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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: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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:I think it is.
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:It is excellent work.
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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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: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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: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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:Yeah.
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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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: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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:The more you find this to be fascinating.
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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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if there's an issue like this.
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and they put you before a
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:But here they don't have that.
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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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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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: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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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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:God is acting as king, which
is why you bring up all those
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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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: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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: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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:We, we do this, we talked about
this recently, but what qual
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witness here, it was only people.
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considered video, a video feed.
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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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novel in that no one else was
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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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: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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: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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:That's unusual.
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:They didn't get to choose that.
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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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: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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: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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: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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:I don't know, man, with, we have 8
billion people on the planet right now.
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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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if you know your kid and you can make
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and who has the most cash?
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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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: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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:They didn't know any
of that at this point.
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to put the pieces together as they're
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same account where their mom is involved.
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is that Mark is emphasizing the
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couple days ago, but all of Mark is
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that's a helpful way to, to spot what
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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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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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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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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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:What we have though is
what he does tell us.
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the point of Christianity is to figure
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that you can be great in the kingdom.
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say I wanna be great in God's kingdom and
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here and now in order to receive that.
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:I think that's what Jesus
is helping them to see.
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world pursues these things.
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and privilege and here and now.
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it's not really what this is about.
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you have been served.
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humility in the way chapter 10 ends.
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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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really becomes a microcosm of what the
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knows his situation, how destitute he is.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: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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