00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:05 Understanding Irreproachability

01:15 The Importance of Teaching

02:27 On Birthdays

05:25 Scripture Reading: Exodus 28-29

07:39 The Role of Priests and Believers

13:07 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

13:43 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Happy Saturday and men, we

want to see you this morning.

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To learn about irreproachability.

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Irreproachability is

what we're calling it.

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Irreproachability.

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It sounds like we're speaking in tongues.

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Not quite, but yes, you should

come and hear the tongues of men

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talk about irreproachability.

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Yeah.

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Give us a high view.

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What is irreproachability?

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It is the quality of being above approach.

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So it's the same idea captured

in a different word, but above

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approach is the kind of person who

lives with character integrity.

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In fact, We liked this topic so much

that we're developing a whole, a

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whole men's retreat around the idea.

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So this is going to be your sample pack,

your teaser into the whole weekend that we

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plan on doing for you in a couple months.

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But this is going to be your entry

into that, the foray into that.

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But it's important because this

is what First describes the

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quality of a qualified man.

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This is what Paul says to Timothy

and to Titus should characterize the

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kind of man that's in leadership.

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Now you might say, I'm not a pastor.

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I'm not aspiring to be a pastor.

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However, the pastors are meant

to be these things so that the

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church would be these things.

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They're meant to be models

for everybody else to follow,

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which is why we're telling you.

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You ought to aim to be qualified even if

you never become a pastor at compass or

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any other church So these qualities are

important for us to talk about we want you

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to be encouraged by them We want you to

be challenged by them and we think this

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first one's going to do that Is that?

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Let's take the, the quality able to teach.

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Is that one that you would still say,

man, every, every man out there should

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strive after that, that qualification.

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Okay.

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You're qualified.

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Yes.

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No pun intended, but

yes, because a man, okay.

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If, if a man is, I'm

going to lead a family.

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If he's going to even be helpful in

his workplace or even go to school

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and try to work with other groups, I

think it's a really helpful thing to

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aspire to because it translates to

so many other areas of one's life.

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Most immediately, you can

think about your family life.

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You being able to communicate your

thinking, your, your desiring to

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your wife and to your kids will

really help esteem your leadership.

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It will help solidify and clarify your

leadership if your family can say,

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Dad taught us and here's what he's

saying about this particular thing.

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This is not just for pastors.

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All men are called to lead their families.

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And so it's really helpful if a man

is gifted and, and even more than

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that, gifting speaks about someone's

natural tendency skill speaks

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about someone's effort and work

into learning a particular thing.

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So even if you're not gifted, you

could still have the skill of teaching.

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You may not have it in spades like

someone else does, but you can still

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learn to teach and still be helpful

to the people that you love and lead.

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So absolutely a man should aspire to that.

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That's helpful.

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That's good.

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Yeah.

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Hey I have beef with you.

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Oh, I'm ready.

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I'm looking around and noticing that

I feel like you have scrubbed your

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birthday from all of our resources

that we would have available to

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find out when your birthday is.

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That's not true.

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I, so I hide it on my social media

cause I don't think it's necessary.

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Okay.

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I feel like it's one of those things where

people feel obligated to say something.

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And so I'm like, I don't want to, I

don't want to, Put an obligation on you.

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I'll just take it out.

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So on my, my Facebook, I think that's

the most obvious place I hide it and

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I don't allow posting on my wall.

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So sue me.

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Okay.

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What about planning

center planning center?

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I, I, I re I recently took it out.

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Cause I'm thinking, you know,

again, I don't want to create

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obligation or thing not set well.

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And the thing is you can, I've

not hidden it all my life.

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I'm okay with telling people about it.

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I'm not, Against it.

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I just don't want to put the obligation

on people to say, Oh, I got to make

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sure to say something to Pastor Rod.

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So here's my pushback.

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My pushback is this.

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When people are reminded of

your birthday, they're given an

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opportunity to be grateful for you.

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And the one that receives the Thanksgiving

for you and your life and the impact that

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you've made on people's lives is God.

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Sure.

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So there's an opportunity for people.

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To say, you know what?

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Oh, it's Pastor Rob's birthday today.

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I'm grateful for him.

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He's impacted me in a great way.

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For example, on Facebook, like, you

left a lot of connections, a lot of

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relationships back in AV, and not

all of them do you keep up with on a

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regular basis, but you've impacted a

lot of people back there who, If they

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get on Facebook and they're like,

Oh, it's Pastor Rod's birthday today.

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It's an opportunity for them to

reflect on what God's done through

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your life in impacting them.

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Sure.

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And I guess I would, I'd be happy to admit

that I'm a bit of a hypocrite here because

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I would gladly encourage other people.

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Hey, keep it out there.

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People want to know, people

want to care for you.

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Yada, yada, yada.

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I'm also sensitive though, that

I get a lot of attention just

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by writing my position, right?

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We, we, people look at

us, they talk to us.

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They, they see us in certain

lights and in certain ways.

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And that's good.

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That's good that we lead and

we're self consciously doing that.

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But I'm also aware.

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I don't want to draw

unnecessary attention.

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I already asked for a lot of attention

when I stand up in front of a pulpit

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and say things, or when I'm behind a

microphone and I'm singing things and I'm

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having other people sing things with me.

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So I just, I don't know.

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It's probably a personality quirk more

than it is a principled, Stance that I,

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that I have that I just, I don't want to

create more attention than is necessary.

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Okay.

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Well, you got attention

on the podcast now.

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Well, thank you.

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I appreciate that.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, we're grateful for you and it's

a big one coming up too Yeah, it's been

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kind of an existential crisis of sorts.

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I just bought a harley Okay, i'm

getting my motorcycle license.

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I'm getting a tattoo.

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I sky sky dovid sky dovid No, I don't

plan on doing that I've done none of

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those things honestly, but I am aware I

just think about man 40 years is a great

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gift I'm appreciative of that And I am

More dogged and determined than ever

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to make my life count for something.

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I don't want to waste it So

I I feel the pressure of man.

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This is a big one.

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Am I doing am I on the right track?

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Am I doing the right thing?

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Am I using my life in the way

that god would be pleased by?

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I ask myself that pretty

regularly, but this is a big one.

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So I feel the weight of it.

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Yeah Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I remember when I turned 40.

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It was a long time ago, man, that

it was decades ago, I think that

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you turned, I wear 60 really well.

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You did.

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You crush it.

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Your beauty skincare routine.

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All the ladies are asking,

you know, everybody wants

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to, everybody's been asking.

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All right.

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X is 2829.

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Our scripture reading

for the, for the day.

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Chapter 28, this chapter details

the garments that were to be

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made for Aaron and his sons.

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These were more than elaborate costumes,

as they held a lot of symbolism regarding

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the role that Aaron was performing.

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They had the names of the tribes

of Israel show up multiple times

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on these garments inscribed in the

various things that he was going to

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wear when he went in before the Lord.

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And it was in, in order that he would

be reminded every time that he was

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bearing the, the people before the

Lord, he was interceding on behalf

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of the people he was representing.

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He was mediating between

God and the nation.

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And so having the names of the tribes on

his shoulders and on the chest plate would

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always remind him of the fact that he was

in there to do more than just cover his

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own sins or more than, than just intercede

on behalf of a nation without God.

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Much thought as to who made up that

nation He was being reminded that these

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are god's people and these are god's

tribes And that's who he's going in there

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on behalf of and then on top of that

He's wearing a turban and the turban

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had a placard right on the front of

it that said holy to the lord which is

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cool and and Terrifying as well, right?

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I mean just the the responsibility of

the leaders of the the priest there to

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be sanctified to live a holy life we're

going to see what happens with natav

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and abihu not too Far away from this

but they were not Holy to the Lord.

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And we're gonna see that that

doesn't go well for them.

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But there's a lot of symbolism there.

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This is not just, Hey, we

want something to look fancy.

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This is, there's a reason for

what God is doing with these

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these articles of clothing that

the prince was supposed to wear.

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The priest was supposed

to wear the prince, huh?

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Prince priest.

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Okay.

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Well there will be a prince and a priest.

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That is true that to speak of later on.

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I think one of the things that stands out

here is the, for glory and for beauty.

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I think that's really cool.

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It's a really cool idea that god isn't

just interested in a utilitarian existence

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He wants us to enjoy and experience his

glory in some mitigated fashion So he

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speaks to us he condescends to us by

saying look i'm going to have you design

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these garments for glory And for beauty

and I think that's really Important and

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powerful as we think about that today.

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We're not priests.

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We're not priestesses We're we're we're

New Testament Christians, but I still

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think the principle applies that God

loves beauty and glory and therefore

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we should aspire to make our places,

our homes, our churches, glorious and

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beautiful in some way, shape or form.

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It doesn't have to look like the temple.

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I'm not saying that, but I think there is

a principle there that God loves beauty.

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He designed it and he wants to reflect it.

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Yeah.

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So you mentioned we're not priest.

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We're not priestesses.

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Yeah.

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It's obviously that that is that

terminology that language is abused

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in the mormon church and in different

ways But even in amongst christians,

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sometimes you'll hear the priesthood

believers and you know sometimes the

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those that are in the family family

Family ministry camp or whatever.

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We'll talk about the the husband or

the man of the house priest of his home

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Yeah, talk about that a little bit.

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Is that?

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Is that okay?

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Do we press that too far?

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What?

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Probably in our camps And our

demographic with our people, the

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reformed camp in particular, I think

we probably use it in a wrong way.

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And we, we apply something that's right

and good in a, in a wrong application.

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And sometimes we do that with a

lot of theology, we'll take good

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theology and misapply it, and

therefore we'll make it bad theology.

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In this case, here's what I mean by that.

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The priesthood of all believers

is this concept presented by Peter

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that says, look, none of you have to

have a mediator to take you to God.

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You can go to God by yourself.

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He's provided the path for you.

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He is your great high priest, and he's now

paved the way by his blood so that you now

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have direct access to God and therefore.

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You're part of the kingdom of priests.

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You are now given free

and direct access to God.

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I love that and I think that's worth

all of us celebrating and thanking God

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for even fist pumping about But when

it comes to us being the priests of our

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families That's a misappropriation of

this old testament tax, and I think it

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doesn't it doesn't help clarify what God

is doing under the new covenant In fact,

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it distorts it the clarification comes

when we recognize the priesthood rule

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is to mediate someone between God and

man You You now don't need a mediator.

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You are a priest.

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You're you're mediated between god

and man You have direct access and

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you can go to god on behalf of others

You can pray for the lost you can pray

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for your children You can pray for

lots of people and in that way you

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function as a priest But you're not

this kind of priest and you shouldn't

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think of yourself in this kind of in

this kind of way Although you can say

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look i'm so thankful that I have direct

access I don't have to wear the ephod.

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I don't have to wear the cool

breastplate Although I think

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these are really neat objects.

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I have direct access to god.

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I think that's the point

What would you say to that?

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I I think the danger is

it leads your family.

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It compartmentalizes your family and makes

it something separate from the church.

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As though, you know, well, I have the

primary responsibility for the spiritual

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oversight of my family and you make

that As something that exists outside

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of the body of christ competing with

the body of christ competing with

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yeah And that you're not going to

find anywhere in the new testament.

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In fact, you'll find quite the opposite.

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We are called to Be a part of the body

of christ and by extension our families

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need to be part of the body of christ.

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So I I get hesitant when I hear,

you know, well, i'm the priest in

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my house I I think it's usually

well intended when people say that.

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Yeah, but I think You It's

not helpful terminology.

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Yeah, you as the head of the household,

when it comes to the Bema seat of Christ,

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you're going to have to give an account

for how you spiritually led your family.

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A hundred percent.

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And a big part of that, Jesus is

going to want to know, did you

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lead your family into my bride?

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Did you teach your

family to love my bride?

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And so that's, that's important.

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So I would agree with

your assessment of that.

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Chapter 29, then we get into the

ordination process of Aaron and his

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sons includes a lot of death here.

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And I think that's on purpose on

God's part, because it's reminding

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Moses and Aaron and his sons and

the people of of the what's at stake

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here, that atonement has to be made.

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And this, you know, it's, it's so helpful

to, to have the new Testament, to have

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the book of Hebrews, to look back at

passages like this and to say, you know,

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Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, they were sinners.

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They needed the blood of bulls and goats

to atone for their sins before they

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could intercede for behalf of the people.

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But we have a high priest who

doesn't need those things who brought

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his own blood and he was sinless.

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And so there's so much

richness that we get.

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We talked, I think, in yesterday's episode

about illusions and, and illusions.

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And the Old Testament, New Testament,

there's ways that the New Testament

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really helps us get a much better

understanding of the Old Testament.

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And that's a great example.

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When you read the book of Hebrews and

then you read what's going on here.

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In fact, if you're hungry for more

Bible right now, as we go through

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the law, if you went through the book

of Hebrews, I think that would be so

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enriching for you because the good call.

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Yeah.

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The book of Hebrews just adds such

a helpful depth to our understanding

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of what God's doing here and how

it's really pointing in a lot of

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it to to the coming of Christ.

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Yeah, Hebrews.

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Yeah, it's super, super

good, super helpful there.

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The, the different offerings that are

going to be mentioned here, you're

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going to see the sin offering, the

burnt offering, the food offering.

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There's the, the consecration, the blood

on the earlobes and the toes, which again

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was probably what, what they would hear,

what they would listen to and the things

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that they would do, where they would

go just consecrating their, their life.

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Talks about future ordinations, talks

about a celebratory meal there, the

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seven days of ordination, consecration,

all the instructions again, because

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this is brand new for what God is

doing here with the people of Israel.

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Yeah.

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And I think that that whole week

long event, you read this and you

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think, Oh yeah, this must have taken

all of like, Three or four hours.

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This took seven days.

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Yeah, they did this for seven days.

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And so this is interesting because

you wonder what's in the white space.

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We read what's happening here,

and this is all symbolic.

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And I'm sure that it was done with

great pomp and circumstance, but you

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wonder, okay, I, we talked about this

the last time we came over these texts.

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Did they go to the bathroom?

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Did they leave the premises at all?

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We know that God sees Bathroom usage.

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Let's keep it pc here as at least

unclean So there had to have been

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exceptions to the rule here about how

long they were on the temple or the

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tabernacle premises And what they left

for and when they came back The point

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isn't to detail all of these things.

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I find it interesting to think about

them But the point is to show look

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how much effort and time was put into

consecrating these men To function

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as priests for the people of israel.

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This was no small job.

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This is a great honor And it was important

it was probably the most important role in

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In israel at the time and it would carry

that same connotation and significance

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throughout their history Until the coming

of christ who became a priest after the

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order of melchizedek, which is so cool

This is you have to read this stuff to

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appreciate jesus role And I think this

is worth it trudging through the mud

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of some of like what does this mean?

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What is the symbolic

nature of this is worth it?

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Because when you get to jesus it

gives you so much more appreciation

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for him rather than saying.

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Oh, yeah He's a priest fantastic Yeah.

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I agree.

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I agree.

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Well, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, we are grateful for how you've

caused the Bible to be put together

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in such a way as to give us such a

greater appreciation by understanding

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the New Testament so that we can more

deeply understand and appreciate the Old

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Testament, like the book of Hebrews with

what we're reading through right now.

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We're grateful that we have the, the

great high priest and not a human

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being that we are going to anymore.

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But Jesus.

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And so help us to have that not just

appreciation, but help us to lean

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into that in our relationship with

you to draw near through him who

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is able to save us to the uttermost

and to be grateful for that as well.

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So we thank you for this.

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We praise you for this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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