00:00 Introduction and Episode Setup

00:08 Recording Challenges and Reflections

00:52 Travel and Conference Plans

02:53 Pastoral Activities and Fellowship

06:28 Bible Study: First Kings 8

13:53 Parallel Account in Second Chronicles

16:35 Conclusion and Sign Off

Hi, welcome back to another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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It is.

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ZPD day Thursday.

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13th of June.

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That's right.

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Don't forget it.

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And listen to mark it down.

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We're not going to lie.

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We're a little bit excited because we're

only recording three episodes today.

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That was that as we do this,

you don't have to know.

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You know, But, but it's, it's, it's

making things a little bit easier

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because we were recording four

at a time for a few days there.

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And, uh, your mood has lightened.

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It was.

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It was a lot, man.

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It was a lot.

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I'm not going to lie.

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It didn't feel like a lot though.

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Well, I was tired at the end of it, but

I didn't feel like, oh, it was so hard.

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Yeah, no, I guess not, but

it is, it was two hours.

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I mean, we would put two hours of two for.

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At recording two full hours.

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And I think, I think based on the

record, I feel like we did good.

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Like they didn't sound like they were no.

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The labored no, or difficult.

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No, I don't think so.

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Yeah.

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Which is good.

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I think it was good.

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That was great.

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So we're recording this in advance,

but on this day, we're going to be

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down at national court conference.

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Sit down in hill country, new Braunfels.

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Later bond is important.

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You pronounced it correctly.

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So many people pronounce

it, new Bronzeville, and

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there's not an S in there.

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Who does that?

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Uh, lots of people actually

not hurting anyone.

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It's new Braunfels.

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I w I would, I would smack them like that.

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Boom.

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Hey, that's a good sound effect.

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Braunfels.

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It's a, it's an old Germantown.

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It was settled by the,

the, uh, the Germans.

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And, uh, they, uh, yeah,

it's kind of a fun area.

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My wife and I lived there for a

year after, uh, after college.

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I had a job down there.

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So, yeah.

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To a patchy dump a Duncan.

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Apache junction junction.

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Yes.

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Uh, no.

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Junkyard and Apache, I don't know how.

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Whatever.

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In blue Springs, Missouri

in between there.

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And then we were in Arizona and then

we were in San Diego or in San Diego.

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Orange county.

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Okay.

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And now we're here.

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All right.

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So you were never at Apache junction.

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I felt like you had a place down

there that you loved Arizona.

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So Mesa, but almost

Apache junction almost.

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Yeah.

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So if you're familiar with Mesa,

Apache junction is like, what last

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bit of civilization before you

get out to the, just the desert.

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In Arizona.

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I would be all for that.

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I never made it out to Joshua tree.

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I kind of look.

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I lament that I regret

not having done that.

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Cause I really would love to start a case.

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And I'm guessing Apache junction

has some really good views

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because you're pretty close to it.

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I mean, once you get out

past Apache junction.

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The superstition mountains

and things like that.

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Superstition mountain.

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Yeah.

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What they're called that sucks

because there's supposedly

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buried gold, very superstitious.

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Indeed the superstition mountains.

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I would be excited to see that

they're cool areas though.

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I actually got to go up in a small plane.

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One of the elders of our church

had a plane and he invited me to

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lunch and he flew me to lunch.

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I was like, this is unique.

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Dude was this a mega church?

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It was not sparity gospel church.

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No, no, no.

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He happened to be the vice president

of, uh, Honeywell aerospace.

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So, not like the thermostats, but like

he's putting things on spaceships.

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That's really cool.

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Yeah.

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So thermostats, you flew us to, to lunch.

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Yeah, like thermostat printing

thermostats on spaceships.

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Yep.

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Tell people what we're

doing on Thursday then.

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Cause there's.

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One of our, and so we're

going to be at NDC.

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Yeah.

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It doesn't officially kick off until

Friday, but I think people would be

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interested to know what we're doing.

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Yeah.

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So tell us what has happened on Thursday.

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Yeah.

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So Thursday morning.

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Uh, there's a senior

pastor's wives and breakfast.

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So we're getting together with the

other senior pastors at the church

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plants and spending some time.

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Everybody together.

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Training.

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And your pastors and wives.

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Yeah.

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And then there's some prayer

time, uh, sharing, just kind

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of updates what's going on.

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Catching up on what's going on in

the various church plants out there.

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So that should be a good time.

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Cool.

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At lunch, we have all of us together lunch

with senior and staff, pastors and wives.

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And so that is going to be

quite the, quite the crew.

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It's going to be a large group of people.

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Yeah.

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All of the pastors from all the campuses.

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Yep.

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And all their wives.

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Yep.

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Not otherwise, like they all have

multiple wives, but each individual

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wife of each individual pastor,

correct from the church to be clear,

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to be clear because we do believe that

an elder is the husband of 1, 1, 1.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah.

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So we'll be doing that.

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And then we're actually going out

for, uh, a fellowship activity

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that afternoon chicken and pickle.

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We're gonna go play some

pickleball together as pastors.

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Some people call it.

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Chichele to just say it for short.

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I guess so.

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Yeah.

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Um, unpopular opinion.

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I don't like pickleball.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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You forgot to mention the

fellowship and sharing with senior

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and staff, pastors and wives.

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You say that in there?

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I didn't hear you say the sharing.

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Okay.

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Well, we're going to share, I

don't know what we're sharing here.

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What are we sharing?

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I don't know.

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We're going to share more

than we've already shared.

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I suppose that just says

the sharing in my schedule.

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So I just want to be clear that

we know that we're sharing well.

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And then we're going to chuckle.

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Then yeah, we're going to play

pickleball and then there's going to be.

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Chichele training after that.

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Or there's dinner, I guess.

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There's dinner.

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I saw on the schedule where

there's going to be some kind of a.

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Yeah.

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Meeting with all in the meeting

room at the Chicco ball facilities.

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Yeah.

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And, and then we'll be done.

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Yeah, let me go back to the hotels

and do whatever we're doing.

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So that's what we're

doing on this day at NEC.

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It sounds fun.

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Wow.

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What, what do you think.

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Uh, it would be like to be a fly on the

wall to listen to what's happening there.

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Like you're, you're an,

you're an outsider looking at.

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Cause I know people wonder, like what

do you guys talk about in these things?

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What are you guys?

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Well, what kind of training habits,

what kind of things do you discuss?

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Are there big decisions that are made

hiring decisions, firing decisions?

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No, none of that is, is happening there.

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Mostly it's ministry updates.

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It's here's what's going

on with our church.

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Yeah.

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And, uh, Yeah.

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Sometimes with the pastors are

sending pastor, pastor Mike crowbars.

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He'll take some time and talk about

some situations that have come up in

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various church plants and use that

as a teaching opportunity and say,

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Hey, this is what is going on here.

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And this is why this decision was

made or that decision was made.

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So it's helpful.

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Um, Yeah, so it should

be a good fellowship.

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I enjoyed this when it was in

Idaho last time, just, it was a

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good time to connect with people

that we haven't seen for awhile.

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Because for a lot of these church

plants, there were people that

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went on these plants that we were

good friends with that were part

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of our right church in California.

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And so it's a good time to

reconnect and see people.

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Um, that we haven't seen a lot.

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Okay.

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Who's the, who's the person you're

most looking forward to seeing.

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Besides Amanda.

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And I D I don't know.

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Who's your favorite pastor

from the plants, bro?

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Just be honest between us.

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I don't know.

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Don't tell anybody.

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Don't tell anybody my favorite

pastor from all of the plants.

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All the plants you're hostile.

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To rod Gomez, but obviously me.

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Second place.

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Second place.

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Uh, you know, its passengers.

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Oh, yeah.

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Speaking.

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Yeah.

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Or that kind of church now, apparently.

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Um, Well, maybe it won't even

show up on the timestamp.

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That's going to show up

now on the time staking.

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It Doug's.

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You could change the timestamp, right?

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I can change the world because

we're not speaking in tongues.

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We don't do that.

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You just did.

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I'm just going to say you just did it.

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Yeah.

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Well, All right.

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Hey, let's get into the Bible.

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Yeah, it sounds like

you need some more of.

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yes, that's the book for me.

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Stand up tall on the word of God.

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The bib Ellie.

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First Kings eight.

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First Kings eight, the Ark

is brought into the temple.

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Uh, placed in the holy of Holies.

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The occasion here is

marked by celebration.

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A massive sacrifice, massive sacrifice.

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Uh, such as the number of animals

really couldn't even be counted.

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Look at verse five king Solomon

and all the congregation of Israel

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who had assembled before him.

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Uh, we're with him before the arc

sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that

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they could not be counted or numbered.

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And remember the altar is big.

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The altar is this 30 by

30 square, 15 foot tall.

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So all of these animals are going on top

of this and, and the, the burn, all burnt

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offerings that are taking place there.

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So.

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Uh, that's kind of how this is all looking

right now, but, uh, just, uh, a lot of

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animals celebration similar to when David

brought the Ark to, uh, to the, the.

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To Jerusalem in the first place, there

was a lot of celebration there as well.

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Uh, we don't have McCall anymore.

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She's not around.

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Um, they call so ships

out there despise anybody.

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That's good.

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Um, versus 12 through 21 then in, in

completing the temple, Solomon reminded

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the people of God's faithfulness

to fulfill the promises that he

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had made to David, that Solomon

would build a house for the Lord.

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So Solomon saying.

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This is what God promised

my father, David.

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And now we're seeing the fruition of that.

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And that's such a good thing for us to do.

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Uh, it's a, it's a good thing for us

to remember God's faithfulness and

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we're not going to have the same.

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Specific promises like this.

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Like if, if you build a house for

your family, you can't say, well, the

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Lord told me he would build a house

for my family and look at our house

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has done so we should have a party.

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Um, but there, there are things

for us to say, you know what?

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God has promised us.

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He would be faithful.

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God has promised us.

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These are truths about God

that we know to be true.

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And we see evidence of that.

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Uh, in our lives right now, it's good

to pause and remember those things.

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And we've talked before about

even setting up the Ebeneezer,

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setting up our Memorial setting.

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Somebody.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Very good to say, you

know, God is, is fateful.

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Look at what God has done.

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The temple is a massive Ebeneezer

because God had promised David

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that it would happen in now.

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It has happened and they can see

it right there in front of their.

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They're very eyes.

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Did you notice that in?

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Well, we kind of pass it, but let

me just back us a few verses here.

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Uh, verse nine, there was nothing in

the Ark except the two tablets of stone.

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Didn't notice that.

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Okay.

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So there's some stuff missing.

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Everybody wants to know.

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Everyone's been asking.

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Where are the manna and Aaron's rod that,

that blossomed, where did those things go?

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What did you do with them?

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I have no idea.

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They're lost.

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They're.

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They're gone.

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What happened?

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And that's funny cause I,

yeah, I don't know either.

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I was looking to see if

there's any explanation.

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Of course there's not.

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Cause I think I already knew that.

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But it's interesting.

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There's kind of no commentary

in the scriptures, which I would

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have really liked to know, like

what happened to those things.

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Pro misplaced them.

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Who's responsible for this.

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But they're gone just so you know,

and of course the arc disappears.

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And it's just, it goes into heaven, I

guess the perhaps it's there right now.

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That's what revelation seems to imply.

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It seems like it perhaps, or it's

a, it's the actual arc that the,

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the earthly arc was based upon.

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Perhaps.

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I don't know.

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There's something there perhaps.

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But anyway, just to point that out, you

only have the commandments in there.

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Yeah, I pardon me wonders if in the

whole captivity, by the Philistines,

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when they took it from, uh, early

on in first Samuel, a seven, six.

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They gone gets humiliated.

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Right.

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I wonder if when they open

the Ark and they were kind of

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messing around with things.

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the main out there hitting

each other with errands run.

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It's got buds on it.

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Uh, yeah.

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So this Bud's for you whack.

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Um, Beer is so bad.

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It's a bad dad joke beer.

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Yeah.

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So bad, no place for that.

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Now, now our timestamps are

going to talk about beer and Tom.

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Both of them.

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Just at the point out.

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Yeah.

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I hear ya.

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I hear ya.

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Hey.

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First Kings 8 22 through 53,

then, um, Solomon's prayer here.

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Uh, is.

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It's great.

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Acknowledges God's God's magnitude

is great and it's in the reality that

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no temple could truly contain him.

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But he prays that God would be attentive

and keeping his eyes and ears open towards

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the temple so that when the people would

pray to him, repenting of their sins, he

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would hear it and respond appropriately.

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It's a, it's a rhythmic prayer

here where he says, look, if two.

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This happens, then this, then

this happens, then this happens.

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Keep it going.

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And if the people would repent and

come back and pray, then he prays that

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God would hear that God would listen.

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And so fast forward to Daniel and think

about when Daniel is there and the,

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the men are plotting against Daniel.

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Um, and they're plotting against Daniel

to say, you know what, we're not going

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to be able to find anything against him

unless we find it in relation to his God.

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And so they go after that and

they have the king sign, a decree

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that says, Hey, no one can pray

to any God other than you king in.

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And so Darius agrees and signs it.

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And what does it say in the Texas?

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Has Daniel went up as he had done

all the times before and opened

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the windows towards Jerusalem.

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And that's because of what

we're reading about right here.

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That's because of this prayer,

that Solomon makes that Solomon

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says, when your people turn it and

they pray towards this place, hear

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their prayers and bring them back.

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And so that's what Daniel's doing

there as well as later on in the

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book of Daniel, when he has the

corporate prayer of confession.

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For the nation, as he realizes

that, Hey, the time of captivity,

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the 70 years of drawing to an end.

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One of the things that prompt

him to pray that way he does ease

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these, this prayer that Solomon has

here in first Kings chapter eight.

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Yeah, this is really cool.

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Just to just a couple quick

observations about this prayer.

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Now the word keep is repeated.

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Probably a dozen, maybe 13

times I counted, but I wasn't

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sure about one of them.

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So you have the word Shama,

Shama is the word keep or rather,

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um, yeah, to keep the guard.

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Uh, no, sorry, let me take that back.

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Let me try that again.

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Keep as is here, but that's

not the word I'm looking at.

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Listen here.

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That's the one I'm looking at and that's

the one that you have 12 or 13 times.

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That is the word Shama.

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And so.

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Solomon praise all throughout

this kind of literacies probe.

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Please hear, please listen, please

respond really cool because God

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eventually does authorize that

say yes, I am going to hear.

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It's a really cool, really cool

symbology, really cool imagery.

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Uh, but that's the first thing I

noticed, but the second thing I

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want to point out here in verse 43.

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When he's calling God to hear in heaven.

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He says, I want you to do this.

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Uh, according to all for which the

foreigner calls to you in order.

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Uh, in order that all the people

of the earth may know your name and

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fear you as do your people Israel.

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And that they may know that this house

that I have built is called by your name.

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So this there's an evangelistic

bent to this thing.

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And Solomon is hoping and praying

that God's glory would be revealed

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to the peoples of the earth.

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Not just Israel.

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Israel is primary, but secondarily there.

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He's also looking to the outsiders, the

foreigners who don't know God that he

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wants to, he wants them to know based

on the way that God responds to them in

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and through their prayers at the temple.

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That's really cool.

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Yeah.

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That is cool.

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Well, the rest of the chapter then

of chapter eight here, 54, 360 1,

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Solomon concludes his prayer with

a benediction, praising God for his

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faithfulness, to the promises that he

had made, and then challenges the people

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to be faithful in response to their

faithful God there in those verses.

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Then he concludes with another

massive, massive sacrifice.

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So a lot of animals lose their life.

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In first Kings chapter eight.

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They're dedicated and it's

a seven-day party after all.

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So it makes sense.

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Uh, seven day feast, seven day party.

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I mean, I thought I was really cool.

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I mean, it's, it's a really great high

point for selling it because this is,

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this is probably the high point of his

kingly career is dedicated to y'all way.

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He's dedicating the temple he's showing

and leading the people of Israel.

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What it looks like to honor God.

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This is cool.

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And it's not going to last sadly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that is true.

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Yeah.

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Well, when you jump over to second

Chronicles, chapter five, then we find,

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uh, the, the parallel account of the

ARCA being brought into the temple here.

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And so it's going to be a lot of

what we just talked about here

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in first Kings chapter eight.

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I didn't have anything specific in,

unless you did pass rod on that.

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That is a different in connection to.

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Yeah.

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One thing or maybe two.

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Uh, so in verse three, Uh, the men of

Israel assembled before the king at

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the feast that is in the seventh month.

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That is the feast of boots.

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And so even though we hear about

the seven day feast or the seven day

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party that Solomon has in response

to the dedication of the temple, It

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seems like these are aligned together.

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Then what's actually happening

here is the feast of booze.

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And so it corresponds to the

dedication of the temple.

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Um, I also want to point out to

you notice here in verse two, just

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at just one verse behind here.

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The city of David is called Zion.

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Zion just kind of hears this

and, and the, and the literature.

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And you start hearing the term,

Zion apply to Jerusalem and it seems

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like, oh, where does this come from?

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What does this do now?

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It's not in the early parts of the old

Testament, but it seems to reference a.

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Uh, I don't know.

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What, what would you call that

afforded a fortified area of

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Jerusalem that becomes a moniker.

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So it's kinda like when

you use, um, I don't know.

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You talk about orange county.

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Or I guess you.

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North Texas, you know, it's, it's a

one thing that refers to the whole.

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It's a small part of one thing

and it refers to the whole thing.

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So you'll notice zine appearing from

time to time in the Psalms and even

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in the, in the historical literature.

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Uh, but Zion and Jerusalem

mean the same thing.

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That's a, it's a reference

from one to the other.

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They both talk about the same thing.

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Although there probably is a specific

geographical designation in view here that

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eventually becomes, uh, a short term for

that for the whole of it, it, it refers

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to God's place is he's eternal place.

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But finally, one thing I want to point

out and at the end of chapter five, The

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house of the Lord was filled with a cloud.

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So God says, this is good.

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And notice a song that they're singing.

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Chris Tomlin jumps in here for.

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He is good as steadfast

love endures forever.

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God fills the house in response to

their praise and the dedication.

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And that's what makes

the temple so special?

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Yeah.

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God's presence is there.

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And again, response to a Chris Thomas on.

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I didn't realize he was that old.

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Did you know that?

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I didn't know that either.

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It's been around a long time though.

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Well, that's interesting in verse 14, too,

because it says to the priest could not

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stand to minister because of the cloud.

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The Lord filled the house of God.

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This is not the way it is perpetually

because this is, this is unique because

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it's filling the entirety of the temple.

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Versus in the future is going

to be in the holy of Holies.

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But the priest will be able to minister in

the rest of the, the, the holy place, not

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the most holy place, but the holy place,

which is outside the holy of Holies, the

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priest are able to do their duties there.

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They can even do that right now.

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This is a symbol,

symbolic, not a symbolic.

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This is, uh, uh, Uh, special, uh, filling.

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The house.

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Manifestation.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So pretty cool.

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Really cool.

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Awesome.

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Well, Hey, keep, bring your

Bibles and join us again tomorrow.

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For another episode of

the daily Bible podcast.

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See you.

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