In this episode of the Daily Bible podcast, the hosts discuss Deuteronomy chapters one and two, providing an overview of the book's themes and historical context. They talk about Moses' role in reinforcing the laws to a new generation and setting the stage for their entrance into the Promised Land. The episode also touches on the value of social media for Christians, examining both its benefits and drawbacks. They discuss concerns about authenticity and realistic portrayal of Christian life on social media, especially regarding family and religious practices. The episode wraps up with a prayer for wisdom and dedication to studying God's word.

00:00 Introduction and Birthday Wishes

00:26 Social Media Reflections

02:15 The Reality of Bible Reading

06:27 Overview of Deuteronomy

07:06 Moses' Final Speeches and Charges

10:07 Age of Accountability and God's Mercy

13:54 Wilderness Years and Lessons

15:05 Encouragement for Facing Opposition

16:49 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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We were just talking about what

Deuteronomy one and two is in Spanish, and

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we know, and does, but that's about it.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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Second law in Spanish.

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Yeah.

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Nope.

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Yeah.

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Not even going to try.

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No.

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Hey, happy birthday, Josh.

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Happy birthday, Josh.

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16, man.

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One.

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Proud of you.

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Very proud of you.

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Yeah.

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I feel also very old

to have a 16 year old.

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You should.

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Yep.

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Thanks, man.

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You're welcome.

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I do.

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Yeah.

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Mission accomplished.

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By the way, I apologize to everyone

yesterday that I offended that

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posted the social media post.

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That's fine.

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I'm really happy that you did.

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I just, we're not doing it for Josh.

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So I, please forgive me if I offended

your senses because you posted that.

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I.

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Didn't mean to.

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Are you going to post a

happy birthday, Josh post?

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No, I don't.

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No, we've gone away from that too,

because they don't have social media.

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So it's not, you're

telling everybody though.

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It's not, it really isn't for the person.

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If they don't have social media, it's

really for everyone else to say, Oh yeah.

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I'll put something on

there Oh, happy birthday.

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So and if I find it at the right

time, I don't always see them all,

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but I'll put something out there.

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Yeah.

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Again, it's fine.

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I'm glad that people do.

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We just don't.

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Yeah, it's too much to stay on top of man.

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I want to like social media because

there's so many benefits to it that

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are Useful, there's a ton of downsides

obviously, but I want to like it.

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I'm trying to like it and I'm

having a hard time Yeah, same.

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Yeah, I'm with you on that.

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Yeah, it's ridiculous.

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It's crazy.

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It's helpful As a role B.

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I will I mean I find it The reason

I keep it's because it's helpful.

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Like I've got a community Facebook group.

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I follow ponder on whether he helps me

with the weather stuff I find out what's

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happening in a lot of our church families

life So there's a great utility to it

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for those who are willingly Disclosing

information or sharing information

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that you're concerned about like the

NHL draft that we talked about that

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you made us discuss I did forced it

Do this whether you'd like to you're

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not probably saw it on Instagram or

Twitter or one of those things, right?

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Yeah.

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I'm also a bit of a sports fanatic.

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There's utility there.

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There's helpfulness.

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It's just I have a hard

time sharing my information.

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I don't want, I'll read everyone else's.

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I don't want to put my stuff out

there though, especially for my kids.

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I get nervous about that because

i'm like, they're not choosing it.

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I'm doing it for them and right.

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I don't know.

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I, we still do some stuff.

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So it's not like i'm totally abstaining,

but I get it as what I'm saying.

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Yeah.

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There's a place for it.

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Yeah, totally.

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Yeah.

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So I wasn't trying to offend you if you

post about kids with a driver's license.

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If you take pictures of your Bible and

coffee, I was trying to offend you.

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You know what?

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Honestly, though, a good photo of a Bible

and coffee can be like, yeah, I want

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to get to my Bible reading right now.

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There's, I don't know.

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It is attractive.

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Okay.

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So if I took a picture of, look

at my Bible, I have my Bible

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with a cup of coffee here.

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Dude, would you not want to

be like, dude, I want to open

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that thing and read it so bad.

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Okay.

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But let me explain my reasoning here.

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My reasoning is this, because

I know everybody wants to know.

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My problem is it perpetuates this idea

of what Bible reading is that it seems

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to be unattainable for so many people.

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Because unless you're newly weds and

you don't have kids running around and

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you've got that flexibility, most people.

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Aren't sitting down with their spouse

and a cup of coffee and their Bible

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early in the morning, when the house

is in perfect golden light and it

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looks just right and everything else.

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And it's God is so great.

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As we sit down and do our Bible reading

together in this lovey dovey, if that's

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you great, enjoy the phase of life.

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It's just not going to

last the rest of us.

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Your Bible reading is getting up and

turning on a single light in the house to

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not wake up the rest of the house because

you're not ready for the chaos to start

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yet and getting your Bible reading done.

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in a maybe a more darkly lit room and

yeah, you've got your cup of coffee.

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Great.

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Some people are listening to it

on the way to work in their car.

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Some people are, doing it

towards the end of the day.

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Some people are doing their daily Bible

reading at their desk at work during their

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lunch break because that's the time that

they have where they can do it their way.

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They can focus.

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I just.

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That's why I it creates this like utopian

fairytale Christianity that perpetuates.

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It's similar to the mommy wars that

are out there where it's like this.

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You look at the Instagram page of

influencer moms and it's they've got the

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perfect life and the perfect house and the

house is always clean and everything else.

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And then you come to find out that a lot

of these people actually rent Airbnbs

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specifically for the purpose of doing

these photo shoots and it's not reality.

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And so I think we can be guilty of

that as Christians that we yeah.

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put a front up on social media about

what our Christianity looks like.

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That's not reality for most people.

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Okay.

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Two thoughts.

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Number one, isn't it true that

everything that you see on social

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media is basically an imbalanced

snapshot of something you could, in

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other words, you're never seeing the

comprehensive nature of anything, right?

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And if you were to apply that metric

to anything on social media, you

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would say that all of it is basically.

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Unhelpful.

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Yes.

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Except that I think there

are varying degrees, right?

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If somebody is posting the meal that

they made, okay, I get it, right?

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My meal is not going to look like that

if I try to make it, but I don't feel

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the pressure to go out and do that.

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That's not my bag because it's

not necessary for me, but it's

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thinking that's your that's

your deliberate response, right?

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But as Christians.

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There are things like it's if it

was possible to make breathing look

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more attractive than it is, right?

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If it was like, look at how I

breathe so awesome and it's so

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peaceful and everything else.

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And you're like, man I'm

struggling to breathe right now.

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I know I need to breathe, but I'm

struggling to breathe right now.

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I just think there are things

that are less helpful for us

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to perpetuate than others.

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I agree with you that all of it has the

smacks of a certain air of fraudulence.

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I wouldn't even say fraudulence.

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It just.

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Just everything's inherently imbalanced.

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You're never seeing the full

comprehensive nature of anything online

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because a photo can't capture it.

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Even a video, right?

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A video is not going to capture

the true essence of the thing.

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It's giving you a slice of it.

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And then second thing I was going

to mention is that Neil Postman

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argued this back in what the eighties

that the medium is the message.

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And even before him, there was

another guy that wrote a book

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about this whole idea that what

we communicate over digital media.

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Is going to necessarily not even a

possibly, but necessarily change the

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way that you understand the message

itself, which is why he argued

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about watching TV and getting news

from a television, because you're

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seeking the entertainment value and

not just the informational value.

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So I will see the point, but I would

argue then if that's the case, and

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you would have to look at all of

social media and say that's not

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really what your family looks like.

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You guys are never that well

behaved or well dressed.

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Even though your family photo

looks like you guys are having an

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awesome time and you look amazing,

you don't ever look like that.

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In fact, that's why I don't

like my, I hedge on our website.

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Like I don't look like that ever.

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So I guess I agree with you, but I also,

it's one of those buyer beware situations

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where you go into social media knowing

that it's not all what it looks like.

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And I suppose if you go in with

that mindset, you could probably

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engage with it in a helpful way.

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Sure.

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Maybe.

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Yeah.

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You don't agree.

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Okay.

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That's fine.

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We're still shaking hands.

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We'll still do the podcast.

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I think we'll make it through the episode.

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I don't know.

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We'll see.

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I don't know.

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We'll see.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, let's jump in.

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Deuteronomy one and two.

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Deuteronomy one at Deuteronomy.

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Let's talk about

Deuteronomy to begin with.

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It means second law.

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And this is not that this is a second law.

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This is not that it's like, Hey, Moses,

here's an additional 10 commandments

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and more commandments aside from that.

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But rather this is a redundancy.

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This is going back over it again.

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This is making sure that this

new generation about to enter the

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promised land remembers the law.

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The law is imperative to their

relationship with the Lord at this

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point during this dispensation.

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This is how God was interacting with

the people was through the keeping of

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the law, the blessings for obedience,

the cursing for disobedience.

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And so in this book

that's, what's going on.

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The book also includes a number

of farewell speeches from Moses

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as the book is set in his.

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Final weeks of his life.

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This is the end for him.

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And he knows that he knows he's

not going into the promised land.

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And so he is landing the plane

and giving these final charges

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throughout the book here.

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And it's also to a new generation

because the people that originally

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received the law are no longer there.

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They're died.

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Not they're died.

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They have died.

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They're died.

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They're died.

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They're died.

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They're dead, gone, deaded.

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And so the people that he's

now talking to are different.

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But it's going to be interesting because

the way he's going to talk to them, he's

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going to talk to them as though they

were there on the mountain and as though

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they were the ones to see the sign.

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So it's really interesting and we'll talk

about it, I'm sure, when we get there.

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But this is meant to be for the generation

that's entering the Promised Land.

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I think of it one of those summarization

speeches like in closing, here

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are the things that we've covered.

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Here's what matters.

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Here's what I want you to know now.

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That's really long.

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That's a really long book But it's

one of my favorites in the pentateuch.

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Honestly as i'm reading it again.

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I'm reminded about how much I love

Moses teaching he's so fatherly.

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He's so pastoral in his tone and his care

for the people But he's also unwilling

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to He's not unwilling to pull punches.

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Like he'll say what needs to be said

and he'll put the finger in the chest

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and make you feel like, man, I'm

calling you to the mat right now.

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You need to pay attention to this.

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You need to listen to this.

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This is a book that is absolutely awesome.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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One commentator said the focus of

Leviticus was really the law itself.

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And the focus of Deuteronomy

is on the people.

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In relation to the law which, which

carries that relational component

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there of Moses and his love for the

people there well, in verses one

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through five introduction, a general

summary of its contents, you've got

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Deuteronomy one, three, the 40th year.

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In the 11th month.

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And so we're sitting around 1405 BC,

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in about to take the promised land here.

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Verses six through eight

contain the opening charge.

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Their verse eight is important.

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See the land that I've set before

you go in and take possession of

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that land that the Lord swore to

your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,

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to Jacob, to give them the land

and to their offspring after them.

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And we, we've got this opening charge and

this is what they're, Cut being called to

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do this new generation to your point, PR,

this is what they're being tasked with.

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Go and do this.

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And then from here versus nine

through 18, he reminds them of the

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leaders that they've had before this

and who God had used before this.

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And so he talks about verse 13,

how he's selected the elders,

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choose for your tribes, wise,

understanding, experienced men.

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I will point them as your heads, the

leaders of the tribes, the leaders

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of the people there versus 19 through

33, then takes on a little bit more

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of a somber note as he reminds them.

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of their initial rebellion, the fact

that they forfeited the original

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opportunity to take the land.

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And that's hence the 40 years of wandering

is warning them, Hey don't do this.

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Remember the penalty for the rebellion.

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You need to make sure you

don't make the same mistake.

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And this is where PR in verse 39,

we get that comment again about the

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concept of the age of accountability.

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Do you want to address that a little

bit as he talks about that idea there?

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Yeah.

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So both you and I agree that we think that

God does something special for infants.

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Those who have the.

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Inability to respond to a gospel call

those who have and I like the way that

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Miller Erickson puts it in one of his

books I forget which what that what the

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title is But he talks about someone being

old enough to ratify their sin nature at

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some point in your life You decide to sin

against the rights the good the true and

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it comes pretty early in life he says if

for someone like a Chapter one, verse 39

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person here, a little one who the people

feared would become prey children who

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today have no knowledge of good or evil.

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They're going to go in.

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Those are the kind of people that

we think God will say, okay, if they

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die in the womb or something awful

happens, or even someone who is mentally

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disabled in such a way that they're

unable to comprehend a gospel call.

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We think that God does

something special for them.

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I have a hard time talking about

it because I don't know how to talk

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about it in a way that puts all the

pieces together nicely and neatly

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without creating confusion for you.

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But I think some The Deuteronomy 1.

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39 is one of the best.

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One of the best cases, one of

the best evidences for the fact

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that God treats them differently.

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If you also want another cross

reference, Jonah 4 11, same thing.

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You have the idea of God saying,

Jonah, isn't it right for me to show

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mercy to people who don't know their

left hand from their right hand, from

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people who don't know what's happening.

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Again, I think he's talking

about the class of people.

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infants in particular, but also

others perhaps who don't have the

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mental ability, who just can't

hear or respond to the gospel call.

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Yeah.

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This builds on a point that we

were talking about on Sunday.

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There's different group strengths

on different doctrines that we have.

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There's things that we hold firmly

and we say without a shadow of

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a doubt, this is what's true.

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The deity of Christ, the exclusivity

of the gospel, the inerrancy

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and authority of scripture.

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Those are doctrines that really

don't evolve much for us.

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We may understand them a

little bit more than we do when

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we're first Christians, but.

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Pretty much they're static.

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There are other things that are more

difficult, that are our understanding,

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our conception, our perception of these

things are going to evolve over time.

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And I don't mean that macro evolution.

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We're not going to go from, a heretical

view to a non heretical view but

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we're going to, our view can change.

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It can morph.

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It can develop over time.

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Our understanding can deepen over time.

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Just like I talked about on

Sunday, that, that brisket,

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nobody's microwaving a brisket.

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You're going to put it on the

slow cooker and it's going to.

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be smoked and it's going to come

out better that way than just

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trying to zap fry your brisket.

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That's our Christian faith.

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It takes time to, to, for us to be brought

to full steam on some of these things.

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This is another one of those.

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Yeah we were talking about that recently

and I think with this, there's that

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idea of the difference between the,

do they have the capacity to repent

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and believe versus the what did the

access or cause we brought up the

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aboriginal person who doesn't have the

ability to hear the gospel, the access.

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Yeah.

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So you made the difference.

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You made the distinction that there's

a difference between someone who's

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unable to mentally physically process

this truth versus someone who.

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Can actually hear it and understand it

at least potentially right now They have

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the capacity to do it someone who doesn't

the capacity would be someone like a

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baby or mentally disabled person, right?

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because in Romans 1 He's not talking about

the infants there when he's indicting all

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of humanity there And he says what can

be known about God is plain to everyone

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you can talk to a one year old and be

like what's the sky and they're not

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gonna say it's the heavens that declare

the glory of God But you can talk to

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somebody who's In one of these tribes

and that so often happens in the stories

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that we have heard of missionaries that

have gone into these tribes and they

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have some concept of a creator that's out

there, which is again, evidence of that

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natural law that's impressed upon them.

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So that's why I do think there's the

difference there between ability, do

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they have the ability to comprehend

and obey versus the access and the

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access that's a difficult conversation.

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That's where we get again

back into the Romans nine.

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Conversation about God's

sovereignty and all of that gets

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uncomfortable really fast for us.

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But yeah, this is one of those doctrines

that we've got a looser grip on.

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Our group strength is not

as strong on this one.

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All right.

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Chapter two, then verses one

through 25, we get into the

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reminders here of the wilderness

years, the wilderness wanderings.

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It's as though Moses is setting

them up saying, Hey, remember

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how bad things have been.

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Don't mess up.

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Don't.

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Don't fail in what your task is

now, obey the Lord is Moses is

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concerned you, you brought fatherly.

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I think that's what, where Moses

is out here, I'm thinking of the

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apostle Paul in second Corinthians

five, when he says we implore you be

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reconciled to God through Jesus Christ.

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It's almost like Moses is imploring

them not to walk in the ways of their

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forefathers, as he's setting them

up here for what's in front of them.

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Yeah, I love the fact that what

Moses is doing in addition to making

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his charges and his admonitions.

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He's retelling them who they are

He's helping them to understand their

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familial history and what it means and

now how they should rightly respond to

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that again There's got to be someone

who's a keeper of the story Yeah, and

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I love the fact that Moses here is

taking responsibility by telling them.

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Here's who you are.

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Here's the problem.

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Here's a solution He's defining the

reality for them He's setting up the

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stage so that they can go into the

right mindset and tackle the land

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that God's about to give to them Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then interesting.

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He turns in verses 26 through 37 to talk

about King or Sihon, the King of Heshbon.

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And it's strange that he would bring that

up, except that again, I think this is

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encouraging them going, you're going to

go in and encounter, encounter conflict.

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There's going to be opposition

to what you're about to go do.

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And that's why you've got to

remember that God is the one that

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is going to go before you and fight

these battles and give you victory.

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And in fact, there's a parallel.

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it with pharaoh.

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If you look at verse 30 of chapter two,

it says, but Sion, the king of Heshbon

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would not let us pass by him for the Lord,

your God hardened his spirit and made

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his heart obstinate that he might give

him into your hand as he is to this day.

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And so he's encouraging this

new generation to say, Hey,

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remember, God is going to be the

one that gives you the victory.

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You're going to encounter opposition.

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It's okay.

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Trust the Lord.

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He's the one that's going

to give you the victory.

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Amen to that.

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And probably one, one small

connection to that is that Jesus

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promises something very similar.

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We're not conquering land But when it

comes to the conquering of our flesh And

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our own sin and the demonic opposition

that we encounter we ought to be prepared

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for that kind of Response as well.

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It's not going to be easy.

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The devil's not going to let you Salter

into, you know his territory and just

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start claiming people for Christ, right?

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Much less those in your own family or

even the people at your workplace Now

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you're going to experience opposition and

you're not going to make It's going to

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look like the pain and prayer, the pain

of travail, praying on people's behalf.

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It's going to look like the

pain of sowing seeds of truth.

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And so persist and know that God

ultimately wants you to be successful

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in these things and he will ensure

it in his time and in his purposes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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In fact, Moses is really doing

here corporately what he's going

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to charge the parents to do on a

familial basis in Deuteronomy six.

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We'll get there in a few days here,

but he's laying the groundwork here.

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He's saying, this is what God has done.

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Remember what God has done.

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Remember his faithfulness and move

forward in obedience in light of that.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we're grateful for

a new book to study.

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We pray that you'd give us wisdom as

we study the book of Deuteronomy, that

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we would not grow weary of your word,

that we would not grow dull of hearing

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when it comes to your word, but that we

would mine it for all that it's worth.

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Lord, we thank you for the resources

that you've given us, the commentaries,

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the study Bibles, everything

that we have now that feature.

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And so we want to be wise stewards

of these resources, help us to dig

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in and to learn much as we spend

time with you through your word.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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All right.

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