00:00 Introduction and Greetings

01:04 Weather Predictions and Preparations

02:42 Sunday Sermon Overview

03:31 Exodus 9-10: The Plagues

10:54 Matthew 18: Church Discipline

22:48 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome to a Sunday edition

of The Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Good morning.

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And we are not gathering

together at church today.

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At least.

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That's as of right now the plan.

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You are bold to put stuff on tape.

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On tape before we actually do things.

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Well, I mean, I make prophetic

predictions all the time for yucks.

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You're making a real one.

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I'm making a real one.

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I'm saying we are not gathering a church.

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This You are declaring it.

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I'm declaring it.

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You are bold for being a cessationist.

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You said on the really confidently.

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Yeah.

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Well, I'm just, this is,

but this is happening.

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This is Sunday that we're talking

about this, but as we record it, we

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still haven't anything to the church.

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That's true.

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But we will by the time

they listen to this.

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Oh, okay.

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All right.

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The only ones that would know anything

ahead of time would be Matt and Hannah.

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If they're paying attention to

this as they're uploading it.

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We all just wanna know when you're gonna

admit to being a raging charismatic.

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Well, you know, I try to keep

it underwraps as much as I can.

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Well, you do a decent

job, you unwrapped it.

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It is now as bold and as clear as the sun.

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Well, the sun's not out today.

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The sun's not out today.

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No, probably not.

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Anyway I'll offer that with

humility 'cause I'm not a

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prophet nor the son of a prophet.

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Well, as we record this, not all

present company excluded, as we record

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this, we're about to walk into what is

projected to be three straight days of

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subzero or subfreezing temperatures,

not subzero subfreezing temperatures.

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So it's gonna be it's gonna

be an interesting one.

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You does your family have food,

supplies, water, everything like that?

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Prado, are you ready for the cold?

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Nothing extraordinary.

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Yeah.

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We have what we normally have.

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Yeah.

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And I feel good enough to say, well,

we'll make it to the weekend just fine.

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If anything goes the wrong direction,

I guess then I could start worrying.

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But then I know that there will

be people in my neighborhood.

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I could call the church.

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Yeah.

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There's even people to help us out.

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So I'm not terribly concerned

and I've seen multiple reports

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from my favorite weather guy.

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Ponder, ponder on weather.

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He's on our, he, I follow him on Facebook.

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He has said this is not gonna

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He says this is gonna be a big one.

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I guess it has a potential to be

problematic for a lot of reasons,

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power lines and things like that.

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But he said it won't be the same

because this one doesn't have

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a secondary storm behind it.

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Right.

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So it's one big storm as

opposed to multiple storms that

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could last us multiple days.

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So I feel reasonably okay

in saying we've taken some.

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Reasonable precautions.

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Yeah.

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But what have you done?

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Yeah.

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Same.

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We're not panicking or

anything else like that.

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I saw earlier this week, DFW the lines

to get out of town were like Christmas.

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I mean, it was huge.

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Traffic jams trying to

get into the airport.

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People were trying to fly,

they were trying to leave town.

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So they were following Ted Cruz's

example and trying to get outta

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town and not be here for it.

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His office said he had

a prearranged schedule.

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He'll be back before

the storm hits, right.

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That's what I heard too.

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Well, okay.

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Yeah, so I don't mean to

unnecessarily put him on blast.

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I don't think this was him fleeing

the storm, but we're with you.

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Yeah, we're just gonna write it out.

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But hey, it is Sunday.

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We do have a sermon available for you.

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You can watch it, you can click

on the link that was provided in

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your email, or you can just go to

our sermons page on our website.

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And watch that sermon.

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It's gonna look a little bit different.

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I'm not obviously at the school preaching

this morning, like normal, but we'll

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be still bringing a message to you.

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It is gonna be a message that is

the final message in our called out

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series, and it's an important one.

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It's on our need to take the

gospel, the great commission.

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Why the great commission matters,

why we're not already in heaven.

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Basically is the idea that we're

talking about there because God still

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has work for the church to do and

that's work that we can't do in heaven.

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So that's why we're still here and

we need to be serious about it.

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We need to take it

personally and we need to be.

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Thorough with the call

for the Great Commission.

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So, hopefully you'll make time to

watch that together as a family.

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And you can do that from hopefully

the warmth of your own home.

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And we will be back, lord

willing, in person next Sunday.

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But let's jump into our

Bible reading for today.

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We're in Exodus nine and 10, and

then the first part of Matthew 18.

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So Exodus nine and 10, we're in

the middle of all the plagues.

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Exodus chapter nine is dealing first

with the plague of the livestock.

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That is the livestock.

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Of the Egyptians are gonna die.

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But he says, as you pointed out

yesterday, pastor Rod, that all

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of the livestock of the people of

Israel were gonna be preserved.

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And so God is separating Israel

out specifically on this one and

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saying that they are going to be

kept from this particular plague.

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Plague number six is gonna be the boils.

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And this one just sounds

absolutely miserable.

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Not that the other ones were pleasant,

but now we're the boils, the sores are

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breaking out on both man and beast.

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And so this is something that is going

to be painful and miserable and it's

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going to lead the magicians not even

to be able to show up before Pharaoh.

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And yet God is gonna this time be the one

that's acting to harden Pharaoh's heart.

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Verse 12.

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And he's not going to

let the Israelites go.

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The next plague up is going to be the

plague of hail, and this is gonna be hail.

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What I think is gonna be

a severe lightning storm.

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And I think that's the fire that's

coming down from heaven on earth,

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that could be literal fire as well.

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But this hail is going to do damage to

not only the animals and anybody outside,

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but also the crops and the fields there.

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And yet again in verse 26,

only in Goshen where the people

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Israel were, was there no hail.

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Pharaoh evaluates everything at this

point and he says, you need to stop

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this and I will confess I've sinned

against the Lord, but Moses knows what's

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really going on there and says in verse

30, as for you and your servants, I

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know you do not yet fear the Lord.

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And I think.

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This is in part because there

was still hope for recovery for

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him, and that's in verse 32.

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It says, the wheat and the emer were not

struck down for their latent coming up.

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So Pharaoh's thinking, I've still

got crops that are coming up later.

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We can weather this storm

and still make it through.

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So, Pharaoh hardens his heart

here, but notice again it says

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he sinned in hardened his heart.

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So Pharaoh's not an innocent victim.

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We see Moses attributing sinfulness

to him in his response and

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hardening his heart with all this.

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But there's at least chapter nine,

we've got the livestock, we've got

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the boils, and we've got the ha hail.

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I don't know if we mentioned it yet,

but you should also note that the very

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judgments that God is issuing here are

intended to counter and to show himself

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superior to the Egyptian panoply of Gods.

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Now, I don't remember all the names

of the various gods that are being

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taken down one by one, but each of

these areas is meant to showcase

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and demonstrate God's superiority.

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Over the Egyptian gods.

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And I think if you were to think about

this in today's vernacular, you might

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not look at God destroying crops.

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Maybe he would, but he might go after

things like the banking system perhaps, or

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our internet or something of that nature.

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These are the gods of the Egyptians.

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These were the beings in

whom they put their trust.

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And so God demonstrates by mighty

acts of power that these beings

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that they trust are not trustworthy.

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Now they are all facades.

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They're all fakes.

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They're all inferior beings.

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In fact I would argue that probably all

of them are demonic beings that are.

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Puppeteering or demonstrating

themselves to be some kind of God and

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the Egyptians fall prey to that idea.

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But each of these plagues is meant to

demonstrate God's superiority, and that's

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what's happening here in these passages.

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As we turn to chapter 10, the

Lord provides another reminder

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as to why he's doing all this.

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And so we read, he says, I've hardened

his heart in the heart of his servants,

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that I may show these signs of mine

among them, that you may tell them in the

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hearing of your son and your grandson, of

how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians.

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So this is not only for the

benefit of the immediate.

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Nation of Israel, but this is the

benefit for future generations.

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As they would recount

the story of the Exodus.

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This was part of what God

was trying to get them to do.

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As he goes on Moses and Aaron

appear again before Pharaoh and

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ask him a question, how long?

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How long will you not humble

yourself before the Lord?

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If you jump down a little bit

further, the magicians in the servants

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affair are also gonna ask him this.

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A question of saying, how long,

verse seven, how long shall this

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man being Moses be a snare to us?

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Let the men go that they may

serve the Lord their God?

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He says, do you not yet

understand that Egypt is ruined?

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And so Pharaoh initially appears to again,

be ready to concede and let them go.

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And yet in his conversation he wants them

to go, but he says which ones are to go?

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And Moses says, well, we

need to go with everybody.

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And Pharaoh hardens his heart again,

basically, even though it doesn't

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say that in the text and refuses.

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And so.

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Once again, we find another plague coming,

and this time is the plague of the locust.

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This is significant because the locust

we're going to do damage to the rest of

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the crops that the hail didn't take out.

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If you think of the book of

Joel, you think of the plague

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of locust and the intense damage

that it could do to the harvest.

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And even as pastor Rod was just

talking about the gods of Egypt.

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The gods of the harvest season.

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Th this would've been an attack upon

the fruitfulness and the fertility of

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the land of Egypt, and that would've

undermined some of their religious

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beliefs in the religious systems as well.

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But these locusts come in and

again he calls them back, does

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Pharaoh, and says, I've sinned.

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This is down in verse 16.

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And he says, even now, therefore,

please forgive my sin and plead with

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the Lord to remove the locust from me.

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And so the Lord turns the

wind, the locusts leave.

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And again, the Lord hardens

Pharaoh's heart such that he

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will not let the people go.

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And so the ninth plague comes in,

and this is the plague of darkness.

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And it's a darkness.

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It says in verse 21, that can be felt.

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I don't know if you've ever been

in Pitch Black Darkness that.

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Thick where you just feel like

you can, it's palpable how dark

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it is, but that's what it is.

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And it's probably not that

they had no light at all.

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They probably still had the

ability to have lamps and things.

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But if you've ever just been in, in

a season, even overcast skies, we're

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dealing with gray skies right now.

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I remember living in Missouri, there

was something called sad seasonal.

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Anxiety disorder or something like that.

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Seasonal depression, something where

it was you just be in gray skies

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and the trees are dead and there's

no life there, and you just feel

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the depression of it all.

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You feel the heaviness of it all.

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You take that and you bring

darkness to the scene.

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There's no sun.

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They're not seeing the sun at all.

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And that is gonna be crippling for them.

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And it's gonna be crippling

for their industry.

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It's gonna be crippling even

more so for their agriculture.

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'cause crops need light

to be able to thrive.

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So this is a plague that is.

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Pretty miserable for them, such

that again Pharaoh calls Moses

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and says, you need to go, but keep

your herds and your flocks behind.

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Moses says, no, Pharaoh

hardens his heart again.

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And this sets the stage for

the final plague, which we'll

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get to in tomorrow's reading.

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I think based on verse 14 and chapter

10, that the locust at the very least

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are over all the land, including Goshen.

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Which is the concentration

of all, again, God's people.

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I'm reading now with the eye of

paying attention to do I see any

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evidence in the text to let me

know that this is only for Egypt or

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that this is also including Israel.

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And here, I think at least for the

locusts and certainly the darkness,

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unless there's some kind of light

that God offers them that is

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separate which I guess is possible.

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But actually no, I do take that back.

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Verse 23.

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But the people of Israel

had light where they lived.

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I do remember that.

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Remember that one.

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But the locusts were part of their.

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Crop destruction as well.

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And I think this one makes

more sense to me because they

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don't need their crops anymore.

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Yeah.

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They are now going to be taking care.

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And by the way, most of

them were shepherds anyway.

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That's why they had mm-hmm.

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That's why they're in

Goshen in the first place.

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So their livestock was protected

when God sent the hail, they

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brought in their animals.

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If any of them did have crops,

and I suspect several of them

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did they were eaten by the

locust, but it doesn't matter.

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God's gonna have them leave anyway.

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Yeah.

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And it's almost as though

God is sitting there.

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Up to say you need to make

that separation from Egypt.

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There's nothing here for you anymore.

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And so even Yeah, that's a good point.

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If you took out the crops, it's

him saying it's time to go.

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Alright, well let's go

over to Matthew chapter 18.

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Matthew Chapter 18 is an important

chapter for us for many reasons.

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The first.

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20 verses, which we're covering today.

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Jesus tells some more parables.

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Jesus addresses a really significant

issue and there's a lot here.

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But let's talk about this because I think

it's helpful for us to lay out what.

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What church discipline is what it

looks like and what it looks like

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for us here at Compass Bible Church.

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Church discipline is really drawn out of

this passage, specifically Matthew 18,

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verses 15 through 20 as Jesus lays out

a plan there for someone who is in sin.

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If your brother sins against

you, go and tell him his fault

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between you and him alone.

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And then if he listens to you,

you've gained your brother.

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If he does not listen,

this is where you take.

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Two or three witnesses with you in order

that every charge may be established.

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If he refuses to listen to them, then

you bring it and tell it to the church.

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And if he refuses to listen even

to the church, let him be to you

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as a gentile and a tax collector.

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So what is happening here?

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This is not the fruit police looking

to get rid of somebody in the

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church that they're annoyed with.

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This is not the Jesus's instructions

to say, Hey, this is about legalistic

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standards here, rather, this is.

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Jesus wanting the church to care for the

godliness and holiness of one another,

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and he's laying out a situation here to

protect both the church and the person

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in sin because this is actually meant

for the good of the person who is sinning

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such that they would repent from their

sin and be restored to fellowship.

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That's the ultimate goal of.

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All of these things.

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So church discipline is

something that is important.

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It's something that we practice

here at Compass Bible Church.

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And so is do we have, A lot of times

people will ask us the questions

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about is there a document people

have to sign or there's not.

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We believe that the church under the

authority of the pastors has the ability

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to do this and to practice this as we

see fit as the situations call for.

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So, church discipline is something that.

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Is not always gonna be

evident in the sense that it's

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getting to that final stage.

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In fact, we hope and trust that most of

the time it's not getting to the final

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stage, but there's multiple other stages

that are involved where people are

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pursuing the righteousness, the holiness

of the brothers and sisters in Christ.

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The verse that you might have heard people

quote before in Matthew 18, is verse

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20, for where two or three are gathered

in my name, there am I among them.

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And this doesn't mean

how often people use it.

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Where if two Christians are together,

Christ is there in his presence and

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that somehow that makes them a church.

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It's not necessarily wrong to say

that Christ is present with you,

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but the purpose of his presence

there is the presence of judgment.

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This is not presence of comfort where

he's saying, Hey, I'm with you always.

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That's Matthew 28 here.

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He's saying, I'm with you as you

issue and decree judgment from

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your formal church authority.

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If you tell a brother, you go through

this steps and this process of

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confronting a brother, I'm there with

you supporting this decision essentially

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because you're doing it in and through

my authority and my leadership.

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I wanna point your attention to

the earlier part of the chapter

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too, 'cause I think it really helps

inform how you understand this one.

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Earlier in the chapter, Jesus talks to

his disciples and says, look, unless

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you turn and become like children,

you'll never enter the kingdom.

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And I often encourage people to not

look at this, to say don't become

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childish, but become childlike.

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Jesus is not encouraging us to

become immature and dependent

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upon others in a sinful way.

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What he is saying is that like children

who are humble and generally speaking,

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trusting of their adult leaders,

their parents Henry, he says here in

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verse four, whoever humbles himself.

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Like this child the point in pointing to

a child is saying, look, they're humble.

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They have to be humble.

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They don't have anything to brag about.

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They have no degrees, they have no

accomplishments they can point to,

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and they're trusting their parents

or their leaders to care for them.

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And he says, in a similar way,

all Christians who are genuinely

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Christians are going to have

the same humble demeanor.

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You can't even enter the kingdom

without having a humble demeanor.

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Now all of us are at

varying degrees of humility.

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Not all of us possesses the same number

or quantity, but all of us possess it.

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To some degree, and so here he says,

if you're going to be in my kingdom,

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you're gonna be humble like a child.

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And then he says later on, by the

way, when you're confronted over

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your sin, I hope you remember

that humility is what's gonna be

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necessary for you to respond to that.

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And of course, mm-hmm.

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Church discipline works when

there's humble Christians involved.

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Mm-hmm.

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Church discipline works best when

Christians are willing to say, man,

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thank you for showing me my sin.

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I don't want sin, I don't

like to have sin in my life.

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And especially that I'm

clearly caught in this.

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Thank you for helping me out with this.

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I want you to see the humility's

really important here.

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And then he says, whoever causes one

of these little ones who believe in

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me to sin, it's better for him to be

tossed into the depths of the ocean.

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Is that talking about.

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Actual kids?

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Or are we talking about Christians here?

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I think, yes, if I can punt and

go that way, I think it is both.

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Certainly I think we would group

children into that, but I don't

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think it's limited to children.

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I don't think we should sit back in other

words and say, oh, well, if I'm causing

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an adult to, to sin is really not that

big of a deal in God's eyes and it's okay.

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I think that the point is that.

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The seriousness, the gravity of

sin no matter what is a problem.

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And we should be careful that we're not

causing or leading anyone else into sin,

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period, regardless of how old they are.

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Amen to that.

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I ul ultimately I agree with that.

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I was reading it again, trying to discern

who do, does he have in mind here?

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And he uses the term

little ones in verse six.

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He also uses the same term little ones.

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In verse 14 where he's clearly talking

about a Christian at that point.

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Yeah.

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So I think he is intending to

say little ones as in believers.

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'cause again, earlier he's saying

whoever humbles himself like a

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child, they're the ones who are.

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And by the way, let me

just back up verse one.

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The disciples say who's the greatest.

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Yep.

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And I just want you to see here, Jesus

doesn't say, stop talking like that.

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Stop it.

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Just be lowly and be okay with that.

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He doesn't tell them no.

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He just says, if you wanna be truly

great, here's what this looks like.

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Yeah.

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The path to greatness in the Christian

community as Jesus defines it, is

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not going to be those who have the

biggest social media platforms.

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He's saying those who are most humble,

those who are most servant oriented,

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those who do what Christ calls 'em to do.

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And willingness to be obscure and

unknown and maybe not even honored

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for their work in this life, because

he's saying, I'll honor you.

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I'll reward you later on.

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So I just want you to see again, Jesus

doesn't tell you not to pursue greatness.

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He's just telling you to

pursue it the right way.

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Pursue greatness the way Jesus says here.

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And man, what a great surprise

it will be if we get to heaven.

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And we're like, who's that person?

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Yeah, with all the bling, I don't know

what it's gonna look like, but the

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glory of God shining from this person.

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You'll see people there that I'm

guessing some you might expect.

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But maybe a lot of people that

you're gonna say, who is that?

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Yeah.

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And it's gonna be faithful John and

faithful Jane, and faithful so-and-so

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who maybe didn't have any opportunity

to get recognition in this life.

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But in the next life, Jesus

will not let them be forgotten.

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Yeah.

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Let's.

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Pull a little bit more on the

thread of church discipline here.

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We got a little bit of time left.

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Some of you may be brand new to that.

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That may be a foreign concept to you,

but it happens in different contexts

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depending on what's going on here.

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There may be times that we as pastors

decide that what it looks like to

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tell to the churches to go to that.

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Particular sub congregational ministry

that they're involved in, because th those

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are the people, they're most likely to be

able to call this person to repentance.

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There's an argument to be made that

if I stand up before the church and I

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say, Hey, you know what, this woman,

Jezebel that we have here, she she

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abandoned her family and abandoned

her husband, and she's refusing to

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repent and she refusing to come back.

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And so we're disciplining

her publicly Here.

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I, if you don't really have any

sort of connection to Jezebel.

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Then really what that becomes is

fodder for your own sinful gossip

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and thoughtfulness as far as what

did she do and what all happened

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and why isn't she coming back?

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And I don't really know who this is.

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Rather, if we go to Jezebel's community

group and we say, Hey, you guys listen.

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This is what's going on.

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This is where we're at.

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We've disciplined her at this

point to the full extent.

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We want you to pursue her as though

she's an unbeliever because that's

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what her heart has revealed here.

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She stands a much better ch

chance at having people in

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that context care for her.

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Now, that's not always the case.

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We may at some point stand up in front

of the church body and say, this is so

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and so, and this is their sin because

it's a more public sin, or they're a

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more well-known figure within the church

that warrants such an announcement.

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But, I think there's

some flexibility here.

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Even as we were talking about, I think

in yesterday's episode or the day, no,

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I guess two days ago, we were talking

about how to be careful with pressing

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the application in pursuing the spirit

of the law over the letter of the law.

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I think this is an instance here with

church discipline where there's room

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for the spirit of the law to be sought

over, particularly the letter of the

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law, especially considering as Jesus

is saying this, the church, as we know,

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it wasn't in existence at this point.

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What does church discipline mean

practically for that person?

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Yeah.

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Are they still able to come to church?

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Do we don't do membership?

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I think a lot of people know that

we don't have formal membership,

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so their name's not removed off

of the roster in that sense.

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What does that practically mean for

the Christian or the non-Christian

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who is now church discipline?

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Can't they just go to the next

church and say, well, hey, I

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wanna be a church member here now.

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No, and that's where.

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Hopefully if somebody's new here and

they're coming to us, we wanna be able

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to spend some time getting to know them.

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Hey, where were you in church before?

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And ideally we want to make sure that

we're reaching out to their former

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church to say, Hey, is this person

somebody who's in good standing?

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So forth and so on.

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What it means within our body is we

wouldn't necessarily bar them from coming

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to the church, but we would instruct

the church body, Hey, there's not to be

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fellowship with this person any longer.

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What they need, their greatest need is

not for you to be kind and empathetic

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to them or for you to exchange

pleasantries around the donut table.

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They need, when you see them to be called

to say, Hey brother, sister I love you.

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Not to say.

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You need to repent and be restored.

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You need to be repent and be reconciled.

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You need to repent and come to trust

in Christ as your Lord and the Savior.

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That's what they need.

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So, they would be removed from

our community group fellowship.

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They would be removed

from any serving role.

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They would be removed from

participation in men's Bible

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study, in women's Bible study.

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We would not want them to continue

to show up and have us sit here

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and say, well, everything's fine.

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It's just that you're somehow.

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Under this banner of being

in in church discipline.

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Yeah, there, there would be

tangible consequences to that.

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We would say, Hey, there's no,

don't have them over for dinner.

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Don't engage with them in small talk.

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This is, they need to feel the

separation that has been created here.

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I heard some churches.

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Say that when they practice

discipline, they don't say you can't

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come to the corporate gathering.

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In fact, they encourage them,

like, we'd still love you to come.

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We want you to come to our weekend

services and whatever our men's events are

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because we want you to hear the gospel.

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Sure.

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You clearly need to have this.

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Is that a right pr a wrong

practice given your position?

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Or is that just a variance of freedom

to agree, disagree kind of thing?

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What do you think about that?

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I think it's a variance of

freedom to agree, disagree.

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I don't think I would blame a church for

taking that position, but I don't know.

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Yeah.

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The more they show up.

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In our midst and sit under the biblical

teaching, the more judgment they're

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storing up for themselves as they continue

to remain in a state of hardheartedness.

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Yeah, I can understand that.

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I also see that you would want them

to repent, especially, usually in

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a situation like this, it's not.

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Just an isolated person, right.

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It's a family member, right?

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It's a husband, a wife, a child, and the

last thing you want is for them to just

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stop altogether because then it just feels

like, okay, well this is a lost cause now.

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Yeah.

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I get that.

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There's a lot of complexities there, and

the reason I ask is because I want you to

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feel some of the weight of the decisions

that have to be made at our level.

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Yeah.

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But also some of the complexity about

caring well for the church, protecting

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the church against some of the things,

and I guess part of the question.

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For that person would

be, what are they saying?

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How are they interacting

with other Christians?

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Because if they're cantankerous, if

they're stoking or stirring up further

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division because they don't like the way

that this was handled or they don't like

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the preaching for these five reasons, I

wish it was more like this and not like

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that and posting it on their social media.

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There's things that we would say, okay,

you're clearly not gonna be able to stay

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here, but there's other situations where

maybe it would make sense to say we'd like

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you to keep coming to the weekend service.

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Yeah.

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We want you to hear the message.

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And Brother John, sister Jane we

are ready to have the conversation

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about what repentance looks like.

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Whenever you're ready.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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I can agree with that.

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Hey, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Lord, thanks for today being Sunday, even

though we're not together as a church

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family, I just pray that you give us

opportunities to gather as individual

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families and to listen to the word

preach and to still remember what it is

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to be a part of Compass Bible Church.

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This is our local church.

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This is our church family, and we love it.

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And so we look forward to next week,

Lord willing being back together.

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But in the meantime, God, I pray that we

would use today well, and that we would

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give ourselves over to, to still worship

you, that we wouldn't take the day off

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just because we're not in person together

at Founder's Classical Academy, I pray

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that we still wouldn't neglect to worship

you as you're intended to be worship.

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This is the resurrection Day.

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This is Sunday.

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This is the day that we celebrate the

victory of Christ over death in the grave.

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And so we pray, Lord, for just

a great rest of our day, and

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we ask this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Hey, keep in your Bibles, y'all, and

tune in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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