00:00 Welcome and Googley

00:20 Listener Question on Kings

04:26 Ladies, Go To Women's Bible Study

05:53 Deuteronomy 23

08:41 Deuteronomy 24

12:50 Deuteronomy 25

18:23 Mark 14

25:07 Prayer

25:50 Outro and Podcast Information

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Welcome back.

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I guess I don't wanna

be too forward in that.

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It's an interjection, not an imperative,

but welcome back nonetheless to another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Or just welcome to your first

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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and we do have question.

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We do have a question.

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We have one, and I'd

like to read it to y'all.

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Please, please clearly and closely listen.

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Okay.

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I have a question about today's reading.

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In Deuteronomy 1715, it says, you

may indeed set a king over you

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whom the Lord your God will choose.

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Okay?

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And then it goes on in quotes,

the second half of that verse.

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However, in one Samuel eight, seven,

it says, and the Lord said to Samuel,

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obey the voice of the people and

all that they say to you for they

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have not rejected you, but they have

rejected me from being king over them.

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Why did God get angry with them?

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And First Samuel went back in

Deuteronomy, he said they could

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set a king over themselves.

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Explain that.

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Gotcha.

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Yeah.

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So I think verse 14, back in Deuteronomy

17, is instructive for us because verse

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14 says this, when you come to the land,

your Lord, the Lord your God is giving

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you and possess it and dwell in it,

and then say, I will set a king over me

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like all the nations that are around me.

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So that's the stipulation that is being.

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Established here.

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If you go in there and then when you

say, I want a king, just like all

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the other nations, then God says,

you may indeed set a king over you.

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This is not God saying, I'm allowing you.

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This is good.

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This is right.

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You should do this.

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God is saying, when you get in

there and you say, I'm gonna have

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a king just like all the other

nations, have a king, I Okay.

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You can set a king over you, but he's

not saying it's a good thing there.

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He's like we've been talking about

with some of this, he's projecting,

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this is what's gonna happen.

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This is what you're going to

do, and in light of this, this

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is what you need to abide by.

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When we get to one Samuel

eight, when they do that, God is

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going to allow them to do that.

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So God is going to do what?

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He's saying in Deuteronomy 17, 14 through

15 here, however, he's not gonna condone

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it as good, and I don't think he condones

it as good back here in Deuteronomy 17.

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I think he's permitting it.

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I think he's saying, I will

allow this when it happens.

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But in one Samuel chapter eight, I think

we get a better understanding of the

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tone of what's happening in Deuteronomy.

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When God says to Samuel, they haven't

rejected you, they've rejected me.

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God's design was not that they should have

a human king to be like the other nations.

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They were to be unlike the other

nations, and yet they were.

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Hungry for that.

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They wanted to be that way.

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And so God was gonna

allow them to be that way.

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And we, I think we see some of God

saying if you want this here, you can

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have it in the first King of Israel

and King Saul, he gives them the king

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that they wanted, not the king that

was the right king that they needed.

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And we see that in the selection

of David to succeed Saul later.

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So we'll get there, obviously, but

that's what I think is happening.

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It's good reading it's good attention

to detail on here, but I do believe

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that this is God saying conditionally

when you get into the land and say, I

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want a king just like the other nations,

then yeah, you can put a king there.

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But I don't think God is saying

that's a good thing or a prescribed

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thing here in Deuteronomy 17.

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Notice in the language too, that it says

here, it displeased Samuel verse six says,

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the thing displeased Samuel when they

said this, so Samuel prays to the Lord.

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And the Lord doesn't say

that he's angry about it.

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He's just stating effect,

obey the voice of the people.

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They've not rejected you.

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They've rejected me.

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So in first, one Samuel eight.

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You see that Samuel's upset.

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He goes to God with this.

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God says, matter of fact,

this is what happened.

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I said, I don't know that he's

mad so much as he's stating a fact

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of the matter in Deuteronomy 17.

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He says, you can do this, but let

it be the one whom the Lord will

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choose one among your brother.

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So again, Moses is regulating

what their expectation should be.

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He's not necessarily endorsing it.

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I think there's a difference

regulating versus endorsing.

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I think he's regulating.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I do think though that in, in

Deuteronomy 17 you could argue that

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it would be permissible to put a

king over Israel under the right.

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Circumstances.

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I'm not gonna hold to this,

but I'm just gonna say you

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could read this and say, yeah.

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You know what the requirement is that

it's gonna be a king that God will choose.

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What's the problem in one Samuel eight?

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Well, really, in most of the rest of

the new Old Testament from this point

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on, is that the people don't want a

god, a king who is of God's choosing.

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Right?

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So I think you could see it that way.

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I'm not gonna hold it.

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To that, but I do think you

could make that argument.

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Well, that's a good question.

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If you've got more questions,

podcasts@centix.org.

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Let's get into our daily

Bible reading today.

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Deuteronomy 23 through 25 and Mark 1451.

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3 72.

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Deuteronomy chapter 23.

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Help.

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By the way, guys if you're a lady,

please go to Women's Bible study.

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Oh, yeah.

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We'd like for you to be there.

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Yes, your pastors, if you're,

if we are your pastors, we would

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really encourage you to go.

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Who's preaching today?

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Pastor Preaching.

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It's actually a Q and a with myself.

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I will be there.

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You're gonna be preaching

at Women's Bible.

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You're ask the questions and answer them

asking and answering all the questions.

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No, Amanda's gonna empty it.

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And I'm gonna be, you wear your new

cowboy boots, all the more reason

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to go to, I may you wear my new

cowboy boots, Whitman's Bible study.

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See Pastor PJ at Women's Bible

Study this Saturday today.

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If you're hearing this before

you're there, which we would

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encourage you to do that.

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Read your Bible before you get

there and we, you can ask all the

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questions that you would've sent

to podcasts at Compass Sensex.

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I think parameters on the q and a, right?

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The Q, yeah.

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Because I just recently preached on this

next passage in Ephesians four about

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the leaders that the church should have.

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I just preached on that turn of

the year, Amanda said, I don't

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really wanna rere what you just

preached, so why don't you come in?

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We can do questions about polity

and what the church is like.

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And it really it's broadened to even

include all of the Ephesians at large,

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but that's kind of the gist behind it.

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Will you accept any questions?

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We perhaps I will.

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I will perhaps.

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Okay.

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All.

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Well, there you go.

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There's, why do you not like street tacos?

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No, I'm just kidding.

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Question one.

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Question one, why do you

not like question two?

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When will you repent?

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If you're taking notes,

and I wish you would.

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Yeah.

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Point, point.

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Water is alright.

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Sorry.

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No, be there for sure.

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Plugs.

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I'm glad that you plug that.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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Deuteronomy 23 through 25, so chapter 23.

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We get some interesting instructions

there about who's allowed to be in

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Israel and part of the assembly,

meaning the people there who's included

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in worship, who's included in those

that can be part of God's people.

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And we find that no one born of a

forbidden union may enter the assembly.

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None of their descendants can

enter the assembly of the Lord.

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This is interesting, even down to the 10th

generation, and then he's gonna include

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the Ammonites and the Moabites next.

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And you say, well, why does that matter?

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Well, the Moabites, why that

matter wouldn't include Ruth.

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Ruth was a Moabite, and yet she's

gonna be brought into the family.

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So that goes back to something that we've

been kicking around a little bit here,

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and that is that God has principles,

God has general statutes and rules

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and commandments, but that doesn't

mean that there aren't exceptions.

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When somebody is truly.

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W desiring to, to be a

part of the people of God.

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And I think we see that in Ruth.

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Ruth says to her mother-in-law,

your God will be my God.

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Your people will be my people.

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And I think God honors that even

though Ruth as a Moabite is typically

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would've been forbidden from

entering into the people of Israel.

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Now why is he doing this?

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I think we see that at the.

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In verses 14, well, verse 14, he says,

because the Lord your God walks in the

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midst of your camp to deliver you and

to give up your enemies before you.

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Therefore, your camp must be holy.

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So that's why he doesn't want people

born of a forbidden union or these

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other nations to come into the assembly

because he's worried or concern.

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God's not worried.

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But God has a concern and a jealousy for

his people that these other foreigners

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would come in and introduce idol worship

into the people of Israel, and thereby

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make them unholy, and he would no longer.

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Abide with or dwell with his people there.

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One of the terms that Moses uses

consistently, and especially in these last

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couple cha chapters, is that such and such

is an abomination to the Lord your God.

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And you see that again here in verse 18.

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Now, we've talked a lot about how do we

apply these Old Testament instructions

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and rules to our present day.

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I'm gonna suggest that

if you see something.

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Stipulated as an abomination to the Lord.

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That's something that would

be helpful for you to say.

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That's probably something that I comply

one for one in our modern day life.

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Verse 18 is interesting too.

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For other reasons.

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I think just keeping it general.

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One of the things that I think

this talks about, we've talked

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about this before, with winning

the lottery or money from gambling.

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I think this tells us that the source

matters what we bring to the Lord.

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To give to the Lord.

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I think he, this is saying that the

way that you came about that money does

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matter and God does care about that.

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And I think we see that here when he

says the fee of this person shouldn't

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be brought in as an acceptable offering.

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Abortion.

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So my Powerball winnings, I

don't have to tithe on that.

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Is that what you're saying?

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Ah, that's good to know.

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Yeah.

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I just came across $10 billion.

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We've just said, you're gonna have

to keep that 10 billion yourself.

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Have to just keep it.

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Pastor Peach told me

to just don't tell us.

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No, I don't mean to

undo what you're saying.

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I think you're exactly right.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 24.

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Pastor Rod, you were talking about this,

that Moses here is telling them that

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there's situations where divorce is okay,

but Jesus gives us an interpretation on

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this and talks about the fact that this

is because of their hardness of heart.

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Do you wanna expound

upon that a little bit?

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Sure.

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So all you have to do is look at

this verse, several verses here.

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Notice that in this law, what God

is not doing is saying, here's

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how I want you to live your lives.

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I want you to divorce one

another and this is fine.

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And just write a certificate.

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Send them on their way.

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Moses is trying to.

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Create boundaries for them.

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He says, when a man takes a wife

and marries her, and if she finds

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no favor in his eyes because of some

indecency, and there's actually,

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honestly, there's a little bit of

debate about what Moses means by this.

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And in fact, there were two major

schools of thought in the New Testament.

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One said, if there's anything

about her she burns your food.

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Famously, you might have heard this one.

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If she burns your food,

you can divorce her.

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And another camp was saying, no.

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It has to be akin to something

on the level of adultery or more.

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In order to let her go.

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So even then within the camps of Israel,

there was a bit of controversy about

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what Moses meant by these things.

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But nevertheless Moses says,

if you're gonna do this, here's

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how it's supposed to happen.

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And he's protecting future families by

saying her former husband who sent her

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away may not take her back again to be

his wife after she has been defiled.

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That is if she marries another

and they have copulation.

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So Moses is trying to add strictures to

the way that Israel's already acting.

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And again, God is not saying, this is

the way I endorse all relationships.

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He's trying to restrict it so that he

protects them against further harm.

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And we just read this a couple days ago,

but in Mark 10, we've already talked about

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this before, but in Mark 10, Jesus makes.

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Immediate connections between

this command that we're reading in

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Deuteronomy 24 and the Creation order.

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And I think that he's expecting

the people who he's talking to,

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the Pharisees specifically to

have already made that connection.

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And so I think if we're reading

Deuteronomy 24, I think we should

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be making those same connections

immediately, just like Jesus does

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in Mark 10 and other gospels.

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In the rest of chapter 24, Jesus gives

a lot of laws that have to do with the

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daily life of the people of Israel.

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God cares about that.

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God cares about small things.

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He cares about neighborly interactions.

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He cares about when you loan

someone money and how you're gonna

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come about the repayment of that.

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He cares about the those that you

hire and treating them justly.

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He cares about the the vulnerable

and making sure that you're not going

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to abuse them or pervert justice

that's due them just because they

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can't do anything to retaliate.

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And so God cares about even

the small things in the.

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Daily life of Israel.

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Verse 16 though, note that he says,

fathers shall not be put to death because

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of their children, nor shall children be

put to death because of their fathers.

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Each one shall be to put

to death for his own sin.

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We've talked about that numerous times

on the podcast, especially this year.

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It's interesting how themes pop up more

and more, but here God is giving I think,

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additional instruction here to say.

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Again for you executing justice, you're

not gonna put to death an entire family.

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That's not your prerogative to do that.

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God has done that.

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But again we deal with God having

the prerogative to do that because

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he's God and he sees fit and he

knows what is just in the situation.

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But for mankind, they're not to do that.

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They're not to presume upon the

ability to say, I'm gonna put to

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death this whole family because of

the sin of this one father, this

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one individual, and vice versa.

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The father's not gonna be put to

death for the sins of his son either.

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So, God is giving some laws of justice

here in the rest of chapter 24, at least.

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Let me just defend a profession

that is often not defended.

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No, I think we should be thankful.

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I think we should be thankful

for lawyers and attorneys and the

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legal system in the United States

because God cares about justice.

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God cares about things being fair and

right, and he cares about those things.

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Now is the system in the

United States perfect.

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But I'm not saying that.

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Yeah.

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Oh, okay.

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I'm not saying that, but I do think we

should be really thankful for those people

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and let me even just throw in there, my

former profession, all the accountants

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and auditors that may drive you crazy

depending on what kind of job you have.

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They sure do.

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We should be thankful for

them, and that is actually a

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unique thing in human history.

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And we should be grateful that justice

is at least being attempted to be

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carried out because God is a God who

cares about justice being carried out.

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That's a great point.

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I don't think about them enough.

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Hardly ever think about

lawyers and accountants.

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Let's start.

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We can, right?

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Thank you notes.

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You know what, we do have a practice

of doing that every week, so let's just

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get every lawyer and accountant we know

and just start adding them to our list.

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Just saying, just saying rest of

chapter 20 five's a great point

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then, which is the rest of our Old

Testament reading here, we get more

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laws concerning leverate marriage.

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And it's interesting that this

was a law, but it appears that

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there was an escape clause.

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Now.

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The escape clause wasn't a pretty

scene to have your shoe removed and

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somebody slaps you in the face and

spit you in the face in front of the

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gate there, which the gate was, where

all the public business was done.

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So this would've been a

very public display here.

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It would've been certainly an

act of shaming this person.

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When we get to the Book of

Ruth, again, we're gonna see

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these things unfolding here.

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We don't see the spitting taking

place, but there's the exchanging of

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the sandal that takes place there.

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Between Boaz and the other

kinsman redeemer that was actually

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closer to Ruth at the time.

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But again, God was concerned

to care for the widow here.

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He was concerned to care for the

perpetuation of the family name and

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the family line, the family lineage.

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But there might have been reasons

where a man would say, I'm not

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willing to perpetuate that.

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I'm not willing to do that.

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And there is an out from this without

being stoned, without being excluded

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or cut off from the people of God

without being cast out of the, he

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doesn't even have to bring a sacrifice.

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This is more of he's wearing a

form of disgrace or shame for not

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fulfilling the duty, but God does

allow the brother, in this case of

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the deceased to say, that's not me.

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I'm not gonna do that.

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So we've talked a lot about polygamy

and what does God want versus

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what is actually happening Is

this particular set of commands.

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Actually a command to

a polygamist marriage.

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Well, and that's why I wonder if one

of the outs could have been I'm in a

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marriage and I'm not gonna do this.

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I don't want to do that.

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And so, no, I'm not gonna do that.

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It's equated with shame in that instance

because she's gonna spit in his face.

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But I came to mind as a potential out.

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I don't know.

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I'm gonna say that's the best I

can give because I don't see, the

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shame is not, it's not a good thing.

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We don't value shame the same way they do.

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I think for them it was very much a

form of the way that they operated.

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It was a social currency, and so

for us, we're very individualistic.

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It doesn.

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Make a big difference

if someone shames us.

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As long as it's not those who

are the closest to us, but for

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them to be community shamed

would've been a pretty big deal.

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And so I would say that this is a.

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Even though it doesn't feel as

severe as some of the other things,

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I think it's a very severe response

to the obligation the brother has.

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I don't know if it requires a

brother who already has a wife

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to take on the secondary wifi.

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I don't know.

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Scriptures are silent.

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I was gonna point that out.

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It doesn't tell us that this

is either one way or the other.

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So if it could have been that if a

man was married, then that was the

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exception clause already built in.

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He wouldn't have been qualified

to be a kinsman redeemer.

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Yeah.

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The one thing, I think it was John

MacArthur that pointed out is there's

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this stipulation in verse five

if brothers dwell together, what

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exactly does that mean is a question.

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Yeah.

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I think it was John MacArthur who

suggested that means that it's

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a relationship where you have,

clearly one of them is married.

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Because he dies and then

his wife is left behind.

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Right.

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But the suggestion might be

that perhaps this actually is a

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qualification to say that those are

brothers who dwell together, meaning

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the other brother is not married.

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Is not married.

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You know, I haven't done enough research

to, to substantiate that, but I believe it

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was John MacArthur, who I heard that from.

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And again, we've been talking

a lot about what is in keeping

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with the character of God.

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That's important for us as we interpret

the scriptures to interpret the scriptures

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in the light of the character of God.

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And when there are situations where

it isn't clear, we don't have it,

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it's not stipulated there, I think

we do have to fall back on who

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we know him to be as part of the.

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The hermeneutical approach the

interpretive approach to the scriptures

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to see, I'm gonna interpret the

scriptures based on who I know God to

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be in the rest of the Bible as well.

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Yeah.

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And I a great place we

can look to do that.

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I think we talked about this

yesterday, but the Book of Ruth

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Boaz is an incredible character.

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In fact, I would argue that book

really should be called Boaz, not Ruth.

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It's very patriarchal of being

misogynistic, but okay, go ahead.

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But Boaz is an incredible character

in that he is a righteous.

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Man, he loves God.

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He is clearly concerned with

keeping God's rules and his law.

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And I'm gonna be of the conviction

that Boaz is actually not married.

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I think there's not indications

Sure in there that he's not.

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And so I think Ruth has given to us

an example of how do you do this?

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How do you do this especially

in a society that.

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Doesn't quite want to

obey all of God's laws.

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Boaz has given to us an example as

somebody who is seeking to be as faithful

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as possible in the situation that he's in.

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And I think he's a great place

to see that carried out well.

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Yeah, I agree.

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I'm just saying there's only two books of

the Bible that have female titles in it.

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And here's Pastor Mark's like, you

know what I'm taking that away.

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I'm not calling it Ruth anymore.

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How about Boaz Ampersand,

Ruth, is that acceptable?

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Yeah.

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And it's interesting.

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I was thinking about Ruth, even

the redeemer that's there, I don't

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think we have anything there that.

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Would indicate that he's married because

Boas approaches him and says, the day that

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you buy the field from the hand of Naomi,

you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the

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widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate

the name of the dead in his inheritance.

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Then the redeemer said, I cannot

redeem it for myself, lest

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I impair my own inheritance.

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Take my right of redemption for

yourself, for I cannot redeem it.

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So it's not saying.

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I already have a family

or I already have a wife.

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He's talking about his inheritance

there, which I guess is subject to

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our interpretation there as well.

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But ladies, by the way, if you're

frustrated with that, you can

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write into podcasts@compassntx.org

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and let us know how you feel

about the book of Ruth no longer

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being called The Book of Ruth.

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Okay?

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It's one of my favorite books.

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You said it's your favorite because

Boaz is awesome and Ruth is not.

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'cause of Bo Boaz.

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We're obviously joking.

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We're not changing the title that's above

our pay grade on that you don't know.

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Right.

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To Crossway, say, dear Crossway as a

former intern for the great Al Moler

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we would like you to change the title.

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I'm sure they'll immediately do that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let's flip over to our New Testament

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72, mark, chapter 1451 through 72.

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I guess, let me throw this question

out here because this is again.

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This is very familiar territory.

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We're dealing with Jesus

here before the council.

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We're dealing with Jesus.

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The denials of Peter in chapter 15.

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We're gonna get into the crucifixions.

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Let me ask you guys, how

do you keep this fresh?

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Because this is something that is

the linchpin, it's the hinge point

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of our faith because this is the

events leading up to the crucifixion.

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This is all of the things, and

yet we are so familiar with it.

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Right.

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In fact, we're fast

approaching Easter season.

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We're fast approaching when we're

going to take time aside as a

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church to, to focus on the cross

and to focus on the empty tomb.

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We're focused on the cross.

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Here again, we're reading through.

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We've got Luke and John still in

front of us in our daily Bible

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reading for this year, and they're

going to repeat these same sections.

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So how should I read this in such a

way that I'm not just going, oh, okay.

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Yeah, I just read this last month with

Matthew and now I'm reading it with Mark.

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I know the story.

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Jesus dies, but he rises again.

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This isn't something that everybody can

do and not something I'll always be able

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to do, but one of the things I do right

now is read these accounts to my kids, and

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that one I get to see them respond to it.

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Yeah, and they've heard

these things before.

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This is not the first Easter where

they we've read these passages,

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but there is a freshness to them.

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There is a newness, there are

questions that come from them that are.

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Seemingly out of left field, but

really our response to them hearing

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this for kind of the first time, yeah.

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Again, they've heard it before,

but kind of for the first time.

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And the other thing that is helpful

for that is it makes me think, what

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do I need to teach them specifically?

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What does somebody like that need to know?

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And that opens up my mind to

new possibilities and keeps

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me from just skipping over and

reading this in a rush pace.

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That's just one simple example.

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That's a great idea.

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Yeah.

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The thing that I'll do even recently,

as often as I read through my Bible,

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there's a section that I feel good about.

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It's normally because I'm bringing

assumptions to the text that aren't there.

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And I've been practicing lately

challenging my assumptions

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as I read through the text.

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I'm looking for details.

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I'm looking for things that

I haven't seen before, and my

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simple mantra is one layer deeper.

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Wherever I'm at, I want

to go one layer deeper.

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Scripture has infinite death.

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Not death.

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Well, it does have death too

depth that you can plumb.

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It's shallow enough for anyone to

really understand and wrap their

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head around, but there's so much more

depth than we give it credit for.

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So my simple rule of

thumb is one layer deeper.

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What can I see about this

that I haven't seen before?

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What new or novel insights can I uncover?

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By just simple observation

and that usually provides some

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pretty fun fodder for me, also.

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Helpful.

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Is there anything that you'd like to

draw our attention to that you found

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this time with with this section mark?

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This time I read last is I was trying

to remember and also make concrete

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the relationship between the high

priest Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin

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and trying to crystallize in my

mind who's doing what, Caiaphas

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and Annis and what role they play.

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So I guess that's another

factor too, sometimes.

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I know a story inside and out.

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You can ask me about the story, but

when it comes down to the nitty gritty

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details, I'll be like, well, was it,

well, who was doing the action here?

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Yeah.

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Was it Anna's ca So I have found that

I think I know a lot about it, and I

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have a general sense of it, but I don't

have as much mastery over it as I do.

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So I studied this time Caiaphas Sanhedrin,

which is, that's who's here, it's Caiaphas

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leadership that's being submitted to.

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And then as I read through here I make

notes if I see things that I need to

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remember for my sake, like, oh, I am when

Jesus says I am, and you will see the

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son of man seated at the right hand of

power in coming with the clouds of heaven.

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I had to say, okay,

where's that come from?

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I remember that's Daniel

chapter seven, seven.

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Yes, actually, yes, it is seven.

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Or is it nine?

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It's seven.

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Seven.

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Okay.

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See, things like this that I

take for granted, I just, I write

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down for my sake, and I try to

help myself recall these things.

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He, I think he's also alluding

to Psalm one 10 verse one, and

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so I put those notes in my Bible.

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I have an Interleave Bible for

the very purpose of taking notes.

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It encourages me to do that, and so I

try to do it as much as I can to what?

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Keep of mind active interleaved.

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Tell everybody what that, that is.

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Interleave means there's a blank

page inserted between every page

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of text, which gives you a lot of

room to write some people color and

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do pictures and things like that.

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I write notes.

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Oh, that's a beautiful drawing there.

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What is that?

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That's a leprechaun.

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Oh, that's awful.

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Because this whole thing is magical, bro.

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No this comes from the tradition.

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As it cited comes from Jonathan

Edwards, who I guess made his own

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Interleaf Bible and created this

whole thing, and I love the idea.

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So I bought one Crossway is the only one

I know who sells an ESV Interleaf Bible.

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I've got the soft cover one, but they have

a really nice leather one that has a, you

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tie it instead of clip it or whatever.

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So it's pretty cool.

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It'd be worth you having.

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One of the things that jumped out to

me this time in this is what the nail

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in the coffin was for for Jesus, and

that is the Daniel seven quotation and

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they needed the two or three witnesses.

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We've been reading about that in the

Old Testament law, and that's what.

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Proves to be the two or

three witnesses here.

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The high priest says, what

further witnesses do we need?

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You have heard his blossomy, and so Jesus

seals his own fate and steps straight

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into it, knowingly understanding what

he's saying and what he's doing there and

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that's the charge that they need is comes

from the mouth of Jesus himself For me.

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It's verse 51 and 52.

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What is that doing there?

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That account of a young man who

was following him and only had a

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linen cloth and then he runs away.

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Mm.

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What is that doing there?

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It's the only time it shows up.

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Mm.

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Pastor pj, you skipped over it.

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Yeah, he did.

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I think it's Mark.

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I, that was, I was just gonna say

that's was my conclusion this time.

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Yeah.

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Was that It's Mark, because it says in

verse 50, they all fled and left him.

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Oh, sorry.

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And they all left him and fled.

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And then 51, there's

another person fleeing.

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Yeah.

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And I think it is specifically Mark and

I think Matthew and Luke are kind to

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not point out his state as he runs away.

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Yeah.

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And also we have to account

for Mark's presence.

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Mark is probably the earliest

gospel that we have written and.

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So it's not as though Mark is hearing

the gospel from Paul and Timothy

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and Silas later on down the road

and then coming back and doing his

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research and writing the gospel.

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It's not like Mark is, even

Luke, who is setting out to

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write an a, an orderly account.

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Mark has some connection to where

very early on, 'cause Peter doesn't

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live very long after this, he

lives maybe another 30 years.

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And so Mark's gonna.

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Be with Peter in such a way

that Mark's going to say, Hey,

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let me write these things down.

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Peter, what do you remember?

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And so it seems here that Mark

was probably part of the crowd,

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part of those disciples that were

following Jesus, but weren't part

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of the inner crowd with Jesus.

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And he's on the outside here, maybe even

as a young man, wishing that he was one of

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the in inside crew going that's the elite.

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Those are the guys, and they're Jesus.

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And then he sees this whole thing unfold

and he's terrified and he runs away and

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leaves his clothes behind apparently.

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So.

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Yeah, I think this probably is Mark

and I think it helps us account for

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why Mark and Peter have the connection

they have and how Mark gets his

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gospel out as quickly as he does.

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I.

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All right, well, let's pray and

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we are thankful for the way that

we can read scripture and get deeper.

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We're thankful for resources that we

have, be it a study bible or a commentary

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or pastors or friends that can help

us understand the text better, and I

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pray that we would be good bean and

that we would dive in deeper every

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single day as we study your word.

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That we'd never be satisfied and

content with what we already know,

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but desire to always know more as long

as at the end of the day, we can say

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there's some things that we'll never

understand until we're in your presence.

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And so help us to know that and the

things that we can wrap our minds around

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help us to be those, that labor well,

to handle the word of God accurately

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and to learn as much as we can.

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We pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep bringing those Bibles tuned

and get tomorrow for another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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you note to your accountant.

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