00:00 Introduction and Energy Drink Discussion

00:27 Explaining Alpha Brain and Zipfizz

02:26 Transition to Bible Reading

02:41 Gatekeepers and Temple Organization

05:42 Military Divisions and Tribal Leaders

08:22 David's Charge to Solomon

10:49 Freewill Offerings for the Temple

12:24 The Importance of Leading by Example

12:35 Teaching Generosity to Your Children

13:31 The Value of Every Gift

14:47 Solomon's Reign and Wisdom

15:42 Reflecting on David's Death

16:36 Psalm 127: Trusting in God's Sovereignty

19:40 Building a Family and Raising Children

21:27 Addressing Infertility and Adoption

23:26 Spiritual Parenthood and Mentorship

24:23 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Hey, happy Monday and welcome to another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hey pass.

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Right.

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I've got a question.

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I've got an answer.

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You are currently double

fisting energy drinks right now.

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That's not true.

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What is not an energy drink.

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I'm looking at two bottles.

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Yes.

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Both have different

colored liquid in them.

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Yes, that's true.

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And it's puzzled me.

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And so I I've been, everybody's

asking, everybody's been asking,

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nobody knows that I'm doing this.

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So now.

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Okay.

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Now they do.

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You want to know what they are?

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One is alpha brain.

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That's true.

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Okay.

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And that one's been a consistent theme

of mine for the last several years now.

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I've been using it.

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Do.

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Did you tell everybody else what that is?

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Cause.

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yeah.

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Um, so alpha brain is a nootropic.

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It's a supplement that you can take

to help with cognitive enhancement.

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So it helps with.

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Processing means.

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Cause I think you're going to have

to define that term from a neutral.

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Rain.

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It's a brain supplement of some sort.

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And there's a lot of enough that

right now that some of them have

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debatable efficaciousness, but

alpha brain has undergone some

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double blind placebo studies that

show that there is an enhancement.

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There is a, there is a.

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There's a benefit to, and

the way that I noticed it is

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verbal processing and memory.

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Um, so if you want to go check

out their website, it's, I've

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been using it for a long time.

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And I use it particularly,

especially in my sermon prep in

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a, my delivery of my service.

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The other side is one that I've gotten

recently, um, that you introduced to

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the office that is Zipfizz Zipfizz

Zipfizz, which I know one of our

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friends used to use quite a bit.

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Um, it was kind of his thing.

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And.

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I didn't really care for it at the

time, but now that I've been having

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it, I feel like I noticed no, I don't

feel like I discern a difference

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in my energy levels by taking it.

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It's just, it's a ton of

vitamin B, a ton of vitamin B.

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That's basically, what's some,

I think artificial sweetener.

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I'm not sure what else is in there.

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Yeah.

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It does feel a little bit.

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Yeah, it does fit.

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It's got a little bit of kick to it.

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Yup.

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Zippy.

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It is Zippy.

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They should call it that Zipfizz.

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Yep.

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We should write a letter.

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Okay, well, that's helpful then

that you've, uh, Uh, yeah, but that,

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that you've made those distinctions.

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Um, because I was concerned for you.

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I was like, why is he asking.

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He's got two and he's drinking

the both at the same time.

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Yeah.

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Don't make them though.

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I knew there was a reason for it because

you never do anything accidentally.

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You never like are like, well,

I don't know why I'm doing this.

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And now I do.

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I do.

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I do like to do things on purpose.

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That's kind of, I feel like

that's a Christian responsibility.

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You're the intentional, your book

needs to be called life on purpose.

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How about the purpose driven life now?

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Yeah.

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It's been done.

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Um, Life on purpose.

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Okay.

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I'll think about that.

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Okay.

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Well, Hey, how about we be on

purpose with reading the Bible?

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We should do that.

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Every day.

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Yes, we should do that

every day, including today.

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And we're going to do that in first

Chronicles, 26 through 29 and someone 27.

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First Chronicles 26.

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Uh, there's a lot of, we talked

about this last time we were in first

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Chronicles divisions in organization

and administration going on here towards

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the end of David's life, as he's trying

to prepare things for his son Solomon.

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So what we find in first Chronicles,

chapter 26 are the gatekeepers now.

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We have gatekeepers at our church.

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We do.

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Yup.

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The same guy, Albert

Pacino heads up that team.

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That's right.

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We've got a great team

of, of gatekeepers there.

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Uh, not exactly the same, but

they draw their inspiration.

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If I could use that word

from the same group.

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Yeah.

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The idea of those that are there to

provide security and keep order on

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the temple Mount their inspiration

has a certain caliber to it though.

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Why don't you say when you draw it?

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Yeah.

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Just because the threats

are different today, right?

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Yeah, caliber.

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Yeah.

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Cause they draw right.

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Yeah.

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Anyway.

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Eh, the, the gatekeepers here, the temple

guards, uh, basically in the first 19

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verses they're arranged and organized,

besides keeping order on the temple

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Mount, they would also tend to the storage

and organization of temple equipment.

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Uh, and oversee the food for the priests

and sacrifices among other things.

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So, uh, gatekeepers, you guys

listening to our podcast, pastor

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Ron, I would like you to oversee

the food for us on Sunday morning.

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That's good.

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Bring us some food.

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That'd be great.

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Hospitality, gatekeeping.

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That's right.

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We're going to do that.

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No, we're good.

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We're good.

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But.

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Note in first Chronicles, 26, 8 oh bed.

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Edam is listed there.

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Whose house is where the arc resided.

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After the death of Uzzah, he

was one of the gatekeepers.

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Uh, he was part of the live vertical

family there, besides the priest

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and singers and the gatekeepers.

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Then there's other officials who are

important to the temple activity.

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And these are listed in,

in verses 20 through 32.

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There.

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Uh, but the gatekeepers, just

an important group there.

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In fact, uh, we've been studying in

the gospel of John when Jesus was on

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the temple Mount and the Pharisees

dispatched the, uh, the, the temple

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guard to go and arrest Jesus.

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And they weren't able to.

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Uh, we read about that.

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Uh, I think back in chapter seven,

Um, that's that's who these guys were.

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The gatekeepers, it all ties together.

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And so we're seeing that even in

the new Testament reading and the

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gospel of John, but the rest of

these officials, they included some

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people like the temple treasures.

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Uh, who cared for the material gifts given

to the, to the Lord and judges overseers?

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Uh, To, to pertain to the

judicial matters of the people.

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So this is all just, I mean,

these, these are all vignettes

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of David organizing people.

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He's putting people together.

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He's preparing this for his son.

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Who's going to take over after him.

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This, I mean, at minimum, what this

shows is that God cares about the

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intentionality of his people and being

thoughtful and purposeful, as we just

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said a few moments ago, I think if

nothing else, what it tells me is that

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God cares about the well-oiled machine.

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It's like, Paul will later say that God

is not the God of chaos or disorder.

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He's a God of unity is a

God of thoughtful intention.

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And I think that's something

that we see here, how it applies.

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I mean, it's, there's so

many broad strokes in this.

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The fact that it's still here and there's

so much ink spilled on this topic, man.

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There's just in my mind, I

just think, okay Lord, am I

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living my life appropriately?

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Is my life well ordered?

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I think that's a good term.

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Well ordered is my life will order.

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It may not be perfect and no one's life

ever will be, but you should ask the

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question as my life reflect a relationship

with the God of the universe who loves

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to see things done decently and in order.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Chapter 27 then guess what

more organizations at this

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time of the military divisions?

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Uh, the, the, uh, the, the army.

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And, uh, the Israel is not only

needed to be prepared and organized

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for worship, but also for war.

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And that's the main thrust of the

first part of chapter 27 here.

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This is not a census.

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Okay.

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So this is not the same thing.

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This is.

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Making sure that everybody

was grouped together.

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They had their leaders that knew who was

supposed to be on duty versus off duty.

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Uh, that's one through 15 is the

account of Israel's army by divisions.

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And then while not at war, each

of those divisions would rotate.

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On a monthly basis to guard the temple.

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And so they, they would be there

in addition to the gatekeepers to

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provide security for the temple

to make sure nobody would come in

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and attack the temple Mount there.

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So, um, you see the, the

military divisions there.

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Uh, verses 16 through 22, then

list the leaders of the tribes.

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And yet there's two that

aren't included here.

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There's two that aren't included here.

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Uh, you're going to notice that if you're

looking for the leaders of GAD, And

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Asher, you're not going to find them.

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Uh, there are 12 liter still

because Erin is given a specific.

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Leader or his family has given a specific,

uh, leader over his head household,

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even though he's not a separate tribe.

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And then also the half tribe

of Manasseh gets two liters.

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So we still have 12 liters even

though GAD and Asher aren't included.

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So the question is why aren't Gatton,

Asher included in honestly, uh, the

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commentaries that I looked up on

on this one, I'm curious to see if

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you found anything different pastor

rod, but the majority of them kind

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of just shrugged their shoulders.

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And they said, you know, we're not sure.

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There seems to be a little bit

of an arbitrary nature to the,

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the inclusion of the 12 tribes.

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Sometimes some are left out, sometimes

some are included, but the number 12 is

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always the same number, no matter what.

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And so th there's there was not

a whole lot of clarity as to why.

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Uh, GAD and Asher aren't

included here in this list.

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There's always questions about the tribes.

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Sometimes it's there, there's a

bit of a chin scratcher throughout

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scripture when it comes to who's

included and who's not again.

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At the end of the book of revelation,

I think the tribe of Dan is missing.

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How does that happen?

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Maybe because they fell out,

they were, they were disciplined.

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It was God's judgment upon them.

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Some kind of rebellion.

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Uh, whatever the case, whatever

the case, we know that there's

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some kind of structure behind it.

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There's a scheme.

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There's a thought there's an intention.

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At this point, we may not be fully

clear as to what that intention is.

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At least in this particular passage.

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Fair.

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Yeah, verse 24 chapter 27.

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Notice it says job, the son of Zechariah

began to count, but did not finish yet.

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Wrath came upon Israel for this.

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So this is citing the census

that David had Joel take during,

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uh, in the judgment in response.

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And so this is, uh, uh,

uh, hat tip to that.

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Uh, which we had read about last time.

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We were in Chronicles in

second Samuel together.

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Um, Yeah, that's a, that's

the gist of chapter 27.

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They're all right.

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Yeah, chapter 28, then David gathers

all the people here in the first

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eight verses in announces that Solomon

is going to succeed him as the one

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who's going to be king over Israel.

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And who would build the temple in

Jerusalem verses six through seven?

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No.

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Our, uh, our rich with the language of the

Davidic covenant, he said to me, Solomon,

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your central built my house in my course

for, I have chosen him to be my son.

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Davidic covenant language here.

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I will be as father.

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I will establish his kingdom forever.

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Davidic covenant language.

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If he continues strong and keeping my

commandments and my rules as he is today.

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So, uh, Solomon introduced us as

David's successor there in the

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first eight verses of chapter 28.

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Chapter 29 through 21.

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Then we get David's charge to Solomon

and he charges Solomon with two things.

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Number one, walking obedience to

the Lord with his whole heart.

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Be fully devoted.

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To a Bangalore.

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I mean, that is such a good thing.

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Parents for you to urge and your children

into, uh, into charge your children

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with, and to say, this is good for you

to love the Lord with everything that

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you have and not to depart from his ways.

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So that's the first thing

that David wants to secure.

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Solomon's allegiance to the Lord.

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The second thing.

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Is that he would build the temple.

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Uh, and then he provides him

with all the plans for the temple

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and finally charges him to.

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Again, build boldly for the God of Israel.

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David's got a first Chronicles,

28, 20 a would be with him.

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And so that's a, just an encouragement.

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Must've been an encouragement for Solomon

to think, man, the God of my father, the

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God who enabled him, preserved him, the

God who enabled him to beat Goliath, the

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God who has been with them the, all of

these years now he's going to be with me.

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What a cool thought that would be.

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Curious phrase that keeps on

showing up, uh, time after time

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is be strong and courageous.

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You see this in verse 20.

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Or David says to Solomon his son,

but this, this sounds familiar to you

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is because you've also heard it at

the beginning of the book of Joshua.

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Where Joshua tells his people

to be strong and courageous.

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God tells Joshua to be strong and

courageous, and then Joshua tells us

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people to be strong and courageous.

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There's something about this

phrase that just shows up in

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scripture over and over again.

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If you pay attention.

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You'll see it all over, but

it is an interesting phrase.

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Isn't it be strong and courageous as

opposed to being weak and fearful.

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Um, we can intimidated and I think this

is a cool thought because God constantly

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has to tell us people, Hey, stop fretting.

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It's not being afraid.

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Just go do the thing.

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Trust that I've got this under control.

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And if you really believe that you

serve a God who's sovereign and who's

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omnipotent and omnipresent and omniscient.

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If this is the Omni God who does all

things for his glory and for your good

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man, you have nothing to be afraid of.

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So long as you're not doing

something foolish and silly,

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otherwise be strong and courageous.

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What a good thing for you to feel

like God is telling you to do today?

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First Chronicles 29, then verses one

through nine, the people follow the

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lead of their king and they bring a

freewill offerings of great wealth to be

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used in the construction of the temple.

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There.

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Uh, and so this is just a celebration

offerings for the temple or being

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brought a freewill offerings.

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These aren't under compulsion.

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These are because the people are excited

about what God is going to do and about

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getting this temple built, uh, verses

10 through 22, then David prays before

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the assembly, this prayer of dedication

that, that recognizes God is the owner

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and giver of all good things, including

the gifts that they had just offered

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for the construction of the temple.

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And that's something that we talk

about on Sunday mornings, a lot.

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Uh, when we give, we're not

giving God something that he

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doesn't first possess already.

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What we're doing is we are

consecrating those gifts.

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We are offering those things.

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Uh, and seeing, what do we want you to

use these things specifically for the

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purpose of the continued ministry that's

being done here at compass Bible church.

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And so similarly, David is praying.

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And in asking that God would,

uh, would, would, would bless the

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offerings would bless the gifts

that were being brought for the

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construction of the temple therein.

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God owns the cattle on a thousand Hills.

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He didn't need these things.

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Uh, he owned all of these things, but the,

they, the people brought them to be used.

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As a, an extension of worship

through the building of the place of

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worship, that would be the temple.

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And it's a good thing too, that God does

this because he could do it himself.

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He doesn't need us, might

slow him down actually.

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T to use us in part of his plans

and purposes, but instead he chooses

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to say, Hey, I want you to freely

give from what I've given to you.

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I want you to participate

in the work that I'm doing.

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And one of the coolest things that I

see here is that David sets the example.

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They follow his lead and

he's generous with God.

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He gives it, here's all this wealth

and all this stuff that I've acquired.

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And he lays it down at the feet of Jesus.

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I love that.

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Not Jesus, actually, but

that's kind of the idea here.

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He's laying it down.

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And St God, you're worthy

of this in so much more.

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And so the people see his example

and they say, I want to do that too.

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And this should remind us as

parents that our kids are watching.

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And it's sometimes hard if they don't

see us transferring the digits, the

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ones and zeros from our bank account

to the church account or whatever else.

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It's hard.

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You know, when we're writing

a check, if we still do that.

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But let it be known in your

family now we're givers.

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In fact, I could say we don't know

specifically who gives what I like that.

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I want to keep it that way.

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Yeah, but we do know that you guys

do give and that's so encouraging.

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I just I'm heartened by that.

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I think you guys are

doing a good job at this.

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So I want to commend you for that.

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But I also want you to not

hide your light under a bushel.

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I don't want you to not let your family

know that if you're, if you're giving

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to the church faithfully, I think it's

good for you to start teaching your kids.

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Hey, we give to our church

because we love our church.

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We're part of this.

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We're financially invested.

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Uh, and we give not only with our

finances, but with our physicality

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and our service, you know, we're

hospitality or set up or tear down team

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or the worship team or whatever else.

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It's good to tell your kids

that you're doing this.

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This is how one generation commends.

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God to another, my showcasing,

his worthiness and all that we do.

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Yeah.

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In.

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And another thing too, regarding the, the

gifts and specifically the, the offerings

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that we give financially, uh, maybe

you're in a place where you're thinking.

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I just mean things are tight.

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What I would give right now.

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It's a drop in the bucket.

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Hey, listen, everything is important.

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The driving thing matters.

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Everything matters.

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There's significance to the

every single gift that's given.

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No matter what amount it may be.

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You don't have to think.

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Well, I have to give to this level

or to that guy's level or to this

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person's level, or I have to have a

wing named after me at the compass

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Bible church when they build a building.

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Look.

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That's not, that's not the heart.

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The heart is we're, we're giving not

to people we're giving to the Lord.

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And as long as we're giving

sacrificially and, and then God's

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faithfully pleased with that.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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As Jesus would come.

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We think.

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You could interpret it more than one

way, but when Jesus sees a widow giving

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her last 2 cents to the temple, right.

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He acknowledged that he noticed

how much she gave, right.

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And he noticed who she was now.

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There's, there's a potential

interpretation on that passage

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that Jesus was upset about this.

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Because it was the last 2 cents.

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The widow had to live off of it.

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And he had just got done saying that,

you know, the Pharisees, they consume

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the widow's house, but nevertheless,

Jesus is paying attention to our giving.

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And it's not the number

that matters to him.

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It's the heart behind it.

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Right.

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That's what really matters.

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I agree.

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Yep.

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I agree versus 23 through 25,

then Solomon is anointed king in

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the chronicler provides a summary

statement of his prosperous rain.

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Do the Lord's blessing on him.

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So just kind of a 30,000 foot

view of, of Solomon's reign.

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Um, here's the Lord

made Solomon very great.

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Verse 25 in the sight of all Israel

and bestowed on him, such a Royal

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majesty as had not been on any king

before him in Israel, the superlatives

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around Solomon you'll note.

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Those.

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Uh, when we get into his

life, but Solomon is, is he's.

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He stands above all the rest.

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Um, and not just in the

number of wives that he had.

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That's also when he went up there too.

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Yeah, but to the point where Jesus says

someone greater than Solomon is here.

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Solomon's like the measuring stick when

they think about who's the greatest

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they think of Solomon, Jesus says

someone greater than Solomon is here.

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Right.

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And if you had known, oh, it's so good.

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So keeping it, keeping in

mind, we're going to talk more

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about him in the coming days.

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And I really appreciate some of

the language that is used about his

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acquisition of wisdom and all that.

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It's really fun.

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Can't wait to go through

that with you guys.

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Yep.

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Chapter 29 then versus 20, 60, 30,

just as we land a plane in first

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Chronicles, before we jumped over

to someone 27, you've got the death

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of David and he dies after having

reigned over Israel for 40 years.

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The year of David's death was

around 9 71 BC give or take there.

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So.

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Uh, that's where we're at in human

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So whatever the math is there,

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

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3000 years.

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Uh, give or take between when

David died and where we're at,

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uh, where we're at presently.

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So, uh, yeah, kind of a.

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Neat too.

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To put history in context there,

because sometimes we're reading

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the Bible and we can forget.

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Oh, this is, this happened on a timeline.

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Yup.

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If you took a timeline that, that the

things that we're reading about, they

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would have their own spot on that timeline

because these are historical events.

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And so being reminded of.

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An event like the death of David and

being able to go here's the, the time that

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that took place, that's helpful for us.

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Indeed.

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All right.

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Psalm 1 27.

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So I'm 1 27 is a Psalm of.

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It's a song of sense.

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Go ahead.

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Do it.

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If your microphone.

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I'm not a performing monkey dog.

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Okay.

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It's a song of a sense,

and it's written by.

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I quit.

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I quit now.

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You doubt it's written by Solomon.

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So here's one of the first.

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Songs that we find from Solomon.

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I like this one too.

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Yeah.

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Do you like it better

than his song of songs?

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Oh, I do.

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I did this one.

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I do.

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No summon 1 27 songs, Solomon fits.

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Here's a response to the charge that he'd

received from David to build the temple.

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Uh, two themes of the summer

God's sovereignty over work in

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God's sovereignty, over family.

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It's so good because.

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I think this speaks to us today.

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Even though he wrote it so long, the rest

of the Bible doesn't but this one does.

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Um, well, the Bible has to

fit the daily Bible podcast.

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We're just going to do some 1 27 for

the rest of our lives, because that's

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the only one that speaks to us today.

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All scripture is equally inspired,

but not all of it is equally

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relevant to our day and age.

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It all has a variety of applications

and relevance to our comment is that

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because sometimes you have to work, you

have to work it and say, okay, how do,

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like we just talked about the temple.

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Or organization.

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What do we do with that?

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We have to work a little bit.

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This just feels immediately applicable.

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Unless the Lord builds a house, those

who build it labor in vain, unless

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the Lord watches over the city,

the Watchman stays awake in vain.

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And you can fret about this thing or

that thing, your kid's college tuition.

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It can Fred about the mortgage payment.

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You can fret about your car and

you can forget about, you know,

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finding a husband or a wife.

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So many things are going to read about.

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And you can even put in a ton of effort,

work 60 hours a week to do this or

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that, and still come up with nothing

because unless the Lord builds it, unless

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the Lord watches, it's all in vain.

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It's in vain that you go, uh, that

you rise up early, go late to rest.

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And, and this is interesting

eating the bread of anxious toil.

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Um, what does that mean?

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The bread of anxious toil.

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Yeah.

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Well, it's not satisfying.

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It's not satisfying.

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That's for sure, because you're always.

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Worried about what's next.

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And so you're not, you're not.

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Enjoying the things that God has

provided, I find it fascinating.

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And that it's, it seems to me that

maybe one of the things that solemn

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is getting at here is that even

anxiety provides a kind of sustenance.

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You can feast on an anxious anxiety.

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You can feast on anxious thoughts.

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It does provide a kind of sustenance.

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Although what could be the

idea behind this also is that.

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You're eating bread.

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You you're eating the, the,

the results of your toil, but.

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Contrast that he gives

to his beloved sleep.

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He gives his Christians rest.

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I mean, that's not who Solomon

has in mind here, obviously, but.

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Christian's at arrest

and we oughta rest well.

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Because God's the one

who is taking care of us.

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He's the one who's making the globe spin.

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You can go to bed at night, knowing the

Lord's got your kids in, in his hands.

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You can go to bed at night knowing the

Lord's got your business in his hands.

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He's got every single aspect of

your entire life in his hands.

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It's like little children's song.

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He's got the whole world

it's got the whole world is.

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So now that's, that's my

favorite part of the Psalm.

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But the second part of the

song, talk to us about that.

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And how does that fit?

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With the first part.

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Yeah.

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Well, Uh, building the house.

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The house, if we think about

the houses, our family, right?

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If we think about the house as, as our

household, our, our family, um, The

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part of the load building it is, are

the, the children that he provides.

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And, uh, that's where in verse four,

like arrows in the hand of a warrior

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are the children of one's youth.

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Blessed.

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It is a man who fills

his quiver with them.

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Can I suggest that has less to do with

the number of kids that you have and

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more to do with your intentionality

about your children and how you

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raise your children and what you

do to point them towards Christ.

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And in that, the analogy here, the arrows.

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What do you do with an arrow

where you don't keep the arrow

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for the rest of your life?

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You sign it, send it out.

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Is that a full set?

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So.

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That's the analogy that he uses for

children, and we're trying to send our

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children out, so to speak with that

direction, being towards the Lord.

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Um, we want them to love the Lord,

just like we were talking about

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with David's charge to Solomon.

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Hey, love the Lord with

all you've got that.

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That was David.

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Uh, using Solomon as an arrow there.

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So this is so important.

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Um, And I know it's such a hard

subject to, uh, we know of, of.

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I have just the difficulties of

this subject, especially with some

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of the younger people that, uh,

that struggle with this area and,

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and would love to have a family.

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And yet God has not chosen

to, to do that at this time.

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Th this does not mean that the

Lord is not building your house.

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This does not mean that

that there's something.

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You know that the Lord is

favors not with you with it.

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The Lord is upset with you or

angry with you, or that you're a

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failure or anything else like that.

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This is, uh, addressing a

particular subject, uh, here

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with regards to those that.

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Uh, the Lord has given children

too in how they're supposed to.

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Uh, go about that.

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But, uh, Yeah, it's.

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Having families is such

an important thing.

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And if, if, just, if pastorally, if I can.

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Step into this one a little bit here.

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Um, I I'd like to, if you'll

give me permission to do that.

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Uh, permission granted.

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Yeah.

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Thanks man.

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Um, Listen.

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The pain of struggling with infertility

is something that, that nobody

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wants to take the rug and lift

it up and sweep it under and go.

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Don't worry about it.

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It's a real, it's felt it hurts.

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And, uh, we as a church body weep

with those who weep and we come

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alongside and we want to comfort.

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Um, That being the case, if that is

you and you, you find yourself there.

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I don't think that that means the Lord

does not want you to have a family.

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I don't think that that means

the Lord does not want to make

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you a mom or make you a dad.

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I think there are other venues that

are, are good and helpful to pursue.

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I think the, the venue of adoption and.

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I know that that's often scoffed

at, um, he had, well, that's easy

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for you guys to say because you

guys have kids, whatever it may be.

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And I want to be sensitive to that.

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And yet I also want to come back

to the reality that there are kids

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that are out there that do need.

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Godly homes with Gabby, moms and

dads that are going to treat them as

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arrows in the hand of, of themselves

that they're going to fill their

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quiver with children that maybe.

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Weren't born in their home, but they're

going to be raised in their home and

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they're gonna be raised to follow Jesus.

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And that is such a good thing.

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It's such an important thing that.

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Are sending pastor used to say, man, we've

got to have large families as Christians

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because we've got the world having their.

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Their offspring and we're not

basically, we've got, I'll populate

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the, the unbelievers out there.

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Uh, and, and yeah, Mueller's been talking

about that recently on the briefing.

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Yes, he has.

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The population is decreasing

and alarming rate.

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What an opportunity for Christians

to say, well, fill, fill the gap.

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Yeah.

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Let's fill our quivers and.

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And who knows what God will

do with that down that.

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Towards the end.

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We're not post-millennial lists

by any stretch of imagination.

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That's correct.

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But there.

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I'm not going to argue that there

may not be another revival on the

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horizon before Christ comes back or

before anything like that happen.

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So I think there's room

for us, all that, to say.

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Now that I've stepped

out and fully into that.

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I just want to encourage

you to think, man.

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Th there's, there's more than

one way to skin a cat when

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it comes to having a family.

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And I do think God desires

that for his people.

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Can I offer one alternative

to, as you're thinking about

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this and at this might be you.

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I mean, I think about the way that

Paul speaks to Titus, he says to Titus

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my true child and a common faith.

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Sure.

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You can have children, spiritual children

that are just as meaningful and just as

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profound in the relationship that you

experienced with those in your church.

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And as I've pled before, like if

you're, if you're of the older

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demographic, please don't leave.

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Please stay part of your church and stay

there until the Lord takes you home.

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There's lots of young

people that need your needs.

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Your wisdom need your life experience.

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Need your time.

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And especially if you're retired and

you have time to give it into invest

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in a young man or a young woman,

this could be the very thing that God

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is opening the door for you to do.

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Our church does have a lot of

young people and it's continuing

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to add more it every day.

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It is.

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Um, every church, if they're healthy

and they're growing is going to have

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a large young person population.

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Maybe your child, your job is to

invest in a spiritual way and a few

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people in a significant way, perhaps.

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And in this way, you're building

a house for the Lord and you can

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with Paul say my true child in a

common faith to that young person.

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Amen.

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And then we'll keep her in your

Bibles with us and tune it again.

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Tomorrow as we tackle, I don't

know, 14, 15, 30, 50, 50, a

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hundred thousand songs tomorrow.

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All right.

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See you guys better.

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Bye.

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Bye.