00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:03 Discussion on Chip and Joanna Gaines
00:24 Evaluating Entertainment Choices as Christians
04:03 Pastoral Advice on Handling Controversial Figures
08:48 Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 35 and 36
09:02 Difference Between Bible Reading and Bible Study
18:26 Encouragement and Prayer
20:09 Closing Remarks
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Hey, everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:Hey, chip and Joanna Gaines have
been making the news lately.
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:Okay.
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:Coming out firing.
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:They're doing this TV
show with these two guys.
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:Yep.
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:And you talked about it in your sermon.
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:I did.
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:And you said more than I
just said right now yep.
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:I feel like I'm unsafe territory here.
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:How should we feel about it?
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:Should we stop watching the show?
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:If we were watching the show and
if Chip and Joanna Gaines were
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:coming to your church, pastor
pj, what would you do about this?
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:Yeah.
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:Great.
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:Great questions, both of 'em.
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:Question number one I think is broader.
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:I think it really comes down to.
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:We can ask ourselves some questions about
our entertainment choices in general.
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:It's hard to escape, unfortunately that
in any of the venues that you go to today
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:or any of the shows that you watch, you
turn on a survivor, it's gonna be there.
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:You turn on a, greatest
race, it's gonna be there.
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:And even kids TV shows, movies, TV shows.
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:Yeah, it's there.
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:And I think that's, they're the characters
that are clearly not for sure the right.
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:And just look at the response to Bluey.
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:I think there's been, people love Bluey
because there's none of that on there.
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:It's also a really good show.
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:It's gonna be real.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah, that's also true.
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:It's high quality entertainment,
but I think's I watch it by myself.
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:Just kidding.
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:I'll repeat in your office.
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:You're like, oh, this
is my favorite episode.
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:Dude, that dream episode is where the
dog is there and they've got a problem.
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:Episode is clutch.
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:Yeah.
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:But it's hard to find
where it's not there.
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:And so the question is.
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:And there's some gray area here of the
subjectivity of when is your conscience
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:going to feel like they're glorifying
something that Christ died for?
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:And whether it's that or whether
it's, an immoral relationship
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:that's on screen between a man
and a woman, or whether it's.
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:Alcohol is whatever it may be.
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:We have to make decisions
on our entertainment.
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:That is what we're taking in to
say, okay, am I being entertained by
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:something that put Christ on the cross?
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:And is this a, an entertainment
that's really edifying me?
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:Is this, am I glorifying God?
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:In how I'm taking this in in, in
back to the case study with Chip
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:and Joanna Gaines and this TV show.
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:I think the fact that they have
doubled down publicly so hard on
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:this now and come out in such, oh,
did they Strong support on it, chip.
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:Specifically on Twitter when asking
people, this is ask questions and
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:he alluded to the fact that there
might be something more that's
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:happening behind the scenes.
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:Yeah.
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:And I thought, okay, maybe there
is something that would explain it.
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:Yeah.
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:But so far there's been
silence about all of that.
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:And in fact, the contrary
the couple that's on the show
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:that's being spotlighted, their
whole intention was to bring.
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:Bring something like this
and make it more normal.
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:For sure.
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:So it sounds and there's other
suggestions that what they've said in
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:the past is also demonstrates a kind
of support for something like this.
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:For sure.
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:And so I do think that there's questions
that we have to ask to go, okay, maybe.
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:We need to send a message.
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:If sending the message is
something as easy as turning
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:off the TV and not watching a
show, then let's count ourselves.
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:Blessed.
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:We're about to jump into one Peter
and one Peter's gonna talk about
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:Blessed are you and you're persecuted
for the name of Jesus Christ.
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:And let's not conflate these two
things by not being able to watch a
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:TV show that maybe we were interested
in versus somebody who's actually
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:being persecuted for their faith.
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:So I think this is a low hanging fruit
for us as Christians, to be like,
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:yeah, we're gonna make a decision
to not watch that show because it
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:glorifies something that we don't
agree with, that the Bible doesn't
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:agree with, that Christ had to die for.
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:Yeah, so I, I think it's
good for us to do that.
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:And it goes beyond that too.
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:They've got a whole, they've got a
whole marketing arm of Magnolia that
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:you go into Target and you see all
their stuff everywhere there, and it's
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:I think there is something to know.
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:You may think that dish is really cute.
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:But you now have to reconcile with
the knowledge that you possess.
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:And that's what changes for us
as Christians, when all of a
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:sudden now we have knowledge about
where they're coming from and who
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:they're, and what they stand for.
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:That perhaps before we didn't know, maybe
they've always believed these things, and
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:you could go and buy the things freely
from their store, watch their show because
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:you didn't know where they fell on this.
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:Now, and we're accountable to a
degree, to the knowledge that we
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:have to make a decision based on
your own conscience so that you
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:don't sin against your conscience.
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:What you need to do with that as far
as do you continue to buy their goods?
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:Do you continue to
watch the show so forth?
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:And so for me, I'm not watching the show.
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:I'm gonna struggle to, to walk
through their aisles at Target
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:anymore and think that I want to
even support them financially by
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:buying anything that they're making.
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:That's me.
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:I can't.
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:Chapter and verse impose that
upon Christians across the
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:board, but that's where I'm at.
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:That's the answer to the first
part of your question there.
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:Follow up on that?
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:Yeah.
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:Follow up would be they're
going to your church.
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:What do you do about that?
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:Yeah.
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:If I'm their pastor, then
we're having a meeting.
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:This is a Matthew 18 situation
wherein you've got them.
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:Purveying and promoting something
that is clearly unbiblical.
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:Now, the pastor of the church came out and
made a statement and said, look, marriage
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:is between a man and a woman alone.
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:Great.
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:Then you need to have Chip and Joanna sit
down in your office with you and you need
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:to say, Hey, guys, what you're doing, what
you're promoting in this show is not okay.
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:Now, if I'm misinformed,
help me understand.
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:And Chip, you wanted me to listen.
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:Okay.
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:I'll listen.
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:Help me understand what's
going on right now.
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:But from the outside looking at this
looks like this is a problem, biblically
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:speaking, and I do think it's a
Matthew 18 situation, and if they're
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:at my church and they're gonna resist
that, then it follows the process of
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:Matthew 18 of church discipline until
the final stages, if they're not going
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:to repent from what they're doing.
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:Yeah, this is a difficult situation in
part because we don't know what's going
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:on behind the scenes, and Chip suggested
that there's more than what meets the eye.
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:I don't know what that could be.
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:That would end the criticism or
provide a justification for it.
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:But let's just say, okay, maybe
there's something behind the
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:scenes that we don't know.
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:Maybe contractually they have to,
or maybe there's something where
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:they don't have control over what
they're doing and they're being
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:told this is what they have to do.
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:I guess part of me wants to say is there.
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:Is there any room whatsoever to say,
look, we, this looks really bad.
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:This is a bad thing.
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:We shouldn't platform this.
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:We shouldn't say that.
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:This is okay.
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:We shouldn't give any hints that
sin is in any way acceptable to God.
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:Don't call evil good.
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:Don't call good evil.
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:As Isaiah will say what room is
there for us to withhold judgment?
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:Or is there, would you
say it's cut and dry?
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:It's absolutely clear.
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:Is there any place for
us to withhold judgment?
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:I guess that's really Mike, my question.
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:I, in this situation I don't think
there is if Chip was to say, Hey,
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:contractually we're obligated to do this,
then a again, there's a conversation
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:to be had about counting the cost
of what it means to follow Jesus.
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:If that means you walk away from your
TV show because you're being asked
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:to platform something that you know
is against the Lord's commands and
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:clear teaching in scripture, then
you walk away from your TV show.
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:That's what those two brothers
did with the other TV show, right?
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:Yeah.
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:And I, in, in, in this
particular situation.
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:I, yeah, I remember him saying, listen
and love and whatever that was all about.
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:There was another thing that was
happening concurrently with this,
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:where there was somebody on her staff,
a photographer for them that works
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:for them, who brought a third person
home to become part of the family in a
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:non-biblical format, if that makes sense.
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:If I'm.
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:If you're picking up clear as mud
and the husband said, this is what
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:the reality is gonna be, and told
the wife, you're gonna this and.
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:The, he was getting blow back and
rightly and he went online and
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:complained about it and threw a
pity party about how he was getting
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:blowback for being a immoral wretch.
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:And she jumped on there and
she comments, this is Joanna
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:Gaines, and said, we love you.
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:You are a good person.
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:In response to him saying, I shouldn't
be judged for the fact that I now
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:have a throuple rather than a couple.
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:I don't like that word that came out.
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:That's weird.
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:That came out at the same time.
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:So those things in combination
for me I don't have.
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:I don't have patience for
Chip and Joanna at this point.
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:Like they're coming in, we're sitting
down, we're saying, Hey, we've got some
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:things that we need to talk through.
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:I don't see a biblical justification
for what's going on here.
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:I can't, and yeah.
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:Yeah, I guess it's important
to recognize that when we're.
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:I guess we're spectators.
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:We're trying to see and understand it.
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:It is appropriate for your
words to be used against you.
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:That's what God's gonna judge us on in
part because our words reveal our heart.
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:So it's not wrong to look at the
words that someone says and make
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:assessments about those things.
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:I think there is a line for
us to be careful not to cross.
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:We should say that's condemning evidence.
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:But we also have to be careful
and understand there is a
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:process for things like this.
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:It just so happens that their lives
are so public and I don't know.
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:So obvious to other people that it's
easy for us on the outside to, to
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:make quick judgements about them.
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:But suppose your pastor's
having conversations and maybe
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:there's repentance forthcoming.
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:We just don't know.
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:Now what we do wanna avoid is what
happened with Yeezy, with Kanye.
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:He makes a profession of faith
and everybody is, we're lit up
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:and everyone's excited about him.
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:And then of course now he's the
furthest thing from that, and he's
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:calling Jesus all sorts of bad names.
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:We don't wanna be, I.
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:Coldhearted such that we
don't celebrate those things.
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:We don't want to be judgmental
that we quickly write people off.
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:There has to be an appropriate sense
of let's just wait and see what happens
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:while still being shrewd and wise.
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:And I think it's a really tough balance
to strike, especially with the Gaines,
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:is because they've built a whole platform
on, or Christians, we love the Lord and
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:we're doing this as a way to glorify God.
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:And so we have high expectations
of that, especially in our camp.
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:We don't allow you to do that without.
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:Backing it up with a
life that reflects that.
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:So I feel for them and I feel bad for
them, but I do hope they repent and
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:they make clear very soon what the
true biblical stance is on marriage.
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:Yeah.
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:We've got less chapters today
in our daily Bible reading.
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:Our daily Bible reading today is
Isaiah 35 and 36, and we're coming
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:off a day yesterday, four chapters.
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:Lots of material, lots of ground
to cover in those four chapters.
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:Today, we've got two chapters.
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:And Pastor Rod, you mentioned before we
hit record on this episode, it might be
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:good to, to talk about the difference
between Bible study and Bible reading.
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:Yeah.
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:What's the difference?
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:What we're doing here is Bible reading,
and this is meant to make sure that
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:you are eyeballs on the Bible as
Pastor Bobby Blakey likes to say.
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:From Compass, Huntington Beach that you're
reading God's word every single day.
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:It doesn't mean that you're reading
God's word in the, for example, we talked
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:about in our partner's manual tanning.
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:Then always, now that you're
processing this at a great level of
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:detail and parsing out everything
and summarizing each paragraph and
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:everything else like this if this is
just time for you in the morning to.
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:To approach the Bible to pick it up
and Bible reading might look like you
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:opening God's word and say, God, help
me to understand one or two things
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:from my reading today that I can take
with me throughout the rest of the day.
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:And you're gonna read,
you're gonna read chapter 35.
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:You're gonna read chapter 36, and then
maybe you might pause for a minute
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:and reflect on these two chapters
and say, okay, is there a principle
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:or two that I can take with me this
day that's a meditative nugget that
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:I can chew on throughout the day?
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:You also might have at the same
time, something, a book of the
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:Bible that you're studying.
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:That's one that you're gonna be
doing more of the tan method that
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:then always now you're gonna have
a commentary perhaps with that one.
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:You're taking it slower, smaller
chunk chunks, smaller sections, really
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:diving into it a little bit more.
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:Perhaps if you're really detailed.
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:This is not for everybody, but maybe
it's for some people out there.
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:Maybe you're outlining a
passage, things like that.
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:That's more the Bible study side.
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:And our concern is that everybody at least
is doing Bible reading every single day.
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:That, that we feel like is.
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:That's what we want you to do.
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:That's why we're doing this podcast.
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:We want you doing Bible
reading every single day.
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:If you have the occasion to do
Bible study, that's a good thing
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:for us as Christians to do as well.
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:If you can study a book and take a book
and or take a chapter of a book, take
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:a paragraph at a time to start with
and walk away feeling man, I know that.
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:Better than I ever have before
because I've studied it.
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:That's a good thing for
us as Christians as well.
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:You're not gonna get that from reading
four chapters of Isaiah in one sitting.
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:You may know it a little bit better
than you did before, but you're not
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:gonna know the depth of it the same way
we do when we get to do Bible study.
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:So we want you Bible reading.
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:Bible study's good to do as
well, but at least Bible reading.
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:When you're reading
through this, if you're.
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:Reading and not spending time studying.
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:You won't be spending an hour
on your Bible reading it.
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:It'll be a lot more reasonable.
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:You will find yourself
saying what did I just read?
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:But maybe there's a way to do
that in ways that are helpful.
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:The ESV Bible is a great
Bible to study from.
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:You're getting a lot closer to the
text, but maybe if you're just reading,
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:we haven't talked about this in a
minute, but the CSB is a great option.
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:Christian Standard Bible.
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:If you like something a little closer
to modern vernacular, the NLT is fine.
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:Now notice that's a translation.
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:That's not a, that's not a Bible version.
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:Like we typically look at some of
these other ones, but it's still fine.
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:It's fine to utilize, to
get the text under your.
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:I don't know, to get texts under your
feet to get a sense of what's going on.
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:Find something that you
like reading and enjoy that.
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:We want you to study the word.
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:We want you to get into it and
dig into it and understand.
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:Read commentaries and read study
bibles, but recognize we're trying to
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:help you with the daily Bible reading
and beyond that, Hey, that's gravy.
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:Do that all the more, but we're working
on the reading and hopefully this podcast
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:helps you with some of those insights
and understanding of what you're reading.
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:Chapter 35 I mentioned yesterday,
chapter 34 sets up chapter 35, because
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:not just it comes before it, but it
really is chapter 34, the tribulation.
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:Chapter 35 is talking about the return of
the people to Jerusalem, the regathering,
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:the millennial kingdom the, this is
an encouraging chapter in the midst of
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:otherwise, somewhat of a discouraging
scene that's taking place there.
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:But notice verse two, those that are
coming back here they're gonna see the
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:glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.
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:He talks in verse six, then
shall the lame man leak like a,
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:The eyes of the blind shall be opened,
the ears of the deaf unstopped.
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:This is similar to when John
the Baptist sends to Jesus and
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should be looking for?
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:And Jesus says go tell John some
of these things that we're reading
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John I'm at least.
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:Partially fulfilling some of this, but
the lame man shall leap like a deer.
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:Waters shall break forth in the
wilderness and streams in the desert.
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:If you look in your Bibles, you
might have a cross reference.
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John chapter seven, where Jesus,
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:Is it Tabernacles in John seven?
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:Where he stands up and talks
about being, living water.
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:That in the connection there.
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:Even reaching back to a passage like this
saying he's the one that's be gonna be the
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:At his first coming, but in fulfillment
outta his second, coming in specifically
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:But these are verse 10, the ransom
of the Lord who are gonna return
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singing everlasting joy on their heads.
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:Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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to the millennial kingdom
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:for the faithful remnant.
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:This is against the backdrop of chapter
34 where God initiates judgment.
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to come before restoration.
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:This is the way it has to be in
order for God to deal effectively and
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35, don't forget chapter 34, still in.
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and it's necessary.
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right Maranatha, come quickly.
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:Lord Jesus.
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:We want this and we want Jesus
to establish his kingdom.
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:But this should inspire us on two levels.
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personally, wanna experience this.
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:But on the other hand, we also
want Jesus to delay because there's
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:So don't forget that this beautiful
picture of what his restoration
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:Very similar to what we've already
read and covered in One Kings 18.
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:This is just from the pers
perspective of Isaiah the prophet.
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:This is what, what got, what
the judeans have been dreading.
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:This is Soaker coming against the
city of Jerusalem now laying siege.
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:This is the Rob Shaka again, who is gonna
be there taunting and calling out to them.
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says, is it without the Lord that I have
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:come up against this land to destroy it?
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:The Lord said to me, go up
to this land and destroy it.
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:Pastor Rob, do you think
God did tell him to do that?
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:Do you But this is no, but there's
a kernel of truth here when he
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:says, is it without the Lord
that I've come up to this land?
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:Oh, sure.
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:But he's not speaking the way that
you and I would think about it.
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:So ultimately, yes.
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:He's what he's saying is true.
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:What he's doing is true, but he doesn't
mean it the way that we mean it.
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:And I think we need to even be careful
when God says, Nebuchadnezzar my
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:servant, or when he says that Assyria
is gonna be the rod in his hand woo.
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:This is different here because this is
from the mouth of an unbeliever and it's
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:even not true because he says, God said
to come up to this land to destroy it.
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:That's not true.
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:'cause he's not gonna destroy it.
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:By the way, spoiler alert on that one.
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:But he calls out the king
trying to cover them.
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:Do not let Hezekiah, verse 15, do
not let Hezekiah make you trust
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:in the Lord by saying The Lord
will utter, surely deliver us.
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:The city will not be given into
the hand of the King of Assyria.
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:Do not listen to Hezekiah.
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:Remember, they've been receiving Isaiah's
prophecy to this point about the fact
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:that God was gonna care for them.
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:And he says in verse 20, it says, who
among all the gods of the lands that.
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:They've conquered already has delivered
their lands out of my hand that the Lord
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:should deliver Jerusalem outta my hand.
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:But they were silent.
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:Answer him.
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:Not a word for the king's
command was do not answer him.
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:And so again we've talked about this
in, i in one Kings 18, a lot of common
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:ground here in Isaiah chapter 36.
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:Yeah.
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:I really like, I don't know, I
say that's not the right word.
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:I find it really interesting that
snacking on ribs says something
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:like, Hey man in verse 16.
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:Make your peace with me and come out
to me, then each of you will eat of
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:his own vine and each one of his own
fig tree, and each one of you will
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:drink the water of his own cistern.
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:If this sounds vaguely familiar
to you, it's because you might
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:remember it from One Kings four.
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:This is the kind of blessing that the.
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:That King Solomon enjoyed.
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:Am I right on Solomon?
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:Maybe it's not Solomon one Kings four
that would put us at there earlier.
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:Yeah, it is Solomon, actually, king
Solomon enjoyed when he was ruling
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:and reigning over the United Kingdom.
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:He had such blessing brought in that
it says here, Judah and Israel lived
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every man under his vine and under
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:This.
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:Imagery was adopted after that point
forward to speak of the kind of blessings
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:And so what you see here snacking on
ribs is saying, look, don't you want
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:Come to me and I'll give you those things.
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:The vine and fig tree imagery is meant
to showcase the promised land, the
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:blessings of the covenant, and he's
saying, I can give you those blessings.
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:And this is exactly.
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:He brings counterfeit blessings
that are meant to say, look, isn't
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:It's just as good.
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:Maybe even better.
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:Don't you want it now?
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:And this is exactly what
they don't fall prey to.
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prey to some of the same promises.
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:The devil offers counterfeit blessings.
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:That's the, from the very beginning.
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:The serpent in the garden to eve.
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:God doesn't want you to be happy.
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:He's just a cosmic killjoy.
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:He just knows that if you
eat this, you'll be like him.
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:And he's trying to be just him
himself, and he doesn't want
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:And if Trace, trace the vine and fig
tree imagery and just open up your Bible,
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:do a quick search and you'll see it.
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:It's sprinkled all
throughout the Old Testament.
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:Pointing to the kingdom.
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:And that's why it's so interesting
because snacking on ribs is
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:I love that.
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:What's interesting though is he says,
and this jumped out to me in verse 17,
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:he says, until I come take you away
from your land to a land like your
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:own land, a land of green and wine,
like, why not just leave us here?
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:If this is gonna be so great to
surrender to you, then why do you
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:need to leave us and take us away?
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:Yeah Isaiah chapter 35 and 36, again,
hopefully just the encouragement on
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:difference between reading and study.
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:Study is so good and there's
great resources and great
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:tools out there for you.
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:But man, we want you reading every
single day because it's so good for
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:us to have our eyes on God's word and
to be taking it in and to be praying
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:beforehand, during, afterwards.
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:God help me to learn, teach me things,
let me avail myself to the resources
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:So we we ask.
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:And and trust that you guys are
doing that because we, it's gonna
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:make us stronger as a church.
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:The more our church knows the
word of God, the stronger we
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:That's right.
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:So how does Pastor Bobby say
eyeballs on the eyeballs?
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:Eyeballs on the Bible?
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:Something like that.
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:That's, that.
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:It's almost there.
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:It's like a half, it almost rhyme.
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:It's, yeah.
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:No, I eyeballs on the Bibles,
he says eyeballs, the Bible.
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:Let's just change the way that
we pronounce Bibles on the
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:Bible, eyeballs on the Bible.
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:Or eyeballs?
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:Eyeballs on the Bibles.
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:Apple eyeballs on the Bibles.
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:I like that one.
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:I like that one.
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:That one feels better.
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:Alright.
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:Hey, let's pray.
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:God, we we wanna be a people
that do know your word.
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:We want to be in your word, not
just occasionally, but daily.
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:We want to have a hunger for it, a
desperation for it that says, I have to.
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:I have to spend time there.
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:I have to read, I have to be in, in your
word and I pray God, that you would make
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:it not just an exercise and check in a box
or something that's legalistic or thinking
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:that we're earning credit with you so that
we can cash in later for some reward God.
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:But that we would really,
truly see this as a lifeline.
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:That we would learn, that we would learn
more about who you are and about who
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:we are and what you've done about that.
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:So God reward our time through, through
just making us more like Christ as we
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:spend time in your word on a daily basis.
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:Thanks for this time that we
spent in Isaiah 35 and 36.
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:Just pray that some of these truths
would stick with us even as we
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:hope for that future kingdom as
it's described in 35 as we'll.
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:Be there ruling and reigning with Christ.
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:Whatever that will look like,
God, we confess in ignorance on
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:that, but it's gonna be amazing.
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:We do know that, and we
can't wait for that day.
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:We pray this all in Jesus' name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep in your Bibles.
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:Tune in again tomorrow for
another edition to the Daily Bible
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:Podcast, Bibles and the Bibles.
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