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Chapters

00:00 Good Friday Meaning

00:48 Saying Happy Good Friday

03:22 Why God Tests Us

07:14 Judges 10 Overview

08:06 God Moved by Misery

10:15 Jephthah and Ammonites

13:34 Spirit and Tragic Vow

17:15 Judges Points to Jesus

18:52 Luke 9 Mission Gospel

22:30 Who Do You Say

23:55 Transfiguration Glory

25:38 Prayer and Farewell

Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey folks, and hello.

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It is Good Friday today.

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Why is it Good Friday?

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You might ask because this is the day

that we choose to remember the death of

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Jesus, and so you might think that Black

Friday should be today and good Friday

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because people buy all the good stuff.

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My, maybe that's the, the better name

for the Friday before Thanksgiving.

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But no, this is Good Friday because

of what the cross represents.

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Our hope in the fact that.

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As we're gonna talk about even at

our services this evening, that our

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debt's been paid by Jesus on the cross.

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That if we repent from our sins and

put our trust in that payment, that God

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can remain just and be the justifier

of the one who has faith in Jesus.

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And that's why it's good Friday.

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So happy, good Friday.

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Hopefully you're planning to join

us four o'clock, five 30 tonight

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for our Good Friday services.

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Do you say Happy Good Friday.

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Is that, do you tell people, Hey, happy.

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Good Friday to you.

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Seems redundant to say happy and

good, and also a bit off the.

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The tone of the day too.

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But it's funny 'cause it's

Good Friday, which would.

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You know, we, we don't

even say good Easter.

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Google says, you can say things like,

wishing you a blessed Good Friday.

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You can also say, have a meaningful

good Friday or third may you find peace

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and hope on this day, which a blessed

good Friday if we're gonna go Greek.

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Blessing.

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The word for blessed also

also means the word for happy.

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So that's true.

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Couldn't it be that we're,

that Google is saying, yeah,

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you can say Happy Good Friday.

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I'm gonna say have a

meaningful good Friday.

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I don't, I don't think I've

ever said that to somebody.

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Like, I don't think I've ever

put that sentence together.

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Happy Good Friday.

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I, I don't think I've ever left some

conversation and said, happy good Friday.

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What you say as I walked away, you.

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I do you just not acknowledge it?

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I think because of the awkwardness

of the English syntax and the meaning

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of all these words, I just don't

think I say Good Friday to you.

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Yeah.

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I don't say peace be with you on

this good Friday hallowed day.

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I don't, I don't know that.

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I don't, I think probably just 'cause of

the awkwardness of the English language

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when it comes to those edict from for

for Compass Bible Church in North Texas.

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We're gonna genuflect and do the

cross with each other on Good Friday.

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Yikes.

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Yeah.

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Oh, so just get letters about that.

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Just kidding.

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We're not gonna do that.

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Alright, well good Friday to all of you.

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See now I'm using it differently though.

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Yeah.

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'cause that's like good Friday day.

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Yeah.

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Good.

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Good.

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Friday's a proper noun.

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Good day sir.

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I don't know how to, good Friday, sir.

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Talk to you all.

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I'm just gonna say I

don't know what to say.

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And there's also that weird thing

where on a Good Friday service you

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typically have a more somber feel.

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Yeah, right.

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You know, Sunday's there.

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And yet you're still participating in that

sense of, I want to feel the gravity and

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the guilt of my sin such that it warrants

my savior to go on the cross for my sin.

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Crazy.

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It, it's a, it's a weird day for me.

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It's, and I, I appreciate it.

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I enjoy it.

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But it's also a bit strange to

quote Phil Wickham, Friday's

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good because Sunday's coming.

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Mm.

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And actually, we're not

doing that song this year.

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That's what we're talking about.

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On Sunday though, we're talking about

how the resurrection is that which.

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Really applies what happens on

Friday that without the resurrection

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on Sunday, Friday isn't good.

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Um, so it would've been especially

fitting to do that song this year, it

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would've, and, and maybe, you know,

had you had a a, a pastor that was

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more proactive in, in planning could

plan that and said, Hey, we should do,

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uh, we should put that song on there.

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Well, I did consult the Ouija board.

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Did you?

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And it did lead me in a

pretty good direction.

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Well, we're gonna get.

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Lots, lots of letters we're

borderline explicit on this podcast.

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Um, yeah, speaking of letters, we

did get one that was written in

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a question on judges three, four.

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They were there for the testing of Israel

to know whether or not Israel would obey.

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And this particular questioner says,

really, that seems harsh contradicts

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even in my mind all the protections

God offers throughout scripture.

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So I think that's.

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That's a, a poignant observation that,

that God is one who loves his people,

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who cares for his people, and is there

to provide for his people as well.

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And yet it's not foreign, even in

the New Testament for us to see that

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God does test those that he loves.

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James even talks about the trials

that we encounter in our lives.

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Consider Joy, my brothers, when you

encounter various trials, knowing that the

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testing of your faith produces endurance.

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And even that we might be, as

James goes on to say perfect

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or complete in our faith.

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And so God brings testing even Hebrews.

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He disciplines the one that he

loves, like a father disciplines

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the child that he loves.

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And so I don't think our memory verse too.

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Yeah, that is for, so our memory verse,

do not be surprised at the fire trial.

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When it comes upon you to Yes.

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Test you, to attest you as

though something strange

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were happening to you right.

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From one Peter.

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So we do see that.

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But yeah, I'd love to get

y'all's thoughts on there too.

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It, it does, you read

it in a at face value.

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It's like, well, why would God do that?

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Why would God leave these

nations to test his people?

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It doesn't seem loving.

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When we first read at initial

glance there, what makes me

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think of the temptation of Jesus?

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So I, I think maybe the

way the question is.

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Asked might suggest that the

asker might disagree with me, but

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I, I do actually think that it's

common for God to test his people.

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I mean, you might even see that

with Adam and Eve in the garden.

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It doesn't explicitly say that that

was a test, but I do think you could

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argue, and I would, that that is a

test of Adam and Eve in the garden.

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Mm-hmm.

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So I do think, and we see that

throughout scripture, that

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there are places where there.

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God tests his people.

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And I think the pinnacle of that

is, is the temptation of Jesus.

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And we see throughout scripture

that all these different

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people fail to be obedient.

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Right?

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And God is testing to see if they will

obey in judges throughout the book, but

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specifically in this, this particular

passage that the questioner references.

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But I mean, you look at the

temptation of Jesus, God allows

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him to be tempted to be tested and.

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I would contend that this is

actually the pinnacle of temptation.

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This is the most intense temptation

ever brought on humanity, is

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Jesus being tempted by Satan.

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And what do you see in,

you know, we just read it.

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It's obviously in the other gospels

as well, but in Luke four, he.

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Endures that temptation.

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He obeys, contra all the people who

came before him who did not obey.

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Right?

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So I think even Jesus is tested now.

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I think there is protection.

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I mean I think we see in one Corinthians

10 is it that God is not going to

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test us beyond what we are able to and

he's gonna provide a way of escape.

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Is that one Corinthians 10?

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Yes.

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I think it's one Corinthians 10.

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And um, so there are protections,

but it doesn't mean that

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God isn't gonna tempt us.

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Uh, to be clear, God is not

the one who does the tempting.

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To be very precise, to allow us to

be tempted or to put us to the test.

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I'll just quote James one for the testing

of your faith produces steadfastness.

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I remember coming across the same

idea of what, why does God test us?

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What's he trying to figure out?

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And the answer of course is that he knows

he's using this as a means that we might

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know where we stand in relation to him.

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And so as a good father, he

exposes us so that we would know

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our weakness so that we may grow.

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In fact, I was just praying

earlier, the Lord show us what we

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need to fix, but not all of it.

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I don't want to know everything

that needs to be changed, but

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just show me what I need to see

so I can take steps of obedience.

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Yeah.

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And become more like Christ.

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That's ultimately the goal.

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Yeah, there you go.

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Good question.

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And, uh, if you've got more questions,

anybody out there listening, feel free

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to write 'em in and we'll do our best to

get them answered in a timely fashion.

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Well, let's turn to our daily

Bible reading for today.

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We're in judges 10 and 11, and then

Luke chapter nine, one through 36.

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Judges 10 and 11.

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Judges 10.

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There's two judges that we read about

very briefly in verses one through

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five, but I want you to note there

that there's 45 years that trans

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transpire in those five verses.

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So you've got.

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Tola, who judges Israel for 23 years

and then after him comes Jaire,

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who judges Israel for 22 years.

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So we don't get a lot of information

about their ruling about the rain,

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about, uh, rain's a bad term, but about

their ministry amongst the people.

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But it is 45 years of time that

does pass by just like that.

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And then afterwards, shocker, I

know you're surprised at this by

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this point in time in the book of

Judges, but Israel again does what

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is evil in the side of the Lord.

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And in the rest of Chapter 10, we're gonna

find out that God is gonna deliver them

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over to the hand of the Philistines and

the Ammonites, and that's gonna be for.

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18 years of oppression slash

captivity by these foreign nations.

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One of the coolest verses

in this chapter is verse 16.

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So they put away the people, put

away the foreign gods from among them

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and serve the Lord and and get this.

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When else are you gonna

see something like this?

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That virgins on saying that God sin.

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And God, he became impatient

over the misery of Israel.

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Isn't impatience a sin, at least the

way that we understand it, and yet

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hear God who does not exist in time

condescends to them in a time reference

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to say he doesn't like the fact that

they're suffering in these ways?

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I love this because it shows me the

tender hearted nature of God, who even

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though we just talked about him during the

beginning of this podcast, it sometimes

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seems like God is harsh or uncaring or

showing himself to be ways that are.

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Just difficult to understand, but here

you gotta put the pieces together.

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Even though God is the one who's

bringing on this suffering for Israel,

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he does it in a redemptive fashion

where he's intending to do them good.

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Even to the point where

God can say sincerely, he's

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impatient over their misery.

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He doesn't like that.

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He doesn't want to sit in

that state even though again.

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God doesn't exist in time, which

is a mind-boggling thought to me.

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And yet here you see this

incredible image of God, what

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he thinks about their situation.

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And of course, I would extend it

even to you as a Christian, how

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God thinks about your situation.

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If you're going through a difficult

time, it's not like God is

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passively sitting back saying,

well, hey, I'm just stick it out.

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You're gonna be okay.

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You know, toughen up buttercup.

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God cares.

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And, and God is willing to

condescend into our misery.

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Yeah, it's, and it is a condescension,

even the, the way that he uses that

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word to describe it, because God is

not impatient, such that we become

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impatient when something that's

out of our control is delayed.

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Right.

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And then we grow weary of waiting

and we're like, I want it now.

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And it's not ours to really

get at that moment, or we have

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to sin to be able to get it.

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That clearly is not God.

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Everything is within God's

sovereign purview and control.

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And anything that God does is good.

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So this is just.

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God giving us a glimpse through

the writer of this book into, a

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way of us understanding his love

for us, his compassion towards us.

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That it was like he was con

impatient towards what was going on.

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He had everything in his disposal to do

what he needed to do to bring the relief

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to the people, but he wanted us to know

he was moved, over the plight of the

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people because of their repentance.

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Well, in chapter 11 we're

introduced to a guy named jta.

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And you may know jta more for the

words that he promised foolishly

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rather than the actions of jta.

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But Jha is going to be used by

God to deliver the people from the

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hand of the Ammonites specifically.

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JHA is gonna warn the Ammonites

to consider the history of Israel.

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He's gonna go through here and

say, look at what the God of

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Israel, what our God has done.

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And that's important to know because.

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When the United States is overseas right

now attacking Iran or the United States

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is engaged in a conflict or other nations

are engaged in conflicts typically today,

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it's not a conflict of God against God.

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It's a nation against nation.

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It's a political force against a political

force, but at this point in time.

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When war broke out, it was

the god of this nation against

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the God of the other nation.

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That's why, as we're gonna see later

on in one Samuel, the ark is captured

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by the Philistines and put in the

temple of their false God as a sign

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that the Philistines God won over

the Israelites God in that battle.

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So here JTA is challenging the

Ammonites saying, who do you

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think you are Boeing up against?

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Our God.

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Uh, because let me recount for you

everything that our God has done.

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And then he prepares to go to battle.

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And so confident is he in the

Lord's delivery that he says, Lord,

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I'm, I'm going to whatever comes

outta my door, that, that thing

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I'm going to sacrifice to you.

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Uh, when I return home from this

victorious battle, which I don't know

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what he was thinking, I, every single

time I come to this passage, I look

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for something that would've gone okay.

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Was he greeted by like a cat every morning

that he came home from the fields, and he

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was like, I don't like that cat, so I'm

just gonna get like, what was he thinking?

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Just go right to the cat

in the first place then.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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I mean, that would've been less foolish

than what he says, but, um, God's

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gonna deliver, but there's gonna be

a, a great cost here, which I guess

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we can get to just momentarily here.

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But anything on, on that first part there?

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I, I'm gonna be inclined to think that

JHA is not a particularly good character.

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In entirety.

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Uh, there are things he says about

God that are correct and about the

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history of people that are correct.

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But I even think looking at verse

three of chapter 11, where it says that

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worthless fellows collected around him I

think that's an indication by the author

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here that this is not somebody who is

living righteously, living faithfully.

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And so I even think that

is something that should.

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Flavor, how we read the things

he says about the people of

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Israel and about how God works.

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And it culminates in this, this

horrible vowel that he makes.

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And so I think he's perhaps using

language here that is correct, but

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he probably doesn't mean that's

gonna be my interpretation of it

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because of some of these hints that

we get in the first few verses.

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I would be interest.

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Yeah, go ahead.

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I, I was just gonna say, I think you're

right about your read on Jeff, that

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as a character and I would even say

that some of what he says here as he's

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recounting Israel's history is not right.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's not correct.

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Mm-hmm.

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Uh, he even gets their God wrong.

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He says, you know, will not.

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Will not, will you not possess what mosh

or mosh your God gives you to possess?

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And they would say,

well, that's not our God.

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Good try, but that's not

the one that we worship.

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And then he goes in verses 25 and say,

did, did, uh, did they ever contend, did

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your people ever contend against Israel

or did they ever go to war with them?

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Well, yes.

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Numbers 22 through 24.

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That whole section is about that.

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So he's recounting Israel's

history incorrectly.

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He has some things right, he has a lot

of things wrong, which in my mind then

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only reinforces the tragic vow that he

makes because he's ill-informed at best.

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So what do we do with then?

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Verse 29, after all that,

'cause I agree with you guys.

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The spirit of the Lord rushes upon him.

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And so this is God just simply

using an imperfect vessel to

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accomplish his perfect plan.

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And that's why the spirit

of the Lord rushes upon him.

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And, and then is the spirit

of the Lord anointing him when

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he makes this foolish vow.

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Um, it's.

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It's odd because you, when you see

the spirit of the Lord rush upon

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someone, typically at, at this

point in time, that's a, a sign

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of God's favor upon the person.

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And so JTA is clothed with the

spirit, at least to do the Lord's

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bidding when it comes to delivering

the people from the Ammonites.

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But perhaps that's where it stopped it.

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It didn't go any further than that.

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'cause this is not an indwelling, so

this is not a total right transformation

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of the character the way that we

think about it in the New Testament.

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But I guess you could look at it as

compartmentalized to his leadership

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of the people to rally the troops and

go to battle and, and win the battle.

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I do think that it can't be comprehensive

because Deuteronomy 18 verse 10 says,

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there shall not be found among you.

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Anyone who burns his son

or daughter as an offer.

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Anyone who practices divination or tells

fortunes or interprets omens or sorcerers,

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it goes on and on and effectively the.

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The declaration of those types of people

is that they're an abomination to God.

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And so when it comes to his, his

vow, I do think that he knows

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that it's going to be a human.

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I mean, the, the implication, I think.

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You, you could argue otherwise,

but I'm gonna contend, I do think

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he thinks it's a human 'cause.

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Who else would be coming

out the door to greet him?

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Yeah.

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On his return.

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So I, I, maybe he knows

it's gonna be his daughter.

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Maybe he doesn't.

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I don't know that for sure, but I do

think that that vow is contrary to

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what God has commanded, blatantly.

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And so when it talks about the spirit

of the Lord upon him, it cannot

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extend to that because that would

be a contradiction of scripture

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and a contradiction of who God is.

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Amen to that.

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I would only add that the spirit

of the Lord working in the old

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Covenant is very different than

he does in the New Covenant.

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In the new covenant.

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It is a comprehensive mm-hmm.

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Over overarching con control, as

in a like mechanical, but the, the

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Lord comprehensively dwells with

the Christian, changes his thoughts,

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feelings, desires, all those things.

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Mm-hmm.

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In a progressive way, whereas in.

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Under the old Covenant, the spirit has

a functional purpose for his empowerment

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of somebody giving them some kind of

wisdom for a certain situation or physical

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strength to do a certain feat, much

like judges six, where you have a Samson

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who brings down the house literally.

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Um, so I, I, I don't see this as being in.

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In conflict with the new covenant.

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In fact, because of what he says,

things, again, he continues, even

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though he does this great thing,

he accomplishes military victory.

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He still says things like,

I can't take back my vow.

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I guess that's what it is actually.

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He can buddy.

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You can and you should.

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Uh, and then he, he says things that just

are evident to me that the, the spirit's

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relationship to him is functional.

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It's specific to the task at hand and

not, not comprehensive to his life.

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So the conclusion of all of these

events then is more evidence of

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his wickedness then, because he did

have an out to Rene gun, his vow.

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Yeah.

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And I guess to your point, pastor

Mark, you said this is incompatible

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with what he does to his daughter.

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That's why some people suggest

that he actually doesn't.

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Do anything to his daughter.

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She's just dedicated to perpetual

virginity for the rest of her life,

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which is why the gals mourn for her

because they mourn for her virginity.

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They're not mourning for her life,

at least as some understand it.

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I think Jeff, that does exactly

what you think he's doing.

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And the those virgins, because that

was a much bigger deal for them,

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would've said, oh, this poor gal,

she never got to live a full life.

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She never got to do all these

things that a woman would do

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because it meant more to them.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I would agree.

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Yeah, it's, it's a horrible situation.

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That's why it's known as Jetta's, tragic

vow, and that's why he's known for

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that more than he is for anything else.

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And the whole book is meant to point

us to, oh Lord, we need a redeemer.

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Oh Lord, we need a savior.

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Oh Lord, we need a real judge.

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We need a true judge, a righteous judge.

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So judges should make

you thirsty for Jesus.

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It should make you say, I need a leader.

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I need a hero.

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Mm-hmm.

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Like that song, I Need a Hero.

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You need that person.

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Yeah.

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And all these people are meant

to show you how inadequate and

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incapable it is to try to serve the

Lord with your own human strength.

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Yeah.

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And yeah, go ahead.

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If you feel sick when you read this,

I don't think that's a bad response.

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I feel even queasy, even at this

moment, just thinking about this

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sequence of events, I don't think

that that's the wrong emotion that

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you should have, but to Pastor Rod's

point, that needs to drive you to.

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Recognizing the desperate need we have for

a solution to this problem, which I think

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in the Old Testament you we're seeing

'cause we're headed towards King David.

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And King David is gonna be the high

point arguably of the Old Testament.

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Solomon, you could argue is,

is a great king as well, but I

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think it crescendos with David.

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And then it begins the downfall

after that, Solomon's failure as a

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father, uh, which David had his own,

but Solomon's failure as a father

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led to the division of the kingdom.

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And then you've got the southern kingdom.

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Northern kingdom, you've got

the exile, the northern kingdom,

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the exile is southern kingdom.

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And the downfall, again, until you get

the offspring of David the offspring of

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Abraham, you've got the final fulfillment.

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Who's Jesus, who's the ultimate

redeemer that we're looking forward to.

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So there's, there is a high point that

we're moving to in the book of judges

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or, or in the, the Old Testament.

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And I think that this.

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This depravity that we're seeing here

is meant to cause us to long for that

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and was meant to cause Israel to long

for that because David was a type of

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the one that was ultimately to come.

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That would be the, the

greatest fulfillment of that.

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Let's flip over to Luke chapter

nine and dive into our New Testament

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reading verses one through 36.

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Luke nine at the beginning, they, uh,

gather the, the 12 apostles do, and

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they're sent out to, it says there, preach

the gospel and to heal everywhere they go.

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So, verse six, chapter nine,

verse six, preach the gospel.

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Pastor Mark, what do you think they use?

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Do you think they use

the four spiritual laws?

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Do you think they use Ray Comfort in the

Old Testament that the 10 Commandments?

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What, what was the gospel that

they were preaching right there?

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I think they had some tracks.

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Do you?

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I think they had tracks.

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Jesus wrote tracks for them.

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Yeah.

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We need to get our hands

on whatever he wrote.

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Okay.

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I think let's do that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But this is interesting.

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It is.

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What is the gospel that they're

proclaiming at this point?

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Because it's not what we

think of when we read this.

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I'd say that the gospel

they're proclaiming is what

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Jesus commissions them to do.

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The Lord is here.

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It's time to turn Similar to what

John the Baptist would've said.

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Yeah, I think it's gonna be

along that vein with the caveat

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that Jesus himself is here.

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I, I think they knew something about

Jesus that would've been able to give

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them a sense of saying, Hey, that,

that the Messiah's here, I don't

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know if they would've been able to

articulate it that way at this point

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in their, in their history, but

they would've had some knowledge.

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In fact, we're going to see soon here.

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Uh, yeah.

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It's in the next passage,

actually, I'm getting it clear.

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The Caesarea Philippi confession.

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Mm-hmm.

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Where they explicitly state who he is.

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So they had to have something.

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Mm-hmm.

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They couldn't maybe articulate

it the way they did, but some

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form of the Messiah is here.

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Jesus is here.

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Turn from your sins and looks to the Lord.

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So at this point in time, salvation

being offered was similar to the

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salvation of the Old Testament saints.

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Then anticipating, believing the

promises of God and having that

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credited to them as righteousness

without having an understanding

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of the cross and the need for.

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What we see there.

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Uh, yeah, I think so.

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I would put it maybe slightly

different, which is that Jesus is

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on the scene and the Old Testament

promises that Jesus is coming is coming.

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And so I think, you know, you even see

Paul do this, uh, you, you, you see

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several people before they actually have

the whole corpus of the New Testament,

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their reasoning from the scriptures.

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Well, what are they reasoning from?

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They're reasoning from the Old Testament.

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And so that would be what I would.

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Modify what you said by or

add to what you said by Yeah,

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but I mean, I agree with you.

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Yeah.

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And I, but I do think there is very

much a new thing, which is Jesus is here

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and he's the one who has been promised.

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Yeah.

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Such an interesting time in history.

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'cause you even think about the disciples

when they're in the upper room and, and

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Peter tells Jesus, you can't wash my feet.

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And Jesus says, if I don't wash your

feet, you don't have no part of me.

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And he says, then wash all of me.

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And he says, you're already clean.

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All you have left is, is

you need your feet washed.

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Their salvation was a progression.

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We, we've talked about that recently,

about when regeneration takes place

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versus when we put our faith in Christ.

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There's a little bit of that here

but for the disciples, it was a much

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longer progression because I think

what Jesus was telling Peter there is

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I think he was telling, you're good,

you're saved, but your salvation still

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needs to be realized through the cross.

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It's not yet fully completed.

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It will be at the cross there.

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And I wonder if there's a little bit

of that with the proclamation of the

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gospel here as they're growing out.

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I've always understood the, the reference

to his feet being that perpetual,

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ongoing repentance that we would

need because you're walking through

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the streets, your feet get dirty.

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And so there needs to be an ongoing

confession, repentance, I would think

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that Peter is legitimately saved.

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I would say that I think all of them are

legitimately, completely saved, but it

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wasn't affected until Jesus would actually

go to the cross and die in their place.

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So, yeah, I'm not sure what they

would've said, but I do know that

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whatever it was, was a complete

salvation that would be realized or

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paid for, uh, by his soon coming death.

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Sure.

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And don't forget what Romans teaches

about how faith, the faith of Abraham.

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Is the faith that we need.

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Obviously there's an old covenant

and a new covenant, but it is not as

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though people in the Old Testament

were saved in some sort of completely

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different weird unsimilar way.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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It's actually in our passage here in

Luke chapter nine that we do talk about

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the confession accessory of Philippi.

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Rad.

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Do you wanna address that?

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Yeah.

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So they're up, they're

up north at this point.

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Which is Esea Philippi.

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It's a, it's kind of a remote region, and

this is where Jesus, at one point, he's

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saying, here, what do people say about me?

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What do they say that I am?

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Who do they say that I am?

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And then they answer.

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Some say John the Baptist, others,

Elijah and some of the others will say

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that you're one of the old prophets.

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You've come back.

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And then he says to them,

this point's a question.

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That really is the linchpin

for the whole thing.

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Who do you say that I am?

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And this is a question that

Christians have rightly said to

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all of us who sit under preaching.

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Who do you say Jesus is?

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This is a question that we're gonna

have to ask this Friday and this Sunday.

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Who do you say that Jesus is?

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He's either the son of God who lives

and died in our place, or he's a fraud.

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It's kind of like CS Lewis' Tri.

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Some people add a A, a

fourth one to that liar.

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Lunatic Lord.

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Or do you know the fourth one?

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Legend.

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That's a new one that people have added.

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Mm-hmm.

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And, and that really is a crux for you.

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What are you gonna say?

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And of course, Peter says here,

better than he knows, probably

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you are the Christ of God.

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You're the Messiah,

you're the foretold one.

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You're the the prophet that

Moses foretold and forecasted.

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And so Jesus, at that point,

it's at that linchpin that

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Jesus now starts to say, okay.

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You got it.

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I'm gonna, I'm here to die, actually.

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Yeah.

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And they're like, wait, hold on.

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You're not gonna die, Jesus.

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Hold on a second.

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Let's rethink this.

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Well, and not only is does he say

I'm here to die, but he says, if

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you wanna follow me, that's what

your life is gonna look like too.

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Right?

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The cost of discipleship.

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Take up your cross and follow me.

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And come after me.

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And then as our passage for today ends,

then you've got the transfiguration.

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So it's fascinating just to see

how all of this works together.

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You've got the high point of

the confession of, of Peter that

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everybody's feeling really good about.

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He is the Christ.

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This is great.

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And then he says, oh, I'm gonna die.

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And also your life's gonna be

really hard to follow me, but

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here's the transfiguration where

I'm gonna show you who I really am.

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You're gonna hear from the father.

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You're gonna see Moses and

Elijah up here as well.

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It's as though he's kind of

coming alongside to, to buoy

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and, and strengthen their faith.

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It's, it's.

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Like you see it at the baptism where

he's affirmed by the father that the

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spirit descends on him like a dove.

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And then there's a, a period of

time in his earthly ministry.

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And then you get to this point, and

it's almost like the transfiguration

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is a, is a baptism part two, where the

disciples needed the second reminder of

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who this was and that they should indeed

follow him because things were about to

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get really difficult as well as after

his resurrection and just following

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Christ, it was gonna get hard, but they

needed to remember who Jesus really was.

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Yeah, it's really cool.

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The father says, this is my son,

my chosen one, and I always,

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I heard recently, not always.

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I heard recently someone say, this

is how a father acts with his son.

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He affirms him and tells him who he is,

and I thought, oh, that's really good.

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I've never heard that before,

but this is what the father does.

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He's affirming his son and

saying, this is my boy.

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You ought listen to him.

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I love that.

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It's such a tender picture

between the father and the son.

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And what an incredible

thing that God has made it.

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It's not the same thing, but the humans

can be fathers like God, not in the same

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exact way, but that we reflect God's

glory as fathers and we should look

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at these things and we should say we.

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An incredible privilege I have as

a dad to have anything at all that

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is similar with God, my father

and his relationship with his son.

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What an amazing thing that God has

built that into creation order.

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So cool.

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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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Lord, we are aware as we started this

episode that today's Good Friday, the

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day that we remember the sacrifice of

Jesus on the cross for us, something

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that we could never fully wrap our mind

around and we'll probably spend eternity

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trying to understand more and more,

even as we just read, Jesus willingly

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and knowingly went to the cross.

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Some have accused your son of,

of being a victim of your wrath,

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and yet he was a full and willing

participant to it and subjected

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himself even as you have revealed.

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To us in Philippians to the point

of death, even death on a cross,

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that he humbled himself to that

point, and you willingly, as we'll

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talk about this weekend, delivered

him over for our trespasses.

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We're so grateful for that reality.

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Lord, help us to live faithfully

in light of it as we seek to follow

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you and take up our own cross daily.

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We pray this in Jesus name, amen.

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