In this episode of the Daily Bible podcast, the hosts discuss the recent Men's Bible Study event, which saw an unexpectedly large turnout that required moving the gathering outside. They then delve into the story of Samson and Delilah from Judges 16, emphasizing Samson's vulnerability to sin and drawing parallels to personal challenges faced by believers. The hosts also cover Judges 17-18, highlighting the idolatry and moral decline during that period, and stressing the need for modern Christians to live with integrity and uphold biblical values. Additionally, they mention an upcoming Easter outreach event aimed at inviting the community to church activities.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:03 Men's Bible Study Highlights

00:22 Unexpected Challenges and Heckling

01:32 Transition to Bible Discussion

02:12 Samson and Delilah: A Deeper Dive

06:43 Lessons from Judges

08:27 Modern-Day Idolatry and Integrity

11:02 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Saturday.

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It is Men's Bible Study Saturday.

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It is, man.

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I'm so pumped.

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I can't wait to preach.

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I'm just jumping at the, it was

amazing to see 700 men show up at that.

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That was unexpected, to say the least.

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But we didn't even fit in.

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That room could not fit.

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It's amazing.

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We had to move it outside.

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Yeah.

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Had to preach open air.

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It was great.

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Fantastic.

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People were getting saved.

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Yeah.

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Although.

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The protestors throwing the

dead cats at you was a little,

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that was a little much, man.

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I enjoyed it, dude.

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I saw it as a sacrifice of praise.

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I'm like, this is great.

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Rod: Guys that used to

happen to Whitfield.

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Can you believe that Whitfield

would be open air preaching?

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He had a dead cat thrown at him, dude.

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That's when people used

to know how to heckle.

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That's when heckling was good.

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Today heckling.

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Come on.

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That's nothing.

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Not until people are throwing dead cats.

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Do I consider it actual heckling?

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This is nothing.

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It's funny though.

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That's great, man.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Ticket in stride.

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Speaking of heckling, there's this guy

that is a fan of the San Francisco Giants.

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He's gotta be a season ticket holder.

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'cause he's got a whole Instagram

page that this is his whole bit.

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So while he's there, he

heckles the players on the

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field and he'll yell at him.

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And he had one where he was like.

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Jackson Merrill, who plays for the

Padres, he was like, Hey, Jackson.

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Oh, I know this guy.

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You probably three putt

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Rod: every green.

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You bum.

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Yeah, he does.

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He does that to, it's not

just a it's all the sports.

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Baseball.

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Yeah.

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Football.

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I don't know.

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He does.

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He's all over the place, which is great.

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Funny.

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PJ: He's clean with

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Rod: it.

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PJ: At least I haven't heard him.

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He's funny.

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He

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Rod: says

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PJ: things

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Rod: like, you probably kiss

your mom before you go to bed.

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You bomb.

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It's one of those things.

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I love that guy.

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PJ: He's running.

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Yeah.

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If anybody heckles me like

that on a Sunday morning that

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Rod: would be funny.

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We'll see.

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We'll see what happens.

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I'd like to see that happen.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Hey let's talk we had a long on

ramp to the text yesterday and we

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even covered some of the text that

wasn't in the text that were supposed

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so eager yesterday to get done.

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Maybe today let's just get to the

actual text and talk about what

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we're supposed to talk about.

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Let's see about that.

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I know we've got some people

that enjoy our longer episodes.

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We're looking at you Garrett, but,

we've also got some people that

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appreciate our brevity, but the other

7,000 are less excited about it.

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A 10th of them were at men's

Bible study, so a 10th.

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Yeah,

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Rod: that's

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PJ: it.

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Yeah.

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So we could get more, we

could get more than that.

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Oh yeah.

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The other thing that's going on today,

we're doing the the Easter outreach today.

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That's going on this morning.

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There's a team going out to, to hit some

homes and pass out some invitations,

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so hopefully that'll go well also.

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Yeah.

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Alright.

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Judges 16.

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Here's Samson and Delilah.

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This is what we started to talk

about yesterday and now here it is.

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And so remember, 'cause we

covered it in such great detail.

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Yesterday there were the 300

foxes, there was the jawbone and a

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thousand people that were killed.

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And I'm fascinated by the foxes.

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Catching 300 foxes and

then tying their tails.

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Tying their tails with torches in between.

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That's impressive.

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It is impressive.

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Yeah.

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I'd like to see how he did that.

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I would too.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then, so the Philistines are not happy

with Samson, let's just put it that way.

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And so they come to him and they begin to

intreat his wife to say, Hey, why don't

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you tell us the secret of his strength?

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Now, you were saying yesterday that

there's no indication that they showed

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up every single time that happened.

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Rod: Or that they appear that

they were there hiding, but

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that they actually appeared.

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It seems like they might have stayed

hidden until they had certainty

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that he actually was bound.

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You would

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PJ: think at least the first one,

they would've showed up, right?

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Because they they've gotten a reason

to think that he's lying at that point.

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Maybe

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Rod: the text doesn't say that.

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Yeah.

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That's why I'm saying I, I don't know.

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Maybe they waited until they, they could

tell for sure because he was such a

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PJ: rascal.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Yeah.

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The Philippines are upon you, Sampson, and

then the men lying in ambush were in an

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inner chamber, but he snapped the ropes.

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Yeah.

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So it just says they were in

an inner chamber that didn't

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say Yeah, they were just

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Rod: hiding.

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Waiting.

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Yeah.

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So he could have been

like, oh, come on girl.

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Really?

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Let's stop playing this game.

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So if they never show up, it makes

more sense to me that he would

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be easily diluted by Delilah.

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See that alliteration there?

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I did see that.

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I was raised in a Southern Baptist

seminary, so he gets tricked by her and

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she, he's just thinking she's messing.

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I.

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He doesn't see the actual threat because

they never appear until the last one.

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Yeah, that makes sense to me.

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It makes him look like less of a

moron, and maybe he still was but

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I'm just thinking, okay if he's

meant to teach us something, it's

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to teach us our own vulnerability.

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We're all easily diluted by Delilah's.

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Not all of them are the same.

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Delilah, there's different

Delilahs that dilute us.

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But so many D's, so many D's.

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But I think the important point is

that we are easily swayed by sin.

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We're our eyes are blinded by sin,

as they'll soon be for him, and we

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ought to be aware of those things.

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Yeah.

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PJ: She keeps pestering him and keeps

pestering him and keeps pestering

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him until finally he, in verse

16, his soul was vexed to death.

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When the Proverbs writer of Proverbs says

it's better to live in the corner of a

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housetop than with a nagging wife or a

nagging wife is like a dripping faucet.

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Here you go.

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This is what happens.

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Samson's soul is vexed.

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To death because he just can't shake this.

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And so in verse 17, he tells her all

his heart a razor has never come.

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My come up on my head for, I've

been in Nazarite from birth.

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You know the rest of the story.

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She cuts his hair while he's asleep.

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And this time the Philistines

do show up and they do some

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pretty awful things to the guy.

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This is a not a good situation.

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It's not like they're just arresting

him and then he's taken and he

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gets to pull the pillars down.

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They're doing some pretty awful things

to him to torture him before his death.

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But his hair begins to grow back.

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Which you made the point.

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It's not that his strength

was necessarily physical.

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And it's interesting that his hair

growing back is noted here by.

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The author as the reason in

part that his strength returned.

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And so you wonder if this is

evidence of repentance from Samuel A.

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Little bit here because

I think we, I think so.

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Yeah.

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We would agree that this is

not necessarily connected

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directly to his hair.

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But that the hair was a

symbol of his Nazarite vow.

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So maybe he even.

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Was repentant and reengaging, recommitting

to that devotion to the Lord, and

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then that rededicated his life.

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There you go through the

pine cone in the fire.

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Yikes.

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Yes.

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And so he's brought in to entertain

these Philistine lords and he grabs

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the pillars and pulls the whole

building down on top of himself.

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And it says he killed more in

his death than he killed during

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his life, which is significant.

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This must have been a pretty

large venue that he was yeah.

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They brought into e Yeah.

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Rod: People have noticed he kills

himself and yet the text doesn't

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seem to say that was a bad thing.

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It seems it's almost commending

the fact that he died in this way.

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What would you say to that?

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PJ: I would say, I think this is

an act of war in the sense that

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he is a warrior on God's behalf

and he's fighting God's enemies.

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And so I would say less than

this is more of an act of battle

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than it is him killing himself.

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It's a, not a one for one correlation,

but it's the guy who jumps on the grenade.

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To save his comrades.

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He's not killing himself in the truest

sense of somebody who kills themselves

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out of his selfishness, but he's killing

himself for the good of someone else.

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And in here it seems that this is

an act of devotion to the Lord.

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Samson is ending his own life, choosing to

end his own life in order to end the life

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of the enemies of God at the same time.

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So this is more of

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Rod: a sacrifice as opposed

to an act of cowardice.

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Yeah.

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Something valorous versus

something cowardice.

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Exactly.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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That's helpful.

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Yeah.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Alright chapter 17, then we

get into Micah and the Levite.

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This is a, just a unique,

interesting situation here.

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Again, it's just judges does

not get any better, by the way,

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if you're waiting for okay.

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Windows judges finish.

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It doesn't, it gets worse and worse.

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Pretty much from here on out.

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This is just it's all downhill.

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Yep.

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Micah and his mom sin in, in

creating an idol from some silver

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and worshiping it as their household.

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God.

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And then Micah Compounds matters

by hiring a Levite to become

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his personal household priest.

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And we're reminded in verse six, in

those days, there was no king in Israel.

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Everyone did what was

right in his own eyes.

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And so the authors giving

his commentary here.

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He's also gonna do that at

the very end of the book too.

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Chapter 21 verse 25.

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He's gonna say the same thing over again.

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Again, just in case we're wondering,

okay, so was all of this commendable?

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Was this good?

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Was this not good?

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Did God like this?

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Yeah.

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So that's a statement to

say, this is not good.

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None of this is good.

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And so this is created by Micah

and they're worshiping in it.

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And then in judges 18, the people

of Dan, we, we find out, we, you've

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mentioned I think PR that, that they

didn't stay in the land that was

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originally allotted to them, but

then they were ousted from there.

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And so they're looking for new land.

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They come through here, they find

Micah and they take his idol and

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his Levite, and basically they.

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When Micah bows up and comes back at

them, they're like, what are you gonna do?

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You're gonna fight all of us.

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And Micah's I guess not step back.

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And so then they settle in ish,

which is in the north part of of

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modern day Israel, now known as Dan.

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And and that's where the

tribe of Dan ends up landing.

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And that's judges 17 and 18.

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Rod: So what's some of our takeaways

from these last few chapters here?

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We've made the repeated observation

that things are not good.

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Is there anything here that you

could think of that would be helpful

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for us to take away as we read

through the period of the judges?

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I know a lot of Christians are thinking

yeah, this happened a long time ago

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and these are bad things, but is there

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PJ: anything for us today?

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I.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, a hundred percent.

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I think I mentioned it a couple days ago.

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In one of our episodes

we have our own idols.

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They're not the monkey, god that's

being built in downtown Frisco.

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They're, or was I guess not

built, but was proposed.

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We all have our own gods, just like Micah

set this up and idolatry is rampant.

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And what you'll notice here is

we're not finding anyone in the

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book of judges that's standing up.

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And being the prophet, prophetic,

voicing, this is wrong.

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We shouldn't be doing this.

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This is not okay.

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We need to be following the Lord

and we need to be repenting.

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We there, there's no Daniels

anywhere in the book of judges.

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And so I think maybe one of our takeaways

is just to say, man our world is sideways.

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I.

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We've got a lot of idolatry

in, in our community.

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We've got a lot of idolatry.

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We've got a lot of of, health, wealth and

prosperity churches that are in the area.

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Plus, we've now got a

heavy Hindu population.

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There's a growing Muslim population here.

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We need to make sure that we are

men and women of integrity who are

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living out Christianity as it's.

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Supposed to be lived out and we need to

be voices of not prophecy in the sense

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of having the gift of being a prophet.

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'cause we believe that's ceased.

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But we need to have those, that prophetic

voice in nature saying, we, this is

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what's wrong and we need to do what's

right and we need to obey the Lord and

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follow him with everything that we have.

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Rod: Yeah, I would be slow to look

at the judges of the past and say,

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wow, man, those guys are jacked up.

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And not be quick to say, oh, but Lord,

but for the grace of God, go, I, yeah.

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We are so prone to go the wrong direction.

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I really resonate with that line

from the hymn prone to wander.

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Lord, I feel it prone to

leave the God I love now.

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There's no ultimate leaving.

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There's no ultimate wandering.

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We would be quick to affirm

that, but I would also say, man,

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I know that my heart is wicked.

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I know that really when I look at

these guys I mentioned it with Samson.

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I don't look at Samson and

say, what a complete buffoon.

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Why didn't he should have, how

dumb was he to do A, B, C, or D

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Samson is just a reflection of me.

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I could be Samson.

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You could be Samson.

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We all could be Samson

diluted by Delilah's.

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And I think it's an important point for us

to see how quickly we can stray from God

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if God simply removes his hand from us.

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Yep.

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And that's the point.

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Everyone does what's right in their

own eyes and the result is anarchy.

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Everyone's living out their truth, and

consequently God is allowing them to

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act in all of these foolish ways we

self-destruct when we live according to

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our own compass and not God's compass.

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I think that's an important point.

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As you read, judges don't read it

saying Those guys, they should have,

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man, if I were there, I would have.

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I think the point is that

we all would go astray.

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We all would be.

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Going backward and doing dumb

things like this if it weren't for

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the grace of God restraining us.

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And furthermore, because we have his

word that gives us direction, that's

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such a good thing that we have.

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What a great blessing it is that

you're doing this, going to the

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Bible, learning from it, but don't

look at it and say, that's the past.

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This is today.

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There's no way we could do the

same thing we totally could.

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PJ: Yes.

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Yes, a hundred percent we could.

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Lemme pray and then we'll be done with

a little bit of a shorter episode of the

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Daily Bible Podcast here on a Saturday,

which I'm sure you got other things to go

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out and get involved in and be doing with

your family or like men's bible study,

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men's bible study or whatever reaching I.

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The neighborhoods together.

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Yes, that's right.

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All the things.

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God we Thank you for this day.

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We do pray that men's Bible

study would be just excellent.

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God we pray that it would be a

time of encouragement for our men

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that they would be built up by the

word that Pastor Rod would preach a

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message that is Christ exalting and

that these men would be challenged

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to lead and strive for godliness.

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This character that you've laid out,

not just for pastors and elders,

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but really for all of us as men.

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And so we just ask that our men here

at our church would be strengthened

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and that you would create.

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Strong families and strong family units

as a result of our investment in them.

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God we pray for the outreach that's gonna

take place today for our church as well.

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We just ask that people would show

up and would see these invites to

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extravaganza in our Easter services

and decide that they wanna come and

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be a part of what we're doing here.

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What you're doing here.

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At Compass.

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And so we look forward to this Easter

season and just pray that we would be

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taking advantage of the time that we have

with the lost in our midst, and that we

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would be inviting them and pleading with

them to to join us and to come to church.

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And that we'd be utilizing

even the facility that we have.

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God we, I was thinking about it

earlier today and another meeting

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that I had the idea that if we

don't use it, we'll lose it.

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And we have plenty of room to grow

where we're at right now at the

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school, even as much as we would love

to be in a 24 7 facility, God, we

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have the ability to go to multiple

services and u utilize more space.

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And God, we want to use what we

have and not not end up losing it

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because we haven't been faithful.

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I.

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To, to see more people come to faith.

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And so make us a church passionate

about evangelism and reaching the lost.

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And may we be effective in that.

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May you affect faith in the lives of

the lost around us, such that they would

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repent and believe in Christ and join our

midst to worship you as a part of campus.

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So we ask this and pray for this

and plead for this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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