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March 5, 2026 | Numbers 34-36, Mark 10:32-52
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00:00 Birthday Shoutouts

01:12 Awkward Birthday Songs

02:33 Social Apps and Prairie Talk

03:34 Books Versus Movies

05:35 Today’s Bible Reading

05:58 Numbers Land Boundaries

06:37 Cities of Refuge Explained

09:06 Justice and God as King

10:53 Marriage and Inheritance Rules

12:51 Mark 10 Road to Jerusalem

14:18 Greatness Through Service

17:29 Bartimaeus and True Faith

19:03 Prayer and Closing

19:54 Podcast Outro

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy birthday Kelly and happy birthday.

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Happy birthday, Kelly.

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Happy birthday Dear Kelly,

is this gonna be autotune?

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No.

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Oh, happy birthday to you, Kelly.

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We are thankful for you and we're

also thankful that you're not

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in the office, but not for the

reasons people might suspect.

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Kelly has mono.

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You're just gonna out it right there.

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You're just gonna throw it out there.

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Well, we, we want to honor her.

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She's not here.

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And so people are gonna

like, where is she?

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So I thought it would be helpful to

let people know you could pray for

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her and thank God that none of us

here so far come up with any symptoms.

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That's true.

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So don't kiss Kelly.

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Yeah.

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Even on her birthdate.

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Touch Mark, you had

something profound to say.

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Nothing, I just was desperately confused.

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Okay.

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About why she has it?

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Well, no, just the, I thought you

said it was good that she wasn't here.

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Yeah.

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Because she has money.

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We don't want her to spread

it, is what we're saying.

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Oh, okay.

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Not because she's not here.

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I was just explaining to

people why she's not here.

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It's not like she's being lazy.

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She's not taking time off

or anything like that.

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She's, but it would be far

better for her to be here.

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It would be better.

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We would like a healthy Kelly any day.

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Yeah.

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And we miss you, Kelly.

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We hope you're doing well.

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Thanks for listening.

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We know that you listen

faithfully, so we miss you.

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I saw reel the other day where somebody.

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Was singing the Happy Birthday

song, but all they sang was

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birthday in the Happy Birthday song.

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It was really funny because

you, are we gonna try that?

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No, because you can try

whatever birthday you want.

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Like a sad birthday or, well, no.

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They just like, they left out all

the other words other than birthday

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and they were singing to this guy, it

was like a group of people singing to

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him and so they sang the tune Happy

Birthday, but the only word they sang.

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Birthday.

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So there's a birthday four times.

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Yeah.

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And we're done.

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Yeah.

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With the pauses in between.

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It's efficient.

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That's weird.

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It was awkward and it was, it was amazing.

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What do you do when people sing

Happy Birthday to you, by the way?

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What do you mean?

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What do you do?

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What do you do?

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Smile and wave.

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Do you just like, do you make eye contact?

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Do you stare at the floor?

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Do you I join in, there's

call someone else's name out.

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There's the, the bold people that

like direct it, that are like, yes.

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More.

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Louder.

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Louder.

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Yeah.

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And you wanna know what I do?

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I look around at all the people

and I pray, take a mental

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snapshot for those people.

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Who are they?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Some people, someone said recently.

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We've been filming birthday celebrations

wrong because we always have the camera

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on the person being celebrated, but

rather the person being celebrated

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should be able to have the camera

on everybody else that's there to be

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able to remember all those people that

are there celebrating your birthday.

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Apple Tech lets you record both

though, so I could record my reaction

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to your singing to me, and I'll

get both sides of the equation.

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But a thing we live in 2026.

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That's true, right?

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That see the way to do it.

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Speed way.

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That reminds me of that Be Real app.

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Do you, is that still a thing?

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Are people still being real or

is that not a thing anymore?

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I think Jacob still has it.

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Does he?

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I have not a clue what that even is.

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Do you have social media?

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Do you know what social media is?

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I do.

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I have X.

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Okay.

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You have X?

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Yes.

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Does that count?

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It's like X, but not, that

brings a lot of clarity.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, you're welcome.

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Anyways, yeah.

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Well, you guys were, before we hit record

nerding out over Laura Engels Wilder

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in Little House in the Prairie, and I

had no idea what anything was about.

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Laura.

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You know what Be real is so you're okay.

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You know?

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Yeah, you're totally fine.

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I, I mean, I think I've actually

been to the Wilder compound

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I, my dad, the compound.

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I think my, I don't think it's a compound.

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That's what I heard they call it,

that my family took me there when I

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was littler to show me and I was not

so much impressed but like, shape

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up or don the books and it's just

another old house or watch the show.

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Right.

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I accept that.

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I only accept reading the books.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Well I think you should watch this

show and then if you real, if you,

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once you find out how charming it is,

you will decide to read the books.

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And the show is quite good.

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Yes.

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Is there any show slash movie

adaptation that you've ever come

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across that you've said, this makes

me appreciate the book more, or

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it's better than the book Top Gun.

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Is there books gonna gonna say,

that's my way of saying no.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I've never come across anything

like that where I said, oh, the

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book just got overshadowed by.

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I always find the character is

one dimensional and I feel cheated

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because of all the things I'm like,

why did they do this other thing?

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So, no, I've never come across that.

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How about you?

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I will say this.

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I think the Lord of the Rings movies

help me appreciate and understand

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the arc of the books better.

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Then, even though there's way more

that happens in the books than they

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depict in the movies, as is always

the case, but I appreciated it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think it is.

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It is excellent work.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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As well as the Hobbit trilogy,

I enjoyed those movies as well.

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Those were good.

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Very good work.

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Yeah.

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Not excellent, not excellent.

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I liked neither of those, really

all of I, I, and you know what?

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Part of it is people like yourselves

who love it and have high things to say

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about it, influenced me to watch it for

the first time and pumped it up too much.

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And then I saw it.

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I'm like, this is just

not as good as they say.

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Hmm.

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So I think I probably in another

life, I could've loved it, but

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I just got it at the wrong time.

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Well, that's the advantage of

watching the show or the movie first.

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So maybe you're right to watch

the Laura Les show first.

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Right.

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And then you can experience

the full glory of the books.

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I, I and I fully expect to, I'm gonna,

once I finish the series, I'm gonna

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go back and do that whole thing again.

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But I really want to love

Lord of the Rings and the

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Hobbits and all those things.

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Yes.

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And Smeal.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think he's an undersold character.

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He's one of my favorite.

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You think he's kind of the

hero of the book, don't he?

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He's the protagonist, yeah.

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Of all protagonists.

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Without him, the book would be nothing.

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The book would not even make

sense mean that is true, but yeah.

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And a matter of speaking, yes.

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Somebody, there's been somebody out

there that's like fixing movies with ai.

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And so like my girl, they have him

not get stung by the bees and not die.

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And they're like, oh, isn't

it great that we found your

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mood ring and everything else?

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And they did Lord of the Rings and

when they're on the backs of the

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Eagles, they're like, what if we

just took the Eagle and flew the

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eagle to Moreor and just dropped

the ring in from the sky Movie over.

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He's over in a minute.

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That's funny.

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So anyways, well let's jump into

our daily Bible reading for today.

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Numbers 34 through 36 and

Mark 10 32 through 52.

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Talking about a book that will

never be better or that will

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never be bettered by a movie.

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And that is the Bible.

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That's true.

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True.

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The Bible will always be better

than the film adaptations.

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I really liked David.

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It was really good.

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I was I heard you saying that.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It was good.

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So just throw that out there.

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Numbers 34 through 36, we are

dealing with some territory of

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the demarcation of the land.

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So we're talking about the.

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Tribal allotments here and

what's gonna happen and where

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the promised land is gonna be.

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And I guess we're not in

tribal allotments yet.

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We're talking about how large the promised

land is gonna be, where the borders are.

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So again, reading with the map,

reading with the atlas helpful during

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this stretch of the book of numbers

tribal chiefs are listed out here.

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Again, God is a God of

order, not a God of chaos.

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And so he wants to make sure that there

is organization within the tribes.

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The tribes are not just free to go about

and conduct themselves as they safe.

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See fit.

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But there needs to be a head.

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There needs to be structure.

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There needs to be administration.

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Chapter 35 cities of refuge.

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This is important.

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This is talking about the difference

between murder and manslaughter.

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We're gonna get more into that in

Deuteronomy, but here there's going

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to be these cities of refuge that are

a place for there to be refuge sought

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until justice can really be figured

out and sorted out here, because

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there are going to be accidental

deaths and so forth and so on.

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God is really, again, taking this

generation that's about to enter the

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Promised land and giving them some

very practical instructions here.

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And we're eavesdropping on a lot

of that right now as we sit here as

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the church, we're listening to what

Moses is telling to these Israelites

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as they're getting ready to go in.

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Here's what the land is gonna be.

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Here's some rules about

the cities for refuge.

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Here's rules about accusations.

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You need two or three

witnesses, not just one.

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Oh, and by the way, we've got.

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Female errors here.

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What happens to the land if

somebody marries outside the tribe?

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Does the land go with the

person that's marrying or does

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the land stay with the tribe?

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This is a lot of information towards the

end of the book of numbers where you may

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listen to this and go, wait a minute.

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Well, how do I apply this directly today?

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And there's some one for one correlations.

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Like, we have rules for manslaughter

today and murder today, and that

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carries over from all the way back here.

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But we also have to remember, this was

written to a specific people at a specific

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point in history, and this was to prepare

them for what awaited them on the other

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side of the Jordan River and think about.

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Even as this may not be the most

fascinating part of the Old Testament

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to you think about how exciting this

would be to the people of Israel.

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This seems really dry and kind of boring

to us, but this sort of stuff would be

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really exciting to somebody at this point

in time because there's the fruition

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of God's promises on the horizon.

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Fulfillment.

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I find this part, even though it is

a bit drier, I think the more you can

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connect with Israel's history mm-hmm.

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The more you find this to be fascinating.

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Mm-hmm.

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The cities for the Levites tells

me that God is caring for the

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people that care for his temple

and or not the temple at the time.

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The tabernacle.

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Then he designates six cities of refuge,

which tells me God has a category

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for somebody that commits a murder.

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But is first degree or even,

and murder and innocence.

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It doesn't describe exactly why,

but someone who can flee from

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the family what do you call it?

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The avenger of blood, which again,

to me, they don't have police.

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We think, well, you call the police

if there's an issue like this.

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Mm-hmm.

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And then they do an investigation

and they put you before a

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trial in front of your peers.

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But here they don't have that.

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Right?

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So there's a family member whose

job it is, to avenge the blood

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of the person who was killed.

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And unless you go to this city of refuge,

your toast, this guy's gonna take you out.

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Which is a whole mind-boggling

way to look at this because we

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live in a western society with.

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With judges, and again, police forces

and all sorts of things like this,

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but this is God inventing a people for

himself and giving them rules to live by.

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And one of the cool things about

the city, cities of refuge is

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that Jesus is our city of refuge.

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Some of the things that we haven't touched

on yet is that Jesus is who we flee to

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for protection against this consuming

foe called death who will take us out

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unless we're found protected by Jesus,

the high priest, and he's the one who

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dies and he secures our freedom Now.

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Oh, amazing.

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Pointed to the Hebrews.

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Tells us a little bit about this, and

so I see a lot of beautiful colors here.

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I see God interacting with

the people in real time.

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I see so many complexities and questions

that I have that arise from the reading

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of this textbook still is fascinating for

me to see, and here God is acting as king.

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Oh yeah.

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God is acting as king, which

is why you bring up all those

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different things, right?

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He's the one instituting these things.

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He's the one designing how the

society is gonna work and creating

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the laws and the regulations and those

things and the people of Israel are

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supposed to see God as their king.

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Mm-hmm.

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We're gonna see in a little bit

that there's problems and they

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don't end up doing that and

following through with that.

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But even in a passage like this, God is

acting as the people of Israel's king.

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That's beautiful.

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I mean, even the, in verse 30 of

chapter 35, anyone kills a person.

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The murder shall be put to death

on the evidence of witnesses,

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which opens up a whole door.

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We, we do this, we talked about

this recently, but what qual

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qualifies or constitutes a

witness here, it was only people.

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Now witnesses can be

considered video, a video feed.

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It could be a photo.

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I mean, there's so much complexities

entered in here, but I love the

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fact that God is caring for his

people, giving them direction

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and helping build a just society.

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We take all this for granted

because we live in it, and yet

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for them this was, this was new.

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I mean, granted, they're not

novel in that no one else was

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thinking in these same ways.

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Obviously, there's other peoples

who, and there's some overlap here,

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but God is leading his people and

then he is leading them in justice.

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I love that.

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Yeah.

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Verse 13 of 36 says, these are the

commandments and the rules that

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the Lord commanded through Moses.

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That's right.

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To the people of Israel.

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Here's something.

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Fascinat No, go.

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Go.

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Here's something fascinating that I don't

know if you, maybe you guys didn't catch

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this, uh, or you might have overread this.

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'cause this is normal

for us, but not for them.

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Verse six.

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In chapter 36, this is what the Lord

commands concerning the daughters

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of Zho, um, Zol, Zaha Zalo had that

guy let them marry the daughters,

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let them marry whom they think best.

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Mm-hmm.

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That's unusual.

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Yes.

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They didn't get to choose that.

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And yet here God gives them permission to

do what we as Westerners do all the time.

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He was telling them, as long as

it's within your tribe, you can

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marry whoever you think is best.

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Because they didn't have a male headship

figure who could say, oh no, I'm gonna

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have you marry this guy over here.

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They got to choose another exciting

and fascinating in my mind, this

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is God saying, I understand our

cultural moss, but I'm gonna give

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you provision here to help protect

our inheritance and protect you.

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Yeah.

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And at that time, right.

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These people would've actually been kind

of insulted by such a suggestion as this.

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We look back at this and we go,

how dare they not have a choice?

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Why would that not be the norm?

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We're, we're insulted that

that wouldn't be the norm.

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Yeah, but these people are actually

gonna be they're gonna be agitated by the

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fact that this is something God is doing

against the cultural norms of the day.

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Well, I don't think most

people would even notice that.

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I think we would read it like, okay,

well what doesn't need to be said,

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of course, they do think is best,

and yet that that's exceptional.

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Right.

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That's why it stands out.

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I'm for prearranged marriages.

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Let's bring them back.

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You know, most, most

benefits have been benefits.

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Most of you add up all the

marriages in all of history.

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Oh, most have been.

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I don't know, man, with, we have 8

billion people on the planet right now.

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I think we might catch up pretty quick.

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A lot of people, I don't know.

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I get it.

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I get it.

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You get to pick your in-laws, you get

to pick, like, it makes so much sense.

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Well, okay.

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Yes, you get to choose selfishly, but

if you know your kid and you can make

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a better decision about, oh yeah.

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That's a good suitor for you.

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I mean, I, it's, it's,

and who has the most cash?

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Right.

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Who has the most money and Yeah.

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The Dow who the best kid.

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Yeah.

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The Dowries are gonna be great.

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That's why I've got four boys.

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I'm looking for to four dowries.

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That's gonna be fantastic.

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Anyways, let's jump over to

our New Testament reading.

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We're gonna be in March,

chapter 10 32 through 52.

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Notice verse 32, here, it

says they were on the road.

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So again, this is after Jesus had said,

with man, it's impossible, but not with

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God, for all things are possible with God.

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And Peter says, well,

we've left everything.

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And Jesus says to Peter, whoever's

left, brothers, or house, or

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sisters, or mother or father, or

children, for my sake of the gospel.

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They will receive a hundred fold

now in this time and house and

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brothers and sisters and mothers and

children lands with prosecutors in

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the age to, or with persecutions in

the age to count of eternal life.

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The disciples are amazed here.

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It says in verse 32, they were walking

ahead of them and they were amazed

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and those who followed were afraid.

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And so it's fascinating 'cause again,

you were just talking about, we read

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things and we go, well, of course, yes.

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And we can fall pre to that

in the New Testament as well.

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We can read stories that we're familiar

with in the gospels, read stories that

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we're familiar with that, that Jesus

has taught and think to ourselves, well,

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yeah, of course that makes sense and we

understand that because we've read this

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a hundred times, but real time we get the

disciples here being in awe of what Jesus

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is teaching and what Jesus is saying here

in those that are around them are afraid.

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And I don't know exactly what the fear

inducing side is because Jesus is not

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turning over tables or anything now,

but maybe they're afraid because they're

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going, man, this rich young man, he was

as righteous as he possibly could be.

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And Jesus said, he's not qualified.

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So if he's not qualified,

how can I be qualified?

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I can't be qualified to enter

into the kingdom either.

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So maybe that's the fear there.

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But this is a, an interesting response

that they have to Jesus's teaching here.

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From here, Jesus predicts his

death for now the third time.

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And this is right before

the triumphal entry.

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So this is the third and I believe the

final time of his crucifixion prediction.

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And still that they're not gonna

understand because right on the heels

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of this comes the request of James

and John, where they come up to Jesus

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and say, we want to sit one on your

right hand, one on your left hand.

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But we've read elsewhere that this was

their mom that asked the question here.

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So, pastor Mark, is it the mom?

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Or is it James and John

and how do we know?

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Well, it's both right.

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Okay.

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'cause ultimately, James and John

are the ones who are inquiring.

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But I do think we, we get to not

see the embarrassment of involving

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their mom in this particular passage.

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Thanks, pastor PJ.

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For what?

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Pointing it out.

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Pointing out what Mark is hiding it.

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And you just brought it out.

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Well, you know.

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No.

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So your take is, this is their mom asking.

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Yes.

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But Mark doesn't record that.

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That would be my interpretation of it.

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Yeah.

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Which is weird because again,

this is probably Peter's account.

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And.

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You know, if he wanted to get back at

John, because in John's account John's

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like, Peter did it, you would do it.

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He could have done it right here.

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He could've been like, it was John, John's

mom, John's mommy had to ask about this.

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But clearly they don't understand

where Jesus priorities are.

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And again, that comes back

to just the theme of kind of

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this episode of the podcast.

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We take for granted so much of what.

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We understand to be what Christianity

is, and yet they were learning, this

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was unfolding real time before them.

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They didn't know the things that we

know, and this was all new for them.

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So we look at this and go, what

are you even thinking about?

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Of course that's not yours or

Jesus's right to give that to you.

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That's for the father that's in the future

and you've got discipleship in front of

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you and you've got the cross, the empty.

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They didn't know any

of that at this point.

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And so they're amazed and they're trying

to put the pieces together as they're

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following Jesus during this stretch.

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And I think if my.

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Thinking is correct and that this is the

same account where their mom is involved.

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But I think what's happening here

is that Mark is emphasizing the

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disciples, and I mentioned this a

couple days ago, but all of Mark is

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emphasizing the disciples weakness.

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I think that's an emphasis and I think

that's a helpful way to, to spot what

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Mark is getting at throughout the gospel.

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But I think rather than bringing

Mom into the equation, there's,

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he's emphasizing that these

disciples really don't get it right.

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And I think part of Mark's goal,

which is I, I must have gotten.

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What Jesus says here

Peter must have gotten it.

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The son of man came not to be served,

but to serve and to give his life

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for a ransom as a ransom for many.

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I think that's, at least in part,

it's funny 'cause we talk about the,

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in the intentions behind what they

say, why they say what they say.

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And we don't know, like we

don't know why John records.

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Peter doing this.

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We don't know why Peter

doesn't decide to put John.

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We just don't know.

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What we have though is

what he does tell us.

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And this, I think this is the point,

the point of Christianity is to figure

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out how much you can serve others so

that you can be great in the kingdom.

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I want greatness and I'm not ashamed to

say I wanna be great in God's kingdom and

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I'm willing to suffer and forego greatness

here and now in order to receive that.

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And I think God wants us to pursue that.

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I think that's what Jesus

is helping them to see.

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Man, you guys, you wanna be great.

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Good, but here's how you do it.

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It's not the way that the world does it.

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It's not the way that the

world pursues these things.

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It's not about degrees and wealth

and privilege and here and now.

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It might be some of that.

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Some of you might get that, but

it's not really what this is about.

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It's about serving as

you have been served.

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And I think.

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We get a great picture of that

humility in the way chapter 10 ends.

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And I think there's contrast here in

Mark between this and the rich young

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man because you have a poor blind beggar

and whereas the rich young ruler didn't

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get it and walked away disappointed.

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Here you have the poor blind beggar who

really becomes a microcosm of what the

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gospel's all about because clearly he

knows his situation, how destitute he is.

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He knows he's blind.

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He gets to the place where he realizes and

understands that only Jesus can provide

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what he really needs and is crying out.

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Son of David, Jesus.

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Calls him over and says, what do you want?

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And he says, I wish to be able to see.

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And now granted, he's talking physical.

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But I think what we're seeing here

is there's a picture of the gospel at

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work here, the spiritual blindness.

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All of us at one point had to come in

faith to the Lord and say I wish to see

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Jesus gives him the sight to see, and

then says this, he says, go your way.

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Your faith has made you well.

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And then the last line is so important

to this because it says immediately

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he recovered a sight and followed him.

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On the way he follows him and

this is discipleship, right?

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We're blind, we receive the

spiritual side to be able to

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see, and then we follow Jesus.

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That's the life of the Christian here.

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So you've got the rich young ruler,

the one that everybody would look at

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and say, this is the guy that's the

perfect candidate to be a disciple.

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And then you've got the blind beggar in

Bartimaeus, and yet the one who gets.

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Isn't the rich young ruler who

everybody would be impressed by

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it's blind bar Bartimaeus, who

everyone was telling, Hey, be quiet.

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The teacher can't be

bothered by you right now.

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So I think Mark's trying to show and

then the request of James and John,

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when Jesus says, whoever wa wishes

to be great should be low the lowest

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of all should be the servant of all.

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And then you get this picture of this

beggar coming forward and he ends up

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getting it and following Jesus afterwards.

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All right, let's pray and

there'll be done one this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, give us all the humility to be

able to come before you to say, Lord,

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not that we want to be the greatest

in the sense that the world would

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consider us the greatest, but in the

sense that you would consider us great.

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And that is by serving.

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And so give us a humility.

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Give us a love for one another that

overflows from our love for you.

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And help us to be Lord alike.

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Bartimaeus instead of like the rich

young ruler who wanted to boast in

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what he's done, what he's accomplished,

and how good he is, and what he has

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or whatever the idols are in our own

life, where we might have those things

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that need to be rooted up or that you'd

help us do that so that we can follow

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you more passionately, more clearly,

without obstacle, without hindrance.

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And so we thank you so

much for the gospel.

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We thank you for Christ.

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We thank you for the spiritual

sight that we have in Him.

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We pray all this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Keep in those Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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