00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:14 Upcoming Baptism Service

02:36 Discussion on Conspiracy Theories

06:17 Biblical Teachings and Reflections

18:46 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Thursday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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What's up actually, maybe

I should've said, Hey guy.

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Uh, Bible jokes for

100 little jokes, Alex.

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No.

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What is a bad joke?

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That one.

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Um, Hey.

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Uh, next Sunday.

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So not this weekend, but next weekend,

we want you to make it a point.

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To show up at church like you

always do, but then to plan on

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coming back, not to founders, but

to Frisco first Baptist church.

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Uh, with us at 4:00 PM for a baptism

service, we're going to have, at

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least at this point in time, we

believe probably three people baptized

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on that Sunday at that service.

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And thinking about getting rebaptized.

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Well, okay.

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Uh, so no, but it's going to

be an awesome time and we're

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gonna have some worship there.

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I do.

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I'm going to do a little bit of teaching

on just the significance of baptism.

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And then we'll have the three people,

uh, in the tank given their testimony.

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Here's what God's done.

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In me through me and I'm here to

be baptized, so it should be an

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awesome time, but we're w we're

asking you to be there and maybe you

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don't directly know any of the three

that are getting baptized, maybe.

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It's not one of your family members, one

of your friends, not somebody in your

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community group, but we're still going

to ask you to be there as part of the

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church family, because that's significant.

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There's a reason why we don't just take

somebody out to the pond, out to the

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lake, out to the bathtub, out to the

pool and just baptize them individually.

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This is something that's

meant to be done corporately.

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This is an ordinance of the church.

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This is something that

we do as a church family.

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And there's significance to having

our church family present for that.

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So we can't do it on Sunday

mornings for a couple of reasons.

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Right now we don't have the fonts, the.

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The pool, the tub.

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Uh, to baptize it.

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And even if we did, we are in a gym

that isn't ours and we don't want to

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spill, spill water all over the floor.

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And so that's why we're doing it

offsite at a, at a later time at 4:00

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PM, but it should be an awesome time.

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And I just would really love for

you to make it a point to be there.

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Um, maybe find somebody in your community

group and in scheduled dinner, after

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the service, we're going to go from

four to five on this baptism service

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has some cookies and coffee afterwards.

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Then you can go out and grab some

dinner together or something like that

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should be, just make an evening of it.

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And it should be a great time.

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But, uh, next Sunday, the 29th.

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Is going to be the date.

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So not this weekend, but next

weekend, 29th that we want you there.

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Baptism services first.

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Good.

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First Baptist church, 4:00 PM.

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It should be an awesome, awesome time.

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I'm in.

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I will be there.

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Great count me.

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And yeah.

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So that's two then so far.

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Yeah, well, our families will be there

because we're going to drive them there.

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And told me if they're going to be there.

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Not yet.

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Okay.

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Uh, Hey Kristen, if

you can RSVP your kids.

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Your husband for this thing,

that would be excellent.

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That.

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Um, yeah, no, it should be awesome.

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Looking forward to, uh, to have not that.

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At that time.

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You've got a, uh, a breadth.

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Wide age range too,

which is gonna be cool.

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That is going to be cool.

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Yeah.

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Hey, can I ask you a question?

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Maybe, why do people

keep on trying to kill?

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Former president Trump.

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Oh yeah, because the world is fallen and

broken and people are evil and wicked.

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Okay.

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So it seems like.

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A lot of people, even if he does

get elected, want to kill him.

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And so he may not last for that long.

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Uh, he's postulating that maybe there's

early census suggesting that maybe

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there's conspiracies behind the scenes.

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People trying to take them out.

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Um, sure.

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It seems like it has for PJ, but you told

me not to believe in conspiracy theories.

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So give me a vibe check here.

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Yeah.

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I just think we, we can worry about things

that are profitable to us to worry about.

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Um, You as an individual can't stop.

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And it's an assassin like, and you

sitting there fretting about that.

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Keeping my eyes peeled though.

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Okay.

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If you see somebody in there

within arms reach, maybe you

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can knock the gun out of there.

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They're coming for you.

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Well, then you're going to meet Jesus.

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Um, No, but like, Chasing the rabbit holes

on this and looking for the cabal and the

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secrets and the like, That is not going

to provide any eternal value for you.

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Um, We'll see what happens.

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You know, tree has a way of

making yourself known eventually.

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And we'll see what shakes

out out of this, but.

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Uh, when you stand before the Bema seat

of Christ, I don't think that you're

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going to be sitting there going, oh man,

I wish I had looked into more conspiracy

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theories while I was still there.

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Um, so.

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Listen, I'm not writing it off as,

as insignificant or unimportant.

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I don't know what, what the,

the backroom conversations

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are or where the backroom is.

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Cause I wasn't in the

room where it happened.

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Oh, Um, I want to be in the

room where it happened, wants

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to be the room where it happens.

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Well, that's where it happened.

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That guy didn't want to throw away a

shot, but, but then he did, he did.

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And he died for it.

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So.

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That's that's my 2 cents on it.

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I just think there's, there's things that

are more eternally profitable for us.

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Now you could say that about anything

you could be like, well, is it eternally

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profitable to watch a Rangers game?

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Amen.

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Right.

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Fair.

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No, but the Rangers game

is not leading me down.

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The realm of speculation and anxiety

and myths and genealogies and things

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that we don't w I mean, Philippians

four eight, the first thing out of the

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gate, whatever is true in the reality is

your new source may or may not be true.

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And I know you think it's unbiased.

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Um, but, but maybe it is, maybe it's

not, I, we have to look at Philippians

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four eight, whatever is true.

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And let that be a guiding factor

right out of the gate for what we fill

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our mind with and what we dwell on.

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I think it's probably good rule of

thumb to say for every conspiracy

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theory you investigate, you should read.

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Let's just say five hours of your Bible.

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So you can do it.

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You can do it.

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And.

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Hey, you want to go get,

go down the rabbit hole.

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You are free in Christ to do that.

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But I also recommend you just get

a lot more Bible in your head.

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Biblical literacy is

either going to skyrocket.

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We're in a conspiracy theory,

investigations are going to plummet.

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No more conspiracy theory investigations.

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I guess I they're interesting.

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And sometimes they're so plausible that

I'm like, okay, let, let me, let me just

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dabble a little bit, but you're right.

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There's just no end to it.

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And you could watch the videos

and some of them are high quality

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videos that look like they actually

know what they're talking about.

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Other other others of them are like,

okay, well, And this is meant to be

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click baity, but it's still interesting.

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And maybe it's possible.

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Yeah.

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Uh, it's, it's almost, almost certainly

a waste of time and you're right.

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No, one's going to look

back in a hundred years.

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Like, you know, I wish I spent more

time researching the JFK assassination.

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Yeah, I just missed the

days of Walter Cronkite.

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No way.

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oh, that's the word?

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I just feel like, yeah, that's

the way it was, like period into

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stuff, but it wasn't though.

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That's the thing.

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Well, it wasn't that's fair.

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But.

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That's not lit.

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Yeah, well fair.

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No cat stop.

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You did that yesterday.

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And I told you.

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You do that again?

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I'm gone.

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Well, okay.

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Let's see.

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C.

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All right, let's get in a hat guy.

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All right.

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I got prophesied again, like we

said yesterday, during the time

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of the exiles, we're rebuilding

the temple, the returned exiles.

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Um, he was there and the temple building

had come to a halt because the opposition

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and so high guy was, uh, mobilized by God.

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To address that situation

and he opens up in chapter.

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He opens up in chapter one, verse one.

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Uh, in five 20 BC.

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I needed it stopped.

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I muted it.

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Man.

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Got it.

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You don't got to say that.

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Cause then now everybody's

like everybody heard it.

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No, they didn't.

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They did.

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No.

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No.

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And I was good.

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I was going to just keep pushing

through it and then you like respond.

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Just saying.

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Let's do your Bible on the floor.

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You throw your hands up in the air.

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You threw off my groove,

punched a hole in the wall.

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Hey, don't throw up my group name anyways.

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Hey guy.

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Uh, opens up in verse one in five 20 BC.

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And, and here's, what's interesting.

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We're going to see this

in high guy in Zachariah.

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Uh, there's no king in

Judah or Israel at the time.

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So the profits have to date their

ministry to the Gentile Kings.

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And MacArthur makes a point on that.

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And he says that this points to the

reality that this is the beginning

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of the times of the Gentiles.

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Times of the Gentiles or something that

the new Testament's gonna pick up on and

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say that when the times of the Gentiles

comes to a conclusion, that's the one,

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when the Messiah is going to come back,

And so it's a, that the times of the

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Gentiles being that, that Israel's not

front center on the scene anymore, that.

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That there's a different dispensation.

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And so I, we're not, we're not quite

to that new dispensation yet because

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there's still some time between now.

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And when Christ comes,

there's about 500 years still.

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Although we're about to enter

the 400 years of silence between

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now and when Christ comes.

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Between high day.

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Oh, wait a minute like today.

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No, no, no, no, no.

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Between.

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Hi guys time.

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No.

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No, no, no, no, no.

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Um, but 25, 24, Jesus.

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Got it back.

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Yikes.

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Uh, but, but, uh, we are approaching

the 400 years of silence, which is the

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time for Mallacoota John, the Baptist.

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Um, And, you know, it is

beginning to turn the page.

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It's a, it's a different season for sure.

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And this is a signal of that.

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There is no king on the throne for how

I got to be able to say, I prophesied

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during the reign of this king and

this king and this king of Judah.

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They're not there.

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Right.

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Verses one through 11, then provide

the, the charge or the indictment.

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And the main one is there in verse four.

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Is it a time for you yourselves

to dwell in your paneled houses

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while this house lies in ruins?

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Church building project.

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There it is.

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Boom.

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And we're going to watch that this Sunday.

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No.

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Uh, but that's the charge he's saying,

Hey, look, you're giving so much

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attention to your own homes and your

own comfort and making sure that they're

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well appointed and well decorated.

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And here the house of God lies in ruins.

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And so how can I say get back after

it, get back after building the temple?

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Uh, get back after the, the, the

place for God in your midst show

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that God is a priority to you.

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And it's not just about your comfort

and your ease and your, uh, your life

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of luxury that you want to live here.

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And that's it.

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Charged that kind of rings

true in some ways, even today.

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Oh, for sure.

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Yeah.

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I mean, when we think about the church.

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The church should be a

priority in our life.

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When we think about all of the

different things that we can fill

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our schedules with, and it's not

just our, our resources, it is our

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resources, but it's also everything

else that we can focus our time on.

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And man, I think that that's a unique

challenge here, particularly in

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this area of our, of the country.

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I think we've got a lot of comfort.

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We talked about it on a Sunday.

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That's one of the reasons why we

don't, we aren't quick to show radical

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humility because we don't often feel

needs here because our needs are met.

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Um, and it's easy for us to sit

back and be like, oh, well I want

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my kid to be involved in this thing.

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And I want them involved in this

thing and I want this and I want

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this done at my house and I want, oh,

maybe I want a bigger house over here

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and maybe should I get a new job?

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Maybe I need to get a new job.

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And meanwhile, we forget our primary

obligation, which is to the Lord.

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Right.

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I think the challenge that

you bring up is so important.

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I, how do we wrestle with that?

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You, you brought up two, two areas of.

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Uh, obstacles to obstacles that lead

us away from that radical humility.

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One of them was the opulence

that we live in and the other

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one was that individualistic

spirit that I can do it myself.

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I don't need the church.

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I don't need the, the temple.

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I don't need the community.

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Um, how do we deal with

those things briefly?

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Yeah.

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I think leaning into the things

that you don't think you need.

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Uh, he's going to be

step number one, invest.

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Get into community, get into community

groups, get around other believers.

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Uh, start really spending time with

other Christians asking them questions.

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Hey, how can I pray for you?

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What's really going on in your life.

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Getting to know them to that level,

to where the needs are going to become

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evident and then being willing to

be vulnerable, to think, okay, maybe

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I do need someone to pray for this.

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I don't feel like I do, but I'm going

to ask somebody to pray for this

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and watch and see how God begins to

answer different prayers in your life.

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Uh, when you realize how good it

is to, to lean into a community of

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believers that he's placed around you.

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Why do you think people don't feel,

if you're thirsty, you drink water.

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If you're hungry, eat food.

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I, if I don't feel like I need that.

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Why should I.

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Pursue it.

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There's a biblical command.

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I mean, we are saved

into a body of Christ.

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That's what Paul says.

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When he says we were all baptized into

one body and he's not just talking

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about the universal church there.

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The universal church is nothing

without the local church.

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The universal church has a concept

and an idea without the local church,

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the local church is the visible

manifestation of the universal church.

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And so we are called and obligated in

biblically, even commanded to gather

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together and to be a part of the

intimacy of one another's lives in, in

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living life and supporting each other.

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It's the model that we see in

scripture that we're called to emulate.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, my kids don't think that they need.

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Vegetables and, and, you know, good.

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Meets, they would prefer having macaroni

and cheese in the Snickers bars.

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Snickers bars.

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Yeah.

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Uh, it takes maturity to

say, I know that I need this.

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Even if I don't feel the pangs that

come from the lack of those things.

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Right.

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And then with that, bro.

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We need, we need the church.

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We need the, we don't need the symbol.

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We.

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We are the church.

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Jesus says, Paul says, so talk us

through then what the, what the parallel

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is, because this, someone is going

to say, I can already anticipate.

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Yeah, good try.

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But when we are the, the, the

temple, we are the people of God.

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We are the church.

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There's not, you know, we don't have a

building at least our church doesn't.

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So how, how do these two things connect?

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Yeah.

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You know, I mean, I talked about

the, the three areas of, of

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resources that we do possess our

time, our talent and our treasures.

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And that's, that's a common

way to break things down.

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And I think those are where we start with.

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Cause this is.

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For the temple to be rebuilt, the people

we're going to need to give the people

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we're going to need to serve the people

we're going to need to contribute.

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And, uh, and that's, that's the same

for the church that we're in today.

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I mean, yeah, we're, we're not looking

for rebuilding walls, but we're

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looking for building ministries.

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We're looking for.

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Uh, you know, growing the reach of

our church through the different

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events and things that we ask people

to serve in and participate in.

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We're looking to have people, you know,

Contribute to the needs of the church by

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showing up to be part of our setup and

tear down team and, and to serve in kids

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ministry and serving student ministry.

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And then there is the financial

component of it as well.

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I mean, we're, we're not there yet as

a church where we're, self-sustaining,

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we've, we've got a sending church that

graciously is supporting us, but, uh,

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but that is not a blank check that.

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We have forever and ever, I mean, at

some point, and sooner than later, we

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needed to get to a place where we're

able to support ourselves financially

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as a church and do ministry as a church.

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And so that's part of it as well as

is making sure that we are regularly

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and sacrificially giving to.

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Uh, the body of Christ here in the

church and what God's doing here.

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And I think you see this principle in the

new Testament, Jesus says, seek first the

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kingdom of God and his righteousness and

all of these things that you worry about.

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You're tempted to be anxious

about will be added to you.

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You see something very similar

here at the verses 10 and 11 of.

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Hi guy.

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We're where God says, look,

you take care of my priorities.

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I'll take care of yours.

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Yeah, you want your provision?

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Uh, you want your needs met.

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Take care of my needs.

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Even though God has no need to get the,

uh, the idea here, take care of my house.

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I'll take care of yours, right?

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In on that point.

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It's not, if you're in

a nice house, great.

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It's not wrong to have a nice house,

but it's wrong to have a nice house.

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If, if you're neglecting the work

that God has for you to do as well.

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Um, that's where it becomes a problem.

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It's worth asking too.

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How much house do I want?

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Yeah, blessing.

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I mean, Yeah.

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What's his name?

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Uh, Randy Alcorn has a book about

money, possessions and eternity.

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Yep.

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And he said that he, he, he does, he

determined a cost of not a cost of

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living, but a oh, uh, not, uh, not all.

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Why did he put it?

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It was, it was cutesy and clever, but

something like the cost of giving.

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Not in that cost of living, but

the cost of getting, how much

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can you afford to give away?

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What does he really need to live off of?

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And I want to give away the rest.

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Yep.

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That was his model.

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I think that was wise.

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It was really good for him to do that

because he thought, you know what?

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I don't want to.

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I don't want to die with the most toys.

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At the biggest house I'm going to die.

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Having done something

great for the kingdom.

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And I think according to his,

uh, you know, as to family and

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what his ministry is done, so

fortunate and good job of that.

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Yeah.

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And, and, and we need to be

careful as a church, not too.

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Not to draw conclusions or pass

judgment on somebody who does live in

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the nice house or drive the nice car

when they pull into the parking lot.

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Right?

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Because they may be in a position in

a job that they are given away three

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quarters of their, their income to the

church and do other things like that.

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And they're living on a quarter of it.

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And that quarter of it is.

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Able to support all that stuff.

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That they've got, and I don't think

at that point it's it's right for us

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to, to look at them and be like, Hey.

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You need to give away the rest of that

and you need to live in a shack down

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by the river and then you'll be, then

you'll really be acceptable to God.

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So we gotta be careful on that front too.

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And the van down by the river.

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Yeah.

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Fully.

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All right.

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Uh, well, verses 12 through 15,

the good news is the people respond

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and they responded to obedient fear

and they resume work on the temple.

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They obeyed the voice of the Lord,

their God, the people feared the

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Lord, and then they start backing

on the temple, which is great.

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Zechariah is going to pick up

the spiritual side of things, but

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in high guy, they're listening.

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And they respond.

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Uh, chapter two, then.

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And God is going to continue to remain

with his people, even though the temple

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wouldn't reach the same glory at once had.

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That's kind of what he's talking

about there in verse five.

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Uh, verses six through nine,

though, he, he does shift to

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talk about the future temple.

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The millennial kingdom temple will

be more glorious than ever even

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more so than the Solomonic temple

had been, uh, verses 10 through 19.

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They hadn't gotten to the point even

after the return, but they were, they

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were now in, in God was going to bless it.

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Um, Th th the God was going to

bless the work that they were doing.

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They weren't at the millennial kingdom

level yet, but still God was going

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to honor what they were doing there.

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And, uh, and then you get this, this weird

section in verses 20 through 23, where

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even though it was a rebel, wasn't a king,

he was the defacto ruler of God's people.

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And he would.

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It is going to be the signet ring.

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To the ruler and the millennial kingdom.

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That's an interesting.

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Little tidbit there.

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You don't think of.

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I mean, you think of all the

different Israelite Kings

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that could be the signet ring.

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For the ruler and the millennial kingdom,

you don't think it would be zero bill.

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Yeah, that is a strange.

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Strange.

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Th that, that is a surprising

way that this story develops.

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Make some guesses there.

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Speculate about that.

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Why is the rebel?

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Why signaling.

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Uh, I mean the, the signet ring being

the symbol of authority in, and it.

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I don't know if this

is going to be literal.

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Um, verse 23, God, literally

wearing him on a spike.

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No, no, no, no.

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Literally like the re.

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The symbol of the rubber ball.

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Okay.

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On that day, declares the Lord of horse.

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Yeah, I will take user rebel, my

servant, the son of Shealtiel the.

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The killer is the low to

make you like a signet ring.

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And he says like, okay,

Um, For I've chosen.

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You declares the Lord.

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Yeah.

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Because maybe he was the one instrumental

in the return from exile, and then

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that's going to be the, the future, the

reality he was building that temple,

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but the building of the ultimate

temple is going to come in the future.

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It's interesting.

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It's hard.

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There are so many times where

the Bible does things and I'm

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like, why just, why give me.

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If I could just get in the head

of God, what's he thinking?

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Yeah.

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Why that, why that person, why this time?

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Yeah, there's so many.

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That's such a good thing to catch

because I think a lot of people can read

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stuff and just say, okay, interesting.

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He's a signet ring.

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Fantastic.

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Right.

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And then walk away, not really

taking, taking a moment to ask

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themselves what's going on here.

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Uh, and then in the mind of God, if

you could put yourself in the mind,

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the gut for just a few fleeting

moments, I think it becomes a lot more

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interesting when you read your Bible.

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We would be crushed.

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Can you imagine that?

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Well, we're not though his Bible is that

this is we, I mean the fringes, right?

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To a certain extent.

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Yeah.

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Things that belong to God.

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Comprehensive.

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If we had just a singular second of

omniscience, we would be crushed.

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It would be fascinating.

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To just have.

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I don't know.

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I imagine with our, our glorified mind.

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The ability to understand and take

more information will be there.

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Uh, not that we'll be able to

understand infinity, but, but our minds

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will be able to learn for infinity.

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So I guess in a sense, there is a

God light component to it, although

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very, again, Very different.

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But all that to say, I think we'll move

on with what we're going to find out.

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Is that there were always aliens.

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He didn't tell us about it.

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Cause it was part of his concealed glory.

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They were another species living

somewhere else in the galaxy.

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And it was one of those

Deuteronomy 29 29 situations.

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Okay.

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Hey, we opened this talking

about conspiracy theories.

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It's appropriate that we're

close to talking about aliens.

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Uh, one more note.

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What's interesting here, by the

way, just the timeframe just.

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Your your mind.

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A year.

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There's a rubber belt.

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Grandson of Jehoiachin.

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So Jehoiachin back before the exile, the

one of the last Kings of Israel there.

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Zerubbabel is his grandson.

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So we're not hundreds of

years removed from things.

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Remember we're 70 years, but that's it.

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So, yeah, I guess.

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A good reminder.

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Let's pray.

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And then we'll, uh, wrap up this episode.

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God, we thank you for your word.

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We thank you that we can understand

some of who you are though.

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Certainly not everything.

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And we are grateful that you

are the omniscient one and that

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you haven't called us to that.

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Help us to know, even as we talked

about at the beginning of this episode,

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how to wisely utilize our brains and

our minds to understand what we can't

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understand and where to spend that time,

what's profitable for us in that regard.

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And so God.

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Most of all more than anything

else, we want you to fill our minds

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with what is true, even as Jesus

is going to pray in John 17, we

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want to be sanctified in the truth.

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And ultimately the ultimate

standard of that is your word.

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Your word is truth.

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Jesus says, so fill our minds there.

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Help us to marinate there.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Y'all keep her in your Bibles tune in

again tomorrow for another episode of the

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daily Bible podcast, we'll see you then.