00:00 We're Back!

00:28 The New Pope is American

01:59 What is the Significance of the Pope in Christianity?

03:02 Does it Snow in Israel?

04:56 David's Battles and God's Role

06:48 David's Sons are Priests??

09:15 David's Kindness to Mephibosheth

11:21 Chronicles and Samuel: Textual Variants Are NOT Something to Lose Faith Over

14:24 Reliability of Biblical Texts

22:10 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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We have a pope having this.

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We do Pappa.

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That's what they say.

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Do we have a pope?

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We don't have a pope.

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I gonna say we have Jesus.

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I feel like I'm in the wrong

who's branch of Christianity

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for that to be true for of me.

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Yeah.

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Somebody actually tweeted that out.

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Earlier today.

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They said to all my Protestant

fans out there, or friends out

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there who is the the head of the

Protestant church and say, Jesus is

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the head of the Protestant church.

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He just got duked.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But the, all the pomp circumstance

of this, it's fascinating.

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I was doing a little bit of reading

into it as we were getting ready to

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record the day they, yeah the senior

cardinal comes out and says, Haus Pappa,

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which says, we have a Pope in Latin.

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And they do the whole introduction

of the Pope there, and he's

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apparently gonna be Leo the 14th.

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That's the name that he chose for himself.

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And it's a, an interesting

ordeal that they go through.

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Ritual that, so the Cardinals.

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All the electors, and that's not all

the cardinals, but a certain group

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of electors, they go in and they meet

together in this conclave, which is

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the Sistine Chapel, and they stay

there until they have determined

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who the next Pope is gonna be.

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And then they elect him and

he has to accept the position.

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And he is there's rights and

sacraments they go through with him.

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In there.

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And then he's introduced to the public.

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But one of the things they do to

let the public know that there's

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a pope is they have white smoke

that goes up through this chimney.

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And I always thought there

must be a certain type of

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wood that they throw in there.

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It's not that their ballots,

it's all of their ballots.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And the other documents that

go into selecting the pope,

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they burn all of those things.

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And that's what signifies that

a new pope has been chosen.

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We don't know a whole lot about

this guy at this point other than

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he's the first American pope ever

in the history of the papacy.

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Crazy.

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He go America.

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Yeah.

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USAU.

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Yeah.

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Charlie Kirk of all people jumped

on and had his voting records.

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So Turning Point, some people at

Turning Point immediately went on

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and he's a registered Republican.

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He has supported pro-life movements

pretty heavily in the past.

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He has some questionable things

when it comes to open borders

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and some other things like that.

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But yeah, it's, and you may be.

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Thinking why do we care?

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He's not our pope.

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He, Jesus Christ is

the head of the church.

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Yes, that's true.

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But the Pope is significant and plays

a significant role, not only on the

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world scene, but in how the world

views Christianity because so much

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of that is conflated by people that

don't know any better to think the

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Catholics are Christians, and that the

Pope is connected with Christianity.

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So what the Pope says must

be what Christians believe.

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And so we should care.

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We should pay somewhat.

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Close attention to what's going on here.

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So we'll see more will come out

in the coming days, but we the

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Catholics have a pope and his

name is going to be Leo the 14th.

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Pray that one way or the other,

that this will result in more people

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coming to know Christ as their savior.

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It would be great if we got a pope

in place that said, you know what?

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We're not doing things biblically, and

I'm gonna take off my frock and garb

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and destroy this office permanently.

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And we're gonna call each

other back to the true gospel.

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That would be phenomenal.

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And we scoff at that.

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But in Christ, all things are possible.

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Or just pray that more and more people

will come to see the drift and come to

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faith in Christ as a result of that too.

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That would be equally as good.

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Let's talk about maybe

not equally as good.

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The other one would be better.

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We got a question that was written in

so Pastor Rod, we got a lot of snow

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this past wintertime here in Texas.

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We had a couple of days.

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You remember that?

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That it just dumped.

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Oh yeah.

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It was great.

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It was awesome.

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It was awesome.

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But we don't often think about snow

in in the Middle East, in Israel.

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And so the Kim family was paying

attention and they noticed that

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in their Bible reading, there

was a reference to a snowy day.

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It said Bonia two Samuel 23 Bonia, the son

of Jahoda, the son of Valiant men of Ki.

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Cab zeal mighty indeed,

so forth and so on.

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It struck down a lion

in a pit on a snowy day.

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So they said, does it snow in Israel?

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And the answer to that

question is, yes, it does.

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Not as much, not as evenly, not

as predictably as it does in

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parts of our country, but it's in,

in that sense, it's like Texas.

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You can't bank on it snowing in

Texas all the time here either.

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But it does snow in Israel.

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In fact, when Amanda and

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There was snow on Mount Lebanon

when we were there and when we

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were on the Temple Mount, it was in

the thirties on the Temple Mount.

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Wow.

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It was freezing, almost freezing.

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Not quite literally freezing,

but it was really cold up there.

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And it does snow in Israel.

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And so this happened to be a

day where this took place, where

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there was snow on the ground.

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And that's certainly possible though,

not something that we often think about.

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Yeah, Jerusalem is elevated, right?

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Jerusalem is is higher than the region

beside it, which is why the songs

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of as Sense are called that they're

songs of as sense because you're

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always going up in altitude, right?

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And the Temple Mount

itself is lifted high.

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So I think you have to take in a

couple factors to make sense of it.

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But even, we talk about that, the lions.

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When's the last time you

saw a lion in Israel?

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Sure.

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I don't think you see a lot of

those people or bearers perhaps.

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But the idea is that scripture is

conveying something that is true.

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It happens and it's historically relevant.

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It's historically accurate.

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You just don't see it all the time,

which is one of those interesting.

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Tidbits about how scripture works.

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It records historical events

that we just don't always see.

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And that's true in a lot of ways too,

because scripture records revelation

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that you don't always see, but we take

it at its word and scripture is always

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proven to be reliable in this regard.

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Yeah.

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Let's jump into two Samuel eight and nine.

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Two Samuel eight.

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This chapter contains a rundown

of some of David's more noteworthy

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battles, which he fought and won.

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And it's important that we note because

the text tells us twice in verse

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six and verse 14, that he won these

battles because the Lord was with him.

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And so this isn't a

chapter praising David.

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It's praising God and saying God

was using David and David's facility

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of being used and winning these

battles came from his faithfulness.

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To the Lord at this point

in time in his life.

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Th this is still pre his downfall.

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We're gonna see his downfall

in the not too distant future,

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unfortunately, but at this point still

we find good things happening here.

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This is this is something that, that is

noteworthy for David as he's going out

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and winning these battles as he expands

the reach and drives more people away.

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One thing that's interesting

though is the Moabites.

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He goes off to the Moabites

who were part of his family.

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These are kin.

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For him because you remember Ruth

was a motus and Ruth was David's, I

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think great grandmother, if I'm not

mistaken, if I've got that right.

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I think that's right.

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Yeah.

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Great-grandmother.

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So not long ago.

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In the past, some of those

of us listening I got to meet

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one of my great-grandmothers.

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She was a moist, she was not a

moist, but all that to say, we're

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not talking a ton of generations.

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There's probably some that were like,

wait a minute, your Ruth's great grandson.

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What are you coming after us for?

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And yet they were God's enemies.

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And so I think David was justified

in what he was doing here, which is

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why it's so important that Ruth was

included because she was a convert.

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She did it in, she just.

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Didn't change religions.

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She gave up her people.

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Yeah, your people are my people.

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Your God is my God.

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Ruth made a complete break with

her people, and that's not too

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different from how Jesus calls

us to live for him even today.

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He says, you have to take

up your cross and follow me.

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You can't say this is

my allegiance over here.

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No, Jesus must come first.

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And here you have an example of the

fact that even though the Moabites

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were related to David through their

distant with his distant grandmother,

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they were still God's enemies and

therefore they were David's enemies.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Let's deal with a word here

that shows up in verse 18 in

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connection with David's sons.

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It says in second Samuel eight 18,

David's sons were priests priest.

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Yeah.

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Which the priest, co cocaine

priestly line is the Levitical line.

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That's right.

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Pastor, help us unpack this a little

bit because this seems like this

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is not not biblical, not right.

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That, that David's sons

would be called priests.

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Yeah.

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I think we covered this last

time we came to it as well.

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Let's remind you guys that we

take scripture and we interpret

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scripture with scripture.

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So the first thing that we wanna

do is, okay, what's the word here?

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Is it possible that we're, that

the word that we're looking at

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maybe isn't the word that we think?

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Maybe there's another word that

kind of conveys a different sense.

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And here that doesn't help us.

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The word that we, that the word that

is priest in the Hebrew is kohe.

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And that's what we have here.

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So the word is translated

in a way that's consistent.

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So that's not helping us at all.

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What do we have?

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Do we have anything else that can

help us understand what this is?

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And of course we do.

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In fact, we're gonna get to it in just a

few moments here in First Chronicles 18,

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which tells us that David's sons were not.

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Priests, but it says that they were chief

officials, which tells us then that their

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function and their role was something akin

to what we might call a minister today.

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He was a minister of defense, or

he was a minister of this or that.

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So his sons were servants.

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And I'm unclear, I'm unsure of why they

chose the term priests here, except

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to say that there's a sense in which

they're serving the administration of

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the temple in some way, shape, or form.

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But they're chief officials, they're high

ranking officials within his governmental.

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Situation.

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And that's my best take at that.

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Although, again, I still I'm a bit

confused as to why they chose priest.

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Why, maybe it was Samuel or one of

his editors that did this in Second

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Samuel, who chose that word, but

first Chronicles 18 says light.

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Yeah.

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And look at verse 17.

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You see a distinction here

in Second Samuel eight.

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You've got oc, the son of

acu, YouTube, and a Alek.

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The son of Abiathar were priests now.

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They were.

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The actual priest, the real priest here.

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And so even that lends support

to what we're saying here.

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David's already identified, or the

one writing this portion of second

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Samuel has already identified that the

priests in the fullest sense of the

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term that we normally think of zadak

and a alek fulfilled those roles, not.

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The Sons of David.

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So yeah, this is an interesting

interesting connection there.

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One author pointed out, the roles were

still being defined here under the

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monarchy now versus what I don't know.

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I, yeah it's curious that he describes

them this way here when we get

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to have, and if he's there, we'll

have to say, Hey, you know what?

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This was not really helpful.

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Could you have done it better?

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If we could make an adjustment?

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Yeah, if we could change things.

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Alright chapter nine chapter nine's

an interesting situation here because

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this goes back to Jonathan and

David and their relationship, their

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love for each other because you'll

remember there perhaps that David had

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sworn to Jonathan, Hey I love you.

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I care about you.

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I'm gonna care about not only

you, but also your family.

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And Jonathan had asked him to do that.

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He said, Hey, take care

of my family for me.

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And David is so overwhelmed by the memory

of his love for his friend Jonathan.

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He could have.

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Just continued on with his reign at

this point, but he actually seeks out.

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It's not like he happened upon

this guy that was like, by the

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way, I'm the son of Jonathan.

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He, David seeks out, he says, I

want to honor my friend Jonathan.

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And he asks about someone who

might still be of his line that's

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alive and finds out that this guy

Mephibosheth fits the bill there.

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And so David calls for Mephibosheth

and basically honors him, blesses

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him, brings him into the royal

household, gives him land.

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And in the, at the same time,

there's this guy Zeba that is going

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to become the one that, that is the

the overseer of the property that

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David Entrusts here to Mephibosheth.

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This is gonna come back into play

later on with David and Absalom.

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And there's gonna be some question

as to how loyal Mephibosheth is to

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David, because Zeba is going to say

that he's not very loyal at all.

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So it's, it is an interesting situation,

but Mephibosheth is basically embraced

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by David brought into David's household

and given a seat at the king's table

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almost as though he's one of the sons of

the royal family at the same time there.

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Yeah, I remember that.

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Pastor Matt Chandler saying You

are not David, but I think he

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could say, you are Mephibosheth.

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We are Mephibosheth.

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I think this is a really cool scene

because it reminds us of how Jesus

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takes us under his wing and he.

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For his own sake.

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He takes us and he makes us clean.

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He brings us to the king's table and

we are now reconciled to God through,

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through David our truer and better David.

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And so we are Mephibosheth.

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We have nothing to offer.

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We're lame.

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We're from nowhere.

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Low to bar.

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That's where he's from.

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He's from nowhere.

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That's what the word means.

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No, no place, nowhere.

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We are of no accounts, we're

of no status, and yet we are

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accepted for the sake of Jesus God.

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The father, our true king accepts

us because of who Jesus is.

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And second Samuel, chapter nine

is really a story about you and I.

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Yeah.

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First Chronicles 18.

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Then the parallel accounts are given

here for what takes place, especially

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in Second Samuel chapter eight.

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This is where in, in chapter 18, verse

17, we do get the the recording that David

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Sons were chief officials and not priests.

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And yeah, there's not a

lot of difference here.

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I was reading this saying,

okay where's the difference?

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Is there something different

from what we had previously?

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And I really couldn't find

anything of note here.

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I don't know if PR anything jumped

out to you in this parallel account.

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That was different from what we've

read in the second Samuel eight?

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No.

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I think I guess it's worth us reminding

you what role the Chronicles play

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when it comes to retelling the story.

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That's helpful.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So Chronicles is for

the post exilic people.

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They're coming back to the land,

they're reestablishing their community.

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We're going to soon see that

the chronicler selectively

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adds information that.

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He thinks is necessary for them to have

the kind of mentality and attitude that

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they need to rebuild their community.

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So he's not adding everything he

could add, but he is adding things

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that are helpful to his cause.

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So you're gonna see that David's, some

of David's major blemishes are not.

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They're not smoothed over, they're

just really not talked about.

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They're e omitted because the recognition

of first and second Samuel, which

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would've been one scroll at that time.

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So there would've been no first

or second Samuel, it just would've

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been the scroll of Samuel.

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They're expecting that

you had that available.

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First Chronicles 18 just highlights

the fact that God is with David.

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God is blessing David, God is using David.

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And the point then for the

audience at that time would've

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been, he could still use you guys.

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He can still take us and make us

something if we do the right thing,

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if we surrender ourselves to him,

God can give David the victory.

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He can give us the victory.

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Yeah.

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That is interesting, isn't it?

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That there is no David than

Bathsheba in First Chronicles.

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And yeah, I, I.

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And I, I get it.

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I get it.

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There is post exilic.

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You're wanting things to be positive.

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You're wanting to encourage the people

and remind them of the high points.

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And yet there's so much to be

learned from the low points.

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In fact, the writer of Hebrews

even says that these things were

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written for our instruction.

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Yeah.

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So I want, yeah.

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I wonder why that the chronicler didn't.

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Allude to the fact that, Hey,

David, we need to be careful not

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to do these things that David did

because David wasn't all great.

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And we need to be careful

not to drift this way.

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Especially considering the exile.

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David's heart was lured away by, by

a woman, and so much of the idolatry

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of the Israelites began the same way.

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And that, that led them into

exile in the divided kingdom.

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So it's interesting that the chronicler

doesn't record that for us, anyways.

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Yeah.

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But read it anyways and read it carefully

because it's always good to have that

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repetition and if you can read it the

second time, even though it's gonna

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seem man, this is what I just read.

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It's gonna help you know it better.

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It's gonna help you understand it

better, and you'll appreciate it even

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more as you come back to it the next

time and say, okay, I know this passage,

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I'm familiar with this passage, but

let me come back to it again and read

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it and ask even as I'm reading it.

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Gotta help me to recognize

something different.

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Help me to learn something new, to pay

attention to something about you that

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I didn't even five minutes ago when I

was reading Second Signal chapter eight.

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Help me see something fresh

in one Chronicles chapter 18.

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And trust that's the spirit's delight.

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The spirit delights to take the word of

God and cause it to to be illuminated

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so that we would better understand it

and be able to apply it to our lives.

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So do you have any insight or

input on the difference between

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the numbers in Second Samuel eight

and one Chronicles 18 Specifically?

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I am looking at verse four

and one Chronicles 18.

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Verse four in two Samuel eight.

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So just to quickly recap here, two Samuel

chapter eight says, David took from him

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1700 horsemen, 20,000 foot soldiers.

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Those are the two numbers in question.

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And in chapter 18 says, David

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7,000 horsemen and 20,000 foot soldiers.

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There they seem to be irreconcilable but

I'm guessing that there's something that

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we're missing or some elements that we're

just not seeing on the surface of it.

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Do you have anything that you could add

to help us understand those differences?

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No.

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These are areas where you could allow for.

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Textual variance or the corruption of

the text over time, that, that change

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numbers like this as scribes are

copying and writing things down it's

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possible that a number was written as

something that it wasn't or understood

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one way and conveyed a different way,

especially with so much time between.

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First Chronicles and second Samuel

in the events taking place there.

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But I don't know that there's

anything significant there.

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Certainly nothing faith shaking

for us as far as the veracity

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and reliability of scripture.

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So talk to the Christian then, who

would read that and say how does

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this not impact or understanding

of the reliability of scripture?

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We say that it's without error.

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Yeah.

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We call it, in Aaron

Authoritarian in errands.

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Infallible, yeah.

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All the things that we talk about.

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And yet many times we've said

this seems like this is a variant.

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This seems like this might be

something that was omitted.

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Yeah.

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Edited out.

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We talked about the tribe of Dan not

even being in the list in the Chronicles.

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What gives, how could scripture possess

the qualities that we say and yet

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possess some fairly glaring issues?

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Yeah.

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When we say inanity and infallibility.

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Infallibility especially we're referring

to the autographs, and what we mean by

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autographs are the original documents

written by the original authors.

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Those are the only documents that we can

point to and say these are the inspired

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word of God, the God-breathed word.

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When we're talking New Testament.

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This is the parchment that Paul.

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Was dictating to his enu.

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And as that man wrote Ephesians on

the document for the first time, that

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is the only copy of scripture that we

can say is fully iner and infallible,

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meaning without error and without

fallibility perfect in its content.

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Everything after that, that, that

becomes a copy of the original.

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We can have great confidence

in, but we're not gonna be able

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to point to it and say it's.

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It's infallible and it's inert

because of things like this.

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There are minor vari variants.

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There are minor situations where

we might look at something and

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say, okay, the text seems to have

been corrupted over time here.

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And that word corrupted can seem

like a big, bad, scary word.

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But we're dealing with things like.

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Like the number of horsemen and chariots

in one chronicles in two Samuel eight

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there, as I've said a number of times

before, there are no variants that

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say, and Jesus stood up and said, I'm

not God, or, and Jesus was actually

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dead and this was just an imposter.

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Or even, that Moses wasn't a real person

or that David wasn't a real person.

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The variants are small things

here, and when we look at and study

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textual criticism, which is what.

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This is all talking about here.

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What we find is the Bible is the

most, bar none, the most reliable

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and verifiable ancient document

that we have in our possession.

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When you compare it to the works of

Homer, when you compare it to the works

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of Plato and Socrates the Caesar's, Gaelic

Wars and others it's not even close.

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The amount of manuscripts

that we have for the Bible.

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Blow those others out of the water.

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And what we can do with that is

we can compare these manuscripts.

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So you can look at 10 copies of the

Gospel of John chapter 21 verse one.

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So you're looking at 10 copies that may

span, 700, 800 years in those copies.

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And you're gonna be able

to look at those 10 copies.

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And if nine outta 10 of those copies

read one way and then all of a

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sudden one copy has a little bit of a

change there, then you can conclude.

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Okay, the nine outta those 10 are

probably the accurate readings here.

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This seems to be a corruption,

and so we're gonna footnote that.

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And then we're gonna move

on with our translation.

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That's part of the way that

all of these translations work.

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They study the originals, they

look at all these variants, they

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compare everything, they make

decisions, and then they move on.

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That's not always, that's

oversimplifying it a little bit

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but you can have immense amount of

confidence in the Bible that you have.

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It has been studied and vetted

and researched to to no end.

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And it is a reliable document.

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So one thing to note here, and maybe

this is a good endorsement for you from

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us to, to pick up a copy of this one.

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One resource that I tend to use is

the net Bible will often address some

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of these things that we talk about.

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In fact, I think you use it as

well, pastor pj, when we're making

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conversation or we're talking about

some elements of scripture that

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says, oh what's the textual authority

behind this translation or this word?

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That kind of thing.

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And that Bible will tell you.

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What we have, and it'll give

you really helpful resources.

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For instance, on this particular

passage, the net Bible says that

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the Sept has 1000 chariots and

7,000 charioteers in this passage

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in Second Samuel eight, verse four.

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Which tells us then that there's

historical precedent to say

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that, okay, it sounds like Second

Samuel eight then might have some.

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Copyist errors, which is why the

numbers are different from First

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Chronicles and Second Samuel eight.

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This would be a really helpful

resource and sometimes it's gonna

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talk about manuscripts that you

may not know about that's okay.

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The point is that Christian

scholars, brothers and sisters who

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do the work of textural criticism.

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Are looking at actual copies of the text

that Pastor Pia was just talking about

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to help us come to conclusions about what

the most accurate reading of the text is.

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It's an art and a science, but it's

nothing to shake your faith about.

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In fact the very fact that Christians, I.

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Put this out there, tells you that

we're committed to truth we're not

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com committed just to saying it's a

myth and a legend, and you ought to

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just believe it because we say, we're

trying to say, what does scripture say?

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What did it say?

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And by the way, 98% of what we have

in our text is undisputed, right?

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We're talking about single digit

percentages here of texts that are,

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there's a question mark behind it saying,

oh, what's the right reading here?

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We even talked about the one where

Solomon or King saw reigned for two

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years and then for 40 how does that work?

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Or, he was born and he was two years and

then rained for 40, something like that.

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The text is hard to understand

and it's probably because of some

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kind of error in transmission.

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But all that said, we like the NAT

Bible that's worth you having in your

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library, especially if you have logs,

because it'll help you and point you to.

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Sources that are used to help make

decisions about texts like this.

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Yeah.

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And in the NAT, in their footnotes, you'll

see two letters before their footnotes.

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Either you'll see TN or sn.

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SN is study note.

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So that's gonna be similar to the

ESV Bible or something like that.

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A study bible note, TN is gonna be

translators note and that's gonna

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contain a lot of the information, like

what you were just talking about there.

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That's gonna get into okay, how do we

understand this and what's the variant?

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Here and what's going on there, by

the way, in case you're wondering,

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okay, but you guys are pastors.

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Your job is to uphold the Bible.

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Okay.

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There's a Bart Airman who is

no friend of Christianity.

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He's not a believer.

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He has done a lot of work to try

to undermine what Christ has said.

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He himself of the Bible has said that

there are of all the variants that

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exist out there, there is not one.

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Key Christian doctrine that's

called into question by a

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singular variant that's out there.

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So he would love nothing more than to

undermine some of our core beliefs,

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and yet even he is out there on record

saying, of all the variants that are

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out there, nothing is out there that

would call into question any of the

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core Christian doctrines and beliefs.

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So I would echo what Pastor Rod said.

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Yeah, we can fully trust

the Bibles that we have.

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Yeah, pick up an NET Bible.

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I'm trying to look at how much it costs.

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I can't tell 'cause I own it, but

I'm sure it's, oh, here we go.

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If you want the full notes

edition which I would suggest

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that you get from Logos Bible.

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Software.

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It's 1899.

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That's a good deal.

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That's a great deal.

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That's a great deal.

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Hey, lemme pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God gives us a great confidence in

your word and even an expectation as

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we come to it, that as we read your

word, your spirit will take your

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word and help us to understand it.

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That's what we know as the doctrine

of illumination, and that we would

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understand you better as a result of

it, not just your word, but understand

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you better, and that it would work

to transform our lives and cause us

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to be more like Jesus as a result.

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So we love you.

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We thank you so much for your word,

that we have it, that we can understand

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more of you through it, and we pray

that we would do more of that as

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we progress throughout this year.

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Reading Your Word together.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you.

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Bye.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said