00:00 Introduction and Weekend Plans

00:21 New Series: Resolved

01:27 Preaching and Pastoral Duties

03:16 Daily Bible Reading: Ezra and Psalms

09:06 Spiritual Warfare and Nationalism

19:32 Daniel's Vision and God's Representation

21:29 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello there.

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Thursday the 18th.

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Yeah.

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Hey, you've got a busy weekend

coming up, don't you, pastor around?

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I do.

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Delightfully.

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So yeah, you've got double duty.

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You are preaching to our men on

Saturday and to everybody on Sunday.

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That's right.

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What are you what are you gonna

be talking to the men about?

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So we're kicking off a new

series called Resolved.

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I'm picking, I don't know, maybe

12 different men in the Bible who

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exemplify the kind of resolve and.

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Tenacity that God commends

and is especially helpful in

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this particular day and time.

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It wasn't planned in terms of, oh man,

this big event that happened last week.

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It was more thinking about what one Peter,

what some of the themes are in one Peter,

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and then how I could compliment that.

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Yeah.

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And so it just happened to be like,

this is really the right thing for

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the right time, and I'm more convinced

about that than I ever have been

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after some of the most recent events.

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But on top of that, after we go

through that with the men on Saturday.

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Picking up where you left off this

week from first Peter, and we're

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looking at verses 22 through chapter

two, verse one, which is a whole

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section about loving the church.

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And so I'm excited about and the

church as in the people of the church

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who make up the church collectively.

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And I'm really excited

about both of these things.

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I'm passionate about being

a man after God's own heart.

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I'm passionate about the church

learning to grow up in love.

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This is what Paul says,

is the mark of maturity.

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And this is what Peter says, I think

is the hallmark of our Christianity.

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So these are both.

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Timely and necessary subjects and

I'm really excited about preaching.

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That's awesome.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah.

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And you're gonna be gone?

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I'm gonna be gone.

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You're going on vacation or Yes.

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The Bahamas, I think.

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Yeah.

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It's this all expensive paid vacation.

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As long as I preach three times on

on Sunday or on Saturday and Sunday.

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Yeah, no, I'm gonna be out with our

Sunday church preaching on Saturday

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night, and then they're Sunday.

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Sunday morning services too, alright.

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Is this your Song of Solomon series

that you've been talking about?

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We're playing shuffling pastors that,

they're our singing pastor Mike Var.

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He's going out to Idaho, to

our church plant out there

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to do their family weekend.

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And so I'm going there.

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And you're coming.

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Yeah.

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So it's let's move everybody around.

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And then David Rappi is

covering for me for working.

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David.

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Yeah.

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David and the team.

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Appreciate those guys so much.

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Yeah.

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So who's covering for David?

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That's a great question.

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Yeah.

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I don't know, man.

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David, I don't know.

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Are you stepping up after that?

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I don't know.

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Yeah.

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So what are you preaching on then?

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I am actually taking the

message I preached two weeks

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ago on family resemblance on

our call to be holy as he is.

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Holy.

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Oh, cool.

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So yeah, looking forward to being

up with with the people there.

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So you're preaching through chapter

two verse one, and that's in part

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because that's the way I outlined it.

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Yes.

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That is entirely your fault, but I

think it, I think, but I think it fits.

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It works.

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Yeah.

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I think it fits.

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I agree.

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And it's a good move.

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Maybe everybody doesn't realize.

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That the chapters and verses

are not, Peter didn't write

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chapters and verses what?

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Yeah, I know.

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It's crazy.

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Those were, who did editorial decisions?

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Yeah.

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Those were added much later on.

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And some people joke that whoever did

it must have done it on horseback.

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Yeah.

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Because there are situations

where you look at, like this

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one and Peter, where it's like.

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That.

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Why did you break it there?

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That doesn't make sense.

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Yeah.

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Clearly this is still talking about

relationships and so it fits with the

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preceding context, but that's why chapter

two verse one yeah, you're allowed

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to mess with the verses and chapters.

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That's not an edit.

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That's not an inspired.

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Hey don't mess with this kind of a thing.

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They're helpful.

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I'm thankful for them.

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Otherwise, absolutely.

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It'd be so hard to do what

we're doing right now.

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The daily Bible reading.

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Yeah.

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You couldn't break it down.

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If you're like, stop at

this line and this page.

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My pages are different.

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Yeah.

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We would've done it eventually.

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Yeah.

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Someone just beat us to the punch.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Speaking of daily Bible

reading, let's jump in.

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Ezra four, five and six, and then

I think our last Psalm, this is it.

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This is our last Psalm of the year.

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In fact, I didn't realize we're two weeks

away from jumping into the New Testament.

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Praise God.

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That's amazing.

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Yeah, that's my one lament with this plan.

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Yes.

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Every time I come to it, I'm like, man, I

just need more time in the New Testament.

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So I think for this next time.

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This next year, we're

gonna do the same plan.

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I think that's the plan.

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Yep.

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We haven't changed it.

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We're gonna do the same plan again.

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So if you're planning on joining

us, welcome back to the Club.

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We're gonna do this all over again.

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New podcast, though.

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We're not just gonna copy and

paste for half fresh every day.

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Yeah.

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Baked fresh bread.

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But I think what I'm gonna do is a lot

more systematic, tangible not tangible

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regular New Testament supplementation.

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Yeah.

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I just, I need more of it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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In fact I know a lot of it was just

you and the Lord but you spent a

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couple days recently recharging,

resetting and spending some time,

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and you did some more time in the

New Testament during that time.

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You said it was super refreshing for you.

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Man, I just, I plowed through just a lot.

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I just read a lot.

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Yeah, I read and I prayed and I journaled.

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That was really what I did.

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And through that simple process,

this is not rocket science.

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I didn't make this up.

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Obviously, this is what God's people have

been doing since the beginning of the

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creation of the church, and even before

then God's people have been doing this.

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It was just so refreshing.

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Yeah.

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I just feel like my soul has locked into

place and I feel clear minded, and not

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that all my problems are gone, I still

have some of the same issues, but the

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clarity about how I see them and the sense

of resilience and steadfastness that I

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feel like my soul has been calibrated,

and now I'm able to say, all right.

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Let's do this.

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Let's go.

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Yeah.

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So spending more time in the word

can be such a balm to your soul.

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You need it.

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We all need it.

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Maybe as much as you're in the Bible,

you might think you're checking the box.

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Maybe you actually need more.

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Yeah.

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Because God often does great

things through His word.

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His word is powerful and effective, and

it will never not do what he intends.

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And sometimes we can just get so into the

routine like, oh, I did the plan today.

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Check the box.

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I read Ezra, check the box.

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But maybe you need some more time with the

Lord and the Word, and maybe a journal.

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And maybe that could be

helpful to you as well.

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Yeah.

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Alright, Ezra four, five, and six.

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We are in Ezra four where

we get some opposition.

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I, I mentioned yesterday.

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Good start, but then that start is

going to end up petering out and

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here we see where that happens.

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So chapter four verse two.

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You get these people that approach

Abel and the heads of the father's

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houses and they say to them,

Hey, we wanna build with you.

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And it says, because we worship your God.

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Also, ever since the days that we've

been resettled here by the king of

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Assyria, now this is the ancient.

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Precursor of the Samaritan people.

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The, these are the people.

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Remember when Assyria took

out the northern kingdom?

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They repopulated the land and then

because things weren't going well,

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they brought back some of the

priests and some of the religious

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leaders that they had taken away.

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Some of the people of the north that they

had taken away, the Jewish people, they

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brought them back into Samaria as well.

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And so these are the people that begin

to spread out throughout the northern,

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former northern kingdom, the land of

Samari, Samaria, and the Samaritans.

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So there's a vestige of.

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Worshiping Yahweh, and yet it's

been watered down and compromised

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by the worship of these false gods

and these pagan deities as well.

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So they come to Ezra or they

come to z Zabel rather, and they

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say, we wanna build with you.

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Zabel says, thanks, but no thanks.

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We're good.

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They then become the thorn in the side and

they work against the rebuilding process.

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Now, chapter four is really

crazy to try to follow what's

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going on here because that.

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Takes place down through verse five.

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Then you get to verse six,

and then it says there in the

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reign of Haus, Haus is Xerxes.

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So Haus, Xerxes, you gotta think Esther.

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Okay.

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So that's the timeframe we are.

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Are now no longer in the same

ballpark that we just were.

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We have jumped way forward in time.

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We're now at 4 85 to 4 65.

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Remember I said that the temple was

completed in five 15 bc So now we've

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jumped past the completion of the

temple all the way down to 4 85.

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And then we're gonna talk about

art exerts hes next, which he is

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gonna reign from 4 65 to 4 24.

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So there's this interim

here and it's this.

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Somewhat puzzling parent parenthetical

flash forward that Ezra gives here.

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And I think the reason why he does

it is just to show the opposition

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that they were up against and to

remind the people of this is the

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opposition that they were up against.

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And ultimately wasn't just gonna be about

the temple, it was gonna last long after

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that into the rebuilding of the city walls

and the establishment of Jerusalem again,

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which is really what this is mainly about.

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But then we come back in verse 24, and all

of a sudden we're back where we left off

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in verse five, and it says that the bill.

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Of the temple came to a stop because

of this opposition that took place

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back at the hands of these precursors

of the Samaritans that came to

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Zabel and said, you can't do this.

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So chapter four is a bit of a mental

pretzel to try to follow what's

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going on here with everything, and

I would agree with you entirely.

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I think the reason he intersperses those

fast forward and back again anecdotes

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is because he's trying to make a point

that God's people have always suffered

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resistance whenever God's people try

to do what God's people should do.

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So resistance is not a bug, it's a

feature God designs our lives to receive.

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Resistance from the

enemies whatever they are.

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And here, I guess I should

make cl clarification here.

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We're not talking about people per se,

although people often personify the enemy

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as Paul will later say, our battle's

not really against flesh and blood.

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But against the powers, principalities.

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And help me with that last one.

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The powers.

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Principalities and spiritual forces.

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Spiritual forces of evil

in the heavenly places.

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Yeah, I'm gonna go with that.

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So all of that is really what's

behind the powers that we see.

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And so here you should take heart if

you're experiencing any resistance to

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follow Christ, to do the right thing, to

love your neighbor, to discipline your

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kids, to go to church on a Sunday morning.

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You should recognize that

resistance is part of the plan.

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God could say, I don't want you

to experience any resistance.

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It's gonna be easy for you.

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Yeah, follow Christ.

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Your life's gonna be a

hundred percent better.

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But he doesn't do that.

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This is the way it's always been,

and you should always expect it to

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be this way until Jesus comes back.

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So a quick sidebar here.

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You brought up the, he's

standing next to his desk now.

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Yeah.

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You brought up the the situation

of of spiritual warfare and I did

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that context of the armor of God.

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JD Vance, our vice

president, was recently on.

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Hosting the Charlie Kirk podcast.

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I heard about that.

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And at the end he, he was pretty strong

and clear on a lot of things, but at

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the very end of it, he said, we need

to put on the full armor of God because

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God wants us to fight for America,

is basically what he said, which you

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would expect coming from a politician.

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Yep.

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But.

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What do we do with that?

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As Christians?

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How do we understand?

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We've often said we're not Israel 2.0.

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That's true.

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So we are not, we still say that a

nationalistic but Vance being the

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vice president and I think he's, I'm

pretty sure JD Vance is Catholic.

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I've heard such things.

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And his read was, we need to put

on the armor of God and fight

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against the spiritual warfare that's

taking place against America as

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Christians, how do we respond to that?

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Do we need to call that out

and say, no, that's wrong.

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Should we say, okay, there's an

element that we can apply there?

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Is there a middle ground there?

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I get really nervous when we start mixing

realms in ways that suggest that the two

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realms aren't different and distinct.

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I went to a prayer vigil with my family

on Sunday, and I was thankful to do it.

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I was thankful to go.

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I, it was a good experience, but maybe

there were things said and maybe there

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were certain people who were at the

podium saying things that, okay, we

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could quibble about that perhaps.

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It just feels like the church

is best when she's in her lane.

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And the church's lane

is largely not politics.

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Now, if you're in politics, and

that's your role, that's her calling.

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Fantastic.

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Praise God, we need you.

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We want you out there.

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We need more of this.

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But that's not what the

church is called to do.

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So when the church is to

put on her spiritual armor.

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To fight spiritual warfare.

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It's for the souls of man.

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It's not necessarily for a

democratic republic right now.

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We could say that's a benefit and

that's a good thing, and we should

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verbalize and vote for things like that.

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We want this.

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This is largely a good thing for

us, but this is not the word of God.

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In the same way that when Paul

says in Ephesians six that we fight

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against these principalities and

powers, that is the word of God,

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and we're really at the end of it.

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We're not just trying to

get our guy in office.

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We're trying to get people.

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Pulled from the clutches of the enemy

so that they no longer do his will,

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but they now do the will of the Lord.

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We're trying to help people go

from death to life, and that's

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gonna be a whole different thing.

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So I'm not against it.

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I'm for voting the right way.

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Biblically speaking, I am for, praying

for people and doing things like that.

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But man, I get really nervous about

trying to mix these realms in ways

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that I don't think are most helpful.

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Now, if you're a Christian going

into office, you're always gonna

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bring your Christian convictions.

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You can't not be a Christian in

office because this is who you are.

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But the other way isn't

necessarily the same thing.

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In other words, you can't say the

church and the state are necessary

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necessarily hand in all things we're not.

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I agree with you.

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We can't make the Bible say.

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Today what it was never intended to say.

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At any point.

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We've gotta be careful not to hijack

scripture and make it something that

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is, is a mascot for a Republican

party or for the Democratic

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Party or anything else like that.

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So I would echo the same concerns there.

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At the end of the day, America is

on the wrong side of God's story,

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and so is every other nation

other than his own people, Israel.

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And that's not to say that we as the

church are, are less than or worse than.

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And again that's a mis misunderstanding

of our position as dispensationalist.

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Only that the, in the end, the

nations are deceived by the enemy.

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The nations are deceived by the antichrist

and there are those that are gonna

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be standing in opposition to Israel.

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So while we have our

country, be thankful for it.

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Yes, we should be pursuing godliness.

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I'm with you.

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I think we need to bring our

Christianity into the voting booth

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with us and vote in accordance to that.

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But I'm, I, I.

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Get uncomfortable with it too.

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Can we both say, I think we

would both agree you should pray

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for the welfare of your nation.

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Yes.

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That's obvious.

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Yes.

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Fight for it.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I'd be okay with my kids joining the

military and fighting for our country.

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Yeah.

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I'm for that.

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Yep.

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I'm for protecting and defining

and defending what we enjoy,

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the freedoms that we have.

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I'm all for that.

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I love the fact that we have

servicemen and women who attend our

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church, who fight our battles for us.

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Yes.

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And different.

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Soils.

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I love that.

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I'm grateful for that.

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I guess my, I'm trying to be

clear about my hesitation here.

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Christians don't fight for

America, as in this is our first

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priority, our first path true.

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Our first priority and path is to

honor Christ by making disciples.

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That's what Matthew 28 says.

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And so my commitment is first and

foremost to Christ and making disciples.

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When I pledged allegiance to the flag

on Sunday, I did think about this.

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I think, okay, I'm pledging allegiance

to the flag, and I guess I could

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say, yeah, I pledge allegiance.

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I do, but my allegiance is not

a first and foremost allegiance.

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It's a secondary allegiance to my.

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Prior AP Prioria allegiance

to Christ and to his kingdom.

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So yes, I can fight for

America, I can vote for America.

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I can say God bless America.

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Yes, I can pray for America, but

man, my heart is for Christ and his

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church, and that's a multinational.

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Agency or a multinational organization.

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Yeah.

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She's beyond the borders

of the American states.

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It, yeah, it, I guess as you were saying

that, it reminded me of what Jesus said.

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If you don't hate your wife, if you

don't hate your parents, if you don't

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hate your brothers and sisters, you're

not worthy of being my disciple.

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It's not about the fact that we

have to hate all of those people

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the way we think about hatred,

but we have to love Jesus most.

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And if it comes down to, we have to choose

between Christ and our family, Christ and.

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Our coworkers, Christ in our nation, we're

gonna choose Christ a hundred percent

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of the time we're gonna choose Christ.

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Yeah.

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It doesn't mean that we can't love

those other people at the same

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time, so long as loving them doesn't

compete with our affections for Jesus.

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Okay, good.

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Glad we're clear on that.

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Done.

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Super clear.

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Awesome.

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Alright, as we chapter five then, as.

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They're gonna get back to building

and we're gonna talk about Hi guy.

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We're gonna also talk about

Zacharia coming up here.

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And hi Guy and Zacharia are mentioned

by name here in chapter five, verse one.

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They're gonna be instrumental in God using

their messaging to get the people back

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after the task at hand, which is to build

the temple, to build up the structure.

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And so they're going to do just that.

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And that's really the

first part of chapter five.

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They're getting back after the building.

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And then there's this letter from

tat and I tat and I was the governor

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of the province beyond the river.

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There and tat I is gonna send this

letter, and this letter is gonna include

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really the history that led to the

Jews being there rebuilding under the

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permission and commission of King Cyrus.

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And basically this is gonna backfire

because he's gonna say, Hey, can you

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really check to see if they're allowed to

be here and doing this in the first place?

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And in chapter six, Darius

the king is gonna do just that

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and find that yes, in indeed.

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Here's the documentation for this.

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They are allowed to be here.

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It was decreed that they should do this.

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In fact, you know what my.

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Orders that you not only leave them

alone, but help them in every, any

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way that you possibly can to finish

the work of the temple as well.

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And that just struck me that he

makes a search and it says a scroll

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was found on which it was written a

record in the first year of Cyrus.

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God is in the details of the

documentation that's taking place.

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Political back rooms of these nations.

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He's even involved in what's being

written down by kings and rulers and

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authorities and everything, because

that's what's used here to show yeah,

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this is what God said should happen

that they should be able to rebuild the

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temple, that this was the decree made.

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And yeah, make sure that they're able to

do that and allow them to get that done.

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The rest of chapter six the temple's

going to be finished and completed.

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Ezra six 14, art Xerxes is mentioned

here, even though he ruled after

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these events, likely included because

he would be helpful in the ultimate

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completion of the walls of the city.

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So this was looking beyond the completion

of the temple here in and also to

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eventually the walls of the city.

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And he's citing the people that

God used in bringing that about.

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But the rest of the chapter really

is focused on the completion of the

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temple and the celebration that took

place as the temple was finished.

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And this is huge.

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Your Bible doesn't have a lot

of exclamation points and bolds

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and underlines and all those

things, but this is a big deal.

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Yeah, this is one of

those parts of your Bible.

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Maybe you wanna star it

because this is huge.

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Now notice what's here.

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But notice what's not.

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Now, ask yourself.

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You've been reading your Bible,

you've been paying attention.

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We read through Ezekiel something massive

happened at the beginning of Ezekiel, and

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one of the things that's not happening

here is something pretty significant.

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Can you figure out what it is?

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I'll give you a couple seconds.

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Go ahead.

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Okay.

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I only give you one second because we cut

out the silences, so you got one second.

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The glory of God, you're missing the

glory of God in dwelling the temple.

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That's a big deal, and I don't know

exactly what to make of that, except

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to say that even though this is

authorized of God, God disapprove of

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this, it's not gonna carry the same

kind of heaviness or weightiness that

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it used to in, in prior iterations

of God's relationship with Israel.

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Doesn't mean he is given up on them.

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It just means that this is.

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A different season for them.

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It's gonna be a hard day ahead.

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A hard day is in a hard period

of time, so this is a big deal.

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Huge.

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That they established the temple.

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This is 70 years for some

people, 5 86 to 5 16, 5 15.

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And the Passover celebrated.

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This is the first time they've done

this in a whole long time, so this

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is another remarkable time for them.

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It's at least a good start, but they

have a lot more time to go before they

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get to the real glory of the temple.

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Yeah.

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He not only allows it, he

sends Haggai and Zachariah.

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To say, Hey, get back after this.

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You need to finish the temple.

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Oh, yeah.

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So it is puzzling because he

doesn't inhabit the temple.

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What gives?

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Yeah, why doesn't he.

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I maybe you could argue it's better

than the alternative, which is that

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there is no system of worship in place.

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There is no formalized place for them

to continue to worship the way that he

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had prescribed that they should worship.

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And so the temple would continue to

foreshadow the coming of Jesus and

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it would be effective because there

would be faithful believers that would

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still exist into the intertestamental

period and everything else.

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And so perhaps that's why.

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But yeah, you two evils, he's not

gonna dwell there, that's for sure.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Psalm 1 37.

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Then the final song is a Psalm of lament.

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Initially there they're depicting the

exile verse four, how long shall we

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sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?

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But the psalm is written during

captivity, looking forward to the

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Lord, taking vengeance on Babylon.

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And so he's asking the Lord

to remember not just against

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Babylon, but against the Edomites.

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He's, remember he's calling them to

remember the Babylonians and what

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they've done and asking the Lord

to judge them pretty significantly

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there, especially there in verse nine.

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What he prays about, what he

wants God to do to the children

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even of the Babylonians there.

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Psalm 1 37 is definitely a lament

and in purgatory at the same time.

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Yes.

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I forgot to ask a question.

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Yeah.

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This is not related to what we just read.

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This is, are we done

with the today's reading?

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I think so, yeah.

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I have a follow up question.

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Okay.

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One of our most beautiful listener.

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One of the godliest women I know.

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Period.

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Okay.

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And someone that I highly value

and respect and love and admire.

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Dude, you should marry her.

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I think I should.

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I think I should.

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I'd marry her again if I had the chance.

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She brought up a question and I

gave her an answer, but I'd love

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to get your thoughts on this.

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Okay, so this refers back

to Daniel chapter seven.

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Okay.

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We read this a few days ago.

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Okay.

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Daniel has he says, I looked in

verse nine, Daniel seven, verse nine.

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Thrones replaced and the

ancients of days took his seat.

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I think I know where

you're going with this.

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Go ahead.

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How is, and so we understand the

ancient of days being the father.

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Yeah.

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How does the father take his seat?

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How does he have a personage?

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Yeah.

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This is one that I'm, I struggle with too

because John Ford got his spirit right.

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Bingo.

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Yeah, this one's difficult and except

that I think it's within the realm of

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God's capabilities to take on a physical

appearance as it were in his, in,

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in the revelations in these visions.

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Because the o the other thing too is

this is a vision versus something where.

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Y you've got the angel of

the Lord that appears right?

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You think back to Abraham when the

angel of the Lord shows up with

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the two other people there, right?

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That's not a vision that's

actually happening, right?

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That's a physical being in front of him.

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So this is a vision that

Daniel is being given.

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So I guess in my mind, I would

say God is allowing himself to be

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conceived of in this vision as a.

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As a physical being in order to convey

what he's doing through the Sun O.

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Otherwise, I don't know how you

convey the same thing of the son

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receiving the authority from.

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From the father in that.

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Yeah.

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We answered the same way.

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Yes.

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I highlighted verse 13,

I saw the night visions.

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Yeah.

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So I said it's, I think this

is all a vision and a vision.

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It's different than him actually

seeing what's taking place.

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Yeah.

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And so I'm gonna say this is

how God decided to represent

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himself as the ancient of days.

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And the same way that when Moses

received the tablets on Sinai, God

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inscribed them with his finger.

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God doesn't have a finger.

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But he told Moses, or

he depicted of Moses.

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I'm writing this with

my own hand, as it were.

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So I would put that in that category.

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I don't think he has a physical body.

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He doesn't, according to scripture,

John chapter four, he spirit.

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But I do think that's

what's happening here.

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So there you go.

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Love, hope that's helpful.

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Let's pray.

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Then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for just the good news

that, that the next time we are with

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you in your presence, that it will be

the time that, that we get to see the

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glory of the Lord, even though the glory

of the Lord didn't fill up that temple.

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The glory of the Lord today resides

with us as the church through

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the spirit dwelling within us.

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But there's gonna be a time

where we're gonna know and.

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Fullness, and that's gonna be just

a, an amazing day, A day that we look

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forward to, even as we're talking about

Daniel seven a day when that final

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kingdom is set up forever and ever.

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And we look forward to that and

anticipate that with great joy.

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In the meantime, help us be found

faithful as we study your word

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every single day, and try to live it

out, we pray, in Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles tuning again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah, I'll come back now.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said