00:00 Intro

01:26 Discussing the Canon of Scripture

04:26 Authority of Paul's Letters

11:46 Jeremiah's Prophecy and Symbolic Actions

14:04 New Covenant Promises

15:03 The Davidic Covenant and Millennial Kingdom

15:42 Role of Believers in God's Plan

17:20 Zedekiah's Fate and Divine Justice

18:40 Social Justice and God's Wrath

20:47 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

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We're so glad you've joined us.

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And now your hosts,

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod.

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Do you want me to have

Bernard say that for you?

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I mean, I can have him say it, so

you could just jump right into it.

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We could.

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We could do that.

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I'm just gonna, I'll have him

do it for the last one too.

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Okay.

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So you just don't want

me to say anything then?

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No.

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You just want me to be like, we're back.

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I'm just taking, is

Pastor PGA and his pastor?

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No.

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He even says that, man, you're

taking all my job away from me.

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Do you want to just do

the podcast with Bernard?

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No, no.

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I'm trying to free you from having to

repeat yourself so you can get into

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stuff that people really want to hear.

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It's kind of like, it's

like a pre routine Google.

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The, the googly is ours.

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That that can't be taken away by ai.

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Right.

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And the content, I think the content

inside is also ours, so, okay.

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We just do our thing.

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We let him take your, I don't, I'm

not gonna know how to start though.

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It, it's like getting a

running start at something.

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Yeah, but you don't need it.

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I think you can pull it off.

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I don't.

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Okay.

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You can do it.

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I, but if it suffers, it won't it.

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Bernard's fart.

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Won fart, fart fault.

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It's physically impossible

for Bernard to do that.

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Yep.

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I think we've gone almost two

years without any potty humor.

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Bernard's fault.

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You are the first one to introduce.

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I think all of us are surprised by that.

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Uh, that's Bernard's bet's fault too.

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Ift.

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If we were betting, we would not

bet you would be the one introduced

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that it would be, wouldn't it?

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Yeah.

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Anyways.

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Hey, I was having lunch with Louis

this last week and we were talking

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about some things and we got to

talking about the cannon of scripture.

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So I've got a question

before for you, pastor Ron.

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Um, Paul refers to a, a few other

letters that he wrote to the Corinthians

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two that we think that, that he wrote.

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Uh, why don't we have them?

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And if we found them today, should

they be considered authoritative?

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One first answer to your question,

why haven't we found them?

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God decided that we

wouldn't have them two.

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No, they wouldn't be.

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Why wouldn't they be authoritative?

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If the first two letters are

authoritative, because not everything

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Paul wrote is authoritative.

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Okay.

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So there's your answer.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The, the canon's just such a, we can,

we have confidence in, in the canon.

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In fact, when you look historically

at the lists that emerged from very

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early on, you see consistency there.

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In fact, very uh.

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Very much the, the reality is we're

not looking at any lists that say,

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and, and also the Gospel of Thomas

and also the Gospel of Peter.

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Instead, what we're looking at is,

is some people wrestling with some of

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the, the more difficult books like for

example, the book of James, because of

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what James says about faith and works

and what Paul says about faith and works.

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In fact, Luther.

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Really didn't like the book of James at

all and, and others found it difficult.

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Or example.

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Second Peter.

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We're studying first Peter

right now, second Peter.

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It took the church a while to come along

to you because the Greek is much different

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in second Peter than it is in first Peter.

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So that's what we're dealing

with when we have questionable

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books with regards to the canon.

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But the church landed on things

that were authoritative in the ad.

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It wasn't in the, the three

hundreds ad that the church said,

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these are the books of the Bible.

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Everybody needs to listen to these.

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They instead, were going, let's look at

the list that has been that the lists.

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Plural that have been created for years

and years and years, centuries now.

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And see the books that have

been agreed upon and figure out

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is, is let's officially codify

this and say it's, it is done.

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Here's the, the canon.

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And that's what they did then.

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But it's always interesting to me

because Paul did write other books

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and we gotta imagine Peter probably

wrote other books too, or his e

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nuis did, um, that we don't have.

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And I agree with you, if we were to

discover them somewhere, they still

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wouldn't be considered authoritative

and we'd be okay with that.

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And, and whether that's because Paul

wrote these letters to the church and

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said, Hey, these, this isn't meant for

circulation, because that's what happened.

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That's how a lot of these

became authoritative.

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He wrote to the churches an Ephesus,

but then the church is an Ephesus

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sent that letter to the churches in

Galatia, and the churches in Galatia

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sent their letter to the churches

in Ephesus and so forth and so on.

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And the churches began to circulate

these letters because there was common.

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Uh, scripture.

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There was common, um, teaching in

there that was good for all of the

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churches all over the place, and

that's how they began to be, be

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considered authoritative, uh, pieces

of scripture or parts of God's word.

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The, the other letters to the Corinthians

that, uh, the Corinthians, they

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didn't get that same treatment, and

so that's why we would say today, even

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if we found them, yeah, they, they

wouldn't be considered authoritative.

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You can have confidence in the list

that you do have in the books that.

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Are in our Bibles today.

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You don't need to sit there and say,

is this, is this really all there is?

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Is there something else?

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There's not something else.

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We even see it, I think in First

Corinthians, when Paul's writing

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about marriage, he says, Hey,

I'm gonna tell you something now.

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That's me.

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This is me writing.

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This isn't God.

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This isn't me writing on

behalf of the authority of God.

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This is my point of view on here.

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I think it's better that you

guys should all remain single.

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We know that Paul sets that

off because God says what?

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Be fruitful and multiply and fill

the earth, which means that God

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designs for marriage to take place.

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Paul's not disagreeing with God.

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He's just saying, Hey,

you wanna know my 2 cents?

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I think there's something

good about being single.

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So as you're reading your Bibles,

just know we can have confidence

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in the Bible that we have, which I,

I guess that's worth talking about

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when Paul says things like that.

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Is that biblically binding?

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Would you think that that's also

something from God or is that Paul's

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words in the, the canon of scripture.

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So I think God wanted that there

it, but at the same time, and

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so it is part of scripture.

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But binding, though, not binding, I would

not say that those words are binding.

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Just like we have other things that

are recorded in the Old Testament,

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for example, we, we have the,

the errors of the Kings recorded.

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We have a lot of things that

the kings said recorded.

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That doesn't mean that those things

are are binding, but they are.

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They are authorized, they

are part of God's word.

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They are factual.

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We can believe in the, the events that are

recorded there without saying, and thus

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we should do likewise at the same time.

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So in one Corinthians seven, then

when Paul says, I, I, I say this, the

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Lord didn't say this, I say this, you

would say that that has a different

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application weight, authoritative

weight on, on the life of the believer.

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Um, does, does the fact that he's an.

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Apostle change that at all.

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The fact that he carries the authority of

Christ well, and I think that's where we

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have to stop by, stop down and say, okay,

this isn't a fool that's saying this,

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this, and Paul even makes that argument.

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He says, I, I still, I think I have

some wisdom to bring to the table.

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Um, I, I think it's, it's worth

listening to, but I think it's,

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it's, versus when it says.

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In the Old Testament, thou

shall not commit adultery.

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Okay?

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That, that's God's command.

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There's no wiggle room there.

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When Paul says, I, if you want

my 2 cents on the matter, this is

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me not the Lord speaking on this.

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Here's my opinion on this.

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There's more of an opportunity to

say, okay, is that where I'm at?

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Or do I feel like God is calling me

to, to a different reality there?

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Um, so I guess let, let's just be

clear on what we're saying then.

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First Corinthians seven

12 is the passage here?

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Yes.

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To the rest I say.

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I not the Lord, that if any brother

has a wife who is an unbeliever

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and she consents to live with

him, he should not divorce her.

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And then he carries on to specify

even more about what he means.

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So in this particular case, then you

would say that this is the Apostle

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Paul's opinion on the subject,

and that it is possible, therefore

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to come to a different conclusion

than Paul on something like this?

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I, I do, I do because I, I don't know,

know otherwise why he sets it off.

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I, it's, is it possible that he was

saying, look, there's nothing that

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scri that Christ said about this in

his earthly ministry, but I say to

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you, here's, here's what, here's an

authoritative, uh, approach to this, even

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though the Lord himself did not say this.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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That's, yeah, I can see that.

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Yeah, I, I, I've always, I guess

that's how I've understood it.

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Usually, most often, I, I think

there's another place where

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Paul says, I say not the Lord.

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Right.

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Um, this place, I think I, I think,

and I'll offer it humbly 'cause I

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haven't studied this in a few years.

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This is binding for the church.

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Yeah, I wasn't thinking of that place.

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I would agree.

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I think that is binding.

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I was saying, and I guess his language

is different, but in verse six he says,

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now as a concession, not a command, I

say this, I wish all were as I myself

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am, but each has his own gift from God.

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One of one, kind of one of the other.

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I mean, he's, he's saying this is

not a command, this is a concession.

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I'm, I'm saying this realizing, I

can't say with the, the authority

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of God behind this, right.

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Do this.

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But he is saying, but this

is my 2 cents on the matter.

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So.

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That's what where my, my mind went.

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I wasn't thinking of verse 12

when he, when he is talking about.

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Consenting to live with them.

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They should not divorce them.

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I would say yes, we do need

to, to follow him on that.

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We're in the same ballpark.

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Actually, look at verse 10,

uh, to the married, I give this

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charge, not I, but the Lord.

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Here we go again.

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The wife should not separate from

her husband, but if she does, she

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should remain unmarried or else be

reconciled to her husband, and the

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husband should not divorce his wife.

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So he says that phrase

again, not I, but the Lord.

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Right binding unbinding.

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What would you say about that one?

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Well, and that's even interesting.

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I I, maybe the question is wisdom

versus wise versus unwise because

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he gives the qualification there if

she does separate from her husband.

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She should remain unmarried or else

be reconciled to her husband, and the

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husband should not divorce his wife.

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In other words, I don't see, he's, he's

not saying she needs to be put outta

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the church, under church discipline.

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This is an interesting gray area, middle

ground almost, that he's allowing for here

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to say she may make that decision and,

and if she makes that decision, okay, but

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this is, this is the, the consequence of

that she needs to remain unmarried then.

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Maybe that's what he's allowing for,

because he's not able to say with absolute

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certainty and authority, this is what

the Lord says verbatim on this matter.

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Yeah, I guess I've always understood

it the way that I, I said previously,

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I think he's asserting his

authority not in contrast to Christ.

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But saying, Christ didn't say anything

about this, but here's what I say.

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So he's clarifying.

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It is not the Lord that

I'm getting this from.

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'cause Paul himself had

interactions with the Lord.

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He's one of the few apostles who

came after the 12 who was able

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to meet Christ face to face.

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Remember the whole Acts, chapter

nine, Saul meets the Lord

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on the, on the road, right?

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And so here I think he's saying,

look, the Lord, you didn't tell

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me this, but I'm telling you.

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Right?

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And therefore the wait still remains.

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Which is why I think he says,

you should not do these things.

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Uh, not that you could, or that possibly

you, you might choose this or that.

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I, I think he's asserting it.

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Under the authority of his apostleship.

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That's fair.

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Yeah.

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Uh, yeah.

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And like I said, I was thinking more

back in, in verse six, when he is, he's

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giving the concession, not the command.

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I wasn't thinking about that even

though that's what I was quoting.

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Gotcha.

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So yeah, thanks for clear clarifying.

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'cause that could have

been really confusing.

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Our people would've been like, what?

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We're, we're out, we're leaving.

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I don't, I don't believe that, uh,

you can jettison Paul's teaching

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on divorce and, and marriage.

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That is not, hear me.

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Say that again.

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Thomas Jefferson Bible 2.0.

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Yeah.

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I do not believe that.

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Alright, well let's get to,

that's a lot of googly, man.

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That was, that was, that was not googly.

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That that was not playful.

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That was more like,

let's think about this.

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Let's think about this.

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Yeah.

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That was different.

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Yeah.

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So just to summarize, I do believe.

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In what Paul is saying

here, that it is binding.

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Do you believe that all scripture is

infallible and inherent, pastor pj?

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Yes, I do.

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Do you believe it's the very word of God?

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I do all of it.

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All of it.

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Every single chapter.

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Yes.

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Even Song of Solomon.

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Even Song of Solomon.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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Except yes, which I heard.

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Next time you I'm out of town, you're

gonna preach Song of Solomon for us.

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Dude, let me add it.

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Okay?

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I would be happy to.

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Awesome.

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Our church.

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Embrace.

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There we go.

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I, I would be so uncomfortable.

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I don't even know if I could read it.

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In a mixed setting without blushing.

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I went to a marriage retreat where they

had people come up on stage and read

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that passage, like the, was it a church?

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I know passages.

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It was one of the churches

down in San Diego.

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It was one of the churches that

partnered with us so many times in in av.

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Yikes.

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And like I was like, what?

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Okay.

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I, you know, at a marriage retreat, I

guess that is the right place to do it.

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In mixed company though, like

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all of scripture had, any younger wife

has breed out, my God, in profitable

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teaching passages in the mixed company.

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Oh yeah.

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It's a little, it's a little bit, but I

think principally I'd have to say, okay.

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This is, this was

designed for God's people.

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Yeah.

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And you're not gonna just read it

as husband and wife in private.

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Yeah.

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Do not neglect the public

reading of scripture.

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Come on.

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Okay.

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Come on.

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Okay.

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Well scripture reading this Sunday.

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Look out folks.

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Pastor Rod.

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Do it man.

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Alright, let's jump in.

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I'm playing the guitar.

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I'm on the guitar and I'm

singing so I can do it.

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If you get a mic in.

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I do not.

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Jeremiah.

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Jeremiah 32 through 34, Jeremiah 32.

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Um, God tells Jeremiah to do

a very strange thing here.

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Uh, he tells him to buy some

land in the midst of a siege.

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Uh, and the reason why you

wouldn't do that is because the

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siege is indicative of the fact.

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And Jeremiah knew it was about to happen

because God had told him, uh, of the.

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Of the reality that man Babylon was about

to destroy the, the city of Jerusalem.

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So we're dealing with 5 87, 5 86 bc.

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This is right around the time

that the city's gonna fall.

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It's gonna be a 30 month long

siege that's gonna take place here.

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And these instructions are

just, it, it doesn't make

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sense from a human perspective.

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And, and Jeremiah, even

Russell with it, he's gonna in.

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Part of chapter 32, he's gonna

pray to before the Lord and say,

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Lord, listen, you are all powerful.

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You are a loving God.

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You are omniscient, you know all

things and you're just, and yet

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God, what are you doing here?

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And God is going to tell him, look,

judgment is going to come, but after the

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judgment is going to come the restoration.

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So this is again, a situation

where God is using Jeremiah to live

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out something that is the message

that he's sending to his people.

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So he has Jeremiah buy some land that is.

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You know, from an earthly point of

view, really a foolish investment

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because that's about to be land that,

that Babylon is gonna take over.

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And yet God is telling Jeremiah, this land

will be redeemed and I'm going to bring my

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people back here to this, this property.

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So, uh, that's kind of the, the lesson

of the, the field that Jeremiah buys.

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I think this is a good example of

what it looks like to doubt with

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faith, because Jeremiah does initially

question God and say, how, how, why?

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Can, can you just fill me in

a little bit more on this?

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I think that's okay.

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Uh, God does not expect us to, to

check out our thinking cap when we're

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talking with him, when we're interacting

with his word, but I do appreciate

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the way that Jeremiah goes about it.

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He asks for wisdom, which James

chapter one says, when you

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do it, God wants to give it.

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So you should pursue that now.

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Faith does not mean not thinking.

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And in fact, to the contrary, faith is

thinking more than you would otherwise and

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trusting that the Lord who gives us the

ability to think and to understand rightly

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will actually guide us through the doubt.

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Yeah.

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The chapter ends with, uh, more

millennial kingdom imagery.

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There, the promise that he will be,

uh, their God and they will be with

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him as their people, as his people.

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Again, that's Revelation 21, uh,

language as well, which I know

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is not the millennial kingdom.

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That's the eternal state, but still

it is, uh, it is indicative of the.

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The fulfillment that will begin to take

place during the millennial kingdom.

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Um, chapter 33, then we find more new

covenant language back in verse seven, uh,

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where it says, I will restore the fortunes

of Judah and the fortunes of Israel

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and rebuild them as they were at first.

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I will cleanse them from the

guilt of their sin against me.

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That's new covenant language.

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I will forgive all the guilt of their

sin in the rebellion against me.

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Again, new covenant

language, and we know that.

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That, that indicates that this is a,

a future, uh, fulfillment of this.

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This is not under Cyrus in the, the

return of the, the exiles after 70 years.

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This has gotta be the, the millennial

kingdom, uh, that is, is referred to here.

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Uh, if you look at, uh, verse, uh, man.

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Verse 11, he says, the voice of mirth,

the voice of gladness, the voice of the

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bride, groom, the voice of the bride,

the voices of those who sing as they

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bring thank offerings, all that's gonna

come back and, and earlier all that had

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been threatened to be taken away, that

there was gonna be none of that anymore

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when God brought judgment upon the land.

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And now in the millennial kingdom,

all of that, that was once taken

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away is going to come back.

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Because as he continues in verse 15,

that righteous branch, the Messiah,

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the Messiah's gonna be there.

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The the righteous branch is

gonna spring up for David and

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he's gonna execute justice in

the land for thus says the Lord.

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Verse 17, David shall never lack a man to

sit on the throne of the house of Israel.

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This is the Davidic

covenant being fulfilled.

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In the person of David, and like you

brought up yesterday, pastor Rod.

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Here's another example of that certainty.

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When God says, if you can break my

covenant with the day and my covenant

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with the night, so the day and night

will not come at their appointed time,

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then also my covenant with David,

my servant may be broken so that

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he shall not have a son of reign.

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In other words, God is saying the

Davidic covenant's not going away, just

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like Dan Knight are not gonna go away.

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And so there is that future and it's

going to be realized in the person

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of Jesus Christ reigning during the

millennial kingdom from here on Earth.

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I think this should encourage us as

we read through that God has a plan

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that goes from the very beginning,

all the way through the very end.

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And what's most fascinating about

this, even though you're not reading

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it in Jeremiah three, three, is

that you're part of that plan.

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If you're listening to this podcast

and you have a faith in Christ, you're

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trying to read your Bible and understand

what God is doing, you have a role.

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Now you may not be the center stage.

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Uh, I don't know if you've ever been

in any shows, pastor pj, were you

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in any drama shows in in your life?

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I was in a musical in high school,

seven Brides for seven brothers.

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And you, which one were you?

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Were you I was a suitors.

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That's so beautiful.

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Hi.

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No, I was a bad guy.

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You're the bad guy.

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I was one of the suitors.

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Uh, obviously there's only a few

people that can play the star of

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the show in our drama that we're in.

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Jesus is the star of the show.

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And everything that we're reading here

is highlighting the fact that Jesus, the

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David, that he promises here who would

sit on the throne is the star of the show.

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All of us are background bit players.

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Some of us have larger roles than others.

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Some of us have speaking lines like

the prophets, and those lines are

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kept and preserved for the rest

of us who are reading the script.

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But rest assured, you have a, a

part to play and your part, whatever

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slice of the universe God has

given you authority and stewardship

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over is to be played faithfully.

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Everything that we're doing is

part of his plan and his drama.

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That's ultimately, as you just said

previously, PJ is to bring him glory.

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That's our job.

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What a cool thing it is that the master

has all of the pieces figured out.

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He knows where we all go.

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He knows that the roles we're supposed

to play and he's gonna bring it to pass,

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and it is as sure as day and night are.

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Sure.

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The fact that he guarantees

that those will always happen.

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So I think it's awesome and you should

derive great comfort and hope from the

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fact that he has all things figured out.

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You give a part to play and I

pray that you play it well today.

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Yeah, don't I?

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I wish we were ending that.

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'cause that would've been a good end.

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It would be great.

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Don't play it like Zia though.

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Oof.

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Which is a good transition, right.

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To chapter 34.

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It's a good transition.

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Yeah.

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'cause Zetia is going to be taken away in,

into captivity, into Babylonian captivity.

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And yet what?

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What I find interesting here is God's

gonna show some mercy to Zedekiah

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still because he tells Zedekiah,

you're not gonna die from the sword.

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You're gonna die in peace.

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Which is.

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Somewhat puzzling because it's not

as though Zaka was a, wasn't a good

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dude, a great, a great guy, but God is

gonna show him mercy in that regard.

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Some small, uh, small mercy.

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And yet, um, if Zaka never repented

and, and never truly sought the

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Lord, then it doesn't matter whether

he dies by the sword or dies in

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peace, he dies and goes to eternal

judgment, which is, uh, the, the, the

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greatest reality of God's justice.

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And that's a good reminder for us.

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Sometimes we can feel like somebody

gets away with something or.

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I, I remember, uh, you know, so often

you hear about these mass shootings

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and then the shooter takes their

own life and there's a sense of

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justice not being done because he

didn't have to face human justice.

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And yet that's just a misunderstanding

of divine justice, because divine

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justice is far greater than any

justice a human court could levy.

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And so Aze Kai is gonna face justice.

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He's gonna face justice before

God, whether he dies by the sword

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or dies in peace in Babylon.

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Uh, it's, it's not gonna change the

fact that he's gonna have to stand

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before God at the great white throne

specifically and hear his final

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judgment pronounced against him.

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The rest of of the chapter interestingly,

deals with, and, and the prophets do this.

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They're going along, dealing at

the 30,000 foot view, and then

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all of a sudden they'll drop down.

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Hit something that's

kind of on the ground.

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We saw this recently with the Sabbath,

and we talked about why they were talking

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about the breaking of the Sabbath.

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Well, this time it's the year of

Jubilee and the freeing of the sleeves.

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The, the sleeves, the slaves, the slaves.

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That's twice.

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Oh man.

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Same episode.

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I am gonna keep all of this ending.

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This is gonna be one of the

few episodes I do not edit.

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This is my least favorite

episode that we've done, so

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this is the best one we've done.

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I'm not even gonna edit this one.

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I'm just gonna, I'll.

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Fix the audio and I'm sending it.

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That's all I'm gonna say.

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The slaves, the freeing of the slaves.

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They were agreeing to do that.

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They were doing it temporarily and

then they were taking the slaves back

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and God was saying, this is not good.

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This is not right.

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You shouldn't be doing this.

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And so he's going to cite that

specifically as reason for his wrath.

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Any thoughts as to why he goes after that?

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Specifically the slaves?

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Yeah.

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Well, not the sleeves.

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Not the sleeves.

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Uh, we, and, and when we did

all the minor prophets this,

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this summer, we did all of them.

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We learned that God really

cares about the way.

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That Israel and Judah apply

justice socially, right?

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And so I think this is one of

the reasons that God sends him

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into Exxon the first place.

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And so he's still

banging on the same drum.

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You're not being righteous, you're not

fulfilling your vows, you're not executing

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justice the way that you should, and

therefore, I'm come, I'm coming at you.

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This really bothers me.

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God hates, hates when the

strong oppress the weak.

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He hates it.

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Um, he's so passionate about it that

he cites this as one of the primary

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reasons why he has to remove them

from the land, among other reasons.

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But this is one of the primary, and that

goes to show that our relationship with

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God must by necessity affect the way

that we love and care for our fellow man.

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Especially the church.

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But, but even beyond that, the way that

we care for the weak and the oppressed,

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even James says in the New Testament,

your relationship with God will result

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in a care for orphans and widows.

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The, the, the most depressed and the,

and the most vulnerable among us will

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be people of our special care and

concern because of the way that God

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has cared and concerned himself for

us, I can't deny that, and I think

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that's what's on God's heart here.

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That's good.

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I, I would agree.

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I think that's a good read on it.

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Well, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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Again, just so everybody's clear, I don't

think that you can set aside Pauline

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teaching that that's, that's not what

I was saying at the beginning of the

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episode, contrary to all the confusion.

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So, anyways, and what about

what Bernard said though?

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It's Bernard's fault.

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It's his fault.

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Fault.

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It's his fault.

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All right, let's pray that we, we are

grateful for laughter and, uh, that we

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can laugh at ourselves and that we are,

are such fallen creatures that we can't

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even string words together sometimes

in a way that is sensical and, and not.

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Stumbling over, uh,

our own inefficiencies.

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We're grateful that you

are a God of perfection.

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That every word that you speak is, is

weighty and good and right, and placed

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in the exact spot that it should be.

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And it is true, and we can hang on

all of them and depend upon them.

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And so help us to understand

them as we study them as.

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And at the same time, to laugh at our

own failures, uh, not our sins, but our

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own shortcomings as a reminder that we

are creatures and you are the creator,

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and we are to serve and worship you.

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Above all, we pray the

P all in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tuning in tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Enjoy one of the first episodes

that we've not really edited.

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Have fun.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for listening

to another insightful episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said