00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:13 Nostalgia: Saturday Mornings and Video Games

00:54 The Rise of E-Sports and Career Paths

02:12 Parental Guidance on Video Games

03:40 Balancing Faith and Gaming

05:43 Virtual vs. Real-World Relationships

08:21 Biblical Principles for Gaming

10:08 Favorite Childhood Video Games

10:55 Transition to Nehemiah

11:10 The Right Choice for Reading the Law

11:30 Six Hours of Reading and Preaching

12:25 Responding with Tears and Joy

12:49 Standing for the Word: Tradition or Command?

13:55 Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles

14:48 Corporate Confession and Repentance

16:28 The Covenant and Its Signatories

20:20 Obeying God's Simple Yet Profound Commands

21:38 Concluding Prayer and Reflections

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Saturday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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We are coming at you again on, uh, well,

it's, it's Thursday for us, but it's

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Saturday for you as you listen to this.

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So happy Saturday.

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Congratulations.

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You made it to Saturday.

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When I was a kid, I

would be, I would leave.

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Uh, I would leave Friday school thinking

I can't wait for Saturday because

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Saturday morning cartoons obviously

is one of the best times of the day.

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Uh, and then on occasion, I'd

get to play some video games.

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So.

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I'm a big.

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We have an Xbox and full disclosure.

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We have one, we had one

for a couple of years now.

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Uh, today EA sports releases, um, Um,

their football club, 25 or so it's

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like their 25th version of this game.

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It's a big deal.

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Oh, actually, it's on Thursday.

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I think I was recording this

because it's probably the year.

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That's usually how they're getting.

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That's how they do it.

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I didn't want to, I don't want to flex.

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But yeah, since you wanna put it

out there, so it's a big deal there.

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Every year, they release

it, they release it.

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You got mad and you get

all the cool sports ones.

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Right.

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Uh, It's it's no secret that there

are, there are, there is a lot of

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money to be made in being an electronic

athlete or where they got e-sports.

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It needs sport athlete.

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Yeah.

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You got people like ninja.

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I don't know what he's doing anymore,

but this guy was raking in millions

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of dollars a year, playing fortnight.

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Yep.

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Got funny hair.

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He's he was enjoyable to watch.

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And so we developed this

cult-like following.

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And a lot of people

are influenced by that.

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And they're saying, man, if I

can make money playing video

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games for 25 hours a day.

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And it's, it's an actual

viable career path.

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Is that something that as a, as a pastor,

as a father, as, I mean, just a Christian,

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let's take out those two identity

markers and let's just as a Christian.

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Is there any sense in which

we should encourage our kids

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to pursue something like this?

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Is there any ROI?

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Should we discourage them?

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I mean, so we would often say

people would tell us, like,

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you're not going to make it.

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This is not how you make money.

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Go get up, go get out of, get

off your rear end, go get a job.

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Go mow.

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Some lawns, go do

something, go sweat today.

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A student can say a young person

could say, look, dad, I am working.

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I'm working toward my career.

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My future here, I can make a lot

of money if I'm one of the top

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10% of this game and you go to

tournaments and you get sponsorships.

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And if I start streaming, I can make

a lot of money on Twitch and all these

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other platforms where people can pay me.

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If they see my, my skills.

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So it's, it's some would say

almost a viable career path.

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What would you say to parents

who have kids who are really

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in this individual games?

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And want to play it a lot in order to get

good so that they can determine whether

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or not this will make sense for them.

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Yeah.

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I would encourage the

parents to separately.

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Disciple your children to love.

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As much as you can disciple your kids to

love Jesus with everything they've got.

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Um, Listen, if your kid's going

to be an unbeliever, does it

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matter if he's making widgets or

playing video games for a career?

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No, it doesn't at the end of the day.

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Uh, if your kid is a believer, And.

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You're teaching them love Jesus

with everything that you've got.

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Um, You know, is there eternal

significance to that outweighs

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playing video games to the person

that's making a mechanism that goes

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inside the lock on a door of an

F-150 in the Ford assembly plants.

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Right?

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I mean, at the end of the day, like, Is

there eternal significance to that act

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versus the act of playing video games?

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Well, you could argue work ethic.

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You could argue discipline.

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You could argue.

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You know, just the self control to stick

to something and everything else, but

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could you not argue those things on, on

the video game side of things to look.

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I would I encourage my

kids to pursue that path?

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Probably not.

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I think there are more fruitful

endeavors for them in life.

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This kind of gets to what we

were talking about yesterday.

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Can I say that there's a

sinfulness in the pursuit of that?

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No, but at the end of the day,

they're gonna have to stand before

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Jesus and answered the question of

first Corinthians, 10 31, whatever

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you do, whether you eat or drink,

do everything for the glory of God.

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And what does it look like to

do that for the glory of God?

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That that's a, that's a perplexing one.

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That's a difficult one.

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R.

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Would you say that video games are

generally speaking a bad thing?

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Good thing.

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Uh, and different things.

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I think they're in neutral thing.

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I think that can be a bad thing.

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Um, but I think just in and of

themselves are neutral thing.

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We've got video games at our house too.

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Um, So I'm not anti.

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But I also.

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See that there's a massive opportunity

for time-wasting and for not

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pursuing the things of the Lord and.

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You know, I, I think.

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A lot of parents probably think, well,

uh, there's, there's no way I'm gonna let

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my kid have his computer in his room or a

device in his room or anything like that,

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because I don't want him chasing down the,

the realm of immorality on that front.

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But those same parents are going to

give him the controller of the video

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game and turn him loose for four

hours, five hours a day on video games.

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Not realizing that there's as

much damage being done there.

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Maybe not as much damage being done, but

there's damage being done there as well.

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Just like there might be damaged from him.

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Surfing the internet on

things that he shouldn't be.

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Um, it's our intake.

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What are we taking in?

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What, what is, what is that intake?

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How is that forming us and shaping us?

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Whatever we're taking in is

forming us and shaping us and.

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What are we.

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Taking, what are we allowing

our children to be taking in?

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And I'm not talking about the violence.

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Just talking about like what.

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They play Madden NFL for four hours.

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And what have they taken in?

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Like what, how are they a more

productive member of society based

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on that than they would have been.

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Otherwise I'm not seeing your kids.

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Can't have opportunities to relax and.

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Disengage and unplug.

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That's fine.

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By plugging in Ireland.

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By plugging in right.

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But I think.

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It can also become a real.

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You know, just pit where we allow our

kids to go off and get sucked in and then

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they're gone and we think, well, there's

worse things that they could be doing.

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That's not our standard.

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Is that the best thing

for them to be doing?

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That's a good question.

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And there is, there is an argument about

translatable skills where, uh, you know,

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hobbies and other fun activities have

some kind of real, real translation

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where really hard to say that in terms

of a video game, You know what real

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world translation is there other than,

I mean, it's fun and entertaining.

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And certainly there's a time for that.

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You know, watching

movies or whatever else.

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Now, but where does it

translate into real life?

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And I think that's a good question.

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Uh, what about the kid who says

like, all my friends are on there.

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All my friends are playing this game.

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This is where we, they don't hang

out at the mall and we're past.

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I don't know when you, when you were a

young kid, didn't even have electricity.

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So you guys had to go outside and go play.

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Now.

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And in 2025 or four

people are, are online.

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They spend time connecting online

and they're literally connected to

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the internet, but they're connecting

and they're, they're hanging out.

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They're having fun.

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They're listening to music together

on a, on Minecraft, you can attend

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a concert with your friends.

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You can go watch a performer

perform live in a concert.

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In Minecraft with your friends who

are coming up as their avatars.

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So talk to.

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The parents who are trying to

help their kid make friendships

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and build connections.

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Uh, while recognizing that most

of, most of the young people.

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Are on these platforms for

most, most of the time.

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Yeah, it's interesting.

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There's a secular, it was a

book first and then became a

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movie called ready player one.

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Um, that is heard of this one is good.

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It's entertaining.

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I've seen the movie.

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It's, it's an entertaining

concept and it's, it's a thinker.

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Um, I like.

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The premise is everything.

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They live in a world in which

virtual reality is reality now.

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Um, oh, cool.

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And it's, it's how that I won't

give away the spoiler alert.

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Don't do that.

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How they, how they deal with that.

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I'm going to start tracking

ramifications of this.

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And what happens with that, um, in what's

better reality versus virtual reality.

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And that's kind of the core question that

the, that you're wrestling with through

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watching the narrative unfold before you.

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Uh, I don't think it's a good

thing for us as parents who

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encourage our children to be.

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Pursuing relationships

in the virtual world.

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As though, as the norm, our

kids need to learn how to.

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Interface with real people and

have conversations with real people

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out in the wild and face-to-face.

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And so.

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And I know different people

have different things.

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And again, this gets to, this is helpful.

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After yesterday's discussion.

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I can't say it's a sinful thing

to have your kids be on online

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platforms and having online friends.

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It's not a simple thing.

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Right, right.

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Uh, our family has chosen.

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We don't do that.

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Like my kids will play video games, but

we're not, we don't do the headsets.

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We don't do any sort of communication.

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We're not playing online

with other people.

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We're, we're just not doing that.

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It's, it's something that we've kind

of said, we're going to fence our

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family on that front and protect

our kids more than anything else.

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From that.

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And so if our kids want to hang

out with their friends, we're happy

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to set up a play date for them.

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We're happy to drive them wherever

they, they need to be, be taken.

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If, if we've got the bandwidth to do that.

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Drop them off.

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Do those, those types of things.

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We'd much rather do that than have

them develop a social circle online and

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not be worth anything when they meet a

real human being in the flesh, because

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they don't have a headset on to hide

behind as far as building relationships.

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So, yeah, I think this is

where theology meets life.

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I think these are the kinds of

questions that people are kind

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of chewing on, think it through.

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And this is so helpful because it's,

it's helping people think, okay,

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theologically then what are some

of the implications that relate

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to this off the top of your head?

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And I know that.

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And they prepare you for this.

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I just kind of sprung all this on you.

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Um, give us a few working principles.

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You've kind of alluded to some of

them already, but crystallize them for

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parents or even just people who are

thinking like, oh, I like these games.

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They're fun.

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I enjoy playing these games.

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Give us a few biblical principles

about how to think through this.

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I think with, with these things,

moderation is as with so many other

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things key, all things are lawful

then I don't think so helpful.

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And it will not be dominated by anything.

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Right.

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So set time limits.

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And if your kids don't

like it, that's fine.

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Only six hours at a time.

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Yeah.

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And I think.

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In probably more, our younger parents

out there need to hear this then

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maybe some more of the seasonal ones,

but maybe both through it's okay.

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For your kids.

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Not to like you it's okay

for you to be the backup.

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In fact, that's a good thing.

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If you're parenting biblically,

you will be the bad guy at some

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point in time in your kid's life.

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You got to restrain that flesh, right?

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And so set those time limits and

don't let it get to that point

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and force your kids to go outside.

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Force your kids to pick up a book,

force your kids to open up the game,

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the board game closet, and pull a

board game out and interact with other

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people and get out of that realm.

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So time limits is huge.

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Second.

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If you're going to allow them to

have a social circle online, you

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need to know that social circle.

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You need to know what's

being talked about.

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You need to know the

content you need to know.

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You know, you need to have access to that.

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Our walks with the wise becomes wise.

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Yeah.

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And then third, it's probably a good

practice to encourage them to fast

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from those things from time to time.

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Just so that, to your point,

they're not mastered by this.

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I can put this away.

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And I'm okay.

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I don't have to have

this thing in my life.

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Yeah.

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And so w w.

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And maybe your kids aren't believers.

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You can still put a

fast in, in place there.

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Cause it's, it's important that they're

not becoming dependent on this thing

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that they're like, well, I have to

have this in order to be entertained.

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Okay.

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Last thing.

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Your favorite game from childhood go.

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Video game board game.

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What a video game, since we're

talking about video games.

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From childhood, I would have to go

back to super Mario brothers three.

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Oh, that was a good one.

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Yeah.

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I think that one was

kind of my real house.

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I really like street fighter two.

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Okay.

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Yeah, that's good.

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You know?

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Right.

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And there was an old teenage

mutant ninja turtles game two.

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Nintendo.

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The Android, that one.

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Yep.

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We played that one at the end.

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What the what's that thing called?

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Okay.

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The arcade one.

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Yeah, that was fun.

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Yeah.

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That.

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Yep.

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So there you go.

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That's our take.

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I've always been a big sports game guy,

guy though, like baseball, football.

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I've always kind of

gravitated towards those.

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I got into Madden for a period of time.

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That was really great because then I

found out you can design your own player.

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Oh, yeah, totally squash the other.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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Awesome.

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Put your ratings all the way up.

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Yeah.

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You're Superman.

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I totally did that.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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I think we all did.

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Yeah.

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Alright, Nehemiah eight through 10.

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Nehemiah chapter eight,

verses one through two.

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Ezra is summoned by Nehemiah.

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And he's called to read the law to

the people in the square and why?

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Because again, he had been

studying it and setting himself

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to apply and do it to a bay.

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It.

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So he was the right choice for this.

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He was the guy that was doing this

as Nehemiah looked around and said,

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okay, who's the right person for this.

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As we're a roast at the top.

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And so as rhe is summoned.

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He's going to read the law.

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This was supposed to happen every seven

years, but obviously had been neglected

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for some time while the people were in

captivity while the people were away.

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And even before that

it had been neglected.

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And so this is a good thing.

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So he stands up to read.

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Verse three, he reads for an in

comments for six hours as the

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people stand and listen to them.

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And you thought pastor

PG, his preaching was.

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Uh, there's the obligatory joke.

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No, but, but all joking aside,

that's, that's a long time.

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That's a long time to stand and listen.

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And take things in.

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Um, and then we know that, that

it was not just reading, but, but

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commenting and preaching because

that's verses four through eight.

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Which is, uh, out a detail about what the

reading looked like in involved in, in

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particular, if you look at verse eight,

they read from the book from the law of

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God clearly, and they gave the sense so

that the people understood the reading.

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So it wasn't just about reading for the

sake of, of being done with it or reading

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for the sake of getting through it.

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This was the we're going to read it.

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And we're going to, we're

going to explain it.

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We're going to execute it as we would

put it in our modern vernacular.

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So this is preaching.

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That goes on for six hours

with the law of God here.

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Um, versus nine to 12, the

people initially respond

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to the reading with tears.

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Their morning, their weeping and

the reason being, because they

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realize, man, we have not been

doing what God has called us to do.

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We have, we have aired.

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We have sinned.

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So many of our ancestors had as

well, but then as her wants to.

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Spin it and to pivot it into a

moment for joy and rejoicing.

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Um, because they had understood the

words that were read to them, and God has

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been gracious to them in providing them.

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The people stood when he read the word.

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Uh, is that something we should do?

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I mean, that's, that's something that

we do at our church, or we have our

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people, I guess, remain standing.

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Are we supposed to do that?

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When we read the Bible?

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You know, it's.

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It's not biblically biblically commanded.

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This is a description

of what's taking place.

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This is not necessarily a

prescription that's being commanded.

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Um, but it's people have done it

because it's a way to show honor.

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And so if it conveys that, and I think

even today it still conveys things.

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We stand for the national Anthem.

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We stand.

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For the pledge of allegiance, we stand

for God, bless America in the seventh

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inning stretch at the ball games.

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Right.

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There's a measure to which

we even still understand that

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standing honors what's being done.

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And so that's one of the reasons why we

do it at least at our church, but can

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we blanket statement across the board?

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You have to do it.

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No.

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Yeah.

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I don't think you're probably not

standing during your devotional time.

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Right.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Great great point that

we're standing right now.

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But just because we're recording

that, not that we think we have to,

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because it's the word of God, we

honor it and you can honor something.

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Uh, by sitting in your setting and

you can also dishonor something by

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standing when not on the inside.

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You're you're somewhere else.

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So I think it cuts both ways, but yeah.

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Great point.

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Yeah.

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Nehemiah.

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Uh, eight, then 13 through 18.

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The people discovered the instructions

for celebrating the feast of Tabernacles

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and they do so with renewed Juul.

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Retinoid renewed, renewed.

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Annoyed and renewed.

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They were annoyed.

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They're really renewed.

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The re renewed the joy and enthusiasm.

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Uh, such, he says it had

not been celebrated that way

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since the days of Joshua now.

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The feast of Tabernacles

had been celebrated when

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the people first came back.

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Do you remember that?

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They came back, they set up the

altar there in Jerusalem and they

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celebrated the feast of Tabernacles.

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So this makes it seem like

they hadn't done that at all.

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But the difference is they did

it in accordance with the word

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they did it in accordance with

what God prescribed them to do.

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Also with the temple having been completed

at the same time, it seems like they have

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trouble with this quite a bit like this.

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They just don't typically

keep the momentum.

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They have periods of, of obedience,

but long periods of disobedience.

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Which is why we needed

that savior after all.

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Uh, near my name, we get to chapter

nine and we enter into a period of

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corporate confession and repentance.

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Uh, you mentioned, uh, EMD, right?

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Ezra, Nehemiah, Daniel.

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That's right, right.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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And so here we get to Nehemiah nine,

and this is another one of those

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examples where we see corporate

confession and repentance and a worship

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service led by the Levites rehearsing

God's faithfulness to his people.

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And his promises from the beginning.

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Uh, you get a couple things to note

here, like verse 23 of Nehemiah chapter

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nine, we have a reference to here.

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Uh, the children being multiplied

as the stars of heaven,

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brought them into the land.

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That's a reference to

the Abrahamic covenant.

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And so here at Nehemiah is, is,

or, or rather the, the leadites are

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saying, Hey, look what God has done.

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God has been faithful to

some of his promises already.

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And we need to look back on

that and rejoice in that.

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Uh, versus 33 31, when the people

rebelled God was patient and sent

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them profits to correct them.

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And yet they did not listen.

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So they were delivered into exile,

but in God's great mercy, he

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didn't make a complete end of them.

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So again, the rehearsing, even the

most recent history with them saying,

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Hey, remember why we were in exile?

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God had been faithful to

pursue us, even then let's not

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fall prey to the same things.

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Yeah, verse 33 Israel had suffered

greatly, but God was just in all

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of it for they'd sinned greatly.

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And then verse 36, that the people

gathered, made a covenant in response

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to all of this, to a bay guy.

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They said, okay, we are going to obey.

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That's the conclusion of this

prayer of confession, repentance.

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Yeah.

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Just one point about verse 25.

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Uh, one of the elements that led

to their despising of God was that

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they became that they were filled.

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They became fat and delighted

themselves in your great goodness.

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And so, uh, all the gifts that

God gave them caused them to be

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insulated from their need for God.

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And that's of course, a danger for us

and we live in such great opulence.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, near my 10.

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Uh, one through 27, this

chapter opens with a list of

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those who signed the covenant.

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And again, let me just plug it.

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I did it a few times, a couple

episodes ago, but you know what?

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I'm gonna hit pass around a list of names.

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Log us back.

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Dude, you've been so high on log us.

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I'm wondering if your realtor

secretly getting a paycheck every

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time you mentioned their name,

you know, I'm not long ass dude.

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Accordance gone.

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Listen, log us is not paying me anything.

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Log us.

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To mention their name, but they're the

best in the game while you're saying.

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I'm saying I appreciate they do.

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They do a lot really well.

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So much good behind the scenes.

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Not that you guys care.

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Uh, pass route.

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And I have this thing where I, so I have

log as Bible software, which is great.

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I also have a cord in the spinal

software, which I had in college.

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And I still have.

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Accordance is the engine of

a currency is so much better.

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It's so fast.

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It's quick.

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It's speedy.

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It's snappy.

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It's good.

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And they do a lot.

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Well, log us does a lot.

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Of other things really well.

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And things that I use on a regular basis.

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Like the note system in Lagasse

is leaps and bounds better

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than it is in accordance.

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Um, I've got I've.

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Massive library and log us

that don't have the same.

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Breadth of that in accordance.

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So.

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That's why, um, in accordance

doesn't do the fact book.

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There's some resource and tools

that overlap, but there's things

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in log us that are just so good.

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Log us is number one in the game.

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They just need to think big.

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By accordance and use their engine.

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Their engine is so much better.

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They can never do that.

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And here's why, because accordance

is single platform only Mac,

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which is why they work so good

on Mac log us is multi-platform.

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They can't develop for each

individual platform, which

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is why they streamlined it.

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Everyone's doing this.

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Everyone has multi-platform.

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Utilities.

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Are using something like a, you

know, Uh, chromium type engine.

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It's a, basically a web app.

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And that helps that they can

develop it faster and make, add

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more features to it more quickly.

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So I don't ever happen.

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Sorry.

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Accordance does run on windows.

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Oh, does it, it runs on

windows 10 or higher.

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Oh, I didn't realize

they're multi-platform yeah.

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Well, I don't think it's I still

don't think it's gonna happen

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because log us is a web app now.

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Yeah.

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Which again makes it

so they can run faster.

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We're accordance.

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They have to.

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They have to develop both

of them individually, which

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is going to make a card.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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That's fair.

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I can dream.

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Anyways, log us Factbook is helpful here

because you can hover over the names

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in this list and find out who they are.

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Uh, like you're going to hover over

Zedekiah and find out that he's a priest,

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any witnesses, the covenant to keep

the law made by the returning exiles.

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You're going to over, over and

think, man, mushroom sounds

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like a good name for a baby.

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Find out that he also is a priest

who witnesses the covenant man.

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There's just a lot of names in here.

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And I think that was one of

the things that I was noticing.

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Their names in here that this

is the only place they are

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in the entirety of the Bible.

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I like bunny verse 15, but bunny.

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And as God.

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Yep.

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Bye-bye yep.

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All of these really good names.

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Yeah.

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I mean, At an Azure.

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You're going to think, man, I

know the name out of nausea, but

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then you're gonna realize, okay,

this is a different ad in Asia.

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So Tasha, Baya.

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Yeah.

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Oh, Daya.

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. Yeah, I like hellish.

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Yeah.

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I'll start calling you that from now on.

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Maybe a more, uh, more, uh,

relatable one zap Zadar.

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So you're going to see the name

Zadok or Z doc in verse 21.

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That was, that was a key figure.

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And he was in the line of Aaron.

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He was a high priest, but not this one.

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This one is different.

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This one is not the same Zadek

that we read about elsewhere.

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So log as fact book is super

helpful in that regard.

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I agree.

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We'll take a sponsorship.

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If they want.

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You know what their

new platform, but yeah.

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Now's the time to get in.

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Yeah, because they're doing the

subscription subscription model now, which

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I think it's gonna be great eventually.

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Yeah.

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So, um, Sidebar.

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We talked about Lala's

tacos the other day.

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Oh yeah.

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And one of our listeners happens to live

next door to the owner of Los tacos.

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And so he passed our podcast

about Laloux's over to the owner

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and Adam listened to it for us.

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That's great.

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Hey.

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If he wants to sponsor

us, that'd be okay with.

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Exactly.

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You can just be free tacos.

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We'll just take what we don't

even need every Tuesday.

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Pick him up.

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We'll uh, we'll do, we'll do three tacos.

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That'd be, that'd be clutch, man.

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Alright.

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Um, so that's verses one

through 27, this list of names.

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Okay.

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And then we jump in.

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In the rest of the chapter here.

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And we talk about what was expected of

the people in regards to this covenant.

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And so in verse 29, the obligations

of the covenant are somewhat simple.

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They're going to obey the law,

observe the commandments and

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rules and statutes and do them.

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And it's so simple and yet, so.

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Helpful and profound, right?

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I mean, God is not a complex God.

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At the end of the day, with what

he expects of us, he expects

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us to, to study his word.

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To love him and to walking the

commitments that he provides for us.

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I mean, it's, it's a pretty simple

rubric and yet our flesh makes

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it so difficult for us to do that

while assemble does not mean easy.

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Right.

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It's impossible.

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In fact to we'll keep to keep the

commandments of the law, which is why

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we needed Jesus in the first place.

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Right.

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And now in powered by a spirit, we can

actually say yes to obedience and say no

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to unrighteousness, which is an exciting

prospect for new Testament believers.

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It is, it is.

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And so, you know, a lot of.

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I think we get caught up in

Christianity is just all this

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list of rules and the obligations.

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And in commandments in an a sense

it is, but, but really all of them

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boil down to the, at the end, they're

all the, the, the parent category.

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Of all of these things is obeying God.

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And obeying what God wants.

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And if we, at the end of the day, trust

God, or we believe that God is a good God.

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Then we look at all those things

that he's called us to do.

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And we say, these are good for me to do.

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It's better for me to do

this than to not do this.

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Um, and so I want to do that.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Well, Hey, let's uh, let's break.

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And then we will be done with another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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God, we pray that, uh, that that mindset

would be true of us, that we would

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say, man, we want to obey the Lord.

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Uh, in everything that he's

called us to do, and we don't

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want to be slacking any of it.

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And so we thank you that you've made

your word clear to us that we can

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understand it, that we can read it, that

we can comprehend what you expect of us.

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And yes, it's true that we

can never do it to perfection.

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But we know that through your

spirit, we can make progress

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and we can do some of it.

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And so help us to continually

grow in godliness.

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Grow.

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And sanctification as we pursue Christ's

likeness, we pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

665

All right.

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Guess keeping your Bibles today

and tomorrow for another edition

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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Bye.