00:00 Intro
00:06 Encouragement to Attend Church and Sit Closer
03:43 Discussion on Shepherds and Ezekiel 34
09:03 Judgment on Edomites in Ezekiel 35
10:30 New Covenant in Ezekiel 36
12:38 Understanding Old and New Covenants
19:38 Closing Prayer and Farewell
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Hey everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:And happy Sunday.
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:Happy Sunday.
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:Yep.
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:And if you are on your way to church
and haven't gotten there yet, we're
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:gonna ask you to do something that we
asked you to do, I think last week too.
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:Yeah.
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:Read your Bible.
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:Yes, do that.
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:Pray one Peter one, 14 through 16.
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:Specifically drive to church.
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:Drive to church.
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:Bring your family.
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:Don't leave them home.
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:Your family.
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:Don't forget the family.
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:Yeah.
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:Don't do that though bad.
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:Are we a dog friendly church?
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:Could we bring their dog?
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:Nope.
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:Do we do animal blessings?
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:I've had lots of people ask the question.
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:No, you haven't.
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:People wanna know there's a
goldfish that's not doing so well.
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:No, we don't do animal blessings.
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:Okay.
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:Are you going drag that
conversation into this right now?
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:No, I'm not.
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:All right, great.
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:We'll leave it alone.
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:People wanna know.
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:People wanna know.
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:Yeah.
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:No, but we are gonna ask if you are one
of our ours and we trust that you are,
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:if you're listening to this podcast,
that you would do us a favor of sitting
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:a little bit closer than you normally do.
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:In fact.
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:A lot closer than you normally do.
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:Find the closest that you can
get aside from sitting on stage.
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:If you can't see Pastor PJ's,
wrinkles, you're not close enough.
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:Yikes.
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:You don't need to get that
close, but move on up and move in
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:because that does us a huge favor.
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:God is growing our church, which we love,
and we are doing the best that we can do
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:in the facility that we've got right now.
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:And we've got some room to grow still
in that facility, which is great.
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:We can stay where we're at.
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:We can continue to grow.
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:We don't need to, make a
dramatic shift on anything.
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:But we are filling up that room and
we're gonna be adding more chairs in the
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:coming weeks too, to accommodate that.
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:What we pray will be continued growth.
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:And so what you can do for us is
move forward and move in and you
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:might think, does that really matter?
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:And the answer is it really does.
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:And it.
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:While the number of empty chairs may not
change in the room, the perception of the
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:visitor walking into the room does change
in the sense that if you walk into a room
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:and we've all been there before and you
look around at the only seats that are
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:open are all the way down front, you're
gonna feel like, Hey man, there's not
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:really any room for me in this place.
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:There's seats there.
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:Sure.
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:But I don't wanna walk down there.
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:I don't know if those are reserved.
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:I don't know if, if somebody on
the worship team's gonna come
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:down and sit in those seats.
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:I don't really wanna walk in front
of all these people, I don't know,
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:and go down there and sit there.
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:Or maybe they're looking in the back
of the auditorium and there's two or
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:three seats, but in, they're in the
middle of the row and they're gonna
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:have to walk in front of seven people
that they don't know they've never met
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:before to sit in those three seats.
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:So if you can move in and move
up, that will really help.
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:Make our place a, a
warm and inviting place.
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:People tell us all the time how warm and
friendly y'all are, and we love that.
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:This is another extension of that to just
change the location that you're sitting.
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:Move up, move in.
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:That'd be a huge help.
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:Interesting that in the church
setting, the best seat in
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:the house are the back seats.
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:Back row Baptist at your home,
you'd be like, sit in the seat of
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:honor in front of everybody, or
you could see everybody just fine.
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:But in the church it's the opposite,
which is fascinating to me.
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:That's the way that most people see it.
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:It's helpful to have those seats in
the back for people that are coming
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:later, and that's usually newer people.
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:People don't like to show up on time
if it's a church that they're not
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:familiar with, because honestly,
they're not necessarily trying
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:They're still feeling it out and
relationships just make things messier.
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:If I like you and I don't like your
church, do I come to your church?
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:It's those kinds of things.
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:So help us be helpful to them.
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:Be gracious.
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:Hosts and sit a little
closer to Pastor pj.
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:I even think I might start
sitting on the stage.
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:Okay.
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:Behind you.
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:Okay.
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:And saying We don't receive that church.
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:I could add colorful commentary.
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:I could see that being very helpful
for people to pay attention more.
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:I the Google Leaf during the sermon
might, I would ask questions.
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:Clarifying.
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:Did you mean to say it this way?
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:Sound effects some people.
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:Sound effects could work.
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waiting to be used.
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point or a bad point?
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:No, that'd be huge help for us, but yeah.
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:I'm glad to bring it then.
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:You guys moving up and
in not the air horn.
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:Leave the air horn at home.
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:Don't bring the air horn
to church on Sunday.
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:Hey, let's jump into our DVR.
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:We are in Ezekiel 34, 35, and 36 today.
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:Chapter 34 is similar to what
we talked about maybe yesterday.
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:I can't remember the day before on.
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:Israel's or Ezekiel rather, in his
role as the watchman of Israel, because
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:in chapter 34, what God is gonna do
is he's gonna indict the shepherds
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:of Israel for basically not doing
their job in caring for the people
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:of Israel, spiritually speaking.
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:And the shepherd's job was to
protect the sheep and to lead
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:the sheep and to feed the sheep.
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:And what these shepherds were
doing was, rather than protecting
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:them, they were exposing them.
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:And they were using
them for their own gain.
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:They were getting fat
themselves off of the sheep.
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:Instead of caring for these sheep.
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:And so you think about the juxtaposition
of Christ who says in John 10 that he's
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:the good shepherd and the good shepherd
lays down his life for the sheep.
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:These are not good shepherds that
we find in Ezekiel chapter 34.
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:The priest, the leaders, the spiritual
leaders of Israel, were not doing
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:the job that God had called them to
do that they should have been doing.
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:And God was indicting them
on that in chapter 34.
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:And so they're gonna
be called for account.
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:And again, the reason being is not
because the people were sinning, because
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:they were bad shepherds, but rather
because they were not good shepherds.
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:The people that were sinning,
that they were gonna be judged,
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:were gonna be held accountable,
and these shepherds were gonna be
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:held accountable for them as well.
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:Just like we talked about
with Ezekiel as the watchman.
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:By contrast, God would eventually, in
the millennial kingdom, provide the good
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:shepherd, and that's gonna be Jesus.
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:I think this is the
background of John Chapter 10.
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:And a, a forward-looking prophecy
as well, not just a John Chapter
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:10 in the first advent, but more
specifically to the second coming of
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:Christ when he will be their shepherd
and reign and rule over them as both
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:their priest and their king in that
fulfillment in the millennial kingdom.
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:So when he says shepherds of Israel,
then do you think he's talking to a
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:certain class of leader, leaders in
general, kings, prophets, priests,
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:I guess Ezekiel's the prophet,
and maybe Jeremiah's in view here.
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:Probably not though.
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:Who is he talking to?
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:I've always taken it as the spiritual
leaders, just because I think in the
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:New Testament it's a term that conveys
spiritual oversight more than it does the.
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:More political oversight.
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:I think it, it could play both of
those roles, but I think it, it, I've
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:always looked at it as from a spiritual
perspective, the priests more than
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:I have the kings and governors and
rulers, but it could apply to both.
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:Yeah, I think I'd be inclined
to agree with you there.
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:And I suppose that the pertinent point
for us, for those of us who are shepherds,
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:not everybody who's listening is going
to be one of those, but I feel this, I
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:read Ezekiel 34 and I even referenced.
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:Jeremiah 23 where he's has a little
bit of something like this in his
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:first four verses in that chapter.
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:This is such a heavy burden and God
cares deeply about his people to the
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:point where if a shepherd isn't doing
his job, he's derelict in his duty.
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:The true shepherd, the shepherd
himself, the great shepherd will
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:do justice for his people and that
will mean cutting down the shepherds
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:that are just fleecing the flock.
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:Look out for them.
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:Sadly, there are many, even within
the church, there are people that
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:call themselves shepherds, but really
they're wolves in sheep's clothing.
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:You would do well to know how to find them
and part of it is knowing your Bible well
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:enough to look for the marks of faithful
leadership versus the unfaithful one.
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:And ultimately what we're pointing to
here, as you said, is John chapter 10,
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:every Good shepherd is just a reflection
and a shadow of the true shepherd.
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:And that's the kind of person
that you should follow.
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:Yeah.
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:There was the.
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:X account, Portia, they're always
highlighting, we would say bad shepherds.
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:And they had one just the other day.
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:I think it was Saturday morning on this.
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:Pastor, quote unquote, I use scare
courts around that, who had basically
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:told his church, Hey we're gonna
welcome those in the L-G-B-T-Q
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:community because even though the
Bible says and speaks out against
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:these things I care less about what
the Bible says than I do about loving.
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:The people that are
creating the image of God.
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:What?
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:Yeah.
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:No lie.
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:And they unbelievable.
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:They have this, back and forth that
they do between the pastor and the
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:congregation before every service.
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:And the end of it is we will always love
the person in front of us more than the
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:war in our laps or something like that.
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:It's a false dichotomy.
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:It.
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:B, but it's one that sound that,
that preaches to a liberal world.
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:A liberal audience.
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:Oh yeah.
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:We should love people more than we should.
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:Love the, bibliography.
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:It's that accusation of
against us as in our camp.
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:And that's, you're right, it's a false
dichotomy because the way that we shepherd
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:and love people the best is by pointing
them to the word of God and calling them
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:into into obedience to the word of God.
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:In fact, we're gonna talk about that.
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:Today.
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:And the reason for that is because
that's what God desires and he desires
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:that not because of some, he's waiting
for us to prove ourselves, but because
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:he wants a relationship with us and
holiness is key to that relationship.
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:And so yeah, that's been taken care of
for us at the cross, but it's also a.
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:It's a dynamic relationship here
on Earth before we get to eternity
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:where the more holy we are, the
closer we're gonna feel to the Lord.
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:And as your shepherds, we want you to feel
that closeness to the Lord and the best
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:thing that we can do for you, and that
is to say, this is what God's word says.
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:Come and follow it.
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:Come and do it.
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:And we wanna walk with you in that
process and help you along in that.
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:Amen to that.
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:And one, one other final
thought here true shepherd does.
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:Tell without apology what his
flock is supposed to do here.
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:Here's what you should do according to
what God's word says, it doesn't mean
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:they wield that with a heavy hand.
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:We're gonna find out in one Peter
chapter five that the way a shepherd
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:leads is critical, not just what
he says, but how he does it.
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:And those two pieces together.
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:Having a thick skin and tender
heart is what allows a pastor a
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:shepherd to really do his job with
excellence and with Christ-likeness.
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:Chapter 35 then is about
the Edomites once more.
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:And so we see the Edomites again here.
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:Mount Sr was related to Edem and the
Edomites and the descendants of Esau.
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:And so this is the judgment.
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:We see that in chapter 35.
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:That's the main gist of this here,
that MTEs are gonna be punished for
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:gloating over Israel's downfall and
assuming that they would be able to
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:take over their land, even though
it still belonged to Yahweh and
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:even though Israel was in exile.
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:This is a reminder for us in this chapter
that even today, even as chaotic as things
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:are right now, the back and forth between
Israel and Palestine and everything
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:else, that land ultimately is God's land.
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:And he has a future for it.
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:And nobody is going to lay claim to that
land that he's not gonna allow to do that.
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:And ultimately he's gonna rid
everybody and set up the kingdom there.
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:So the Edomites presume upon their place.
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:And God is saying, Nope,
this isn't your place.
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:And so judgment is gonna come
against Edem here in Chapter 35.
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:I think Edem continues to play
this role of being an anti type
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:or really a scarecrow of sorts.
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:They represent.
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:Israel's enemies and they just
happen to be the ones that
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:actually are fulfilling this role.
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:So I suppose one thing I would caution
you against is being overly literal
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:in the way that you read Chapter 35
and just saying, oh, it's only edem.
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:They're the real big issue here.
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:They're not sure they are an issue, but
they are one issue among many others.
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:It's really the nations that
set themselves against Israel.
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:Simply the punching bag here that
God utilizes to say it's like this.
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:You guys are acting in ways
and you're the stereotype that
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:fits the general statement.
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:Yeah, that's a good point.
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:A chapter 36 is one of the more
well-known chapters in Ezekiel because
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:we deal with new covenant language here.
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:And so the beginning part of the chapter,
God is saying that he's gonna avenge the
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:land, but really the people of Israel,
for those that are gloating, those that
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:are celebrating their downfall, he's
gonna restore Israel out of concern
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:for his name, verses 20 through 21.
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:He's saying, this is not gonna be for you,
but this is for my name, for my glory.
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:And then he gets into the new covenant
language here in the the verses.
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:24 through 28 specifically.
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:But his future restoration of
the people is gonna involve
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:this new covenant language.
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:And this is going to be the language
of the new heart and the new spirit,
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:and the sprinkling with water for the
cleansing of sin, removing the heart
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:of stone, giving the heart of flesh,
putting the spirit within him, all these
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:things, walking in obedience, dwelling
in the land that I gave to the fathers.
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:And you shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
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:So remember, Jeremiah 31 is
the chapter Jeremiah 31 31.
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:Begins it is the original introduction
in the new covenant language.
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:This picks up on a lot of
those same themes and develops
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:it a little bit more for us.
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:And this is the background of so
much of what Jesus picks up on in
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:the New Testament when he talks
about being the living water in other
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:things like this and about sprinkling
with water for cleansing of sins.
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:There's a lot here behind the scenes
in from Ezekiel 36 and the new covenant
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:that Jesus is building upon as well.
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:And even though we see this as
common, we've read this before.
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:We exist under the new covenant.
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:This is.
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:This is huge.
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:I can't overstate how massive this
prediction, this prophecy is because
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:it points to something greater than
the current covenant giving you a
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:new heart, new spirit within you.
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:Jeremiah and Ezekiel are both
exilic, post exilic prophets.
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:Jeremiah lives through that,
and so this is God saying this.
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:Covenant appears to have failed.
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:People went to the land, they took
over the land under Joshua, they
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:lived under the judges, and now
everything really has not gone well.
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:The kings failed, the people failed.
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:They've been exiled, and yet
God is saying, I'm not done yet.
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:You think this is the end.
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:It's not the end.
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:I'm going to restore you and I'm gonna
do something better than anything.
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:The first covenant, the old covenant,
as we now know it could ever do.
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:So this is huge.
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:I hope you feel the weight of it
and also the joy of it because
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:you're on the other side of this.
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:Yeah.
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:And by when you say the covenant that
failed, there we're, let's be clear, we're
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:talking Mosaic, covenant, mosaic, right?
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:Under the old covenant.
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:Yes.
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:Yeah, that's what I meant.
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:Yeah.
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:Because the Abrahamic covenant
is still in operation.
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:Yes.
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:Davidic Covenant still in operation.
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:New Covenant really is there
to, to supplant the Mosaic
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:Covenant predominantly.
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:Would you say it's a helpful way
to think about the old Covenant?
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:'cause we talked about the old Covenant
as one singular thing, and I guess it is.
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:If you think of.
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:The Abrahamic as being the bull
that carries the smaller bulls,
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:like Russian nesting dolls.
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:Would that be a good way to think of it?
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:Or is it better to think of them as
several covenants under the old covenant?
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:I guess I've always thought of them as
multiple covenants under the old Covenant.
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:You've got your major ones.
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:The no AIC Covenant is in there too.
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:That one's usually not as massive,
although it's significant.
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:Hey, God's not gonna
flood the world again.
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:And here's the rainbow, and he's gonna
put that in the cloud as the sign of that.
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:But mosaic's big because that's, Hey,
this is how we're gonna relate to one
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:another and here's the sacrificial system
in, in the law and everything else.
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:In fact, we're talking
about that today in church.
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:Is the significance of what that was
foreshadowing and looking forward to?
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:So I guess I've always just thought
about the big three covenants in the
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:Old Testament, and that is the mosaic.
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:The Abrahamic and the Davidic and the
Abrahamic and the Davidic continue today.
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:The mosaic has been.
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:Fulfilled in Christ and
supplanted by the new covenant.
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:How would you say that the Mosaic covenant
and the Abrahamic covenant fit together?
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:Because it seems like they
contradict at least superficially.
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:Sure.
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:The Abrahamic covenant is God
saying, I'm gonna do this to
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:you regardless of what you do.
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:Abraham was asleep when the
covenant was enacted and solidified.
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:He does nothing.
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:And yet God says, I'm gonna bless you
and yet down the line you have the mosaic
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:covenant where Moses says, if you do this,
if you obey, then you'll have the land.
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:See the blessing that was promised under
Abraham, you'll get to enjoy all the
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:covenant blessings, but if you don't obey.
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:I'm gonna exile you and you're gonna
eat your kids and all the other
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:things that he talks about there.
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:And that comes to the fore.
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:It does.
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:So how do the mosaic and
the Abrahamic covenant fit?
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:Yeah.
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:How are we best to understand those?
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:I, my mind goes to what Paul says when
he says, not all Israel is true Israel.
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:And then in Galatians he says is those who
are of faith, that are sons of Abraham.
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:And so I, I think the
mosaic covenant was their.
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:And given nationally to
the people of Israel.
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:But it wasn't necessarily the
abiding covenant for the way that
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:relationship was gonna work out.
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:I see what you mean by, is it the
bull or the nesting doll, because
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:the primary relationship was
always gonna be through faith, even
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:with the mosaic covenant there.
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:They're gonna be justified by faith,
and that's why Paul could say in
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:Galatians three that God preached the
gospel beforehand him to, to Abraham.
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:So the mosaic covenant was never about are
you gonna spend eternity with God or not?
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:That was always gonna come down to faith.
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:The Mosaic Covenant was, this is what
relationship with God looks like in this
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:dispensation, and if you don't maintain
it, you may reveal that you don't have
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:that relationship founded on faith.
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:But that wasn't everybody.
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:There were some people for
whom the Mosaic Covenant was.
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:Was sufficient for them.
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:They were following him.
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:They were doing the things that
they had called them to do that,
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:that faithful remnant in others.
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:I think were effective in that,
but that wasn't changing the fact
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:that they're standing with God.
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:It was ultimately faith, which goes
back to the Abraham and Covenant.
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:So when we say the Old Covenant, the Old
Testament, is it a misnomer then to say
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:singular old covenant, old Testament?
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:Would you say is a better
way to talk about it?
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:Because we're saying here, and I think
I understand your point, Abrahamic
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:Davidic, those are carrying forward
into the New Testament, right?
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:And we expect those to be fully fulfilled
right at the millennial reign of Christ.
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:What are we saying then, right
when we say Under the old covenant?
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:Sometimes we'll use it
as a shorthand, right?
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:What are we saying?
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:I think we're talking Mosaic Covenant.
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:Anytime we say old covenant singular.
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:Yeah.
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:We're saying primarily old
covenant mosaic covenants, right?
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:That we have in mind.
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:Okay.
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:But the old covenant contains
many covenants or God.
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:Obligate himself to his people.
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:Among them are the Mosaic, the Abrahamic,
the Davidic, those are the big three.
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:You have the Adamic or the Covenant
of Works, sometimes it's called.
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:The Icic.
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:You mentioned there's
Levitical, the Levitical law.
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:Is that a covenant, isn't
that part of the mosaic?
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:Would you say the Levitical
is connected to that?
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:Yeah I guess I'm thinking when
he says of the, of Levi, I
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:won't make a covenant with you.
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:Okay.
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:In your descendants.
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:That's a good one.
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:Yeah.
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:It seems like this gets really confusing.
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:It does.
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:It does.
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:Real fast.
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do we keep that straight?
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:I think, again, remembering the big three
are the ones that are gonna have the most
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the mosaic covenant fulfilled in Christ
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:The Abrahamic Covenant operative, this
is the gospel from the very beginning.
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viic covenant points to the future
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as dispensationalist to
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because the descendant of Christ,
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us to keep in mind when the storm clouds
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remember the no NOIC covenant with comfort
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gonna break loose and flood the earth.
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important for us to remember.
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for Israel, man, the Abrahamic Covenant,
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because it was a dual covenant.
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that's the lande and blessing.
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today, which is why there's still
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between Israel and Palestine.
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then Israel would've moved on and
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wouldn't have been that big of a deal.
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and blessing there in that land, I think
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going, this is the biggest deal right now.
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to them that was unilateral.
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word that you could use.
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as I understand it, because God
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I'm gonna make you a sure house.
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your kingdom and rulership, not only
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:The primary bilateral covenant under the
Old Covenant, the Old Testament is the
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that's the one that's causing all
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them and says, it's not over.
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crumbling, but God's relationship
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heart, which will allow you to obey.
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:That's been the whole problem
here, is that you couldn't
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say later on in Galatians.
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can never obey no matter how hard we try.
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be asks ever we've ever definitively
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they woke up today, they're like, oh man.
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be done with this episode.
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:God we freely admit that the Bible
is complex in some of these things.
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:It's simple in the things that we
need to know and learn and understand
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:when it comes to our standing with
you and who you are and who Jesus
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we do our best to try to understand,
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:and some of these things are the secret
things that belong to you and you alone.
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:But help us to.
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:Able to discern that and not be lazy.
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:Not to just say we'll never understand it.
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:So let's throw our hands up and not even
try, but to be good students and try to
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:understand as much as we can and by your
spirit, Lord, teach us, instruct us, lead
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:us so that we can gain more understanding
of these things and appreciate more of
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:who you are and how you operate today,
and how you will continue to operate.
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you've laid out for us in scripture.
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pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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:Keep reading your Bibles.
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:Tune in again tomorrow for another
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:PJ: Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said