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March 10, 2025 | Numbers 35-36
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In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts start with a conversation about TV reboots and transition into a discussion of Numbers 35-36. They explore the biblical laws regarding Levitical cities, manslaughter versus murder, and the importance of sober-minded living. The episode concludes with reflections on contentment and obedience, highlighting the daughters of Zelophehad and the permanence of land allotments among the tribes of Israel.

00:00 Introduction and Exciting News

00:06 Debating Reboots and Adaptations

01:40 Monday Morning Banter

01:54 Reflecting on a Memorable Incident

02:53 Upcoming Family Events

03:32 Privacy and Social Media

04:34 Biblical Teachings on Manslaughter and Murder

07:01 Driving Safety and Responsibility

09:39 Laws of Inheritance and Obedience

12:05 Conclusion and Prayer

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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 Monday and I've got great news.

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What's your great news?

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Little House on the Prairie

is getting a reboot.

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No, that's not good news.

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That's great news.

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Because they always no, they

always screw everything up.

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Yeah, it's probably not gonna be great.

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The Lord of the Rings reboot

that they did on Amazon Prime.

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Horrible.

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The Netflix, the Chronicle Chronicles

of Narnia that's coming out.

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It's gonna be bad . You

haven't seen it yet, though.

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Yeah, normally.

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Normally that's the case.

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And in fact, all the Disney

reboots that we've been watching,

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the live action not good enough.

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There's a difference between not

good enough and there's going to

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be some transgender kid in Laura

little house in the prairie.

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I'm looking at the photo and

it looks pretty authentic.

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There's a cabin and there's a

husband and a wife and three kids.

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That's pretty consistent so far.

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For the main family, yeah, but

I'm not holding my breath, man.

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They're calling it a fresh perspective

on the angles family journey.

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See, Oh, it gets worse.

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It transformed.

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See adaptation of Laura Ingalls

Wilder's semi autographical novel.

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Yeah, I bet it is an adaptation

a Transformed adaptation.

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Wow.

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She's a she'd not even asked if they could

use our transform conference titling.

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They didn't that's unacceptable

I'm going to go to chat GPT and

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ask it to draft up an email.

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So your good news is really bad news.

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I wanted to believe it wasn't until

I brought it up to you that now I

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don't think it's good news anymore.

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My cynicism is here to crush your dreams.

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Thank you.

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Yes.

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Keeping us all grounded,

this is not you and Gillian.

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This is the opposite.

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Yeah, you're right.

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It does say a transform

adaptation, fresh perspective.

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All of those are signals.

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Oh, that's not good, man.

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Yeah.

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Now I don't want to do this podcast.

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Okay.

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Then let's quit.

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No, it is Monday.

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Did you get more sleep?

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It's your day off.

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Did you?

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Since it's a spring

forward type situation.

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I hope I did.

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Yeah.

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Hope too.

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That is my hope.

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That is my desire.

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I got, we went to bed at the right time.

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You looked really ragged yesterday.

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I'm not gonna lie, man.

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I sure did, man.

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I just felt it.

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Yeah.

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My heart was not in it.

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And when you snapped and just broke

the guitar on stage, I thought, man,

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how are we gonna recover from this?

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That was an expensive snap too.

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It was, yeah.

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It's an expensive guitar.

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And it was David's guitar.

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I know it was unexpected

because he's not even playing.

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He's not.

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It was just like, I left the stage.

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He went to his car, got his guitar

out to the stage and said, and

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you just smashed it to bits.

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And you all waited for me.

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That was the best part.

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We were all waiting on pins and needles.

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We didn't know what was happening.

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Yeah.

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This is great.

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People wanted to know that they were

like, is this, are we charismatic now?

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Is this tongues that he's speaking?

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And I understand the confusion.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Which tongue should not.

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Yeah.

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Steve was clutch in the back of playing

the jeopardy theme in the background

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while we were all waiting for you to

get back, but yeah, if you weren't

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there yesterday, none of that happened.

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Yeah, you missed it, but

none of that happened.

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Yeah.

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We're just out of the live stream.

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We're just joshing.

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Yeah, anyways, yeah that's it's I

don't know that there's anything much

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more of note about today, Monday.

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Monday the 11th of March.

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Oh, wait.

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No 10th of March Cause tomorrow is notable

because it's my son's 16th birthday.

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Oh wow.

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So today's the 10th.

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What are you guys going to do about that?

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We're going to he's got

a baseball game actually.

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You're going to go to his baseball game.

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If I know, cause we've

got community group now.

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Yeah.

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So that's one way to do it.

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Or you'll celebrate it after the fact.

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Of course.

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Of course I'll do something cool.

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What's the agenda?

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My in laws are coming to town.

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So we're gonna celebrate with family.

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Cool.

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He's wanting to get out to Topgolf and

do that at some point to celebrate.

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So yeah, Topgolf I think we'll go do that.

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And he's got his driver's test later this

month to get his official license and Yep.

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And then it's game changed

once he gets his license, but

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we're not gonna do the thing.

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And if you've done it great.

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Good on you.

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I'm glad you did, but I'm not gonna

take the picture and post it on.

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Social media and be like, look out

world, because we got a new driver.

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Like I feel like it's like taking the

Instagram photo of your quiet time and

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posting it and being like, look at us.

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We have coffee in our Bibles together.

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We're so spiritual.

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Like it is.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to go delete that post.

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I just put out good.

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You should, because yeah, I,

again, that's my, I don't know.

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I'm not even ornery today.

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I don't know why all the

cynicism is coming out.

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I just like we get it, your

kids driving and it's bad news

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for everybody else on the road.

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We don't like Facebook.

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Cool.

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We'll like it.

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I'll like it for you if you want to do

that, but don't look for Josh on the

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picture because it's not going to happen.

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All right.

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But what's funny is some of the

parents will go in and cause

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they're holding up their license.

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And so they'll the ones with attention

to detail will redact their, like

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the license, block it out and stuff.

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You ought to man.

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That's this dude.

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If you Google yourself right now.

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If you're a good Googler, sometimes

you can't be too generic about

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it, but if you Google yourself,

there's a lot of information out

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there of you, all of us on the web.

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Yeah.

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So I get that.

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I don't want my stuff out there either.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's fair.

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That's fair.

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Let's jump into our DBR and

let's finish the book of numbers.

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Finish it.

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We'll finish counting.

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All done.

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All done.

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Numbers 35.

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These are the laws regarding the Levitical

cities and the six cities of refuge.

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So 48 of them, I believe all together

cause the six cities of refuge are

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a subset of the Levitical cities.

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And so there's 42 that are not

cities of refuge and then six of

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them, which are cities of refuge.

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Main part of this chapter

though, deals just with that.

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What to do with a man guilty

of manslaughter as compared

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to a man who commits.

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Premeditated murder.

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And so that's what the cities

of refuge were all about.

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If somebody committed manslaughter

took somebody's life on accident or

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something happened to cause that,

then there were these cities of

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refuge to which the guilty party

could flee and he was protected there

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until everything could be sorted out.

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And if it was found that this was

unintentional, that this was not an

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act of premeditated murder, then he was

instructed to stay in the Levitical city,

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the city of refuge there until the high

priest, the current high priest died.

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When the current high priest

died, then he was free to return

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to his home without any concern.

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But until that happened, if he left

the city of refuge, then the person

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who was the next of kin to the

person that he killed accidentally

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could take his life in vengeance.

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So I think the most applicable thing

for us today, because we don't have

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cities of refuge is just the note of

the fact that murder premeditated murder

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meant the forfeiture of one's own life.

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That was something that

is a biblical precept.

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And I think that's why as Christians, we

need to be okay with capital punishment.

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We need to be okay with

the death penalty today.

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There are grounds for it to take

place and there are times when it

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is appropriate for the death penalty

to be enacted against someone.

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Yeah, that begins in Genesis chapter nine.

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And God tells that to Noah, right?

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If someone sheds man's blood by

man shall his own blood be shed.

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But on top of that, I think what's

interesting is that you see here a

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definition between what we even identified

a day as manslaughter versus murder.

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And it really does hinge upon the

heart of the one who commits the act,

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whether there was intent behind the

act or whether there's any reasonable.

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Understanding of the scenario that

says, Oh, it was a truly an accident.

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So I think that's a helpful distinction.

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Not all killing is murder.

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And therefore we need to weigh that with

an even hand justice as God defines.

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It means making some really careful

slices in the way that we adjudicate

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someone's guilt or innocence when

it comes to taking someone's life.

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I think about this all

the time when I'm driving.

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And I'm tempted to or either in

some way, I'm fiddling with my phone

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and I think, Oh no, I got to be

careful because it's easy to not pay

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attention for just a brief moment.

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And suddenly something can happen.

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And man, I would feel awful.

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If anything happened because of my

brief lapse of attention to what

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I'm doing, I think that's a good

example, a good case study where if

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someone were to run somebody over

or commit some kind of accidental

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murder, that would be a manslaughter.

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And to what degree it is, of course,

it's dependent upon the course.

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But my point is God makes

these distinctions for us

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and we ought to do the same.

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Being a good Bible

thinker is making careful.

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Clear minded distinctions

that are based on the word.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think that's a helpful

clarification on that.

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I think about that all the time

driving through my neighborhood

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because so many people park the

cars on the side of the street.

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Oh yeah.

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Someone could just run out.

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Yeah.

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It drives me nuts when

people speed down my road.

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I'm the old guy that stands outside

on my, my, and I stare people down

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or I'll walk out into the street.

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If somebody's driving too fast, I'll

walk out into the street while my kids

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are out there and force them to stop.

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Yeah.

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Because they're just driving

like lunatics and they don't

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realize I care about my kids.

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But also if they hit somebody and

kill them, their life is done.

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Their life is over.

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Oh yeah.

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And yeah, I just living with that

guilt to gain what to gain three

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seconds on your commute home.

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Come on, people.

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Let's think about it.

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I find a lot of young people do

that, at least on my block, both

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here and back in California.

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There's always a young person

who would speed down the block.

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I'm like, my kids are out there.

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And granted, they know better not to

run in the street, a kid is a kid.

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They're going to, the

ball falls on the street.

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They run out.

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There's always those things.

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So just be careful with that.

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As a Christian, we ought to be the kind

of people that are sober minded enough to.

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To consider what possibilities might Yeah.

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Show up in front of us.

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That's wise and that's prudent living.

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And man, that ought to

be characteristic of us.

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Yeah.

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In fact, I knew somebody back in

California who had that very scenario

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happen to her, and she wasn't speeding.

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She was going the speed limit

down the road, but there were, the

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cars were parked and this little

boy ran out in front of her.

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Was she able to stop in time?

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No.

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Oh.

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Why you tell this story?

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Yeah.

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Because it's indicative, it's it

because it takes it out of the

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ethereal and makes it something that

actually sad podcast actually happened.

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I don't want to listen to this one.

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If, yeah, anyways and she wasn't

charged with a crime cause they

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investigated and found she was driving

the speed limit and everything else.

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So even then, it's just,

yeah, it's terrifying.

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The crushing weight that you would

have to bear for the rest of your life.

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I don't know if I could do that, man.

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Totally.

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I agree.

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So chapter 34 of numbers,

the point is drive slowly and

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chapter 35 and 35 chapter 35.

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Yeah.

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Is drive slowly.

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That's an application point

that I'm sure Moses had.

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I think that's what he had in mind.

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Did he?

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He's listen, when you're in

your chariot just be careful.

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Be careful, drive the speed limit.

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Anyhow yeah, numbers 36, we come back

to the daughters of Z Zalophahad.

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And they're back and there's

a concern being raised by some

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of the members of their tribe.

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And now that they're about to take

the land and their tribe is going to

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get a portion of the land, the concern

is that if these daughters marry

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somebody from another tribe, that the

other tribe is going to gain the land

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that belongs to the, their tribe.

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And so it raises up the, Chain of command

there and has decided that if there are

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any women who have a, an allotment in the

land, that they were only to marry within

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their tribes so that the land would not

be changed from one tribe to another.

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And that's a general principle that

comes out of this chapter is there's

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a law that's put in place that.

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That tribes cannot exchange

land with one another.

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So that goes back to what you were

saying, I think, in yesterday's episode

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about where their land, the tribes

that were unhappy with what they had.

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Not that probably all of three people

listening to this might care, but

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the NHL trade deadline just happened.

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Oh, and yeah, I know you're fast.

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Yeah.

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And the stars actually got one

of the best guys out there that

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now starts to no Mika ran then.

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But anyways, second guess.

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There was no trading of land that

it's not like you could say, Hey,

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we want to give up this portion of

land in order to gain this from you.

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That was the law that got, God had said,

this is, she'll be your boundaries and

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these are, this is what belongs to you.

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And Moses said, this is

what it's going to be.

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Period.

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End of story.

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There's not going to be land that

transfers from one tribe to another tribe.

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And this was just a case study

with the daughters of Zalophas.

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Man, I love the fact that.

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Moses takes, I don't

know, several lines here.

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He spills ink on these gals.

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Again, in verse 10, it says here,

The daughters of Zelophehad did

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as the Lord commanded Moses.

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I love it.

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And then he names them.

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He honors them so deeply by saying,

Look, here's what the result was.

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And these girls did exactly

what they were supposed to do.

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And they were told, Hey, you

got to marry in your tribe now.

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And I could imagine them saying,

but I was looking at this dude

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from Levi and he was really cute.

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And this other guy from the other

tribe of, Ephraim and they're

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like, all right we'll do it.

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If that's what's necessary

for the good of the community.

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Yeah.

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For the propagation of our

father's name and so be it, man.

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I love this because

they show contentedness.

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They show obedience.

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These girls are rock stars.

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Yeah, no, for sure.

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They are.

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I agree, man.

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Yeah, that's great.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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We see this so often in scripture.

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We're going to see what David's mighty

men to, where scripture recognizes

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people that are bit players by and

large, but list them in God's word

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and their names are recorded there.

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And that's super cool to think about.

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So, yeah.

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God keeps our names.

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He does keep our names

written in his book of life.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Let me pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for these realities

and reminders, even as we read

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numbers 35 and think about driving.

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It's crazy how your word is useful

and profitable for us today.

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It's sufficient for all things.

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And if we are paying attention to

your word, we can draw principles

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out of it that do apply to our lives

and in different ways and capacities.

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So we're grateful for those things.

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And certainly we want to pray that

you'd keep us from any foolishness,

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anything, any split second decision

that could cost us our lives, that

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could cause us to carry a weight around

for the rest of our lives that no one

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should have to carry or desire to carry.

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That's for sure.

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God help us to be wise as we conduct

ourselves in this world and careful

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about how we conduct ourselves.

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And so we ask this in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

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We'll see you then.

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