00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:24 Current Events Discussion

00:39 Medical Breakthroughs and Faith

02:11 Justice and Morality in Society

04:01 AI and Ethical Concerns

06:32 Bible Reading: Exodus 34-36

07:17 Understanding God's Glory and Justice

17:27 Generosity and Building the Tabernacle

20:44 New Testament Reading: Matthew 23

21:43 Warnings Against Hypocrisy

25:49 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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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 good morning.

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We're on Wednesday, middle of the week.

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You made it halfway through the week.

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There's no snow on the ground.

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It's actually nice.

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It's in the sixties and seventies here

in Texas, so we're soaking that up.

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That'll be a nice change of pace for us.

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But, um, yeah.

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Do we have any goog?

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Do we have any questions?

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I don't think we had any questions

written in recently, did we?

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None to my knowledge.

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Yeah.

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But you could talk about a whole host of

things that are happening in the culture.

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We could just talk about

a whole host of things.

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There's so many things that are happening

outside of the four walls of their church

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office and probably their offices as well.

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Anything that you wanna say about the

current things that are taking place?

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Anything at all about the,

well, here's something exciting.

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Okay.

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I heard of a physician that found a cure,

at least in rats for pancreatic cancer.

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That's huge.

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Did you hear about that?

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That's huge.

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Isn't that amazing?

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Yeah, I think that's, well, this

is one of the graces of God and

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the mercs of God to provide us

a way to overcome sickness now.

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I wonder if there's Christians that

would say something to the effect of,

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well, God is the one who cursed the

ground, and God is the one who said that

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there should be consequences to our sin.

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So why fight the effects of the fall?

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Mm-hmm.

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That's a good question.

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What would you say to that?

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Yeah, I would say I think the greatest

effect of the fall is death, right?

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And so I think the person who

says, I'm trying to push death

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back and I never ever want to die.

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I don't know that that's a realistic

or a right or a biblical mindset, but

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the person who says, you know what?

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I want to live as long as I can

to be able to serve the Lord

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faithfully for as long as I can.

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I want to enjoy my family as a

gift from God for as long as I can.

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I wanna be a good steward of the blessings

that God's given me for as long as I

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can, knowing all the while that one

day I am gonna die, or Christ is gonna

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come back, one of those two things,

and I'm gonna go to be before him.

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And so with that in mind, I wanna be

a good steward of the body he's given

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me to live as long as it possibly can.

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Like Whitfield said, we talk about it from

the death side, but it also impacts life.

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We're immortal until our

work on Earth is done.

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And so we've got work to do.

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And so we want to be good

stewards of our bodies.

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Until then, we don't wanna hasten our end.

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We don't wanna hasten our demise

just simply because we would

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say, well, you know, death is

gonna happen because of the fall.

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So it's good then to fight

the effects of the fall.

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Sickness, aging, ill health, all the, all

those things that would be part of this.

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Yeah, I think it's like

your general posture.

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I would take that position.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I think I would agree with that.

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Yeah.

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Uh, talk about Jeffrey Epstein.

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There's more stuff that's been

released about him, conversations

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that are taking place.

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And because he's dead, he

can't stand trial, right?

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He can't be held accountable.

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Right.

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Uh, do we have any, do.

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Desire.

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Do, do you want people to know about

what's happening behind closed doors?

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Do you care?

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Is this even, I mean, there's what,

300 million document, 3 million

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documents to sift through, right?

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Does this even make sense for a

Christian to care about at all?

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I mean, I, I, I think we should

care that justice is done.

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That good prevails.

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That is a good thing.

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That's a right thing.

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In fact, we're even talking about that

this coming Sunday with regards to our

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response to, personal suffering, whether

that be inside or outside of the church.

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We have this concept that we want

good when evil happens, there's

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a natural inclination within

us to say we want the good.

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That's the response, the necessary

and right response to the evil.

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And ultimately we know

that that is gonna be.

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In the hands of God.

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God is the one who is good.

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He's the definition of good.

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We don't know good apart from God.

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And so he's the one that is

gonna be the one, the arbiter,

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the judge of all mankind.

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He's gonna judge the good and the

evil, and we will receive what

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is due in the body for what we

have done, whether good or evil.

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And so we know that justice is coming for.

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All temporarily speaking,

I think to desire justice

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for victims is a good thing.

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I think there's a salacious, I

think there's a voyeurism that

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can go too far where we just want

to know the nitty gritty details

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to be entertained by them or to,

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. Be fascinated by them, or even in a

prideful way to say, I wanna make sure

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that I feel better than that person.

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I'm a better person than that

person so I can feel better about

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myself because I'm not that guy.

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And that's the tax collector

versus the Pharisee who says, Lord,

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thank you that I'm not like him.

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Now, we should be thankful that

God has preserved us from sin for

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sure, compared to some others.

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But I think it's okay if this is

going to especially work towards.

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More justice being done.

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Some of those that are in these files

that need to be exposed, I think it's

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an okay thing for us as Christians

to say, yeah, this is a good thing.

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Okay.

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How about AI's use of changing

the appearance of people?

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Have you seen anything about this?

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You can use AI agents to take the

image of somebody and say, I want

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you to put them in a battle outfit.

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Or, I mean, just think about

where this can go, right?

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I wanna make them look like a doctor

or a lawyer, or something like that.

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Right.

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Um, how, how do you feel about.

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Using tools like that to create

someone's image and to make it do

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something that they otherwise may not do.

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This is similar to the conversation

about you're using your voice, right?

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There's enough of our voice out there

where people could use it and they

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could recreate it and make it say

something that it's never said before.

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How do you feel about things like this?

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Do we care about it?

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Does it matter at all?

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Is this a violation of scripture

in any way, shape, or form?

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I mean, when it's

used in a perverted way?

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Oh, a hundred percent.

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It's a violation.

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Uh, I mean, this is, is something

that in the hands of the wrong

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person can do great damage.

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I've seen a lot of people on my

Instagram feed and everything else.

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They're the, I guess the current trend

is to turn yourself into a caricature.

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And so you kind of describe

yourself to AI and then it produces.

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Basically cartoon or something,

a cartoon version of you, right?

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And people are putting it up

on their Instagram and Facebook

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pages and things like that.

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It's kinda like, oh I bought into

the trend that's innocent enough.

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But you look at what could be done on

the other side and it can get nefarious.

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And I saw one recently that took a,

a face of a baby or a toddler from

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a picture off of Facebook and age

progressed it to what this person's

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gonna look like as a teenager.

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That's crazy.

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And, you know, crazy.

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Turned a video into.

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Talking to mom and dad about how

they were kidnapped, things like

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that, that you just sit there and

you go, man, yeah, this could be

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used for all kinds of awful purposes.

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It's a whole new world out there.

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And we should lament that, we

should pray that God restrains

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the evil that could be done.

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'cause he's the only one ultimately that

can, because humankind left to themselves

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are just gonna perpetuate the evil.

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So, yeah,, you've heard me say I would

put AI back in Pandora's box, but.

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This is a situation

kinda like the internet.

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The internet can be used for good, it can

be used for evil and is in our lap to be

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able to decide how we're gonna do that.

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That's right.

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And I think Christians are wise to use the

tools that are afforded us responsibly.

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I agree.

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And Redemptively, I agree.

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And to not do that would be to say,

well, I guess the Amish have chosen to do

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something similar where they say, after

a certain date, we're gonna cut off the

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usages, certain technologies, because

not all technology is inherently good.

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And we probably would say

something close to an amen to that.

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And we would say, well.

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Eh, there's certainly hazards

with every new iteration of

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technological advancement, but

that doesn't mean it's all bad.

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Right.

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And neither doesn't mean it's all good.

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It's up to the Christian to say, how

do I most responsibly and profitably

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use the tools that are at our disposal?

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And I, man, I, I love the

challenge, especially as it

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relates to our technological tools.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Yeah.

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I love what logos is doing

with ai, for example.

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I think they're doing a lot of really

good things that are helpful for Bible

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study with ai that I'm excited to see

'em continue to develop those things.

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But Alright, well let's jump

into our Bible reading for today.

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We are gonna be in Exodus chapter 34

through 36, and then we will be over

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in our New Testament reading for the

day as well, which is gonna come from

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Matthew 23 verses one through 22.

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So Exodus chapter 34 through

Exodus chapter 36, and in

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chapter 34, Moses needs new.

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Tablets and you'll remember why, is

because he had come down from the mountain

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with his original tablets and seen Aaron

gallivanting with all of Israel and

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the golden calf and idol worship and

everything else, and he had smashed them.

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So God's gonna call him

back up on the mountain.

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But this is also where God is going

to do what he told him he would do.

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And that is allow him to see as God

puts it the backside of his glory.

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And so that's what God does and he passes

in front of him and declares his name.

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And this is where it's important

for us to realize that the glory

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of God is not simply a visible.

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Emanation it.

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It's not only the visible appearance

of the brilliance of the glory of

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God, whatever that looked like for

Moses, but it's also who he is.

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It's his character.

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It's his name, it's his identity,

and that's why as Moses says, the

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Lord allow me to see your glory.

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God does this and passes by and as

he passes by doesn't just let Moses

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see something, but let's Moses hear.

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Thing.

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And that is what he declares the Lord

a God, merciful and gracious and slow

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to anger and abounding and steadfast

love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast

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love for thousands and forgiving

iniquity and transgressions and sin.

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But who will by no means clear the guilty,

visiting the iniquity of the fathers on

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the children and the children's children

to the third and fourth generation.

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So here God is declaring who he is.

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That's part of his glory

that he's revealing to Moses.

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And so this is that scene with

Moses there on the mountain.

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Can you address, and I think we

did this last year, but it's worth.

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Reminding ourselves talk to the sense

of what appears to be injustice here.

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He keeps steadfast love for

thousands, forgiving their iniquity.

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He doesn't clear the guilty, however, and

he visits the iniquity of the fathers on

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the children and the children's children

to the third and the fourth generation.

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It seems like God is visiting their

sins that weren't committed by them.,

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because their fathers sinned

in these certain ways.

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Can you talk about that?

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Yeah, I think it's a good reminder

to us and something that should

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cause us to fear to say, man, my

sin impacts more than just me.

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There are generational impacts that

can be had by your sin and that is

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something that is going to show up

as consequence, not necessarily.

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As punishment or as discipline in

the sense that God is disciplining

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them for committing the sin.

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That's not what it's saying, but the

effects of the sin might be visited

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upon generation, after generation,

after generation, and that is something

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that we should bear the weight of,

especially as men, to say amen.

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I, I gotta make sure that I'm not doing

anything that would hurt my family for

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future generations as far as God is a

God of justice and has said that he will

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visit the impact of the ramifications

of these sins on future generations.

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Yeah, and I would add here that Ezekiel

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sins or the soul who sins shall die.

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The son shall not suffer for the

iniquity of the father, nor the father

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suffer for the iniquity of the son.

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Now, if we're gonna put these two passages

together, it seems to me that you would

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have to be able to say both of these

are true, and therefore what's happening

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in the iniquity being passed down is

that the children are participating

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in the iniquity of the father.

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It's not that they're passive

spectators saying, oh, this is what

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my dad did three generations ago.

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But the point that you make is still

important because they remodeled

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a certain way of life and they're

repeating it, and therefore it is.

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That reason that they continue to

participate in the consequences as well.

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So, exodus 34 6.

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Write down Ezekiel 18, 20.

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Make sure those two passages go together

for you in the rest of chapter 34.

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As.

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We talked about the covenant is given

again, a second time here to Moses,

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and this is gonna be inscribed on

these new tablets, but God is gonna

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promise the same things there, including

I'm gonna drive out from before

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you, the inhabitants of the land.

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He's gonna purge the

land of the idolaters.

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Why?

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So that they would not ensnare Israel.

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And that leads into a.

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Recapitulation of the law here,

of a lot of it, at least where he

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gives a lot of the commandments

that he had given previously.

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And so chapter 34, this is restoring

what had happened previously.

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He's gonna go over some of the same

instructions there, including the laws

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for the Sabbath, the laws for the Feast

of Weeks, the feast of the end, gathering

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the passive meal, the first fruits.

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It's interesting because.

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I've always thought of The 10

Commandments as just the two tablets

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with five Commandments on one and

five Commandments on the other one.

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I think that's the cartoon version of

the 10 Commandments that we always see.

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But because he goes over so much

of these other things, a second

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time with Moses on the mountain.

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And then he gives them the new tablets.

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I wonder if the tablets didn't

have more than just the 10

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Commandments inscribed on them.

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If they had also the laws about

the Sabbath and the feasts

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and the in gatherings and the

Passover and the first fruits.

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I wonder if they didn't have all

of these things that were on there

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as well, and we'll never know.

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We won't.

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They're lost They, until Indiana

Jones finds the Ark of the Covenant.

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Hey, verse 14, what does that mean?

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How is God jealous?

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That seems like that's a negative.

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A negative emotion that we

typically discourage people to feel.

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And yet in verse 14 here it says the Lord

whose name is jealous is a jealous God.

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Explain that, right?

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Yeah.

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In a sense, God can only be a jealous God.

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He can't not be jealous.

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So we think of jealous because jealousy

is wanting something for ourselves that's

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not rightfully ours, or a sinful jealousy

that says, I want this person's affection.

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I want this person's time.

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I want this person's, whatever it

may be, because I want it for me.

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And that's wrong for us, but it's right

for God because God is the owner of all

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things and the thing that He's jealous

for specifically is for our worship.

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And so if God is going to desire

our worship, it would be wrong

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for him to say, it's okay.

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You can go worship somebody else.

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I can share you with somebody

else that would be wrong for God.

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Because what's best for us and

what's ultimately for the glory

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of God is for us to only be

devoted to and committed to him.

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So in that sense, for God to say,

I'm jealous for your worship, I'm

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jealous for your affections is for

his glory, and it's also for our good.

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So when we think about the

word jealousy as it's used in

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relation to human emotions, yes.

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We would say that there's a discontinuity

or it's dis analogous in some regards.

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Not across the board.

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Okay.

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Meaning we're both married.

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And so each of us that's true, should be

jealous for the affections of our wives.

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'cause that's a right thing for

them to be devoted to us and

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for us to be devoted to them.

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I guess let's add some color to the

definition then, because there's no, and

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as far as I know, and I know you and I

know what we're talking about here, but.

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There's never a time in the English

language where it's used positively, and

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that's probably an overstatement, but

it's rarely ever used in a positive sense.

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Yeah.

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What it typically means is resentful,

possessive suspicious covetous.

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These are the kind of synonyms that

are, I'm just pulling up online

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here, that are synonymous to jealous.

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It's never a positive connotation.

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Right.

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So explain what you mean when

you say jealousy is a good

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thing or it can be a good thing.

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Yeah.

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Again, to go to the marriage relationship.

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The best thing for my wife is to be

committed to me because that's about

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her relationship with me, and it's

also about her relationship with God.

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So I'm jealous for her devotion To me.

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I'm jealous that she would love

me exclusively and not love other

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people, other men, other people that

are in the world, that other people

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that she knows, whatever it may be.

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And she has that same passion for me,

that I would be committed totally to her.

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She's jealous from my affections for her

because that's the right context of that.

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To, for me to be jealous of someone else.

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For, for me, that's not mine.

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For, for it to crossover into

covetousness, which is sometimes compared

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with this greed, things like that.

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That's when it becomes a sinful behavior.

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But when I'm jealous for her

affections because that's good for

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our marriage and that's also good

for her, uh, I think that's the right

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thing that's gonna impact how I act.

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I'm gonna do good things to, to

help protect her and care for her

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and love her and things like that.

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To perpetuate that.

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Amen.

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I think that's a really

good way to posture it.

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I still think that there's a great

deal of baggage with the word.

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I agree.

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It's hard to use that without people

having a negative sense of what we

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mean by that, or even a negative

sense of how God intends to be

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understood when he says he's jealous.

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I like the word that you chose passion.

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I think that's a good way to start it.

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Jealousy, as God experiences, it

is dis analogous to our experience

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and his experience is a passion

for your primary allegiance.

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And I think if you can think of

jealousy in that sense and not in

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the negative sense, the resentment.

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Mm-hmm.

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The suspicion, the I can

imagine a scenario where.

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I don't know.

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At church, we have brotherly

sisterly relations and so it's not

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unusual where you get an A-frame

hug with the opposite gender.

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Right.

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If a man is jealous,

he might look at this.

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I don't want you touching that guy.

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Right?

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I, well, he's just my brother and the

Lord he's from, I don't want still,

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I don't want you touching him, right?

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'cause you're mine, you're my wife.

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Right?

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Don't touch him.

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That's the kind of thing that I think

people would naturally gravitate

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toward and understand jealousy as.

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Totally, and that's what

I wanna guard against.

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Totally.

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Yeah.

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I agree with you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It absolutely is most

often a negative thing.

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I would agree a hundred percent with that.

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And so when you read it, you have

to do some mental groundwork in your

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mind and think this is not the way

God intends for us to understand it.

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Right.

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He's not the jealous boyfriend.

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Right.

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Yes.

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Or a boyfriend of any sort.

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It's true.

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Alright, man, Moses is on the

mountain for 40 days and 40

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nights not eating, not drinking.

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So let's acknowledge

this is a God thing one.

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This is a miracle that's taking place.

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We think of so many other miracles

around this time, but I think that's

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pretty miraculous that Moses has

sustained for 40 days and 40 nights

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without water or without food.

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I wouldn't try that.

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Contrary to what any health,

wealth, and prosperity gospel

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preacher might tell you to do.

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The Moses fast is not a good fast.

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When I was in the Pentecostal church

there was a guy who re not regularly, but.

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More than one time, maybe more

than twice, even did a 40 day fast.

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That's crazy.

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He did drink.

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Yeah.

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And I think he even used, you know,

some kind of shake or something.

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But one thing I miss about the

Pentecostal church is that people were

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really, really intensely passionate

about experiencing and knowing God

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and going deep in and loving the Lord.

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Yeah.

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And nothing against my

reformed brothers and sisters.

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I, I love my camp.

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This is my home, but.

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There was something that was

special about that that I do miss.

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Yeah.

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I've never heard anybody on the

reform side do a 40 day fast.

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That's fair.

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That's fair.

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Isn't that crazy?

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But different fast than what Moses

is doing here because very Moses

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didn't have food or drink in that.

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That's right.

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So the rest of chapter 34, we get the

impact of Moses' intimacy with the Lord.

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We talked about that I think in the last

podcast episode that he spoke to God as a

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man, speaks with his friend face to face.

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And so we see the impact of this,

that Moses, when he comes down the

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mountain, his face is glowing so

much that he has to put on a veil.

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His is but a sliver of the

actual glory that's there when

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Moses is before the glory of God.

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And so the people are seeing the effect

of God's glory on the face of Moses.

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And it says that this happened every time

that Moses went in to speak with him.

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He would lift the veil and then when

he came back out in front of the

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people, he'd put the veil back down.

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Or when he spoke to them and revealed

God's word, he would lift the

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veil, then he'd put it back down.

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So this is pretty powerful, the

impact of God's glory on Moses.

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Here, Paul's gonna take this analogy.

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And use it in second Corinthians

chapter three, where he's gonna say,

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we behold the same glory of the Lord.

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And as we do that we are transformed.

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And so Moses is kind of a type for us.

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He looked at the Lord, he was transformed.

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We look at the Lord through the Spirit

and we are similarly transformed.

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And that's exactly how God

designs for us to change.

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We become more like Him,

the more we behold him.

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And in Second Corinthians, chapter

three, Paul's gonna essentially

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say, you become what you behold.

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Therefore, we should behold the Lord.

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Far more often than we do on chapter 35.

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He gets more into the Sabbath in the

initial part here, which just notice

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again just how important this was.

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He talks about the Sabbath so many times.

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He's going to revisit it again here at the

beginning of chapter 35 before shifting

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gears to the supplies for the tabernacle.

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And one of the things that always stands

out to me is just the repetition of

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whoever's of a generous heart here.

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And then over and over again, it

says, those whose heart stirred him,

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everyone whose spirit moved him.

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That's a repeated refrain

throughout Chapter 35.

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And so when we think about this and we

think about all of the requirements, all

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of the supplies, everything else that

the Lord demanded or the Lord required

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for the building of the tabernacle, these

were not strong armed outta the people.

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These were given freely by the

people of Israel to the Lord.

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They were behind what was doing.

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They were excited about this.

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Everybody came in and brought the

materials and they brought their

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skills, they brought their abilities,

they brought their gifts to be used,

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and they did this because they were

behind what God was doing here.

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You're gonna see a lot of repetition

here in chapters 35 through 39, and

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that's because what you're going to see

now is the erection of the tabernacle,

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where in chapters 25 through 30,

Moses has given the pattern and God is

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describing what he's supposed to do.

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Now in these chapters, 35 through 39,

you're gonna see a lot of, here's what

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they did, here's how they accomplished

that, and it's gonna read the same

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because the point I think the.

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Moses is trying to make

is what God told us to do.

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We did it.

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Yeah.

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And this is one of the few times in

Israel's history where they're nailing it.

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Yep.

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In chapter 36.

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As we continue here, a couple things,

I guess right before this end of

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chapter 35, notice again, it refers

to Beel as one who's been filled with

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the spirit of God to do this work.

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And then he also mentions, oh, holy Am.

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Uh, and it says here, he has inspired him

to teach both him in Ouab, the son of.

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Yeah, that guy's name of the

tribe of Dan filled them with

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skill to do every sort of work.

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So God is the one equipping them

to do the work that needs to

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be done for the construction of

the temple or the tabernacle.

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Rather.

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Chapter 36, the results of

everybody whose heart stirred him.

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This is how behind this Israel was.

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It says the people bring much more

than enough for doing the work that

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the Lord has commanded us to do.

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That's verse five.

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So, all the artisans in charge of

each of the area, they came to Mosin.

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They said, we've got enough.

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You can tell them to stop.

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They don't have to

bring anymore, which is.

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Awesome and so cool to see the generosity

of God's people overflowing to such

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a great extent there in chapter 36.

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But they are excited

about this tabernacle.

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And if you wanna do your cross

references here starting at verse

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eight all the way through the end

of chapter 36, you can parallel

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that to chapter 26 pretty closely.

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So if you wanna read them

together, at least compare and

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contrast, you'll notice there.

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It's pretty similar.

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I, I don't think I even

noticed any differences.

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I didn't use my computer to

verify that, but I did look at

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it, flip my pages back and forth.

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And I think one of the takeaways for

us here is we see the generosity

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of spirits and all of these people

executing exactly as God told them.

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I think it's not a one-to-one.

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We're not Israel.

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Israel's not the church.

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But there is something special

here about seeing people come

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together and say, this is important.

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This is worthy of our attention

and even of our sacrifice.

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The Lord who has saved us, deserves us

being willing to sacrifice for his sake.

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So in the old covenant, remember, their

primary salvation paradigm was the Exodus.

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Our primary salvation paradigm is being

saved from our own exodus, but now

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we're saved truly and fully in Christ.

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And so if they were saved from a

tremendous burden of sin and shame

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under the Egyptian bondage, how much

more of a burden are we safe from?

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And therefore, how much more generous and

how much more giving should we be than

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Israel, who only experienced a partial

salvation where we get to experience.

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The whole of it.

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Let's flip over to Matthew Chapter 23.

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Matthew chapter 23.

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In our New Testament reading, Jesus

is going after the Pharisees, and this

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time he is gonna go after them much

more than just targeting them with

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some parables that he'd been telling.

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Now he's going to.

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Come after them and condemn them.

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And there are seven woe

statements that he gives here.

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And that word woe was a word that

suggested a cursing or even a

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damnation on them as he goes through.

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And so he's going to really confront

them by and large for their hypocrisy.

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And he even starts it out by saying,

you do what you do to be seen by men.

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They do all their deeds

to be seen by others.

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They're after the applause of

men and not the favor of God.

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And the favor of God would've been.

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Evident in them internally,

not just externally.

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So you see wo number one in verse

13, WO number two in verse 15,

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wo number three in verse 16 and

then wo number four in verse 23.

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And that I guess starts

tomorrows, but five, six, and

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seven is in tomorrow's reading.

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So the first three woes we see here in

the opening part of chapter 23 here,

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what of this do you think is especially

important for us to walk away with?

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I think it's the egal mindset can creep

into what we do on a weekly basis.

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We can show up and we can go through

the motions and we can do things

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for the, to be seen by others rather

than simply to understand that, man,

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this is something that we need to

do for our devotion to the Lord.

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We also see here that they were in error.

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It says in verse 13, scribes and

Pharisees, you hypocrites, you shut the

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kingdom of heaven in people's faces,

it talks about traveling across the sea

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to make a single ProSite, and when he

becomes a ProSite, you make him twice

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as much a child of hell as yourselves.

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I think he calls them blind

guides in verse three or wo

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number three in verse 16.

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Just making sure that we

know the gospel and that we.

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Proclaiming a biblical gospel.

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That's one of our distinctives.

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We work to proclaim a biblical gospel.

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We don't want to make anybody a convert

of something that's not genuinely

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what it means to follow Jesus.

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And so we have to be clear when we

call people to follow Christ and we

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have to be clear with the gospel.

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And I think the Pharisees were certainly

obfuscating things by calling people to

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a religion that was not gonna save them.

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Alright, so one of the things that

Jesus warns against here, and this

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is something our church does, and

so this would be helpful for you

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to discuss, he says in verse eight,

you are not to be called Rabbi.

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Mm.

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Rabbi means teacher.

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Mm-hmm.

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He says, because you have one

teacher and you're all brothers.

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And last time I checked

you were called Pastor pj.

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I was called Pastor Rod, and

Mark was called Pastor Mark.

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And then he says, look,

you're not to call.

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Any man on earth.

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Your father.

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Yeah.

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For you have one father who's in

heaven, neither be called instructors

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for, you have one instructor.

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The Christ.

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And so it sounds like he makes

a pretty clear all encompassing.

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Rule guideline to say

you're not to do this.

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And yet throughout all of church history,

titles have been a pretty significant

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part of how the church has functioned.

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Yeah.

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Rabbi not being one of them.

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We typically use the term teacher

or pastor, or elder or bishop.

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So explain that.

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If Jesus is making a clear command

here not to do this, why do we do this?

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I think it's informed by the context.

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Again, back in verse five.

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They do all they do to be seen by others.

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They make their.

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Flac is broad.

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Their fringe is long.

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They love the place of honor

at the feast and go back.

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What's the fractory?

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Flac was the, the, the strings?

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They, uh, no, the fractory was

the box right on the, the head.

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I'm, I'm sincerely asking.

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I think it's the box on the head, man.

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I don't know for sure.

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Okay.

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Let's come back to it.

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I'll back while you're answering.

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Okay.

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You look it up on logs AI while

I'm answering, but they were all

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about the outward appearance.

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And this goes to that same idea.

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They wanted to be called these

things because they wanted the

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honor that came with the title.

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They wanted to be known as the rabbi.

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They wanted to be known as father.

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They wanted to be known as teacher because

for them it was gonna build them up.

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They were gonna be.

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It is the box on the forehead.

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Thank you.

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Good.

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I'm glad.

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Glad I, I saved some face on that one.

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The box on the forehead.

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They wanted to have these titles

because of the position in the

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rank that was associated with it.

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Later on, Peter's gonna say, I,

I urge you as a fellow elder.

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Right.

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So Peter's gonna adopt the idol, the

title of elder, or Paul's gonna call

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himself an apostle multiple times.

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So we see that it wasn't necessarily

a wrong thing to have a title that

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distinguished the role that you

were in or the position that you

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held so long as your heart wasn't

after the glory and the acclaim

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that came along with that position.

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And that's what Jesus is condemning here.

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He's condemning saying, you

want these things because you

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want them for your status.

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You don't want them because you

want to own them for the role

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that they're meant to convey.

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What a helpful way to frame that,

because I think anybody reading this

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would say, well man, there you go.

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Never do this.

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Right?

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You should never be called

after any of these titles.

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But the point here, and we've come

across this several times, I just feel

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like it's such a good thing to remind

ourselves here in verse 12, he says,

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whoever exalts himself will be humbled.

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And he's saying this on the heels of

all of these honorific titles, whoever

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humbles himself, however, will be exalted.

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And I think this is one of the repeating

themes that Matthew continues to

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bring to the surface for all of us.

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If we're proud, we're gonna have

a really hard time operating in

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God's kingdom because we continue

to fight for our own kingdom.

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If we're proud, it makes us unwilling

to be confronted, unwilling to be

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corrected, unwilling to follow the

Lord, unwilling to be challenged.

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Yeah, and pride is one of the

most destructive things here that.

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He continues to warn against.

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But I, it's a great thing to say that.

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I'm glad you pointed that out because now

we can actually understand what Jesus is

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saying and not what it appears to say if

you just take it at a superficial reading.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, let's pray and

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Gotta pray that you'd

make us a church that.

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Knows the gospel and knows the gospel

well, such that we would be those that

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call people to follow Christ and not

call people to some false religion or

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manmade pursuit of self-righteousness.

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Help us to point people to Jesus or

help us to be faithful towards that end.

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And so we pray that we would be

an effective and fruitful lamb.

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Stand towards that purpose, and

we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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