00:00 Welcome and Googley

03:53 Deuteronomy 8 Live by Word

05:58 Deuteronomy 9 God Brings Receipts

09:00 Deuteronomy 10 Circumcise Heart

13:09 Mark 12 Greatest Commandment

17:57 Prayer

18:52 Outro and Podcast Information

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What's up folks?

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And you were just talking about it.

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Daylight savings time, full effect.

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We're all feeling the full

effects of daylight savings time.

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Right.

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Everybody wants to know though.

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You had mentioned on Saturday mm-hmm.

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That you were just gonna start living

like it was an hour ahead of time.

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So did that work?

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I think it worked perfectly.

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Did it work perfectly?

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The best It could work?

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It worked, yeah.

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On Saturday, I tried

really hard just to think.

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Every time I saw the clock,

I said, it's an hour ahead.

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It's an hour ahead.

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And my hope was that.

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I would trick myself into

getting tired earlier.

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Yeah, and I think it worked.

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Did it.

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Okay.

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All right.

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All right.

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Most people don't have to trick

themselves into getting tired.

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They just are tired, but that's fair.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No, it is daylight saving time.

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It's interesting because we even

sent out a post on our social

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media accounts to, to say, Hey,

everybody, put your clock forward.

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Don't Ms.

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Church in the morning.

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But really, honestly, nobody

does that anymore, do they?

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No.

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No.

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You just have to remember

that you're getting up early.

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Right.

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And you're gonna feel groggy

and tired, so you probably need

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extra time to get some coffee.

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Yep.

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Maybe you get a run in

before you go to church.

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Yep.

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Hey, you know what we could've done that

would've been just super cruel is go to

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two services on daylight savings Sunday.

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That'd be so funny.

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I mean, I would laugh as I cried.

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I would also laugh.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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No.

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'cause our setup time is gonna

be earlier, which, again, we

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are going to two services.

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We probably haven't touched on that

in, in a little bit of time here.

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We're going to nine and 11 o'clock,

starting on Easter Sunday, which

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is less than a month away now.

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April 5th.

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Wow.

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Easter Sunday.

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So two services starting then.

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And it's gonna be a shift,

but it'll be a good shift.

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We're excited about it.

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Yeah.

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What service do you think

is gonna get more popular?

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Based on our experience at our last

church that had a Saturday night.

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Now that, that, take that off the table.

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But Sunday morning, nine and

11 the 11 o'clock was always

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the most well attended service.

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Oh yeah.

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My favorite though was the nine

because you get your best energy.

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I'm excited for the day.

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It's still fresh and then I still

have all this time afterward.

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I just feel like I give God my

best energy at nine o'clock.

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Yeah, nine o'clock became kind

of the traditional crowd though.

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At our sending church, I

noticed that there's a lot of

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gray hair that I sat next to.

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Yeah.

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I was okay with that.

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There was one guy though, and I

don't know who it was 'cause I, I

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don't think I ever had the pleasure

of meeting him, but during the nine,

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he would sit there and he would take

his shoes off during the 9:00 AM Oh.

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And he would just sit and, like, he'd

sit on the, on his feet end of an aisle.

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Yeah.

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Shoes off.

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And he'd cross his legs and

his sock covered footage just

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hanging out in the aisle and he

just did it like he was at home.

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Yikes.

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Yeah.

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I am, speechless.

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He was uncomfortable.

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You should have shook his foot

instead of shaking his hand like a

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little squeeze, like, what's up, man?

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That's weird.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Some people are just bold.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's like taking off your

shoes on the airplane.

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Have you ever been on a plane

with somebody to do that?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I don't I, I don't get it.

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I don't appreciate it, but I'm

not one to call it out either.

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Like I want, I understand.

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You wanna be comfortable on a long flight.

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I get it.

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I'm both annoyed and impressed.

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I'm annoyed because I don't want

you to do that in my presence.

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I don't want you to take off your

stinky shoes on, but you can't smell

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it on an airplane most of the time.

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Most of the time.

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I'm impressed by your boldness,

like, right, because I would never

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have the bravado to be like, yeah,

I'm just gonna take my shoes off.

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Well, I mean, but if you can't smell

it, it's just an uncomfortable sight.

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And that's the thing.

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If you can be com confident

that it's not a pungent odor

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for everybody else around you.

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Right.

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Okay.

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Well what's the difference

between that and sandals?

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And that's the FlipFlop culture.

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So somebody who slips their sandals off

is different I think because of that.

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But there's something about the socks

that is just like, I, so we're, that we're

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not being consistent then if we're okay

with the sandals, but not the, you know,

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so I get it, is what I'm trying to say.

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Yeah.

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As long as it's not pungent,

I can be okay with it.

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That's fair.

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I mean, this is a level of googly that

we haven't hit in quite a long time.

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This is, this is classic.

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This is classic.

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We can label this episode classic googly.

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Yeah.

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Necessary for all the things of life.

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But we should get to the Bible

because yesterday we went 30 minutes.

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You went so long.

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I could not believe it.

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I can't believe you.

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Let that happen.

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We had big ticket items to talk

about yesterday, so we should get

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into to today's daily Bible reading.

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Deuteronomy eight through 10

and Mark 12, 28 through 44.

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Deuteronomy eight Moses is continuing

to call the people to be careful.

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And that's something that I notice

every time I come back to Deuteronomy

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especially, is the number of times it

says, be careful, take care, be careful.

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And so this is stressing the

importance of our vigilance

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over our obedience of the Lord.

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God wanted that for Israel.

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I think he still wants it today.

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And some of that is, is summed up in

something that is quoted in the New

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Testament when he says there man does not

live by bread alone, but by every word

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that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

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That's verse three.

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And so if we look at the New Testament,

we find that in Matthew chapter four,

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Luke chapter four, John chapter six,

alludes to it a little bit there.

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Moses is saying, Hey, you need to be

careful and look at the revelation of God.

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The word of God in this

time the Torah, the law.

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Depend upon it like you depend

upon your daily bread and

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depend upon it for your life.

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Live by it.

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And that idea wrapped up in live by

it is not just memorize it, it's not

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just know it, it's not just listen

to it being taught, but it's let it.

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Have an effect in your life.

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Let it transform your life

to live by something as to

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walk in accordance with it.

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And so, Deuteronomy chapter

eight again is be careful.

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Take care.

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Lest you forget the Lord your God.

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He's gonna go say that later.

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How are they gonna guard against that?

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By living by every word that comes from

the mouth of God by being careful here.

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So chapter eight is all about Israel being

careful about their worship of the Lord.

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Yeah.

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As you read Deuteronomy eight, just

remember as you're reading it, Jesus.

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Read Deuteronomy eight.

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Yeah.

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As a man and he put it to work.

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He memorized Deuteronomy eight,

at least portions of it, and he

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also went in that same account.

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Matthew chapter four, he quotes from

Deuteronomy eight and Deuteronomy six

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and Psalm 91, but that's not my point.

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He's reading the same words that you read.

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That's so cool.

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What a cool idea that we're just,

we're looking at the same things and

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we're being fed in the same ways that

Jesus, the Son of God, the son of man

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fed himself at the well of the Lord.

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So this is really cool.

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As you read it, remember, this

is something that we're supposed

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to be doing and this is something

that we're joining Christ in.

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This is such a fun experience.

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I can't believe.

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Okay let's talk about chapter

nine for a second here.

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We often talk with people that come in

for especially context of counseling.

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A lot of times there's conflict and

so many times people will do what

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I refer to as keeping in receipts.

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So they'll sit there in the conflict and

they'll be like, okay, but this is just

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like when you did this, this time, this

time, this time, this time, and this time.

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And first Corinthians 13 we're called

not to keep a record of wrongs, right?

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We're called, if you're gonna

forgive something, you are.

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Releasing your right to bring it up

again in the future as far as, Hey, you

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did this and I'm still upset about this.

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But here in Deuteronomy chapter nine,

God's gonna confront Israel and say,

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Hey if you're tempted to think that

it's because of your righteousness

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that you guys are here, remember when

you screwed up at the golden calf?

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And remember when you

screwed up with the 12 spies?

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And remember, it's almost

like God's bringing receipts.

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To his interaction with Israel here.

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And we would say, well, he's God.

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So he's allowed to but is that a fair

reading of this to say, God's saying, Hey,

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in, in case you're gonna get too proud.

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Remember your mistake with the

golden calf, that though it wasn't

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them, it was their future, it

was their previous generations.

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But remember that, remember the

12 spies, remember these things

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that, that you aired with?

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In fact, chapter 10, I've even have

to have new tablets of stone because

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Moses crushed the ones because you guys

were acting like knuckleheads so much.

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It seems that God is trying to humble

them a little bit, knock them down

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a few pegs here in chapter nine.

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Yeah, I think that's an important

piece of this puzzle here because

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you're right it does appear to be

inconsistent that God on the one hand

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says love, and here's the way love acts.

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And on the other hand I haven't forgotten

all the things that you've done, all

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this nonsense that you've committed.

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So I think what's I wonder partly

one, if this is a New Testament

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blessing where God says, I'm not

gonna even bring it up anymore.

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This is.

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Part of the new covenant where

he washes away our sin as far

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as the east is from the west.

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So I will no longer remember your sin.

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I wonder if that's part of it, but I also

think to your point, he's already telling

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them, look you are a stubborn people.

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He says in verse six so I don't want

you to think that this is because

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you're an awesome person and God

can do this, and he can't not do it.

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Really.

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He can't.

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Not remember when he says, I will

not remember your sins anymore.

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He's using an anthropomorphism to say,

I'm choosing not to recall these things.

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I think it's very similar to how Jesus

himself in the flesh chose to act.

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He had access to divine knowledge that

he chose not to access, and because

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of that, he experienced full humanity

by saying, I will withhold or restrain

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the full expression of my deity.

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So I wonder if.

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That kind of sorta approaches the

answer, although I'm not entirely sure.

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What would you add to that?

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I think that's, I think that's fair.

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I think you're right on that.

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And this is in keeping with the

instructions, even in Deuteronomy chapter

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six, they were to recount the past acts.

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They were to recount Israel's past

to future generations to keep them

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from perpetuating the same sins.

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And I think that's the difference there.

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God is not.

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Trying to get at them the way that a

husband or a wife is trying to attack

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the other person by saying, you, you

screwed up in the past and you're the

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same person today that you've always been.

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Rather, God is trying to get them

to understand, don't make the same

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mistakes that you made in the past.

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Yeah, that's an important point.

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The motivation behind

it is not vindictive.

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Right.

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God can't be vindictive, but he is being

wise and true in saying, don't forget, you

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need to know these things about yourself.

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Yeah.

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How about then in chapter 10, the

conversation about circumcising the heart?

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Circumcision was something that was

done during this time with Israel.

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It was something that was done in the

physical body done to the physical body

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of the Israelite males as they were born.

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But God is gonna talk about a

circumcision of the heart here.

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And it's in the context of asking a

question that I think is really prevalent

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and important for not only Israel,

but for everyone to ask at that point.

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And that is, what does the

Lord your God require of you?

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And he answers it, but to fear the Lord

your God, to walk in all his ways, to

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love him, to serve the Lord your God

with all your heart, with all your

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soul, and to keep the commandments

and statutes of the Lord, which I'm

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commending you today for your good.

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That's the context in which

later on he's gonna say, you

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need to circumcise your heart.

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In other words, this needs to be an.

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Internal reality.

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It's not just belonging to God,

belonging to the people of God.

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It is not just about what's on

the outside of the body, but it's

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about the internal PO posture.

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And that is gonna be realized in what

he says there, right at the beginning

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of chapter 10, verse 12, what does

the Lord your God require of you?

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But to fear him, to serve him, to

walk after him with all your heart.

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That's such an important point.

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This is what the blessing

of the new covenant is.

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But help answer this question because

when you look at this, you know.

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He's commanding them to do things

that they can't do, and I think a

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lot of people feel this way when God

says You should love your neighbor

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as yourself and love your enemies.

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Even to go beyond that, he says in verse

16, circumcised therefore the foreskin

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of your heart and be no longer stubborn.

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It's almost as if God is

saying, Hey, you're dead.

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Be alive.

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How do we help people with this?

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Because it seems like he's saying

Here, I want you to do these things,

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and yet we know that they can't.

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Theologically we that is we know that

they really can't just say, alright.

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Sure I'll do that.

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Yeah.

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And we're dealing with, because

I'm, we wanna run into New Testament

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concepts and bring them back into the

Old Testament too to help answer that

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question about what that looks like.

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Because in the New Testament,

we're gonna, we're gonna call

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people to faith and repentance.

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Yeah.

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And we know that theologically,

again, they can't, they're dead.

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Yet we're gonna trust that, that

God can do that in the people.

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It's still what God desired for

all people, and it's still what

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we should desire for all people.

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And I would say there's a parallel there.

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Mm-hmm.

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God desired for every single Israelite

to circumcise the foreskin of their

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heart and to follow him, to fear him, to

serve Him, to worship him, to love him.

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Not all of them would, but

that doesn't change the fact

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that's what he desired of them.

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Those that did, I believe.

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And this is where, again, this is

where it, the New Testament Old

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Testament relationship gets so hard.

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'cause in the New Testament,

we're gonna say those that

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respond have been regenerated.

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Mm-hmm.

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The Spirit has given them life to be able

to believe and repent from their sins.

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And then we see that spiritual fruit

in their life from that point forward.

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But in the Old Testament.

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I don't the moving in the spirit in

the Old Testament is so mysterious.

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We see it when we get into the

life of the kings where it rushes

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upon Saul at one point, and then

that's not a permanent indwelling.

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And we know David in Psalm 51 is gonna

pray, take not your spirit from me.

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And so was the spirit enabling the

obedience of the faithful Israelites?

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Here was this, that's where I

think there's it's mysterious.

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It's hard to know in the Old Testament.

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The relationship with the

spirits of the individual.

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Yeah.

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This is where we begin to use the

whole Bible to answer questions like

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this, because answering from the

specific context is really hard.

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We don't know what God right, intended

to do or what he did do For those

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who are like, okay, I wanna do that.

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All I know is that with something like

this, if you're an Israelite hearing,

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Moses saying, Hey guys just do this.

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Just cook, just do it.

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It's like saying, Hey, just jump over.

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The entirety of the Great Wall of China.

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And one, one jump please, by the

way, just go ahead and do that.

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Just go for it.

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And I, I think even though, no, not

even though I think because it's

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impossible, I think the listening

Israelite would say, I can't do this.

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God, yeah, I can't.

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And I, I wonder if that's the point

that God is trying to drill home for

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them to say, you, you really can't.

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I'm telling you what you need to do.

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But you can't do this.

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And so he would have to do what

Abraham does and this is why

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God commends him in Genesis 15.

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You'd have to believe that God is

some way gonna justify me and God will

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credit that to him as righteousness.

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So this, I think would level

the pride of any Israelite who's

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listening and cause him to say,

Lord, you have to do something in me.

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I can't do this.

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Which is what the sacrificial system

was meant to point to as well.

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Right.

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Right.

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I dunno if they ever got it, but Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well, let's go over to Mark chapter

12 because I think we get a little bit

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of a parallel here, because right away

in Mark chapter 12 in our reading,

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verse 28, 1 of the scribes comes up

to Jesus and hears this disputing,

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and he asks Jesus this question, which

commitment is the most important of all?

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And Jesus answers him, and he

says, the most important is

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hero, Israel, the Lord your God.

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The Lord is one.

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And you shall love the Lord your

God, with all your heart, with all

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your soul, with all your mind, with

all your strength, to your point.

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I think anybody who listens

to that says, yeah, easy.

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I can't do that.

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I could do that.

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So I think our response

has to be the same.

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It's, it has to be, God, I can't

measure up When Jesus says, you

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shall be perfect, as your heavenly

Father is perfect I can't do that.

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Yeah, you're right.

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You can't do that when Peter's gonna

write Be holy for he is holy, which

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is Leviticus 1144 that he's quoting.

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It's like, well, I can't do that.

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And that goes back to, you're right.

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You need God to provide something

that is the filler if you will

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the bridge to spam, the chasm

between your sin and his holiness.

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And that is another sacrifice, not the

sacrificial system, but the one that

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came to fulfill the sacrificial system.

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And that's Jesus the one who's

answering this question here.

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But yeah, love the Lord's

God with all that you are.

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Oh, oh, okay.

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Yeah, that's easy.

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Let me just get right after that.

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Yeah.

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And love your neighbor as yourself,

which is interesting 'cause we don't

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wanna let ourselves off the hook either

and say, well, I guess you're free.

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You can just leave as you please.

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Right.

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You know, you're not gonna make it.

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That's what we affectionately refer to as

antinomianism, maybe without affection.

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It's called antio.

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No law.

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If that's the case, if you're

justified by grace through faith,

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then what does the law have to do with

any of this except to condemn you?

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Now that you're in

Christ, you're righteous.

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The law doesn't play a role, and we

would say that's not true either.

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We don't want to veer from one ditch

in order to fall into the other, right?

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The idea here then is that you're putting

your faith in God as you pursue these

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things to genuinely and truly love him

and love your neighbor as yourself.

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We ultimately don't rely on the

works, but the God who works within

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us, that's the difference maker.

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We're not doing this in order to

say, God, see, aren't I good enough?

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You never will be.

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The next section Jesus is teaching.

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And this is interesting because

this isn't a response to a question.

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So we've been getting a lot of

Jesus, Hey, here's a question.

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Jesus interacts.

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She's a response.

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So here we're eavesdropping

on Jesus teaching in the

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temple, and he's trying to.

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Say, this is who I am.

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Pay attention to what I'm saying here.

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'cause he says, how can the scribes say

that the Christ is the son of David?

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David himself says, and he quotes from

Psalm 1 10, 1 here, the Lord said to

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my Lord, sit at my right hand until

I put your enemies under your feet.

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So Jesus says, David

himself calls him Lord.

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So how is he also his son?

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So I think Jesus is trying to expand

our understanding or the understanding

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of those that are listening here

of who the Messiah would be.

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That the Messiah was not just a human

being that was gonna come bring military

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restoration or political restoration.

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The Messiah was a much more significant

figure than this, and he's using David A.

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Key figure in the life

of Israel to do this.

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But this is fascinating because

this is Jesus preaching and we

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get to kind of eavesdrop on

that as he's on the Temple Mount.

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After this, then Jesus is going

to warn the people in the same

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context of teaching, saying, beware

the scribes beware those that walk

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around in long robes, beware of their

self-centeredness and their their pride.

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And he says they're gonna receive

even greater condemnation.

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And that leads right into the scene

with the widow's offering, which a lot

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of times, and we've talked about it

before, she's commended, look at her

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being willing to give all that she has

in order to be fully devoted to the Lord.

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And I think there's something

to that that we should.

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Be ready and willing to say, Lord, all

that I have is yours, and so I'm willing

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to surrender all of it that you want.

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But in the context here, it may be

that Jesus is further condemning the

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scribes and the Pharisees and those

that devour widow's households by

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pointing to this young or this young

this older widow who comes forward.

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With all she has to live on and gives it.

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And it's not as though he's saying

that this is a good thing, but

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almost saying that this is the

fruit of the Pharisaical teaching.

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This is what they're doing, and this

is what I mean that they're devouring.

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Widow is household and he says she's

giving more than they've ever given

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because she's really truly seeking to

obey the Lord with all that she has.

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Yeah, perhaps it's a little

bit of this and that.

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Maybe he is commending her

for her faith because it is.

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That is real when you're giving

everything you have to live on and it's

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legitimately your last two pennies.

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God is, I don't wanna say forced, but

God is positioned to provide for you.

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So maybe he is commending

her and condemning.

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The religious rulers that made this

possible where this is the right response.

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In fact, this is one of the reasons

why we have such a disdain and

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despising of these prosperity gospels

because they pray on vulnerable

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people to the point where they'll

say, Hey, just give your a thousand

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dollars seed from your credit card.

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Trust that God will pay that back.

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God will take care of that a

thousand dollars and he's gonna

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give you 10 times more, or 30

times, or even a hundred times more.

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We despise that because they're preying

on people, much like the lottery, the

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state lottery also does something similar.

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It's the people who can least afford

to play, who play these things.

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And that's why I think you're right.

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I think that's what the right read

on this, but I also want to think

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he probably is commending her.

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And this is faith.

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She's a widow.

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She has nothing less.

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She's trusting in the Lord.

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I think that is commendable, even

while their actions are condemnable.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with that.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Lord helps us to be faithful to

you Lord, not to demand too much,

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but also not to demand too little.

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We want to be those that do love you

with all of our heart, soul, strength

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and might, and we wanna be able to do

that faithfully and we know that on

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the one hand that's impossible but I

pray as Pastor Rod was talking about

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that you'd guard us from a mindset

that says, well then wi even bother.

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Does it even matter?

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We know that you answer that in

passages like Romans six, where

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Paul says that we should never.

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Continue to sin that Grace May a bound

but God, I pray that we would be zealous

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for good works, even as we're called

to, as a fruit of the gospel in Titus.

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So help us to live faithfully before you

and never to let up or slow up or think

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that it doesn't matter that our sin is

something trivial and doesn't count.

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It does immensely because it costs Christ

his life so that we could be forgiven.

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And so we pray that we would live

in response to that, in a way

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that hates sin and loves you.

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With all that we are in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Keep your new Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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