00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:32 Trusting the Bible's Authenticity

02:20 Understanding Biblical Translations

The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy

05:46 The Role of Gatekeepers in the Temple

08:32 David's Organization of the Military

11:42 David's Charge to Solomon

14:12 Contributions for the Temple

17:24 Psalm 127: Building with the Lord

18:52 Let's Pray!

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hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up folks?

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What day is today?

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Tuesday, I believe.

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Yeah, it's Tuesday.

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Happy Tuesday everybody.

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All day long.

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It's Tuesday.

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You're back to work.

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We're back to work.

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You're not back to work Pastor Rod.

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But I, the rest of us are back to work

today because we had yesterday off or

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for Memorial Day, so we're back at it.

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It's probably hot, is my guess.

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The weather.

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Weather was erratic.

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But again, it's Texas in May.

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Yeah.

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This is probably the worst time to visit.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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That's fair.

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But man, yeah, it's it's

we're hard after it.

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Hey, probably.

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Helpful for us to stop down.

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You've heard us talk quite a bit

recently in the podcast about

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some different words in scripture.

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We've been reading through the Old

Testament, we've been talking about this

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number is different from this number

and there's a variant there even last

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weekend with the sermon out of Hosea.

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And what word is the right word to

describe Gomer there and how do we Yeah.

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We understand this hour and

a half long sermon, bro.

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What'd you do?

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It was I had it for four hours and it

was only an hour and half at the end.

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Down.

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Yeah.

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Gotta do what you gotta do.

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You're welcome.

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You're welcome.

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Yeah.

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Yeah we want to let you know that as

your pastors, the Bible that you hold

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in your hand, you can trust the word

of God that you hold in your hand.

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This is not us coming in and saying,

Hey, look at there's a variant here.

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There's something here.

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And what about this word here?

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And so therefore you can't trust it.

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That is not what our intention is.

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That's not what our

implication is, that's not.

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A correct viewpoint at all.

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We've given our life to studying this

word because we believe that it is

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trustworthy and more importantly than

that, we've given our eternity to the

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content that is conveyed in this word.

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We want you to feel that, that

boldness, that confidence, that, that.

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You can stand on the word of God

and say, thus says the Lord, and

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you can read it and believe that

this is the inspired word of God.

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Our duty as your pastors is just to

make sure that you are not unprepared

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for something that comes, as the world

might say, yeah, but what about this?

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Or what about this variant here?

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What about this?

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Your Bible is supported by manuscript

evidence that is, is well over, 95

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to anywhere up to even 98% accuracy.

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In other words, we can take the

manuscripts that we have, that

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none of them are original copies.

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We don't have any autographs.

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But we have.

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So many manuscript copies that we

can do the textual critical work in

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compare and contrast these to come

back to the fact that your bible is

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nearly a hundred percent accurate

to what the originals would say.

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And that's unmatched.

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That's unparalleled.

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In any other work that exists

out there as far as the, this

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timeframe, as far as ancient

literature especially is concerned.

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So the Bible that you have is reliable

and trustworthy, and when you hear us

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say something like the svs translation

of this word is open to debate.

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We're not calling into question

the veracity, truthfulness,

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inspiration of God's word.

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We're simply saying that as wise stewards

of God's word as good berean, we want

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to know, okay what does the word mean?

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And that's where you do have the

original languages, and you can dig

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into the original languages and you

can compare and contrast translations

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and understand, okay, the translations

are done by editors and this is the

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word that they've landed on here.

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Is that the best word?

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Most of the time we're gonna say,

yeah we feel like the ESV is a great.

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Translation of the text of God's word.

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There's gonna be a couple.

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That's how we use it though.

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Yeah, totally.

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But there's gonna be a couple times

though that in, in faithfulness

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to being a good berean, we're

gonna say, Hey, you know what?

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The original language may be conveying

something just slightly different.

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Not opposite, not disparate, but

just slightly different here.

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And here's maybe a better rendering

of the original term there, which

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is in part why we have so many

different English translations.

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They have different philosophies

and different approaches to the

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translation of the original words and

the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Aramaic.

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And so we're okay with saying that there's

a little bit of verbal flexibility.

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Now, the liberal Christian or the

liberal in general might use that same

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argument to adopt some kind of heretical

teaching and say language is flexible

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and fluid and it could mean anything.

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And who even knows that

language means anymore?

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That is not what we're saying.

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Just because you can drive a car

into a tree does not mean that

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there's something wrong with the car.

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It's the driver of the car

that gets you in trouble.

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We're trying to drive the car on

the road and say, look, scripture

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has I mean there's a lot of distance

between when it was written and today,

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and being faithful with the text

means saying what the text says and

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communicating it to today's audience.

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So we use the example, the word for donkey

used to mean, used to say one thing,

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and in fact it's still in, in a couple

of our hymns and now we use a different

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word for donkey because the original word

that was used now has a crass meaning.

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Funny word choice too.

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Yep.

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'cause it rhymes.

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Yep.

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So that's what we're talking about here.

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When we look at certain words, we're not

trying to cause you to undermine scripture

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and say scripture's not important.

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Or we think it's wrong,

we need to update it.

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No, let me refer you to something

that you all should read.

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I.

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I think I, I'm gonna speak for myself,

but I think you would agree with this,

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pastor pj I would endorse the Chicago

statement on Biblical and Errancy.

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Yes, you would agree.

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Okay.

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So this came out in 1978 as a coalition

of Christians, conservative Christians

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who believe in solo scriptura, believe

in the inerrancy and infallibility of

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scripture, which is what we profess

we would love for you to read that.

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It doesn't take very long.

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It's not very long.

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Maybe take you 10 minutes or so.

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Article 10 says this, we affirm that

inspiration strictly speaking applies

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only to the Autographic text of

scripture, which in the providence of

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God can be ascertained from available

manuscripts with great accuracy.

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We further affirm that copies and

translations of scripture are the

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word of God to the extent that they

faithfully represent the original.

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We deny that any essential element

of the Christian faith is affected

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by the absence of the autographs.

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We further deny that this absence

renders the assertion of biblical

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and errancy invalid or irrelevant.

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So with that said, the, these guys

who, a lot of smart guys, a lot of

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names that you would recognize honestly

who put this together, help us wrap

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our minds around what we're trying

to say which is to say carefully and

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specifically the words do matter.

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And insofar as those words.

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Accurately reflect the

original manuscripts.

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That word is the word of God.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Speaking of the word of God,

let's jump into the word of God.

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Together.

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We're in first Chronicles for a little bit

today and also one of the Psalms as well.

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First Chronicles 26, we get the

division of the gatekeepers.

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We have gatekeepers at our church.

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We do.

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But the gatekeepers were

essentially the temple guards.

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And the first 19 verses here

as they arranged they are

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set apart, they're organized.

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They're just like David was doing

with the Levites and the singers.

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And so besides keeping order on the

temple mount, these would also tend

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to the storage and organization of the

temple equipment, oversee the food for the

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priest, the sacrifices among other things.

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These are eventually gonna be

the people you may remember

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back in the Gospel of John.

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It's gonna recall, it's gonna

involve some recall for you that.

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When Jesus was teaching on the

Temple Mount, the Pharisees sent the

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temple guards out to arrest Jesus.

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These, those were the the descendants

of this class the gatekeepers.

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They're not called

gatekeepers there by John.

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But that's who they were.

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They were there to guard and

protect the temple mount.

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We have them in our church because

we live in a fallen, broken world,

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and we understand that we want to

be, we want to care for you and your

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family as you show up at our church.

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And so we have people at our church

that are either current or former

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military or police who are armed

and who are there to protect us.

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And they're there to not only protect

something in a reactive sense,

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but even in a proactive sense.

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They're walking around our campus.

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They're they're vigilant.

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They're watching they're paying

attention to things that are going on.

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And that is taken from a principle like

this in one Chronicles 26 that it's.

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Good to have people like that.

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Absolutely.

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And again, David is wise, we're,

remember we started with the Levites

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and then we looked at the priests and

in chapter 24, and then in chapter

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25, he's organizing the musician.

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So now we finally get to the

place where it's like, all

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right let's extend further out.

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If you're thinking about concentric

circles, David is starting with what's

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most important and extending further out.

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And now you get to the place of

protection, taking care of all

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these people and the things that

make up the worship of God the

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worship of God through his people.

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And so I just wanna remind you, remember

how important this is for David,

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that he's doing these things first.

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Scripture doesn't make mistakes

in terms of chronology.

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This, I think he's reporting it as he

understood it in terms of its importance.

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And so for your life, I hope you

prioritize God's worship and that's

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evident both in your family life, the way

that you organize your calendar, and in

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the way that you approach church life.

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I think David is making a point.

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To us, worship really matters.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The rest of chapter 26.

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And then he gets into some of the other

offices, including the treasurers.

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He wants to make sure

that the money matters.

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Yeah.

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Money that's given matters.

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Yeah.

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And that, that's well cared for.

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We do that at our church and maybe you

don't know that procedure, but we have

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a accounting team that are not us as

pastors, but that are our people in

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the church, lay people in the church

that we trust, and they take the

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offerings after the service and they

go and they do the count at that point,

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and they maintain possession of the.

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The bag that is eventually taken to

the bank they handle all of that.

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And they only charge

us 25% every Sunday's.

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It's great.

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It's, that's a great deal.

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They, the colder that

they take home is awesome.

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Do you owe 25%, not 25 cents.

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2020 5 cents?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Alright.

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Chapter 27, then we go from

the gatekeepers and the

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treasures now to the military.

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And so David is gonna

organize the military.

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They needed not only to be organized

for worship, but also for war.

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And that's the main thrust of, at least

the first part of Chapter 27 here.

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Verses one through 15 provides an account

of the Israel's army by divisions.

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And while not at war, they

would serve on a rotational

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basis to help guard the temple.

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12 divisions are broken

down over 12 months.

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PI know you've been going through

this with the Bible being read to you.

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Anything that has jumped out at you as

you've been going through the names and

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things and the military divisions here.

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Chapter 27 in particular.

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Chapter 27.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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I wanna point something out to you

that was important and it relates to

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a conversation you and I were having

a couple days ago when it came to the

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differences in the census numbers.

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You remember this?

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We were talking and saying, why

is the number different on this

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side versus this side chronicles?

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And Samuel didn't agree.

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And we're trying to figure out why.

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And this is another reason why

there might be disagreement.

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If you look at one Chronicles 27 verse

23, it says this, David did not count

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those below 20 years of age four.

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The Lord had promised to make Israel

as many as the stars of heaven.

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So this is the first part.

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God made a promise to him that

these people were gonna be numerous.

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And so there's a promise

that's being enacted.

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And in verse 24 says, Joab, the son of

Zaia began to count, but did not finish.

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Did not finish.

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That's an important point.

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Yet wrath came upon Israel for

this, and the number was not entered

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in the Chronicles of King David.

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So the numbers started to be counted.

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Joab didn't finish it because

wrath came upon the people.

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And this is where David is, he's afflicted

for three days and all those people died.

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This is why in part this is the

response because God made a promise.

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David didn't believe the promise.

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There might have been a motivation

in his part to be self-assertive and

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to protect himself and his people.

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But notice here, Joab didn't

finish, and that might account for

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the discrepancies between numbers.

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Maybe there's a number that's floating

out there that was number A and number

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B, but because he never finished it, they

took both and they conflated him somehow.

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That's a potential explanation

that would help us understand

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some of the difficulties that

we find in the text itself.

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Yeah.

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In, in, in this section of 16 through.

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Down through 22, I guess through 23 even.

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We're listing the leaders of the tribes

here and Gad and Asher aren't here.

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And so we've got all of the tribes that

are cited, but minus these two tribes,

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GAD being one and Asher being the other.

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Aaron as a high priest is given a

head of a representation here, even

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though his was not a specific tribe.

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Manas is given two leaders there, and

so you still end up with a number 12.

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And it seems like most commentaries

that are out there will say that's

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what ultimately matters is number 12.

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That, that it was 12 tribes.

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It was always supposed to have 12 leaders.

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And so we've got 12 leaders,

so be happy with 12 leaders in

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First Chronicles chapter 27.

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I don't know why Gad

and Asher aren't there.

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I, we've seen other instances where

tribes sometimes drop out and then

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they show back up and here they're

not there in, in first Chronicles 27.

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Any ideas why those two

tribes aren't there?

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I do not.

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I didn't look into that.

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Yeah.

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Again it doesn't shake our faith.

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It's just a matter of going, okay, there,

there's things that we don't understand.

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We weren't there.

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It made sense at the time

when they were there.

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And we can trust that that if it matters

when we get to heaven and we remember

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these things, we'll be able to find out.

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Yeah.

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But that's a helpful note on the the,

a similar note on the the Joab census

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information there that you commented on.

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That's helpful.

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Anything else?

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In 27.

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Okay, 28.

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David at the beginning of chapter 28,

gathers all the people and announces

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that Solomon is gonna succeed him as the

one who would be king over Israel and

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who would build the temple in Jerusalem.

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Verses six through seven are rich there

with the language of the Davidic Covenant.

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So we know what David was thinking.

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We know that David was looking at

Solomon as the one that was gonna fulfill

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these promises of the Davidic covenant.

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And he's not wrong.

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He's gonna fulfill and

portion some of those things.

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He's not gonna be the ultimate

fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant.

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That's gonna be the coming of Jesus in the

future and even still today, there's a.

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There's a future fulfillment of

the Davidic Covenant that we're

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still here looking forward to.

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And that's the millennial kingdom

When David's heir in, Jesus sits on

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the throne and reigns from Jerusalem.

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But but Solomon is gonna be the partial

fulfillment, and he's gonna be the one.

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And so David is announcing before

all people, Hey, Solomon's the guy.

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Make sure that you are

going to follow him.

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Now we're gonna find out that things

don't go as smoothly in this transition

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as the chronicler makes it look like

when we get into the Samuel account.

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But for the chronicler, he's

just given a high level view here

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going, Hey, Solomon's the guy.

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And David's gonna announce

that Solomon's the.

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Successor and he's gonna build the temple.

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And things went great.

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They lived happily ever after.

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Not true, but yeah.

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The point of the Chronicles

is to encourage the post

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exilic people don't forget.

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That's the context of first Chronicles.

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It's the people that have recently

returned from Babylon and they're

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trying to get started again in the

writer of Chronicles is trying to

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say, look, God has been faithful.

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Hasn't God been faithful?

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God is faithful.

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He's gotta be faithful.

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So trust him and let's carry on.

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That's the idea here.

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One thing I wanna point out here is

in verse nine Solomon, my son, know

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the God of your father and serve him.

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How should you serve him?

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With a whole heart and a willing mind.

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I love that terminology because it

communicates exactly what we're trying

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to say and what that's our goal as

disciples today, to have a whole

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heart to Christ and a willing mind.

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Jesus calls us to love him with all of

our heart, soul, mind, and strength,

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and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

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So not a whole lot's changed here

but just notice here, this is David,

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the man after God's own heart.

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This is what he's communicating

to his son as he prepares to lead.

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Which, by the way, Solomon's

name in Hebrew Shlomo.

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I like that one better.

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Shlomo.

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Shlomo.

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Yeah.

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Isn't that better?

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Yeah, it is.

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You call him Shamo.

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Yeah.

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In fact, my son, Samuel's name is Schmuel.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Shame mule.

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Yeah, that's a fun one.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes we shorten it.

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I like it.

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Call him the Hebrew name.

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That's fun.

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I also like verse 20, when David

says to Solomon, similar to

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God's commission to Joshua, be

strong and courageous and do it.

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Do not be afraid.

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Do not be dismayed for the Lord

God, even my God is with you.

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He will not leave you nor forsake you

until all the work for the service

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of the house of the Lord is finished.

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Just that, that confidence

that he's instilling in his son

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there to go and do that, yeah.

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Chapter 29, then we get into the

people bringing the contributions

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for what was gonna be needed.

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The people follow the lead of

their king and they bring free will

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offerings of great wealth to be used

in the construction of the temple.

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David issues a prayer before the assembly.

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I.

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And the prayer recognizes God as the

owner and giver of all good things,

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including the gifts they had just offered

for the construction of the temple.

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You hear us talk about that often

when we're doing offering at church

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that you know, we're giving and

we're not giving from something

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the Lord didn't first possess.

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The Lord has given us all that we

have and owns all that we have,

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even while it's in our possession.

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We are the stewards of similar

to the parable of the talents.

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And so we give not from something

that he doesn't possess already.

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We give as an act of worship to

say, Lord, we want to dedicate these

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things to you and to the use of.

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The ministry here.

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And so he prays for Solomon in this same

section here to have a fully devoted heart

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keeping the commandments of the Lord.

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And as David's praying, he's

acknowledging the fundamental reality

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that the ultimate, rule and authority

belongs to Yahweh, belongs to God.

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Not to Solomon, not to him, which

is a key component to understanding

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again, that the Davidic covenant there.

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But David's prayer for

his son is good too.

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You you talked about our words to our

kids, our prayers for our kids matter too.

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And I love that David is praying here

that Solomon would have that heart

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that is fully devoted to the Lord.

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Yeah.

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And notice here in verse nine, in

chapter 29, it says, then the people

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rejoice because they had given

willingly for with a whole heart.

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This is what David told his son,

Shlomo, just a few verses ago.

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He wanted him to have he, the

people have the whole heart.

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They offer freely to the Lord.

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And David, the king also rejoice greatly.

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So this is a sweet time in their history.

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Not a perfect time.

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To be sure, but this does show

that God is operating in them.

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In fact, when you have something like this

taking place where people are doing things

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from the heart, this is a sign that God

is at work because only God can cause a

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person who is dead in their trespasses and

sins to be born alive or be born again.

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To be made alive together with Christ,

and then to operate from the heart.

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That's the goal.

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That's so sweet.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 29, verse 23 through 25.

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Then you mentioned everybody

lives happily ever after.

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That's a little bit of the summary

statement here from the chronicler.

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He's Hey, Solomon is anointed and

here's a quick summary of his reign.

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Everything's gonna go really well.

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The Lord made Solomon very great in the

side of all Israel and bestowed on him.

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Royal Majesty has not been seen

on any king before him in Israel.

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And then the chapter ends

with the death of David.

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Yeah I forgot to point out one

more reference for you guys.

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Lemme just throw it out to verse 19.

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David pray he's not done with Solomon.

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He really wants him to understand this.

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Verse 19, he says, grant to

my son Shlomo, a whole heart.

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I, he just can't get away from that.

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Yep.

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And again, David, a man after God's own

heart, he's concerned that the heart of

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his son remains steadfast with the Lord.

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And does that happen folks?

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Does he stay that way?

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Can't say that he does.

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It's the lady's fault.

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Yeah.

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It's his fault, but yes, it's his fault.

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Yeah.

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The whole heart, man.

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I, there's, I it resonates so deeply

with me because I just feel like that's

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where the battle is either fought

it's either won or lost at the heart.

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If we have a heart devoted to the

Lord, a lot of things go better

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if it's divided for any reason.

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Yeah, even for good things, there can be

good reasons that your heart's divided.

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Paul acknowledges that when you get

married, you have a heart that's

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rightly concerned about worldly things.

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Yep.

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And there's a place for that.

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But man, even in the worldly things,

let it be that your heart is whole

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toward the Lord as you live for his

sake, and serve for his sake and all

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the various capacities that you do.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 1 27 then is fitting here

because this is the Psalm of Solomon.

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It's noticed that in the title

there, so it's no longer David.

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Now it's Solomon who's writing the

psalm for us, and this is about

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the construction of the temple.

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He says, unless the Lord builds

the house, those who labor or

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who build it labor in vain.

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And that's so important for us to

remember as a church, we're moving up

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to this new facility in Prosper and

we're excited about that and we're

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seeing God bring people to the church.

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But we know at the end of the day, unless

the Lord's behind these things, then all

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of our hard work towards whatever it is

that we're doing is gonna be in vain.

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And that's something that goes

back to our motives, our hearts,

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and our dependence upon the Lord.

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And that we've gotta make sure that is

indicative and that is, is true for us.

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That, that we are truly seeking him.

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Here he's talking not just about the

temple though, but also about our homes.

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And notice where he goes, he

says, look, it's in vain that

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you rise up early and go to.

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Go late to rest.

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And then he turns to our kids.

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In verses three and four, he says,

children are heritage from the Lord.

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The fruit of the womb.

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A reward like arrows in the hand of a

warrior are the children of one's youth.

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And what do you do with an arrow?

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You let it fly.

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You shoot it.

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And that's what we're doing with our kids.

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And we want to do everything that we can.

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As we talked about a few days ago,

to put our kids in the way the

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gospel as much as possible to.

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Train them to follow Christ

as much as we possibly can.

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Ultimately the trajectory of that arrow

is gonna be decided by God, but we

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wanna do everything that we possibly

can to put it on the right course

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from the beginning to at least fire it

in the right direction and trust the

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Lord with the hearts of our children,

because unless the Lord builds the

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house, those who build it labor in vain.

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Amen.

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All right, y'all.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God gave us that whole heart that

Solomon was was after because his

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father had en encouraged him that

direction and had prayed for him.

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Towards that end.

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God, we want to be a

church with a whole heart.

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With families raising children who will

eventually also have a whole heart.

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And we want to be faithful to

steward the gifts that you've given

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us, specifically our families.

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We want to have families that, that

let loose our arrows, our children

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towards you, towards Christ, and that

we will ultimately trust you with

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their trajectory and their flight.

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But God we want to do everything that

we can to try to set them to follow you.

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And so God be kind to us to cause

many from our church to grow up,

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to be passionate followers of Jesus

who follow you with a whole heart.

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And we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles, tune in

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said