00:00 Welcome and Question

02:17 Pride and the Fall

07:29 Numbers 18 Levites and Tithes

09:00 Giving and Holy Things

10:52 Red Heifer Purification

12:41 Death and Uncleanness

14:46 Numbers 20 Waters of Meribah

17:42 Mark 7 Tradition vs Scripture

19:05 Modern Tradition Traps

22:24 Closing Prayer

23:04 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and hello.

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Oh, who's this?

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This is Three Voices at

Foreigns, A Foreign Voice.

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Will they be able to take it?

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I don't know if they can.

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I don't know.

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Probably not.

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If two are better than one,

three must be better than two.

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And then there goes four

is better than three.

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Well, no, let's not get crazy.

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Five is better than, let's not get crazy.

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Would Solomon didn't say that?

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A threefold chord.

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That's right.

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A threefold chord.

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Maybe we rename the podcast

guys a threefold chord.

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I know we have a fourfold cord.

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A.

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Text thread.

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Yes, but threefold chord podcast.

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Sounds fun.

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It does.

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So explain what's happening.

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Welcome in Pastor Mark.

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We're glad to have you with us.

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I feel welcomed.

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We thought, pastor Mark is one of our

pastors on staff and has good insights.

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You've heard of his voice on the

podcast already in the past, and

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so we thought, you know what?

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Let's bring him in and

see how this goes with us.

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I know.

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One of the risks we talked about is

that this could make our podcast longer.

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'cause Pastor Mark can

bloviate with the best of them.

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Man, excuse me.

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The bloviation, you know, is on point.

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All of us can.

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That's what we do for a living.

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That's why we're pastors.

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Right?

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That's right.

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But no, we thought it would

be fun to to bring 'em in.

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So, pastor Mark, on this

momentous day, what do you have

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to say to the podcast audience?

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I hope you guys are all doing well.

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There it is.

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There it is.

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See, that's, that's profound.

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Profound.

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He's a simple guy.

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I love it.

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And his voice is unique enough.

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Somebody else told me the other

day that they were having trouble

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deciphering my voice from your voice.

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They said We sound the same.

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I heard that and I don't

understand it, but I believe them.

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I just don't hear it myself.

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Yeah.

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And did you hear it, pastor Mark?

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Do we sound alike?

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I know you guys pretty well, so I, you

don't sound no the same to me, but I guess

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I could see it or hear it as it were.

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My wife says we sound distinct.

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Yes.

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So I think if that count, I

hope your wife can tell the

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difference between the two of you.

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I don't know.

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We never know.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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That would be a good thing.

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Yeah.

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Why don't we switch roles.

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Let's try for this podcast, let's

switch roles and see who notices.

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Yeah.

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Well, you just announced it All right.

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Before switching roles.

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We'll delete that part

or every other sentence.

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All right.

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Welcome to the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's one of the things

that you, what does he say?

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What are some things that

he says all the time?

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Yes.

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Right.

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You're listening to the podcast.

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Yes, church.

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That's right.

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Welcome Church.

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Church.

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I don't like this.

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See, we're having too much fun already.

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See, I don't think you guys

need my help getting longer.

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No we change our minds.

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Welcome to help.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, we have a question

that actually was written in by

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somebody that you work with closely.

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Pastor Mark, your admin has a question

for us, and this is actually based on

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something that we talked about recently.

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Apparently we didn't answer it.

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To her satisfaction.

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Oh, so there's more.

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So she said this, she said in my DBR text

group, a conversation about pride being

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the root of all sin came up this morning.

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A sister brought it up, how it

started in the garden with Adam.

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Choosing to sin and questioning

God's authority isn't that sin

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Before he sinned AKA Oh, the pride.

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In other words, she said, which

came first, the chicken or the egg?

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So let's solve that one first.

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The chicken came first because without the

chicken, there's no hatching of the egg.

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You have to have the chicken

to incubate the egg, right?

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And God created the animals.

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He didn't create the eggs of the animals.

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And so the chicken came first.

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I think we can put a pin in that one.

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But what about this?

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Did Pride proceed the

disobedience of eating the fruit?

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My take on this is I think

we can over parse the fall.

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I think we can read it through our New

Testament understanding to an extent

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that we are trying to divide where

we weren't really intended to divide.

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Think the general account of the fall

is meant for us to understand that there

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was a law that God had given and the fall

came when they broke God's law for us

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to try to get into the weeds of, okay,

but when did the actual sin take place?

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When did they actually fall?

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Scripture is not.

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Explicit on that and to argue

one way or the other is to go

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beyond the pale of what we know.

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They didn't have a fallen nature

at the time, and so I was talking

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earlier with them about the

fact that this is more akin.

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The temptation of Adam and Eve is more

akin to the temptation of Jesus in the

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wilderness than it is to the temptations

that we face on a regular basis.

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When somebody cuts us off in traffic,

when somebody cuts us off in traffic,

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the temptation for us to lash out in

anger is that which comes from within

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Adam and Eve, not possessing a sinful

nature, didn't have anything corrupt

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within them to be able to boil up

inside to cause them to lust after.

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This tree or lust after

the food of the tree.

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So this is more akin to when

Satan took Jesus to the wilderness

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and said, you're hungry.

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Here's some rocks.

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Make these rocks bread.

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And whereas Jesus succeeded,

they failed in their attempt.

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And I think that's the more important

thing about the fall of man is

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the breaking of God's law, the

failure that took place therein.

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Yeah, that's interesting.

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I haven't thought of it that way.

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The way that you framed that, I'm gonna

have to chew on that a little bit.

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Because they weren't glorified.

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We would say that they weren't

yet true sinful in the sense that

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we understand it post fall, but

they clearly something in them.

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Yeah.

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Cause them to do something

sinful and what that is, I guess

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to your point I don't know.

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I don't know at what

point they crossed a line.

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I felt settled by thinking of the

whole thing as an event, as instead

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of a particular point in the event.

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Sure.

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I wanna look at the whole thing

holistically, as I just mentioned,

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and I think that helps me see this as

one whole thing rather than splicing

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it up into a lot of small things.

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I do think though, that there's

evidence of if we don't wanna use

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the word sin of error that occurs

before the fall, because what the

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woman repeats to the serpent about

God's instruction is not exactly what.

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God said, and Adam was the one who

received that instruction and he is

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rightly communicating that to Eve, but

he doesn't do it in the right way, or

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he leaves things out or he allows her

to interpret it in the wrong way, and

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she actually adds to that command and

subtracts to that from that command

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that God originally gave Adam so.

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Was that sinful?

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I think that's a question that can

be answered, but I do think that

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there was an error made by Adam

prior to the interaction that

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begins in Genesis chapter three.

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Is it error or is it perhaps Adam's

conveying this to Eve and wanting her to

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understand, Hey, this tree is dangerous.

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We have to stay away from it.

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Don't even touch this tree.

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And so is the heart of it, not so

much a rebel, an act of rebellion

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or trying to add to, or adjust,

but more of wanting to convey the

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seriousness with which they needed to.

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Avoid any sort of impropriety in

crossing the line that God had drawn.

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It's possible, but I think even there

you run into dangerous territory that

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the Pharisees are also guil guilty

of in the New Testament, right?

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Adding additional things to the law

that become more than it ought to be

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and then begin to misinterpret it.

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And that's where I think the distinction

between the fallen nature that the

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Pharisees possessed and Adam in

his created state before the fall.

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Which is such a unique stage.

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'cause you're right, pastor Rod

he wasn't glorified at that point,

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so we can't argue that he's in

a perf, a state of perfection.

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There was something in him, and

yet he was in a state where God

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created him and said, this is good.

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And this is where, again, not to open up

that can of worms, but the relationship

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of free will and God's sovereignty.

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There was something that God created

within Adam that gave him the capacity,

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the prerogative to choose to disobey.

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Even though there was nothing

inherent within him to incline

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him towards disobedience, which is

what's different between us and Adam.

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We're born with the sin nature

in that as soon as we're born,

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we are predisposed to disobey.

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We are predisposed to corrupt.

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We are predisposed to add to or take

away from for the wrong reasons not

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for reasons that would perhaps be more.

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Innocuous.

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So there is a hundred

percent clarity for you.

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Ali, thanks for asking that question.

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I could tell that you are now

without any further questions.

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We have resolved all of your questions

and problems in the span of four minutes.

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You're welcome.

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What else?

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Anyways.

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Alright, well let's jump in.

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We we have numbers 18 through 20 and then

we are in what is it, mark chapter six.

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Mark chapter seven, I believe,

for our New Testament reading.

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Yeah.

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Mark seven, one through 13.

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So, numbers 18 through 20 and numbers 18.

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We have instructions that are given

here for the Levites as to how

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to receive the various offerings

that were gonna be brought.

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Again I think this is similar to what

Pastor you and I talked about a couple

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of days ago where God is returning

to this stage of trying to encourage

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the people and show them grace after

Core's rebellion and say there's

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going to be a future here for you.

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So he's giving instructions even some

clarification as to the roles and

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responsibilities of the Levi's to avoid.

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Cora's rebellion again to avoid

this taking place for a second time.

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And so in this chapter as well, the Lord

makes clear that they were to receive

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no inheritance in the land, the Levites.

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That is because God was

to be their inheritance.

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Instead, they would be

supported and provided for by

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the tithes the of the people.

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So forward looking into the entrance to

the Promised land after CORs rebellion.

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This is a way that got us coming alongside

them saying, Hey it's going to be okay.

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There is still a future here for you.

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And this is where with now three people,

we don't know whose turn it is to

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speak pastor on this is jazz brother.

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You jump in, you jump out

whenever you see fit, but we're

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all soloing at different times.

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But jazz, there's actually

sound going and just there,

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there was kind of dead silence.

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So, but the dead air is taken out.

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So the dead air, you don't

have to be afraid of dead air.

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Dead air is taken out by our post editing.

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That's right.

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We got a post editing team.

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So professionals who know how

to take care of that for us.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that stands

out in chapter 18 for me is

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this idea that God is giving.

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So he's taking care of the Levites.

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By saying, all Israel, give your

best to me, but I'm gonna give it

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to the Levites and the priests.

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And so that chain of command follows

all the way up until, I think,

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until you get to the high priest.

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I think he's the only one who's

exempted from the giving, which

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is interesting and kind of cool.

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I think we loosely follow this under

the New Testament, you've said from

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the pulpit before, pastor pj, we

as pastors we give to our church.

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Because we're bought in, we're invested.

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We're not just receiving the ties,

we're also giving of the ties,

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which is, by the way, a misnomer.

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We don't really tie 10%.

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It's more than what you want.

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It's really from the heart.

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That's what the New Testament model is.

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10% is a good number

but a tithe is a 10th.

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So here we see that this

is how Israel operates.

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This is how God cared for

them and protected them.

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We no longer have the tithe,

but that doesn't mean it's not

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a really great starting place

for your giving to the church.

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And all of us give, it's part of how

God protects his people, protects them

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from greed, protects them from any

materialism, but also protects those

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who serve his people, which in this

case are the priests and the Levites.

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And it's serious business.

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At the very end of chapter 18, and maybe

I'm jumping ahead of where, whether

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comments you guys are gonna make, but

the very last sentence of the chapter is,

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but you shall not profane the holy thing.

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So the people of Israel lest you die.

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This is serious.

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This is serious business.

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It can be easy to read this and just

be like, oh, here's some instructions.

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Here's rules for my IKEA furniture

that I gotta put together.

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But it's far more serious than that.

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This is serious business to God.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Our giving is serious to the Lord.

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Even in the New Testament,

it's not quite the same.

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But the only story I can think of

is Anani and Sapphira, who they're

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giving, they said, oh, we're giving

all this money, aren't we awesome?

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And the Lord's like, actually,

you didn't, and you're gonna die.

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You're gonna die.

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By the way, that hasn't happened at

Compass Bible Church nor Texas yet.

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Yeah.

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But don't be the first.

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True.

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Yeah.

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We don't wanna have to carry you

out and then we'd have to ask

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permission to the school to bury you.

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Yeah.

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It would just be bad.

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Whole ordeal.

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A whole ordeal.

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Yeah.

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Well, in chapter 19, he turns to part

of the purification rules and laws.

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Remember, we're dealing

with a society where you.

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One could become ceremonially unclean

and that could come through contact

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with a dead body or the bodily fluids

or anything like that, that we've read.

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All that fun stuff.

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And so one of the ways that they

were going to go about being cleansed

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was through the process of taking

the ashes from a specific animal.

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In this case, it's a red.

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Heifer.

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So a red cow.

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This cow was to be killed.

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It was to be burned completely

with its ashes being taken outside

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the camp to a clean place, and

the ashes would be stored there.

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And then when somebody was unclean,

the ashes from this red heifer would

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be combined with water that would

then be sprinkled on anyone who had.

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Become defiled.

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And that was to be part

of the cleansing ritual.

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There was also a period of time that they

were to spend while they were unclean.

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But these ashes were important here.

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And if the person was not sprinkled,

they were not clean, they were then

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gonna be cut off from the people.

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So this is just a unique situation

with the red heifer here that is

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going to serve as an important.

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Aspect of the ritual of the people of

Israel being cleansed from their sins.

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Do you guys have any input

as to why it's a red heifer?

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I have none.

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None?

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None.

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None.

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Why not just a regular heifer?

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Why does it gotta be a red one?

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Like what are redheads?

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Get all the attention here.

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I don't know either.

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And I guess my only point in bringing

that up is I think there's a lot of

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things in scripture where you just

scratch your head and say, I don't know.

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Yeah.

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I think that's one of the temptations

for a lot of us is that when there's

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something that the Bible says and

we're not quite sure what to do

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with it, we might be tempted to.

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To explain it away and maybe

not do it, but here clearly

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they understood why, perhaps.

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But whatever it is, I think this is

an important point for us to see.

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When God gives us commands that we don't

understand, it doesn't mean that we have

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to understand before we render obedience.

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Sometimes obedience is rendered

before we understand, right?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And maybe it was the uniqueness of

it I don't know how many red heifers

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were walking around, but maybe it

was like the lamb without blemish

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that this was a unique cow that

was gonna be set apart for them.

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Yeah, that's a great point.

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There's a lot of emphasis

on the dead body here.

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Yes.

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Why the emphasis here, and in

fact, I think this is a helpful

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clarity for uncles in general.

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'cause this is an easy clean cut

example of why uncles is there.

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Why does it matter that we, or

I guess the people of Israel.

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Don't touch a dead body.

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Yeah.

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In this time I think it was

particularly poignant because there

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were dead bodies all over the place.

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The generation that was not

to enter the promised land.

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They were dying and they were still

dying at this point in time because

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they're not yet in the promised land.

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They're not yet.

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Crossing over.

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And so there, there's

dead bodies all over.

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And you think about the plagues that

had happened and everything else.

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They're dealing with death in a

far more intimate way than you.

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And I deal with death when we

deal with death, our society

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has largely sanitized it.

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It's rare even for us to be in the

presence of death, although sometimes

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you're around your loved ones when

they pass away, when they die.

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But generally speaking,

we have sanitized it.

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And by the time that we see the

dead body, the dead body has been

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prepared by the mortuary laid

in a casket made to look as a.

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Life like as possible, even though

there is no life there anymore.

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And that was not the case here.

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And so God wanted his people to be aware

that death was real and what it was,

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and that it wasn't something that was

just as some people say part of life,

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but that this was an interruption of

life and it was even a defiling thing.

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And then the other thing too

is dead bodies, let's face.

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Carry disease and God was concerned that

his people be careful about that because

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he didn't want this to go with plagues

and the black plague or whatever, just

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running rampant through the Israelite

camp and doing great damage to his people.

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So that would be my 2 cents on it.

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Yeah, will just reiterate what you say.

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I think death clearly, and we see that

in the New Testament is the result of

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sin and the defilement of the tabernacle

is caused by death being around it.

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And death has no part with

God and cannot be near God.

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And so there's lots of other places

where we see uncles talked about in

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many other ways, but most of them relate

to and some more cleanly than others.

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They relate to death

and the results of sin.

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But clearly a dead body is a product.

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The wages of sin.

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That's right.

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Well in chapter 20 tragedy Upon

Tragedy, first the Death of Miriam.

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So Moses's sister dies here as

she is not going to be one of the

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ones to enter the promised land.

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And then after this, you have Moses's

own disqualification from entering

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the promised Land, the waters of MEbA.

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So they come again and there's

a situation where the people

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are gonna grumble what's new.

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The people are complaining about

God, they're complaining, saying,

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we wish we had never left Egypt.

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And.

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God speaks to Moses and says, I

want you to speak to the rock.

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Tell the rock is what it says

there, and I want you to tell the

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rock and water will come for forth.

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This is verse eight.

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Well, Moses comes up before the people,

and whether it's out of anger or

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frustration, consternation, whatever

it is, he doesn't speak to the rock

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but strikes the rock with his staff.

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It says twice in verse 11, and yet what's

interesting here is water still comes out.

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He fails in his leadership and God still.

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Provides water for the people and

so the people end up drinking from

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this, but Moses is gonna suffer the

consequences of his failed leadership.

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He did not sanctify the Lord.

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He did not hold the Lord up as holy within

the side of the congregation, which tells

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me that the people probably knew that

he was supposed to speak to the rock.

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And that's why this is such a grave

thing, Moses sins publicly here.

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It seems that the people were aware

he was supposed to tell the rock,

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and instead Moses strikes the rock.

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And so they saw his disobedience and I

think that's one of the reasons why this

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consequence is so grave for Moses here.

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Yeah, this is tragic for a lot

of reasons, and Moses is not

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gonna get over this quickly.

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He's gonna continue to blame

Israel for several chapters.

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They're gonna read about this

is your fault that God didn't

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let me in the promised land.

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But notice here the expectation that

God has for his servants is quite high.

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There.

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There is a higher standard.

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Of behavioral expectation that

God has for those whom he endorses

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and puts in leadership positions.

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And it, of course is no different today.

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In fact, I would even argue that for those

of us in our role, even though we're not

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Moses and we're not prophets, I think

the standard is higher in part because

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we're under A, the new covenant, and

B, because we have the complete canon.

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Those two things alone.

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And by the way, number three,

let me add a third one here.

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We have the indwelling spirit.

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I don't know that Moses experienced

the same thing that we do.

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So new covenants.

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New spirits, we have the whole cannon.

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Those things make us more

responsible than Moses.

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And therefore, I think it's a, it's

expected on your part as a congregation

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to expect that your pastors, your

leaders, your ministry leaders live

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a standard, a cut above the rest.

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You should want that.

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You should expect that for sure.

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Yeah, after the situation

with the rock Israel wants to

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pass through mite territory.

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Remember, Edem, Edomites

are the descendants of Esau.

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And we see here what's going to be a

problem for Israel throughout much of the

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Old Testament and even will be a problem

in the future, again, for God's people.

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And that is the mites are

a thorn in their side.

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This goes back to the relationship

of Jacob and Esau there.

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And so here the Edomites are gonna say,

no, you can't pass through our territory.

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So they're gonna end up going around.

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The book of the Amos is gonna deal

with the Edomites and really God's

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judgment on them, even for this.

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Instant instance here where

they deny Israel passage during

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the, their Exodus period here.

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And then finally we see the

death of Aaron in chapter 20.

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So chapter 20 is not a good chapter.

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There's not a lot of positive

things to find here in chapter 20.

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All right, let's flip over

to our New Testament reading.

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So we are gonna be in Mark chapter

seven, the first 13 verses here, mark

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chapter seven verses one through 13.

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And in Mark chapter seven, Jesus

is going to confront the Pharisees

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here and the religious rulers

for having the wrong emphasis.

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They're putting the wrong and

fastest on the wrong sable.

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He's gonna explain the problem here

where Matthew assumes his audience

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already understands and Mark's

gonna explain that for us in verses

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three and four for the Pharisees.

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And all the Jews do not eat unless

they wash their hands properly holding

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to the tradition of the elders.

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And so the Pharisees are

confronting Jesus's disciples.

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They're not washing their hands,

and yet Jesus is gonna spin on

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them and say your hypocrites.

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In other words, you're condemning the

very thing that you yourselves perpetuate.

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And the problem the Pharisees

had is he points out.

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To them that the fact that you're

supposed to honor your father and mother

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and yet you say, well, whatever is

Corbin now that's an interesting word.

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It's a word that means whatever's

devoted to the Lord is exempt from me

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having to honor my father and mother.

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What seems to have been taking

place here is rather than caring

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for their parents in their.

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Their older years, the Pharisees

were taking money that they would've

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otherwise been able to do that

with and saying, well, this is the

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Lord's money, so I shouldn't use

it to care for my parents here.

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And so Jesus is basically saying,

you're circumventing God's law by

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appealing to tradition, and now

you're accusing my disciples of

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circumventing God's law as well.

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When reality is, you're just

emphasizing tradition here instead

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of going to the heart of the law

and what God really intends here.

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Are there any traditions that you

guys are aware of that the church

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honors today that we might be in

danger of some of the same things?

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'cause I think people read this and

say, well, that's not gonna be me.

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We would never do that.

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I would never put

tradition above scripture.

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Are there places where you

might be aware of and you would

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say, well, here's a caution.

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It's not that it's a wrong thing per

se, but when tradition elevates above

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scripture, well then it's a problem.

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This is close to home for you.

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I think worship can easily

be that in music selection.

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I didn't say worship, bro.

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Something else.

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It's been great to have Pastor Mark

on the podcast see's last episode.

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See all, yeah.

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Worship's a big one.

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Yeah.

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Say a little more about that.

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I think the varies beginning.

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We can elevate our preferences

over the words, the lyrics of it,

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and the body worshiping together.

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We can easily.

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We can easily do that.

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I think there can be more

complicated or intricate ways

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that we can do that as well.

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I do think we have to be careful.

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I'm not saying there's not any place

to be careful with our music selection

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and I know you are very careful and

we are as pastors, but you can end up

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in really dangerous territory, bro.

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That's such a good point because

I can think of some certain

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people who would say, man, it's my

preference, my tradition is hymns.

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I like hymns.

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That's my tradition.

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That's what I'm used to.

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I like that.

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And hymns are awesome.

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I'm not gonna say anything bad about them.

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I love hymns.

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But why does Chris Thalman have to add

a chorus to every hymn that he uses?

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Why can't he just leave it alone?

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It's a good song already.

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Chris.

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One of those things.

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That's a good one.

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Movies, if it has a certain

rating we don't watch 'em

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because that's un-Christian.

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And I'm not saying that they're good.

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You hear me saying that?

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Right?

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I'm not saying it's a bad tradition.

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I'm just saying there are things

like that, that fly under the radar

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that we often don't pay attention to.

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'cause that's just how we do things.

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That's the definition of a tradition.

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This is how we do things.

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And it may not be the tradition of your

elders from your church, but there are

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things that go unspoken that all the

time we're just flying by a formula

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that we don't often think about.

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Is there anything that

you would add to the PPJ?

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Yeah, I think just our liturgy in general.

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How we go about, for example,

communion, what we do, how often we

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observe communion even our view of

communion, we can elevate our tradition

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over what scripture clearly teaches.

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I think there's things

that we are serious.

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Things like we would say communion

is very serious, we would say.

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Tism very serious.

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And yet I think there's freedom to

an extent in the expressions of those

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things, even though we have convictions

about what we believe is right.

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A lot of our convictions

about our approach to these

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things are tradition informed.

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And so we do them because we believe that

these are tradition formed things that are

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exp exposed in scripture the right way.

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But it is an interpretation

and it is tradition.

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And so, we lean.

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Church tradition.

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I think to your point, more than we

realize, we lean on church tradition, so

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we, so we moving to sprinkling babies.

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That's exactly what I was hearing too.

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That's, I was confirming that we're gonna

get everybody in the audience to qui.

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Yeah.

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We have another reason why

we have to be Bible people.

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Yes.

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Because so often we just don't think

about it until we have to think about it.

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Passages like this are a good

reminder that not everything

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that comes outta the mouth of.

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People from your tribe is a good thing.

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Yeah.

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And as long as we keep them in

proportion to the scripture,

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I think we're gonna be okay.

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Amen.

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Today's reading only goes

through verse 13, right?

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Correct.

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So it really leaves

the thought unfinished.

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It's kind of unfortunate in my

opinion that this reading doesn't go

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through verse 23 because Yeah, yeah.

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He talks about honoring fathers

and mothers, but then he

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also helpfully very clearly.

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Answers what he said at the

very beginning of chapter seven.

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So I guess look forward to tomorrow.

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Ooh, that's a teaser.

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Alright, for tomorrow's meeting and

hey, maybe when you read tomorrow, read

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the beginning of chapter seven as well.

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I thought you were just gonna go rogue

and be like, well I'm gonna talk about,

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talk about, anyway, that section.

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Anyways.

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That's a good idea.

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You already fired me so I guess,

you know, what do I to lose?

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Yeah.

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What I lose.

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Alright.

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Hey, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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Yeah, we thank you so much for.

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Just the word and the fact that we

get together, together and talk about

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it and talk about its implications

for our lives, how it relates to us.

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Lord we're grateful that we have your

word, that we're not just dependent upon

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church tradition, and we wanna be careful

to acknowledge that your word is what

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is authoritative at the end of the day.

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Not tradition, not

human reason and wisdom.

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Your word is authoritative.

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Your word should inform all those things.

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But ultimately, we wanna subject ourselves

to the scriptures as our authority.

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So thanks for this time.

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Thanks for Pastor Mark

joining us for this.

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This podcast as well, and we just pray

that we continue to be benefits to

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the people that tune in and listen,

we pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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So long.

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