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Chapters

00:00 Extravaganza Saturday Intro

00:18 Where Is Jesus Now

00:46 Where Was Jesus Saturday

02:06 Event Details And Weather

02:50 Free Entry Invite Friends

03:13 Easter Bunny Rumors

04:24 Mysteries Two Wills

05:11 Judges 12 Civil War

07:02 Samson Announced

08:48 Samson Riddle And Chaos

12:58 Luke 9 Healing And Pride

14:41 Least Is Greatest

16:38 Hard Sayings Follow Me

19:03 Making Devotions Count

21:30 Closing Prayer And Outro

Welcome to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It's not good Friday.

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It's, it's not Easter.

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It's Extravaganza Saturday.

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It is, which is a mouthful.

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And everybody wants to

know where is Jesus today?

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Well, not today.

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Today.

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We know where he is.

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Well, well, where is he today actually?

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Well, he's located specifically at what?

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The right hand of the father.

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Yeah.

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Where is that?

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The right hand of the father.

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I heard his kob.

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He still has, he still has

a physical body though.

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He does.

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He does.

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So where is his physical body?

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It's in Hi, in the presence of the Lord.

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It's the same place that

Heaven is right now.

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Which is, is not up in the cloud.

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It's just like hell is not

in the middle of the earth.

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Can you put that in your Google maps?

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You find it you could probably

type heaven into Google Maps.

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I don't know where it's gonna take

you, so I wouldn't trust it, but

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it's gonna type it in right now.

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Yeah.

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Hey where was Jesus though?

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On the Saturday of his crucifixion?

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People wanna know.

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Well, we've addressed it in our series.

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In one Peter, I, I, he declared

something to the spirits in prison, and

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so that took place at, at some point.

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We don't know exactly

the timeframe on that.

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Here's what we do know.

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We do know that on Thursday that

there is, on on Friday as he

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dies, he makes a statement to

one of the thieves on the cross.

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He says, today, you will

be with me in paradise.

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So we know at least a portion of his

time was spent in the presence of the

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Father during those three days that he

was there because the thief on the cross

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was going to be there with him as well.

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Did he venture out from there to go and

declare victory to the spirits in prison?

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Peter implies that he does, although

there's even questions about

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when, when does that take place?

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What's the timeframe on that?

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So we can't be entirely sure,

but to be absent from the body

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is to be present with the Lord.

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The eternal soul of Jesus was

absent from his physical body

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during the three days in the grave.

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It wasn't lingering there.

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And so where it was in the presence of

the father declaring victory, those are

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some of the mysteries of, of the text.

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Egg extra against.

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That's what we're talking about.

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We took quite a turn, didn't we?

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10 to 12 people do wanna

know where Jesus is?

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Yes.

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I don't apologize for my question.

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I don't know where we just went,

but the question was there egg

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extra against is happening today?

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What's happening Pastor Mark happening?

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Is it inside, outside 10 to 12?

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Where is it?

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Whether it's raining or

not, will happen happening.

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Your place?

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Yeah, it's at my house.

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Come on over.

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No.

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If it's raining and it does

indeed look like it's raining.

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I mean, this is coming out on Saturday.

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Mm-hmm.

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So I guess you listen or know, but

if it's raining, it'll be inside,

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but it will be at the school.

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Same place.

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Same place, same school, same place.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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So we'll make the best of it.

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Mm-hmm.

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Whether it's raining or not.

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Yeah, it was supposed to rain a lot more

earlier this week and it just didn't,

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so maybe we will get fortunate and God

will smile upon us and he'll withhold

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the rain, although we could use the rain.

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That just goes to show though how

accurate our weather reports are.

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Like I, I look and I laugh.

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Anything more than two days,

I'm like, I don't know.

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We'll see.

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Yeah, we just have no idea

really at the end of the day.

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Yeah.

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No, for sure.

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But it's gonna be a great event.

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Does it cost anything to get in?

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Is there a charge?

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Yeah.

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You can write a check to me,

pastor Mark for a hundred bucks.

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Nice.

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Or it's free or, or it's free.

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It's your choice.

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It's your choice, really.

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You could, you could walk in or you

could give Pastor Mark a hundred bucks.

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Choose this day who you'll pay Pastor

Mark for a hundred bucks or nothing.

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It's free.

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And you should, if you're listening

to this before you're headed out

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to it, go invite your neighbor.

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Go grab somebody, bring 'em with you.

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People have been told that you're

dressing up as the Easter Bunny.

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Is this true?

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I heard it too.

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Who are these people?

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Who i's, lots of people been

texting and, and emailing me.

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Someone came to my door, a neighbor, and

they're like, I heard one of you pastor.

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Get too fax.

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I did.

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I got a fax, a smoke signal.

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Is it true that you're dressing

up this this coming extravaganza?

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It's not, oh man, sorry.

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Yeah, it's a bunch of, a bunch of rumors.

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Will you eat the 10 pound chocolate bunny

from Costco live on stage for everybody?

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I would be to see that.

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We're gonna have to wonder where

my soul is if I do, if I do that,

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actually we're not gonna wonder.

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That's a, that's a actually a

big problem if you are wondering.

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But did you see that though?

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10 pounds.

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This thing is huge.

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It's like three feet tall.

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You guys got a 10 pound bunny?

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Yeah.

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10 pound bunny.

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Wait, no C bunny.

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He's talking about Costco.

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He's talking about Costco.

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Costco.

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Who sells it?

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I thought you got one to give

away or to some like prize.

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Maybe.

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We should.

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We should, should, should.

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That would be fun.

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We should, we should.

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We should totally do that.

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Whoever's kids get that,

their parents will love us.

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Yeah, they will.

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They will.

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They, yeah.

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Anyways, if you can tell us

where Jesus' body looks, you get

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the 10 pound chocolate buddy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Deal.

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We should pull that thread

more when we have more time.

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Yeah.

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Two wills.

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Yes.

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Because we see that in the Garden

of Gethsemane, not what I will, but

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we will be done, but not two souls.

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I think we agree on that.

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He doesn't have a human

soul and a divine soul.

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But yeah, I guess after that, it's

an interesting question, and again,

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we may not know the answer, it

may not be possible first to know.

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I don't think I know I, I don't think,

I don't think I know the answer.

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Well, don't think I know the

question, and that's okay.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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There's some things that God has not

revealed to us a hundred percent.

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Secret things belong to the Lord.

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But it's exciting to think about.

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I just wonder if sometimes God's

like, I didn't even think of what

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you guys are talking about right now.

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Like, what are you, what?

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What do you even mean?

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Probably not.

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Probably not.

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That's heresy.

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Yeah.

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That's, that's just coldhearted heresy.

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Mm.

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Middle knowledge.

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Let's, let's, yeah, open theism.

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Let's open up to judges 12 through 14.

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This is spiraling outta control fast, and

so let's just continue to spiral outta

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control by talking more about Jeff, the

JI mean, viewing Jha as just a, a bad

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dude explains even more what happens here.

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'cause what we find in

chapter 12 is civil war.

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And civil war is never a good thing.

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And so the Israelites, they come to

JTA and they are upset because they

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weren't recruited to go to battle.

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And so they're upset because they

don't get the glory of the battle.

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And so JTA bows up against them and

there's this test that's gonna take place

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that he puts some people at the Jordan

River and they say if somebody comes

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over and denies being an ein, might, you

should have them say this word, y'all.

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Yes, pastor Mark is gonna pronounce

the word for us in the Hebrew.

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Did you hear it?

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Everybody?

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You just did.

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He just said it.

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Yeah.

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So, if you heard it, there must have

been a glitch in the podcast, but this

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is gonna tell them because they had an

accent whether or not they were an mite

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and then they were gonna be killed.

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So thi this is not, it's not a good thing

that we're seeing here in this chapter.

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And then chapter 12 ends with

these three other judges that are

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raised up from a period of time,

seven years, 10 years, eight.

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Eight years.

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So we've got another 25 years at the

end of chapter 12 that take place.

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Before we get into to chapter

13 there, I don't know if Jeff

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does at fault for this one.

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It looks like it's really the men of E

who are like, we wanna fight you because

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you didn't bring us to be part of this.

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And yet he says to them, when I saw

that you would not save me, I took

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my life in my hand and crossed over.

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I dunno, I, I, I, I don't think Jeff

does a good guy by any stretch, but

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I do think there's a, at least for

most of us, we would know what it's

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like to say this person's not all

bad, but they're not all good either.

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They're kind of some strange

combination between, and I

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think that's what you see here.

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He's not at fault, per se, but I

think this shows the degradation

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of the people of Israel.

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Mm-hmm.

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Things are so bad that there's

now infighting between tribes

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and that's not a good thing.

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Things are falling apart quickly.

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Totally.

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And that's, that's what my point was.

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God is not behind this.

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God is not commanding him.

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Go and and take out the mites.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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Alright, well, chapter 13,

we get a familiar character.

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This is the figure of s Samson.

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So Samson is going to

come on the scene here.

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We've got more evil though.

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The Lord is going to give Israel into

the hand of the Philistines for 40 years.

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The Philistines are becoming

more and more of a problem.

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We're gonna see them.

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Last, all the way in, in through

the time of, of David as well.

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But the Philistines are going to

hold them captive for these 40 years.

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But then the angel of the Lord is gonna

appear to Samson's mom and promises that

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she will have a son and instructs that

the mom, that he's to be a nazarite from

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the womb that's gonna be significant in

Samson's life and that God was gonna use

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him to save Israel from the Philistines.

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So, we've got this.

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This situation here, Manoa is

his dad, Samson's dad, that might

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be a trivia question that might

wind you something some prize at

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some point in time down the road.

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Who is Samson's dad?

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Manoa.

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He seems to be a righteous

man who fears the Lord and

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wants to do right by the Lord.

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And he even makes this comment,

we shall surely die for we have.

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What does it say?

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Pastor Mark in there, we shall

surely die for we have seen.

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God, right?

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Yeah.

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That is what it says.

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So would you allow for, nevermind,

we're not gonna have that

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conversation again anyways.

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The angel of the Lord, at least in

Manoa's eyes, it was an encounter

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with God and he even says, we're

gonna die because we've seen God.

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And then the chapter ends

with with Samson being born.

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But this is the announcement

that Sams is coming to deliver

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the people from the Philistines.

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I think another indication of this

being a righteous husband and wife

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is the barrenness of the woman.

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That is a repeating theme that

we see in God's special provision

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and care for, I don't know the.

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The wise, righteous women

of the Old Testament.

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Of course there's faults that they have,

but I do think this recurring theme

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should lead us to think initially, this

is probably a special situation and these

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are probably God's chosen people in,

in a very specific sense, chapter 14.

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Samson's gonna get a wife for himself.

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And he's gonna take a wife from the

Philistines, which is interesting

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because it says, get her forming now

for, she's right in my eyes, verse three.

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And we wanna say, okay, right

in your eyes, but not in the

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right, in the eyes of God.

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Right?

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Because this is inner marriage.

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This is marrying with the

people of the land of Canaan.

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And yet, look at the next verse.

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His father and mother did not know that

it was from the Lord for he was seeking

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opportunity against the Philistines.

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So God is using a sinful

decision by Samson.

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In order to gain glory

over the Philistines.

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That's a brain twister, if there

ever was one too, to, to think

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about, okay, how did that work?

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Is is God simply redeeming the sinful

decision that Samson makes of his own

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accord, saying, okay, I'll use this to get

the glory over the Philistines Anyways,

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it says it was from the Lord, so he does,

but throughout this whole situation,

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he then goes on from there and, and.

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Plays a game with the Philistines because

he, he goes and he, he ends up killing

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this lion and he eats honey outta the

carcass of a lion when he comes back

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by, which would've made him unclean.

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'cause this was a, a defy,

this was a dead animal.

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And you can't eat anything, certainly

from a dead animal, let, let alone

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even come into contact with him.

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But Sam plays a game with the Philistines

in this chapter when he challenges them

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to, to solve a riddle about this lion and

about the honey that's there and the fill.

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Philistines, as he puts it, plows with his

heifer to gain insight into his riddle.

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And he figures this out and he goes off

on them and kills 30 of them in the town,

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which then prompts further conflict.

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The Philistines are gonna

give his wife to another man.

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I, this is just bad from the word go.

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The, the, the taking of a Philistine

wife, the killing of the lion, the

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eating of the honey outta the lion,

the trying to trick the Philistines.

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They persuade his wife.

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And then he kills 30 of them, and then

they give his wife to another person.

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This is like daytime soap

opera stuff that's going on.

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Truth is stranger than

fiction, that's for sure.

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Yeah.

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This is again the, the point here is

I think to showcase the fallenness and

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the weakness, these increasing weakness

of the leaders who rule over Israel.

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It's not a perfectly straight line, but

I think the judges get progressively

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worse in terms of their, their moral.

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Finitude, their weaknesses, their,

their errors, their flaws in Samson

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has some, some redeeming qualities.

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I mean, you gotta, you gotta look

sideways and kind of close your

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eyes a little bit to see 'em.

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But they're there.

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And yet even with that you

still have a, a very flawed man.

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But to your point earlier, he still,

spirit of the Lord rushed upon him.

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Yep.

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And he goes and he.

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Takes out an animal and he

does incre impressive things.

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But again, I, I see a singular function

that the spirit is doing within that

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person as opposed to something that is

akin to the New Testament and dwelling.

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So if I gave you guys seven days to

figure out the riddle that he gave,

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would you guys be able to do it?

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No.

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No.

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I've always read this and gone.

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Why would they agree to this?

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The key, it seems as though.

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S Samson has all The power.

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Yeah.

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He can make this riddle as

hard as possible for whatever

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reason they agree to it.

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And this riddle.

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Maybe they had some sort of indication

that they could have figured this

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out otherwise, but I sometimes I'm

befuddled by why would they, would

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even agree with Samson to do this,

this challenge, to solve this riddle.

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It's the greatest riddle since,

or up until when Billbo Baggins

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said, what do I have in my pocket?

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I wonder if part of what's happening.

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'cause it's, it's a, that's a great point.

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Is.

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There's, there's a pride in, in that, but

there's also the honor of their culture.

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Like our people are honored.

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We're, of course, we're smart

enough to figure this out.

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Yeah.

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Who do you think we are?

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We're of course, we're of, you're just

a Hebrew, we can answer your question.

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We'll figure it out.

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So I, I think because of their

mindset, their tribe, their loyalty,

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their affiliation and affection

for one another says, of course

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we can figure this out, guys.

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We we're gonna get one

and over on this guy.

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Let's do it.

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And they're enemies, they're not friends.

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Mm-hmm.

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Even though Samson is trying to marry

one of their kin, they're still enemies.

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The Philistines know that the Israelites

are not for them and vice versa.

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So I think there's under, there's

undercurrents here that make this

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make sense, even though on the

surface it looks super foolish.

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You're right.

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Yeah.

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And talk about a bad sport, you know?

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I mean, I'd be upset too, honestly.

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I'd be pretty upset.

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You gave away my wife.

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What's, and you gave it to my best man.

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How does that even make sense?

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That, yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's a bad, that's a bad thing.

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That's a bad situation.

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Let's flip over to Luke chapter nine.

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As we are going to continue our New

Testament reading, and we are picking up

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following the amount of transfiguration.

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We've talked about this scene a couple

times, but Jesus comes down to find

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that there is a demon possessed child

that the disciples are not able to heal.

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And so here you get in verse 41, oh,

faithless and twisted generation.

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How long am I to be with

you and to bear with you?

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Bring your son here.

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We talked about that.

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I, I think when we went through this

in one of the other gospels, this is

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not Jesus feigning ignorance, that

he doesn't know when he's going to

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go to the cross or that he is going

to the cross, but rather this is

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a, a, a expression of exasperation.

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How long must I bear with you?

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How long until you actually

understand this and get this, which

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seems to reveal the indictment.

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On the disciples.

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In fact, this is where other

times it says some can only

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come out by faith or by prayer.

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And so this is an, I think, an

indictment on the fact that the

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disciples weren't really depending

on the Lord for casting out this

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demon that was possessing this child.

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Perhaps they had grown overconfident

in themselves, whatever it may be.

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But Jesus is, I think, bemoaning

that situation there as well as

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just the fallenness of humanity

that he was encountering from here.

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He goes on in infor, tells

his death for a second time.

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And that that's followed you know,

understandably by an argument about who's

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the greatest disciple of all of them.

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Hey, I'm gonna go die.

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And then everybody's like, well,

which, which one is the greatest

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of us of all those around us.

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And this is a one of those situations

where I have to check myself because I

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think I probably would've been right there

with the disciples arguing as, as Jesus

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says, that we know the rest of the story.

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But Jesus is Mar Luke at least is,

and the other gospel writers do this

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too, sets this up in such a way as.

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For us to see the juxtaposition between

what Jesus says and then the mentality

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and the attitude of the disciples here.

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I think it's amazing that Jesus

says to them, whoever receives this

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child, I'm looking at verse 48.

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Whoever receives this child in my

name receives me, and I think he's

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literally illustrating like, this child

in some sense has nothing to offer.

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This kid cannot provide you income.

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This kid is not a philosopher.

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And Jesus is calling people to.

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To love children who in, in

that day and age were worthless.

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I mean, I'm maybe a little overstated

saying that, but I think we can, we

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can be tempted to think the same thing.

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And I think, you know, if you

think, Hey, I'll make this a call to

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serving kids ministry, we should be

people who are eager to love people

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who don't necessarily offer us.

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Any value.

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And I think that's because

Jesus doesn't need us, right?

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Jesus doesn't need our worship, right?

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Jesus doesn't need our money.

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But he still loves us anyways.

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And so we should in, in adoration and

in worship of who he is, respond that

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same way by serving in kids ministry.

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Great application point.

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Shameless plug.

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Yeah.

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Whoever is least among you is

going to be who the greatest is.

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So Jesus is operating from

an upside down kingdom.

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Mm-hmm.

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The greatest among us descended

and condescended down to the lowest

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places in order to die for us.

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And so Jesus is the paradigm and the model

from the way that we understand that.

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And when it comes to children, that

the anyone who is weak and vulnerable,

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Jesus takes a special interest

in that would include the orphan.

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The widow, I would include the aged.

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And I think even today's culture,

we, we do understand these things

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a little better, but they're still

some of the most vulnerable people.

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Mm-hmm.

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I think Christian men in particular ought

to take a special interest in guarding

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those who are most vulnerable among us.

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As one, those who are most

aware, I can do the most good.

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You know, if I have, if I'm younger

and I have muscles that I get

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still use to defend and protect

these people, I ought to do that.

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How we do it, it's gonna look different,

but to your point, and it's well taken

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we need to make sure that we are guarding

and protecting those who are most weak

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and vulnerable, because that's us.

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Mm-hmm.

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How about verse 60 this interesting

interaction here where Jesus is

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calling or, or addressing people

who want to come follow him.

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And one of the, the people that he

is talking to in verse 59, he, Jesus

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entres him, follow me, but he said,

Lord, let me first go bury my father.

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And Jesus said to him, leave

the dead to bury their own dead.

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But as for you, go and

proclaim the kingdom of God.

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What, what is he talking

about with that statement?

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Leave the dead to go bury their dead.

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It seems, again, cold or harsh.

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But what is he really saying here?

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I think Jesus is trying to help Reor.

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So this is, we, we've gotten into

this conversation when someone was

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asking us, can you take anything?

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Jesus says at face value.

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And I think of course he can.

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Of course he can face value, but

if we understand the nature of what

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he's trying to say, then it's easier

to understand what he's getting at.

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Jesus is a master communicator.

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He uses hyperbole.

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He uses simile, he uses parable.

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He uses all sorts of literary tools

to help people understand who he is.

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And I, I even think he's.

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Interesting.

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He's trying to be interesting to his here.

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He uses things like consider the

birds and look at, look at the,

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look at the lilies of the field.

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He might even be actually

pointing at them as he's teaching.

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Mm-hmm.

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And Jesus is a master communicator.

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So I think what he's doing here

is trying to, he's not saying,

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don't take care of your family.

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Obviously one of the commandments

is to care, you know, honor

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your father and your mother.

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This is the first

commandment with a promise.

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And so when he says, let

me go bury my father.

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I don't think he's saying, Hey,

my father's on his death bed.

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He's in ICU right now.

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He's taking his last breath.

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Can I just wait with him?

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He's not saying, oh, get

your act together buddy.

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Yeah, he's dead.

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Just come.

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I think what he's doing, this young

man, whoever he is, is providing

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a smoke screen of I just need

to stick around for a few years.

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Jesus.

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I need to, I.

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The next 20 years.

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Once my dad dies, then

I can go and follow you.

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And Jesus is saying, you got

your priorities wrong buddy.

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Mm-hmm.

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Let the dead bury their own dead

means those who are spiritually

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dead, who are walking according

to the pattern of the world.

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You don't have to take special

interest in the same way that you

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would for an opportunity like this.

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You should.

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And again, Jesus is Lord, he's God.

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He's God in the flesh.

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And so he's making commands that

you and I would not be able to

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make, but he's saying, follow me.

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Now's the time, now's the opportunity.

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And let those who are spiritually

dead go the spiritually dead way.

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You follow me?

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Yeah.

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And, and that's similar to what he

means too in the very next interaction

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when the person says, well, let me go

back and say goodbye to my, my family.

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And he says, no one who puts his hand

to the plow and looks back is fit for

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the kingdom he's calling them away from.

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And in some ways, similar to the, the

rich young ruler, maybe pressing in

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on some of those idols that they're

not willing to seed to in order to

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follow Jesus and, and calling them to

say, this is what it is to follow me.

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Right.

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These are such powerful words

that we often, I mean, we've

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read them a lot of times.

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Maybe some of you on the on the

line are listening and you're

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thinking, man, I've read this so

many times that it kind of loses its

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punchiness fight to let it be punchy.

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I pray and not, not, not, I don't

always walk away this way, but when I'm.

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Having time in my Bible and I'm trying to

do my devotions, I fight to make it count,

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to make it matter to me, because there's

times, even when I wake up, I'm tired

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and I haven't had the best night's sleep.

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And I, you know, the

caffeine's not kicking in yet.

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It's a, it's a slog, but if you're

willing to stay with it and to push

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through it and let the Lord work on

you as you read through, I think,

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I think he, more often than not, in

my experience, he does do something.

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He gets me to feel something or to

remember something or to appreciate

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something that I did not moments before.

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What do you do, pastor Mark?

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I think it is an understanding

of the order of things.

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I think it's an understanding

of the order of things.

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And even think about what you

referenced just a minute ago, right?

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We should seek first the kingdom

of God and then these things

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are gonna be added to you.

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He's specifically saying there

just practical things, right?

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He's saying in that, in that parable

he's saying, food and clothes and water.

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But also we see throughout

the New Testament that it's

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all the other things, right?

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It's.

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Sanctification.

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It's the fruit of the spirit.

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So I, I think understanding the order

is important because it changes how

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we approach our devotions, right?

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If we think that we're somehow conjuring

up ideas ourselves, or we, you know,

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we're the ones who are responsible

for, you know, the great insights

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that we might pull from scripture,

we're gonna have a hard time.

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Because that's not the

right order of things.

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So I think understanding

that is important.

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But then I think also, you know, the.

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Consistency of your Bible

reading and your prayer.

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I trust if you're a regular listener

to the podcast, that's probably

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something you do, but maybe you can

think of times in your life when you,

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you weren't consistent and it becomes

harder to read your Bible over time.

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It's good to read your Bible

regularly and consistently, and.

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I love our plan, but sometimes

it's also really helpful to

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read longer chunks of scripture.

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Yeah.

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You know, if you read, just as we

have maybe a chapter of judges and

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you're thinking just about that one

chapter of judges, it can be hard to

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develop your critical thinking and your

ability to read the Bible holistically.

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If you're just allowing your brain only

to ingest that one chapter, it's maybe

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even to the point of taking notes across.

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A book of the Bible so that you can

begin to put these pieces together.

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I don't know.

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There's a lot of things I could

say, but maybe that's a start

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on answering your question.

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That's a great start.

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Well, hey, let's wrap up this episode

of the Daily Bible Podcast with

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prayer, and then we will be done.

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God, we thank you for this day and we

thank you for unanswered questions, even

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with your word as we've been talking

about it, even just talking about just

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now, we, we want to be able to plumb the

depths of scripture and have interactions

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with it that, that are meaningful,

that do count, even as Pastor Rod was

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saying, and, and that does so often

require us to be disciplined with our

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thoughts and our time and our, our.

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Emotions and our, our just attitudes,

everything to come to your word

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and, and to really seek knowledge

and, and an interaction with you.

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Something that is relational with

you and not just transactional.

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And so we thank you that we have

your word and that we can do that.

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And we pray that you'd help us to

continue to be faithful towards that end.

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And so we thank you so much for that.

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We pray for a great rest of our day

to day as we anticipate tomorrow being

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Easter and joining with our church

to celebrate our resurrected savior.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles and tune

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Easter edition of the Daily Bible podcast.

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