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00:00 Welcome Back, Folks!

00:10 Revisiting Yesterday's Question

00:22 Understanding the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants

01:06 Conditional vs Unconditional Covenants

01:55 The Role of the Mosaic Law

04:53 Application of Old Testament Laws Today

06:19 Social Justice and Modern Implications

10:49 Sabbath Laws and Annual Feasts

11:49 God's Promise and the Angel

12:51 Moses and the Elders Meet God

15:53 Conclusion and Prayer

16:35 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Your phone's going off.

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I got a notification.

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Yep.

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It buzzed on me.

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It is the notification that it

is time to start the podcast.

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That's something like that.

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Anyways, you asked a question at

the end of our podcast yesterday.

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Why don't you reframe that question

in case we had some listeners that

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were not able to tune in yesterday.

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I sure hope they did, but to rephrase

it for everybody, here's what we said.

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We're looking at the new covenant not

new covenant as in the New Testament.

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We're looking at a new covenant

under Moses Mediation he's receiving

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the law and God is committing to do

certain things for them and their

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job is to respond To him and doing

certain things for him as it were.

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And so my question is how does the

Mosaic Covenant fit with or How does

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the Mosaic Covenant accentuate or

supplement the Abrahamic Covenant?

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So the Abrahamic Covenant we just

read about in Genesis chapters 12

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and then 15 We find that God makes

a covenant with him that seems to be

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forever and always and yet now we have

this new covenant under Moses, how

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do we put these two pieces together?

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I know someone's asking it I just

thought I would ask it for them to

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you and see how you respond to that.

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It's very you do that it's my pleasure.

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I think about everybody who listens

and I say what would they ask?

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Here we go Yeah.

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So Abrahamic covenant, a lot of

times we'll talk about two phrases

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here that are important for us.

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Phrase number one is a conditional

covenant and phrase number two

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is an unconditional covenant.

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The Abrahamic covenant was

an unconditional covenant,

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meaning there was nothing.

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From Abraham's perspective or point of

view that was required of him in order for

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God to fulfill his end of the covenant.

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If you remember that's,

we talked about it.

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Abraham was put into a deep sleep

and God cut the animals and the

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torch passed through the animals.

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That was indicative of the fact that

was God in a unilateral way, binding

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himself to these promises of the Abrahamic

covenant, including the land, the

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promise, the descendants the land of the

descendants and the what am I forgetting?

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Land, seed, and blessing.

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Thank you.

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That's a better way to put it on.

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I don't know why I didn't say that.

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Yeah.

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Land, seed, and blessing.

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And the biggest of that is the one,

the offspring through whom all the

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families of the earth would be blessed.

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And that we know Paul calls in

Galatians three, the gospel,

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because it was pointing to Jesus.

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So what do we do then with the Mosaic law?

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Does the Mosaic law replace or

abrogate the Abrahamic covenant?

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And the answer is no, the Mosaic covenant

was not an unconditional covenant.

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So because the Abrahamic.

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Abrahamic covenant was unconditional.

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It is running concurrent or

parallel to the Mosaic covenant.

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The Mosaic covenant was God's covenant

with the people of Israel informing

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them during that dispensation, the

dispensation of the giving of the

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law, the dispensation of the law.

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How they should connect with or relate

to rather God during that period of time.

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And so this was a conditional covenant

carrying blessings and cursings as

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we're going to see later on in the law

for when Israel would obey, God said,

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this is what I'll do when you disobey.

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God said, this is what I'll do, but

nowhere is the Abrahamic covenant

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called into question as far as

if you disobey me, I'm going to

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renege on the Abrahamic covenant.

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I'm not going to fulfill

the Abrahamic covenant.

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And that was.

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A different covenant, a different set

of promises that God made to Abraham

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that were again, unconditional.

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God was going to fulfill those no matter

what the mosaic law given to Israel.

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And Paul says in Galatians two,

until the Christ should appear.

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In fact, he calls it a tutor.

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He calls it this presence that was

meant to show people that they needed

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deliverance, that they needed salvation.

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And that was what the law was

meant to do until Christ appeared.

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And when Christ came, the fulfillment

of The law then in that sense for that

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purpose was set aside and it became

a tool instead to show us that we

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need Crest, which is how Ray Comfort

uses it and others when he goes

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out and does the man on the street

interviews when he goes to the Old

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Testament law says, Hey, look at this.

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You're a line thieving, stealing

adulterer, fornicator, so forth

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and so on as he as he does with

the people that he talks with.

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So you said that the two

covenants run in parallel.

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Is there any sense in which the

Mosaic covenant sits inside of

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the Abrahamic covenant and is

supported by that as a backdrop?

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Or are we thinking about it the right way?

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If we say that the Mosaic covenant

fits inside of the Abrahamic?

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Or are they two separate things entirely?

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I mean, God's doing one.

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He's there's one story

that guy's working on.

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He's not writing two

storylines at the same time.

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And so if that's what you're implying or

driving out there by being inside of I

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mean, I'm trying to get to the, There's

multiple covenants in the Old Testament.

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We have the Abrahamic as the

backdrop covenant, right?

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You have the mosaic, you have

the Noahic, you have the Davidic.

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So how do these covenants, and I guess

that's what I'm trying to get to.

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So how the covenants all fit together

are they all glued together as it were

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through the Abrahamic covenants or do

they function separately but concurrently?

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Right.

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It's all part of the unfolding

of the Abrahamic covenant.

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So they're all offshoots of

the Abrahamic covenant, right?

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Even though some of those

are conditional, right?

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God's covenant to Abraham is

the unconditional unilateral

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covenant that will carry us

through all the way to the Christ.

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Correct.

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Yeah.

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That's simple.

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Why'd you just say that?

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I don't know, because I'm sure

some of you guys are like, what

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are they saying with no way?

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David?

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I don't understand.

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Hopefully it's helpful.

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Hopefully some of those things can

be a help to you and we'll work

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through some of them as we get to it.

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In fact, one of the questions I'm

going to have related to this is when,

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God says to Moses, look, stand back.

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I'm going to destroy these guys.

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And we're going to start over with you.

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If God's covenant with

Abraham is unconditional.

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What do we make of that?

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And we'll get to that when we get there.

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Yes, we will.

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Can't wait to get there.

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Hope you guys can't either.

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Yeah.

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Hey Exodus is 22, 23, 24.

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As I text for the today, which

doesn't have that in it, by the way.

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So you're gonna have to wait even longer.

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21 through 15, we get more laws about

the nation here are laws about property,

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making restitution when one has caused

harm to another's possessions, what to

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do when an animal hurts another animal.

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And this may be one of those

situations where you're tempted to

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say, okay, how do I relate to this?

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Because I don't have oxen in my ox.

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Isn't going to go or another ox.

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And I'm going to not going

to steal someone's beast.

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And it's not going to be

found alive in my possession.

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What do I do with this?

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Remember you're dealing culturally

with a very agrarian culture.

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And in other words, this was a

culture of farming and shepherding.

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And This was very relevant to the people

that these laws were given to, but there

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are principles that we can pull out

and understand, even though we're not

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dealing with oxen and so forth and so on.

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Even if we could just take a

look here, God assumes ownership.

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Yep, god assumes possessions that should

tell you already we're on a we're on

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a different ground entirely from the

communist approach We assume that god

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entrusts things to the stewardship of

people and god would call that possession

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So he assumes that they Own the ox and

that they're responsible for the ox.

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So possession assumes

responsibility assumes culpability.

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If that possession goes awry, I

think there's a lot of application

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there in today's modern vernacular.

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So we could look at your car.

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If your car has bald tires such that

you can't stop and you hit another car.

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You're obviously obviously if you

hit the car you're guilty already

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because you didn't stop in time, but

you could look at your car and say

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I should have had new tires on that.

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That would have allowed

me to stop appropriately.

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I think that's a very similar

and applicable approach here.

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You are owner of the car and therefore

you're responsible for the car's upkeep,

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including making sure that it does what

it's supposed to do when it's on the road.

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Yeah.

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Great connection point there.

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Yeah.

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Versus 16 chapter 22, all the

way into chapter 23, verse nine,

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we get laws regarding right

treatment of others in society.

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That, Title here is in this can

throw a curve ball because of

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the, it's the ESV is liberal.

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Yeah.

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Laws about social justice less.

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So today is it really a thing that is

being bantered around and talked about,

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it got replaced by the idea of being woke.

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And now it seems that it's not

really something that, that a lot of

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people are talking about too much,

but this is not social justice.

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The way our culture was defining social

justice recently, this is social justice

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in its truest sense of the term when

it comes to society and the rights

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of people in society, the vulnerable,

the weak, especially how does God

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want the Israelites to treat them?

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How does God want the

Israelites to care for them?

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And God is concerned that people

not be wicked and evil here.

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And he says in verse.

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Chapter 23 verse seven, and this kind

of sums up a lot of the point here.

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He says, I will not acquit the wicked.

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I will not acquit the wicked.

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And that's what he's concerned about here.

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Those that are in positions of

vulnerability or weakness, God

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wants Israel to take care of those

people and not to extort them,

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not to to take advantage of their

situations for the benefit of

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those that are stronger than them.

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And I would say those laws are good.

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We should, as a church, still.

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Embrace those laws today.

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We should care for those that

are weaker, those that have needs

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that are evident in the church.

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We should take care of the vulnerable.

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And that's something that

is good for us to do.

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Okay.

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So you said something that

I want to follow up with.

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You said that the church

should do these things today.

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To what degree should we apply these

case laws to our own Experience

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today as new testament christians.

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Yeah, I think when they're

specifically repeated within the

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new testament I think we have

obviously we have solid ground there.

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So I'm thinking of in timothy and in

james there's instructions given to

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the church on how to care for those

that are in positions of neediness

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there Okay, so let me throw one at

you then verse 9 and chapter 23.

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You shall not oppress a sojourner You

know the heart of a sojourner for you were

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sojourners in the land of egypt I think

people are going to use this and say look

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we have sojourners that are In our borders

right now are used to be a porous borders.

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So isn't it oppressive of us to

say, Hey, you don't belong here.

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Is this administration right

in doing what they're doing?

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Because the Bible says you

shouldn't impress them.

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You should take care of the sojourner

because you used to be those people.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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And I would say we have laws in

place in our nation that allow for

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people to come in as sojourners, as

aliens, as strangers, as immigrants

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that are That is right and legal.

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We don't have a closed off border

in the sense that we're saying as

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a nation, Hey, nobody's allowed to

come into our country right now.

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We just have ways to care for the nation,

to secure our nation, to make sure that

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we're not being foolish in the way we

go about these things, to vet those

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that are coming in as any nation would.

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And I think Israel probably

would do the same thing.

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They're not going to let, Philistine

spy come in their midst and hang out

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in their midst with nefarious means

towards hurting the nation there.

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They're going to Protect the people

and protect what's going on there.

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So I think what's being thrown

out there is, Hey, we need to take

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care of the sojourners and the

illegal immigrants and the refugees.

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And a lot of people will say Jesus

was a refugee and that whole argument.

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I think it's a false premise because

they're saying we need to turn

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the other eye, turn a blind eye

to the injustice being committed.

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This is a crime, right?

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In fact, one of our.

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Our press secretary was put on

the spot, I think it was a week

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ago, maybe a week and a half ago.

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And somebody said of the, those that

are in the country right now that are

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targets of being deported right now,

how many of them have committed a crime?

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Would you say?

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And her response was brilliant.

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She said all of them have.

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Because all of them are here illegally.

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They've broken our laws when

it comes to immigration.

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And so thus they're exposed to in subject

to our laws regarding deportation of them.

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We have means for people to come into our

country as those that are legally here.

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And I think in that sense,

yeah, we as a church should

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welcome somebody who is here.

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That is, is of a different

culture, a different background,

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a different nationality.

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We should look at this as a

gospel opportunity, but also we

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need to understand that it's not.

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It's not feasible for a country to just

have porous borders and still exist and

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still have law abiding citizens and still

have an economy that's going to work.

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And we should be concerned

about those things as well.

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Indeed.

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And there's also a difference between

the United States and national Israel.

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Totally.

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See, this is where you start

getting into the weeds and

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saying, okay, what do we apply?

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How do we apply it?

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One of the questions we have to

ask is who is God talking to here?

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And is this for national Israel

or is this something that we as

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Americans in 2025 should apply?

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Okay.

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Bye.

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And sometimes the answer is maybe

there's principles that we should

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we should esteem and understand.

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And that's what I'm

applying to my life here.

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I was, you read through this, you should

be reading with the sense of saying, okay

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what is applicable and how do we apply

it where you see the character of God

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on display and you should apply that.

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In fact, in verse nine, caring for

the sojourner, not oppressing them.

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The heart of God is on display, loving

your neighbor, not trying to be not trying

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to be Someone who's unnecessarily rigid or

harsh or mean spirited or what have you.

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God cares about people and so

should you, but that doesn't always

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mean a one to one translation from

national Israel to the United States.

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Yeah.

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Yes, indeed.

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Versus 10 through 19.

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Then we move into a period focused

on the Sabbath laws and also the

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institution of three annual feasts.

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And these are the big three that the

Israelites, all of them were to observe

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and all of them were to to participate in

all the males were required to be there

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later on when this came to Jerusalem.

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But these three feasts, you get number

one, the feast of unleavened bread,

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that is the feast regarding Passover.

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These are the seven days

eating unleavened bread.

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And then on the seventh day you

have the Passover feast there.

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And then the second feast

is the feast of the harvest.

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This is the wheat harvest.

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This is also associated in the new

Testament with the day of Pentecost.

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This is the feast of Pentecost

or the feast of weeks.

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And then the final feast is

the feast of the ingathering.

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And that would have been similar to

the feast of booths, the feast of

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tabernacles that we actually have looked

at recently in the gospel of John.

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And so Jesus.

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Jesus God through Moses here is laying

out these feasts of celebration and

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remembrance and thanksgiving to God for

different things that God is going to be

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doing, including Passover, the harvest and

the bringing in of the rest of the fruits

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and so forth in the feast of booth there.

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Verses 20 through 33.

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Then in chapter 23 God promises

here to go before his people.

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And this is interesting.

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He says, I'm gonna send

my angel before you.

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There are some that believe

this is the angel of the Lord.

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It, it doesn't say in the ESV, the

angel of the Lord, but it does imply

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that this is an angel that's going

to go before them that's going to.

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Act on behalf of God that's

going to even speak to them.

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And they say, pay careful

attention to him, obey his

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voice, do not rebel against him.

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So it's possible PR.

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I don't know if you have any thoughts

on whether or not this is the angel

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of the Lord, second person of the

Trinity here, if this is just an.

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Unnamed angel that we're not sure of in

this context, but whatever it is It's an

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angel with authority of god behind him.

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He says my name is in him So we're

gonna say that's about as much

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as we can say with confidence.

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Yeah.

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Yeah So the angel's gonna go before

and they need to listen to him obey his

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instructions And if they do that again,

here's part of the conditional elements

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of this Then he's going to drive out

the people from before the israelites

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to bring them into the promised land So

there's the promise that god would again

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fight for israel's name god fights That

he would do that he would go before them

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and drive the people out of the promised

land Chapter 24, then God shows up again

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here and it's to Moses and Aaron and

now the elders of Israel all together.

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So Back to the question from yesterday

if in exodus 24, he's showing up to Moses

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and Aaron and the elders Then that would

imply that the elders are already there.

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Yes seem so so There was elders back when

they were in bondage at Egypt So there

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were elders already that were identified.

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It just seems like what happens after

Jethro is that Moses says, okay I'm going

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to make sure that we have a structure

in place that allow people to have

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their needs met and their questions

answered before They all come to me.

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Yeah, that's true.

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That's true.

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And then in chapter 24 here God calls

Moses up to the mountain And he is

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going to give him here that the two

tablets, these are the 10 commandments,

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as we often think of them as the

tablets that Charlton Heston is holding

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as he is up on the mountain there.

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So these are the first tablets we're

going to see that there's going to be

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more, and there's going to be a reason

for that as we'll find out as the the

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events of the exodus continue to unfold

here, but first two tablets given to Moses

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here in chapter 24, what's up with this

meal that they have versus nine through.

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9 11, Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, 70 of

the elders of Israel went up, and they

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saw the God of Israel, there was under

his feet, as it were, a pavement of

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sapphire stone, like the very heaven for

clearness, and he did not lay his hand

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on the chief men of the people of Israel.

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They beheld God, and ate and drank.

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That stood out to me as being I've

seen this before but pretty remarkable.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah They're seeing god.

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They're seeing this vision.

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They're like, what's for dinner?

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I'm hungry guys bring You guys

got who's got the brisket?

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Yeah, that's funny.

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Yeah, but it's remarkable because god

displays himself in some mitigated way

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Obviously not the full revelation of his

glory Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to

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live but he shows himself in some way that

they see something about him and they are

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Great And he didn't lay his hand on them.

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He didn't judge them for that because

they, as sinners saw him, he allowed them

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to partake in that heavenly meal, which is

pretty remarkable again, to say the least.

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Yeah.

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And it's a reminder too, that meals

were an act of celebration at that time.

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And I think we've lost some of that today.

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I think we look at more of just something

to sustain our bodies as you have to do.

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You have to eat three meals a

day, but here, I mean, Meals were

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an act of celebration that these

feasts, like we talked about

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earlier in this episode, these were

opportunities to gather together.

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And the feast was, it was just that it

was a feast involved eating and drinking.

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There was joy and there was

celebration about that to

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celebrate something about God.

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And so it seems like it, it's here,

this celebration of the event.

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This is significant what's happening here.

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And so there, there are

a lot, and we have some.

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Of this that's carry over like birthdays

speaking of which somebody's got a

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birthday coming up in the room here.

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It's not me That's right mark,

but he's not actually in the room.

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Okay?

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Somebody else in the room who may

be on this podcast not me again

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Not me, but somebody else on this

podcast has a birthday coming up

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a significant one turning 40 or

something like that for decades of

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Life, I don't know marks not that old.

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I'm just well somebody else's is

about to be anyways We have birthdays.

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And so what do you do on a birthday?

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What are you going to do?

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What, you have a favorite meal that

your wife is going to prepare for.

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You're going to go out to eat.

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So we understand it a little bit.

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I think that the ancient

Israelite culture just celebrated

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things better than we do today.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Speaking of that, Moses ends this chapter

by fasting for 40 days and 40 nights.

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Should anybody do this?

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No.

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Why not?

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Because this is a supernatural

enablement of this where God is

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sustaining Moses during this time.

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You should not go on a

Moses fasting, fasting plan.

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That would not go well.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right, on that note, let's

let's pray and then we'll be done

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with this episode God, thanks for

your law that you've given to us.

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Thanks for glimpses into things that

maybe we never noticed before the people

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stopping and eating in your presence

and it reminded me even as pastor I was

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talking about that of the feast that

all of us in the church will be a part

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of the marriage supper of the lamb and

what that will be like where we will be

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gathered together and feasting eating in

the presence of Jesus our savior and we

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We can't but Imagine and think about what

that day will be like, but we have no clue

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just how amazing that will be to be there.

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And we long for that day.

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But in the meantime, as I often say,

help us to be faithful right now with

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what you've called us to do as we

await the return of our bride groom,

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as we await the return of Christ.

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And so we pray this in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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