00:00 Welcome Back + Pastor Mark’s Belated Birthday Banter

02:31 Jumping Into the Reading: Numbers & Mark + Who Wrote the Pentateuch?

02:55 Inspiration, Editors, and the JEDP Hypothesis (What We Reject/Allow)

04:51 Humility, Moses’ “Meekest Man” Line, and Paul’s Bold Claims

05:40 Book Recommendation: 'The Heresy of Orthodoxy' and Trusting the Text

06:42 Numbers 1–2 Overview: Census, Camp Layout, and God’s Order

08:14 What Numbers Teaches Us: God’s Specificity, Worship Centrality, Levites’ Role

10:39 Mark 3:1–6 — Healing on the Sabbath & Jesus’ Anger at Hard Hearts

11:59 Righteous vs. Sinful Anger (and the Preston Road Driving Test)

13:30 Crowds, Demons, and the 'Messianic Secret' in Mark

15:25 Appointing the Twelve Apostles + When Family Thinks You’re Crazy

16:36 Closing Prayer, Farewell, and Podcast Outro

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Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up?

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It is Thursday and we've got

brand new books in front.

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Well, one brand new book.

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We're still in Mark, but

we're in numbers right now.

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So that's speaking of Mark.

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Happy belated birthday, mark.

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Hey, happy belated birthday.

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We are thankful for you.

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He, he wants text messages.

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He does, and in fact, recently we put his

face into different image gen generators.

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We did, and we made him a Mexican.

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He looked really good, by the way, as

a Mexican, we made him an astronaut on

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Mars planting the first Compass Bible

Church on Mars, which by the way, is

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not gonna happen anymore because the

Moon SpaceX is no longer going to Mars.

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They're going to the moon.

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Yeah.

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So Pastor Mark will go to the moon.

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Representing Compass Bible Church, but

it is his birthday this week, so please

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be sure to wish him a happy birthday.

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We love him.

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And in fact, I think he just left

as I saw him out the window here.

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But Pastor Mark's awesome.

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He is awesome.

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Yeah, we're thankful for him and I'm

so, so he doesn't know that we're gonna

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do this, pastor pge, but the song that

you wrote for him that you're gonna

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sing for us right now, happy Birthday.

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No, no, no.

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The one that you wrote.

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Oh, the other one.

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The one about loving his hair

and really appreciating his care.

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The hair's really cool.

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I like it a lot.

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That one.

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Yeah.

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Keep going.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We're, we're here.

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Captive audience.

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Yeah.

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I'm grateful for all the

stuff that you bought.

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Yeah.

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That's all, that's all

I've written so far.

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It's not yet ready for public,

so it's, it's, it's almost ready.

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Yeah.

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You know, we're gonna drop that on

Spotify, guys, so it's gonna be a bang.

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Pres, save it.

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Yeah.

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We're gonna put it out there for

you to, it slaps it's, it does lap.

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Yeah.

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Really good.

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If you have another verse

though, I feel free to write it

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in here to us and we'll add it.

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No, you asked me to do the rap portion.

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Yeah, I did.

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And I'm still composing the,

I'm still composing the lyrics.

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Okay.

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Well maybe somebody can lay

down the beat for us on it.

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You know, I heard Kelly's

really good at that.

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I heard something similar.

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Kelly's really often dropping beats

in the, lobby just beatboxing

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while I'm in here studying.

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So, yeah.

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And if you catch her at the

right time, she puts down a big

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cardboard box that she flattens.

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Yep.

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Dude, she's, she's pretty good

at the, at the break dancing.

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Break dancing.

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Yeah.

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If you watch her.

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Okay.

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She's got the maddest

headin that you've ever seen.

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Anyways, most of that was just all not

true except for Pastor Mark's birthday.

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We're we're That is true.

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Yeah, that is, that is true.

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And he would love text messages from me.

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That is also true.

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So, and he loves Terry Black's barbecue.

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He does.

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He loves his Tesla and Kaz.

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I think he loves his family and Kaz, I'm

not sure which order he put that in, so

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just kind of eyeball it, figure that.

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And tax returns.

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He loves tax returns.

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Yeah, I know that's one of his

favorite things to do on his free time.

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He also loves books, so if there's

a good book that you've been reading

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and you think he should have it,

maybe you should get that for him.

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Maybe.

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Maybe you should.

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Alright, well hey, let's jump

into our daily Bible reading.

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We are in numbers one and two in

Mark chapter three, one through 21.

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So numbers, brand new

book, still Moses writing.

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We are still in the Pentateuch,

which again is Genesis, Exodus,

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Leviticus, numbers, and Deuteronomy.

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So we're still in the Pentateuch.

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And Pentateuch comes

from Five Five Scrolls.

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Five scrolls.

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Yep.

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So five books, first five books.

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Those are all we believe written by Moses.

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Now, we were just chatting

a little bit offline.

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Is it fair for us to allow for

there to be some editing within

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the context of the Pentateuch?

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There's textual criticism out

there, that will allow for way more

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editing than we're comfortable with.

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And maybe some people have heard

about the JEDP, hypothesis, which

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is put out there that there's all

these JEDP being four different

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editors that compose the Pentateuch.

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We would reject that and say, no, that's.

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That's not actually what we

believe happened, but there are

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statements that are made within

the Pentateuch that we would allow

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for some editorial input, correct?

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Yes, absolutely.

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I think Paul used editors, I think

Peter, did we call them Amanuensis?

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Mannu, yep.

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Eis.

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I, yep.

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Emanu I, yep.

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Anyway, I, I don't see anything wrong

with that necessarily, and our

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doctrine of inspiration does not

prohibit the use of someone who can

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say, wouldn't this be a better word?

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In fact, as I learned.

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When people compose, and I

guess Moses is different.

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I think he's writing, he's writing

things down, he's doing things, and

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I'm sure people come in after him,

like Joshua perhaps, to come up and

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help edit and finish off the, the

Pentitude because Moses eventually dies.

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He can't write after you're dead.

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Last time I checked.

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Correct.

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Joshua also dies and he

can't write after he's dead.

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So there's gotta be somebody

who's helping him fill the gaps.

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So we're okay with that.

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Where we get into trouble and where

we would push back is when it's like,

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well, who knows what happened there?

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We, it could be everybody and anybody

and anybody had access to these things.

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Mm-hmm.

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And everyone can make their

edits as they saw fit.

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And it was the power dynamics and those

who had the power made the changes.

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I don't think that's

the way that it works.

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And that's not the impression

that we get in scripture about

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how they treated God's word.

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They revered it, they esteemed it.

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It was not nearly Willie.

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Anybody could come and

contribute their offerings.

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They didn't have Grammarly to go and say,

oh, would this word be better for you?

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Right.

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You know, you're, you're a long sentence.

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Maybe break it up.

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So I'm okay with it.

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I think we're okay with it.

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Doctrine of inspiration does

not negate the use of an editor.

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in so far as we qualify what we mean by

that, would you add anything to that?

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No, I would agree with you on that.

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In fact, we were joking around about

the verse that we're gonna read in

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numbers where it says that Moses was

the most meek man in all of the Earth.

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Like Right.

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People are like you, you can't write that.

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I think you can, you would

say, you can write that.

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I, I would say you can write that.

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Yeah.

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There's nothing, humble doesn't mean you

can't say what's true about yourself.

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Right.

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humble just means that you're not,

you're not a braggart about it.

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you can say, man, what I

am, I am by God's grace.

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This is what Paul said.

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Paul said, I worked

harder than any of them.

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Yeah.

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That's a pretty bold thing to say.

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Yeah.

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He said, he says, yeah, not I, but

the grace of God that is in me.

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Yeah.

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So Paul is humble.

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He's saying what's true.

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I worked harder than he

could say, objective.

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I worked harder than any of those guys.

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Yep.

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Which is amazing and

kind of like I love that.

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But he can also say, but

God's grace was at work in me.

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So I don't think there's anything

wrong with saying this is what's

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true and, and I can honestly say

it's because of what God is doing.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with that.

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Yeah.

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By the way, quick book recommendation,

this is kind of adjacent to this whole

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subject you mentioned when, when there's

a power struggle to say who gets the

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last word and editing this, there's a

book that's more about the development

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of the early church and early church

doctrine and Christianity that I

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would recommend to you towards, this.

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Angle, and that is the book is

called The Heresy of Orthodoxy.

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How Contemporary Culture's Fascination

with Diversity has reshaped our

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understanding of Early Christianity.

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Andreas Steinberger is the author of this

and he does a great job as well as Michael

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Krueger, both of them great authors.

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I like so much of what

both of those guys, right?

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But this book does a

great job of showing why.

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The version of of Christianity

that we have today is not just

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a result of the strongest people

with the loudest voice in the room.

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Why we can trust this?

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Because that's an accusation from

some, especially on the left.

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Well, the only reason why we hold to

these things, doctrine of inspiration,

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authorities, things like that, is because

the church held the power at the time

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and just silenced everybody who objected.

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Yeah.

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This B book by Koten Berger and Krueger

called the Heresy of Orthodoxy, does

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a great job at diving into why that's

not exactly true and why we can trust

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what we have to be truly, the written

word of God as it was intended.

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Let's get into numbers one and two.

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numbers one and two is really

about the organization of things.

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And so if you think about it, we have

moved on from Sinai now and we're.

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Together.

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We've got all of these people, we've

got a million people or so, give or

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take, and they need to be grouped.

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They need to be organized.

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And so in numbers chapter one,

there's gonna be a census taken.

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Now a census, just like it is

today, is accounting of those

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that are of a certain demographic.

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And so there's gonna be

stipulations given here and the.

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Troops, so to speak.

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Those of fighting age and

up are gonna be counted.

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And this is God preparing the nation

for the journey, preparing the

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nation for what's in front of them.

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And they're going to be grouped

by people and by tribes.

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And then after this, they are going

to be arranged in, this is when you

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camp, this is how I want you to camp.

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I want the tabernacle in the middle,

and then to the north, to the

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west, to the east, to the south.

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This is where you buy

tribes are gonna camp.

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So it wasn't just willy

nilly, it wasn't just, Hey.

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First tribe showing up gets to the

best spot when they go to camp.

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It was, this is where I want you to be.

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And then even as they left camp, we're

gonna find out that as they tore the

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tabernacle down and everything else,

the tabernacle was to go out in, in a

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certain order that the tribes were to

go out in front of it, tribes behind it.

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this is how God wanted his

people to conduct themselves.

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And this is evidence of the

fact that God is the God of.

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Order and not a God of chaos.

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And so God has given them

specific instructions.

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This is how to organize yourselves so that

things can be done in an orderly fashion.

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The one tribe that's not gonna be numbered

here with the others is the tribe of Levi.

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They are exempt.

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They're gonna be exempt

from military duty.

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They're gonna be exempt from

a lot of the other things.

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'cause they have different jobs.

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Their job is to care for the tabernacle

and the things of the tabernacle.

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So we learned some things about

God in the Book of Numbers that.

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Are gonna be both awesome and encouraging

and some that are quite terrifying.

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Book of numbers the Jewish or Hebrew

title rather, is in the wilderness.

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We get numbers because we're looking

at the census data and we love, I

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guess, highlighting the boring stuff.

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Nevertheless, what we do learn about

God is, as you said, he's organized

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and I think that it implies certain

things about the way that we.

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Should be, even if we're not

naturally geared that direction,

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we see that God is a God of order.

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In fact, later in the New

Testament, Paul's gonna say,

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God's not the author of confusion.

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He's a God of order.

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And so we ought to

mimic that in our lives.

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Now granted, there's different ways to

approach this and different people are

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on different parts of the spectrum.

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in terms of their organizational skills,

but I think it's still worth emulating.

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Second thing I would say here is

that God is also specific in the

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way that he prescribes them to live.

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And I think this is important because

we don't always see it this way.

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When we look at the New Testament

reading, we might see that God has a lot

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of guidance and perhaps advice, but we

see that God actually is pretty serious

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about the way he wants us to live.

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Even in the small things, it doesn't seem

significant to me who's on the north side.

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Versus who's on the south

side versus the Easter though.

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And yet God is like, you know,

actually it does matter to me.

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it does matter to me.

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I want you to be, I want the

middle to be the tabernacle.

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And that makes perfect sense.

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The whole community is

organized around the Lord.

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Mm-hmm.

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That makes so much sense.

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If you just think about it for half a

second, the other parts of it, I wonder

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if there's a organizational schema that

I'm just not privy to, that God is using

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to put the people where they belong.

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Mm-hmm.

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They're kind of in a cross shape

of sorts or maybe a donut, if

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you wanna look at it that way.

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and also he exempts the

Levites because of their role.

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we saw this earlier, they're exempted from

the Sabbath regulations because of their

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role, and now they're also exempted from

the military draft because of their role.

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That tells me that God cares more

about, he cares about their military.

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He obviously, that's a big part, but

he also cares about their worship.

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Their worship is so central to their

identity that they're accepted

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from the, the nation's draft, which

by the way, there was no draft.

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It's if you were 20 years and older.

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Right.

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If you're a male 20 years

and older, you're in.

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Congratulations fella.

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uh, so everyone's a soldier.

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The Levites are not part of this.

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So many things that you can

learn about God just by observing

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what you see on the page.

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Yeah.

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And even the tribe of Judah

oversaw it seems to be like

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two or three other tribes.

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And then there were

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tribes that were the head tribe in

each of these general regions that

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they would camp, that the other tribes

were kind of thrown in with them.

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Right.

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But that was the main tribe in it.

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Which is interesting too.

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It is.

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And you can endlessly speculate.

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Again, we've talked about this before,

some things in scripture, it seems

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like, oh, there's something there.

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Yeah.

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hard to know exactly and to

pound your fist on the table

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and say, this is what it means.

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But it is interesting and I do

think it's their own purpose.

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Yep.

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Well, let's jump over to our

New Testament reading Mark

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chapter three, one through 21.

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And so right on the heels, the Pharisees

trying to get Jesus in trouble for his

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disciples breaking the Sabbath law about

harvesting by plucking the heads of grain.

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We're gonna get to a scene

in the synagogue here.

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And a man, it says, with a withered

hand comes forward and the

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religious leaders are there to

watch what Jesus is going to do.

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And so Jesus, is aware of this,

calls the man there, and then turns

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on them and says, is it lawful

on the Sabbath to do good or do

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harm or to save a life or to kill?

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But they were silent.

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And then it says he looked

around at them with anger

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grieved at the hardness of heart.

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So.

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This is sobering, Jesus, we don't often

think of Jesus as angry, and yet he's,

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he's angry with the opponents here and

he's grieved over the hardness of heart.

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So there's both the fury and the

sorrow here and it's, I mean, we

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see other instances of Jesus' anger.

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We do seem turning over the tables and

driving people out with a whip from

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the temple who are trying to turn his

father's house into a house of robbers.

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But this is an interesting scene

because Jesus is looking at him.

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He's angry, and you can almost hear

the silence just setting up the

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tension there as everybody's there.

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And you could hear a pin drop.

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And here's the man who needs to be healed.

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And Jesus' heart goes out to this man

and his, at the same time, his anger

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goes out against his opponents here.

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And that's another

feature of our Imago day.

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when we talk about the Imago Day,

we're saying that mankind is made in

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the image of God, and because Jesus,

the perfect man, showcases anger as a

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feature of his humanity, well, we can be

confident then that anger has a redeeming

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place in the life of a Christian.

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In fact, most of our books are about how

to deal with sinful anger and rightly so.

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We often struggle with those things.

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However, it might be that for some of

us, certainly not all, but for some of

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us, maybe you need some righteous anger.

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Maybe you are not moved by the

things that you should be moved by.

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Maybe there's a part of you that doesn't

feel when you know in your head, I

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should feel something about this.

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Yeah, I should be bothered.

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And for some of us, we're on one end

of the spectrum where we get angry

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about someone driving the wrong

way on Preston Road, others of us.

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Or on the other side of anger

where we're just not being moved

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by things that should move us.

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Sometimes, in fact, we look at

those people as models of patience.

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It's like, oh, he's not.

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He's just not ruffled at all.

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You know, he's immune to things

like that, but there are some

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things that should bother us.

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There are injustices that are committed.

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There's hard heartedness

that should move us.

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Jesus shows us that anger

is a part of our Imago day.

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And it can be and it must be redeemed.

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So you're saying we shouldn't

be mad if somebody's driving

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the wrong way on Preston Road?

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Well, I mean, what I meant the wrong

way, not like the wrong direction.

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I mean, like they, they're not driving

the way that I think they should drive.

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Fair.

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Like if you're in the fast

lane and you're going 10 under,

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that's the wrong way to drive.

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Yes.

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Sure.

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And I'm gonna, I'm gonna drive around

you and I'm gonna do everything

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in me to not look at you right.

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Or to cut over too fast

in front of you, right?

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Yeah.

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From here, we get another scene.

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Mark just fascinates me because

he, he observes things that some

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of the other writers don't observe,

like the great crowds and how

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many people are following Jesus.

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Mark wants us to know

Jesus is famous and he.

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Continues to point out the

crowds as well as the fact that

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the demons know who Jesus is.

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This is the third time that a demon is

gonna be found in the gospel of Mark

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calling out to Jesus, acknowledging who

Jesus' true identity is, and Jesus for

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the third time is gonna rebuke the demon

and say, you are not to make me known.

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Which is fascinating because

there's a whole spiritual.

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Realm that the Messiah's

interacting with here.

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And for the, I think the same

reasons why we talked about earlier.

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He doesn't just step into the limelight

and say, here I am, I'm the son of God.

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I am God.

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He's doing this with the, the

demons is also with those that he's

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healing, saying you are not to tell

people who I am, because he still

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had work to do and he knew that if

news got out, that work would be

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ended before it could get started.

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Yeah, sometimes people call this the

Messianic Secret in Mark, and it's

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this sense that Jesus is constantly

trying to qualm the crowds from

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saying or knowing too much about him.

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And I think that the way that we

resolve this, because the other gospel

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writers don't write it the same way.

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That doesn't seem to be the same

kind of gravity that Jesus is

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showing in Mark and the others.

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And so everyone questions, well, how is

it like this in Mark, but not the others?

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And we would say, because Jesus is being

highlighted here as having an agenda.

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That includes not being

revealed by these sources.

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Jesus is okay with

people knowing who he is.

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He's slowly revealing to them

and showing them by his works

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and by His word, who he is.

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But what matters to Jesus is

also the source by which his

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revelation is made known you.

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We don't want, certain, you don't want

the bad guy telling people who you.

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They control the narrative.

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Jesus wants to be able to say it.

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It's on my terms.

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I will tell you who I am and I'll let

people know when I'm ready to do that.

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Although it's interesting that the bad

guys have such good theology so often.

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Right.

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Which leads to James saying even

the demons believe in shudder.

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Right.

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That's they have great theology.

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Yeah.

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And they don't have any salvation.

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Right.

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Oof.

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Yeah.

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On the last part of our reading here, we

get the appointing of the 12 apostles,

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and this is just a reminder that Jesus had

many more followers than just these 12.

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But these 12 were gonna be the

ones that he was gonna call and

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task with being his main guys.

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He was going to invest the

most amount of time with them.

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He was going to empower them to

do unique things, to be able to

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preach, but also to cast out demons.

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And he's going to take these

12 to say, you are the ones

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that I'm gonna invest the most.

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Of my time and efforts and

teaching in, because you are the

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ones that I'm gonna send out.

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These are, except for Judas gonna become

the apostles plus I think the Apostle

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Paul, that are gonna go and do so

much work for the spread of the church

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after his resurrection and ascension.

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So, we get them all.

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They're listed here, they're,

they're appointed here, and this

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is the beginning of his time

spent with them in a formal sense.

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And I think we end verses 2021, right?

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Yes.

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Just a quick note on that.

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You'll notice here that even Jesus was not

immune from being mischaracterized because

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of his love and zeal for his father.

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His own family thought

that he was bonkers.

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And I wonder if maybe your family

has at any point thought you

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were bonkers for good reasons.

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and, and if so, you're in good company.

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Yeah.

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In fact, we just mentioned James.

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James was probably one of those that

was like, Hey, this guy's crazy.

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Oh yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah.

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If James is the brother

of Jesus in the flesh.

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No doubt.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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Well, thanks for us, just venturing

into this new book with numbers.

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I pray that we would learn from it what

you would have us to learn from it.

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I thank you that we can see

that you are indeed a God of

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order and not a God of chaos.

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And we can even reflect.

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That in our own lives.

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And I pray that we would do

that as it's appropriate.

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certainly we can idolize those things,

but it's also a risk that we run to

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neglect, being disciplined and having a

purpose in setting goals for ourselves.

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And these are things that are good

because you do care about order

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and you don't want us to just

try to feel our way through life.

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And so help us to learn those

things and certainly chief among

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those things, it should be our time

in the word each and every day.

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So I pray that you keep us in your

word, keep us learning great things

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as we study, we pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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