00:00 Midweek Welcome

00:17 Easter Dates and Services

01:03 Is Scripture Perfect

03:42 Modern Perfection vs Ancient Text

05:22 Bible vs Other Claims

08:56 Numbers 14 Rebellion

11:54 Mercy and Consequences

15:11 Numbers 15 Hope and Reminders

18:01 Mark 6 Nazareth Unbelief

20:32 John the Baptist Martyrdom

22:47 Prayer and Closing

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Good morning.

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And we are midweek.

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We are Wednesday morning.

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So, we're turning the corner,

we're on the way down, and this is

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already the last week in February.

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We are coming up quickly

on the month of March.

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That's right.

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Yeah, it went fast.

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Yep.

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Did you know next year, not this year,

but next year, Easter is actually in

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March, so it's super early next year.

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That is interesting.

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Yeah.

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How do we.

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Get that number.

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How do we get that date?

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I don't know.

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What's that based off of

the Gregorian calendar.

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The lunar calendar, something like that.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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March 28th.

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Next year is Easter Sunday.

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So that's.

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Fast, man that's super early.

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I feel like we're still catching our

breath from Christmas and everything.

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No kidding.

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But this year, Easter Sunday

is not gonna be that date.

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It's gonna be in April.

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April 5th.

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And like we talked about, I

think on yesterday's episode

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or the day before, we're moving

to two services on that Sunday.

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We announced it this past Sunday at church

and it was well received by our people.

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That was encouraging up Rory's applause.

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Yes.

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Yes, with calls for three or four, five

services, I heard seven as many as 12.

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Someone said everybody gets their own.

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It'll just be me and one family.

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Singular service.

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Alright, we have a question.

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Okay.

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And I think this is a good one.

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In fact, we didn't.

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Answer it, but we should

have anticipated it.

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Okay, here's what they say

regarding textual variations.

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This was a popular when

people have had questions.

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Follow up questions from this one.

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The next question that's been asked

is, if God is the author of the Old and

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New Testament, why isn't it perfect?

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Can't God produce a perfect document

and can't he perfectly preserve it?

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They write since it's God who desired

us to have his word in the first place,

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why wouldn't he make it perfect for us?

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Yeah.

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And the answer to that question is the Old

Testament and New Testament were perfect

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in their original in the autographs.

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And, uh, we mentioned autographs.

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Last time we talked, I believe,

on this issue, the autographs

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being the original documents.

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The one that, that wrote it when

it was first given by the Lord at

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that point, they were perfe perfect.

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They were without.

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Any imperfections, they were

without any flaws or errors.

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It was what God wanted.

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Now the process of manuscript transmission

that takes place after that involves a

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lot of different people in many different

areas that are taking the manuscripts and

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they're copying them downward for word.

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And what we need to understand is what

we have being as accurate as it is, is

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evidence of the fact that God has been

behind the process of preservation.

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So even though we can't say that

the English state aversion is.

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John Tittle letter.

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Perfect to what the original was.

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We can say this is as close as

you're going to find essentially

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with any other document.

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And as far as the doctrine, as far as

the theology, as far as what is the

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content of these books communicating,

we can have great confidence that

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it, they're communicating exactly

what God wanted communicated so.

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Part of it is at the end of the day

too our trust and our confidence.

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We're not here to worship a book.

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We're not here to worship a document.

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We're here to worship the God of

the book, the God of the document.

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And so as human beings took these

things and wrote them down naturally,

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and there's a lot of, when you get

into text criticism, there's a lot

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of explanations for what can happen.

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But naturally there's going to

be errors because it's fallen.

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Men that are recording these things.

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But what God has done is he's preserved

his doctrine, he's preserved the gospel,

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he's preserved the, the number of books

canonically for us down through the ages.

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And he's preserved in them the

content that is authoritative for us.

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Yeah, this is such an interesting

question 'cause I understand the

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idea here, if God is perfect, why

wouldn't he preserve it perfectly?

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And I guess part of it has to do

with how you think about perfection.

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God would call his word.

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Perfect.

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Even though we don't have the precise

jot and tittle manuscripts from the

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originals, I think God would still say

his word is perfect and he has by and

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large preserved it to the degree that

we could say, this is the word of God.

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We can say that with confidence,

not because we're measuring it

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against a number, but because

God has preserved it so.

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Precisely.

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Now again, I have to remind is

we operate from a very different

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mindset than our ancestors did.

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We describe perfection as in no

megabyte, no terabyte is lost.

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All of the data is there

in perfect tact, right?

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We even understand this now,

probably more so than we used to be.

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'cause we stream our music now

in, in ways that are considered.

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Lossless, you can get the

original song that the artist

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intended and have the whole file.

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You're not missing any

spectrum of frequency there.

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You're getting the whole thing.

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So we naturally will take that same

idea and say, well, am I getting

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the lossless file from heaven?

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And the answer is, it's yes.

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No.

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Yes you are, but not in the same

way that you're thinking you are.

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We bring our modern day sensibilities

to an ancient text, and I would

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argue that God has given us his

perfect word not perfect, as in

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without any transmission issues.

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Clearly, we've pointed out several,

but they're not so large or so

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disruptive that we can say, we

don't have the word of God anymore.

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We're hopeless.

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No, we do have it.

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I think part of this is

a philosophical thing.

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It's interesting that

God does this with us.

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God is perfectly contented

to use imperfect means to

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deliver his perfect word.

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And all you have to do is just

look at your local pastor.

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Your pastor is no doubt, a sinful man,

but he's used by a perfect God to deliver

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the message that he wants and that

doesn't always mean word perfect accuracy.

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In fact, even on this podcast, we

use ums and ahs and there, you know,

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verbal hiccups that we present to you.

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But we're trying not to.

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We're trying to be as perfect as we can.

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Even still, God uses these things and

so this is a roundabout answer to your

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question, but I would argue we do have

God's perfect word, although not perfect.

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And to the extent that we

describe it today, I don't apply

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a modern standard of perfection

or precision to an ancient text.

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I let the text speak for what it speaks,

and God just, God says this is his word.

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It is his perfect word.

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Yeah.

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And there are other things that we've

talked about in scripture where the

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scripture talks about the sun standing

still in the sky and the biblical author's

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understanding of things like planetary

orbit, things like that, that are not

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necessarily perfect in the sense of what

we know to be true as, as far as science

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and discovery and things like that today.

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But you're gonna find those same things.

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For example, in the Quran, you're also

gonna find inconsistencies in the Quran.

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You're gonna find the Quran

referring to I believe it's in

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Surah 20 versus 85 through 88.

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We find out there that they're gonna

say that there was a Samaritan that

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led the people of Israel into error

during the golden calf incident.

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The problem with that is the

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The city of Samaria and Samaritans

didn't come around until eight 70 bc.

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So there's going to be errors that we're

gonna find in some of the other books.

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So when you have somebody say, well,

my book is perfect, and your book

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has errors that's an inconsistency.

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That's not true.

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When we hold the Bible up to scrutiny.

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Scrutiny as far as.

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Textual criticism and things like that go.

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It's verified.

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It's validated, it's proven true time

and time again without anybody being able

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to say, look at, here's the error, and

this defeats the claims of Christianity.

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Yeah.

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I'm gonna noodle on this a

little more, but I do think.

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The principle that I see at work

is that God is okay using imperfect

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vehicles to deliver his perfect message.

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I see the church imperfect vehicle, his,

in fact, Ephesians five husbands are

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called to love their wives as Christ

loves the church, which means your

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marriage is a vehicle to communicate God's

connection and relationship to the church.

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If you're looking in the mirror

you notice that you're not doing

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it perfectly, and yet God's okay.

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He's contented with

saying that's the message.

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That's the goal.

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That's the goal you're

supposed to communicate.

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Perfection in that there's just so many

areas where God seems to be okay with

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making concessions to humanity and still

utilizing humanity for his noble purposes,

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including and scripting his message.

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Yeah, I guess the one pushback

being our marriages aren't.

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Ever said to be God-breathed, right?

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They're never conveyed with that level of

authority as far as the revelation of God.

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And so I think with scripture we do have

to hold it to a different standard to

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say, even though yes, there's going to

be errors, grammatical errors, or word

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left out here during the transmission

that now we can look back when manuscript

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script copies and find out what.

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What the actual reality was.

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We're gonna be willing to concede that

yes, there are those types of errors, but

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we're not gonna concede that this book

is somehow anything watered down as far

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as being the God-breathed word of God

the authoritative word of God that we

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can teach and say thus says the Lord in

this carries the authority of the Lord.

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Fair Sounds good.

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Just meaning I, the, the imperfections?

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I don't think the imperfections,

I think the imperfections of us

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and humans and even the church and

marriages are more glaring than the

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imperfections that we find in scripture.

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I don't think we find those.

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I think what we have in scripture

is the authoritative word of God.

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Mm-hmm.

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I, I think it's, it hold, it's

on a different, I think we

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have to hold it to a different

standard than we do, for example,

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marriage or pastors or the church.

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Being that it's contents are directly from

him and imbued with his direct authority.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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Yes, I would agree with that entirely.

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The point I'm trying to make is

that God clearly is okay with

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utilizing human instruments Sure.

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Which are inevitably fallible.

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Sure.

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And you see that fallible nature in

the communication of his scripture.

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Yeah.

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So I think I'm trying to say I see

something in the way that God interacts

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with humanity that gives me pause to

say, is my expectation the correct

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expectation given the way that he

has historically worked with humans?

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Okay.

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And again, based on a 21st century

idea of perfection and precision.

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Right?

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Does that make sense?

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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I'm not trying to say

anything about the word.

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I love the word.

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I think the word is perfect, which

is what I was trying to communicate.

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Perf perfect in God's eyes, although

not perfect in our eyes as we, again,

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we're using a different standard.

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We're we're appealing to this from

a 21st century position, which

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is not God's position, timeless.

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I'm tracking.

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Understand.

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Alright, numbers 14 and 15 and

then Mark six, one through 32.

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So numbers 14, the spies have come back.

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We talked about that in chapter 13, and

they've reported that the giants are

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in the land and the land is good, but.

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You know what?

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I don't think we can do it.

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And in number chapter 14,

the people are gonna grumble.

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And here comes the desire

to go back to Egypt again.

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And they are complaining to

the point of saying, Hey, let's

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appoint somebody and go back.

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Let's go back to Egypt.

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Um, let's choose a leader and let's

choose another Moses, the anti Moses to

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go back to Egypt instead of saying here.

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And then, uh, after this, Moses and

Aaron in their meekness, they fall

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on their face before the Lord because

they know this is not gonna go well.

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And this is where, uh,

Joshua and Caleb stand out.

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And they come to the forefront and they

tell the people that this is wrong.

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What they're doing is wrong.

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That they need to instead

be bold and courageous.

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They need to go in and take the

land they need to not rebel.

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So in the face of the people's

faithlessness, we see the faithfulness

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of Joshua and Caleb who are going

to take their stand and say, no,

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we're gonna go do this, and we need.

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To do this and the Lord

is gonna respond as well.

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We find out in verse 11, uh, the

Lord is gonna say, how long is

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this people going to despise me?

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And how long will they not believe in me?

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Uh, and he's even going to hint at

and allude at the undoing of the

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Abraham at covenant, though he's not

going to set it aside completely.

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He says in verse 12, I will strike them

with the pestilence and disinherit them

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and I'll make of you a nation greater

and mi greater and mightier than they so.

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Not completely abrogating the Abrahamic

covenant, but, but basically threatening

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again as he's done multiple times.

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Alright, Moses, you're the new Noah.

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I'm starting over with you.

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And by implication I think we can

understand that Aaron would be included

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in that as well as Joshua and Caleb.

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But, um, God is unhappy with the

response of the people here to say the

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least man that is putting it mildly.

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Numbers 14 is a turning point

for the people of Israel.

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This, in fact, is going to be the

nail that seals their coffin that

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and guarantees they're gonna wander

the desert for the next 40 years.

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Yep.

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And you'll notice that what happens

here, it begins with grumbling.

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It begins with A, a complaining against

God really against Moses and Aaron,

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but really at ultimately against God.

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I want you to notice how devastating

Discontentedness can be, especially

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as it relates to the providential

arrangement of God's plan for your life.

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They weren't happy with what?

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With what God gave them.

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And in fact, what God was trying to

give them was a promise to be fulfilled,

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a promise for them to fight, for,

to take and to enjoy by his grace.

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And yet they, they instead responded

with fear, which is irrational by

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the way, did you notice, I mean,

we didn't point it out in the last.

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In the last chapter, but the people were

trying to find any reason not to obey God.

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Fear lies to us.

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Fear is irrational and

that hasn't changed.

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Human nature still remains the same.

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We love to let fears justify

our inactivity, and here it's no

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different, but notice how God responds.

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This is not gonna go well for them.

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Their fear is an inherent lack of

faith, and because of that, they're

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gonna be in a really bad spot going

forward in this one bad decision.

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Ruins the next 40 years of their lives.

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It does.

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Yeah.

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And that's the the consequences.

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God is gonna be merciful.

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In fact, Moses intercedes and God

is going to say, I will be merciful.

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Moses intercedes, even by

appealing back to Exodus 34, when

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he quotes the name of the Lord.

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The Lord is slow to anger, bounding,

steadfast love, forgiving iniquity.

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So he's recalling the way that

God even revealed himself to him.

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And he's gonna ask for mercy.

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And God says, I will be merciful,

but here are my consequences.

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And his decision is all those 20

years old and upwards who had been.

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With Moses and, and had heard God's

promises about entering the promised land,

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they were gonna die in the wilderness.

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They weren't gonna get to, to

enter into the Promised land.

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And, and we notice here,

God even keeps count.

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He says, they have put me

to the test these 10 times.

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And so God is, is tracking.

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God is aware of even how many

times the people have grumbled

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and challenged his promises about

bringing them into the promised land.

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So he says they're gonna.

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Fall, they're not gonna make it.

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And the rest of you are gonna wander

in, in this period of, of waiting

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for this generation to, to die off.

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It's gonna be 40 years of wandering

in the wilderness, and that's gonna

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match one day for every or one year,

for every day that the spies had

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gone into Spy out the promised Land.

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Uh, as a result of.

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Their faithlessness as well.

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The, the spies, aside from Joshua and

Caleb, they're gonna die as well because

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God is going to strike them directly.

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He's gonna say, these ones

I'm taking out immediately.

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And so they are going to end up

dying as of a, uh, the result of a

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plague here in verses 36 through 38.

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Yeah.

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And what's interesting to me is that

he isolates those who are guilty to

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those who are 20 years old and up.

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I don't know why God chose that

number, because in those days,

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someone who was a young teenager

could still be considered, you know,

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a contributing member of society.

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They could have married, we think Mary was

pretty, pretty young when she, when she

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was betrothed to Joseph, but God chooses

a number and that's the number that he

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is the cutoff line for whatever reason.

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I just noticed that that was

something interesting to me.

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But this is in fact a mercy of God,

not to destroy them all in one fells.

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What he could have.

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In fact, you might remember he

threatened to do that and say,

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Moses, I'm gonna start over with you.

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And he says, no, please don't do that.

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And, and yet here he's going to let

them live and he's going to continue

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to provide for them and care for them

through these next 40 years, which

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is another mark of God's grace where

he could have just obliterated them.

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Instead, he sustains them.

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He protects them, and he cares

for them for the next 40 years.

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Yeah, it's, it's fascinating 'cause

in Deuteronomy we're gonna read where

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God is gonna say, the ones that are

allowed to go in is your, your children

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who today have no knowledge of good

or evil, they shall go in there.

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So I think they're, yep.

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We're dealing with two separate groups.

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I don't think.

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Moses is saying, or God is

saying that a 19-year-old has

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no knowledge of good or evil.

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So it does, that's true.

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Yeah.

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There is some extra dispensation of,

of mercy that he shows here to those

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that are old enough to, but maybe

it's because they, the 20 years and

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old, older, were those fit for war.

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Those fit for battle and so maybe the,

those younger than that didn't really

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have a say in whether or not they were

gonna go in and take the promised land

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because they weren't a fighting age.

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Maybe that's why.

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That's a good point.

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But, um, later on, he's gonna excuse

the, the children specifically,

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well, Israel doesn't like this, and

they kind of say ooey on God, and,

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and they want to do it anyways.

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And so they, they muster themselves.

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They say, nevermind,

we're gonna go do this.

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And, and Moses warns them by God,

don't do this because God is not going

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with you, and they're gonna end up.

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Facing the Amalekites and, and facing

a, a great defeat, uh, against them

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when they try to enter into the promised

land without God's blessing there.

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And so, uh, this launches the wilderness

wanderings the 40 years at this point.

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And in verse or in chapter 15, uh, the,

the author continues, Moses does with.

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Some more of, okay.

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As you wander, here's some of

what this is gonna look like.

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The laws that he is gonna get into,

uh, here are going to be for their

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wandering, but also for when they get

into the promised land, how they should

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go about bringing their offerings for

unintentional sins, for intentional sins.

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Uh, some, some repeated material from

some of what we've already read in

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the books of, of etiquette, Exodus.

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Atticus, Atticus, Exodus, and Leviticus.

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Let's just rename it.

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I, I just wanna point out to you

guys as we think about this here,

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the, the, the splash effect or the

fallout effect of your personal

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sins and decisions never, never only

isolated to you and yours or your life.

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Other people suffer because

of our faithfulness.

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And you have to see that other people

are gonna suffer because of our sin.

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That's what happens here.

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That's what, that's

what this is all about.

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And yet in chapter 15, I, I think

the reason God puts us here,

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'cause it doesn't make sense to me.

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Why put chapter 15 after 14,

they had totally blown it.

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And yet chapter 15 is like, well,

but when you get to the land, um,

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which is what verse two says, I

think, I think what's happening here

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is that God is showing his just.

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Punishment in chapter 14, but also his

incredible mercy and grace in chapter 15.

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In other words, you're, you're not done.

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I'm not done with you.

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We're not done with this thing.

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When you get to the land 40 years from

now, when you get there and it's not

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gonna be you, it's gonna be your kids.

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Here's what I'm gonna expect.

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So I think this is here for the express

purpose of giving them a sense of hope.

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God.

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God still not done with them.

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Yeah.

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And then also one of the things that

we see towards the end of chapter 15, I

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think you asked the question a while back.

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We were in the New Testament talking about

the tassels on the garments, and here

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we see the reason given for the tassels

on the garments in numbers chapter 15.

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They were there to be a visual

reminder for the people to prompt

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them to obedience and worship.

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And I think that's really cool.

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Um, they can become.

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Misused and that's what they

had become for the Pharisees.

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They were wearing them extra long and

showing how godly they were because

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they had these extra long tassels

that they could could point to.

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But having visual reminders that

cause you to love God more or to

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to spur you on towards obedience

to the Lord, those are good things.

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We were talking just before hitting

and record on the podcast about how

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journaling can even be that it's not

necessarily a visual reminder, but when

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you look back on journaling entries

from a year ago or two years ago.

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Those can be reminders of God's

faithfulness to you that prompt you

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to worship him, to prompt you, to

obey him in the present as well.

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Yeah, that's one of my favorite,

one of my favorite methods of

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reminding myself of what God is, is

doing, has done, continues to do.

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Uh, but I do, I do think that

something about physical reminders

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is such a good thing for us.

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And in a world of digital media,

you know, you got digital watch, a

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digital phone, a digital screen in

front of you at all times of the day.

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Having physical reminders that are

tangible can be a really powerful

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tool to remind you, for instance.

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If our, if our lead senior pastor wanted

to wrap his car with the Compass logo,

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see where you're going there, no one would

be like, no one would be upset by that.

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I, everybody would be blessed and

encouraged to see that and be like,

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man, that pastor cares about his church.

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That's what we would all say.

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Well, you know what, let's

jump over to our New Testament

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reading in Mark chapter six.

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Alright, mark, chapter six.

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Uh, Jesus is, is preaching there.

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He's preaching in Nazareth, which

is significant because this is.

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One of his home areas, right?

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Capernaum is where he was

doing a lot of ministry.

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Nazareth was where he grew up,

and he's, he's preaching and he's

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serving and is ministering there.

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And the, the people's response here when

it says is this, not the carpenter, the

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the son, the carpenter's son, and the son

of Marian, the brother of James and his.

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And this is not the same way when

like you see some of your parents'

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friends when you're growing up

and, and you get a little bit older

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and they're like, oh, look at you.

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You're so sweet.

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And I remember when you were

kneehigh to a grasshopper, this is

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cynicism that's being expressed here.

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They're coming at Jesus going, who do you

think you are bringing your teaching like?

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This, we watched you grow up.

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We know who you are.

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You're the son of the carpenter.

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You're the son of Mary

James is your brother.

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And so Jesus levels this charge of them

and says, A prophet is not without home

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honor, except in his hometown, among

his relatives, in, in his own household.

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And it says he could do no mighty work

there except that he laid his hands

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on a few people and healed them, and

he marveled because of their unbelief.

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That always stands out to me anytime God

marvels, uh, that, that's shocking to me

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because this is the omniscient God, right?

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And so he.

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Knows all things.

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In fact, we know in John chapter two

that Jesus, even in his humanity,

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knew the hearts of men because he did

not entrust himself to those who were

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initially following him because he knew

the hearts of men and needed no man to

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bear witness about what was in them.

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And so Jesus, even here, I think, is

just stressing and emphasizing how

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hard hearted the people of his hometown

were in, in their cynicism towards him.

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Verse three, uh, tells us that Jesus.

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Well, verse three tells us that Mary was

not perpetually a virgin because she has

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at least six other children besides Jesus.

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Now, I found out recently that the

historic church, the, the early church

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thought and, and ascribed to Mary, um, a

perpetual virginity because of a desire

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to honor her and a desire to honor Jesus.

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It wouldn't make sense, you

know, how could divinity share

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a vessel with other humanity?

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That kind of thing.

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Uh, well intentioned.

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But I think the plain reading of scripture

here tells us that Jesus had a family.

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And there was at least six other siblings.

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He had four brothers that are listed

here, and then sisters plural.

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So there's at least two other girls in

the family and I think we should take

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it as what it is that they were, in

fact, his actual in the flesh siblings.

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Yeah, I'd agree.

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And many of them will reject

him for a long time until.

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Probably after his resurrection

where they finally come around and

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decide, okay, okay, we believe you.

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Now he's who he says he was.

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The rest of chapter six, we have John

the Baptist, and uh, John the Baptist

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was, was a man of, of great courage

and we find that in his confrontation.

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Verse 18, John had been saying to

Herod again, Herod was a powerful man,

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as is seen by what happens to John.

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But John's not afraid to,

back to, to stand up to him.

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He's not.

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So afraid that he's willing to back down.

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He says, it is not lawful for

you to have your brother's wife.

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He's telling Herod what you're

doing is wrong, Herod, and

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he's gonna end up in prison.

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He's gonna end up in jail.

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And this woman that Herod was with

is gonna be so upset with John and so

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petty and petulant that she's going to.

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Orchestrate, uh, his eventual murder,

and he, she does so by this request that

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comes from the her daughter and Herod.

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Then because he had made this

vow before, his party guest

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has to follow through with it.

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So John the Baptist, a faithful

servant of the Lord, one whom Jesus

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said there is none greater among what.

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Those born to women except

for, than John the Baptist.

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He's the greatest of all.

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Save, obviously Jesus himself.

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But this is his end, which is somewhat

shameful, and yet at the same time, not

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because of how he goes out, he goes out

as a man of integrity and boldness here.

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Yeah.

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So this, this whole section here

tells us about John the Baptist,

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who, or he's a unique fellow on

in, in the New Testament timeline.

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He's called the Greatest

to live before RB.

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Yeah, before the New Testament.

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In the end of the Old Testament,

he's a unique character.

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He's the forerunner of Christ, and yet he.

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He received a very inglorious death, which

tells us for someone who's so honored and

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esteemed in God's sight, in Jesus' sight,

if he can be let go in this way, if I'm,

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and I'm using euphemistic language, I

don't think any one of us can say, well

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Lord, I wanna die in this particular way.

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Yeah.

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Uh, I want to, I, I, I don't want

to be morbid, never my intention,

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but I do want to be realistic about

what we should expect from the Lord.

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It's good that we live in north Texas.

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We have great healthcare.

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We have all these things, but we need

to be okay with the fact that God

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has a way to dispatch his people.

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That may not be the way that we prefer.

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I, I, I would wonder if.

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John would prefer to go out this way.

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Yeah.

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Being beheaded actually was, was

kind of a merciful way to go.

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Yeah.

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It was fairly quick.

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They could have done it in a lot of other

ways, but beheading was, was pretty nice.

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All things considered.

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Yeah.

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But notice here, he's the

honored John the Baptist.

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Jesus commence him and yet

this is how he goes out.

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Interesting.

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In glorious.

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And yet this was God's plan for him.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, 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, we know your plan is perfect and

none of us know how we will leave this

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earth and enter into your presence.

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Some of us may face more Inglorious

methods of departure than others, and yet

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we know in the end that our confidence

needs to be in you no matter what.

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We need to be willing

to say what the apostle.

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Paul, to live his Christ, to die His

gain, and even to be able to get to

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the place with the Apostle Paul saying,

to depart and be with Christ is far

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better than even remaining here.

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And so, Lord, give us such a desire to

be with Jesus, that we're willing to be

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faithful to you, even to the end here,

knowing that the end here is simply

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the beginning of our time with you.

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And we pray that you would

make us a church strong in

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our faith towards that end.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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