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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Updates

03:06 Joshua 9

06:52 Joshua 10

12:28 Luke 3

19:03 Closing Prayer

19:35 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey folks.

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Welcome back to Monday's edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and happy Monday to all of you.

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Hey, you may have noticed yesterday

that the sound was a little bit

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different than it normally is

interior for multiple reasons.

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No offense to any of our people.

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No, none.

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None Taken.

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None at all.

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None taken on behalf of them.

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Yeah.

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We had someone from Watermark showing up.

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Her name is Becca.

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Yeah.

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She runs their sound.

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I don't know if they call it a ministry

or a department, whatever it is.

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Yeah.

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Becca.

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She came and visited us this weekend for

our rehearsal on Thursday and on Sunday.

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Yeah.

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And I don't know if you

noticed this either, but we

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also have some new equipment.

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There was a suber two subwoofers actually.

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And you might've felt the bass, which

by the way, we had Abe on bass guitar.

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Yeah, he, well, there's this song

that we play from Sovereign Grace and

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there's this really fun bass lick Yeah.

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That we haven't done yet

for a variety of reasons.

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But Abe did it this weekend.

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Nailed it.

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Oh man.

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It was so good.

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Yeah.

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I am, as a previously, I used to play

bass, and it's one of my favorite

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instruments because it's so funky.

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It's got such great grooves, and

Abe just knows how to do things.

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And you can, if you listen closely to

the bass, and man, I wish I would've

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pointed it out before the service.

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Now I think about it.

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Hey guys, as you're

worshiping, just listen to Abe.

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Okay.

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Just be sure to listen

to the Abe for this song.

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It's so good.

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We had a great mix.

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We had a great Abe.

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Yeah, we had a great weekend.

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Yeah I've watched Abe on the bass before.

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He has fun on the bass.

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I like watching back there.

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He does.

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Whenever someone plays a good lick,

I can't help but turn around to

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smile at them, but yes, nailed it.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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You bring up whether watermark calls

themselves a ministry or not, and I

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do remember that from sitting in on

one of the leadership conferences that

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we've gone to them in the past we did.

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Kind of a back of house tour with

their audio people, but they talked

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about their whole tech team and

they said, we are a ministry.

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And that's how we view ourselves.

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We're not just the tech department,

that when we're creating slides,

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we want our people to think

about the fact that they're

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participating in the act of worship.

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Because if they have a typo on one

of the slides that could interrupt

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somebody's worship out there.

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Yeah, that's true.

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And so we wanna do things with excellence

because we want people to be able to

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worship the Lord without obstacles.

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And so she said even putting

slides together and putting the

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lyrics together is something

that's an act of worship for them.

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They're participating in it.

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It's not just something

the tech team does.

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They're participating with the

whole church service because

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this factors into worship.

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Yeah.

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I'm not surprised by that.

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One of the things that you and I

were just reflecting on is how much

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we appreciate watermark's culture.

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Yeah.

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There are some big differences between us.

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Obviously there are just a

few people larger than we are,

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but besides that, just a few.

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There's philosophical differences between

us and those are the kind of things that

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we were talking about yesterday that

we don't allow to separate us, right?

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We still hold the primary things

in common, and for that we can

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rejoice and we lock arms with them.

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We've visited their CLC conference and

as we said previously we have Becca,

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their sound engineer here with us, so

we appreciate them tremendously and one

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of the things that I appreciate most

about them is their generosity of spirit.

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They have such a great perspective on

the work that they do, including looking

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at everything that they do as ministry

and not segregating it and saying, well,

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the pastor, pastor pj, he preaches,

he's doing ministry, but I'm just Right.

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I'm just mopping.

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Right.

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I'm just cleaning the

bathroom toilet or whatever.

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I love watermark for that reason.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, let's jump

into our DBR for today.

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We've got Joshua nine and

10, and Luke chapter three.

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Joshua nine is one of those chapters

that I'm like, no, don't do it.

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Anytime I, I come across a few of

these, like when Moses hits the

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Rock and Moses, does it ever change?

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Moses?

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Don't do it.

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Never changes.

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Never changes, huh, boy.

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But I still read it like

maybe like, just don't do it.

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And so in Joshua chapter

nine, we encounter somebody.

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Who's another inhabitant

of the promised land here.

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One of the inhabitants that God

said, I'm gonna drive them out.

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Don't give them quarter, don't

make any treaties with them.

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That would be the Gibeonites

and the Gibeonites.

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They know what Israel is there to do.

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So news is spreading

within the Promised land.

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And they understand, okay, there's

this new people that are showing up.

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God brought them out of Egypt apparently.

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Took out Jericho, they took

out AI and people are beginning

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to become nervous about this.

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I don't know what that says about

the amount of time that's passing,

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because we've talked about the

advent of social media and the

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fact that we are never far from.

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24 7 news headlines.

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And what that can make it feel

like is that this world is worse

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than it ever has been before.

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That's true.

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And in some ways maybe it is, but on

the other hand, we gotta think back

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in this day, which Joshua and Moses,

they weren't checking X and finding

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out all of the different headlines

of all the atrocities that were being

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committed throughout the world either.

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So it's a little ambiguous to know,

how much time is passing to get this

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news spread to these various peoples.

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Were there runners that heard about

this, that took off and wanted to

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say, this is what Israel's doing here.

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Anyways, the Gibeon, find out Gibe

Knight, find out they launch a, they

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probably check Twitter Shrewd plan.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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They launched a pretty shrewd plan,

and that is they're going to make

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themselves look like they're from a long

way away, even taking stale bread and

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worn out sandals that they had laying

around, and they're gonna put those on.

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And they're gonna show up and they're

gonna say, Hey, we are from far away.

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Can you make a treaty with us?

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Because we know that you

are of the people of God.

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And I think that the most tragic

thing in this is not as much, even

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the treaty, though that is the

fullest expression of the tragedy,

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but it's the fact that it says they

did not ask counsel from the Lord.

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Verse 14, Joshua didn't

go to the Lord and we.

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Say, well, they said they were

from far away, and yet at the same

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time it was, I think, Joshua's

responsibility no matter what.

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Totally.

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Before making a treaty with anyone

to say, Lord, is this right?

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For sure.

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It's a lead pastor's job

to, to do it for sure.

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It's always a lead

pastor's responsibility.

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Well, if Watermark wants to

come make a treaty with us, then

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we're gonna seek counsel from the

Lord and be like, we'll do it.

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Wait, is watermark gibbon I deceiver here?

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No, that's not what I mean.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that's interesting we

talked about God having more than one mo.

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It's always a holy mo.

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He does things according to

his plan and his purposes.

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But I wanna point out here, I think the

enemy also has more than one mo as well.

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He's had a lot of time to observe

humanity, so I think he gets us, he

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knows, not like the advertising campaign.

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He gets us in a different way.

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He.

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And his job is to deceive us,

to hurt us to bring us down.

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And so what we see here is that he

has multiple tricks in his bags.

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One of the tricks he has is he's

gonna come as a conquering lion, a

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fierce one that wants to devour you.

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And there's also the kind of

trick where it's, look, he's

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a, he's the angel of light.

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Look we're here and we're

just, we're humble before you.

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We just wanna, we wanna be on your side.

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Look we're not even close.

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He comes deceptively.

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And I think that's one of the

big takeaways from me here.

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Is to be on guard.

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That my job is to be, and I was

quoting it recently to be as wise as

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a serpent and as gentle or as innocent

as the SB says, as a dove, I don't

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want to be cynical and jaded, but

I don't wanna be gullible either.

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And the Christian has to do this special

tap dance where we're not allowing

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our hearts to grow calloused and cold.

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But neither are we allowing

our hearts to become gullible.

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And easily deceived.

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We have to strike that balance.

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And Joshua chapter nine is

a good example as to why.

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Yeah.

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Well, in chapter 10, the consequences

of this decision to make this treaty

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immediately rear their ugly heads

because the gibeonites are going to

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call for Israel to act on this treaty.

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They are going to call to Israel's.

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Armies to say we need help.

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Because there are kings that found out

that the gibbon knights had made treaty

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with Israel, and they don't like this.

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So they're gonna come up to attack gibeon.

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And there's these five kings, these

five Amorite kings and they're gonna

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come against the people of Gibeon and

Gibeon sends for Joshua to come help him.

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Now this is another example of where God.

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Clearly is the one fighting the

battle here on behalf of the people

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of Israel because God is gonna cause

something to sta to take place that

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has not taken place ever since then.

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And that is the sun is gonna stand still.

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And it says, and not set for a about,

it says in the text a whole day.

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And so there's not the precision

of it was exactly 24 hours.

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It was exactly 23 hours.

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It's about a whole day, and what that

does is it enables the Israelites

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to fight and win this battle.

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There's questions about whether or

not that was the sun there or whether

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or not this was the moon, was this

God enabled the cover of darkness

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to persist so that Israel could

fight under the cover of darkness

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and even avoid the heat of the day.

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I know there's one commentator

Daniel Block, who I respect.

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He's a well-known Old

Testament commentator.

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He holds the darkness view.

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I hadn't heard that before

encountering him, but either way,

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what's clear is God is the one that's.

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Intervening supernaturally here to give

victory to Israel over these five kings.

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That's a really interesting point.

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I haven't heard that either.

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Although it does say here, the sun

stopped in the midst of the heaven and

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did not hurry to set for about a whole

day, which would mean it, it stopped

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for some part of the world, right?

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There's light.

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The other part of the world is darkness.

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There's darkness, right?

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So it makes perfect sense.

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It's not being loose or a freestanding

with the Bible that's letting the Bible

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speak and we're just trying to understand

it the way that it's presented here,

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because it says in verse 13, the moon

also stopped right until the nation took

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vengeance on their enemies, which tells us

also this means this is not a local event.

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Yes.

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Sometimes people have said and

suggested this is maybe a local GT

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one God does something special for

this particular part of the world.

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Everything else stays the same.

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I, and I think, no, we can't say that

based on those two markers alone.

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Yeah.

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The sun and the moon are global

things and not just local.

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I think another factor here that's

interesting to me is that God honors

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their covenant with the gibeonites.

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Yeah.

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I saw this and just, it just struck

me afresh that even though this was a

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sinful covenant, that God did permit to

take place, he honored their covenant.

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And I think one of the, one of the

potential applications here is that

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our covenants with one another, even

in marriage when their sinful covenants

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are still honored by God, I think.

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So it's, part of it is

that God honors marriage.

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Yes.

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But I think God honors our word.

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Jesus says, let your yes

Bs don't go beyond this.

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Make sure that your people

who are people of your word.

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If you say yes, and it's a sinful thing,

then you better do something about that.

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But you can't be a person

who breaks their word.

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God honors their covenant and he decides

to come and support them, even though.

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This was not good for them.

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Yeah.

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One of the five kings who's

gonna be executed here is

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the king of the Jebusites.

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Now, the Jebusites always stand out

to me because the Jebusites are going

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to be those that inhabit Jerusalem,

and so Jerusalem is a key to Israel.

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When we think about Israel, we

often think about Jerusalem.

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Shortly after that.

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And because that becomes the capital city.

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That's David's city, but that's just it.

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That's David's city.

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And so the Jebusites are not gonna

be driven out of Jerusalem just yet.

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And that's part of the failure of the

Israelites and taking the Promised land.

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So even though the king of the Jebusites

here is going to be killed, and later

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on we're even gonna find out that they

even attacked the city, they don't fully

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deal with them until much later on.

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And and this is an indication

of the fact that they're failing

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here to do what God is gonna.

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Call them to do, which is

to drive everybody out.

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But Jerusalem, if you're

wondering, where's Jerusalem?

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Those are the Jbe sites.

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And so you can think of Jerusalem as

you think of them during this reading.

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Yeah.

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There are hints throughout the

text to your point here, that show

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that they're not doing the job

that they're supposed to be doing.

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Right.

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In fact, some of the language, then you

begin to wonder for instance, at verse

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30, they captured it, struck, debe Deber

struck its king in all its towns, and

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they struck them at the edge of the sword.

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Devoured.

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I'd rather devoted to

destruction every person in it.

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None.

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Left remaining.

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He did this to Hebron and Lib bna, and

some of these people show up later.

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Yeah.

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So you have to say maybe it's

the language that is being

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depicted here is not deceptive.

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This is not God's saying

this didn't really happen.

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It's just, it's part of

the language of the time.

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Yeah.

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The lingua franca.

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This is how they talked about conquering

other people's and it showcases the

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fact that God was shown superior.

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And sometimes the language is not meant to

be understood in a literal wooden fashion.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I also noted in verse 34, it said that

they came to Laish and Lon and they

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laid siege to it and fought against it.

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Laying siege is a time.

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Timely ordeal here.

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And so I wrote a note in my margin here.

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This is time for more rehabs, if there are

any, within the, these towns of lon and

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Laish to come out and say, Hey, hey, wait

a minute, I'm, I wanna be with you guys.

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I'm not.

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Here's I wanna, that's a great

with you guys', so, yeah.

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Yeah, I think just this time through

reading through the conquest of the

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promised Land, I'm seeing more of God's

mercy than I think I've seen in the past.

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Which is ironic because this is often

the passage that so many people point to

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and they look at this and they say, God

is cruel because look at all these evil

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things that he's having Israel do here.

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Yeah.

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And I think part of the plan here is

that we're reading, trying to say,

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okay what matches what we see, what

the text and what we know of God and

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trying to put the pieces together.

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This is the work of exegesis.

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Trying to pull out what is there

and sometimes to your point.

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You're seeing things that aren't

always the black and white on the page

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you're trying to say, okay, let me make

sure I understand the whole picture.

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And understanding the whole helps

you understand the parts better.

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And I think that's what

we're trying to do.

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And I think it makes sense that we

could say, well, God is opening up

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doors of opportunity for mercy to

abound to those who repent and put

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their trust in the God of Yahweh.

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Well, let's flip over to our New Testament

reading, which is Luke chapter three.

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Luke chapter three, and we're gonna

be dealing primarily with the ministry

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of John the Baptist here, which is

always helpful because sometimes

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we don't get all of that focus from

some of the other Gospel writers.

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And so Luke gives us an extended

treatment of his ministry.

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Again, we see the detail of Luke, the

15th year of the Reign of Tiberius

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Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of

Judea, Herod being the Touch Ark of Gal,

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that you notice that Luke is different.

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This is not how John records things.

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This is not how Matthew records

things or Mark records things.

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So Luke is giving us all of these details.

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By the way, if you're wondering, year

15th year of the reign of Tiberius,

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that would've been about 29 ad.

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So 29 ad.

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This is right as Jesus is going to begin

his earthly ministry shortly after this.

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We believe that Jesus, we know because

of the number of Passovers, Jesus.

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Had a, an earthly ministry

of about three years.

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So that gives us a date

for the crucifixion.

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Sometime between 32, 33 ad

In that ballpark, you'll hear

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differing numbers from some

people including the age of Jesus.

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Some people actually believe that Jesus

was born actually BC era, which is

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unusual because BC means before Christ.

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Before Christ.

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Yeah.

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But some will argue that he was born

even six years prior to the zero

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mark there in the pivot of time.

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But we're at 29 80, all that

to say in Luke chapter three.

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And you've got John the Baptist.

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And we read about John.

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John was there to prepare the way for

the coming Messiah, and that was gonna

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be his role, and he was going to do

that through this ministry of baptism

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and calling people to repentance.

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So Pastor Rod, I'd love to get your

thoughts on the type of baptism and what.

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What was he calling them to?

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Because this is not the same

thing as when we call people Yeah.

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To faith and repentance as Christians.

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Yeah.

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It seems like John is calling people

to a kind of baptism that symbolizes

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their turn to the Lord, their

preparation for the Lord's coming.

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This is, I think, akin to

the baptisms of purification.

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There was multiple baptisms people had.

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And so John is saying, this is symbolic.

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This is not in any way

efficacious for your salvation.

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This doesn't make you right with

God, but this showcases that you're

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willing to live afresh and anew

waiting for the coming Messiah.

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Now, John is called the

forerunner of Jesus.

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He's the one, he's like the herald

who says The king is coming,

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the king is coming, and he tells

the town ahead of them, prepare.

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The king is on the way.

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And then that town would be under

obligation to make preparations.

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Mm-hmm.

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The king is on his way.

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You ought to be ready for his coming.

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It would be a great shame upon

you not to mention the king if

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you're not ready when he comes.

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And that's John's job.

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He's telling people, the king is

coming, the king is coming, be ready.

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And his point here is bear fruits

and keeping with repentance.

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The baptism is symbolic of that

heart posture in preparation

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for the king to show up.

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And so I think that's what's

happening here, and that's a

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great message for us today.

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The king is coming.

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Jesus is returning.

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He came one time.

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Foretold by John, and he's

coming back this time.

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I don't think he has a forerunner.

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This is just a surprise party for Jesus.

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He's gonna come and get his bride.

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You ought to be ready for that.

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The king is coming back.

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Yeah.

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Verse 23.

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We the rest of this chapter

is the genealogy of Jesus.

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Verse 23.

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When Jesus began his ministry, he was

about 30 years old, 30 years of age.

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Again we get their time their.

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Perspective on time and the passage of

time was different than ours is today.

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That's right.

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And so there's general ballpark numbers

being given here, even by somebody as

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detail oriented as Luke is, he's saying.

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Yeah, he was.

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He was about 30 years old

as he began his ministry.

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Now we might argue there, okay, well

if it's 29 ad when Luke is writing and

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it's about 30 years old, that could

give us close to that zero timeframe.

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But.

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Regardless, here's a genealogy

that's gonna go this time.

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Not like Matthews back to Abraham,

but all the way back to Adam.

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And that has to do a little

bit with Luke's intention.

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Luke's point here in his provision of this

genealogy was to show that Jesus is indeed

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the son of God, and that's why he traces.

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His genealogy all the way back to Adam,

and he starts here with Joseph, although

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a lot of people believe this is the

genealogy of Mary, whereas Matthew had

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the genealogy of Joseph, which would

explain why there's some different

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names that we see here at the outset.

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That this was Luke showing that

Jesus actually had a biological.

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Biological connection to David, not

just an adopted connection to David.

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Yeah these are some challenging

passages here, and for that

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reason, it gets a little tricky.

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But all I can encourage you to do

is to persist with stuff like this.

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Don't let this throw you off.

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Let it be an encouragement for you to

dive deeper into either study Bibles

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or your good Bible reading software.

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There are tools out there

to help you look at this.

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And in fact, logos has.

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Genealogy pictures for you.

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I don't know if that's helpful for

you at all, but I like those things.

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I never outgrew the picture

books, I guess, but those are

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helpful tools for you to use.

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And as you read your Bible through,

some of these days are rather short,

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they're really easy to get through.

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You can get through them in

probably 15 or 20 minutes.

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Those are the days where if you wanna

spend an extra 10 minutes camping on a

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certain passage or answering a question

that tickles your fancy, that would be

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a really good time for you to spend.

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And I would encourage you if you plan for.

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I dunno, 45 minutes or so in the

morning to read your Bible and

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you finish it in 20, what a great

way to spend the next 20 minutes.

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Yeah.

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Figure some stuff out, dive deeper.

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There are endless depths to

scripture and we're not even

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scratching the surface guys.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I sometimes I'll use a pencil and I'll

just write a question mark in the margin

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and I'll keep reading so that once I'm

done reading, I can come back and find

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that question mark and go and, oh, okay.

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Lemme do a deeper dive there because

I do have a question that's there.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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And remember we're reading it through,

and this is something that you focused

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quite a bit on recently because of the

books that you're reading, but we're

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reading it through different eyes than

it was written to its original audience.

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That's right.

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And so when you've got some of

the questions, some of that can be

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cleared up as we go back to, okay.

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How would've this been of understood

by the original audience there?

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Yeah.

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So one thing that's not.

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Different from us is, I think in

verses 10 and following here, the

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crowds ask John for application.

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He preaches a sermon and says,

Hey, you're Bruta Vipers, y'all.

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Y'all are stinky.

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Prepare for the king's coming and bear

fruits and keeping with repentance.

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God's gonna come and he

is coming soon to judge.

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And then they say, well, it tells

what to do then what do we do?

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Yeah, what do we do?

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What's point number one?

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And they say, point number one is,

write this down if you're taking

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notes, and I wish that you would.

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And they're looking for application.

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This is a mark of good preaching.

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Yeah.

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Helping people apply the

word that God has given.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You know, anything about that?

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I don't know anything about that.

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Hey, let's stick a pin in that.

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Let's start tomorrow's episode

though by talking about why taking

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notes during sermons is helpful.

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Oh and, yeah.

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You know, one thing that's different

between the church that we came from

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and this church on that same topic.

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I know what you're gonna say.

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What am I gonna say?

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Laptops.

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Laptops.

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Yeah.

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Everyone encompass Av Aliso

Viejo put has it's, you hear

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clickety clacking the whole time.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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Hardly anybody with the physical Bible.

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And yet our church is, I

think the exact opposite.

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You hear pages turning.

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It's far more that than the opposite.

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Yeah.

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Let's talk about that tomorrow.

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We'll, that tomorrow.

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Alright guests.

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Let's pray.

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Lord, thanks for your mercy.

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Even as we look back at Israel in

the covenant that Joshua foolishly

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made with Gibon, you didn't wipe them

out at that point, nor did you wipe

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them out after all of their failures

or us after all of our failures.

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But you were patient with us,

merciful with us, gracious towards

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us, not wishing, even as you sang

your word, that we should perish,

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but that we should reach repentance.

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So, God, we're grateful for that patience.

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We pray that we would extend

it to one another as well.

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And so we thank you for this.

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We pray for a great rest of our day.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See ya'all.

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