace of God.

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I think there's significance

in the name John.

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It's not just that, well, he wasn't

gonna be called Zechariah because

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we wanted some different name.

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The name conveys something about God.

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And I think there's a significance

in the fact that this is the name

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that says God is gracious and he's

gonna be the forerunner of the

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ultimate display of God's grace.

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It's such a common name.

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John, it's in many of our

languages in different variations.

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Juan is one, Yan is another.

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We don't use many yans here in the states.

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Ian.

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Ian, yeah.

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There's all these variations of John.

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But I find it fascinating that in

verse 61, they said to her, none of

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your relatives is called by this name.

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Yeah.

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It was such an uncommon name at the time.

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And now we see the effects of what

the gospel has done throughout

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all these different generations.

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Where now John is a name

of honor and distinction.

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It's a very common name.

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It's so common.

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It's a generic name.

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It's used for a generic person.

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Oh.

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This is, John Doe.

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Yeah.

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It's so fascinating because it was at one

point in time, not that until God steps

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on the scene and transforms a relatively

unknown name into the, a name that's

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almost as common as Muhammad Pastor PJ is

your John named after John the Baptist.

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He's not actually.

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'cause JON, not JOHN.

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He's named after Jonathan

of the Old Testament.

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It's his full legal name.

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Jonathan.

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Jonathan.

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Sometimes we call him Joe Nathan.

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Joe Nathan.

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So why do people separate

it at John, but not.

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Nathan, I've never heard of Nathan,

whose full name was Jonathan.

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Oh, that's a good point.

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Because, yeah.

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'cause Nathan is the gift of God, I think

is what that refers to from the Hebrew.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We should try to do some

different nicknames.

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We should based on different parts

of the name that people don't use.

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Well, if you see my Jonathan, you

call him Joe Nathan, he'll stop and

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he'll turn around and be like, what?

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Yeah.

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So common name, uncommon.

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See because of a, but because of

a extraordinary God, we now have a

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name that is all over the place in

every and every, and maybe that ought

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to remind you of Luke chapter one.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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His prophecy that Zucker goes on

to give is significant as well.

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God opens his mouth and the first thing

he does is he, he prophesies about John

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the Baptist, but also about Christ.

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And I think sometimes in the New

Testament, early on in the gospels, we

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can lose sight of the gospel itself,

the good news of salvation by faith

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in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins.

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And yet we see this here in

Zechariah's prophecy in verse.

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77.

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Well back up to verse 76.

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John is in view here.

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Ze, I was talking about his son here.

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You child will be called the prophet

of the most high for you will go

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before the Lord to prepare his ways.

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And then he says this, to give the

knowledge of salvation to his people

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in the forgiveness of their sins.

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So there we see that the knowledge

of salvation even early on is.

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Involves the forgiveness of sins.

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It's not strictly the com concept

of the Jewish kingdom being

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established or the coming of the

Messiah being the king of the Jews.

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It's the need for the

sin to be atoned for.

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And we see that even in John the

Baptist when he comes onto the

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scene and begins baptizing people

and calling them to repent for the

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forgiveness of their sins as well.

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So the gospels here, even in

the early stages with this

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prophecy about John the Baptist.

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Okay.

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On that.

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That's a strange phrasing.

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And so I would love for you to at least

help us to put this into the common

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vernacular because we would understand if

it said to give the knowledge of salvation

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to his people for the forgiveness of

their sins, but the preposition is

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in, and which I'm guessing, is that

Epsilon knew n in the forgiveness.

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How does that make a difference?

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Are we to understand this differently

than the normal understanding for

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the forgiveness of their sins?

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If it is epsilon new, then it could be

translated also as by, so it could be a.

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A preposition of agency there, the

knowledge of salvation, not salvation

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by the forgiveness of sins or in

the, it could be communicating

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that in the the context there.

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So you're right.

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It's not the way that we would

translate it in English, but I think

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it may be connecting that idea, that

salvation and the forgiveness of sins,

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those two things are inseparable.

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You can't have one without the other.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Well, let's pray and we'll be done with

this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God thanks for reward and

for our time in it today.

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We are grateful for the gospel

and the salvation that we have

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because of the forgiveness of

sins that we have in Christ.

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And so we pray that as we continue to

read your word, we do so as those that

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are our, you've been able to understand it

because of your spirit dwelling within us.

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That is a result of us being

placed into Christ by salvation.

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And so God, we are so thankful that this

is not just a textbook for us to study,

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but a book that transforms our lives.

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And I pray that it would do

that, and it would do that in

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the lives of our church as well.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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