In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts reflect on their experiences during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. They recount the uncertainty and significant events like the NBA season cancellation. The conversation transitions to a discussion on Deuteronomy 3 and 4, exploring key themes of obedience, consequences of sin, and God’s jealousy for His glory. The episode also touches on the relevance of these biblical lessons today, particularly in guarding one's soul diligently. The hosts end with a Q&A segment addressing the concept of 'jealousy' as it applies to God and the demonic forces in ancient Egypt.

00:00 Welcome and Introduction

00:06 Reflecting on March 2020

00:55 Pastor's Retreat Memories

05:38 Daily Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 3-4

13:03 Understanding God's Jealousy

18:14 Q&A: Judging the Gods of Egypt

20:17 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's happening, y'all?

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P.

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R.,

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do you know?

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I do.

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Granted, it was technically five

years ago yesterday, but do you

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remember where we were five years ago

yesterday, March 11th and March 12th?

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We were, things were falling out

very quickly from that point.

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March 11th and 12th,

five years ago yesterday.

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2020.

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Something happened in 2020.

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Oh, 2020.

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You said that and it got me.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I have, I'm looking at my

journal entries from that timeframe.

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I have.

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Oh, I have some pictures here.

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Yeah.

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It was a beautiful day that day.

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I can see that.

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I'm looking at the room that we met in.

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It was a nice room.

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We had dinner that night.

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Do you have a picture

from dinner that night?

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Our wives joined us all.

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I don't have it in my journal, but I

may have it in my photo catalog, but

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yeah, it was that was a beautiful day.

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I see.

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So we had lots of good snacks there.

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I see that.

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That was good.

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Yeah.

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What a time.

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Yeah.

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We were for those of you

wondering what, what's going on.

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And we were at our pastor's retreat,

our pastor summit, as it came

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to be known back in California.

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And we were all out to dinner and our

wives had joined us for dinner that night.

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And we were sitting around the table and

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NBA had canceled the rest of the regular

season due to the outbreak of COVID 19.

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And so as you're listening to this

today, which is as you're listening

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to it Wednesday March 12th, we were.

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In the office is trying to figure

out what we were going to do.

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Do we keep church open?

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What's happening?

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And at that point, I think we were still

planning on having church, but by that

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weekend we were, yeah, by that weekend,

I think everything was, I think we

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went online by that weekend, didn't we?

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I believe so.

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I can't recall other ones.

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I think that was what happened.

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I think we all decided this

was what everyone's doing.

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It's only prudent.

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We have to.

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Yeah.

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And that didn't last long.

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We figured out how we can meet

and we met outside, but yeah, but

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it was not, it was crazy, man.

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We had no clue what was coming,

no clue and thankfully it

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ended up being not nearly as.

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I remember our lead pastor at the

time was saying, Hey, we need to

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get ready to do mass funerals.

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We need to get ready to start

burying many people from this.

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Cause we didn't know what was

going to happen with COVID.

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And thankfully that didn't happen.

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I think we did lose people in our church.

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We had one or two that I can think of off

the top of my head who died as a result of

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complications from it, but complications

from yes, just a, It's just a crazy time.

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I'm thankful it's in the rear view mirror.

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It's amazing that it's

already five years ago.

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It feels like it's closer to it's

in more recent history than that.

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At least as I, I think back on it, I think

we're working hard to forget it, man.

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I would agree.

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I would agree.

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Yeah.

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It's just that popped up on my memories

as I was going through them yesterday.

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It was like, Hey, five years

ago today, somebody tweet.

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That's what it was.

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The NBA canceled their regular season.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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That was, I think we were having dinner

when they were leaving the floor.

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Yep.

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There was an NBA game happening

and people were, they were, the

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referees called the game off.

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Rudy go bear.

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He was patient zero in the NBA.

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Oh, wow.

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I don't know who that is.

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That's not surprising.

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But another name that I want

to shout out though, is Mike

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Sklemeny Mike, you are the man.

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He, so he heard the call.

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In fact, there's two names,

but Mike was the one who's

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the first one that came to me.

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I turned and said, Hey man, I

heard you want me to build a desk.

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I'll take care of that.

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That sounds fun.

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I could do that.

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I'll do it real quick this afternoon.

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So that afternoon came up to

the office, set up my desk.

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And this morning, Mike, I have

no idea how you move this thing.

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This thing is heavy.

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I was trying to try to

maneuver it to my corner.

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And the other desk is pretty

light, really easy to move around.

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But this one feels like

it's got some serious heft.

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So I don't know how this

guy turned it upward.

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But it was impressive as much.

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I came to your rescue.

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I heard you whimpering in there

and not able to lift a, yeah.

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And I was like, Hey,

pastor, I can help you.

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And I said please, I need

more than I have right now.

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And so I came in and you.

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Yeah.

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I did most of the lifting.

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You did.

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You picked it up with your own

two hands and you were sitting in

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the corner with your non alcoholic

Mai Tai and an umbrella in it.

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And you were watching me

do all the heavy lifting.

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Put it over there.

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Yeah.

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Servant boy.

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I think that's exactly how it went.

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If I remember correctly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Felt, felt like a lot like that,

that Mike Scalmini, thank you

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for putting it together, man.

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What a huge blessing.

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And Steve Marston.

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As Mike was putting it together, Steve

texted me and said, Hey, do you still

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have that desk to put us to put together?

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And I'm like, Oh dude, thank you so much.

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But Mike's already on it.

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So I love our church.

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I'm so grateful.

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I used it today.

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I was thankful for the desk.

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I was enjoying it.

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It's beautiful.

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I love it.

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Thank you guys for your help.

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They appreciate you have time.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Steve worked that out.

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Cause he gets the heavenly

rewards of being willing to have

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the generous heart to serve.

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Yeah.

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But he didn't have to do the work.

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Didn't have to do the work.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, we were noodling each other

a little bit with that making fun

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of each other there and You sent me

that article about how apparently

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that's a sign of a good friend.

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That's somebody who is What was

the actual winning somebody who's

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willing to mock you to insult you?

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It's something like that Yeah, someone

who's just straight up making fun

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of you and saying bad things about

you and your family Yeah, that's

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a sign of real love and affection.

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I think that was in one

part of the Bible Yep.

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Couldn't remember the exact reference

in the Bible, but it was in there.

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Yeah.

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And I was like, Oh,

that's why we're so close.

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That's it.

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It's a term of endearment.

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It's a a mode of endearment

to just mock somebody.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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That's great.

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Sure.

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That's how that works.

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So if you're out there and pastor

out, has never taken a shot at you,

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then he really doesn't care about you.

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Actually.

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Yeah, that's funny.

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If there is some truth to it.

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Obviously if you Are constantly making

fun of somebody and taking shots.

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It could reveal something much deeper.

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That's unhelpful.

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It could, but.

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It also could be

something playful and fun.

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And if someone's doing that to you,

it's probably because they care

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about you, they care about you.

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They trust you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Let's jump into our daily

Bible reading for today.

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Deuteronomy three and four.

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Deuteronomy three opens up reminders

of the defeat of Og and of a Reuben and

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Gad's agreement to cross over and fight

with their brothers before settling again

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there across the Jordan, the trans Jordan

these last two sections, chapter two.

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And the reminders about Sihon would and

then the reminders about Og here again

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are setting the table for the charge to

Joshua that's coming up in Deuteronomy

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chapter three, verses 21 through 22.

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This charge to Joshua is your

eyes have seen all the Lord your

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God has done to these two Kings.

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So will the Lord do to all the Kings

into which you are crossing the

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kingdoms into which you are crossing.

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So remember, God is setting this up.

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He's reminding them, he's giving

them these victories because this

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is what they're going to have to do.

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And so God is showing the people what

what waits for them across the Jordan

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river and what they're going to face.

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And he's reminding them, telling them,

Hey, as I've won these victories on

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this side of the Jordan, I'll win the

victories on that side of the Jordan.

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And so this would have been

an encouragement to them.

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And by the way, note in Deuteronomy

three, nine, it talks about the.

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I believe it's three nine.

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Is it three nine here?

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Maybe it's not.

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Sidonians call Hermon Sirion.

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Maybe it's three 19.

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Did I miss a one?

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Nope.

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He talks about the bed here of the

king and he says the bed, there it is.

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Verse 11.

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He says, for only Og the king of Bashan

was left to the remnant of the Rephaim.

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Behold, his bed was a bed of iron.

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The word for bed there

is probably more likely.

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A reference to a sarcophagus the

resting place would have been the idea

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there, but this is probably not his

actual bed, but a sarcophagus or the

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tomb into which his body was placed.

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And so it's referring to the death

of this King and his burial in this

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iron large sarcophagus that his body

would have been laid to rest in there.

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13 feet by nine feet.

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That's massive.

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That's a, that's huge.

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So what's the significance then

of it being a a resting place

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as opposed to a physical bed?

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It just yeah, no go ahead.

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Sorry.

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I was just going to say,

what's the biggest differences

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between those two things?

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If it isn't as bad which if it is

his bed, 13 feet by six feet would

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be, that's bigger than a King.

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But what does it mean

if it's a sarcophagus?

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I think it's just a reference to his

burial chamber rather than his bed.

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Cause it fits the context

a little bit better.

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It's talking about the defeat

and the death of this King.

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And so then all of a sudden to be

talking about his bed is a little

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bit of a strange non sequitur there.

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But if it is talking about his tomb,

the sarcophagus in which he was placed,

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then it makes a little bit more sense.

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Yeah.

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Also maybe explains the dimensions

a little bit more because I

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think, yeah, that's massive.

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That's huge.

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All right.

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So from here we go on for

Moses real quick here.

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One last attempt at getting a

pass to enter the promised land.

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Moses was like, God, please, can I please?

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And if you've got kids,

you know what this is like.

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You issue the punishment and maybe your

family's going out to ice cream that

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night and one kid's been disobedient.

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You're like, Hey you're,

you've forfeited your right.

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You're not going to get

any ice cream tonight.

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And then.

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You're at the counter and the kid's

dad, can I please the rest of the time?

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Dad, can I please earn it back?

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Can I get it?

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It's kind of Moses right here.

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He's God, please, can I go over there?

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Can I enter the promised land?

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And God again says no, and allows him

to see the promised land from Mount

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Pisgah there, Pisgah's mountain.

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And he reiterates to Moses though,

that Joshua was going to be the one to

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take the lead and take Possession of

the land with the head of the people,

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which tells us again, that sin has

reverberating effects and consequences

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that even if it is forgiven, which it

was for Moses, it does not negate or

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mitigate the extent or the depth of

the consequences that are incurred.

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are found because of it.

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Can God forgive very awful sin?

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Absolutely.

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Can God forgive the worst of sins that

you could conjure up in your mind?

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Yes.

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But boy, you don't want to

feel the consequences that

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come because of those things.

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You could still leave your family

and your life in shambles because

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of a stupid decision that you

make in the heat of passion.

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And instead of doing that, how about

just being obedient and trusting the

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Lord and not disqualifying yourself or

even inconveniencing yourself for years

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to come because of some bad decision

that you make when you're upset.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then it's on the heels of this that

when we find the charge to Israel in

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chapter four and it really is summed up

in chapter four verse one, now Israel

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listen to the statutes and the rules

that I'm teaching you and do them.

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And so listen and obey.

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That's something that we teach

our kids from the time that

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they're little and repeat.

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Over and over again, listen and obey.

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And that's the charge to Israel here.

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Listen and obey.

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And I think it's appropriate

following what we just read about

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with Moses saying, Hey God, can I go?

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Because that's what Moses failed to do.

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Moses did not listen well to what

the Lord had commanded him to do

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and certainly did not obey it.

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Maybe he listened, maybe he

heard, maybe even understood.

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And yet his actions betrayed.

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The opposite.

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He disobeyed God by striking that rock

rather than speaking to that rock.

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And he was going to

suffer the consequences.

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Moses is laying this out here in

chapter four, and he's wanting Israel

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to understand that they had a need to

listen and obey because if they didn't,

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then there were going to be consequences.

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He's going to charge them

in verses five through six.

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Listen to obey because you've

seen how it's been a safeguard

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to you when you didn't commit

the sin of bail worship at Peor.

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He's going to say you were preserved

because of your obedience there.

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Deuteronomy four, nine.

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He's going to say these words, take care.

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That's a recurring comment.

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Either take care, be

careful, or keep watch.

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And here it's over your soul diligently.

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And that again, building off what you

were just talking about, PR, that, that

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idea that we need to be careful not

to give ourselves over to sin because

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of the consequences involved there.

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We need to guard our souls.

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It's a Proverbs, right?

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Solomon says, keep guard your

heart for from it flow the

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springs of life that we do three.

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Yeah.

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Careful over over what we give

ourselves over to some similar idea

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here but listening and obeying,

that's what the reiterated theme

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is throughout chapter four here.

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Yeah, I really I keyed in on verse

nine because it's just so powerful.

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It speaks to us today as much as it

did to them yesterday, the last final

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years of their wandering the word for

diligently, keep your soul diligently

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means with your strength, your power is

a word that we've come across before.

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And it means like your veryness, the

very strength of your body, the very

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strength of your mind, use all of that to.

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Keep a diligent watch on your life.

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It sounds a lot like first Timothy chapter

four, keep a close watch on your life

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and your doctrine for for doing so we'll

say both yourself and your heroes is

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basically what Paul says, but he says this

to everybody as a means of saying, look,

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you have to make sure you don't forget.

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Notice that's what he says there.

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You don't want to forget what your eyes

have seen and depart from those things.

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Bless you forget, don't forget and

Christians, sometimes we can begrudge

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hearing faithful teaching because faithful

teaching is often teaching that reminds

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us of things that we already know.

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And that can be tedious and it can

feel like, man, do I really need this?

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Come on, give me something new or novel.

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And really what we need is to be

reminded of what we know so that we

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can cling to it and not forget it.

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This is what it means to

keep your soul diligently.

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And that's good.

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If you have that at your

church, that's a great blessing.

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Don't don't.

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Look down on that.

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That's a good thing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And noted versus 25 through 28,

that the main threat in judgment

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here is the threat of exile.

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He says, I call heaven and earth.

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Verse 26 to witness against you today that

you will utterly perish from the land that

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you were going over the Jordan to possess.

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Remember the land was part of the

Abrahamic covenant promise here.

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You won't live long in it.

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In verse 27, the Lord will

scatter you among the peoples and

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you will be left few in number.

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So God laid out the parameters here.

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When this is going to

happen in spoiler alert.

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It's going to happen.

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This is not going to be a shock

all the way back here, right on

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the doorstep of the promise land.

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God is laying out to the people saying,

this is the consequence that will happen.

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If you disobey, if you do not

keep these commandments, you

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can't expect to keep the land.

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You're going to be sent into exile.

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And we're going to unfortunately

see that's going to come to

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fruition later on, as we study

through the times of the Kings.

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How is it possible in verse

24 that God is jealous?

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Every time we talk about someone being

jealous, it's never in a positive sense.

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So how is it possible to apply this to

God that he's jealous of consuming fire?

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Yeah, he's jealous for his glory and

he has to be, because if God has a, his

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any category in which he might render

glory to someone other than himself and.

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Excluding the Trinitarian concept of the

fact that as we've seen in John 17, Jesus

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is praying, father, glorify your son.

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But outside of the Trinity, if God

has a category to glorify anyone other

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than himself, then he is in effect

worshiping something other than himself.

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And by definition of being God,

he is worthy of All worship, all

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glory, all honor, all exaltation.

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And so God has to be jealous for

his own glory because that's part

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and parcel with him being God.

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He's the only one really that we

could say is jealous for that.

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However, there, there are other ways

that we can be jealous in a good way.

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We should be jealous for the

affections of our spouse.

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If you're married, you should be jealous

for the affections of your spouse.

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That's Good thing.

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That's a God honoring thing for

the two of you to be committed

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to one another in that.

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But as far as jealousy goes, as the

world conceives of jealousy, yeah

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it's usually not a good thing, but

here it is a good thing because

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God is being jealous for his glory.

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Can you define jealousy then?

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Because the word itself conveys in our

current vernacular, the word itself is

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automatically a negative connotation.

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Yeah.

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If you were saying, man,

I'm jealous for my spouse.

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No one who's not a Christian

who knows their Bible is going

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to say, Oh that's fantastic.

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They're going to say dude, are you okay?

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Maybe you need some

therapy and counseling.

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So when you say jealousy, when we

see it here in scripture, can you

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give us an understanding that is

not a secular based understanding?

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Yeah, I'd say it's a,

almost a passionate desire.

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There's another word that sounds

similar and that's zealous.

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That when we are zealous for

something, we have a passion for it.

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We have a drive for it.

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We have a desire for it.

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And I think when that desire is on

the right thing, it's a good thing.

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When that desire is misplaced,

then it becomes a bad thing.

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And if that desire is we're jealous for

our spouse because The Christ exalting

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picture of a marriage is for a husband

and wife to be committed to one another

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in a biblical way, then that is a zeal.

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That's a passion.

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That's a jealousy that

ultimately serves to glorify God.

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That's a passion that

is for the glory of God.

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But if I'm jealous because I'm looking

at everybody else with a side eye and I'm

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skeptical of every other guy that walks by

and I'm angry at every other guy presuming

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upon them things that maybe they're not.

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Even thinking or doing or saying or

anything else, that's a sinful jealousy.

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That's an insecure jealousy.

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That's a self motivated jealousy.

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And so jealousy for the

sake of God is a good thing.

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Jealousy for the sake

of self is a bad thing.

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So just real quick, I don't want

to pound the drum too hard, but let

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me just identify a couple of the

definitions that are first to pop up.

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One of them is feeling or

showing envy of someone or their

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achievements and advantages.

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Is that what we're talking about?

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Nope.

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That's a bad thing.

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Here's another one.

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Feeling or showing.

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Suspicion for someone's unfaithfulness

in a relationship is that we're

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talking about a bad thing.

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Okay.

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Here's the third one that

I think might be helpful.

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And there's actually a fourth

that could also fit to fiercely

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protective or vigilant of one's

rights or possessions, right?

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Yes.

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That's what we're talking about.

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This is third level.

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That was a.

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third one down.

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So all the definitions that we're

trying to get to are layered below

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how most people understand the word.

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The third one is of God, demanding

faithfulness and exclusive worship.

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So the third and the fourth

are what we're getting at here.

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It is fiercely protective.

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It is a right, fierce protection.

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It is right to fiercely protect your wife.

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But when we talk about envy or

suspicion, we're not saying that.

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Please don't be that way with your wife.

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Don't be that way with anybody.

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Don't be that way with

your husband, your kids.

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There is a fierce protection.

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That's good, but envy suspicion.

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That's not what we're talking about.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And because God is a jealous God,

a God jealous for his own glory,

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that's why the threat of exile is

there, but also he's a merciful God.

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And that's why there's a,

an offer for restoration.

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There's this great ending section in

verses 32 through 38 there where he's

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saying, who is like me, who's like the

Lord, who's like Yahweh, what God has

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done, what I've done for his people.

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And again, a motivation to consider that.

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To drive us towards obedience.

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And that's so good too.

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As we think about listening and obeying

here, God is in part motivating the

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obedience of the people, Israel by

saying what God has done for his people.

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What I've done for you consider all of

the blessings and good things that have

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done for you as fuel for why you should

listen and obey, and that's in part us

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with the cross, looking back at that

and the empty tomb and saying, wow,

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because of everything that God has done

for me, I desire to listen and obey.

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to him because I love

him for what he's done.

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I'm not trying to pay him back.

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I'm not trying to make up for what

he didn't do already, but man, I love

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him because of what he's done for me.

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And so I want to obey him.

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I want to listen to him

because of those things.

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Yeah.

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And on top of that verse 39 here says

that God in heaven and above the earth

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is the only one, there is no other God.

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In addition to him being the

kind of God who loves us.

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He's the only God who exists, right?

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He's the only one there.

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And so he's telling his children.

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Please don't be deceived by these

idols Don't be deceived by the

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people that you're about to invade.

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They're worshiping all these different

demonic forces But there's only

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one God and so you would do well to

serve that God even though it's true.

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He is loving It's also true that there

is no other there's no one else to

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serve or worship This is the only God.

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Yeah.

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Let's end with a question from somebody

that was not submitted on the email,

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but was actually asked in person.

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I was interacting with somebody this

weekend and they asked a question.

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Oh, this is interesting about the

comment that was made and it was,

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it's almost like an offhand comment.

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I can't even remember

exactly where it's made here.

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Oh yeah.

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What did you say?

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But yes, no God did.

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But it was the comment that said.

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It was talking about the exodus

and it said, and also judged

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the gods of Egypt as well.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So we talked about that.

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Did we talk about that on the podcast?

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Pretty sure.

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I recall talking about it.

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I thought we did.

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Maybe we did.

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Anyways, we could revisit it again

but specifically you mentioned

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there are no other gods, but

there's these demonic forces, right?

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Yes.

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So maybe in connection to

that, how the exodus was.

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It judging the demonic

forces there in Egypt.

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Oh, yeah, there are a billion perhaps

trillions upon trillions of lowercase g

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guts The Bible is perfectly okay using

the term Elohim Which is the word for

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God to describe the different kind of

spiritual forces that exist outside of

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God himself capital G the difference

is of course, there's only one true

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God that's worthy of our worship and

worthy of adoration There's only one

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right God to worship because there's

only one true God who's all powerful

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all knowing all the omnis that we talked

about God But when it comes to lowercase

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g gods, there's infinite numbers.

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I mean you could go to the Hindu

religion And you could talk to all

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the different pantheon of gods and

you could say, yeah, those are gods.

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Those are lowercase g gods.

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And I have no problem

using that terminology.

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So we would say, yes regarding the

Egyptians, all of the plagues were

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meant to combat And to showcase

the superiority of Yahweh over

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the pantheon of Egyptian gods.

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And so there's a bit of a, there is

consensus that when God is issuing the

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plagues, they are saying, look, Oh,

you think your God happy is in control?

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Nope.

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Here you go.

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Here's the frogs happy deal with that.

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Can't deal with that.

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Oh, what a surprise.

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That's because you're not God.

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I am that kind of thing.

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He does that 10 times over to showcase

that he's the one who's the one true God.

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And that's really the point.

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There are multiple lowercase G gods, but

there's only one true uppercase G God.

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Great, that's a good answer.

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Yeah.

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Lemme pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we are grateful that we do know

the one true God in the face of all

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the others, and that we do not, don't

live in the same pantheistic culture.

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We, we, as pastor was just saying, have

maybe neighbors who do live in that realm,

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in that world, or certainly we can look

around and see that there are gods of

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materialism and wealth and fame and all of

these things around us that certainly are,

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have demonic forces behind them as well.

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And we don't wanna turn a blind

eye to that and think that we

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are somehow insulated from.

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And that because we live in America

and we've evolved past these things,

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we want to be aware of just the

spiritual warfare that's present,

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the darkness that's out there.

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And we want to be all the more committed

to you as Moses was calling the

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people of Israel to listen and obey.

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We want to guard our souls and keep

our hearts and be careful about it.

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And we thank you for your word that

we can look to say, how do we do

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that by looking to your word, even

as we'll talk about tomorrow as

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we get into chapter six as well.

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So we thank you so much for this.

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We pray all this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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