00:00 Sunday Morning Check In

00:20 Sam’s Appendix Scare

01:22 Grateful for Church Support

01:46 Modern Medicine Amazement

03:19 Prayer and God Outside Time

04:39 Question Jesus’ Exasperation

07:57 Frustration vs Righteous Anger

09:28 Today’s Reading Overview

10:29 Deuteronomy 6 Shema Parenting

11:26 Generational Sin Explained

13:14 Hard Cases Like Achan

13:53 Gods Justice And Authority

15:02 Family Discipleship At Home

15:42 Sabbath Rest And Creation Care

16:46 Chosen By Covenant Love

17:46 Hard Texts Holy War

20:02 Is This Genocide

24:17 Mark 12 Tenants Parable

26:38 Taxes Resurrection And Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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It is Sunday morning and I'm particularly

thankful this Sunday morning.

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Tell tell us about, as some of you heard

this as it got around the prayer line

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and everything yesterday, but church.

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Yes, church.

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That's why, that's exactly why.

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That's what talking.

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And we have an hour less sleep.

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So I'm really excited about that too.

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I'm really excited about losing sleep.

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Yeah.

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But really, sorry, go ahead.

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No so you're bragging my God on Friday

we were just going about our normal day

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and it turns out that my son, Sam, his

appendix, decided to not want to be.

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An appendix.

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Unreal.

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It was crazy.

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Yeah.

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We had a normal morning.

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He just said he felt sick.

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We kept him home from school and

then he started really complaining.

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Amanda kept him home from school

and you're like, no, go to school.

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I mean, man up, dude.

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I will stop crying.

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Confess that I probably encouraged

him to go to school more than

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I should have at that point.

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But throughout the day became

clear and God just really

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came through and orchestrated

everything for us from Sure did.

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Yeah.

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The scan at this imaging center

to his pediatrician saying, Hey,

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yeah, this is a confirmed case,

calling ahead to Cook Children's.

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They got him straight into a room at

Cook Children's because of that, and

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then there was nobody else there.

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He was the only patient on

the floor for his surgery.

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It's like having a fast

pass to Disneyland.

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It felt like that.

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It did.

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And he, so he had, all the nurses were

paying attention to him, and then the

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surgeon get showed up and he was relaxed

and not stressed because he didn't have

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anything else going on besides that, that

night and surgery went smooth and it was

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routine and Sam's back home same day.

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So, it, it was amazing.

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So I know so many of you reached out.

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You've prayed for us, you've some

of, you're bringing food for us.

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We're so thankful for our church family.

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They really rallied around us and I

know, not just us, I know there's so

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many other church families that would

say, Hey, we had the same experience.

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So our church does that so well.

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Yeah.

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And so we're benefiting from that.

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Still are, and we're so grateful for that.

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So thank you church for supporting us

and loving us so well through this time.

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SIM's doing great and should be on his

way to a full recovery pretty soon here.

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Dude, it's amazing how far advanced

we are that we can go to a hosp.

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You can have an in and out experience.

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At a hospital.

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Yeah.

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You show up.

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They're like, you know

what, here's the issue.

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We're gonna just, cut right

here, right here, right here.

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Take that thing out, wrap it

up, tied up with a nice bow,

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and then send you on your way.

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Bingo, bango bono.

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This was an outpatient surgery.

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Yeah.

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I'm amazed because I

ruptured my achilles tendon.

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Some of you guys know that story,

and I just thought, what would

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you have done a hundred years ago?

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I don't, you can't fix it, right?

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You just, you just walk

around with a limp or you die.

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I don't know.

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In his case, in poor Sam's case, I

don't know that you survive a ruptured

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appendix, or at least not with

high degree of probability, right?

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I think your body was succumbed

to that kind of injury.

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So I'm amazed, and I'm so

thankful for modern medicine.

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I'm thankful for cooks.

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Cooks treated us really well too,

and we had our issue with Phoebe.

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They're such a great

staff, such a great team.

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Yeah.

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In fact, I was just, I mean,

after we had Phoebe at home.

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After our experience,

I loved cook so much.

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I'm like, I wanna bring them something,

I wanna do a 'cause they're just

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so friendly and so attentive, and

they're just so good with kids.

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Yeah.

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I love them.

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Yeah, they are they're great.

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And they're even great too

on the financial side too.

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I mean, we've got pretty good insurance

with our church, which we're thankful

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for, but I know a lot of families have

had good experiences with working with

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cooks saying, okay, I know this is what

our bill is, but here's where we're at.

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What can you guys do for us?

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And, and mm-hmm.

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Because of their donor base and

other things they're usually really

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good at working with families on

lowering bills, which is huge.

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That's really nice.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, Sam's doing well and

woke up with a tummy ache and then

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went to bed without an appendix.

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It was crazy.

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All at home.

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All at home.

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Well, not the surgery in 24 hours.

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We were the hospital for that.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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So, but again, thank

you so much for praying.

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We love that we were the beneficiaries

that, and we are trusting that the

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Lord was answering those prayers

even ahead of time, which is

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something that's interesting for us

to think about with prayer, right?

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That sometimes God is answering prayers

that are gonna be prayed in the future

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through orchestrating the events earlier

on in the day, like people didn't know.

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What they needed to pray and they

were praying for a smooth process.

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And I think God was doing that from

the word go with this whole thing.

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Yeah.

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God exists outside of time.

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God knows what our prayers are

gonna be and even uses our prayers

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to, to orchestrate some of his

things that he does and the

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way that he works and operates.

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So are you saying then that when

you're praying for something and

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you don't know the status of the

thing that you're praying for.

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If supposing the thing that you're praying

for has already been resolved, even

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though you don't know that when you're

praying, God would credit that almost

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as in he, he retroactively takes your

future prayer and applies it to the past.

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I think so.

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To a, to an extent.

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Like I don't think if we're sitting

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War will have the right outcome, that

God is, is retroactively applying

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that to that extent, but I think yeah.

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Yeah.

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Again, I think God is big

enough to do those things.

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And I think we'll see the fruit of

that when we get to eternity, even

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as part of, hopefully he'll give

us a, an inside view of here's how

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your prayers made a difference.

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Hmm.

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'cause that would be really cool to

be able to see that We had plenty of

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time to figure that out, so, yeah.

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Sounds like a good plan.

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Yeah.

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Well, we did have a question.

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Come in, we're just about five

minutes into the podcast right now.

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Do we want to keep going right now or do

we want to get to the question tomorrow?

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We can do either way.

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I think we can knock this out.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Let me throw it at you.

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Alright.

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Okay.

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Matthew 17.

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17, mark nine 19, Luke 9 41.

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Jesus has recorded a saying,

how long am I to be with you?

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Or How long am I to bear with you?

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And he says, oh, faithless generation.

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How long am I to be with you?

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How long am I to bear with you?

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Bring him to me.

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He's talking about, delivering

this young man from his disease.

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And so he comments, Jesus seems

frustrated, which I find interesting.

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Is it because of Jesus' humanity that

he does not know when he's going to

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be crucified and ascended to heaven?

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There's two questions there.

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I think first of all, address the

frustration that Jesus appears to show.

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Yeah.

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And then also address the fact

that he doesn't know about his

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crucifixion, his resurrection.

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Or is Ascension that is, yeah.

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So the frustration, I think

is a right read on this.

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We have to ask the question,

who is he frustrated with?

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There's times where generation is used

in reference to unbelievers or gentiles.

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Even earlier in Mark chapter eight, you

see in Mark 8 12, 8 38 generation is

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most likely applied to unbelievers there.

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But I think here he's.

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Addressing the disciples

and he is frustrated.

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Even Jesus shows human emotion.

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He shows human emotion.

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When we read it already when he was in the

synagogue early in the Gospel of Mark, and

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they brought the men with a withered hand,

and the Pharisees were trying to trap him.

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And he looked around at them

grieved, and he was angry, right?

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And so we see that Jesus does

display emotion, but Jesus' emotion

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is never going to be sinful.

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It's never a fallen emotion.

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It's never an emotion that's tainted with

a, an inappropriate self-centeredness.

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Whereas ours is, we become

frustrated because of the

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inconvenience of things to us.

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We become frustrated with

the driver on the road who's

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driving too slow in front of us.

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We become frustrated with the customer

service representative on the phone

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who's not doing what we need them to do.

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And that's a sinful frustration.

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That's a frustration

that is self-centered.

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Jesus is frustrated here because of the

bigger picture, and this gets to the

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second part of this question when he says.

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How long am I to be with you?

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How long am I to bear with you?

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He's not asking out of an ignorance as

far as, okay, how much longer until I'm

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gonna go be crucified, how much longer?

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This is more of an exasperation of

how long until you finally get it.

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How long until you understand how

long must I remain with you until

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you get what I'm trying to teach you.

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And so it's not that Jesus is saying,

I don't know when I'm gonna die here.

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He's in this moment of sanctified

exasperation with the disciples.

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He's saying I was away

from you just for a minute.

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And here comes a situation where he

didn't have the faith that was required

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to cast a demon out of this child.

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I'm getting ready to go away from

you for much longer than a minute and

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are you going to be able to bear up?

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Are you gonna be able to do

the things that I'm calling

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you to do during that time?

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And so I think his frustration

here is with the disciples.

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And it's not so much about how much

longer until I'm finally gone from this

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place, but it's how long do I have to

keep going over the same things with you?

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How long do I have to remain patient with

you until you finally understand and have

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the faith that you're gonna need to be

able to do what you're gonna need to do?

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Because Jesus had just been up on the

mountain of transfiguration, hadn't been

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gone for very long, and already they were

falling short of what they were gonna

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need as, as far as his earthly ministry.

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Some commentators even point

out, maybe they were becoming

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too self-sufficient here.

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And so Jesus is reminding them, you, you.

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You can't get to the place

where you don't need me anymore.

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You're always gonna need to have

faith in the power of me working

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through you through these things.

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Yeah.

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I agree with the heart

of what you're saying.

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I don't know if I could use the word

frustration to describe Jesus' response.

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It makes me a little uncomfortable

for the very reason that it, it

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conveys this idea that and I'm gonna

quote from my Mac dictionary here.

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I don't know what dictionary

it uses, but it's on my Mac.

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Frustration is the feeling

of being upset or annoyed.

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That part we're okay with, but it

says then, especially because of an

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inability to change or achieve something.

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We wouldn't say that Jesus is unable or

incapable of accomplishing something.

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So I think maybe a better

word might be anger.

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A righteous indignation.

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Although if you think about anger,

you might think level 10, you might

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think of hothead someone who's sweating

or just getting red in the face.

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I think anger to exists on the spectrum.

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So I think Jesus is angry and maybe

annoyed could be okay to apply to him.

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It's hard, and it's hard to use

these words with precision because

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we don't wanna say something that

we're not trying to say, and we're

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not saying that Jesus couldn't.

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Do something with the disciples or

couldn't do something with his father.

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Instead.

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It's just that Jesus is angry, I think.

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I think that's the best word I can

come up with that would res respect

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his role as God and man, and yet

still honor his role as man is.

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He's angry at this.

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He's angry that they don't get it.

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He's angry that they're hardhearted, he's

angry that they seem to be unresponsive

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to his teaching to this point.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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And that's what I meant is annoyed

or, or Right, that's what I said.

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I understand.

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I agree with the spirit of

what you're saying and the word

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itself could be misleading.

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Fair.

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Yeah.

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Like, um, brainwashing.

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Like brainwashing.

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So people wanna know if we're renaming

ourselves a compass brainwashing church.

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Is that that is, is that true?

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That is what we are, we're washing, we're

washing people's brain with the word.

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Okay.

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That's, yeah.

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Yep.

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Alright.

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Hey, let's get to our daily

Bible reading for today.

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Deuteronomy five through seven

and Mark 12, one through 27.

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Deuteronomy five is gonna be Moses

going back over the 10 commandments.

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Again, a new generation here

and we know that this is the

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case because of the context.

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But also note what he

says there in verse one.

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He says, hero Israel, the statutes

and rules that I speak in your hearing

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today, and you shall learn them.

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And be careful to do them.

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And so Moses is commanding this

group that's listening to him, Hey,

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you need to learn these things.

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Implying they may have heard 'em, maybe

they were floating around, maybe they

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had heard bits and pieces of them, but

they needed to commit them to memory.

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They need to study these things

so that they will be careful to

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do them, to be obedient to them.

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And so this goes back to a lot of our

temptation to read into the Old Testament.

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Our biblical knowledge.

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This was not a people nearly as biblically

literate as you and I are today because

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they didn't have the same access to

God's word that you and I have today.

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So we think 10 Commandments

as, oh yeah, well that's basic.

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Who doesn't know the 10 Commandments?

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Well, they didn't know the 10 Commandments

because they didn't have that same.

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Access now Moses is gonna address

in chapter six how to guard against

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that for future generations.

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'cause what's to keep future

generations from needing the same

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reminders over and over again.

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Well, they were gonna

need the same reminders.

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And the way that God was gonna do

that was by keeping these things

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at the forefront of people's minds

through a persistent and ongoing.

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Teaching model that the parents were to

teach the future generations that these

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things were to be present in the home.

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This is the Deuteronomy six,

Shema passage, the hero Israel.

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And so as Moses is reminding the

generations, he's gonna tell them

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in chapter six now, okay, parents,

grandparents, this is your job.

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There were even gonna be visual reminders

set up on the doorpost of the homes.

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In fact, if you go to a Jewish home

still today, you may see these things

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that are attached to the doorframe.

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And that goes back to this passage

in Deuteronomy chapter six.

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It's always meant to be a

reminder that these things are

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always perpetually before them.

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And Moses knew that this was a forgetful.

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People, God knew that this

was a forgetful people.

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And so he wanted these truths to

be perpetually in their purview.

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Deuteronomy chapter five.

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One of the things that's helpful for

you to either underline or just note

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and cross reference to his Exodus

34 is found in verses nine and 10.

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It says Here, you shall not bow down to

serve them for I and the Lord your God.

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I'm a jealous God.

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And here's what he says, it's important.

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He says, I'm visiting the iniquity

of the fathers on the children to

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the third and fourth generation.

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Now you've read that before in

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exodus 34, in verses six and

seven, if I'm not mistaken.

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This is a famous passage, the Lord, the

Lord of God's slow to anger and steadfast.

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So that section, he talks

about visiting the iniquity of

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the fathers on the children.

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And one of the problems that we

have with that is that God promises

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that he's not going to do that.

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So what's happening here?

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What is taking place?

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And I think Deuteronomy five

helps us understand at least

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part of what's going on there.

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And this is why I like this, because

this is Moses' commentary on this.

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He says here, he's visiting the iniquity

to the third and fourth generation of

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those who hate me, which tells us here,

it's not just a blanket statement about

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here ev, everyone's gonna suffer the, in

the wake of the father sin, but rather

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it's those who don't turn to the Lord,

those who don't surrender and submit to.

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Yahweh's Lordship, they're the

ones who will endure the effects of

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their father sin, in part because

they're carrying it forward.

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It's not that they're saying,

we're trying to avoid sinning.

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Lord, please show mercy on us.

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And God's saying, no, I'm gonna

show, I'm gonna show my anger to

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the third and fourth generation.

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No, these are people who are

complicit in their father sin.

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And so they're also experiencing,

same consequences that

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their father experienced.

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Yeah.

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In fact, later on he's

going to, I can't remember.

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We'll, we will get there.

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I wanna say it's chapter 14 maybe.

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But he's gonna explicitly say

that a child will not be put to

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death for the sins of the father.

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And so he is, there's even some

clarification, I think, of the law as

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we progress in Israel's history where

God is not changing his mind or, or.

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But help clear, helping to

clarify what he means by certain

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commitments that he's given.

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Yeah.

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And those are interesting to me still,

even still, because they are, I think

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they're the way that God generally

acts, but I still think about Aiken

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and I still think about the young

ones that are part of a father's sin.

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Sure.

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And I wonder if.

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What would help explain some of those

things is that God still retains the

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sovereign right to say I give and I take

away at my pleasure and at my disposal.

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Although God does takes no pleasure

in the death of the wicked, I don't

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think that's what's happening here.

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It's a bit perplexing for me.

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It maybe it's.

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The sin of Aiken, that was the

punishment that came in, including

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the 250 men that, that brought their

censors who were then smo by God.

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I believe it because of what was at

stake, which was a challenge to the.

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The people that God had put in place as

the authority challenge to Moses challenge

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to Aaron saying, Hey, who makes you guys,

and the threat that it was to the people

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of Israel, to the unity of the nation,

that God made an example of them and their

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families in a way that isn't necessarily

the norm, but did so in such a way as

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to say, this is how serious this is.

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This is something that will not

be tolerated to any extent and to

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this degree, I'm going to do this.

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But then he provides the clarification

later on for the people as far as they're

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gonna carry out his justice on which

'cause that was him, that was directly him

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the ground opened up and swallowed them.

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Mm-hmm.

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But you think about them moving

forward in the land when you go to

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carry out justice, a law for you,

Israel, is you shall not put the child

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to death for the sins of the father.

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That's not yours to decide.

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That's not your right to

decide if that guilt is.

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Worth, transferring over into the child.

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And God says here it's not.

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And so I'm not allowing you to do that.

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Even though he did that with Aiken.

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It's gonna be a different rule, a

different paradigm for the people.

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Yeah.

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Maybe.

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Maybe.

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Yeah.

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It's hard.

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It's hard.

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Things like this are difficult.

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It's a great stab.

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Chapter seven, um, chapter

six I don't mean to gloss over

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it other than what I said.

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I mean, this is really about, Hey you

are gonna need to remember these things.

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And the family unit is such an important

part of that, and that's why this

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is still an important part of it.

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That's why our kids ministry produces

the resources that they produce.

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That's why adventure Club involves

things at home to do with your children.

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Because we don't want this to

be exported just to the church.

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We don't want the church to be the

ones that are raising your kids.

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We don't want to be.

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The church to be the ones that

are discipling your students.

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We want to aid in that

process, come alongside pastor.

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I use the word co

champion parents in that.

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Mm-hmm.

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But this is a job that belongs at home

as well, and so we see that clearly

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laid out for Israel in chapter six.

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I think that's still true

today for the church as well.

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Yeah.

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One more thing from chapter five.

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Man, I love Deuteronomy.

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I'm gonna struggle to get through this.

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There's so many things I'm

like, oh, that's helpful.

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Okay.

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In chapter five, he says that he.

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On in verse 14, but the seventh day

is a Sabbath day to the Lord your

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God on it, you shall not do any work.

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You've heard this part before.

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He says you, your son, your daughter,

your male servant, your female servant,

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or your ox or your donkey, or any of

your livestock, no animal work or the

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sojourner who's with you in your gates

that your male servant, your female

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servant, may rest as well as you.

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I see in this a beautiful picture

of God's care for the lowly and

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even for the animal kingdom.

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Uh, there, there's that weird

passage about not boiling a

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goat in his mother's milk.

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Yeah.

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And it's like, okay, is this a cultic?

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Is this meant to say, Hey, don't

act like the other nations.

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That's.

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Possible.

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It's very possible to me.

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But he also, he says things like

this where I think, okay, maybe

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it's more than just, it's just, uh,

Hey, don't act like the Ammonites.

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I think it's also, God cares about

the animal kingdom, not to the same

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degree or in the same way that he

cares about us, who bear his image,

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but he cares about his creation,

and that would include the animals.

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I see.

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Yeah.

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Well, chapter seven.

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Hold on Chapter six, though.

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I'm kidding.

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I'm just kidding.

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We can keep going.

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We keep going.

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I'm just kidding.

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Go ahead.

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Chapter seven is I just appreciate

it because I feel that I need

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this reminder so often as well.

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And that is that God puts

Israel in their place.

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He says, when you get there, don't think

that this is you that got yourself there.

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Don't think that this is because you're

great and you're bigger and you're

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better than any of the other nations.

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But remember that I chose you

because I love you and that's

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such a different picture.

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I think that we emphasize at least.

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Different picture than we see.

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We see God's love in the Old Testament,

but often we don't emphasize that as much.

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But if you look at verse eight,

it says it, but it is because the

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Lord loves you and he's faithful.

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He's keeping the oath that he swore to

your father so that the Lord brought you

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out with a mighty hand and redeemed you.

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So God's covenant love is something

that is worth our emphasis worth our

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focus here, that God is not just the God

of wrath against Aiken and the little

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ones that we talked about earlier.

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He's a God of love.

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And we see that in how he is leading

Israel and providing for Israel,

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and even patient with Israel and

how he's been faithful to Israel.

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And so chapter seven, really

saying, when you get to the

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Promised land, don't forget God.

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Chapter six, don't forget God

at home nationally, chapter

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seven, don't forget God either.

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All right, let's let's camp

a little bit on the first few

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verses in chapter seven here.

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He says, when you go to these

areas, here's all the people

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that you're going to encounter.

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And when the Lord your God gives them

over to you, and you defeat them, you

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must devote them to complete destruction.

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You shall make no covenant with

them and show no mercy to them.

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You shall not intermarry with them giving

your daughters to their sons or taking

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their daughters for your sons, for they

would then turn you, turn away your sons

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from following me to serve other gods.

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And then God's anger would be.

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Leveled against you.

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Alright, so let's briefly talk about this.

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This is one of those sections

that makes people uncomfortable.

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God is giving Israel orders,

marching orders to destroy these

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people, and he says you're to

devote them to complete destruction.

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What's happening here?

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How do we best understand this in

light of what we're reading here?

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Well, this is God's justice, in

operation against these peoples.

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And he's using Israel as

the instrument of justice.

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He's using Israel as the sword of

justice, if you'll put it that way.

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And these nations had

rebelled against God for eons.

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And the reason that they're guilty is not.

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Because they necessarily had the same

access to the revelation of God, but they

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had access just like Ro Romans one says,

to the evidence of God as the Creator,

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and so God is being a God of justice with

them, and he's threatening Israel at the

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same time with the same level of justice.

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If you don't obey me in this, then I'm

gonna do the same thing to you, then

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I'm having you do to these nations.

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This is not ethnic cleansing.

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This is not.

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About a racial issue.

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This is about the holiness of God's

people and the reason why he wants

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them to devoted destruction is

given right there in the text for

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they would turn away your sons from

following me to serve other gods.

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And God is a jealous God.

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And so because God is a jealous

God, he's not going to allow for or

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tolerate, the worship that's only due

him to be split amongst other peoples.

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And going into this land the other

nations, were going to inevitably draw

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Israel away to worship false gods.

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And unfortunately, we're gonna see

that that's exactly what happens.

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So this is God saying, I'm God, I'm holy.

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These people groups are not holy.

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And so Israel, you're going to

be the instrument of justice that

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I'm going to use against them.

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You're gonna be the sword

in my hand against them.

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But he's gonna go on and say in the

chapter, it's not because of you.

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It's not because you are better, but it's

because this is my sovereign purview.

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This is what I'm doing, and I've

chosen you because of my promise

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that I made to your forefathers.

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Some people would respond back to that.

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Th this would qualify as genocide.

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That's the word that's typically used.

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Paul Copin has his book with the

famous title, is God a Moral Monster?

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Did God Commit Genocide?

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I think is a second book

that has a similar content.

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Is this genocide, is this something that

you would say we hold our nose at it?

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We accept it for what it says

we, but we don't like it.

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And I guess what we're not saying here

that other people would be quick to

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bring up is that this included everybody.

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Other techs would say that this is men,

women, and children, and Paul Copin among

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others would defend God and say, well.

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This is hyperbolic language.

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This is not truly meant to give

Israel orders to, to do this.

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This is in keeping with the way that

nations talked about other nations.

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And it's akin to someone in a

football game saying, oh man, the rams

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destroyed the chargers, or whatever.

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Mm-hmm.

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They didn't really do that, but

that's the language of the day and

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everyone understands what we're saying.

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So is it something like that or is

this genuinely, I mean, when you, when

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someone says, well, that's genocide, how

do you respond to something like that?

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So genocide you.

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When dictionary on me earlier,

let, I'm a dictionary here.

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Let's do it.

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Do it genocide.

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Is this, it's the deliberate and

systematic killing or persecution of a

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large number of people from a particular

nation, national or ethnic group, with the

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aim of destroying that nation or group.

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So it sounds like it fits

it, it sounds like it fits.

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Although I would say genocide is aimed at

them because they belong to that nation.

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Mm-hmm.

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And that's when I said, this is not

ethnic cleansing in the sense that

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this is not racially motivated.

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God is not looking at Israel saying you

are the superior race like Hitler did with

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the Jewish people and with so many others

and saying, we're gonna wipe them out.

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He's not saying you're the superior race.

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Thereby go wipe out these mongrels, these

infidels, these people that are not, that

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don't measure up, rather God is saying.

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They've sinned, they're evil, they're

wicked, they're worshiping false

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gods, and they're deserving of death.

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This goes back to the

wages of sin is death.

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This goes back to the same reason today

that the tribe that's in the remote

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island that hasn't had the missionaries

reach them, they're still gonna

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die and go to hell for not respond.

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To the God of creation.

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Now, we've talked about varying levels

of hell and I think even that could be

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talked about in this context with the

young ones and the little ones and comp

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the amount of guilt that's there and what

does that punishment look like for them.

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But this is not about.

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Israel as a nation being

superior to the other nations.

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This is about Israel as God's people

doing the work that God wants them to

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do because these nations were evil and

sinful against the God of creation.

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I don't think the definition

requires the nation itself to

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feel like they're superior.

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These are ethnic groups, the

Amorites, Canaanites, et cetera.

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They're labeled as that's

how we qualify them.

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That's how we categorize 'em.

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And here's what I would say

to add to what you're saying.

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Even if we were to say,

oh yeah, this is genocide.

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Let's just say that the 2026 definition

or whatever, whenever this was made,

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fits what's what you see in the Bible.

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And I'm not saying that it does, but

if we were to say that, I would say,

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well, it's different when it's God

saying this is what's going to happen.

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If God decrees justice and

judgment, it's God's right.

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That's his.

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Prerogative, he gets to

choose these things, right?

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It might make me feel uncomfortable.

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And we even talked about this

semi-recently when we talked

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about the future judgment of the

nations and people that we love.

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That doesn't sit well with me.

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I don't like that.

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That doesn't make me smile.

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But I do trust that God is just,

and he's going to do what's right.

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And when I read tech text like this, I

think like I can understand the skeptic

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saying, but well this is genocide.

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Can't you see that?

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And I say, well, I guess yes, from a human

level I would say it, that would qualify.

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What Hitler did was genocidal, but when

God does it, it's fundamentally different.

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He doesn't fit under our categories.

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We fit under his.

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And so for me to point my finger

at God and say, God, you're

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doing this, this, and this.

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I have to be very careful at that

because I'm working against a God

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who knows all things, who decrees

justice and is himself the foundation

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of righteousness and justice.

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And so when I read these texts, they're

hard and there's answers to them.

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There's lots of answers to them

about how people approach.

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Bringing a solution to this.

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But the answer we can't give any ground

on is God is well within his rights.

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Right.

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His prerogative as the divine ruler

of creation to do what he chooses.

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Life is a gift.

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He can give it at will.

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He can take it at will.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I think we need to start there

before we make any other guesses

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about what's happening in these texts.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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All right, let's go

over to Mark chapter 12.

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Mark chapter 12, a little bit more

quickly in the New Testament for today.

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We've got Jesus continuing to confront

the religious leaders, and he does

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so pretty starkly with the opening

of Mark chapter 12 verses one down

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through verse, uh, 12 when he tells

the parable of the tenants, which

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was aimed at the Pharisees, and Jesus

says the Father created this vineyard.

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And lent it out to tenants

to take care of it.

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Now, the implication here is this

is the leaders of the Jewish people.

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The, the tenant, the vine is Israel,

and those that are caring for it are

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the gardeners are supposed to be the

Pharisees, but also the religious

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leaders from throughout Israel's history.

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And God says I sent messengers to them.

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These are gonna be understood,

most likely as the prophets, these

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servants that are gonna come and try

to call them to do what they should

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do, what God expects them to do.

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Where's the fruit, where you need

to produce the produce that God has.

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Tahi were doing.

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They killed the one.

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They killed the next.

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Then ultimately, what is the

owner of the vineyard gonna do?

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He's gonna send his son and they're

gonna say, this is the heir.

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This is the one.

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Let's take him out.

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If we take him out, then it can be ours.

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And so Jesus.

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It gives this parable clearly

referring to himself as the son here.

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And I think that the Pharisees

understood this because that they

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even begin to ratchet up their

desire to arrest him at this point.

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But then they're going to continue

to pursue, they're gonna continue

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to try to catch him in these

various traps, including in the

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rest of this section as well.

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So he quotes here, Psalm 1 18, 22

23, the stone that the builders

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rejected has become the cornerstone.

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This was the Lord's doing, and

it is marvelous in our eyes.

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Now, I wonder when you think about when

you're talking to a skeptic or someone

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who says, oh yeah, the Bible is true,

because we have predicted prophecy.

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I wonder if you would think

about Psalm 1 18, 1 18, 22 and

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23, but this is what we mean.

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Prophecy is often a little more, it's

fuller and richer than what we think.

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It doesn't say like, here on March

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whatever, and this is gonna happen.

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Prophecy is.

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Much more fully orbed in scripture and

some of it fits in stuff like this.

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This is from Psalm one 18.

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In fact I would read Psalm one 18

if I were you, just to get a sense

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of how scripture talks to itself

and how it speaks to itself and how

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you see type and anti type and how

you see prophecy and fulfillment.

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It really important because even

though Mark is talking, I think

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largely to a Roman or Gentile

audience, he still sprinkles these

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things in there to help people see

this is not coming outta nowhere.

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This is very much attached

to the Old Testament and it's

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carrying through to the new.

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The next section there,

paying taxes to Caesar, again,

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they're trying to trap Jesus.

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Jesus is going to answer them more

than sufficiently in, in such a way

685

that they're left without challenge.

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They're left without objection here.

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And this is where he says, render to

Caesar, that which is Caesars and give

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to the Lord that which is the Lord, or

give to God the things that are Gods.

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And it says they marvel at him there.

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And then you've got the

Sadducees coming up.

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The Sadducees denied the resurrection.

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They're gonna ask him, they're

gonna present this scenario.

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Well, what about this guy who,

you know, marries and he dies

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and then his wife marries.

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Whose wife is she gonna be in the future?

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And this is where Jesus says

they neither marry nor are

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given in marriage, in eternity.

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But then he goes on and says,

to confront the Sadducees

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here about the greater issue.

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He says, as for the dead being raised,

have you not read in the book of Moses in

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the passage about the bush, how God spoke

to him saying, I am the God of Abraham

702

and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

703

He's not the God of the dead, but the

God of the living, you are quite wrong.

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So here he appeals back to.

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The burning bush where those patriarchs

had already died, and yet God is telling

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Moses, I am their God presently, and

Jesus is here telling us to interpret

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that as understanding that God was

saying they're alive, they're with me.

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They've resurrected because I'm the

God of the living, not the dead.

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What's the connection there then if he

responds to them saying, Hey, you think

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these guys are dead, but they're alive?

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How does that answer

the Sadducees question?

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When they say, well, whose

wife is she gonna be?

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I think because they stay at the

resurrection, whose life's she gonna be.

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And, and I think we need to

hear the appropriate level

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of cynicism in their tone.

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I think there, this is the gotcha question

going, see, the resurrection doesn't

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even make sense because you guys don't

even anticipate situations like this.

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Here's a scenario, what about this one?

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Here's our gotcha for you Jesus.

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Clearly the resurrection doesn't

make logical sense, and so Jesus

721

does answer their question by setting

aside saying, well, that's not what

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the resurrection is gonna be like.

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They neither marry nor

are given a marriage.

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But as for the resurrection itself.

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Let's go back to what the God that

you believe in the Old Testament.

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God, let's go back to the

burning bush with Moses.

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The Torah, something that you revere,

and let's pay attention to what he

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says here because he's saying that he's

the God of the living now the dead I.

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Yeah.

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And in case you didn't, in case

you didn't see it, he, this is

731

a reference to Levert marriage.

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We didn't explicitly say that, but in

Deuteronomy 25, you just read this.

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So if you read about Levert marriage,

a brother marrying his deceased

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brother's wife and carrying on his name,

that's what's being referred to here.

735

Remember the Sadducees don't

believe in the resurrection.

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They don't believe in angels.

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They're, they're very

modern in that sense.

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And they really only honor the five

books of Moses, which is why this is

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where they choose to battle with Jesus.

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All right.

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Well, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

743

God, I pray even as we, we began looking

at that interaction with the disciples and

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Jesus's anger or annoyance with them over

their lack of faith, I pray that you'd

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help us to have the appropriate measure

of faith that we wouldn't ever do anything

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that would lead to an aggravation.

747

Of you looking at us saying, how

much longer do I have to expose

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you to the same truths over and

over again before you understand.

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We thank you that you are patient with

us, though, even as you've revealed

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yourself to be patient with the nation

of Israel and patient with Christians

751

down through the ages, patient in our own

lives, and we're so thankful for that.

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And we pray that you would continue to

be patient with us, but continue to make

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us more like Christ every day so that we

would be as useful to you as possible.

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And we know that your word is so

instrumental in that, so keep us

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in it, we pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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All y'all keep reading those Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow for another

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