00:00 Welcome and Updates

02:03 Listener Question: Media Discernment and Limits

09:33 Numbers 24 Balaam Oracles

12:07 Numbers 25 Phinehas Zeal

14:46 Numbers 26 New Census

17:11 Numbers 27 Inheritance and Joshua

20:48 Mark 8 Bread and Blindness

24:10 Prayer

24:46 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey, hello and welcome

to a brand new month.

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It is March, March 1st.

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Today it's also Sunday,

first Sunday in March.

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We're doing communion today, so if you're

still on your way to church, be prepared

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'cause we're doing the Lord Supper

together today at church as we gather as.

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Do you dress differently or I

don't put on a different pair

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of shoes, or I don't, no, no.

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Be prepared in the sense of being prayed

up and ready for the intentionality

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of it and the purpose of it.

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Okay.

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So cool.

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I know sometimes communion can catch us by

surprise 'cause we don't do it every week.

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And I always hated that when I

attended churches like that in the

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past that I'd show up and I'd be

like, oh yeah, there's communion.

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And it almost feels like an after thought.

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So I've always thought, how could

we do a better job at letting

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people know and preparing for that.

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We try to do that as much

as we can by doing it on the

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first Sunday of every month.

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But when we have an opportunity

to tell people it's coming up,

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it's probably helpful to, to

get in the right frame of mind.

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I'd prefer just tell

people, be ready anytime.

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'cause we can do it any week of the month.

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Surprise.

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Be ready at all times.

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Pop communion.

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It'll be hap, it'll happen once a month.

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But when it happens in the

month, you gotta be ready for it.

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There it is.

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There it is.

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Anyways, you may be wondering

where our third voice is.

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'cause Pastor Mark was on the

episodes the last couple of of

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days, but, and we fired him.

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Yeah.

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Was not good enough.

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We heard your uproar.

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We said, you know what,

dude, try harder, do better.

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And until then you're out of this thing.

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Yeah.

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No, his schedule and our schedules

are a little bit different as far

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as days off and when he comes in.

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And so he's been in on Mondays and so

we're trying to align some of that to

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get him back on the podcast with us.

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We enjoyed it.

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And we haven't really heard anything

from you guys, so we assume it went well

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from your perspective, but we've heard

from some voices here and there, but we

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enjoyed having it on and I think he'll

be a fixture going forward with us too.

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Yeah, and really we liked it.

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So whether or not you did

or didn't, that matters?

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Neither good or there?

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But neither here nor that.

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We liked it.

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It was fun for us, and our

pleasure on this podcast is

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always going to be first place.

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Yes.

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Speaking of our pleasure, it is our

pleasure to answer your questions.

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Yes.

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And we have one today that I think is

going to be controversial in its answer.

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Dun, dun, duh.

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Not for you, but for

those who don't know you.

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Yeah.

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Here's the question.

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They asked to remain anonymous, so

we'll do them the honor, and we'll read

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Pastor Marks, I mean, or we'd hit the

email without mentioning who they are.

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What are your thoughts on

kids watching Disney movies?

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Seems like a lot of the recent movies

have been about disobeying your parents

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and they cite Moana Tangled about being

faithful, about, about being who you feel

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like you are, like frozen or about lying

like Aladdin, who's the Prince of Thieves.

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And she says, I haven't seen

enough, enough new stuff to give

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more examples, but as a Christian

adult, I know I can discern things,

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but my kids aren't so good at that.

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So how do we.

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As parents, do we let our

kids watch these things?

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Do we just not, what are the guidelines

and principles that you would put in

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place to help us manage our families

entertainment habits, especially

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as it relates to Disney movies?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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By and large, there's gonna be a lot

of freedom here for our parents to make

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decisions for their families in this,

rather than making a hard and fast law.

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I do think there are clear.

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Situations where we as parents

need to be prepared to draw the

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line and say, this is clearly

celebrating something that's ungodly.

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I know I've heard at least that

there are rumors of Disney shows

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and other shows that are introducing

co characters that are not choosing

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identities, if I can put it that way.

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That would be honoring to the Lord.

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And we need to be careful as parents to,

to guard our kids and shelter their minds

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about what they're trying to normalize.

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But.

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On the other hand I think there are

other families that watch movies

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like Tangled or Moana or others.

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And the disobeying the parents think

you may see that from your perspective.

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'cause let put it the other way too.

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You would say, I'm discerning

enough as an adult to see

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that and say that that's bad.

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That may not even be registering with

your kids as they're watching this.

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And I would couple that

by saying, if you are.

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Teaching your kids well and instructing

them well as what it looks like to submit

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to their parents and to honor their father

and mother at home, then I think you have

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some freedom to realize, it's one thing

if you're letting your kid watch Tangled,

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17,000 times and they're learning what it

looks like to interact with mom and dad

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from watching Tangled versus they watch

Tangled a few times, but your influence,

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your voice in their life is so strong

in teaching them what it looks like to

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honor mom and dad, and they know what.

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Results in a dis in discipline.

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They know what results in

consequences, if they're disobedient.

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There's opportunities there.

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There's even opportunities

as they get older.

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We, I've had situations with my kids

where we've been watching a show and

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seen somebody do something or say

something to, we watched home alone.

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And Kevin mouths off to his mom and

I look at my boys, I'm like, what

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do you think would happen if you

mouth off to your mom like that?

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And they all answer correctly.

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I'll just put it that way.

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You'll punch us in the face knee.

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Us in the stomach, dad.

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So kick us in the head.

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I think there's opportunities even

for teaching on the positive side.

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Now it depends on the age of the

child, but I can't make a hard, fast

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rule to say, I think you boycott

Disney across the board at this stage.

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At least I'll provide that caveat.

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Or that you need to not watch

these movies or watch them.

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It's a personal decision that's gonna

be up to the freedom of the parents

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that was really even handed of you.

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You sound surprised.

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No, no.

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There's just some acknowledging that.

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Okay.

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Well, I appreciate it.

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I'm gonna, I don't know

if I disagree at all.

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I think obviously I like when

we disagree, but I think I'm in

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lockstep with you in a lot of ways.

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Let me just offer a couple

thoughts in addition now.

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First, I think the dose is what

makes the poison in this case.

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And I think you're wise to point that out.

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I don't want to hamstring you and

say you can't do this or that.

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But there is certainly a line that every

family has to be aware of, cognizant

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about, where you're probably just

doing too much, too much media, period.

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Yeah.

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Even if it's Christian media,

you're watching things from

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the right now, media people.

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I liked David.

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I mean, I really liked David,

David, the David movie with Phil

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Wickham and the other people.

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That was really cool.

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The music was fun.

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I really appreciated the animation.

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It was a really well told story, however.

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It wasn't thoroughly biblical.

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They took liberties and they took

some artistic license to, to make

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things fit better into a story arc

that lasted an hour and 20 minutes.

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And I understand that.

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Yeah.

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And I'm okay with that.

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I think that's perfectly fine.

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But I wouldn't say, Hey kids,

let's watch this every day.

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Let's learn about how David

defeated Goliath in the Bible.

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'cause now you have a whole

different understanding of what

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that's supposed to look like.

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It's superior in terms of.

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Being an alternative to

some of the other options.

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Absolutely.

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But I would even say Christian media

is not healthy as a steady diet

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when it comes to a steady diet for a

family activity and things like that.

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You just have to be picky and choosy

and there's just not a lot of options.

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I remember even thinking to myself when I

watched movies from back in the old day.

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I mean, I Love Lucy.

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Have you watched I Love Lucy lately?

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I've not watched it lately.

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No.

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I love, I love Lucy.

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I might even say I Love Lucy.

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You love Lucy.

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It's a fun show.

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And yet.

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There's a lot of InApp.

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Posity in that thing.

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In InApp.

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Posity, inappropriate.

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It's a technical term.

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I wouldn't expect you to know it.

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Oh, I don't.

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Posity is, thanks for enlightening.

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It's all over.

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It's not like every line like it is today,

but there's a lot of things in their room.

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I'm like, oh man, that's a,

that's something I would not say.

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Yeah.

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And for 1950s America, they had

sensibilities that were certainly,

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I think, better than ours today.

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But even then, there were things that.

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They believed in the way that

they talked about women or mm-hmm.

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The way that they objectified

others was different.

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Yeah.

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And I can see that today as a

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and saying that, that's not what

I wanna teach my kids either.

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So no matter where you turn,

there's gonna be issues.

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Your job as a parent is to just

be careful what the amount that

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you're taking in and when you do

choose to enjoy it, I think there's

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nothing wrong and everything right.

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With saying, all right,

let's debrief that.

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Yeah.

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What did you guys think of that?

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What about this particular situation?

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What did you notice about

the way that that kid, or the

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way that that protagonist.

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Whatever.

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That's a really helpful thing.

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That said, so much of Disney's garbage.

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Yep.

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Just gonna say it.

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And there's so much

Disney garbage out there.

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They are.

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Not, they're not hiding the fact that

they're going after our kids, right?

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And so, for those things that I know for

a fact, there's something in it that's

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objectionable, it's a non-starter for us.

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Agree.

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Nowhere near it.

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We're not gonna play it.

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We canceled our Disney Plus thing so

that we're not paying for that anymore.

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But I'm not opposed to paying for it

once every now and then, and saying, I

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wanna watch that new movie that came out.

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I really like that.

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I wanna see that Zootopia too.

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So I'll pay for it for a month.

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But I'm not gonna keep it going

'cause I do not wanna support that.

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And that's also true for all the

other streaming services where they're

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trying to pedal whatever to your kids.

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I am especially sensitive because

they're not apologizing for it.

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In fact, they think it's right.

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And there are some states in our

union where they will say, you're

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not allowed to have your kids if

you won't support our ideology here.

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And I think that's a very dangerous

direction for any state to take.

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And for that reason,

parents need to be on.

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On full alert to make sure that

you're protecting your kids.

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'cause they are certainly not.

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Yeah, for sure.

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We're even gonna be talking about

this at church this morning.

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We're talking about this wartime

mentality and the fact that we need to be

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prepared to suffer and have a mentality

that expects suffering in this world.

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And some of the suffering for our

faith is going to be persecution,

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but sometimes suffering for our

faith is making decisions about

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what our family's going to.

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Ingest what our family's going to watch,

what our family's gonna participate in,

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and what they're not gonna participate in.

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And we talk about that as adults a lot.

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Well, we're not gonna watch the

same show that our coworkers watch

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because of our Walk With Christ

because of our faith in Christ.

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And so we are suffering in the sense

that we are giving up some worldly

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pleasures that the world doesn't find

objectionable, but we as Christians

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are gonna say, we're gonna surrender

those things for the sake of our walk

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with Christ, instead of giving in and

being just like the world in that sense.

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Yeah.

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And it's.

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On the scale of suffering, if the scale

is zero to a hundred, it's not a big

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deal for us to skip movies, you know?

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No, it's not.

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It's okay for your kid

not to know about that.

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Right.

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Not to be able to have the

dresses or the action figures

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that go along with the new thing.

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This is an area where I think

we're gonna look back in 50 years

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and be like, that was worth.

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Not participating in, because

it's one of those things where

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there's so much bad fruit.

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Yeah.

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Or as some people have said before,

it's one of those, eat the meat, spit

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out the bones thing where there's so

many bones in here, you're gonna choke.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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Well, let's jump into our DBR for today.

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Number 24 through 27.

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We a lot Mark Chapter for eight.

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Yeah, it's a lot.

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Have 45 minute podcast.

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Yeah.

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Numbers eight is a continuation of

what we were talking about yesterday.

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And numbers eight is about

blum's continued Oracles that

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he's delivering about Israel.

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And these are.

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Prophetic statements here.

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And so he is again, going to be tasked

by Baam to say, I want you to curse them.

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And ba baam or Baic is gonna

say, I want you to curse them.

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Baam is gonna say I can't do,

but what God will allow me to

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do or what God tells me to do.

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And so Baam is going to give the

blessing rather than the curse.

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BAIC is getting.

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More and more angry.

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In verse 10, Bali's anger was

kindled against baam and he

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struck his hands together Now, so

he is getting he's threatening.

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He's ominous now at this point, and Baam

yet says, again, look, even if you gave

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me your kingdom, even if you gave me all

the gold that you have, I still could

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not go beyond what the Lord says here.

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Now this is.

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This is a, again, balam ends

up being a guy that is a

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thorn in Israel side later on.

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Balam is not a good guy.

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And so this appears to be something

that God is doing in his life where

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God has made it abundantly clear

that he is not to do anything beyond.

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And we go back to the donkey interaction

that we talked about yesterday, but Balaam

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is very aware that he cannot say anything

evil against Israel, even if he wanted to.

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And it seems like this is a man

with the character that would say

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he would want to based on what

he does later on with Israel.

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Yeah, he's an interesting character.

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We talked about the weirdness before about

his character, his life, his ministry,

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how he even knows Yahweh and why Yahweh

would even choose to interact with him.

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But I think there's a lot of

mystery here that we just need to

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leave as that it's mysterious how

and why God chooses to use him.

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But I do think it.

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It shows us that God can and in fact

Indeed does use different people and

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from surprising backgrounds and in

surprising ways to make his point.

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And I think the point is, I don't

really need any of you guys.

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I could do whatever I

could if I wanted to.

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I could preach the gospel from a donkey.

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Yeah.

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And clearly he does not need us.

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But I think that shows us that

if we're willing to submit to his

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leadership and to submit to his will

and his purposes, he can use even you.

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If you're not a donkey, you're doing a

whole lot better than Balaam's donkey.

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You can be useful to the Lord.

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Nice.

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Yeah.

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He goes on here in the third and

final Oracle and talks about Edem

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edem shall be dispossessed here

and his enemies dispossessed.

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Now, this is a prophecy about the

future that will come true Edem.

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That edem mites are gonna fade away.

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They're gonna be taken

out outta the scene.

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The book of Amos, again talks about

that as well, but just unique.

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'cause Edem was the ones that prohibited.

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Israel from traveling through

during the wilderness period,

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during the wilderness wanderings.

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And so here's Baam saying even

Edem is gonna be dispossessed by

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this people, this people Israel,

that are gonna be so strong.

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But meanwhile, back in the camp,

back in Israel, chapter 25, things

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are not going all that well.

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In fact, they're beginning

to go after these other gods,

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specifically the God Baal.

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Now Baal is gonna be a specific false

God an idol of the nations that.

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Is gonna be a snare to Israel for many,

many, many years, and they're going to

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draw, Baal is going to draw Israel away.

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Even think about the days of Elijah,

Elijah and the prophets of Baal, right?

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This is much further on in the history

of Israel, but here we see Baal

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beginning to be introduced into the

the minds of the people of Israel.

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So much so that there's this scene

that happens as they're beginning to

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intermarry with people and take foreign

wives for themselves against something

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God had commanded them not to do.

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Where you have a man named.

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Phineas step up and put an end to

some of the Godlessness by saying

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he's not gonna Stanford anymore.

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And there's one particular situation

where he ends up killing two

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people in a particular act because.

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They were doing exactly what

God told them not to do.

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And so Zeal is gonna be com

Phineas is gonna be commended for

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his zeal here for being jealous.

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I think with the jealousy of God,

we talk about how God is a jealous

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God and Phineas has some of that

jealousy in and of himself here when

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he goes and does what he does to stand

up for what's right for the Lord.

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And that's another thing of just saying,

we, we need to be ready to stand up for

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what's right for the Lord to call sin sin.

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And sometimes to act when we need to

act to bring it to an end, rather than

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to just turn a blind eye to it or to

perpetuate it by participating in it.

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What's happening here I think is

also related to numbers Chapter 15.

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This is someone who sends with a high

hand numbers 15 verses 30 through,

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I don't know, let's just call it.

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The end of that chapter this sin with the

high hand was egregious in God's sight.

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And I think that's what makes this so

permissible and something commendable

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in the Lord's eyes because the feel

of Zia zeal the feel of zines too.

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Yeah.

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His feelings were affected by his zeal.

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And I think one of the things

that we might be tempted to

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look at as Man Finney's just.

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Killed them and that was awesome.

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'cause it seems like, it says that I

don't think that's the whole story,

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although it is certainly part of it.

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His zeal was because of what

God had previously revealed.

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God said if someone sends with

a high hand, their blood is on

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their own head, they will die.

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And so Zaius enacts what

God has called in to do.

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Now granted, there's a

little bit of ambiguity here.

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To me, there's no core, there's no, you

know, but there's a plurality of witness.

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It's for sure.

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Yeah.

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So this is not just on the

evidence of one witness.

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There's multiple, he enacts the

death sentence, which is what they

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deserved, and this is what stopped

God's judgment against them.

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And we also remember that this is not

something that happened by accident.

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This is Blum's idea.

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He's trying to encourage them

to be promiscuous with these

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other people because of what it

says about their relationship to

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God, their Baal worship of God.

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So Vinia zeal is multifaceted.

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It's not just this one text.

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You have to keep in mind what's

been happening and what God

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has told them in the past.

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Yep.

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Numbers Chapter 26.

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We have a new generation, which

means we need a new head count.

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And so we are gonna go back through

another census here where they're

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gonna take a account of the number

of people in each of these tribes.

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And as you go through, you can

mark in your Bible or underline

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in your Bible, each of the

tribes as their names are listed.

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And then how many.

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Of them are are listed

there with each tribe.

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So, we get all the way through chapter

26, and we read down in verse 63.

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There were those listed by Moses

and Azar, the priest who listed

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the people of Dan a Jericho.

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Now remember, Azar is the priest

because Aaron is no longer here.

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Aaron has died.

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Azar, his son is acting as priest now.

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But among these, there was not one

of those listed by Moses and Aaron,

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the priest who had listed the people

of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

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God's word had come to.

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To fruition.

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God had promised these are not

gonna enter the promised land.

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And now we see that that has come to

fruition, that's come to fulfillment.

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And they are right there on

the other side of Jericho.

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Now chronologically they're close to being

at the place of taking the promised land.

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They're close to going over.

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Moses is not gonna go.

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So there's more for us.

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In fact, there's an entire, another

book of the Pentateuch before

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they're gonna take the Promised Land.

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And that's the book of Deuteronomy.

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But just that we set the scene, they are.

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At the banks of the Jordan River

looking across basically at this point

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into the promised land, ready to go.

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And and this is a huge turning

page for them, realizing that

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the previous generation is gone.

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The generation God condemned is gone.

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And those that are left are the

ones that are gonna take the land.

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As often happens as you read through

these chapters, you find yourself

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feeling like, oh, that happened quickly.

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But make no mistake, we are

reading about 38 years after the

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first census that begins the book.

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So we're looking at a long period of time.

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God highlights a few of the key events

for us to see and to understand,

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but we're looking at a long period.

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40 years is a long time, 38.

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But, let's just round up.

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40 years is a long time.

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And what you have to do as you read

then is not allow yourself to quickly

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skim over and say, okay, this is cool.

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I already saw this.

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It's a matter of you saying, man,

there's been a long time between the

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beginning and now the chapter that's

ending and establishes another chapter.

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You have to feel a little bit

of time by slowing down and just

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recognizing what's taking place here.

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The tribes are lar, they're

not exactly the same size.

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There's been a few that suffered

some pretty catastrophic losses.

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For different reasons, although

we don't know all of them.

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We could take a couple educated guesses.

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But just notice here, this is a whole

new scene, A whole new chapter is

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about to begin, and before that chapter

fully begins, you're gonna have an

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extended series of sermons from Moses

to remind them, here's what's happened.

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Here's what's gonna happen.

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Here's how you should be faithful.

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Chapter 27.

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Then we have a unique request made by

some daughters of a man who had passed

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away and they were saying, wait a minute.

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We're about to go into the

promised Land, and what about us?

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Do we not get tribal land according

to our father's inheritance

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because he's no longer with us.

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These are the daughters of Zfa

had, ZFA had, so Zfa had was a.

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Man who was no longer, again,

part of the generation there.

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He had died off as God had

announced that they would.

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And the daughters just saying, do we

have any inheritance in the land for us?

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And Moses is going to seek the Lord there.

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And this is gonna result in verse eight.

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You shall speak to the people and

tell them, if a man has dies and

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has no son, then you shall transfer

his inheritance to his daughter.

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So God's gonna make provision for these

daughters to say, yes, you do get land

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according to your father's inheritance.

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You're not gonna be homeless when

we enter into the promised land.

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And so this is a kind of a case

law situation for Moses to.

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With before they enter the land.

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And so it was that God cared

en enough about protecting

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the possession of each tribe.

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That he's even willing to say, look

if you're a woman and you don't

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have a male counterpart, then it's

gonna have to go to the daughters.

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He gives several lines of succession

to say you have to go down

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these different routes so that

you don't lose the possession.

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God was concerned that they not

lose what he himself is giving them.

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And so this is really cool

because it showcases the fact

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that these women who are.

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Ordinarily would be overlooked,

are not overlooked by God.

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In fact I think is it this

chapter or the future one where

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he talks about go marry someone?

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No, this is later.

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Yeah, this is later.

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Okay.

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I ahead of myself, we're gonna

come back with, and I have more to

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say about them when we get there.

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Awesome.

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Chapter 27 ends with the announcement

that Joshua is gonna be the one to.

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Mm, succeed.

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Moses and Moses', care for the

people is seen here in that he says

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to the Lord he says, let the Lord

the God of the spirits of all flesh.

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Verse 16, appointed man over the

congregation who shall go before

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them, and who shall lead them out and

bring them in, that the congregation

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of the Lord may not be as sheep.

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Without a shepherd, that should remind

you of Jesus seeing the crowds and saying

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they're like sheep without a shepherd.

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Moses wanted to make sure that the

people were gonna be led well after him.

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And so even though he's not about to die

at this point, he wants to know from the

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Lord who's the guy who's gonna be the one

that's gonna lead the people after me, and

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he cares that they're gonna be cared for.

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And that's where the

Lord identifies Joshua.

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Joshua is gonna be the one you

shall commission him in their

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sight, which is important.

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Because this is gonna be instrumental

for Joshua's leadership and the

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people following Joshua, they're

gonna see that Moses is behind Joshua.

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So sometimes when succession takes place,

you can have a situation where those

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that were loyal to the one that was in

that role previously, they're gonna have

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a hard time following the next guy up.

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And so I think there's wisdom here

on Moses apart, on God's part.

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By having Moses be the one to lay hands on

Joshua and commission him in the side of

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the people, because Joshua's gonna have a

big order to lead them into the promised

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land after this shows how important

that God considers leadership to be.

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He didn't wanna lead

them without a shepherd.

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He didn't wanna lead them without

some kind of direction setter.

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When we see here, then that

leadership is inherently a good thing.

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It can be wielded for negative

and evil ramifications, but it is

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ordinarily a good thing that we

should esteem and we should pray for.

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This is not the kind of thing that

happens naturally, organically.

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You have to pursue healthy, godly

leadership, and when you have

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it, it is something special.

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I think another thing that's

helpful too is that Moses

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dies after he installs Joshua.

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Not immediately.

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He doesn't linger.

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Yeah, but he doesn't stay around.

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I know there's a pastor or scholar

emeritus and they're kind of

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still in the congregation, and I

understand there's a sweetness to

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that, but I think it's also helpful.

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To not send mixed messages.

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Installing a leader and then

saying, you are the guy.

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And there's not a competitor.

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No one's gonna go to old Pastor Bob

and say, well, pastor Bob when he did

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it, and what does Pastor Bob think?

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And what if Pastor Bob doesn't like what

Pastor Caleb's doing, and yada, yada yada.

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So all that to say, leadership examples

here, all throughout the scriptures,

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good leadership is a god thing.

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All right, let's flip over

to Mark chapter eight.

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Mark Chapter eight is our New Testament

reading, verses 11 through 38.

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So if we get into this, we see a lot of

what we've read already in the gospel of

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Matthew against synoptic Gospels contain

a lot of the same events, just told from

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a different perspective or a different

angle, different lens, if you will.

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And so we see again this interaction

between the disciples and Jesus,

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where they're gonna get in the

boat and they're gonna realize

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they don't have any bread with.

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Them and they're talking about this,

and Jesus is gonna confront them and

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says some pretty hard things to them.

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He says in verse 17, Jesus aware of this,

said to them, why are you discussing

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the fact that you have no bread?

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Are you.

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Not yet.

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Do not yet perceive or understand.

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Are your hearts hardened, having eyes?

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Do you not see and having ears?

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Do you not hear and do you not remember?

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And so Jesus is pretty harsh with them

because they're failing to connect the

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dots between the feeding of the 5,000 and

the fact that he can provide bread, that

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he must be talking about something else.

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When he says, beware the 11 of

the Pharisees, which he had said

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previous to this, that there must

be something else going on here.

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And so Jesus is not pulling punches

with them as far as laying things out

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to say, Hey, you need to understand.

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That I'm talking about something

deeper than surface issues here,

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and Jesus is going to try to get

them to understand more of this.

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After this, he is gonna heal a blind man.

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A blind man at be.

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And this is an interesting healing

'cause it's a two stage healing.

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Jesus certainly could have healed this

man in one, but he does it in two.

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He initially is going

to take the blind man.

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And lead him aside, he lays his hands on

him and spit on his eyes, laid his hands

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on him, and says, do you see anything?

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And the man says, well, I see things like

trees, people walking around like trees.

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And then he is gonna lay

his hands on his eyes again.

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And this time his eyes are fully opened.

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And he's gonna say,

don't enter the village.

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Don't go tell people.

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But I've restored your sight to you pr.

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Any thoughts on the two stage

healing here from the blind man?

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Yeah, mark is doing that on purpose.

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Jesus is not powerless to

heal with one fell swoop.

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He does this before.

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And so what we're meant to see is that

like the disciples who are still trying

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to understand and still see, they are like

the blind man and then their ability to

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see what Jesus is saying and understand

what he's saying is progressive.

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And so in the next section,

Jesus affirms that Peter's

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gonna say, you are the Christ.

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This is the Caea Philippi confession.

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When they're way up north in kind

of the wilderness and that's, this

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is before, or this is rather after.

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He says to them, do you not understand?

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Yeah.

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They're like the blind man who only

sees partially, but here they see fully.

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And that's why I think that the blind man

between this sandwiched episode is there.

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Yeah, that's a great point.

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That's a great point.

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And that is where it goes next with

Peter's confession, which is a high

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point for Peter right before a pretty low

point for Peter, because right after this

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confession that you're the Christ Jesus

is gonna predict his crucifixion again.

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And Peter's done with this.

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He's heard it a couple times now, and he

says, Lord, what are you talking about?

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You're not gonna die.

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And Peter goes from this confession

of saying, you're the Christ

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where Jesus has blessed are you?

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And.

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Then now Jesus is gonna look at

Peter and say, get behind me, Satan.

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The word Satan means adversary.

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He is not setting his mind

on the things of the Lord.

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And so Peter's.

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Kind of swing here is pretty intense.

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And Jesus, again, has hard

words for his followers.

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He wasn't soft on his followers.

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He expected more from them.

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And so he's gonna confront Peter and

and try to get Peter to understand

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more of what he was talking about here.

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I wonder if it was simultaneously both

the best and worst day of his life.

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Probably, I dunno.

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He walked on water, he had the denial

so that the denial probably was the

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best or the worst day of his life.

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This could have been one of the best ones.

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Peter was just so impetuous.

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He's, he's just, he's out there.

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Yeah.

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He's not hiding it.

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He's just throwing himself out there.

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And he takes risks.

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He does.

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I respect that.

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Yeah, for sure.

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For sure.

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Well, hey, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Well, thanks for your word

that you've given to us.

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As we've been talking

about lemon and bread.

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It is the bread of life and we turn

to it and we want to devour it.

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We want to spend time in it, we want

to know it, we want to ingest it.

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And so I pray that you'd help us to

give our minds over to this study that

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it wouldn't just be, letting our eyes

glaze over the page, but that we would

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really, truly take these things to heart,

to ask good questions, to dig in, and

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to groan our understanding of you so

that we may follow you more faithfully.

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So we thank you so much for your word

in the truth that it contains for us.

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We pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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