00:00 Introduction and Welcome Back

00:22 Pastor Mark and Director Lewis' Contributions

02:20 Jumping into Genesis 33-35

02:46 Jacob's Favoritism and Family Dynamics

05:36 The Encounter with Esau and Its Implications

07:18 The Tragedy of Dinah and Its Consequences

09:53 The Transition in Genesis 35

11:46 Matthew 11: John the Baptist and Jesus' Ministry

15:01 Condemnation of Unrepentant Cities

17:58 Jesus' Invitation to Rest

20:52 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition of

the Daily Bible Podcast and I am back.

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You are back.

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But I'm also back.

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So is Pastor Mark.

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Pastor Mark's back.

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I'm back.

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Pastor pj, if you're new with us.

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And you jumped in sometime

while I was outta the office.

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And you're going, who is this guy?

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My name is Pastor pj.

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I'm the lead pastor.

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Here comes Bible church.

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I'm normally on this podcast,

but I was out for vacation,

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so it was a good time away.

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But thankful for you and Louis

jumping in and covering the podcast.

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Yeah.

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We're glad to do it.

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It was fun to do with him.

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We hadn't done it before, so we

were, you know, I didn't think

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chemistry was gonna be bad.

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Yeah.

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But I think it, worked out pretty good.

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Worked out.

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I listened to every episode.

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That's good.

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Yeah.

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That's good.

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And apparently you don't, like,

Christoph is what I learned from this.

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It's not that I don't like them,

I'm just more skeptical of them.

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You're just more skeptical.

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Yeah.

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I'm skeptical of.

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Of Christoph.

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So I was laughing with Amanda and my

wife when the very first episode.

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The pastors are away.

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The cats are gonna play.

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Right?

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Very first episode outta the gate.

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Pastor Mark comes out with, I'm gonna

disagree with Pastor Rod and Pastor pj.

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I know right away just like, Hey, I

know I don't agree with those guys.

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Oh, they're wrong.

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And here's my take on things.

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I know.

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I'm sorry.

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You.

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No, it's okay.

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You know what, it, this is not a

tier one issue, so we can have our

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disagreements, we can be okay with that.

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But no, glad that you were

able to jump in with Lewis.

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You guys did a great job.

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Yeah.

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And if you guys, we didn't do a

great job of introducing ourselves.

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We tried.

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So if you didn't know who we

were for the last few days, you.

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It was Pastor Mark and Director Lewis.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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So Pastor Mark oversees our kids,

men here as well as he is involved in

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he's got his hands on a lot of things.

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He's taught in men's Bible study before.

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He helps us with a lot on our

background stuff, social media,

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marketing, things like that.

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And there's some other things that are on

the stove top back burner right now that

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are being developed and being cooked up.

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So, and then Lewis oversees our

student ministry, true North.

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And so we're thankful to have,

godly men able to step in.

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In fact, that, that was the feedback

that I got from a lot of different people

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saying, Hey, we're, it's a joy to know

that there's other men that are godly

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leaders of our church that are able to

step in and and do things like this.

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So I was happy because I thought to

myself, man, I can not be here more

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and you guys can do this so well.

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It's good to be able to get real breaks.

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We need real rest.

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No, for sure.

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And it's important to be able to

trust the Lord ultimately as we rest.

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But also he gives.

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He gives gifts to us and

hopefully we were a gift to you

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and allowing you to truly rest.

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Totally.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, let's jump

into our text for today.

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We're in the Old Testament in

Genesis 33 through 35, and then

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we've got the New Testament.

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We're gonna be in Matthew chapter 11.

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I'm right on that, right,

that you are right.

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A hundred percent a plus.

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It's been a while, so I'm just

getting my feedback under here.

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Alright, Jack.

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Chapter 33.

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You guys set it up well yesterday.

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And that is the situation where

Esau was getting ready to encounter

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Jacob or Jacob to encounter Esau.

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One thing I don't remember hearing

you guys talk about, but and I guess

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it's because it's really dealt with

here at the very beginning of chapter

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33, but you see jacob's love for

Rachel showed even more so here.

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And not just Rachel,

but also Joseph in here.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because he is not going

to lead with Rachel.

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He's gonna put Rachel behind.

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Leah.

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He's gonna put Leah.

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Now granted, he still keeps Leah.

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Towards the back with him.

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Yes.

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But he definitely, his favoritism

shows up again here in chapter 33.

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It does.

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It does.

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And we saw that a little bit

earlier when he responded in

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initial fear separating everybody.

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But Jacob is wise and is shrewd.

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Is he right to show favoritism?

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Certainly not.

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But he does demonstrate some

characteristics here even if some of them

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are misapplied and it is interesting.

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It's interesting, man.

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Is he right that this is so hard because.

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We have to go all the way back

to his marriage to Leah first

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and then his marriage to Rachel.

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And we have to ask the question,

should he have pursued Rachel still?

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And that's so hard

because he was deceived.

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The deceiver was deceived from Laben.

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I know I'm going back, but

that was 'cause I wasn't here.

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I didn't get to talk about all this.

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That's all right.

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You're allowed to but.

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Rachel was the one he loved

from the very beginning.

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And I, man, and it's interesting

'cause Leah's the chosen one

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because it's the line of Leah

that ends up producing Messiah.

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That's right.

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Well, and even God sees

the disdain for Leah.

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Yeah.

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And opens her womb.

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Yeah.

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And keeps Rachel's closed.

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Yeah.

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At least for a season.

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Yeah.

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I would just say I don't fault Jacob.

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Because Rachel was the

one that Jacob loved.

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He was the one that, from the very

outset, he agreed with Labban to

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say, this is the one I want to marry.

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This is the one who in

whom my heart delights.

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And he was deceived into

taking on Leah as well.

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Now, God loved Leah, and Leah was

shown that favor in that sense.

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And even the honor that we still show

Leah now because we know that yeah, hers

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was the line that produced the Messiah.

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'cause Judah would come from Leah.

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But, yeah I understand where

Jacob's coming from, I guess.

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Yeah.

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And I think one of the things we have

to do is look at how, in this case,

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Moses presents the character of Jacob.

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Yeah.

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At least in chapter 33.

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And this is not to say we should ignore

sin or make sins light, make light of sin.

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But in chapter 33, right.

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Even as he, he shows continued

favor, favoritism towards Rachel

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and towards Leah, the emphasis of

what he's saying and doing here as

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Moses demonstrates is what we see.

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See in like a verse, like verse

five, where Jacob says these

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are the children whom God has

graciously given your servant.

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That's a statement of faith.

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That's a statement of trust.

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That's a little bit new for Jacob

as we've been talking about,

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or even in verse 11, right?

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He's talking about, because God

has dealt graciously with me and

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because I have enough, I think we

need to see those, the sin in there.

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We need to see the messiness of sin, but

I think we also need to look at how the.

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Characters are presented and I think

that's the highlight of chapter 33.

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Yeah, for sure.

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It's interesting here, there's other

things running in the background.

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Esau's response is not

what Jacob expected, right?

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It's not what we expect and we're

meant to feel like, oh, wow.

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And Esau says, come and live with me

in Sear and just a historical note,

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kind of a thumbtack to put in here.

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Sr becomes the capital city of Edem, and

the mites are the descendants of Esau

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and the Ed mites are gonna be a thorn

in the side of Israel for a long time.

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Even prophetically they're talked

about in the future as resuming, right?

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That role of being a thorn

in the side of Israel.

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So, yeah, Esau, Edem, seer,

all of this, the Edomites.

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Think of all these things together.

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Do you think there's some

lingering deception here that.

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Esau says, come join me.

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Jacob says, yeah, you go on ahead of me.

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And then Jacob totally bails

and goes somewhere else.

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I think there's a little bit, but again,

this is where I struggle to say, you

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know, is he necessarily wrong to do that?

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Is he wrong to lie?

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Yes.

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Lying is definitively a sin, but there is.

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The way this is presented is Jacob

is he used his shrewdness in this.

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I don't think we get all the insight

into all the details of what's going on

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here, but at least the way I read it.

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It reads favorably in my

interpretation of Jacob.

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I don't know if I have more

to say on it than that though.

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'cause it is still a little bit, it's

still a little bit unclear to me.

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Yeah, because he does say

in verse 14, until I come to

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the place of my Lord in Sr.

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So he does tell him.

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He does agree to go with him.

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And then he sets this up to say, well,

you go on because I'm gonna go slower.

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And then he doesn't go there.

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So I, yeah, I don't know.

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It's not the end of the world,

but I just wonder if there's

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a little bit of that there.

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And it is definitely the highlight

of chapter 33, like you said earlier,

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because the rest of chapter 33 into

chapter 34 is anything but a highlight.

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Yeah.

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And this has devastating consequences,

not just for the immediate.

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Situation, but also for these two tribes.

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Mm-hmm.

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S Levi and their future here because

of what takes place here because

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one of Jacob's daughters, Dina, is

going to be taken of advantage of,

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and we will say that to keep things

pg and it's far worse than that.

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I don't mean to sugarcoat

what happens to her.

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It's an atrocity.

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And Jacob finds out about it.

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And this is where I think there's so

often, and we're gonna see this in

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the life of David later on too where

these dads are passive instead of.

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Do, doing what they needed to do to defend

the dignity, the honor of their daughter.

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And I think if Jacob had been more

strong in response to what took place

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here instead of being as passive as

he was, I don't think what Simeon and

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Levi end up doing ever takes place.

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I think what we need to note here is this.

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Shechem and those involved in this

activity, they deserved punishment.

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They deserved to die.

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The tragedy in all of this, the sin

in all of this, and what leads to

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the condemnation of Levi and Simeon

is that they extended this on, not

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just to Shechem and those that were

involved, directly involved, but to.

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All the males herein.

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Right.

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And in that sense, they were guilty

of, as the text, I think even puts it

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shedding quote unquote innocent blood,

innocent, not in the sense that they

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weren't sinners innocent in this matter.

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Justice was not due them, all

of the males the way it was due

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to she them in his household.

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And so this is taking matters into

their own hands and going too far.

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But I think there's a failure

on Jacob's side here as well.

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I agree.

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I agree.

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And I think this is a little

foretaste of problems that.

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The greater nation of Israel is going

to continue to face, I think we're

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working right with the immediate

family, but these sins, right.

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Even taking innocent blood

even the, the issues with DIUP.

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To put it again pg.

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Right.

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Those are gonna be echoed again.

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Right.

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Even I'm thinking Hosea, right?

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Yep.

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And what Hosea the prophet says

on behalf of God, that, and he's

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gonna condemn the people of God

for acting in a similar manner.

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I think this is kind of a little bit

of a foretaste of unfortunately, what

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is going to come in Israel's future in

Israel, meaning the nation of Israel.

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Yeah.

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The.

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The actions, the leaders here again,

are Simeon and Levi, and that doesn't

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absolve the rest of Jacob's sons

because if you look in verse 27, it

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says, the sons of Jacob came upon

the slain and plundered the city.

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And so, this is a familial affair.

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This is not just them, it's just I

think the two of these are the leaders.

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They're the ones that

are the heads of this.

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And that's why Jacob in verse 30 says

to these two, Simeon and Levi, you

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have brought trouble on me by making me

stink to the inhabitants of the land.

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And he's going to end up, we'll

see later on in the book of Genesis

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when it comes time to bless.

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The people, he's not gonna bless.

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Seamen and Levi.

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Right?

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Chapter 35.

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Then we get into the renaming here

and this has taken place once already

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and so we're gonna find it again.

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And it's kind of a reiteration here and

a, a doubling down of the promises of God.

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The covenant is reconfirmed

again with Jacob here.

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Yeah.

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Why do you think that is?

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Why is because if you read this

just first and just without

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reading what had proceeded it.

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You would kind of be led to think this

is the first time that this is clarified.

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Yeah.

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I'm not quite sure if I

have an answer to that.

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Do you have any insight into

why exactly this appears here?

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Again, kind of repeating itself, I

think Chapter 35 is a pivot chapter in.

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The story of J of Genesis because

in chapter 35 you've got the death

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of Deborah, who was the nurse there.

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So that was a matriarchal figure in

a sense in Jacob's life you've got

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Rebecca dying and so you've got that

end of that period of Jacob's life.

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Benjamin is born here and so there's

almost a completion there of the

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tribes of Israel now, and then

you've got the death of Isaac.

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And so there's really, it's.

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Transitional chapter here.

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And so I think the, this is taking

place because God is reaffirming,

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okay, I'm doing something new now.

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It's not gonna be so much about the

promise being passed from patriarch

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to patriarch, but now it's a people.

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And so Jacob, you are Israel and from you

are going to come all of these nations

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or the one nation, really the nation

of Israel, but all of these tribes that

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are gonna be represented by the sons.

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And this is the pivot.

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Chapter that, that we see

here with all of the death.

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And so I think that's why

he's reaffirming the name.

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I think that makes perfect sense.

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And that's kind of consistent

with something that Lewis and I

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talked about, which is that when

you get to these genealogies, they

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are kind of big markers in Genesis

and what follows this genealogies

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and descriptions of descendants.

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And so I think that makes,

I think that makes sense.

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Yeah.

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Sort of acts as like a summary Yeah.

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And a continuation, but a

sort of a summary of what's

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happened and that makes sense.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's jump over and hit our New

Testament reading for today then we are

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in Matthew chapter 11, Matthew chapter 11.

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This is always a unique one for me

because you've got so much from John

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the Baptist, like John in John's gospel.

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You've got John the Baptist standing

there saying, behold the limb God, who

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takes away the sins of the world and we

think so highly of John and rightly so,

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even based on something that Jesus says

in chapter 11, still, John the Baptist is

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going to be in prison and I think John.

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Just like the other disciples

misunderstood the type of Messiah

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that Jesus was coming to be.

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And so he's in jail waiting for Jesus

to ride in on his war seeded and

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start knocking Roman heads together

and take his place on the throne

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and restore Israel to his glory.

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And he writes, he sends to

Jesus to say, Hey what are you?

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What are you doing?

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Is, are you the Messiah or

are you not the Messiah?

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I've kind of given my life literally

for this whole thing, and I'm

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sitting here, it's time to go.

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Let's do this.

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And Jesus responds and says, go

back and tell 'em what you see.

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And this is illusions back to

the Old Testament prophecies

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about what the Messiah would do.

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But Jesus is at the same time

gonna make sure that we don't think

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poorly of John for this 'cause.

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He's gonna say, Hey, think about John.

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What did you go out to see?

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You went out to see a

broken read, a messenger.

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What did you go out to see?

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And then he goes and makes this

statement and says, there's none

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born of women who's greater than

John himself accepting clearly.

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But then he says that amazing

statement that the person that's

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the least in the kingdom is gonna be

greater than John even is gonna be.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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And I think this is a helpful

reminder too that, that John the

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Baptist is a prophet and he's a man.

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And you know, the Old Testament

prophets at times struggled

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with things like this too.

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Obviously they weren't coming face

to face with Jesus, but they that

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point struggled with with what God

was doing and why he was doing it.

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The most classic example is Jonah.

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But there's other ones too, who, they

need God's help and their, his correction

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and his love to help them understand

even though they're prophets and in this

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case, the greatest prophet they still

are humans who are in need of God's help.

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Yeah, for sure.

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It's fascinating.

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He says here.

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Of John the Baptist.

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He says, if you're willing to accept

it, he is Elijah who is to come.

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Now, I reference John's gospel because in

John's gospel the Jews come to John the

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Baptist and they say, are you the Messiah?

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And he says, no.

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And then they say, well,

then are you Elijah?

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And he says no.

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And yet Jesus says he is Elijah.

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Yeah.

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And this is an interesting situation

where you've got John and Jesus

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both saying something different,

and I think what this points to is

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the humility of John the Baptist.

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I think John the Baptist wasn't

about to take on a title for himself.

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Mm-hmm.

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That he wasn't absolutely

sure was his to take.

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And I think this is what you have Jesus

saying in effect, you know, he is the

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fulfillment of this prophecy from Malachi.

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That was, that John the

Baptist would proceed or that.

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Elijah would proceed.

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The coming of the Messiah, Jesus is

saying this has been fulfilled and this

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has been fulfilled in John the Baptist.

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So John the Baptist and his humility

was not about to say I'm the guy,

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but Jesus is now saying he was.

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He was in fact the model of, or at this

time is still, 'cause he's not dead yet.

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I'm not dead yet.

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Yeah.

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He is at this point, he's the

fulfillment of this prophecy

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that Elijah was gonna come first.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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And what an amazing thing that,

that Jesus would call him Elijah.

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What an amazing thing.

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And that's gonna shock

the people who are Yeah.

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Are listening.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It from here he goes on and issues these.

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Statements of judgment, which are

the statements of woe condemnation,

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damnation on these various cities.

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We've talked about it before on

the podcast and in years past, but

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there are going to be different

levels of punishment in hell.

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And we see evidence of that here.

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Because he says to these

cities, woe to you.

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Because if the mighty works had

been done in you or done entire

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inside, they would've repented.

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And then he's gonna go on and say of

Capernaum, he's gonna say Woe to you.

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Because if the mighty work done to you had

been done in Sodom, it would've remained.

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That's amazing.

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Jesus.

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Is his saying in effect that if the

Sodomites had witnessed the things that

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he had done and heard the teachings

that he had taught to the people of

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Capernaum, they would've repented and

never faced the judgment that they faced.

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That's sobering.

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And what's amazing is if you go there

today to Israel and you go to Capernaum on

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the gates of the city, it says Jesus town.

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And it's even a perpetual reminder today,

and it's an indictment today that this

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was the hometown of Jesus during his

earthly ministry, and yet they missed it.

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They, and it is a reminder that

proximity to Christ is not enough.

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You have to have saving faith.

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So just because you've grown up in the

church your whole life, you've gone to

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all of the Bible studies your whole life.

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You've been in Awana or Adventure

Club or whatever, you went to student

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ministry, you went to a Christian college.

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That doesn't guarantee anything, right?

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If you don't have saving faith,

and Jesus is condemnation of

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these towns as a reminder of that.

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Yeah.

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And can I suggest also just as

a maybe a habit or a practice

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as you read your Bibles?

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I know we just read the, we just

recently read the account of Sodom and

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Gomorrah, but let's say you're reading

Matthew 11 it is worth going back when

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you see a name of a town like Sodom.

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Go back and read that account.

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Because Jesus is thinking

of the account of Genesis.

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Of course, he knows exactly all

the details, but he's thinking

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of the account in Genesis, and I

think it can help you understand

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how serious Jesus is about this.

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And I think it's a good way to read

our Bibles, is when you see some of

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these things like the city of Sodom.

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Mentioned, just go back and read that

few paragraphs, few sentences even.

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Really, it's a pretty short

account, and I think that'll help

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you understand how devastating

this condemnation is from Jesus.

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Yeah, and if you come across something

like Tire and Seiden, those are

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mentioned a lot of different places.

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There's not one event necessarily

like Sodom and Gomorrah, but

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that's where using a resource, for

example, like the logs Factbook.

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Yeah.

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Or like having something.

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On hand a, a study bible or

commentary, you'll be able to

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read and go, oh, wait a minute.

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These were Phoenician cities.

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Okay.

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There, there's a history to them.

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There's a history with Israel in the past

with them, and I have a frame of reference

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for what he's talking about here.

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Yeah.

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'cause if you don't know any of these

things, maybe it's just a person.

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Right.

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I think it's evident based on the

woe to unrepentant cities that we see

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as the header there in, in the ESV.

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And even then in verse 20,

he says, denounce the cities.

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But if you don't know.

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These places.

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That's okay.

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Do the work to understand them

because this is a significant

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passage and understanding what

these places are and what they

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represent does help you understand

what Jesus is talking about here.

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So why does Jesus then

follow this up, do you think?

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Pastor Mark, with this section,

which contains your favorite

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descriptor of Jesus, which is

that he is gentle and lowly.

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Do you think there's a connection

here between what Jesus says in

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this condemnation of these cities?

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And then he proceeds to say, come

to me all you who are heavy laden

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and weirded, and I will give you

rest for I'm gentle and lowly.

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You have to read them together.

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I think you have to read them together

because I think we need to know

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that Jesus is gentle and lowly, but

he's not just soft and squishy in

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some sort of random, ambiguous way.

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That gentle and lowness of

Jesus is contrasted and it is

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necessarily contrasted with

the wrath and the judgment.

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Of God.

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And we see that in the

passage preceding that.

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Right.

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I think we can think of God

as some sort of spectrum.

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Right.

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On one end he's soft and squishy,

and on the other end he's granite,

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he's wrathful and angry and bitter.

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That's you, that's where I'm going with.

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Got it.

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And Jesus.

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And God is somewhere, like, somewhere

in the middle of that spectrum.

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Yeah.

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I don't think that's a helpful

way of thinking about it.

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I think rather it's a

both and thing, right?

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Yeah.

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It's a both.

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And where we see.

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That there is judgment coming

to those who reject God.

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There's, we saw judgment in Sodom and

Gomorrah, but he's also, and he's also

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the one who is gentle and lowly and

gracious to those who he gives rest to.

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Yeah.

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It's not a spectrum, it's a both.

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And God is one thing and to put it simply.

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Yeah.

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And I think you're right on that.

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I reading.

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If all we had was 20 through

24 of this chapter, we'd think,

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wow, that's terrifying, man.

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I'm terrified.

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I'm frightened.

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And there's a measure

of that we should have.

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Mm-hmm.

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But then God's so gracious and

Jesus is so gracious to say,

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and yet there's rest with me.

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Mm-hmm.

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Just come to me.

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Mm-hmm.

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I'm not asking you to work harder.

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I'm not asking you to do more.

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I'm not asking you to, like, if somebody's

sitting there going, okay, so then how can

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I make sure that I'm not missing the boat?

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Come to me.

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Right.

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Come truly come to me in faith

and I will give you rest.

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And I, you will find that I'm

gentle and lowly and you're right.

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He is all of these things all at once.

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Why?

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Because God is immutable.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which is a word that

means he's never changing.

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Also, God exists outside of time.

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So God is wrathful towards those

who deserve his wrath right now

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and being merciful towards those

who deserve his mercy right now.

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Which I guess is nobody, that's

an oxymoron to deserve mercy.

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But he's merciful and

wrathful at the same time.

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Mm-hmm.

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He's gentle and lowly and

he's also powerful and just

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and holy at the same time.

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Yeah.

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And he's those things together and they

don't contradict each other because

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he's a perfect God in that sense.

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So yeah.

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The term that theologians will

use sometimes is simple, not in

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the sim, not in the sense that God

is like basic or uncomplicated.

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Or unsophisticated.

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Right.

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But simple in the sense that he is,

he's one and we are multiple things.

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And so God is kind to us to help

us understand different attributes

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of him, but those attributes

cannot be isolated from each other.

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Right?

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They have to be understood

as a one God thing.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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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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God, thanks for your word.

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Thanks for an opportunity to jump back in.

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Grateful for Pastor Mark and Lewis.

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Filling in over the last week or so

grateful for Pastor Mark continuing

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here as Pastor Rod is able to

get some time away on vacation.

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We just pray that we would continue

to read your word well and to read

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it curiously, that we would ask good

questions of it, that we would turn

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to good resources to find answers.

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And we do praise you and thank

you that though you are a God

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who is a God of justice in

wrath, you are also a God who is.

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Revealed himself through Christ to be

gentle and lowly and ready to welcome

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us to, to take on your burden, which is

easy if we will come to you in faith.

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And so I pray that more

and more would do that.

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I pray that all listening to this would've

already done that Lord, and that we

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would follow you with our entire lives.

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We pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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See you all.

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Keep your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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