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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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Speaker:

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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Yeah, 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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Okay.

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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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And now I'm recording.

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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'm watching it right now.

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I see the sound waves on the screen.

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Doesn't matter.

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Doesn't matter.

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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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And it just disappeared and it went

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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So we stopped.

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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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When did stop?

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How long?

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Into five minutes in.

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Oh yeah.

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So it wasn't terribly long.

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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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So there's that.

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Yes.

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What.

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That's what caused it to crash.

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Right.

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You said there was these red blocks.

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Oh no.

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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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Yeah, it was only $75.

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That's a great deal.

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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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Yeah.

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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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People bought it.

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That's crazy.

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I think they got, I don't know,

I don't know if it was more

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than double digits, but several.

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Yeah.

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Where you had to say he was the winner.

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He got it.

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Yeah.

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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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Right.

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But I applaud the guy for

having the wisdom to say, people

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are gonna buy this to show.

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And he got several

thousand dollars out of it.

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And I don't know what apple's cut was.

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Clearly it wasn't enough

for them to keep it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just appealing to the pride, right.

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Pride of mankind.

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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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One would question whether

or not we succeeded in it.

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Right.

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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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Yeah.

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Okay.

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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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Yeah.

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He can be very explicit

when he wants to be.

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Mm-hmm.

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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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Right.

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That's Genesis one and two.

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We're all about that.

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Yep.

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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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Their hand servants.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Wet nurses, whatever you wanna call 'em.

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Yeah, no, that's true.

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That's true.

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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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from the very outset.

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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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I'm just gonna throw it out there.

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Levert marriage isn't entirely clear that

it's only if the brother is unmarried.

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Right?

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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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married dies and he has no kids.

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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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Right?

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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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when the brother's married?

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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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I'm sure God did that on purpose.

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Leave us here.

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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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and show himself to be righteous.

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Good.

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And just, that's my best take.

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Yeah, that's helpful.

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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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Formal is the better term.

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Thank you.

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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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you should always be above the 50%.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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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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you're asking me to do, father,

this would be the Pharisees.

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And then he's talking about the others who

would say, no, we're not gonna do that.

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But then later on, they're the ones that

actually go and do what was asked of them.

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And so these are those that

are going to listen to the

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words of Christ and obey them.

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And so again, he's indicting the

religious leaders of the Jews here

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and does this ultimately in one

final one here in chapter 21 with

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the parable of the tenets when.

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He compares this to a vineyard with a

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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And this is the Pharisees, again,

to care for the nation of Israel.

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And then the father, this being God sends.

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Servants, the prophets, the

Pharisees the religious leaders

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of Israel, they ignore them.

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They end up beating them.

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Killing them.

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And then finally he sends his son

and they say, this is the one.

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This is the heir.

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Let's take him.

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Let's kill him.

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Let's eliminate him.

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And God ultimately, is displeased

to the point that he's going

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to judge the wicked servants.

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And that's what Jesus indicts the

Pharisees and the religious leaders

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as saying, you're these ones and

you're gonna be punished as a result.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that stood

out to me this time is.

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And I brought this up recently and I

continue to bring it up and only in part

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because it was such a novel revelation

to me, not that this is new revelation,

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but Jesus doesn't answer their question.

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They ask him a question and

he says, tell you what, I'll

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answer yours if you answer mine.

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And this is surprising to me because

I've always been under the opinion

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and the impression that when someone

asks you a question, you give them

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a direct answer to what they ask.

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And here, even though I don't know

if it was an opponent, I think

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I still would likely lean on,

just be honest, say what it is.

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Say what is true here.

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Jesus doesn't do that.

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they ask him a direct question.

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Now there's nothing here that tells

us they're trying to entrap him.

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Except he knows that they're opposing his

authority, they're opposing his ministry.

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And so there's nothing in the

text that tells us they're

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specifically trying to trap him.

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We know that because

we're reading the gospel.

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We've already seen these characters,

but they ask him a question and

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he says, well, tell you what.

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I'll answer your, if you answer mine.

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So I think one of the principles

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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Or even an answer in the first place.

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He doesn't answer them dishonestly,

he just doesn't answer them.

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I think that is an interesting insight.

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I referred back to Matthew chapter seven.

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This came to mind as I was thinking

about this, and he says here in chapter

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seven, verse six, don't give to what is.

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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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application as I interact with others.

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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

Bibles and tune in again tomorrow

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for another edition of the Daily

Bible Podcast where you will have

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all of your questions answered.

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