00:00 Introduction and Father's Day Greetings

00:21 Funny Father's Day Anecdotes

00:39 Lessons from Our Fathers

01:58 Reflecting on Fatherhood

03:25 Biblical Teachings and Reflections

07:12 Solomon's Wisdom and Warnings

11:16 Solomon's Building Projects

17:51 Concluding Thoughts and Farewell

Hey, happy father's day and

welcome to another edition of

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the daily Bible podcast fathers.

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Today, we honor you.

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We do, yeah.

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This one's for you.

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It sounds like a beer commercial.

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This one's for you.

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Isn't that how the bud light.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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I don't drink.

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So I don't know.

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But it feels familiar.

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They did have that.

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They saluted like the random people.

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Yeah.

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I saw a real, the other day

of a guy on his riding Mo.

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Lawn mower and he came up

to this kid's trampoline.

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Instead of getting off of his

mower to move the trampoline.

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He just kept the mower going and just

pushed the trampoline across the yard.

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And then.

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With it and push back.

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Perfect.

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All right, this one's for you.

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Beautiful doing it.

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That's the way to do it.

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It's father hacking.

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Yeah.

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So tell us a story.

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Uh, or, you know, just an episode,

really, maybe not a whole story,

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cause this is a short episode.

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Okay.

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Of something that your dad said or

did that you recall even to this day?

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Oh, man.

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Why are you putting me on the spot?

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My dad listens to this exactly.

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That's exactly what I was counting on.

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Dad listens.

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Here's what he said.

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I never forgot it.

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My dad was always one about doing

the smallest things with excellence.

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Oh.

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So it's a little bit of a joke

now, because if we ask them to come

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like repair a doorknob, he brings

his entire tool chest with him,

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everything he's got everything, right.

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He's always prepared for the job,

but it actually came from his dad

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because his dad was a woodworker.

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In fact, he and his dad.

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Built his dad's retirement

home up in New York state.

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So they got to do that during

the summers and, and do all that.

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And so my dad was always

very attentive to detail.

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I remember.

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Um, you know, measure twice cut once

all of those things that he taught

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me growing up, as far as making

sure that you're doing the job with

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excellence, no matter how small it is.

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Well in favor of your dad's

ethic, I wish someone like your

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dad would have assembled my roof.

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Yeah.

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That would have been nice.

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That would have been great because

someone who did my roof did not

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think the same way your dad did.

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Yeah.

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Just to put it out there.

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That's fair.

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Not upset about it.

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Just the way it is.

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Everybody though.

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Seems to be getting a new roof.

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Yeah, we got hit pretty hard.

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We're just not paying attention to

our roof, so, well, that's one way to

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handle it until it starts to demand it.

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Make sure your dad does it.

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Yeah.

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Actually your dad knows I'm a Mica dad.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So that was beneficial.

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That's something that I

always remember and just.

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Going to be in there.

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I mean, he was there for sporting

events being involved in present time.

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Yeah.

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Being present and being around

was, was also really good.

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Yeah.

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So I had to go.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I know you had a unique

relationship with your dad, but.

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What are some of the positive

impacts you can think of, of,

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of your down on your life?

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Uh, one of the things I know

for sure that he imprinted me

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with is that he worked hard.

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He was, he was a hardworking dude.

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Uh, is, is present tense.

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I suspect I haven't seen him work

lately, but I suspect that much of

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that same work ethic is still there.

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Uh, so my dad drove trucks for a while.

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He drove semi-trucks so

he would drive those.

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He would drive gas tankers,

and then the other.

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I don't know, tractor trailer situations.

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Uh, and I think maybe, maybe

twice I got to go with him.

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It was really cool to watch him

apply his trade and to do his thing.

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It was, it was a lot of fun.

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And as fun as it could be

to be on the open road.

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And my dad was kind of a goofball.

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Past tense, present tense is a goofball.

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And so it was kind of enjoyable to get

to know him in a different side of him.

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I guess he's always been

that way, but to see him.

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Uh, work long hours and to do the

things that God has called an ADU.

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I think, uh, I think both my parents

were, were hard workers, but, uh,

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and, and this part in particular, my

dad's work ethic always impressed me.

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Uh, not in the sense that

I, uh, I, I don't know.

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I can't consciously recall saying my

dad's a hard worker, but I just, I saw it.

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This is the way life was.

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And so I think part of me just kind

of absorbed it as like, this is

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the way you're supposed to do it.

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You work hard and you set a

good example for your family.

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So I do appreciate that.

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My dad did good.

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Did good at that.

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That's good, man.

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That's good.

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How about as you think about your

kids, what are some of the things

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that you hope they reflect back on it?

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Think man, my dad was, or is this.

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That's a, that's a hard question.

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I do think ha ha.

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I got got you first I thought.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Well you better prepare for the return.

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I understand.

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That's why you should take a little bit

of time and answering this question.

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I, I think about this one often.

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Except I think about it in a far

more broad category of what about,

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what do I want to pass on to my kids?

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What I want, what do I

want to leave them with?

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And I think that the thing that tends

to be the theme, I don't, I don't

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know if this is on purpose, more than

it is just that this is the constant

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front of my mind, just to be ready

to meet your maker, to be ready to

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meet God, to know that time is short.

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Uh, people that you love, you're not

going to have an opportunity every day

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for the rest of your life to tell them

that you love them and care for them.

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Because there's going to be a day

when you don't have that choice

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anymore, something's going to happen.

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Or maybe you will, maybe you'll be

one of those people that peacefully

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lie in their bed with all of your

family members surrounding you,

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smiling at you saying, Hey goodbye.

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Thank you for serving us in these ways.

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Uh, but I don't assume that I

assume that my life is not going

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to be in my hands ultimately.

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And God's going to determine when

the time is, and it could be.

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To be T-boned.

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So I want my kids to learn to live life on

purpose, to live it with intentionality,

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to take it seriously, to weigh it heavily.

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And to not waste the time that God has

granted, I feel like that's, that's

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kind of one of the themes of my life

and I want them to feel that, and

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I want them to take that seriously.

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And consequently, if you're

thinking that way, I feel like

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everything else would be better.

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You'll you'll make better

decisions as a whole.

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How about you?

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Yeah.

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I'd say.

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Kind of two things, uh, First would be

just consistency in, in faithfulness,

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in relationship with Christ.

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Um, you know, I want them to, uh,

remember, you know, waking up in

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the mornings, coming downstairs

and dad had his Bible or dad was

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doing his daily Bible reading time

and, and just the model there.

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Um, but I hope they reflect

on, um, godliness similar

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with what you're saying too.

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Yeah.

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I want them to, to know how important

a relationship with Christ is.

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Um, And thankfully our two

oldest so far have professed

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faith, which is encouraging soup.

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And we've got three to go, but

we're praying for them and praying

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that the Lord will do that, but

that, that would be number one.

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And then number two was just

that, that I'd love their mom.

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Well, um, I want them to grow

up remembering that, that we had

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a good marriage in a marriage

that they always felt was.

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Was.

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Secure and sound and solid.

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And, and, uh, like I re we went out

the other night and, uh, Jonathan was

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like, are you guys going out on a date?

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I said, yeah, I'm taking

your mom out on a date.

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And he was like, oh, I was like, well,

I'm probably going to kiss her too.

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And he was like, Hey, So kiss

her right in front of them.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, exactly.

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I want my kids to, to know man there,

their mom and dad have a good marriage.

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A lot of that falls on me as the

husband, the leader in the family.

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That's a model that that's good, man.

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Well happy father's day, man.

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Yeah, happy father's day.

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The church be a church.

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That's that's a good way to

celebrate father's day with a hotdog.

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You lead it with a hot dog.

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Hot dog and the right hand or

your wife's hand and the other.

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Yup.

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And maybe you're carrying some things out

to the trailer as we set up or tear down.

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I think go with your feet.

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That'd be weird if you can do it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, totally random, but

thought just popped in my head.

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I saw real the other day of a guy

with no arms playing Frisbee golf.

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He picked up the Frisbee with his feet

and he threw it and he threw it farther

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than I could ever hope to throw a Frisbee.

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You know, it never give up.

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It's amazing.

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And then the people that

paint with their toes.

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We're way off track, but like that.

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That's amazing.

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Johnny Erickson, Tada

paints with her mouth.

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She'll put the thing, she'll

hold it with her mouth.

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And she'll, I think she uses her tongue

to create different strokes and patterns.

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That's amazing.

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It's impressive.

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I can't hold a thermometer

still in my mouth.

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Yeah.

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Let alone a paintbrush.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's impressive.

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I think, I think that what does, even

that necessity is the mother of invention.

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It's that whole sense of what happens?

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Yeah.

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You got it.

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You don't have a choice.

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So I feel like you

could, if you need it to.

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Yeah, I'd rather not have to.

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Yeah, well, that's, that's the idea.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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It's not, Hey, let's get

into our text for today.

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First Kings at nine and second

Chronicles, eight parallel passages.

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So we're gonna talk about both of them

at the same time, basically, right?

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Essentially.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, first Kings chapter nine.

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Uh, the Lord shows up in, appears to

Solomon here and that's in verse two.

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The Lord appeared to

Solomon a second time as.

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He had a peer to him.

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Gabion.

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Um, and so pastor, rod, how do

we understand this appearance?

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Is this the same level of

appearance or way that he

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appeared as he appeared to Moses?

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Do we know, do we not know?

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Uh, when it says he appeared to Solomon

and how should we interpret that?

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Yeah, I don't.

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I don't have a strong answer to this,

except to say that whatever this

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is, we have scriptures authority to

say that this is a legitimate, uh,

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theophany it's an appearance of God.

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God somehow showcases himself to Solomon.

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Um, and it says, what we do have verse

two is as he appeared to him at Gibson.

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So part of me wonders if, if this

is a dreamlike state, perhaps, maybe

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he's just taking an afternoon nap,

I don't know, but it's legitimate.

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It's real.

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And there was no doubt in Solomon's

mind that God had appeared to him.

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This is in scripture rated.

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This is something we can trust.

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So I be beyond that, I would love to know,

did God like manifest right particles

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in front of his eyes that he could see?

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Was there an audible voice that he

could literally hear his, his ears are.

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Uh, his, what do you

call those in your ears?

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That move things that move your drums.

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Well, yeah, I guess that too,

but whereas, whereas eardrums.

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Receiving.

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Audio signals.

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Yeah.

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I'd love to know how this took place,

how God communicates to humankind.

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And I think.

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It God has to use our senses.

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So in some way, shape or form,

the senses are being utilized,

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but I don't know, beyond that.

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What do you have to say about that?

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Yeah, I mean, I think because he does

record this in, in verse three, the Lord

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said to him, I have heard your prayer and

your plea, which you have made before me.

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Uh, it's so specific that there, in

my opinion, there must have been an

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audible voice that he's hearing and

what accompanied that audible voice.

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We don't know, other than the

fact that the temple was filled

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with the glory of the Lord.

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So the priest couldn't

stand in the temple.

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So perhaps it was

something to do with that.

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Maybe he was allowed into

the temple at that point.

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We're not sure, but I do think it was an

audible voice because of the specificity

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that we have in what follows in the

Lord, his words to Solomon, would you

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say then that it's possible that he was.

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Streaming.

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Because in chapter three, that's the way

that he got visited him at Gibeah and he

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says he appeared to him a second time.

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Uh, as, as he appeared here,

Yeah, that's totally possible.

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A hundred percent.

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Would it be audible then?

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Or is it more like your

brain perceiving information?

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Yeah, that, that, that one's hard.

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Right?

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Um, you, you just like.

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I guess it's possible.

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He could have spoken to in

the dream and an audible.

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That's weird.

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Yeah, the specificity is, I guess

what I, what I'm getting at there.

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Like he woke up and knew

what the Lord had said.

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However you want to say said, yeah.

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And in that is the Lord communicated.

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He heard it.

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There was no doubt, right?

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Yep.

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Yep.

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And so what he says, uh, verses

four through five basically

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is the short response.

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Look, Hey, if you obey

things are going to go well.

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Uh, and, and this is a common theme.

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We've seen this from all the way back with

the giving of the law back in Deuteronomy.

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Uh, and so it continues here.

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If, if you do right by me, then yes, my

I'm going to put my name here forever.

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Verse three, my eyes and heart

will be there for all time.

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Uh, and if you walk before

me, then, Hey, you know what?

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I'm going to be with you as well.

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I'll establish Royal throne of Israel,

as I promised David so forth and so on,

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but that's starting in verse six, we

get the negative, we get the warning.

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We get the, Hey, if you don't obey, it's

not going to go well for me, for you.

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If you turn aside from following

me, Um, if you or your children do

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not commute, keep my commandments.

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And this is foreshadowing because.

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Solomon's going to turn aside in his

latter years from following the Lord.

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I think he returns.

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I think he turns aside Driss

walks away from the Lord.

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But then I think the book of

Ecclesiastics, which you're going

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to cover in a handful of days here.

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That's right.

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Um, I think that's an agent Solomon in a

repentant state looking back at his life.

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I would hope so.

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Yeah.

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I'd like to think that yeah.

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But, uh, but in the short term

Solomon's going to go straight.

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Certainly his, his son ramp

home is going to go astray.

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Things are not going to go well.

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And, and that's what verses

six through nine are laying

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out are the consequences there.

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And then the rest of the chapter

essentially gives a summary of the other

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things Solomon accomplished, uh, mainly

focusing on his building activities.

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Uh, and notice here, we talked

about it before he conscripted

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the Canaanite descendants who were

still in the land of service slaves.

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To do much of the heavy lifting.

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They were the slave

labor, not the Israelites.

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The Israelites that were conscripted

into service were not forced to labor.

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It was different.

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Uh, difference.

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Not that they had a choice, but

they weren't the same as the slaves.

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That military service.

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He brought in.

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Yeah.

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One thing I noticed here in

verse seven, as a, as God.

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Finalizes the words that he

says to Solomon, he says, look.

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If you guys sin, then, then the

house that I have consecrated from

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my name, I will cast out of my sight.

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I think I see a new

Testament parallel here.

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The Lord would rather destroy

his temple than a lettuce people

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continue in San and profane it.

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And I wonder if there's a connection,

maybe you would agree or disagree

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with this first Corinthians 11, where.

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Uh, some people are eating

partaking, the communion supper.

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They're eating it.

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Improperly and God's is, look, if you

continue in sin, I will destroy you.

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I'm going to kill you.

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That's why some of you are sick.

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And ill, and even some of you have died.

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Paul says, Um, I think I see a

connection there, or God's so jealous

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for his name, his glory, his honor,

that he would rather kill us than

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to allow us to persistent sin.

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If we belong to him, this

is hold the discipline.

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Concept where God says.

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Uh, as a father disciplines,

his son in whom he delights a

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father would discipline you.

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So, what do you think about that?

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Is that a fair interpretation application?

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How would you approach that?

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Yeah, I guess I hadn't gone

there, but, but in, in, I, I

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do see the connection there.

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I, in my mind, I think I went to.

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To a revelation rather chapter

two in the church in emphasis.

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Where multiple times, but,

but specifically I'm thinking

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of the church in emphasis.

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Jesus tells the church there.

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If you don't repent, I'm going to

come and take away your lampstand.

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I'm going to shut down the church

because I'd rather there be no church.

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Then there to be a church

that's, that's corrupt the church

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that's dead, uh, in place there.

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And so I think similarly here,

God is saying I'd rather there

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not be a temple at all than a

temple with a people that are not.

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Representing me well that are not

doing what I've called them to do.

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I just feel like the.

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I just feel like I don't

want to use that term.

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It seems to me that God is very

intentional and intent about us

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being sanctified, us being holy.

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And if we're not going to do that, then

he's going to do something about it.

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Yes, I.

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And I, that's kind of scary.

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I.

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I think that's a, that's a

legitimate place to fear.

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God, not that you feared a survival

sense where he's a cruel task

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master, but fear him of like, man.

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If I don't get my act together, God.

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God's discipline is not going to be

a pleasant situation and it could be

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leading up to all the way through,

I believe, death, where God would be

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willing to take out a Christian if

he or she is living in an unrepentant

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sinful lifestyle, such that.

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He can keep them.

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Uh, he does it as an act of mercy to

say, look, I, if I let you continue,

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you're going to go off the edge, buddy.

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Right?

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Take you out right.

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Yeah.

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Terrifying.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it is.

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It is for sure.

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For sure.

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Well, second Chronicles eight,

like we said, is, is essentially a

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parallel account of first Kings nine.

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Um, uh, notice in second

Chronicles, eight two.

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So, so Solomon at one point gave

Hiram the king of tiresome, some

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cities in the Galilean region,

but I didn't really like them.

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So.

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So he gives them back here in Sydney.

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He's like, ah, you can have these back.

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Which I mean, honestly, man, the,

uh, The Galilean region is beautiful.

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And so I, I don't know, I haven't

been to these particular cities

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necessarily, but it's gorgeous up there.

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So I don't know what Hiram was

thinking, but he didn't want them.

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So he gives them back.

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They didn't like him.

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Yeah.

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Uh, second Chronicles, eight 11.

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Notice this Solomon knew that his

marriage to Pharaoh's daughter

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was not pleasing to the Lord.

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Right.

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And we see that because he builds

her her own place to gets her home.

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And he says, you shouldn't come

over here because it's not.

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Good.

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My wife shall not live in the house

of David King of Israel for the

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polices, which the Ark of the Lord

has come to our holy and she's not,

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he understands that this is defiling.

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And so there's accountability here.

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This is not Solomon.

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Uh, just doing everything that he's

doing without knowing that what

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he's doing is disobeying the Lord.

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There's a cognizant awareness that he is.

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Not pleasing the Lord with

these marriages that he has,

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that's a dangerous place to be.

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Um, and, and certainly this is

one of the biggest, uh, footholds

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that the devil has in Solomon's

life is his love of foreign women.

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Uh, and that's what.

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It takes us his heart away.

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Um, this is just the tip of the

iceberg today because we're going

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to read soon enough after we make

it through some of these Proverbs.

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The rest of the story you were.

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I don't want to, I don't know

how to put it other than this is

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a colossal failure in his part.

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Totally.

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And things go right.

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And you're going to

see the effects of sin.

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But I, as notice as, as pastor Peter

points out here, it starts with

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small things, small compromises, oh,

a small marriage Alliance here, a

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small, she gets to live in a different

house because she's not a pet.

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She's not clean.

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Not that she's not able to approach God.

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There's a small concessions that we make

throughout our lives that allow center

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the door and those small concessions like

roaches multiply and eventually take over.

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You ought to be aware of that and

start asking yourself in your own life.

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Are there places where I've allowed sin.

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Uh, a small foothold because that

small foothold will not stay there.

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Sin is like cancer.

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In addition to cockroaches.

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I said it was like cancer.

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It will spread and it's

malignant and it will kill you.

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Yes, yes.

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A hundred percent.

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Yes.

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One of the note that I have here.

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Second Chronicles, eight, 16, it

says thus was accomplished all

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the work of Solomon from the day.

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The foundation of the house of the

Lord was laid until it was finished.

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So the house of the Lord was completed

note here that the house of the

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Lord, the temple wasn't completed

until the services had begun.

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It wasn't enough that that the,

the edifice was, was finished.

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It was about the glory of the Lord and

happening to the temple and offerings

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being, being offered there that

marked the completion of the temple.

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When everything began in, in

earnest there with, uh, with

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the launch of the, the temple.

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Church plant.

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Very cool.

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I have a temperature splint.

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Yeah, I have.

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A quick note on the,

the, the land of Kabul.

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Uh, so the ones that have the cities that

hire them is like, what is this garbage?

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Yeah.

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So I did a small word study

on Kabul because I was like,

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what is, what is Kabul?

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Why does he call it that?

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And, uh, so, so if you know, a

little bit of Hebrew, you know,

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CA tends to mean like, Uh, car or.

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As something like that.

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So CA or CA means like her ass.

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And so what we are best gas, cause

there's a couple of different

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approaches to this, but the best gas

is at basically couple means like

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nothing basically as good as nothing.

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So he's basically calling the city.

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This is garbage.

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Like garbage.

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Yeah.

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Thank you, Solomon.

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For these garbage cities.

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So a couple, like nothing or as

like good as good as nothing,

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but all right, there you go.

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That's a small word study.

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It's not an ungrateful

recipient of things.

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Oh, yeah, he's just putting

them calling it like it is.

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If anyone else out there wants

to give us some land for.

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No, we wouldn't.

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We would call it.

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This is awesome.

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Whatever it's good.

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Cut-over.

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Cut-over.

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Yeah.

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Wait, keeping your Bibles jump

in with us tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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And again, happy father's day, man.

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See you guys then, but.