00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:46 Technical Difficulties and Podcasting Challenges
02:45 Discussion on Polygamy in the Old Testament
11:09 Bible Reading: Exodus and Matthew
12:26 Significance of Priestly Garments
16:13 Jesus' Authority and Parables
20:39 Closing Remarks and Prayer
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Hey everybody, but welcome back to a
Sunday edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:Hello, A Sunday in-person at Church
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:I was unsure at first whether or not
we'd make it to church in person.
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:I know you had a throat tickle
and you were warning people.
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:Maybe that's not gonna happen after all.
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:It's a shot in the dark.
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:Guys, we don't know if
we're gonna do church.
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:I am feeling the tickle in my throat.
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:That is what I said.
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:Word forward.
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:That's the implication I got at least.
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:No, my voice is strained though.
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:Even as we're recording right now
on Saturday, I am to hear it all.
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:I can get through.
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:I can't hear it at all.
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:And normally because I'm
so used to your voice.
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:Yeah.
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:'cause you talk all the time.
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:I can hear.
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:The most subtle nuances in your voice.
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:Right now it sounds perfectly fine.
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:Well, good.
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:I'm intentionally not
straining as I'm talking.
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:Okay, well good.
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:I'm reserved.
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:You picked that up.
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:I had save the energy a meeting and
then I had to record my loom twice
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:'cause I failed the first time.
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:Podcast.
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:How did you fail?
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:I didn't.
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:Didn't plug the microphone into the box.
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:So, yikes.
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:You're gone for a few days and
you forget how to do everything.
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:It was 20 minutes of my life
that I will not get back.
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:Well, if it brings you any comfort, you
and I have shared that experience before.
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:Yes, with the DBR podcast
we have, thankfully not
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:today, hopefully watching it.
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:I see the sound waves on the screen.
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:We've had stuff like
this happen before where.
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:We see the right things.
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:Yeah, we get the wrong results.
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:Pastor Mark and I had that
happen while you were out.
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:We started and Oh good.
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to like this red blocks on the screen
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:and it was like, but I knew this time.
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:We didn't record the whole episode.
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:Oh, well that's helpful.
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:I knew enough to be like, oh, it failed.
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:Well, your Learning Blocks app, probably
it showed up in the middle of your
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:podcasting, but you'll know your shapes.
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:You said there was these red blocks.
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:Learning the shapes.
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:The app that you downloaded
from the Mac app store.
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:You got it on sale, so good stewardship.
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:Speaking of, I've seen it pop up a
couple times recently and I don't
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:even know why, but have you seen, back
when the app store first launched,
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:there was an app called I'm Rich and
it was an app for I remember that.
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:$999 that did nothing other than it was
a flex to say, I bought this $999 app.
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:And what's more surprising?
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:People bought it.
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I don't know if it was more
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:Apple pulled it from the store
because they're like, what is
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:this nonsense ruining our garden?
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having the wisdom to say, people
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thousand dollars out of it.
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for them to keep it.
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:Well, hey, we have a follow up question
to a subject that we discussed in one
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:of our previous episodes that, somebody
would like us to go a little bit more
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:in depth on, and that is the issue of
the Old Testament and polygamy and,
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:The person writes in and says, man,
I've struggled with this as I've gone
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:deeper into my Old Testament reading
the last few years and I get it.
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:and it's a tension there.
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:He says, God never explicitly
approves polygamy and states
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:that it's clearly a sin.
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:If you look at the whole of
scripture, we can see that.
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:But he does permit it
in the Old Testament.
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:In other words, he doesn't say this
is okay, but he does permit it.
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:and he says, I struggle with why God
would not just have permitted it.
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:Prohibited outright said, this is wrong.
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:Don't do it.
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:And so we talked about that a little bit.
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:We attempted to, yeah.
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:One would question whether
or not we succeeded in it.
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:But we did attempt to talk about
it, so let's ask some questions
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:and I'll just be the guy shoving
the needle or not the needle, the
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:knife shoving the knife deeper here.
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:Clearly, yeah.
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:God could have said, and he
has said things like, you
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:should not do this and that.
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:He can be very explicit
when he wants to be.
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:This seems like one of those things where.
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:God could have said,
pastor PJ, it is wrong.
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:You shall not commit adultery,
nor shall you commit polygamy.
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:You and I might assume, if you're
a reader of the Bible, and I assume
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:that you are pastor PJ I a few times,
yeah, you might assume after reading
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:your Bible, that to say adultery is
to say the same thing is no polygamy.
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:But clearly they didn't see it that way.
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:And if they did, it's not
evident from the text.
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:So why didn't God just say, thou shalt
not commit polygamy or polyandry.
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:So here's my response.
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:I do think God's design for
marriage being between one man
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:and one woman is in the text.
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:I think it's clear.
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:I don't think we'd argue with that.
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:That's Genesis one and two.
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:We're all about that.
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:For this reason, a man shall leave his
father and mother and hold fast to his
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:wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
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:Even that language there.
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:God's design for marriage
is one woman, one man.
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:He allows polygamy in the lives of some
of the key figures in the Old Testament.
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:you've got Abraham,
you've got Jacob, though.
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:Jacob was.
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:Kind of tricked into polygamy, you
could argue, David was a polygamist.
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:He had multiple wives.
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:You've got Solomon.
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:He was initially tricked, but then
he participated willingly after
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:choosing their, what do you call those?
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:Their handmaids?
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:Wet nurses, whatever you wanna call 'em.
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:so you've got a lot of these
figures that are polygamist.
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:In fact, it's almost harder to find
somebody who wasn't than somebody who
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:was in the Old Testament as far as our.
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:Key figures, and I'll say this,
when we find polygamy, we rarely
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:find good things taking place.
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:we find a lot of problems
accompanying the additional
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:wives in the lives of these men.
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:even when you look at David,
when David takes multiple
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:wives, his family was a mess.
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:when he takes on Bathsheba
after that whole situation.
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:You've got Absalom, you've got the
murder, you've got the situation
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:with his, one of his daughters who is
defiled by one of his other children.
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:it's a mess.
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:even Abraham, I would argue
that's not a great family dynamic.
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:the situation that happens with him, with
multiple wives and the offspring that
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:God uses with Jacob and Rachel and Leah,
and yes, he still brings Israel out of
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:the offspring there, but it's not good.
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:You've got Simeon, you've got
Levi, you've got the turmoil.
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:It's.
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:It's never a good thing.
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:God is never holding up these
families saying, this is the paradigm.
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:This is what's good.
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:So.
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:It happens and yes, I'm with you.
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:I wish God would've come
out and said, don't do it.
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:Polygamy is wrong.
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:And he does prohibit
kings from amassing wives.
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:My take is Exodus 2014.
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:You shall not commit adultery.
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:I would hold that as taking an
additional wife is committing adultery.
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:And so I do believe that it was wrong for
these other men to take additional wives.
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:God.
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:Used them and used their situations,
maybe even in spite of their sinful waves.
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:But I do believe that it was wrong.
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:I do believe this is transgressing,
God's design that we established
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:One man, one woman, my best
attempt at answering this
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:question as directly as possible.
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:And the question is, why
didn't God just say, don't do
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:this specifically this thing?
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:Because it was a clear pernicious
sin that they persisted in.
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:As early as Genesis chapter four or
five, sixes, I forget where it is,
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:but Leic takes on two wives and it's
like, Hey, this is what I'm doing.
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:This is a good thing.
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:so here's my best answer.
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:If I am looking at God, ultimately
we don't wanna put God on the dock.
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:We're warned against this.
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:We don't judge God and say, God,
why don't you do A, B, C, and D?
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:He's the one who judges us.
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:So let's just start with that posture.
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:And when I look at something
that offends me, that God does,
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:I assume I'm in the wrong here.
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:Something about my perception is
Shortsighted, and therefore, because my
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:perception is only singular, that is, I
alone look at this from my own perspective
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:and not from God's perspective looking
at all of human history and everything
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:else at the same time, I assume that my
visibility of what I'm looking at is.
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:Shortsighted limited, and therefore,
I'm not in the best place to judge God.
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:So that's my starting place.
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:I'm gonna say God knows what he's doing.
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:I don't, God has revealed to me
certain things and I'm gonna do my
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:best to understand them, but at the
end of the day, I'm gonna have to
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:take some things at face value and
trust that God knows what he's doing.
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:That's set, that's my preamble.
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:The second thing I would say is that
whatever God does, and I wrote this
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:down 'cause I don't wanna mess this up,
that there must be a sufficiently good
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:reason that warrants a necessary evil
for God to permit it, a sufficiently
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:good reason to warrant a necessary evil.
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:My best and most potent arguments
is to point to Jesus Christ.
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:A sufficient good in this case
is the salvation of everyone who
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:would bow the need of Christ.
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:That was a sufficiently good
reason to allow, and this is the
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:most amazing part, the grievous
and ugliest evil where Jesus was.
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:Beaten, dishonored, bloodied,
spat upon given a crown of thorns.
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:And so the sufficiently good thing was
our salvation, but the necessary evil
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:was his dishonor, his humiliation.
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:So God permits evil things
to take place all the time.
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:He even governs the evil thing.
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:You might remember when Moses is,
he writes in the book of Deuteronomy
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:that if you're going to divorce
somebody, here's how you do this.
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:When Jesus is asked about this
later on, he says, it is for
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:because of your hardness of hearts
that God permitted this, where
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:Moses tells you to do it this way.
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:He says, but in the
beginning it wasn't so.
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:And he points to Adam and Eve being the
template for everyone else after them.
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:And so Pastor Pier, you
pointed to Adam and Eve.
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:And I think it's a fair point
'cause that's what Jesus points
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:to and we should do the same.
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:However, Moses did that and Jesus says,
God permitted that, but not because God
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:wanted that he was regulating a grievous
evil, that if he had not regulated it,
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:it would've resulted in further evil.
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:So all that to say, limited to
my visibility, two, there must
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:be a sufficiently good cause
that warrants a necessary evil.
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:And the best that I can come up
with, and this is just my stab
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:in the dark and looking at other
people who responded to this is.
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:Polygamy was a lesser evil than letting
women be unprotected and potentially
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:threatened to do, to engage in
prostitution or to sell themselves as
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:slavery, because they didn't have many
options outside of a man who could
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:protect them and provide it for them.
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:There's even some ambiguity about this,
and I, we haven't talked about this.
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:Levert marriage isn't entirely clear that
it's only if the brother is unmarried.
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:Do you remember Levert marriage?
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:Levert marriage is the idea
that if a brother, who is
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:That man's brother is supposed
to marry that deceased brother's
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:wife and perpetuate his name.
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:Well, we'd say, well that sounds great.
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:Oh, it makes perfect sense.
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:He's protecting his brother's widow.
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:And that makes perfect sense
until you say, what about
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:Does that change anything?
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:And we have no examples in scripture
where you have that exact situation.
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:All of that said such a good question.
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:I don't see everything,
but there's my best guess.
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:God has a sufficiently good cause.
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:I don't know what that cause is to
allow and to permit a necessary evil.
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:At the end of the day, he's going
to bring greater glory to himself
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:Good.
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:And just, that's my best take.
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:So hopefully that cleared everything up.
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:so clear.
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:But, if not, feel free to write in
follow up questions, but we need to get
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:into our Bible reading for it today.
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:You go for it.
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:I'm gonna lay now.
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:Go for it.
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:Alright, great.
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:Exodus 27, 28, and then
we've got Matthew chapter 21.
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:The rest of, of Matthew 21 there.
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:Exodus 27 gives some more instructions for
some of the components of the tabernacle.
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:We've got the bronze altar there.
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:and then you've also got the
quarter of the Tabernacle.
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:And again, these are.
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:According to the pattern shown
to Moses on the mountains.
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:So again, Moses is seeing these things
and also hearing these things and
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:receiving these instructions very
peculiar and specific about how God
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:wanted the tabernacle to be constructed
and to be made and to be designed.
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:And then in chapter 28, he gets into the
garments of the priest and what they were
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:to wear and how they should be designed
and what was supposed to be on them.
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:And there's a lot of, there's a
lot of ink given to these garments
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:for the priest to wear, and a lot
of it is ceremonial and symbolic.
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:In fact, in verse nine, you shall take
the two onyx stones and engrave on them
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:the names of the sons of Israel, and then
later on he's gonna have elements for
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:the breastplate that are gonna have the
names of the 12 tribes of Israel again.
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:And this.
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:Is because that's who the
priest was representing when the
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:priest went in before the Lord.
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:So the Lord wanted the priest always to
bear in mind that he's bearing the weight
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:of the people as he goes before the Lord.
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:So there's significance to these things.
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:There's symbolism here to what
God is doing with this, but.
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:Pastor Rod I'd love to get your thoughts.
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:If we in the New Testament can look
back at something like this and
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:draw in conclusions as to whether
or not we should spend a lot of time
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:and focus in what we wear when it
comes to church on Sunday morning.
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:Is there significance that, because
the Lord gave so much attention
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:to what his priest wore, that
there's something about what.
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:We should think about as
we consider what we wear.
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:Is this gonna result in you asking
somebody to make you priestly garments?
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:Yes.
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:You want, you wanna do this?
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:I want the turban.
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:I'm going to give a, an answer to
this and in a few different ways.
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:first, I think absolutely just from
the place of love, I want to be
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:thoughtful about what they were, because
I care about the people around me.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:So I don't wanna be distracting, I don't
wanna stand out for the wrong reasons.
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:I wanna make sure that I
show up in a way that's.
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:Almost invisible and I don't wanna draw.
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:Necessary attraction, number one.
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:Number two, does God want us
to carry that same mentality?
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:I know there's lots of churches, even
some that are local, that their style
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:of dress is far more, it's less casual
in some ways and far more, upscale.
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:Not upscale, that's the wrong term.
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:Formal.
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:Some churches are really formal.
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:a lot of churches that are
more formal tend to be the ones
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:that are more conservative.
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:They got the organ, the
preachers wearing a suit and tie.
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:And so, there's a certain feel, a
certain vibe that comes with these things.
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:And I think every church has the freedom
to make certain decisions about this.
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:And so, on the one hand I'm gonna say, you
should be thoughtful about what you show
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:up to and how you show up to the Lord.
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:on the other hand, I wanna say
there's freedom to do certain things.
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:Now I try to be, we've been given
from our sending church, our old
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:pastor would say, you gotta be above
the 50% mark, whatever that is,
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:I think that's a good rule of thumb.
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:but of course, if everyone does
that, then we're all gonna be, we're
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:gonna continually be getting nicer
and nicer as we wear our things.
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:I think you should be thoughtful.
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:At the end of the day,
it should be thoughtful.
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:You should be dressing in such a way
that you could say I'm contented doing
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:this as a means of offering to the Lord.
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:I know with my particular role as
a pastor, I often think about that.
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:What does my clothing say?
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:Am I saying the right thing
with what I'm wearing?
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:Am I being too casual?
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:Am I being too fancy?
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:Am I standing out for the wrong reasons?
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:That's kind of my rule of thumb.
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:What would you say to all that?
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:When you said the 50% rule,
that may not be super clear.
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:What that means is look at the status quo.
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:Look at the average.
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:Above average.
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:And aim for above it.
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:Shoot for just above that.
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:So I, yeah, I'm with you on that.
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:And I've gone back and forth
and worn different things even
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:from the pulpit and everything.
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:I think the biggest thing is
for us not to be a distraction.
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:With the people that it wouldn't
be, that so many people are
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:more concerned about what we're
wearing up on stage than they are.
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:What's being conveyed,
what we're there to do.
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:And that can be dressing
down too casually.
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:That can also be dressing too formally,
that can be giving too much attention to
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:what you're wearing when you're up there.
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:So we're not Old Testament priests.
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:We're not carrying things
up there symbolically in
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:the same way that they were.
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:but it's interesting.
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:God does care here about the dress.
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:He does care about the garb.
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:One of the things that I consider
as I get dressed in the morning
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:on a Sunday like today is.
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:What we're doing, with our
clothing and what we're
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:physically doing with our bodies.
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:And so because we're a set up in
Tear Down church and I participate
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:in both of those ministries.
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:Yep.
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:I tend to wear clothes
that work for everything.
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:Yeah.
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:I don't bring a second set of clothing.
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:I have done that before,
but, it's just too much.
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:I'm already carrying my guitar and
all these other things, so I think
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:practicality plays a role too, but
it's not the first question I ask.
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:It's one of the questions downstream.
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:Yeah.
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:The first question I
ask is this distracting?
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:Does this honor the Lord?
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:Is this something that I feel good about?
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:What my conscience that is.
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:I'm not feeling good as
in like, did my feelings.
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:Yeah.
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:Vibe with that.
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:It's about does this feel right
and appropriate given the context?
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:Yeah.
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:I always think it's interesting in this
section on the priestly garb that he,
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:they tied a rope around his waist, because
when he went into the Holy of Holies,
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:if he did something to, draw the wrath
of God and he would drop dead, then it's
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:not like you could just waltz in there
to pick up the body and carry him out.
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:So they had to have a way to retrieve.
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:The high priest after he went in there.
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:And that's also, the tradition holds
why he had bells on his garment as well,
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:so that they could hear him continually
moving around in the behind the veil
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:there as he went into to make atonement.
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:So interesting.
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:details on the priestly garments.
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:Alright, Matthew, chapter
21, 23 through 46.
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:We get more of this controversy.
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:Remember Jesus is taking the Pharisees and
their challenges to his authority head on.
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:And this continues as he's gonna be
asked a question, about his authority.
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:And what we see here is that Jesus.
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:His authority is always intact.
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:He's always in control.
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:Jesus has never caught flatfooted on
a question where he has to panic or
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:wonder, how am I gonna answer this?
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:And he responds with this question
about the baptism of John,
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:and it's a masterful response.
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:'cause he knows that
he's going to trap them.
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:It's much like.
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:Earlier in his ministry when he was asked
a question about the resurrection and the
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:Sadducees, or I guess this is later, we're
gonna see this in tomorrow's reading.
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:he's gonna ask a question and
he's going to, make a point to
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:talk about the resurrection.
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:And he's gonna pit the
Sadducees against the Pharisees.
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:Paul's gonna do the same thing there.
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:And so Jesus is a master, tactician here.
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:And so he asks this question, the
Pharisees aren't able to answer.
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:Jesus says, well, I'm not gonna
answer your silly question about
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:my authority, either, from here he
goes on and gives a parable about.
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:That is really indicting the Pharisees
and the Reli religious leaders.
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:He tells the story of one son who
says, I'll go do your the work that
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this would be the Pharisees.
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would say, no, we're not gonna do that.
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actually go and do what was asked of them.
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are going to listen to the
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religious leaders of the Jews here
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final one here in chapter 21 with
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fence put around, and it was lended out.
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:The vineyard was to these, these
tenants to take care of it.
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to care for the nation of Israel.
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:Servants, the prophets, the
Pharisees the religious leaders
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:They end up beating them.
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:Killing them.
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and they say, this is the one.
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to the point that he's going
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Pharisees and the religious leaders
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you're gonna be punished as a result.
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:One of the things that stood
out to me this time is.
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continue to bring it up and only in part
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to me, not that this is new revelation,
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:but Jesus doesn't answer their question.
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he says, tell you what, I'll
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I've always been under the opinion
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asks you a question, you give them
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if it was an opponent, I think
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just be honest, say what it is.
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:Jesus doesn't do that.
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:they ask him a direct question.
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us they're trying to entrap him.
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authority, they're opposing his ministry.
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text that tells us they're
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we're reading the gospel.
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but they ask him a question and
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I can draw from this is that
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:a dishonest question doesn't
necessarily warrant an honest answer.
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:He doesn't answer them dishonestly,
he just doesn't answer them.
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:This came to mind as I was thinking
about this, and he says here in chapter
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:Don't give to dogs what is holy,
and don't throw your pearls before
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:pigs unless they trample them
underfoot and turn to attack you.
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:This is so liberating to me.
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:This adds more complexity to the
way that I think about conversation.
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:But this is liberating because this
tells me just because someone asks
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:you doesn't mean I need to answer.
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:I should be wise enough to not throw
pearls before pigs as Jesus says here.
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:And that's gonna require a whole new
level of, of thoughtfulness and wise
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:This was something that
was interesting to me.
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:I found it so brilliant.
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:Number one, Jesus is just so masterful.
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:You called him a wise
or skilled tactician.
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:He is that and so much more in the
way that he deals with these things.
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:I'm learning so much from the life.
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:And the interactions of Jesus.
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:So if somebody asks you a question
and you don't respond to it, then they
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:should go home feeling like, ah, he
thinks I'm an opposition enemy guy.
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:You don't know.
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:Weak wink.
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:I just, again, I don't have
these kind of interactions.
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:Often.
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:We're not talking to
enemies with any regularity.
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:It's true, but it does help me think.
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:A question doesn't always
warrant a direct answer.
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:That's fair.
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:Depending on who's asking and
for what reason, they ask.
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:Now Jesus knows their hearts and
so that's a whole different ball
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:game, but still That's fair.
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:That's fair.
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:Well, hey, let's pray and then
we'll be done with this episode.
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:God, thanks for your word and for
today, being back in person together
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:at church, we are so thankful for that,
for celebrating communion together
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:as a church and even just for the
text that we're looking at of the
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:importance of being a strong church.
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:So we wanna pursue Christ in this world.
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:So I pray that you beared fruit from it.
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:Thanks for your word.
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:we were able to read together this
morning in our DBR pray that we would
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:understand it as best as we can.
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:Even as we're wrestling with hard things
like we did at the beginning of this
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:podcast, we thank you that we can trust
you and that we can lean upon you for your
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:wisdom as you continue to reveal it to us.
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:We pray this all in Jesus name, amen.
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:While Hey guys, keep reading your
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