00:00 Introduction and Hosts' Banter

01:01 Introducing the Bible Reading Plan

01:09 Discussion on Genesis 18: God's Promise to Abraham

02:11 Debate on the Identity of the Three Visitors

06:02 Sarah's Reaction to God's Promise

09:57 Abraham's Intercession for Sodom

14:38 Parental Guidance on Reading Difficult Passages

15:02 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

19:32 Matthew 6: The Sermon on the Mount

22:12 The Lord's Prayer and Fasting

25:32 Do Not Be Anxious: Trust in God's Provision

27:06 Conclusion and Prayerv

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Welcome back to another episode

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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This is Pastor pj and I'm

joined with Pastor Rod.

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Do you think they believed us?

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I think so.

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I think that was a pretty convincing

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod impression.

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doubting that it's truly us,

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pastor PJ and Pastor Rod.

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With AI these days, you

can do anything you want.

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Maybe you can make anybody

sound however you want.

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You can manipulate anything, but yeah.

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All joking aside, this is actually,

I am just in case you were fooled.

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This is actually Pastor Mark

and I am joined not by Pastor

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Rod, but with Director Lewis.

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Director Lewis.

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How are you?

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I am doing great.

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I'm excited to be on a podcast.

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So I don't know if you know this,

but my mom has been telling me for

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years that I should start a podcast.

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That I should be on a podcast.

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So if you're listening, mom, I hope

you're proud of me because I made

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it, I finally made it onto a podcast.

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So, hi Mom.

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I'm sure she's very proud of you.

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I'm sure she's proud of you as we all are.

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Alright let's dive in.

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We're gonna keep things

as normal as we can.

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We're going to continue working

through our Daily Bible Reading Plan.

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And today we are in Genesis 18 and 19.

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So, in this passage, we pick up in

the middle of a narrative sequence

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of God's promise to Abraham.

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Very important promise.

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What is that promise?

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Just give us the highlights.

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Yeah.

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Abraham Promise comes down to three

things, land, offspring, and blessing.

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Those are the three components

that really you see pop up

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all over the place in Genesis.

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We know that Genesis 12, 15 and 17

are kind of the highlights of that.

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So land, offspring and blessing, those

are the three things you wanna look for

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when you think of the promise to Abraham.

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That's right.

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And here in verse.

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One of 18, we see an appearance of

the Lord and he's coming to Abraham.

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But he comes in a crazy way

and there's some debate about

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exactly what's going on here.

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But in verse 18, it says, the Lord

appeared to him, to Abraham as

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he sat at the door of his tent.

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And then in verse two, it says there

were three men standing in front of him.

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Who are these three men?

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Well, not to just immediately

disagree with Pastor PJ and

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Pastor Rod, who I Great.

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Start.

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Great start to the podcast,

pastor Mark, who I believe they

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both think this is a Christoph.

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Well, to be specific, a Christoph

and two angels, meaning.

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A pre-incarnate appearance of

Christ alongside two angels.

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But I'm actually gonna, I'm gonna actually

contend that these three men, these

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three angels are representatives of God.

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And in fact, they carry

some of the glory of God.

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They carry his words, which is why

they're able to say, the Lord says,

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Yahweh says but I'm not convinced.

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That these three men are, or they're

certainly not all the Trinity, and

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I'm not convinced that one of them

stands alone as a Christophany type.

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What do you think, Lewis, what's your

conviction on this particular passage?

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Honestly, my biggest question about

the verse you just read is how do

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a, how does a tent have a door?

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'cause I don't think, in my

experience, tents don't have doors.

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How do you get in a tent?

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There's a flap, but there's not a door.

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Like is Abraham like bringing, this is

like a Harry Potter tent with like hinges.

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Anyway, that was my biggest

question from verse one, but

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I'm glad that's your takeaway.

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If you're here for the important

stuff like Pastor Mark is how big

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of a deal do you think that is?

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Whether this is a pre

incarnate Christ or not?

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I don't think it's a huge deal.

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I think it's interesting and I think

it's important that we understand

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some of these aspects of the Bible,

or at least seek to understand them.

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I'm not sure that many of these

things will fully understand

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this side of eternity, but

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I think it's worth investigating.

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I think it's worth investigating and

I think to understand some of these

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things wrongly does put us in peril.

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So just for example, if you looked at this

and said these three men were the Trinity.

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Mm-hmm.

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Meaning the Father, son, and

the Holy Spirit, I think.

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I think that's actually gonna cause

some hermeneutical, some the way you

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read the Bible, some problems with that.

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So I think some of these things are,

making sure that we steer away from the

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problem, steer away from the issues, and

maybe we don't quite land on exactly the

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exact right thing of what's going on.

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And I think that's okay.

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And I think that's why Pastor PJ

and Pastor Rod, at least last year

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on the podcast, I went back and

checked that's why they can land

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on this and say one of these three.

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Is a Christophany and

the other two are angels.

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Whereas I'm gonna say no, maybe

not, but we could steer away from

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some of the issues that might arise.

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And that is indeed important.

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So what, you didn't answer

the question though.

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What, where I was hoping

you would've notice that.

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Where are you gonna land on this?

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I I'm just gonna say, I'm gonna

agree with my pastor on this.

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That's my take.

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I don't really have a

strong opinion either way.

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I think there's good

evidence for both sides.

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If you would say, this isn't

Jesus, this is just an angel.

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I think the strongest evidence is

that Jesus is never called an angel.

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He's never a messenger.

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He's always God.

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Whereas the strongest

evidence for saying this is.

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In fact the Lord and not just an

angel would be other appearances

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of angels like in Revelation.

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When an angel appears, John worships the

angel, and then the angel says, Hey, stop.

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Get up, stop worshiping me.

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And that doesn't happen here.

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Abraham bows down to the

earth in verse two, and.

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The angel doesn't say, get up.

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He lets him do that.

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Right.

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So those are kind of the, the

two to me, most compelling pieces

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of evidence for either side.

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Yeah.

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And I have to concede that is

the weak point on my position.

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So what do these angels bring?

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What does what do these three men bring?

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They bring a reiteration of the promise.

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They bring a reiteration of the promise

and a little bit more specificity.

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So in verse 10.

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It says, the Lord said, I will surely

return to you about this time next year.

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And Sarah, your wife shall have a son.

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Now here's something really

interesting is that Sarah hears this.

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And she laughs.

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She laughs when she hears this promise

and in verse 12, she says to herself,

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she says, after I'm worn out and my

Lord is old, shall I have pleasure?

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So shall I have this baby

that is promised to me.

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I think it's interesting because

in yesterday's Bible reading

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in verse 17 of chapter 17.

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Abraham also laughs.

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It says, then Abraham,

and this is verse 17.

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Then Abraham fell on his face

and laughed and said to himself.

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Shall a child be born to a man who

is a hundred years old, shall share,

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shall share shall shall Sarah tongue

twister Sarah and her seashell,

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who is 90 years old, bear a child.

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Now they both laugh, but in Romans,

what does Romans say about Abraham?

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Romans gives a really positive

impression of Abraham.

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Romans four.

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Abraham is a rock star.

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He trusts God, he believes in him.

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He counted his righteousness.

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And so it's surprising to see

Abraham and Sarah react the same way.

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Now, do you think that reaction

maybe can be interpreted differently?

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I think it can.

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I think it can.

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And I think what you see here is one

Abraham falls on his face, right?

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He falls on his face before the Lord.

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And yes, he does laugh, but I

think you see a heart posture

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that's different than Sarah, right?

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Sarah says to herself right in quiet.

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And I think the way the author

is presenting this she's doing it

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in a kind of almost spiteful way.

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Abraham falls on his face, and then

when Abraham gets his response,

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he immediately gets up and does

what God instructs him to do.

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What does Sarah do?

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She laughs and then when she's confronted

about that laughter, she denies it.

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Mm-hmm.

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And she says, I did not laugh.

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So I think you see a contrast in heart

posture and Romans four doesn't address.

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Sarah necessarily, but I think

you can see you can see the doubt

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in Abraham that is quickly turned

into faith through this narrative.

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And you don't necessarily

see that with Sarah.

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And I think we have to

respond in the same way.

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Sometimes we're gonna hear promises

from the Lord that shock us.

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Mm-hmm.

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That, that make us go what

are you talking about?

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The question is, how do

you then respond to it?

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Do you respond to it in faith and

trust, or do you respond to it with

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a haughty arrogant, maybe even bitter

heart like you see Sarah do here.

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We do see Sarah though, definitely

redeem herself in a lot of

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ways throughout the rest of.

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This book.

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So, we don't wanna just be like,

Abraham good, Sarah, bad that right?

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Yes, that's right.

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The Charact characters in the Bible.

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There's only one of them who's good.

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Right.

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And that's God.

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Mm-hmm.

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That's right.

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And the rest are usually a mixed bag.

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Even, the heroes like

Abraham and Moses and David.

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They're not Jesus.

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They're not the real hero of the story.

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And so it is I think always encouraging

for me when I read passages like

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this, where you see who we would.

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Look to, in the New Testament, they

describe Sarah as a woman of faith.

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She's a strong believer That's right.

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And she has moments of weakness,

moments of sin and unbelief.

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And so that's always encouraging

for me to see these characters that

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are praised by the Lord in his word.

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I.

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To see them for who they really are.

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They're just regular people who trust God.

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But ultimately the reason they trust

God is because they're sinners.

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That's right.

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And God ultimately forgives sinners.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right.

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He forgives those who have faith.

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The faith of Abraham and that

faith is the faith that Sarah has.

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And it's the faith that, in fact, in

a slightly different way, but it's the

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same essence, that same faith is what

you and I can have which is the means

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by which we can be saved from sin from.

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From our distrust, from our lack

of faith in the promises of God.

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Definitely.

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Okay, so then there's this

interesting section about.

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A conversation that God has with

Abraham, and he begins to discuss

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with him the destruction of Sodom.

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It's amazing here that we can

even see a conversation like this

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between God and a mere human.

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Mm-hmm.

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Abraham certainly is an important

human, but he's still a mere human.

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And it speaks to God's kindness to.

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Abraham and to us as well, right?

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To reveal to us that he yes, is an

immutable God, an unchanging God,

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but he's also communicating here his

grace and his willingness to show

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mercy on even as the passage concludes

there's 10 that are found righteous.

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And he says he's not going to destroy

the city even on the account of just

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those 10, which is where we get into.

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Chapter 19, and in chapter 19 we

get to see the full effects of

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sin, the full depravity of humans.

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And I'm always reminded in

Genesis 19 of Romans one, you just.

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Get to see how the total

depravity of man comes out in

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these really nasty, nasty ways.

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Definitely.

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And there's obviously parallels

between Romans one and the

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sins that Sodom is committing.

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But before we get into chapter 19, I

do have a question about chapter 18.

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Something that I think a

lot of people reading would.

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Maybe come into their minds too is,

is God changing his mind here and

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how, what does it have to do with

his sovereignty and his immutability?

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Things like that.

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We know that God plans things

that God isn't impacted.

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Like he's not reacting

to things that we do.

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In the sense of we're not

gonna change God's mind.

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So is Abraham doing that?

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Is maybe, is our theology wrong?

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How would you answer

that kind of question?

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Yeah.

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I think it's important to recognize

that God is immutable, which is to say

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that he's unchanging if God changes.

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Then he can't actually love us, right?

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If God changes, then

his promises can change.

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It's an important distinction

that I think is really hard for us

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as humans to understand, because

we are mutable, we do change.

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And so this aspect of God being

immutable is in many ways.

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Kind of beyond our ability to grasp.

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And so what I think you see going

on here is God being kind to us.

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Theologians will often refer to this

sort of thing, and I'm not sure it's

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politically correct anymore, but the

term is, or the way of describing

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it, is that God is lisping to us.

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That he is helping us understand something

about him in a way that we can understand.

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God is not changing.

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He's not changing his mind.

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His decisions are not dependent on

Abraham, but through this narrative

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account, he's helping us understand

his mercy, his willingness to save.

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Sinners, right?

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He's willing to do these things and

he's demonstrating that through this.

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So there's more to be said, it's a complex

theological topic, but I do think we have

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to hold that God is an unchanging God and

that Abraham here is not changing God.

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But at the same time the way that we see

this is that God is changing his mind.

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That he is going from one opinion to

another, and that's God's way of helping

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us understand attributes of who he is.

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Yeah, definitely.

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I had a professor in my undergrad

actually illustrate this with a

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quiz that he had on our syllabus.

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He had this quiz planned and

he changed his mind, in the

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second month of the semester.

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Hey, I'm actually gonna take the quiz out.

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And his point was he planned

to take the quiz out.

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The whole time he was already planning

on changing his mind about the quiz.

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And so the way he illustrated to

us, he was sovereignly planning

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to change his mind, to avert his

judgment on us and to demonstrate

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what this might look like exactly.

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So that's how he illustrated it.

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And I found that really helpful of

he's planning to change his mind.

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He's planning, okay, this is what I'm

gonna have this conversation with Abraham.

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And Abraham is going to intercede in

some sense for the people of Sodom.

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And then God is going to choose to relent.

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And we see this with Moses

and the people of Israel.

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And you could even say, we see this with.

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Us Right.

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Our verdict is changed

from guilty to righteous.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Alright, back to 19.

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And I did have another question before

chapter 19 is, sorry Pastor Mark.

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That's why I'm here.

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I'm here to ask questions and draw out

all the wisdom that God has given you.

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That's my goal here.

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So, would you read this

passage with your kids?

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That's a, I think a lot of families, a

lot of parents might have this question.

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They're reading the Bible together.

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Let's say you're committed to

reading God's word as a family

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in the New year, 2026, and then

you get two passages like this.

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What do you do?

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Do you read it?

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Do you stop?

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How do you handle this?

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Well, , let me go to

chapter 19 because Okay.

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it's even more poignant

in chapter 19, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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Where we see some of these.

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Heinous things.

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Yeah.

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Happen.

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Let me just give us a

little bit of overview.

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I know I trust that you read this

already, but in chapter 19, we're gonna

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actually see the destruction of Sodom,

but we're also gonna see the salvation

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of lot through the judgment of Sodom.

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So, two, two of the angels go to

Sodom and they are tasked with.

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Effectively saving a lot, and this is

where you get to some of these things

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that are, I don't know, unpleasant,

heinous, disgusting, and all of the above.

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I will refrain from making them super

clear here on the podcast, but the Bible

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is really clear about these things.

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Mm-hmm.

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The Bible does not.

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Hide from these things.

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Mm-hmm.

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It is very clear about this and it

is clear in other places as well.

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Even we reference Romans

chapter one, right?

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Yeah.

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Romans chapter one is clear

about some of the sins and some

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of the acts that are sinful.

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So should you read this with your kids?

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I'm gonna answer yes and with an

abstract, I'm gonna answer a yes.

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I believe the Bible is for all.

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I believe that scripture

is intended for all.

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You see that, and Timothy, you

may, it's very clear that scripture

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is breathed out by God and it is

profitable for all, without exception.

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There's not a caveat there that

says that it's only for adults or

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only people who are 16 or older.

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Mm-hmm.

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I also think we live in an age where

things are pretty sanitized, and I

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think if you were a child living even

a hundred years ago, but certainly

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500 years ago or a thousand years

ago, you're gonna be exposed to a lot

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more of these things at a younger age.

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I'm not making an argument that you should

be exposed to those things, but I do

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think we should be exposed to the Bible.

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And the Bible makes it very

clear how deadly sin is.

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And.

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I think that it's appropriate to read

some of these stories to your kids.

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Now, there's a caveat, which I

think you as a parent need to make

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a judgment call about the extent of

the explanations that you give to

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your kids on some of these things.

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You know your kids well, you

know what they need to know.

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And, you ought to know if you don't.

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And I know most of you do.

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You know, what your kids need to know.

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So when it comes to some of these

particulars about what is exactly

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going on I think you can become

more and more specific with your

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kids as they mature, as they grow

older, and as they have questions.

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And I think that's a helpful way of saying

like, what questions are your kids asking?

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Mm-hmm.

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Are they asking about particular words?

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Are they asking about particular acts?

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And I think you need to do your best

to give your kids honest answers

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realistic answers, truthful answers

when they have those questions.

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But I can tell you, my 4-year-old son

is not asking, all these very specific

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questions about these things, and I can

still teach him from a story like this.

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Now, I understand there's gonna be

some parents who think that this

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would not be appropriate, and I'm

gonna trust your judgment as a

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parent in this particular area.

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I think you need to know your

kids, and you need to make sure

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that they're hearing the gospel.

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There's gonna be some disagreement on

how to approach these things within

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the church, and we need to have charity

and love towards each other in such

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disagreements that, that we might have.

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But that's my opinion on the matter.

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Yeah, I think that's great.

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Like the, every, even in your own

family, every kid might be different.

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Some kids might have questions

at different ages, and some kids

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might have different friends who

expose them to different things.

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And there's so many.

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Situations as I had a friend who used

to say situations are situational.

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And so, the important thing is that you're

not hiding the essentials from them.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And you can see the essentials

even in this story here.

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And one of them, as we wrap up Genesis

19, is how amazing it is that God saves.

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Really just one righteous person, right?

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Law doesn't want to go and the angel

has to rip him out of the city of Sodom.

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And Yahweh saves whether the saved

desire, salvation or not sometimes.

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And you can see that

very much evident here.

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You can also see how Yahweh is willing

to save even just one from this city.

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Lot's wife.

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It initially looks like maybe

it's four, but lot's wife

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looks back, turns into salt.

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And then at the very end of chapter 19

we see some of the more heinous acts

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that are committed by lots daughters.

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And yeah, so God is a God of salvation.

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Let's turn to Matthew seven.

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Matthew, excuse me.

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Matthew six.

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Matthew six.

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And we are, where, where are we

in Matthew six Lewis, Matthew six.

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The Sermon on the Mount.

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We're right in the middle of it.

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Yep.

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And Matthew six it's one of my

favorite chapters in the Bible.

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There's so much good stuff here.

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So we're actually probably gonna

go for another two hours on this

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podcast just to cover all of it.

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Alright, well let's cover at least

some of it and maybe not in two hours.

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Okay.

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Four hours.

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Let's work through it.

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So the first section.

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Is titled With the

Inspired Heading, right?

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Inspired Heading, giving to the Needy.

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So I actually took the headings

out of my logos, like layout.

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There's no headings.

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And then in my personal reading

I read a Bible with no headings.

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So that tells you, I think,

what I think about the headings.

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Well, nonetheless, the very

beginning of chapter six is

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indeed about giving to the needy.

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But it's more than that, right?

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We see that Jesus' command to us is that

we are it's a, it's matter of the heart.

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The command is that we are to

have a heart that is not about

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practicing our righteousness

before others to be seen by them.

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Right?

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I think it's easy as Christians

to look at the performative

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things because that's easier.

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It's easy to see what

we're doing on the outside.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's easy to see what others are

doing on the outside, but what we

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see throughout the Sermon on the

Mount, and again here, is that God

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is calling us to a heart attitude.

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So when we give to the needy, we

are to do it with a heart attitude

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that is seeking to please the

Lord and not to be seen by others.

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Right.

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Verse four says, and your father who

sees you in secret will reward you.

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Definitely.

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And that refrain is repeated with

prayer and with fasting as well.

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And I think certain on the mount is

so crucial to understanding the right,

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just how we do good works as Christians.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's all about the heart

like you were saying.

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I think something that's really

encouraged me from these passages is

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the idea of I think of God's justice

most of the time in a legal sense of

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he's going to punish the wicked people.

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But you can also think of God's

justice as he's gonna reward all

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the good things that his people do.

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That's right.

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Even if no one else in the world sees him.

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Right.

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Even if no one sees the way you pray

for your family members, even if no one

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sees how patient you are, even if no

one knows the things that you gave up on

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to, worship God or to love that person.

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God sees those things and he's ready.

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And that same with this

idea of prayer, right.

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God is, he's ready to meet

these people in prayer.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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And I think one of the astounding

things to me about the Lord's

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Prayer as we get into this next

section is that it's really short.

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It blows my mind that the instructions

from God on how we are to pray.

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It can be done in a handful of seconds.

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Now, I'm not denying that we are

to also pray without ceasing.

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Mm-hmm.

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But I think we can get so

caught up with the Christianese.

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Mm-hmm.

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And the words that we're supposed

to say when we're praying and the

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phrases that we're supposed to.

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Pile up, right?

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Yeah.

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That we can confuse what

prayer is supposed to be.

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And again, it's a heart attitude, right?

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It is.

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It is a heart attitude of actually

wanting to talk to God, actually

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wanting to make requests of him

actually seeing him as God and talking

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to him like he's actually gone.

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And we can get in the

community group and be so.

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Quick to want to sound nice, wanna

sound pleasing, want to use the right

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phrases because other people are

listening to us when we pray and suddenly

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we're not actually praying at all.

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Mm-hmm.

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Suddenly we're just doing

as the Gentiles do right.

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And heaping up empty phrases.

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And we don't wanna be found

guilty of any such thing.

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Yeah.

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And for a deeper dive into the Lord's

Prayer, in the partners chapter on prayer,

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there's a really great breakdown step by

step of each phrase that kind of pulls

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out the principles behind the model

prayer, really for disciples of Jesus.

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Lewis, do you fast?

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Do I fast every night?

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I fast every night, and then

I break my fast every morning.

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See, you can't answer that.

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'cause if you do.

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Then you won't be doing

it in secret anymore.

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Mm-hmm.

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'cause it'll be on a podcast and then

I see what you were trying to do.

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Will you were trying

to stick in my heaven.

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Reward you?

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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I can't believe you did that.

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But that idea, right.

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When you fast, it doesn't say, if,

it doesn't say if you're a varsity

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Christian and those people fast is,

the expectation is too fast, fast to

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lose weight, right fast for health.

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That's, that's what he's talking about.

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That's, that's not what Jesus has.

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Jesus doesn't have the Daniel plan

in mind here, or Ezekiel bread or

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any of the other health hacks that

people came up with from the Bible.

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Fasting is always

related to prayer, right?

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Yes.

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And like that's what I think the

connection here is, is that fasting.

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Is a way for you to focus on prayer.

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It gives your body a natural way to remind

you to pray, and it also reminds you that

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you need God more than you need food.

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That's kind the idea behind fasting.

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And so as far as how you should

fast or when you should fast, right?

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I had one professor, he said that

if you didn't pray when you fasted,

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all you did was just get hungry.

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You didn't fast.

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And so I think connecting

fasting to prayer is always.

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Really important.

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Yeah.

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And if you want a resource on

that, I would recommend the

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chapter in Donald Whitney's book,

spiritual Disciplines on Fasting.

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I think that's a particularly helpful

place to go to learn more about that.

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And I would also recommend and commend

to you the other chapters in that

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book, specifically on prayer as well.

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That works well in conjunction

as to Lewis's point.

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Alright.

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We're edging towards 30 minutes, which

is beyond what we were told to do.

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So let's wrap this up with

one of your favorite passages.

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How can you concisely wrap up into

a few sentences, these amazing final

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verses of chapter six of Matthew?

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Yeah, I love these two

paragraphs right here.

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I think the most.

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Important thing is that we're

therefore right there at verse 25,

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the very beginning of verse 25.

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You see the therefore, and

the connecting words in the

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Bible are so important, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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Words like sense or because, or therefore,

or as a result or anything like that.

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And so I think the point here of 19 to

24 is about your focus, your treasure.

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And I think what Jesus is saying

is that your treasure is your

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heart a magnet for your heart.

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Mm-hmm.

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Your treasure will attract your heart.

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But.

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Also your treasure becomes your master.

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That's why he adds that in verse

24 there, when he talks about

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you can't serve two masters.

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So he's really pointing out that

you're mastered by your treasure.

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You serve your treasure, your

heart is always going to be

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drawn towards your treasure.

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And your treasure is

determined by your focus.

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That's what the I is all about.

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The I is about what you focus.

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And so what he's saying is he's

connecting all these concepts.

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Treasure, focus, master.

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He's saying they're all the same, and

that's where your heart's gonna go.

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Therefore, don't be anxious because your

anxiety is also determined by your focus.

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Because think about the commands he gives.

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He says, look at the birds.

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He says, consider the lily.

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Those are attention verbs.

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Look at this.

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Think about this.

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And he tells you, take your attention

off your anxieties and put your attention

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onto the Lord and that will cause you

to seek verse 33, first, the Kingdom

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of God, which then you will treasure

the Lord and he'll be your master,

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and that's where your heart will go.

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So that's kind of the theme that

runs through these two paragraphs.

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Well, like it or not, we'll

be back again tomorrow.

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But let me commend to you

what Lewis is saying, right?

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If today, and hopefully it's the morning

if you are facing anxiety, do his

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Verse 33 says, seek first the kingdom

of God and his righteousness and.

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That way.

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You don't have to be anxious

about what tomorrow brings.

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What a good, good thing that is.

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What a blessing that is from

God in the Christian life.

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Alright, we will see you tomorrow.

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Let me pray for us as we close, and we

are excited for a couple more days with

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you here on the Daily Bible Pro Podcast.

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Lord, thank you.

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Thank you for your word.

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Thank you.

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That your word has so much truth

in it that it is truth, that we can

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turn to it, that we can hope in it.

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And ultimately that's not hope or trust

in those words, but it's trust in you.

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It's a heart that is eager

to be obedient to you.

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And we're thankful for your word.

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We're thankful for our church, and we're

thankful for today's daily Bible reading.

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Jesus' name I pray.

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Amen.

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