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Chapters

00:00 Discussion on Sermon Notes

09:49 Joshua 11

13:26 Joshua 12

14:15 Joshua 13

17:51 Luke 4:1-32

24:20 Closing Prayer

24:51 Outro and Podcast Information

Everybody welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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To note or not to note.

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That that is the

question, is the question.

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So you said on yesterday's

podcast you tease this thing

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about taking notes during sermons?

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Yeah, and people are I've gotten so

many text message and email have you

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today, and people wanna know why.

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We should take notes.

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Yeah.

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And how we should take notes.

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That's it.

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What do you recommend?

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Good questions.

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Yeah.

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If you think about it, when you go to

school, when you, if you can think back

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there, for some of you it's a longer time

in the rear view mirror than for others.

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But when you were in school, in class,

my guess is especially once you got into

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high school and then college, you were

expected to take notes in the lectures.

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And the reason your professors did

that was not because they wanted to

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punish you, not because they just

wanted to give you busy work to do.

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They wanted you to take notes

because it's been shown that

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when we take notes, when we were.

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Write things down, we're more prone to

remember them, number one, but number two,

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we've got something to go back to at a

later time to look back on something and

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remember what it was that we were studying

or heard or learning in a similar fashion.

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And I would argue even more importantly.

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When we're studying God's word and

when we're listening to the Bible being

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exposited for us, we should want to

write notes down for those same reasons,

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because we want to remember the sermon.

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We want to remember the things

that are being taught to us.

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One of the reasons why we do outlines

when we preach, 'cause not everybody does.

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There's different forms

of preaching out there.

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Some preaching, they'll just start

preaching and there's no point number one.

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Point number two, point number

three, one of the reasons why we

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do outlines is they become pegs

for us to hang the rest of the.

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Ideas from the sermon on those things

so that we can organize our thoughts.

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So it's not just an info dump where

you're walking away going, okay, how

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do I begin to parse all this out?

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We're creating points, whether it's

men's Bible study or women's Bible study

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or in main service or in our student

ministry because we want to break the

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passage down in an understandable way.

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And so that's why we

encourage you to take notes.

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That's why we provide our

worksheets in the bulletin for

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you to be able to have a way to.

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Understand the passage.

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I've said a few times now recently that

my job primarily as a preacher is to

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help you understand the passage better

than you did when you first showed up and

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to know what to do with it as a result.

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We talked about application yesterday and

those two things are going to be helped

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and buoyed if you will, take notes as

you listen to the sermon being preached.

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Okay, so one of the things that

I've heard recently, in fact, on

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Christian Twitter, we were just

talking about this not too long ago.

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Jared Wilson responded to

someone who said, look.

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The way that someone hears a

message is not that helpful.

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In fact, he says, of all the learning

methods, lecture is the least effective,

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only a 5% retention of what you hear.

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If this is the case, then why do we

still do so much of it in the church?

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Jared Wilson responds with, well, maybe.

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Preaching isn't primarily

about memory retention.

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And then Patrick Shriner also chimed

in and said, yes, you are formed

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by the impressions of the moment

more than you realize, even if

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you can't recount the information.

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I think a lot of Christians would agree

with that and say, yeah, I may not

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remember exactly what Pastor PJ said,

but the way he made me feel to quote that

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old trope that, that stuck with me and

I think that's made an impression on me.

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What would you say to that person?

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Yeah, I think I, I disagree with.

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The approach there.

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One thing I will say is this,

Piper has said about reading books.

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He said it's I, he can't point to

very many books that have changed his

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life, but he can point to sentences

from books that have changed his life.

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He can point to paragraphs from

books that have changed his life.

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And so in other words, he's saying,

if you're reading a whole book, don't

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feel like you have to remember and

memorize the whole thing word for word,

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but when something stands out to you.

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Note that that can change your

life, that can be transformative.

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That can be something that

pops up later on in your life.

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And I would say in some ways,

it's similar with a sermon.

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You may not be able to give the digest

of the whole sermon at the end, but if

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you can break down a few things from that

sermon that are helpful, that's going to

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be good for you in the future to be able.

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Able to recommend or remember when

you come to that passage again.

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And so that's why we say we're gonna

try to give you memorable points.

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We're even gonna try to make our points.

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What we do here is imperative points

so that the application is built into

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the point that you're writing down.

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We're gonna call you to action with each

of the points that we're giving you.

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If all it is, is the moment, then I

think we're leaving a lot on the table

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as far as the youthful usefulness of

scripture and the usefulness of preaching.

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Now I can resonate with the fact

that I think two, some preaching is.

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Too luxury.

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It's too much like the classroom.

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You don't have the opportunity

for the connection with those

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that you're preaching to.

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You don't have the dynamics there.

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You don't have the illustrations there.

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You don't have the good, here's what

to do with this and why it makes a

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difference in your life and I think that.

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Can be dull and hard and you probably

don't remember much from that, but

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that's why we work at what we do in

the office for the week, preparing

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a sermon, trying to craft it in such

a way that it is memorable and it is

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helpful and taking notes is a good way

to further that and carry that impact

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beyond the Sunday morning experience.

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Yeah.

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People may not realize how much

effort we put into making it engaging.

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Not just to make it

informative and helpful.

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Yeah.

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But to, it feels like entertainment, but

it's, we're not going for entertainment.

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Right.

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We want it to feel like, man I'm

tracking, I'm thinking along with you.

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I'm being motivated and inspired

and convicted and all those things.

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That's really hard to do.

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So talk to me then also about

the mode of note taking.

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For some people, for most of

our people it's pen and paper or

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something like that for others.

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It's a keyboard and, access

to the internet and all

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those other things as well.

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What do you recommend on that?

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Do what, what works best for you and is

gonna be as least distracting for you?

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I think there are some people out

there that if they had their laptop

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open on a Sunday morning it would

be hard for them to stay locked in.

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They'd be tempted by their email.

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They'd be tempted by, opening up

their YouTube TV and streaming the

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football game during the sermon.

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That by, is that not a good

thing by jumping on social media?

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Whatever it may be.

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What if they're tweeting

while you're preaching?

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They might be tweeting.

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The sermon might.

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Good line.

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I'm gonna use that one right now.

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Yeah.

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So whatever is gonna be most effective

for you, and people learn different ways.

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My dad who listens to this podcast, he's

an old school guy and he would tell you

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handwriting notes is better for your

memory or attention than typing them in.

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And I think for some

people that would be true.

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So he's not like, he's not tweeting.

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Pigeon carrier, right?

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Right.

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He's writing it down.

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He's got the pigeons,

he's sending them out.

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Yeah, send this to my neighbor.

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So it, it depends upon the person,

the goal is it has to work for you.

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And so don't try to take somebody else's

model and say, well, it works for them,

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so it's gonna by default work for me.

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Find what works for you and

is most effective for you and

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helpful for you, and do that.

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Alright, so if pen and paper is old

tech and computers and laptops and

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all those other things are new tech.

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Yep.

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The latest tech is AI note takers.

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I've heard about this.

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Yeah.

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How do you feel about those?

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I think it's too far removed for me.

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I know there, there's people, in

fact I've seen it recently and

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there's even reels where there's

an app that's out there now that is

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meant to take sermon notes for you.

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Yeah.

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It's like, oh, you can't keep up.

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It's okay.

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Just pull out the app and let it do it.

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It's soulless.

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It's right.

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And I was just recently having this

conversation with Lewis this week in

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the office about AI worship music.

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Mm.

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Because there's some people out there,

like there was a guy that was like,

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I'm gonna create a passion style,

a song in the style of passion.

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Oh yeah.

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And I'm gonna use Psalm 1 0 9.

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It sounded so good.

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And it was biblical.

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It's this That's awesome.

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It's Psalms, right.

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That's awesome.

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But then we were talking about

can you use that in worship?

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Absolutely.

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Is that you would say yes.

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I don't know.

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I'm conflicted.

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Yeah, me too.

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Me too.

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And, Lewis isn't here to defend himself,

but he was like, absolutely not.

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You can't do that because

it doesn't have the soul.

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The author matters to him.

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Okay.

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So I think that's a different conversation

for us, but I would say it's like

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that with AI note taking for a sermon.

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You're not engaging with that.

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Those aren't the things

that stood out to you.

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Those aren't the points that the

spirit within you was going Yes.

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That's pressing in on an area of

your life that you need to work on.

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And so you should write that down.

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You're trusting a computer to do

that, and I don't think that works.

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Yeah.

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I think the point of note taking is to

be actively engaged with the content.

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Yeah.

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And.

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Passivity is such a danger for

us, whether it's paper or pixels,

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or whether it's an AI note taker,

especially that one, it's easy to be

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passive and that really isn't the goal.

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Yeah.

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The goal isn't to passively

receive information.

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The goal is to actively engage with it,

and that's what's gonna help it become

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a little more sticky than if you just

sat there and let it wash over you.

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So I'm with you on that.

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I like AI note takers.

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I use them Yeah.

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In addition to crafting my own notes.

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And then AI does what it does

and helps me put it all together.

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But I'd like to be engaged with what

I'm doing so that's one, one at least.

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Tick in favor of the ai,

but not without your mind.

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It's like saying, if I have

ai pray prayers for me.

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Does that count?

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I don't think so.

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It's not the point, right.

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That you need to do it.

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Right.

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I think the point with

note taking is the same.

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Yeah.

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I'll say this 'cause I know a lot

of people have come up to me and

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said, pastor Pia you talk too fast

for me and you have so many cross

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references and I can't always write

'em down and everything else really.

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So I know that's shocking.

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And so for that person, they're like,

how do I take notes and keep up with you?

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And that's fair.

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I would say we, we post our

sermons same day, usually within a

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couple hours after church is done.

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And so if there's a section that you miss,

or even if you went back and listened

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to the whole thing again, you could do

that and you could even slow it down.

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Now don't do it too much because then the,

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but you could do that if you needed

to and glean what you missed there.

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And that might be helpful too.

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Yeah.

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And maybe you're taking

notes the wrong way.

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Maybe you're trying to

transcribe what he's saying.

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Right.

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As opposed to just.

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And I think that's the benefit of pen and

paper is that you're forced to say, let

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me think about how to put this succinctly.

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Yes.

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And then if you do that, you're thinking

more engaged with the sermon as opposed

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to trying to say, okay, he said this,

then this, this, then this and this.

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You're gonna get lost.

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You're not gonna be able to

keep up with anybody For sure.

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'cause you can't write that fast.

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But you can think as fast as him

and say, okay, how do I turn that

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into a singular thought for me?

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That makes sense.

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Just don't do voice

dictation during the sermon.

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That would be funny.

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You know, interestingly, I

know at least one parishioner.

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Who listens to your sermons and then

he doesn't even write down your points.

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Yeah, he writes down his own points.

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Okay.

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To make them his.

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Okay.

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So that they're memorable for him,

which I think that's interesting.

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Yeah.

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That is interesting.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Fair enough.

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As long as it works.

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As long as it works.

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Yeah.

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And if he's more like

Jesus and praise God.

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Alright, Joshua 11 through 13.

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He is our DBR for today in Luke

four, one through 32 Joshua Levin.

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We've got more of these

packs of these foreign kings.

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Another coalition of Canaanite

Kings forms and comes out to battle

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the Israelites and they're large.

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In fact, if you note there, it says in

verse I think it's verse four, that they

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were like, the sand that is on the sea.

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Now, I wonder if Joshua's writing

that down as even a, an allusion

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to the Abrahamic covenant.

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'cause that's one of the promises

that God is gonna do for Israel.

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I'm gonna make you like

the sand of the seashore.

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Part of that was driving out the

inhabitants of the promised land and

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in driving them out, they initially

appeared like the sand of the seashore,

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and yet the remembrance that Joshua

May be calling the people to mind here

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is God's faithful to his promises.

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You're the ones that are gonna be like

the saint of the seashore, not them.

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And so they go to battle

against these kings, and sure

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enough, the battle's fought.

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Israel's gonna win, and Joshua

devotes them to destruction in

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obedience with the Lord's commands.

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This takes us all the way down

through verse 15, here of chapter 11.

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Yeah, and I think the point here for

us as we look at this as modern day

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readers who are no, no longer bound

by the Old Testament and no longer

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called to do things like this, I

think one of the things that we need

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to take away from this is the fact

that this is a battle metaphor is

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something the New Testament does import.

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We do.

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Take language like this and

apply it to spiritual warfare.

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Just think of Ephesians chapter six.

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You're to put on the full armor of God.

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Well, what are you doing that for?

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Well, because you're engaged in battle.

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You're part of the battle that God

has added you to, and there's no

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spectators in God's battle force.

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We're all soldiers.

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Mm-hmm.

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No spectators.

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Everyone's a soldier, and

we all have a job to do.

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Mm-hmm.

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It doesn't look like this,

but we are fighting and we are

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working toward something and

we're working against an enemy.

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And so chapter 11 may not be as, as.

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I don't know immediately relevant

to you, at least in practice, but

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it is in your spiritual practice.

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We are do the same thing.

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We're taking land for the sake of Christ.

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No.

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No Kingdom will be able to withstand

the advance of Christ's gospel.

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And if you're willing to do them,

and this is what life's gonna look

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like for us, we're gonna be going

up against God's enemies and taking

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souls captive for the sake of Christ.

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We talked about that on Sunday.

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Yeah.

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Did we did.

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That was really good.

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I remember that part of

the sermon I was moving.

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Do you remember that point?

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'cause we, you took notes about it.

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I did take my AI took notes for me.

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All right, good.

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So I know that not much.

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Okay.

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Something interesting.

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Again, just a note here, as we're talking

about this theme, again, look at verse 18.

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Joshua made war number one a

long time with all those kings.

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And so the passage of time here

we read it quickly, but there's

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a long time that's going on here.

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And then it says this, there was

not a city that made peace with

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the people of Israel accept the

hitts, the inhabitants of Gibbon.

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So just the gibeonites here.

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It's an interesting note.

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Why does the author include that?

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They weren't going to be extended

terms of peace, and certainly Israel

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was not gonna extend terms of peace.

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I wonder if this is telling us again,

there were no more rehabs, there were no

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more that, that came forward to say, we

know who you are and we're gonna surrender

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ourselves to the mercy of God here.

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Well, it says no cities, so I think as in

terms of like a whole people group, yeah.

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I would say that has to be

the case, but I don't know.

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I don't think that it necessarily

says no individuals did.

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That's true.

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It's an argument from silence both ways.

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Yeah.

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But I do think, yeah, for sure.

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No cities did.

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Yeah.

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He does go on and say for, it was

the Lord's doing to harden their

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hearts that they should come against

Israel in battle in order that they

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should be devoted to destruction.

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And we talked about that

a little bit with pH.

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Yeah.

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We see him hardening hearts again here

in in the Promised Land, chapter 12.

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I feel like this is just

Joshua score boarding.

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Go ahead.

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Let's just real quick here.

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Yeah.

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I just wanna point out

no one deserves mercy.

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Yes.

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That's a painful thought to hear.

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It's painful for me to say, but

none of us deserve mercy or grace.

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They're related.

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They're some somewhat interchangeable,

but let's just be clear here.

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No one deserves it.

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Right.

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As painful as that is for us to hear, we

just have to know we, we don't deserve it.

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Right.

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If everyone got what was fair,

we would all be destroyed.

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Yeah.

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That's an important thought to recall.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 12.

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This is again, Joshua's score boarding

on his predecessor a little bit.

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'cause he's like, let's talk about

all the kings of Moses defeated.

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And then he lists two

and then he is like, oh.

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And then here's all the

kings of Joshua defeated.

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And then there's 31.

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And so there's a little bit of a

maybe a tacit flex here by, by Joshua.

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Well, look, Moses only had

the trans Jordan opposition.

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That's all he had.

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He didn't get to go to the promised

land, otherwise there would've been more.

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That's my guess.

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I don't think he's trying to

scoreboard necessarily for sure.

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But it is true.

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But that's because he

never crossed the border.

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Yeah, yeah.

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No, that's true.

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But again, just kind of a keeping of

account for the people of Israel for

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their future, for the history books.

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'cause again, we're in

the books of history now.

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And Joshua is recording here.

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These are the kings defeated by Moses.

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'cause this is all about the

conquest, the entire conquest.

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This is not to your point, score boarding.

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This is saying.

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The whole process here of God

delivering the people into the land.

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Well, chapter 13 with Joshua Alder,

the Lord wanted to be sure that

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the Israelites were clear on the

land that remained to be conquered.

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And so he's going to

provide an account of that.

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And he is also gonna remind them

in verse six, I, myself, are gonna

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drive them out, will drive them out

from before the people of Israel.

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So God is reminding them, I'm the

one that's gonna do battle here.

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Joshua said to be old at this point.

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This is not the same as when Moses

had to prepare the next generation

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to enter the promised land, because

that's not what's happening here.

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But still, at the same time, God wants the

future generations to know after Joshua's

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gone, who's fighting the battles, what

their job is and what needs to be done.

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And so in verses eight through 33,

you get this description of the

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land that belonged to Israel on the

eastern side of the Jordan River,

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which is the land given to Reuben Gad

and the half tribe of Manassa There.

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A couple thoughts here.

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Number one, I see that in verse

six when he says like, you're

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gonna drive these people out.

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He says, I'm gonna drive them out

myself, as you made mention here.

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But I wanna point out to you

again, it's God doing it, but

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he's doing it through their.

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Efforts.

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Yep.

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They had to fight.

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They had to risk their lives to do this.

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And yet God says I will do it,

but I'm gonna do it through you.

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Yeah.

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And not apart from you.

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God has the ability to

do it apart from us.

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He has the opportunity to do that, but

he chooses to use us as his vessels

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and we honor him by taking steps of

obedient faith in trust that he's

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going to do exactly what he says.

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This is like us stepping into the Jordan.

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Our sandals are getting wet, and after

we step in the Jordan, then God says,

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okay, I'm gonna hold back the waters now.

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Two.

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Josh's age is interesting to me.

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One of the things that scares

me is that as I get older I

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will downshift and stop pushing.

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Hmm.

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I'll stop trying.

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And I don't know.

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I think there's a sense in which

our culture encourages that.

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It's almost like we tell our old

folks, Hey, get out of the way,

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make room for the next generation.

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That's not a bad thing.

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I'm not saying that you should stay in

a place where you're stopping some young

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buck from getting experience or reps.

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But Josh is old and advanced in

years, and yet he's saying, look

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guys, there's still work to be done.

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We're not done yet.

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Mm-hmm.

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He's gray haired and he's pr maybe

even balding, and he's maybe hunched

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a bit, but he's not settling.

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He's not slowing down.

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Right.

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And my encouragement to those

of you who are older is to not

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let yourself back off too much.

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There's gonna be physical limitations

that are part of being older.

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Ecclesiastes talks to us about

that, particularly chapter 12.

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But I don't want you to say, well,

Lord, I guess I'm clocking in.

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I'm done.

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And retire early, so to speak.

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God will tell you when it's time to

retire and God's gonna keep Joshua

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going throughout the duration.

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You saying The last time when we

close out the book of Deuteronomy,

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Moses died full of vigor.

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Mm-hmm.

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He was not ready to clock out.

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God said It's time to clock out,

and he was still ready to go.

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Right.

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Our job is to keep so, so help us

God with all the grace that he allows

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to keep pushing until God said.

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Rings the bell for us.

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Yeah.

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Until then, please, if you're

older, don't count yourself out.

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We have work to be done.

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We're excited to work with you

and partner with you in ministry.

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The Lord wants to use you.

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Don't clock out.

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Yeah.

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In fact you touched on that a little

bit on Saturday with the life of Elijah.

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'cause when God comes to him and sends

him back, one of the things Elijah

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has to do is anoint his successor.

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Yeah.

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But yet he's still got work that God

wants him to do at the same time.

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Right.

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He's not like, I'm done with you.

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Just tap Elisha and then you're out.

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Yeah.

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Pick a young buck and do that.

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Yeah.

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Have it not a successor necessarily,

but someone that you're just, you're

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feeding and pouring into someone

that you see a spark of interest in.

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Yeah.

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And teach them what God has taught you.

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What a good thing that

would be for our church.

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We long to be a multi-generational church.

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Yes.

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And we want to, we wanna reflect our

community, so it's not like we're

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gonna try to do anything finagling.

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We wanna look like what

our community looks like.

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And I think by and large we do do that.

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But we would love to see

more intergenerational.

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Multi-generational interactions

and so we'd encourage you,

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find someone to invest in.

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Yeah, find someone to disciple.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, let's flip over to our New

Testament reading in Luke chapter four,

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which opens up with the temptation

of Jesus here in the first 13 verses.

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Note in verse one, it says, Jesus full.

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Of the Holy Spirit.

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And so the Holy Spirit descended

upon him at his baptism.

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But this anointing was also an indwelling,

so we've mentioned it before, but Jesus

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was dependent upon the Holy Spirit in

his humanity, his true humanity married

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to his true divinity, his true deity.

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In his true humanity.

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He had a dependence upon the spirit,

and we see that right off the bat as he

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inaugurates his earthly ministry through

this temptation period in the wilderness.

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He's gonna be tempted in the wilderness

for 40 days, and he's probably tempted

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by Satan throughout the 40 days,

not just at the end, even though

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it's just at the end that we get

these three specific temptations.

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I believe that this was something

that persisted the entire time.

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Luke's recording of the

Temptations, though he is going to.

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Basically give us Matthew's account,

except he flip flops the last

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two temptations here in his list.

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And so there's been some

reasons given for that.

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Maybe Luke wanted to emphasize the

temple temptation more than others.

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Matthew May have wanted to e

emphasize the kingdom temptation.

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That was one of Matthew's

themes is the kingdom of Heaven.

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So Matthew May have put that one in a

place of emphasis instead, or it may be

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that there were multiple of these sorts

of temptations throughout the 40 days.

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And these are the ones that they're

picking and choosing to highlight here.

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The recording of the events.

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Either way, nothing to shake your

faith, but just a difference that

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you'll find between those two accounts.

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You'll notice here that Jesus is

tempted for 40 days, or he is in

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the wilderness for 40 days at least.

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And.

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That's important, that 40

days in the wilderness.

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You might remember Moses

leading the people of Israel.

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I do remember him.

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That's good.

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We're catching on here.

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40 years in the wilderness, not 40

days, but Moses has two occasions at

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least, where he goes up to see God

and he fast for 40 days and 40 nights.

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Elijah also has a period of fasting

in the wilderness for 40 days and

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40 nights, and now Jesus steps in.

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And he fasts for 40 days and 40 nights.

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I think what you're meant to

see here is that Jesus succeeds

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where others have failed.

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Elijah's 40 day and 40 night

fasting was not for a good reason.

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Jesus is suffering under

the temptation of the enemy.

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He's being driven into the

wilderness by the Spirit.

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And where Israel fails miserably,

Jesus succeeds gloriously.

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He suffers all the temptations,

and he comes out on top.

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This is the new Adam.

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This is meant to showcase

to you not only how to.

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Fight against your own temptations,

but also how Jesus, the true victor,

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the true crowning achievement of

our salvation conquers the enemy.

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He pushes back all the

temptations of the enemy.

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He comes out on top, and man,

this is the Messiah that you want.

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He's the one who gets every temptation

and doesn't resist even a little bit.

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Yes, you ought to love this Messiah.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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Well, from here, Jesus.

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Returns from the wilderness and steps

right into to ministry, steps right

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into the work of the ministry and

we're picking up right, essentially

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where Mark's gospel launches in,

in this same general vicinity.

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Here after the temptation, after

the wilderness here Jesus is

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gonna be up at his hometown.

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He's in Nazareth, and he's

going to begin to teach there.

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He goes into one of the

synagogues and he reads from the

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scroll of the prophet Isaiah.

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In fact, he asks for it.

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He finds Isaiah six.

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One, one through two.

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That's what you'll find there,

set off as prose in your Bible

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there or as poetry rather in your

Bible there verses 18 through 19.

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And then he rolls it up and he says, this

has been fulfilled in your hearing today.

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And initially the response that he gets

in verses 20 through 27 is excitement.

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They're saying it, could this be

the one is he the promised Messiah?

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But Jesus.

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Is going to respond to their excitement,

the excitement of the crowds here by

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warning them and saying, you know what?

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You're excited now, but you're going

to reject me and you're eventually

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gonna say to me, physician, heal

yourself, and so forth and so on.

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He's then going to reference this senior,

he is gonna say, he's going to go to.

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Others as Elijah had gone to the

widow of Zarephath, and Elisha

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had cleansed name in the Syrian.

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Those two were Gentile people.

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And so he's speaking to a Jewish

audience saying, well, you're

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excited about me as the Messiah, but

really, and he's foreshadowing here.

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What's gonna happen with the gospel?

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The gospel's gonna go not just to the

Jewish people, but to the Gentiles,

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because you are gonna reject me.

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Yeah, that's powerful.

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And speaking of his power, I wanna

point out something to you that I'd

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like for you to see in verse 22.

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It says Here, all spoke well of him

and marveled at, get this, here you go.

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The gracious words that

were coming from his mouth.

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I love that when they heard

Jesus, they heard words of grace.

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It sounds a lot like John's opening,

prologue the words of grace and truth.

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Mm-hmm.

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But notice also.

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In verse 32, the last verse of our

reading today, they were astonished at his

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teaching for his word possessed authority.

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I wanna help you see there.

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There's a connection between

gracious words and authority.

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Sometimes we think authoritative

words are words that lack grace.

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All by themselves.

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But here we see Jesus possesses gracious

words that are also authoritative

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words that is so akin to Matthew 11.

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He says, come to me all who are weary

and heavy laden and I'll give you rest.

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He says, take my yoke upon me,

upon you, and learn from me.

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In other words, follow my leadership.

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Let me be your authority.

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But that authority is a

restful and gracious authority

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that will serve you well.

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Oh, how could you not love this Messiah?

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I think it's, it is fascinating here.

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After this conversation with

the crowds they're pretty angry.

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They drive him to a cliff's edge.

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In fact, if you go to Jerusalem

today, to Israel today.

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It's an area called

the Mount of Precipice.

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And it's a traditional region and

they take you there and you look out

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over the edge and they're like, this

is where the crowds drove Jesus there

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in the region of Nazareth because

they wanted to push him off the

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mountain so much rose gracious words.

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Yeah.

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And then he just says, but passing

through their mist, he went away.

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Now I get it.

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It's because it's not his.

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Yeah, but what in the world was that?

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He's like, yeah, guys,

we, but they're confused.

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We're not gonna do this.

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Yeah.

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And then he just walks through

them like, wait, wait, what?

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I tend to think it was a miraculous thing.

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Like he just, he phased through

them like the flash when he

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phases through solid objects.

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Okay.

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I think that's what Jesus did exactly.

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Like the flash.

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And then afterwards the crowd's

like, wait a minute, why are we here?

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Yeah.

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What happened?

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Why are you here?

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What's, why do we have

these stones in our hands?

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What's going on?

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I don't know.

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But that's pretty cool.

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If I could go back in time to

see things, that would be one

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of the things I'd like to see.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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What was that like?

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Yeah.

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I wonder if that'll be something we'll be

able to do in heaven to flashback and see

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historical things and watch them unfold.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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What would that be like g

God, God has access to it.

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Would he be able to share with us some

way to sh What would that look like?

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I don't know.

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That's a great question.

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I hope that's, I hope the answer's yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That'd be cool.

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Alright, well let's pray.

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Lord, right now all we have access to is

your word, which tells us what happened.

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And so I pray that we would also,

as the crowds, were marveling and

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astonished at your words of grace

and recognizing the authority there.

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I pray that we would have the same

response to scripture, that we would see

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the gracious words that you have here,

but also your authority in the Word, and

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that we would submit ourselves to it.

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And so we thank you for the

opportunity to do that through

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reading it each and every day.

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We thank you for this day in front of us.

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Pray that we would live it well for you.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow.

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with us for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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