00:00 Welcome and Updates

01:27 Can Christians Celebrate Justice

04:08 Numbers Offerings And Worship

05:36 Rhythms For Modern Believers

06:46 Busyness And Priorities Check

09:07 Rest To The Glory Of God

10:50 Heart Posture And Gratitude

12:16 Mark 9 Kingdom And Transfiguration

13:54 Elijah John And Prophecy

15:11 I Believe Help My Unbelief

16:38 Good Doubt And Community Help

18:58 Prayer And Closing

19:48 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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And we were remiss to talk about

it yesterday, although we had

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plenty to talk about yesterday.

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But there is a war going on,

although it's, I guess Monday

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now as you're listening to this.

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I don't know if it's still active

at this point because we, just as

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we're recording this, saw reports

that the supreme leader of Iran has

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been taken out in one of the strikes.

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I guess it's yet to be

fully confirmed, but.

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It's half confirmed.

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I'm saying it's half confirmed reports

that are saying we're not sure yet

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others that are saying it's confirmed.

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Yeah.

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Either way it seems like this

is a pretty sweeping, strong.

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The show of force and effort

from the United States.

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And I got up this morning, I

was watching news coverage.

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I was listening to people talk

about it, and we were just

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talking before coming on air.

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Even one of the Democratic congressmen

federman came out in favor of

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this, that this is a good thing.

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And I guess that's the

question, should we.

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As Christians celebrate

what's happening right now.

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Is this a good thing as we watch this

unfold before our eyes in ways that

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we've never seen wars unfold before?

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Yeah.

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This is fascinating because I'm

just looking at my feed here.

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I don't know what's true

and what's not true.

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I can't tell.

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I, well, I can tell, I'm getting

from reputable sources that he has

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been killed, but I'm seeing videos

and I'm like, is this ai right?

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I can't.

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I can't tell right now.

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This is a whole new world.

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It is.

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And I'm not.

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It's a print you can trust print I guess

to some extent as long as it's coming

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from an account that you can trust.

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And even then you have to be careful

that you're seeing the right account.

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'cause there are some that are spoof

accounts that still have the check mark

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and they look like they're legitimate.

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But man, what a day and age we live

in, this is good news and I think it

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is good to call good, good and evil.

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Evil and this is why.

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Okay, explain this perhaps 'cause you

said something and I'm like, oh, that

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would be interesting to tease out.

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When I said, oh look, he's dead.

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You're like, oh, good.

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I think a lot of people might be put

off by that and say, oh, how dare you?

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You know, people die.

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That's not a good thing.

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We shouldn't be celebrating

when someone dies.

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Leave it to the judgment of God.

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One of those things.

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Can you speak to that?

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Yeah, yeah.

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This man was.

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Unquestionably evil,

wicked, and important.

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And he was actively perpetuating

evil on people, killing people.

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He's a desperate in the

truest sense of the term.

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And just as I think when we

look at the Psalms, there are

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moments of imprecatory judgment.

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Psalms that can be prayed.

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And this is a man who was also very

much adamantly against God's people

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and the people of Israel and wanting to

wipe them off the face of the planet.

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This is a man who had made

himself an ev vowed enemy of God.

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And just like with any other human

being we could argue Romans two,

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five, storing God as patient.

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And those that re reject, he,

they're storing up wrath for

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themselves on the day of judgment.

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God had been patient with this man

well into what, whatever he was

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at his seventies, his eighties.

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I don't know how old he was to be

sure, but he was a wicked and evil

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man, and I think this is a good

thing that he has been taken off

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the face of the planet with the.

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Execution of God's justice and judgment.

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Now, I'm not gonna say every act of

the United States military, Israel

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is an example of God's justice,

but I think in this instance we can

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say, this is an evil man who God

took off the face of the planet.

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Yeah.

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This relates although differently

to the way that we think about God's

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justice against any wicked, even

final justice and final judgment.

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Some of us.

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Tremble a little bit thinking about

celebrating God's justice enacted

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against people that we know and

presumably love, but this is related.

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We should celebrate when good wins out.

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Now, this is sometimes harder

to see in our world because not

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everybody is a hundred percent

evil or a hundred percent good.

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There's always those.

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I don't know those shades of

grace that God bestows on people,

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but this is as close as it gets.

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I think there's someone that who

has committed atrocities and evils

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that should be brought to justice,

and so this is a good thing.

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I even suspect that he might have been

taken out humanely as much as one can be.

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If you're taken out by a missile,

you're destroyed quickly.

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You're not having to prolong

the suffering and death.

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And so this is one of those difficult

things that we're gonna say, praise

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God for executing justice here and now.

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Yeah, it's not ultimate.

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It's not total, but it

is justice nonetheless.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I would agree.

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So, yeah, it is hard in our society to

know what is true and AI, to your point,

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has made that even more difficult.

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But for us as Christians, it's okay to

look at a situation like this and say,

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there are good guys and there are bad

guys, and we want good guys to win.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, let's jump into our

daily Bible reading numbers 28 and

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29 and Mark nine one through 29.

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So numbers 28 is gonna sound a lot

like what we've read previously with

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the different offerings, the different

stipulations rules, what was to be

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offered, how many bulls, how many

goats, how many this, that, and the

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other thing animals were to be offered.

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As I was reading this,

two thoughts came to mind.

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Number one, remember this is the

next generation that's getting

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ready to take the promised land.

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So they're being informed by Moses.

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This is what you need to do.

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Some of them may have remembered the

instructions given to their parents.

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Some of them may have had parents

that passed on those instructions

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to them, but they needed to be

reminded before Moses was gonna leave.

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This is what God has commanded.

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You don't forget to do these things.

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This is what life should be like.

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That was the first thought I had.

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The second thought I had was

their lives were going to revolve

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around the worship of Yahweh.

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Mm-hmm.

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That's what God wanted.

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He wanted their entire lives

to be about the worship of him.

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And so that was gonna

involve daily offerings.

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It was gonna involve Sabbath rest, it

was gonna involve monthly offerings.

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It was gonna involve the feasts.

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Everything about their lives was

supposed to be about the worship of God.

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Yeah.

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Amen to that.

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I noticed that too.

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And I especially, because I was

thinking daily, weekly with the Sabbath

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monthly Passover offerings, annual

offerings for the Feast of Weeks,

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that would've been annual as well.

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So there's all kinds of

worship sprinkled out there.

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Calendar and all of it was

meant to say, Hey, don't forget.

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Don't forget.

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And it's funny because the irony

about this is that God is writing

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almost the same things to us.

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And I think he's saying something similar.

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Don't forget.

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Yeah.

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I'm the centerpiece of the whole thing.

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And I wonder if there's a New

Testament parallel where even though

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we don't offer animals and we're not

doing the same kinds of things they

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did, but maybe there's a parallel

for us to say we need to find ways.

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Most obviously with scriptures

and with prayer, things like that.

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But we need to find ways to have

daily offerings to the Lord.

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We need to find ways to have

a weekly rhythm where the

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Lord is honored and glorified.

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Anyone thinking church, we need to

have a way where there's a monthly

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memorial, perhaps, where we're

eating the bread and the wine.

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Maybe we need to find ways where there's

an annual point in our calendar where

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we're thinking about what Jesus has

done and that he rose from the dead.

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All of this I see a little bit with tongue

in cheek, but obviously I think we have

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to fight for some of these things that

are not grafted into our actual calendars.

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The calendar themselves either

there's Easter, there's Christmas,

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Sunday Church, monthly communion.

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But it's the daily stuff, some of the

nitty gritty where it's really important

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that we do what God is doing for Israel,

reminding ourselves of what matters most.

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Yeah.

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And that's, we see in the New Testament.

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The church they were daily

meeting in one of those houses

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and breaking bread together.

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It was a much different rhythm.

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So different friend as well.

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You know what, starting today,

guys, home fellowship, community

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groups, they're now daily every day.

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They're now daily every day.

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Alright.

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No, but that is.

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One thing that has changed,

and I guess it's a cultural

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change, but is it a good change?

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And I don't know it's hard to say.

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I think we've become easily distracted.

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We've become busy.

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We've become busy with a lot of things

that probably we could do a better job at

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prioritizing our relationship with Christ

over the things that we're busy with.

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But then there's also necessities

like you have to work.

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To be able to provide

food for your family.

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Right.

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And that's something that's good.

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And we're not agricultural anymore, so

you can't just have your family come

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with you to the farm and plow the field.

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Right, right.

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And we need to build

relationships with other people.

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Having your kids on a sports team

where , on Saturday you're at

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the ball fields, that's not a bad

thing, especially if you've got an

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opportunity to build relationships

with other people on their team and

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work to share the gospel with people.

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But it is much, we're a much busier people

perhaps than ever before in history.

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And we need to be careful not to

let all that busyness crowd out

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our commitment to the church.

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Yeah.

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It's a constant fight for us

to ask ourselves a question,

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am I doing life right?

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It's a hard question to ask.

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It's, but you should ask it because

even though you and I pontificate

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about what it should look like and

what we think application could apply

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to in this way and that way you are

accountable to God for your life.

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Yeah.

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You're accountable for, to God, for how

you lead your family and what you choose

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to do with your free time and what you

choose to do with all the other things.

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So you have to just ask yourself regular.

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Am I doing it right?

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Yeah.

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Is this life the way that God would have

me live it with the knowledge that I

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have, with the resources that I have?

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Is this an appropriate way?

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And I guess my only point to answer

that would be is my life revolving

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around, I think this is how you said it,

revolving around the worship of the Lord.

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And my mornings, they're the lords.

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Maybe the evening should be, maybe

you need to find another rhythm that

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allows you to do this more faithfully.

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Whatever it is, it's gotta be an

intentional move on your party.

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It will not happen by accident.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I a diagnostic question that our sending

pastor used to ask a lot of people is this

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gonna matter a hundred years from now?

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And I think that's a good thing

for us to ask of some of our

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commitments, some of the things

that we prioritize and not that.

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Everything that you answer, no, that's

not gonna matter a hundred years

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from now, you should get rid of.

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But at the same time you wanna be

investing in things that are gonna matter

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and are gonna last and are gonna account

for eternity as much as you possibly can.

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And so that's certainly gonna

impact how you operate in the

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different spheres of your life.

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I think revolve around, or at least,

and your identity is, has been

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transformed such that every identity

that you had prior to coming to Christ

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is now a new identity that you have.

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Christ, and that's gonna

impact how you carry that out.

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Okay?

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Let's just balance this out a tad.

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Does that mean according to your

definition here, that I can't

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enjoy a lot of nothing for several

hours on a Sunday afternoon?

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I wanna sit on my porch.

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I wanna look at the sun.

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I directly without glasses.

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I wanna drink a lemonade.

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Sun's there, or I want, I wanna

drink a 32 ounce sweet tea

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from pick your FA buck's, HTO.

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HTO.

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Yeah.

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And I'm not doing anything productive.

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I'm not reading my Bible.

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I'm just sitting.

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Yeah.

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I'm just enjoying life.

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Yeah.

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And as Christians, you

can absolutely do that.

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You can nap to the glory of God.

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You can watch a baseball

game to the glory of God.

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It's just a matter of making sure

that you're connecting that somehow

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back to the worship of the Lord.

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As you're sitting there giving thanks

to the Lord in your mind, for Lord I'm

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thankful for these few hours that I don't

have anything on my calendar right now,

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that I can just relax and I can recharge

and I can be encouraged by looking out

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at your creation or look, thanks for.

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The ability to lay down and take

a nap and rest in that you sustain

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my body while I'm sleeping.

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I would love to say that I'm that focused

every single time that I have the free

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time and I just, I'm to my own shame

not, but I think that's the design.

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I think that's the idea that what it,

whatever you do, whether you eat or

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drink, do everything for the glory of God.

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If we could say, Lord, I'm thankful

that I get to take my family to

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this baseball game that you provided

the means for us to be able to do

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that and to sit in the bleachers

and watch this and be entertained

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by that's a common grace of yours.

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Baseball's a common grace.

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Not everything.

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We're not idolizing this,

but we're grateful for this

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time together as a family.

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The memories that we're creating.

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I think in instead, I live so

much of my life on autopilot.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I don't remember to mean God.

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Thank you for that nap.

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Thank you for this time with my family.

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Thank you for creation.

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So you can be productive

even in your rest.

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Yes, you can choose to say I'm

just gonna do a lot of nothing and

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I'm gonna do it to the glory God.

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Now here's my, I don't know if this

is a helpful question or not, but it's

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one that came to my mind recently.

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Do I have to.

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In order for that thing to be glorifying

to God, do I have to, in the act of

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it or in the appreciation afterward,

do we have to say, thank you, God

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for that thing, or, I'm doing this

because I'm doing it for your glory.

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God, I'm reading this book and God, I,

as I read it, I want you to know that

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I'm doing it as an act of worship to you.

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And do I have to do that?

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Is something I have to say and articulate.

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Can it just be a heart thing that

I'm just in my heart, I'm doing it to

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the glory of God without saying it.

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I think it can be a heart thing.

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I think God is gonna be

glorified in no matter what.

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For example, I, growing up, I

was a big Dave Matthews band fan.

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What?

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Yeah, I know.

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New Sinner.

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I know.

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Do you know what he sings about?

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Yes.

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But he was a pH phenomenal musician.

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I remember seeing him live

and just so crazy, dude.

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Yeah, he's insane.

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I would argue God is glorified.

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By his musical abilities, even though he's

not actively glorified by Dave Matthews.

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'cause Dave Matthews not a believer.

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I would argue that God is glorified by the

display of the fact that Dave Matthews can

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do what he can do with a guitar because

God enabled him to be able to do that.

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So there's a passive glorifying God.

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And I think that's true for

Christians and even to a greater

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degree because we are Christians.

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I think there is a default heart

posture before the Lord that is

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wrought within us by the Spirit that

does enable us to glorify him, even

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if we're not actively giving him.

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Thanks for that.

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But I think we should make it our

target and our aim to, to more

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regularly give him the thanks and

be more intentional about that.

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All right, let's jump over to our

New Testament reading in Mark chapter

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nine, verses one through 29, mark nine.

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Jesus has just said that

there are gonna be some that

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don't die before they see the.

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Kingdom of God after it's come

with power, because in fact, that's

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the beginning of Mark nine here.

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And there's a lot of people that

say, well, what does that mean?

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Because these people are gonna

die before the kingdom comes.

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And that's why a lot of people have

pointed to the transfiguration,

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which, what is what happens next?

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And Mark as the fulfillment of that

prophecy that he's gonna take Peter, James

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and John up on the mountain with him and

he's gonna be transfigured before him.

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Others have argued that this is going to

refer to his resurrection appearances,

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that he's going to show up in his

resurrection, post-resurrection body,

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and that's gonna be the witnessing

of the coming of the kingdom.

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Yeah I don't know that it's

abundantly clear either way.

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I think I can, I'm fine with the

translation that, or the interpretation

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that this referred to the transfiguration.

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But Jesus says that there are

gonna be some that see the

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coming of the kingdom in power.

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That's certainly what

happens on the mountain.

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Jesus is transfigured before them.

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He appears in the fullness of his

glory and they are driven to their

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faces as they hear this voice from

heaven saying, this is my son.

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Listen to him.

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This is another, you have that at the

baptism of Christ, and you have this

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affirmation again here on the Mount of

Transfiguration where God con confirms

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that this is his son and that he's worthy

of our devotion, worthy of our attention.

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And these three that Jesus takes up with

him, see him as well as Elijah and Moses

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as they're up on the mountain there.

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Why Elijah and Moses law and the prophets.

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Yeah.

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Moses being representing the law, Elijah,

representing the prophets, which is

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was a term to refer to the entirety

of the Old Testament essentially.

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And then you have Jesus representing the

church age, the New Testament as well.

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He says here, why do the, why

do they then see the scribes?

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That is, that Elijah must come

first And he says, Elijah does

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come first to restore all things.

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We think he's talking about

John the Baptist here, but

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John the Baptist says, Nope.

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I'm not Elijah, what do you make of that?

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John's humility, I think.

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I don't think John was gonna take

a mantle on himself that he wasn't

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absolutely sure was his to take.

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I think Jesus is pointing out in

retrospect, John was Elijah, John

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was fulfilling that, that prophecy.

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But I think when John is sitting there in,

in the gospel of John and the Pharisees

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come to him and say, are you Elijah?

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I think John's humility is such that he is

not going to take on a mantle of his, that

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wasn't directly given him by the Lord.

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Yeah.

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You might read this.

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As an reincarnation sense.

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But notice here, the first

century audience would not

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have even understood that.

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So we think, oh, maybe he's

saying like, I am not personally

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Elijah, and I guess that's fair.

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I think he maybe could be

saying that, but they don't

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have a concept of reincarnation.

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We do because of our exposure

to other religions, but.

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They don't, and I think

that's a good read.

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It's probably an act of humility on

his part, but the Lord spoke concretely

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and says, yes, this is Elijah.

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This is so what that tells us

then Elijah has, Elijah was a

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type, John is the anti type.

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He's the fulfillment of Elijah.

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Jesus is the ultimate

anti type, but John is.

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A fulfillment.

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It's an a anti type where

Jesus is the anti type.

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Yeah.

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The next scene is one

of those unique ones.

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A lot of times Mark is more condensed

than the other gospel writers.

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This time he gives us more than

Matthew gave us, and this is the

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situation where the father comes

to him with a a son that is.

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Is possessed and the disciples are

not able to cast this demon out.

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And Jesus here says to them, this demon

can only be cast out by prayer, but

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he calls them a faithless generation.

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He says, how long I be with you?

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They bring the boy, he's talking

to his father, and the father

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says, if you can do anything,

have compassion on us and help us.

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And Jesus responds and says, if you

can, he says, all things are possible.

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And then the father gives this just.

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I think, I don't know what else to

call it other than this pure response

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to Jesus saying, I believe, help

my unbelief saying everything in me

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wants to believe that you can do this.

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Jesus, if there's vestiges of

unbelief or lack of faith in

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my heart, reveal that to me.

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Take this away please.

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And Jesus responds by healing the

boy and restoring him and giving

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him back to his family here.

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Yeah, this is one of my favorite scenes.

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Because of its brutal honesty.

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I don't know anybody who's a Christian

who wouldn't say I've said that.

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I felt that even if I've never articulated

it, I do believe, Lord, help my unbelief.

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Yeah.

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We're always this strange combination

of faith and of fear, of boldness

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and of cowardice, and I think this

father captures what a lot of us

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can feel on any given day of the

week, I believe helped my unbelief.

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In fact, Chris Alman recently

came out with a song taking

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this phrase and he made it.

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I mean, it's a great song.

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I would encourage you to listen to it.

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Think that we're gonna use it at some

point because it just, I don't know.

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There is such a thing as good doubt.

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It is a.

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Good faith, kind of doubt.

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There's a doubt that says,

Lord, help me understand this.

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I don't get it.

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Help me see what I can't see.

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There's a doubt that is destructive

and ultimately undermines your

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faith, but there is a kind of doubt

that says, Lord, I know you know.

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I know you're it.

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I know.

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Help me see what I can't see.

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That's a humble kind of doubt

that says, Lord, help my unbelief.

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I'm struggling because of me.

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It's not you.

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I wanna do better.

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I wanna be better.

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That's the kind of dialogue that can

helpfully be had in the church when

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you're struggling with something saying, I

believe help my unbelief is an incredible

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posture of humility and a welcoming to

others to say what you know, help me know

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and what you've learned helped me learn.

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Because ultimately this is

how the Lord works with us.

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He uses people to meet us where

we are and to help us overcome

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the chasm that we struggle with.

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I remember in high school.

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I was reading blogs.

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You guys remember what blogs are?

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You're old man.

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You're so old.

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It was, yeah.

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This wasn't a newspaper.

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It was a blog and I read a series of, I

don't know, three or four, five articles,

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blogs, and this guy destroyed me.

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He was just this random guy on the web

who was just composing his thoughts

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about how if God was good, A, B, C,

and D, and I found the arguments novel.

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And because they were

novel, I was unprepared.

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And I was like, wow, that

was a really good argument.

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I don't have an answer to that.

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And so I did almost immediately.

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It's not like I was smart enough to do it.

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I was just threatened.

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And so I came to the people, I'm

like, Hey, help me with this.

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I'm really struggling.

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And by this point I was leading worship

and I had a leadership role in the

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youth ministry, so I was one of the

guys and I said, you gotta help me.

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I'm real.

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This is hard.

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I don't know what to do with this.

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Will you please show me?

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And within a matter of less than an

evening, the problems were all resolved.

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Yeah.

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And I was like, oh, that was so helpful.

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It was just wise questions easy solutions.

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Really, when I look back on it, it

was them just saying does that make

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sense to you when he says this?

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And we're saying that.

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So it was really helpful.

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And all I can say is if you find yourself

with the vocalizing, with his father, I

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believe helped my unbelief make that known

to people that love you and who can help

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you and have walked the road with you.

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Every Christian at some point in his

or her life will struggle with doubt.

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If you're a thinking person, you will.

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It's not unusual.

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But what is unusual is opening

up to people that can help

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you and walking through that

season with people hand in hand.

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Absolutely, man this is the

humility that doesn't put God in

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the dock and say, explain yourself.

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Justify yourself because

I don't believe you.

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This is, look, no I trust you're God and

I'm not, and there is an answer to this.

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I just need help finding it.

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Yeah.

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That's awesome.

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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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But I pray for those that are in our

church that might be in that position

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of just wrestling with doubt or

questioning or having their own struggles.

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I pray that you'd be kind of them gracious

to them, help them to be honest with

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their questions and that you'd provide the

answers to their questions and even the

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answers that might not come as clearly.

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I pray that you'd give them

just the confidence in you

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to be able to hold loosely.

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To their doubt and say, okay, Lord

I'm still gonna trust you even though

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I may not have all the boxes checked.

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I believe you.

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I believe who you say you are,

and I believe your word as well.

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So we thank you for this and

we thank you for your word that

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we can turn to it for answers.

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And we thank you for how you've

revealed yourself to us in it,

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and we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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We'll keep you in those bibles, keep

asking questions, send 'em to us,

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compass our podcasts@compassnntx.org

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and we'd be happy to answer 'em.

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We will catch you guys

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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