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Chapters

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

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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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Yeah.

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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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Okay.

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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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And he said, A cat.

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And so I let that one slide.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Fair enough.

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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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Hmm.

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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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than we ever have before.

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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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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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Okay.

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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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have complete dominion over this.

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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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are what God created us to do.

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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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Oh yeah.

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Of.

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A planet Earth from this.

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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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getting some amazing pictures.

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You should go look at them and you

should thank God for this earth

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that he has given us and certainly.

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It is affected by the fall, but it

is a the pictures are beautiful.

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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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these people's names written on it?

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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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created all this, he knows your name too.

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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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No, it's not.

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That's orbiting space.

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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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the tribe of Benjamin is gonna die out.

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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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take them out and take their wives.

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It's like, what?

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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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And I think it's so important to go

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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what was right in his own eyes.

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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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That's right.

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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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And notice this is no king.

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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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King in Israel in a divine sense.

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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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same way that we'll see him be with David.

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This is a very definitive and a statement.

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And it is a statement full of judgment.

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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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conclusion is at the end of the book.

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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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There's judges.

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Yeah.

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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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then we're gonna get into David.

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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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But that's also a fun book.

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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, yeah.

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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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And so, I mean, wait, hold on.

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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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tx.org.

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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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see such a uniqueness in Jesus's devotion.

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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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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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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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Yeah.

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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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Material.

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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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And so I don't think it's wrong to pray

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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