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00:00 Next Big Event Announcement
03:25 Pastor PJ Still Doesn't Know What NASA Stands For
07:52 Judges 20-21
13:59 Luke 11:1-28
21:13 Closing Prayer
21:50 Outro and Podcast Information
Alright, everybody, welcome
back to another edition of
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:the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:Hello.
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:Hello.
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:Welcome back.
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:We promised and now we're gonna deliver.
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:We told you, hey, we're gonna
tell you about the next thing,
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:the next big thing, the next thing
that you should get excited for.
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:Although I will warn you, you can't
get too excited about it yet because
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:registration is not yet open.
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:No, it's not.
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:But.
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:Last year we did the first annual
something and we're about to
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:do the second annual something.
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:So Pastor Mark, take it away.
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:Tell us what's coming up next.
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:We sure are.
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:You should get your calendars open
right now before I even say anything,
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:but we have the second annual.
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:Compass camp out coming up in May.
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:Yeah, we're, that's the crowd going wild.
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:You know what, we don't even need that
sound effect 'cause everybody is clapping
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:as they're listening to this podcast.
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:And outside their hearts are clapping.
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:Yeah.
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:So we don't even need the sound effect.
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:But you should, you should be excited.
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:We're gonna be doing
it at Lake Ray Roberts.
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:So this is again, May 29th through 30th.
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:So we'll see how the weather is,
but hopefully we'll be less likely
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:to be raining at that time of year.
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:We'll be doing it at Lake Ray Roberts
and we are really excited about it.
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:It should be a great.
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:Time for our church.
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:We're intentional about it to
make it something where, you
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:are able to just enjoy it.
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:We, there's certainly things that
have to be done to make it happen,
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:but we try to do as many of those
in-house as it were, so that our church
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:can just enjoy this time together.
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:And this is designed for anybody.
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:This is not.
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:Just for young families
or anything like that.
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:In fact, this year we have
a couple of RV slots open.
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:So if you have an RV and maybe your back
can't quite handle sleeping on the hard
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:ground overnight please still join us.
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:We'd love for you to bring your rv.
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:We have I think six, maybe eight, I can't
quite remember, but we have a number of
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:RV slots and we'd love for you to come.
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:We're gonna provide food.
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:We'll have dinner,
breakfast, and lunch for you.
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:And the, one of the advantages of.
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:Advantages of Lake Ray
Roberts is, it's a real park.
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:It's a real state park.
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:The place we were at last year is
great, but this has got campsites with
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:hookups and there's bathrooms and it
is a little bit further away, but.
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:It is not too far from us,
and even for those of you who
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:may not wanna spend the night.
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:Pastor Rod.
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:Pastor Rod, you've got a cough.
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:That sounds, yeah, sorry.
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:Like a name.
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:Yeah.
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:Did it sound like a name?
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:It did.
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:Well, for those of you who'd only
want to spend a the evening with us
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:and then go home and sleep in your
bed and then come back and join us
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:Saturday, it's not too far away.
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:Hopefully it's close enough that
it'll still allow you to do that.
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:It's gonna be a great time, man.
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:Last year was awesome.
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:And yeah it's gonna be great.
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:Hopefully the cops
won't show up this year.
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:Last year we had some interesting things
going on in, in the area around us.
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:Not with us, but just us,
in the area around us.
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:I was gonna to clarify, not with us.
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:The cops did not show up to recall.
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:McKinney's, kind of a ghetto
area, and I don't know, man.
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:It was crazy.
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:Yeah, it was crazy.
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:Yeah.
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:No, it's, it'll be a great time,
so get it on your calendars.
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:Yes, I anticipate having the registration
open for it actually next week.
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:Awesome.
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:This coming Sunday.
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:It should be open.
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:Good.
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:Good.
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:Well that's gonna be good.
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:We're gonna have a good time
together as a church fam.
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:And, in fact I heard, well,
I don't wanna spoil anything.
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:I don't know if it's a surprise,
so I won't say anything.
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:You're gonna wanna be there.
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:Are you referencing the story time?
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:I was referencing the story time.
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:Yeah.
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:There's a grand plan
for an exciting story.
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:So, your kids should be there for it.
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:They should be there for it.
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:Absolutely.
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:100% agree.
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:Yeah, you should all be there for it.
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:It's gonna be a great event.
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:It's gonna be great.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:We were just talking before
we hit record about the the
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:rocket ship the space shuttle.
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:That's, it's not the space shuttle, but
the, well, you know what's interesting,
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:it's the thing, it's up in space now.
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:Interest right now it's interesting
is actually a lot of the components
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:from it are space shuttle components.
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:Interesting.
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:So the nozzles, the rocket.
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:Nozzles are actually, you
just dunno what I just did.
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:I just said past this is like, he
knows this stuff and so you're about to
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:hear terms you've never heard before.
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:So rocket nozzles we're
tracking, well, I'm trying to
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:use even that's a simple term.
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:Okay, so the, okay.
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:The actual nozzles on the bottom
of the Artemis space shuttle.
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:Yes.
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:And see even you've got me doing it now.
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:Yeah.
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:They're the same from.
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:The shuttle program.
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:Okay, so it's a new ship.
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:It's a new vehicle, right.
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:You call those things
vehicles, vehicle, yes.
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:I laughed at that now.
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:I use the term all the time, but yeah,
vehicle, but there's actually a ton
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:of components and systems from it that
are actually from the shuttle program.
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:Bernard: Fun fact, several
of the engines have actually
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:been to space multiple times.
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:See I hear vehicle and I think wheels and
I don't think that thing has wheels on it.
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:Oh, so sorry.
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:Totally unrelated.
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:I just thought about this though
because I said wheels, I was doing
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:some kind of like random interview
questions during our extravaganza event.
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:So I found Lincoln and I asked Lincoln,
I said, what's your favorite animal?
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:So then I was like, I'm just
gonna throw this one out here.
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:What is your favorite kind of tire?
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:I didn't know how he would, he
immediately was like, off-road tire.
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:He said, okay.
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:That is his favorite and he was
ready to go with an answer to that.
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:But I think vehicle, I think wheels,
I think tires and I don't think
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:it has any wheels or tires on it.
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:Did you ask him what brand
of tires is his favorite?
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:I didn't, I should've
Michelin's Michelin's.
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:Is it because of the Michelin man?
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:You know, no, it's just
'cause I like Michelin tires.
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:Yeah, man, the, the rocket
shuttle vehicle ship.
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:It's super cool.
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:Hey, let me test you.
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:What does NASA stand for?
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:I, what comes to mind is, remember is
North, north American Space Agency.
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:Remember this came up I do remember
it, but I don't remember what the
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:right answer is, aeronautical.
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:North American?
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:No, no space.
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:Aeronautical.
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:Just just write us letters.
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:Just write us letters.
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:Bernard: PJ, NASA stands for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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:Next time you see him,
folks, you should quiz him.
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:Okay.
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:Let's wrap this kind of
disjointed conversation.
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:Up.
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:Bring it back the Artemis launch.
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:Yes.
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:Two things.
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:One, it's amazing that humans
are going further from earth
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:That is amazing.
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:Including when we actually
landed on the moon.
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:'cause we're gonna be the, just the
trajectory of the trip is further away.
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:I think that is an incredible testament.
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:To the fact that we are called
by God to have dominion.
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:Okay.
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:Dominion over the earth and in
this case dominion over space.
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:Space.
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:And I think that is really cool.
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:I think that's something
that we should do.
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:I think that's something
that we should invest in.
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:We should care about, we should
be excited about we're never gonna
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:Earth in this age.
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:Right.
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:But we should be excited when
we see people doing things that
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:Yep.
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:The second thing is there are some
incredible pictures that have been taken.
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:And there, if you go back to the
original moon missions, there's some
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:incredible pictures from them too.
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:But there's better cameras on
these on the Artemis, and so we're
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:You should go look at them and you
should thank God for this earth
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:It is affected by the fall, but it
is a the pictures are beautiful.
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:They're, and God has been incredibly
kind to us to put this little
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:ball in the middle of vast space.
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:Yes.
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:Where he loves you.
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:Cares for you.
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:And even sent his own son to this little
ball in almost an infinite mm-hmm.
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:Galaxy.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:Amazing.
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:It's just amazing for me to start
thinking about some of those things, man.
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:The mascot, I think the
mascot's name is Rise.
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:That is on the ship with them.
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:And did you hear about the micro
SD card that's inside with all of
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:Yeah, mine is not on it.
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:I should have, I was gonna ask, I
didn't know if your was on it, but
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:everybody's got their name on this micro
SD card and they're like, man, my, my
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:name is orbiting around space with.
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:This crew, and it's
like, okay, that's cool.
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:But then there's also, as you're just
talking about the god of the universe who
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:Mm-hmm.
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:And it's it's not on a micro SD card.
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:So really cool, really cool stuff.
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:Well, let's get into some stuff
that is, is cool because of the
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:Bible, but less cool because it's
just not, it's not good stuff.
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:What's happening?
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:That's a good transition.
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:I like that.
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:Thanks, man.
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:That's why that's why I went to
seminary to learn stuff like that.
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:Here's how you spin it.
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:Man so we left off with this tragic
situation with the Levi in his concubine
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:and he, I'll just put it this way.
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:He musters all of Israel.
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:To show up and go to war
against the Benjamin Knights
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:because of what Gia had done.
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:Now, the Benjamin Knights, they should
have said, yeah, what Gia did was
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:wrong and we're with you and we're
going to punish the people that did
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:this, and this is wrong, and we need
to purge the evil from our midst.
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:Well, that's not what they do.
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:They come to the aid of their own.
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:People their own city folk and they say,
we're gonna bow up against you Israel.
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:And so Israel and Benjamin fight and
it's just, it's another civil war.
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:It's not good.
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:And the Benjamin Knights, I,
it's like this back and forth
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:conflict there until finally the
Israelites are able to overcome.
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:The Benjamin Knights, but
they have two defeats first
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:here, where they lose people.
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:And I think this is indicative
of the fact that nobody's really
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:a good guy in all of this.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:This is a tragedy across the board.
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:And so eventually, yes, Benjamin does
suffer the defeat at the hand of the
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:Israelites and the Israelites wipe out.
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:They're people.
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:They take them out there.
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:And that presents a unique situation
in the end of the book here in
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:Chapter 21, where the Benjamin
Knights are left without wives.
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:Those that are still there because
everybody else had been wiped
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:out except for these 400 or so
that had escaped these warriors.
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:Well, the Warriors don't have any wives,
and if they don't get any wives, then
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:And so I think Israel and kind of God's
sovereign purview over this whole mess
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:provides a way for them to get wives.
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:But it's in a very weird way too
with what happens where this one
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:city doesn't show up to the council
and they're like, well, we're gonna
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:It's like, what?
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:What is going on?
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:And you're gonna read Judges 2021, and
you're gonna wanna pull your hair out.
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:You're gonna wanna say.
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:What is going on?
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:Why is all this stuff happening?
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to verse 25 in how the book ends.
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:In those days, there was no
king in Israel and everyone did
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:This is depravity and
that's why it's here.
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:It's meant to just say, this is
the mess when men are left to
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:themselves and to their own devices
and this is what it produces.
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:And we've talked about this
in the past couple of days,
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:but here is a statement of.
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:Analysis of the situation.
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:Here is a statement from the author
of Judges giving you an analysis of
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:what happened and what went wrong,
and you don't get this all the way
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:through in every passage or every
paragraph of judges, but you do here.
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:And this is the conclusion.
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:This is the conclusion that
there is no king in Israel.
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:You could think of that rightly,
I think in two different ways.
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:First, there is no, there's
no righteous king, right?
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:There's nobody who is leading the people.
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:And what we're gonna see in the
coming books is a righteous king.
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:A king who is indeed
after God's own heart.
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:So there is no human king, but
they're also saying there is no.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:And again, there you could understand
this in a couple of different ways, right?
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:There is a, they have not put
God in their hearts up where
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:he ought to be as their king.
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:Right?
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:They are not approaching him as king.
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:And this also though, is
a statement of judgment.
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:In the sense that God is not with them in
the same way that he was with Moses or the
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:This is a very definitive and a statement.
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:It is a hundred percent.
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:And there's, God does speak, he does
show up here in these two chapters.
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:He does say, yeah, Judah
should go up first and lead
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:the charge against Benjamin.
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:But what's interesting in
chapter 21 is God's not.
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:God isn't answering them.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:At this point, they say, what should we do
for the wives, for the Benjamin Knights?
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:And they even, it says there
oh Lord, the God of Israel.
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:Why has this happened in Israel that
there should be one tribe lacking?
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:God doesn't respond.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:And I think his silence is deafening
there, to your point, to set up what that
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:Yet there's no king in Israel.
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:There is a double meaning there for sure.
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:And then this also statement, if you're
looking for a way to apply judges in
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:your own life here's how you can do it.
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:Right.
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:Everyone did what was
right in his own eyes.
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:We need to be a people who
are very careful not to do
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:what is right in our own eyes.
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:There may be times when we do
things that we think are right.
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:But that always needs to be done through
the lens and through the interpretation
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:of what scripture tells us to do.
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:And we may agree with scripture at
times, but even when we disagree, even
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:when we're uncomfortable, even when
we don't really like the things that
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:we're doing, maybe it's evangelism,
maybe it's disciplining your kids.
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:There's times when we need
to make sure that we are.
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:A people, a church that is doing
what is right in God's eyes
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:and not right in our own eyes.
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:Otherwise, we're going to face a similar
judgment and not quite the same, but
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:we're gonna face a similar judgment to
what the people of Israel did in judges.
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:So there you go.
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:We're about to get into First Samuel.
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:I like First Samuel first.
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:Samuel's a fun book.
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:And so First Samuel is gonna be a,
there's better things going on there.
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:We're gonna find David
in First, Samuel first.
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:We're gonna get Samuel,
obviously, and then Saul, and
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:And yeah, first Samuel's a good
one for us to to transition to.
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:But the next book.
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:Is my favorite.
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:The book of Boaz.
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:That's true.
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:It is because it's a book full of hope
and of how, and, well, I'm, I guess I'm
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:talking our points out from underneath us.
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:In contrast to judges, it's gonna be a
book of hope and a book of obedience,
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:and a book of God's favor upon.
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:His chosen people that takes
place during the reign of judges.
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:That's right.
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:So tune in for that one and to find out
why Pastor Mark doesn't like ladies.
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:No, don't he's happily married to his
wife, but he doesn't want them to have
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:books named after them in the Bible.
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:So he's rewriting all of this to call
the Book of Ruth, the book of Boaz.
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:And so you can write into compasstx.org.
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:That's Mark with a c.
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:I was just gonna say Mark with
a K, but yeah, mark with a K.
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:Anyways no, that's gonna be great.
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:That is a four chapter book
though, so maybe carve out a
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:little bit more time tomorrow.
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:It reads like a story, it reads like
a narrative, and so that's gonna
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:be helpful for you as you read it.
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:But that is, we're tackling
the whole thing tomorrow.
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:But today we are gonna finish up
with Luke chapter 11 verses one
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:through 28, Luke 11, one through 28.
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:We're gonna start by
talking a lot about prayer.
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:The disciples come to Jesus and
they say, Lord, teach us to pray.
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:Prayer is not a New Testament concept.
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:It was an Old Testament concept just as
much as it was a New Testament concept.
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:I think the reason why the disciples go
to Jesus and ask him this is because they
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:I think they see the relationship
that he has with the father.
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:And they want that.
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:And so they go to him and they
say, Lord, we wanna pray like
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:you do, teach us how to pray.
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:And so God Jesus gives them a paradigm.
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:And this is not I, this has been taken
and turned into the our Father prayer.
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:Right?
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:And it's repeated rote
in a lot of churches.
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:That wasn't Jesus' intention.
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:When you pray, pray like
this is what he says here.
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:This is a template for us and this
is about seeking the Lord's will.
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:This is about confessing our sins.
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:This is about worshiping God.
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:This is a template I a lot of
times people will use and I
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:found it helpful in the past.
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:The template Acts, a CTS,
adoration, confession,
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:Thanksgiving and the supplication.
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:Supplication being making
our request to God.
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:I think that's a helpful template
for prayer, but that's what this is.
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:It's the one from Jesus.
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:So it's a good one to use.
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:But this is why you might be saying,
why don't we say the Lord's Prayer every
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:single Sunday when we gather together?
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:Well, because this, that
wasn't the heart behind this.
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:This was a, this is a good model
for you to use when you pray.
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:Absolutely.
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:So this is a short prayer.
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:This is a very short prayer.
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:Yes.
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:Should all our prayers be this short?
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:Again I think.
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:What's encouraging is that this
shows us that the profundity of our
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:prayer is not linked to its length.
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:But I also don't think that
this should cause us to say, oh,
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:well, this is an excuse that I
don't have to pray for very long.
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:Again, what is prayer?
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:Prayer is communicating with God.
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:Prayer is cultivating a
relationship with God.
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:And so it should be the question
of how much do I want to pray?
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:Not so much.
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:How much do I have to pray?
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:How long do I have to pray?
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:If we find that we have a, a.
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:An unease or a distaste for prayer,
then what we're really saying is
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:we've got an unease or a distaste
for communicating with God because
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:that's what prayer is really about.
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:So it doesn't have to be long, and
we see that example here, and I
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:think that's an encouraging thing.
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:In fact, Jesus elsewhere says, don't be
like the Pharisees and scribes who heap up
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:empty words and phrases in their prayers.
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:There's ways to lengthen your
prayers that are bad as well.
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:But that would be my response to that.
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:I think that's great.
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:I think that's great.
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:Yeah.
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:And maybe you're somebody,
maybe you're somebody who thinks
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:you have to pray long prayers.
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:Maybe you think you have to have special
words or you hear other Christians pray
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:and you hear like the Christianese and you
hear how they put together their sentences
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:and you like, oh I gotta pray like that.
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:Well.
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:Maybe that's good, but it could
be heaping up empty phrases.
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:But if you struggle with that, know
that this prayer is sufficient.
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:Know that these short
words are sufficient.
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:But also, if you're somebody who's
tempted, to your point, pastor PJ to
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:just pray really quick and be done.
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:Maybe there's times where
you need to pray at length.
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:Yeah.
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:If you look at any of these particular
elements to the Lord's Prayer, you
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:could pray about any of these for
an extended period of time, right.
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:You could pray about the coming
of God's kingdom for a long time.
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:You know that, and that might be
appropriate at times for sure.
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:Yeah.
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:And yeah, no, I think
that's sufficient for sure.
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:Later on here, he says in verse 13 if
you then, or who are evil know how to
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:give good gifts to your children, how
much more will the Heavenly Father give?
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:And then he says, the Holy Spirit to those
who ask him in Matthew's account, it says,
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:give good gifts to those who ask him.
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:Here.
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:It's the Holy Spirit.
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:What, what?
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:If I can put it this way, what gives,
I think it's parallel and I think that
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:helps us understand the good gifts that
we read about in Matthew's account.
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:There.
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:It's the Holy Spirit.
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:The Holy Spirit is the one that's
gonna give good things to us.
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:'cause he's gonna take, as John
says, and John records Jesus
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:talking about in John 14 through
16, the Holy Spirit's gonna take.
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:That he's heard from the father and
deliver it to the disciples who are
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:then gonna write into scripture.
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:But the Holy Spirit for us as believers is
gonna help us understand the scriptures.
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:It's gonna conform us
into the image of Christ.
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:And so as we're praying and
when it says He's gonna give
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:the Holy Spirit to you, that's.
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:That is the greatest thing
that it could give to you.
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:And that's the thing that we need most.
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:And so this is not a carte blanche.
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:Yeah.
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:You're gonna get your Lamborghini,
you're gonna get whatever that you want.
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:Maybe it's an F-150 jacked
up with a huge engine in it.
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:You want the raptor, whatever.
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:It's not that.
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:He's gonna give you good as he defines.
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:Good.
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:So what things should we pray for though?
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:That would be.
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:I think we've talked about this before,
but how can, you know in the previous
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:verses, pray for our daily bread?
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:So we, I think we have guidance to say,
yeah, we can pray for our daily bread.
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:Where is the balance to that?
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:How far can we go asking God for
things that maybe some others
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:would say That's not right.
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:I think we have to be able to
honestly say, I'm asking for this.
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:For your glory.
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:And that, that needs to
be the litmus test there.
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:And some people are gonna be able to ask
for some people conceivably could ask
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:for the Ferrari, for the glory of God.
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:Maybe they are in a unique place.
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:They've got a mission field where they're.
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:Hanging out with a bunch of people that
drive, supercars and they have a chance
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:to share the gospel with those people.
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:And maybe asking the, for the
Ferrari, they're genuinely saying
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:I would love to have people come be
amazed at my car so I can pivot that
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:and make them amazed about Jesus.
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:Yeah.
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:Maybe that person's out there.
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for materialistic things, but at the same
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:time, I think we need to be careful about
that because we have to be able to say,
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:this is honestly for the glory of God.
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:That's right.
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:And I think if we are seeking.
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:In our best way to, to
understand what God sees as good.
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:And we're seeking to pray those things.
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:We're never gonna do it perfectly.
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:We're gonna misunderstand that
we're gonna be fallen in our
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:interpretation of those things.
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:But if we are seeking what God calls good
in our prayers, that could be a Ferrari.
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:Yeah.
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:But I think for most of that
us, that's gonna be, provision
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:for food for our tables.
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:Right.
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:And for opportunities to share the
gospel and for the salvation of our kids.
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:Yeah.
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:Safety, wellbeing, all the, yeah.
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:Yeah, for sure.
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:For sure.
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:And the rest of this section that
we're reading, he does enter into
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:what we've talked about a few times
already, and that is the relationship
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:of Jesus and casting out demons
to those that are witnessing this.
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:And they're accusing him of doing
it by the power of be eligible.
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:He says, look at how divided
can't stand against or stand.
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:Itself, it will crumble Verse 20.
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:But if it's by the finger of God
that I cast out demons, then the
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:kingdom of God has come upon you.
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:In other words, you need to
realize what's happening here.
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:Wake up, pay attention, see this, and
respond rightly to it, rather than
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:accusing me of having a demon, maybe
you should say, Hey, wait a minute.
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:Maybe this is the one that
we've been looking for.
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:Maybe this is the Messiah.
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:And so Jesus is again, encountering
this opposition from the
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:scribes and the Pharisees there.
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:This is the same context
in which we find him.
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:Talk about the blasphemy of the spirit.
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:Yeah.
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:This is is Jesus combating with with
some of his opponents at this point.
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:It's amazing to see Jesus using logic.
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:He always uses logic, but it's
amazing to him to see him just use
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:simple logic to dis disprove Yeah.
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:The argument.
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:Yeah, for sure.
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:For sure.
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:It's God is a God of order.
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:Yeah.
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:Not of confusion.
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:And that applies to
even logical arguments.
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:It does, it does.
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:Well, hey, let's pray and we'll
be done with this episode.
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:God thinks that we can pray to you
and that we can bring any of our
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:requests to you from the simplest
ones to the more extravagant ones.
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:Lord, we want to ask wisely, ask well
and ask humbly and ask to use everything
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:that we're asking for your glory.
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:So I pray that you'd make us a church that
is passionate to pray and that we would
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:pray faithfully to you, that we would pray
trusting that you are indeed good and what
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:you provide for us is indeed good as well.
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:And so we thank you for the
access that we have to you
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:through Jesus and by the Spirit.
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:We pray the all in Jesus name.
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:Amen.
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