00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:15 Buzz Cuts and Haircuts

01:19 Haircuts and Cultural Context

04:07 Personal Haircut Stories

07:59 Bible Reading: First Chronicles 23-25

08:53 David's Organizational Skills

16:57 Reflections on Service and Community

17:59 Conclusion and Farewell

Hey, Hey, it's Saturday.

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And you found us again for another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Well, good morning, busy Bible BS.

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Busy Bible BS.

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That's a, quite the alliteration.

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Oh, thank you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I got buzzing on the mind.

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Buzz buzz, buzz, buzz.

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Uh, tell me your son got a buzz.

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He did.

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I think, I think by this point, my

kids will have followed and I think

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they'll have buzz cuts as well.

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And I am thrilled.

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I could not be more happy about that.

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You are ecstatic.

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Um, cause I mean, number one, we

could do this at home, like every

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week, get buzz and keep up nineties.

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It is much more affordable.

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Free is better than anything else.

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I mean, haircuts here crazy.

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30, 30 bucks a pop man.

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I am.

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Yeah, just about 30 bucks a pop and

inconsistent, generally speaking.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Even my go-to gal has on

some, some days she does.

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Good jobs.

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Other days it's just adequate.

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I'm not, unless I'm

not excited about that.

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I miss my old barber.

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I Ms.

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Kim for sure.

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But let's I want to talk about haircuts.

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I'm going to ask you a question

because people think that this is

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kind of a name, probably don't think

a whole lot about haircuts, except

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does it look nice and does it fit

your head shape and all those things?

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Is there.

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Any guidance that you would give.

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Uh, you know, I guess a young man,

a young man comes to you and says,

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pastor PJ, I want to get a haircut.

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Uh, do you have guidance about the kind of

haircut a young man should get, or even.

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Amen period.

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Yes.

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Yes, I do.

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Number one.

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Uh, you don't want it to be a distraction.

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And so that's going to vary

depending on your role for

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your culture and your culture.

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I think that plays a role

for you and I, right.

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Like we might think, oh man, I, I

really want to get a Mohawk because

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I think a Mohawk looks cool, but

based on our, our role and the

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fact that we're up in front in a.

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Uh, the church context, we

don't want to be distracting.

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Right.

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And that would certainly be distracting.

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I mean, but okay.

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So let me just push back a tiny bit.

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Yes.

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Depending on the church you go to

though, like a really cool haircut.

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Yeah.

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That's fair.

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That's the role, right?

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Yeah.

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So if you've got like those, uh, those

lines on your head, or you got the,

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you got the, what you call those little

lines on your eyebrows, if you did

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that, people might be okay with that.

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That's true.

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That's true.

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And that's, that's that's fair.

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That's that's well taken.

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So that goes back to your context,

your culture, things like that.

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So that would be one.

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The other cultural consideration

is this, uh, for a man.

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That your haircut needs to reflect your

gender and the gender expectations of

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the culture in which you find yourself.

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Um, and, and that carries over to

our dress and our appearance as well.

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Uh, the Bible and the old Testament

forbid mails from wearing women's clothing

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and vice versa, there was to be an

embracing of our gender, our identity.

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And that's a loaded phrase.

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Isn't it?

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If there ever was one today in today's

culture, by that, I mean, the, the gender

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that God created us to be the one that

you chose at birth, you're saying, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um, we should look like that and, yeah.

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Okay, fine.

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That's going to look different

in different cultures.

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I agree with that a hundred percent

and at different times that's going to

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look different at times long hair was,

was written off as, as nobody can have

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long hair and be, be masculine at all.

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It's totally feminine.

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Right.

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Um, you go to the Japanese culture,

the samurai warriors have long hair

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and it wasn't considered feminine.

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So there's, it's, it's not the same

across the board, but for where you

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are, wherever you find yourself and

whatever the cultural norms are.

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As a man, you need to

look like a man, right?

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I think it's probably, it goes back

to this idea that what you wear and

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how you present yourself, preaches

everything about you, preaches

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a message to people around you.

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And the thing that we want

to preach is God is king and

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I follow the, I follow God.

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And I think what he typically, we're going

to see some of that in our reading today.

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God is an organized God.

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He's not a God of chaos.

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He's not a God of haphazard

actions and behaviors.

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God has organized.

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He's thoughtful and he's prudent.

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If I could use that word about God.

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And I think our.

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Our, uh, presentation of

ourselves, it should reflect that.

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It should look like the

fruit of the spirit.

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It should not look like the

devil has gotten into our hair

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and, you know, messed it up.

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Not that I have.

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I don't have anything in mind.

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I'm not pointing fingers at anybody.

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Just thinking.

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Our presentation should match the

God that we serve and not, and

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again, I don't have a specific

haircut in mind, but I'm with you.

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I think that really, uh, because

what we were and what we, how we do

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our hair preachers, I think we have

to be careful what we're preaching.

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What was the.

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Do you have any hairstyles

that you just look back on it?

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You regret?

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Dude.

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I have a couple.

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Let me, let me just tell you.

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And in middle school, yes, it was

middle school and middle school.

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I dyed my hair red.

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Okay.

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And I, I got in green and the back of

my head, this was like $120 haircut.

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My stepdad did it and

I was thankful for it.

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Um, but I had the name of a band.

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In green on the back of my head

and the rest of my hair was red.

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Wow.

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And it was spiked.

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Wow.

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Yeah, it wasn't long

spiked, but it was spiked.

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I remember going to the mall

and it was, again, it was super

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expensive, but it was so memorable.

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And then we went to the concert

together with the name of that band

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that I had in the back of my head.

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Went to that concert.

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It was, it was great.

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I mean pre Christ.

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It was great.

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And we had a great time, but when

I went to school the next day that

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principal's like, okay, this is a Sharpie.

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This is your hair.

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You can either do this yourself.

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Go home right now and go.

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Make it the right color.

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Or I can do it for you right now.

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He's holding the Sharpie in front of me.

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Yeah.

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So I said, I guess I'm

going home then by teach.

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Yeah, that wasn't fun.

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Another one I did, I had, so I

don't know if you remember this.

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I don't know if it was

even a thing in Texas.

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Most of my head was like, uh,

probably a path or, or the zero.

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Yeah.

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Except for my bangs.

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Oh, We're all the way

in the back of my head.

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So like, I don't know

what what's that, but.

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10 inches maybe.

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Okay.

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Um, and they were, they

were blonde blonde.

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Yeah.

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I'm not, I'm not.

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Proud not proud of that.

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Okay.

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I've just say, this is the way it was.

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I don't, even if I have, if I have

pictures of that, I'm sure I do somewhere.

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My mom probably does.

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But those are two haircuts

that I wish I had not gotten.

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Yeah.

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Tell us about your space.

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Yeah.

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I kind of had the opposite

of the bangs thing.

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I had the buzz and I had

the rat tail when I was in.

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Elementary school.

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Oh, wow.

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Okay.

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We can't be held accountable for that.

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Yeah.

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Elementary school.

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I'm going to have to talk

to your parents about.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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You guys.

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Yeah, it was bad.

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And then I think it was

fifth or sixth grade.

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I had the chili bowl.

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The cheese.

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I have the chili bowl.

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I think we need to see this picture.

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I there's it's floating around somewhere.

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It was.

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Floppy and yep.

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He was the chili bowl.

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So those are the two that

I probably regret the most.

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See a buzz cut.

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You'll never regret.

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Cause that's never going

to go out of style.

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It's true.

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People are always shocked by it.

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Yeah.

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For initially, they're

like, whoa, we're drawing.

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So much attention to your face, right?

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So you've got to have a good face for it.

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And a good head shape, but right.

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You know, Get over that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then there's the guys that

start losing their hair and

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they're like, I'm just going,

I'm in a big shame and good ball.

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Yeah.

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I could, I don't think I could do that.

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What'd you do that?

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I mean, if I had to, I would

I'm I'm hoping I won't have to.

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I'm going to have.

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It's a good head of hair.

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I think it will be okay.

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Apparently.

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It's your mom's dad is the genetic

connection for baldness and my

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mom's dad was fine on that front.

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From what I understand too.

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Yeah, you can always go the Elon

Musk route and buy some hair plugs.

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You could, but no.

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Yeah.

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Did you ever see his picture

before he had his hair today?

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No.

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Like he was basically bald.

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I do way older.

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He looks younger today than he did when

he was however he was 20 years ago.

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Look it up at some point.

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It was pretty impressive.

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Interesting.

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Anyway.

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Interesting.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Those guys that shave every day.

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Like I know we've got a couple of guys.

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At church that day.

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And then they will tell

you it's a daily thing.

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Yeah, I couldn't do that.

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I don't mind once a week, I get

my haircut every two weeks, but.

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Daily, just too much.

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You get your haircut every

two weeks, two weeks.

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Yes.

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It adds up, man.

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Just because they have Mexican hair, the

hair goes out like this on the sides.

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I can't do anything with it.

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Yeah.

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He held his hands next to his head.

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Everybody in stuck his fingers out.

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So if you're wondering it

grows, like what I can't see.

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I want to know.

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I mean, just.

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Did you all know about Mexicans hair?

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If he lets it grow, it goes everywhere.

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My son has that hair.

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Uh, Adam, that is, yeah.

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Yeah.

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When mine gets too long, I

ended up doing the side part.

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So if you ever see me, I've

got the side part going on.

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It's because I need a haircut.

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So.

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I just got one recently though.

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So yeah.

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We're good to go.

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Your head does look smaller.

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Hey, thanks man.

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Appreciate that.

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Uh, Hey, let's, uh, let's jump in then

to our Bible reading passage for the day.

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First Chronicles 23, 24, 25.

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All right.

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Uh, this section or the, the.

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Chapter at the beginning of chapter

23, opens with Solomon as king.

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Uh, over Israel and, uh,

this is a little bit less.

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Uh, dramatic than what we'll find in,

in the, the account in first Kings.

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But Solomon's there.

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He's going to be king.

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Um, but before he really fully

takes over, David wants to make

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sure that he's set up for success.

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So we've already seen that.

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David wanted to, uh, see the, the

supplies provided for the temple and

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even some of the worship songs written

for the dedication of the temple.

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And now he just wants to make sure

that that Solomon has a good in to

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your point that you just mentioned

a minute ago, pastor Ron, uh, an

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organized beginning to his, his rain.

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And so that's kind of what

we find in these chapters.

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David goes into overblown administrative

mode and begins to, to organize everybody.

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I like it, man.

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I'm all about them.

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Yes.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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I was aiming in the whole

way through this thing.

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You're like, man, this speaks to me.

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This is me.

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This is my.

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My heart type of leadership.

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So he's, he's got, you know, the, the

priests are going to be organized.

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The, uh, the Levites are

going to be organized.

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The singers are going to be organized.

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It's it's, it's everything to make

sure things are going to go as

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smoothly as possible for Solomon

in his task of leading the nation.

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Um, it's a Solomon is,

is set up for success.

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By his dad, which is pretty cool.

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That is really cool.

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There's a couple.

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I mean, there's at least one thing

in here that I was just like, I'm

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still scratching my head, trying

to figure out what to do with it.

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The age of the Levi's changes without any.

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Any explanation.

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So you'll notice early on in this chapter

here, if you're watching or looking at

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your Bible, scroll through it, or page

to the, to this area here in verse three.

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David.

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Assigns the Levi's gets to

be 30 years old and upward.

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So then he numbers them 38,000 men.

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But if you look further down

in your Bible, you make your

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way on down to verse 24.

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He says that the Levi's.

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Um, the sons of Levi, sons of Levi by

their father's houses, heads of the

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father's houses, as they were listed,

according to the number of the names of

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the individuals from here's the number.

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20 years old and upward.

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They were to do the work.

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So, is it 20 or is it 30 and

what's happening and why?

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And, and, and the short answer I

have right now is I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure yet.

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That was trying to figure out.

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Okay.

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Is there a good explanation and, and,

and some of the commentaries have.

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Potentials.

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Um, but there isn't a really strong,

I mean, Even the MacArthur study

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Bible at that MacArthur, you know, he

kind of just cuts through the stuff

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and just tells you what he thinks.

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I don't think he has a really good

answer to that either other than.

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Uh, other than he just says it's,

there's, there's a variety of numbers.

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If five-year apprenticeship,

he says begins at age 25.

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Cross-references number is 8

24 and in some cases, 20, and

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he refers to this passage here.

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Um, doesn't give a reason why though.

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It's.

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It's just, that's what it is.

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So there you go.

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Something interesting.

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I'm sure we'll figure out an answer at

some point in time, but there you go.

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There's something that you could

scratch your chin about with me.

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And try to figure out a solution.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That is puzzling.

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For sure.

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Yeah.

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Um, a couple other notes here.

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Look at.

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Uh, verse 14 from chapter 23, you'll

notice, but the sons of Moses, the man of

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God were named among the tribe of Levi.

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Uh, Moses the man of God.

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I just made a note there.

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I said, man, what a cool epitaph

that would be to have that.

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The way that you remembered.

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Yeah.

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Um, you know, and again, it's, it's

a reminder to us much like David,

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the man after God's own heart,

you have Moses, the man of God.

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Well, Uh, Moses, wasn't

always that type of a guy.

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You remember the, when Moses murder,

the Egyptian, you remember when.

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Uh, Moses struck the rock

instead of speaking to the

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rock and obedience to the Lord.

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You remember?

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I mean, there were plenty of

things that Moses did that, that

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weren't, uh, godly, we would say.

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And yet he's, he's remembered

as the man of God in verse 14.

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So, uh, really a great epitaph in,

in one that all of us should, uh,

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should aspire towards for sure.

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Something that I think we'll all

resonate with someday is verse 26.

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Check this out.

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And so the Levi's no longer need

to carry the tabernacle or any

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of the things for its service.

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And all the congregation

said a minute, it'd be site.

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I've been, I've done mobile church things.

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Now twice.

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This is their second time around.

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And I, every time I'm

like, why am I doing this?

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I can't wait for a building.

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I'm praying God, give us a building.

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It would be so much easier.

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And sometimes easy is not what God wants.

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In fact, right now in our present season,

easiest, clearly not what God wants.

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I think God appreciates and enjoys

the labor that we put forward.

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In serving him in this particular way.

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And again, there, there is a light at the

end of the tunnel, how far that light is.

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We don't know, but God

clearly has it in mind.

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At least he did for the Levi it's here.

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And I trust that someday.

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It will be the same for us as well.

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When that day comes, we're going to

celebrate, we're gonna have a party.

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It's going to be a very great day

and like the Levi's we're going to

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be like, Hey, no longer need to carry

the tabernacle or any of the things.

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And the stage plays.

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He's got his stage yet.

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The speakers will praise God together.

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When that day comes.

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Yeah, by the way we, since I

mentioned it, I think in, in

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a yesterday's episode or, or.

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Thursday's episode.

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We've got a couple of people sign up

for our set up and tear down team.

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Thanks for responding.

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Thanks for responding.

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And he'd been I'm I'm stoked.

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I'm looking for more.

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We're not done.

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Uh, we need more people.

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So, uh, if you're still wondering.

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Then yeah, here it is a note also

verse 27 for, by the last words

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of David, the sons of Levi were

number from 20 years old and upward.

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So there you see, 20

years, 10 years again.

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But also notice the last words of David.

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And so for David, this was

significant enough that he

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thought to himself, you know what.

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This needs to get done.

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These are some of his last words

towards the end of his life.

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And he spending it.

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By giving specific instructions

on how things should be done in

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order and in an organized fashion.

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Um, Which is is good.

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And that's something that, that,

you know, I think pastor rod.

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As you and I have have served together

in ministry now, uh, more intensely

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over the last couple of years.

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I think just getting to know each other

a little bit more in that I think this

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is definitely your default, your gifting.

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I think.

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I wouldn't say this is my, my

default, my gifting, but you're

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getting better all the time.

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I'm trying to get it right all the time.

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Yeah, I can sometimes be more

fly by the seat of my pants and

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that's kind of my comfort zone.

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Sometimes it's just to go off the cuff,

but, uh, but I'm, I'm, I'm working.

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I'm trying to come back

towards the organization stuck.

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Well, it's funny that you said it

because I don't think I grew up this way.

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I, I read these chapters

and I was convicted.

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I'm like, man, I'm not organized enough.

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I just need to.

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Because Dave is not just

putting things in order.

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He's putting people in places he's

assembling people to do the work.

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And I thought that's so brilliant.

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He's, he's delegating responsibility

and authority to a variety of people,

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groups to make sure that the house of

God and his people are well cared for.

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And so I was reading this thinking

that I could do this better.

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I should do this better.

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I'm sure.

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David also had, you know, people that he

was training and that real apprenticing

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in different roles to help grow the

people and to grow the Levi's, to

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become who they were to be musicians

and priests and all these people.

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Now we need to do a better job with this.

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In fact, I would go so far

as to say, because this is an

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element of God's character.

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I think every person to some degree

in varying degrees, it's going to look

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different than all of us should aspire

to have this, um, and, and grow in it.

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Uh, to, to the degree, that

would be pleasing to God.

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Again, it's gonna look

different for all of us.

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Not everyone has to look like you're

a power productivity person, but I

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think this is an evident character

of God that we should emulate.

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Yeah.

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And, uh, on that note, if that's an area

that you're saying, Hey, I'd love to, to

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get better, where to start a good book

for you from a Christian perspective,

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do more better by Tim Challies.

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We've recommended that book

before on this podcast.

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Uh, but that was super helpful,

uh, talking about some of the nuts

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and bolts of, of organization and,

uh, getting yourself a calendar

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and a, to do list manager.

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Right.

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How to utilize all those things.

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Cause it's one thing

to download those apps.

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It's another thing then to know

what to do with them afterwards.

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So that book do more

better by Tim showers.

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Uh, I would recommend it to you for sure.

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One I read recently that I

enjoyed was called slow practice.

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Productivity by Cal Newport.

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He calls it and subtitle the lost art

of accomplishment without burnout.

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And I know that burnout

is a big deal these days.

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It's kind of a term that we all

know it's become ubiquitous.

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Uh, maybe that book would be

helpful for you if you feel

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like you're on the edge of that.

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Yep.

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By the way, what we see here

in first Chronicles, 23 through

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25 is, uh, has something to do

with, with Luke chapter one.

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And, uh, John the Baptist

because, uh, Zachariah, who was

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John's dad was one of the Levi.

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Priests part of the tribe of Levi there.

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And he was on duty in the town, in the

temple when the angel of the Lord showed

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up to him and said, Hey, Uh, you know

what your wife is going to have a son

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and you're going to name him, John.

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And oh, by the way, you're not gonna

be able to talk until he's born.

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But Levi was on-duty or Levi.

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Uh, Zachariah was on duty as a Revit

in the temple during this time.

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And, and this is part of that, that, uh,

that foundation there, because they went

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onto this rotational schedule there.

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And so it was his turn

to be on the temple.

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Uh, grounds doing the, the duties

there when, uh, the angel showed up.

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One of the things that I took

away and we tend to do this when

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we're looking at a list of names.

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I just think about all the people that are

involved in making this thing function.

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And I begin to think about our

people, our church, and all the

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people that serve in multiple ways.

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I just, I'm thankful for that.

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Yes.

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Don't take that for granted.

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Your, your, your most valuable

resource is not your money.

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It's not your time.

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Although that is valuable.

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Both of them are.

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And as people, as people, God

made you to be a relational being.

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In fact, he designed you for relationship

with himself that ought to tell you where

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your highest value is relating with God.

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And then he tells us, Hey,

love people care about people.

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And that there's your marching

orders to love God and love others.

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This is how we glorify him.

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And part of that is We glorify him

by loving him and loving others in

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the house and how we serve and our

work, if we're working fast food, or

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if you're working as a pastor in our

case, or as a lawyer or a doctor or a

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mechanic, you're loving God and loving

people through your acts of service.

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So man, what a good thing and

what a cool thing it is to see

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all these people working together

to bless the people of God.

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Your work matters, your service matters.

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And man, you should be thankful

for the privilege of getting

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to do it for the people of God.

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What a great thing that is.

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Amen.

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I meant, well, thanks for

tuning in for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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Keep, bring your Bibles and tune

in again tomorrow for another one.

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We'll see you then.

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Bye.