Understanding St. Patrick's Day, Biblical Justice, and the Importance of Daily Scripture Reading

In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss St. Patrick's Day, including the historical and Christian connections of St. Patrick. They delve into personal high school experiences with accents, and then transition to deeper biblical topics such as the importance of daily Bible reading for spiritual growth, highlighted by Deuteronomy chapters 17-20. They also explore the theological debate surrounding the justice of God as seen in the commands to destroy certain nations in the Old Testament. Additionally, the episode includes book recommendations to aid in understanding ancient Near Eastern texts and effective reading strategies for Christians.

00:00 Introduction and St. Patrick's Day Fun

00:08 High School Memories and Accents

00:54 The Story of St. Patrick

02:49 Spring Break Plans

03:16 High Five for Five Challenge

06:02 Daily Bible Reading Importance

10:25 Deuteronomy Chapters Overview

12:39 Book Recommendations and Reading Tips

23:04 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition of

the daily Bible podcast and happy St.

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Potty's day.

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I was wondering if the accent was going

to come out, but of course there it is.

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Dude.

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One of my favorite things to

do in high school was accents.

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Was it?

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Yeah.

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I, we did the show this I forget

the author, but he's a Russian dude.

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And so the teacher, we were doing

this show in front of the school

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and they said that the teacher said,

Hey, you need to do a Russian accent.

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Can you figure that out?

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And I said, Oh, and so she gave

me this cassette tape with.

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What sounded like a Russian accent,

someone pretending to have one.

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I don't know if it was a real

thing, but I used it and I did

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a show with the Russian accent.

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Thankfully, none of, as far as I know,

there are no lasting videos, but just

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imagine this in 20 years, our kids

are going to have all of their lives

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detailed and they could say something

like this and they're gonna be like,

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Oh yeah, in high school I did this

thing and they're gonna, Oh yeah, I'll

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see the video and pull it up for sure.

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Pull it up.

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We can't do that.

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Thankfully, I would be so

embarrassed, but I did that.

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I was a Russian dude

for a high school play.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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St.

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Patrick, he's a character.

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He, I don't know if you guys know who

he is or the, what are the, why there's

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a little bit more of a connection With

him in Christianity, at least in St.

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Valentine at least why

we celebrate his day.

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So Patrick was a, an Irish missionary.

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That's moralism.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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It's not here.

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And actually one of my kids was

asking me about that the other day

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because they were like, he's the one

that got the Trinity all mixed up.

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Isn't he thinking about St.

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Patrick?

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I'm like, Oh man, that sketch has done

so much damage to Patrick's reputation.

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I'm like, no, that's just a

name that they threw at the guy.

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It is funny though.

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It is funny.

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Yeah.

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Anyways kidnapped at 16 years old by

Irish Raiders, and he was taken as

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a slave and spent six years there.

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Eventually he escapes and he goes

home and he goes on to try to

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convert people to Christianity.

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Now, a lot of these people, as

indicated by their title as saints.

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Come out of the Catholic church.

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And just bear that in

mind and understand that.

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But yeah that's St.

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Patrick.

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So we celebrate his day by dying a

river green and a bunch of people

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wearing green and some people

choosing to get intoxicated.

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Or orange is an orange,

the more traditional color.

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Apparently it is.

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Yes.

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Actually, I think we

learned that last year.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And if you're really in

the know you wear orange.

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Yeah.

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Cause I think St.

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Patrick's day was on Sunday last year.

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And I can't recall.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Ireland, their color is

white, orange, and green.

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Oh.

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That would make sense.

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That would make sense.

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Maybe you wear all three.

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Wear all three.

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There we go.

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Are you going to be

wearing those colors today?

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I don't know, man.

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I'm not much.

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I'm not big rah.

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You should pinch people who

aren't wearing those colors.

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Yeah, and invite them to our church.

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No, see the, Hey, come to church

pinch you and then come to church.

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No it's one of those things where I

think having kids, I just, I don't

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want to even introduce that concept

of pinching because then they're

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just going to be pinching everybody.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I don't know that's the best rule

of thumb, although it is spring break.

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So it would just be their family

that they're able to pitch.

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That'd be great.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It is spring break.

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My kids are off all week this week.

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So There we go.

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That's cool.

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So pray for us.

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What you guys gonna do?

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My mom's in town, so she's flying in

for a little bit of time and we're

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gonna hang out with her and right on.

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I'm gonna be in the office.

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Working aside from that,

'cause it's a normal work week.

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We don't have spring break at the church.

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That's a shame.

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We should do that.

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We should just decree it the

Easter week, I guess this

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isn't even Easter week anymore.

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It's still spring, but it's not Easter.

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Yeah.

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Maybe we should just declare this,

that this is a week off in the office.

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Yeah.

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Hey, it's Monday now, so I can tell

everybody and ask how everybody's doing

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on their high five for five challenge.

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Oh yeah.

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How are you guys doing?

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How's you?

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Yeah.

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Is that going well for you all?

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This is better be doing it.

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If you were there yesterday at

church, then you know about this.

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If you totally, then let's

explain it to them just because

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some don't know, obviously.

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So let's tell those people

that weren't at church.

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We'll tell the people that

weren't at church yesterday.

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Yeah.

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So The part of the challenge in the

sermon was one of the points in the

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sermon rather was pursuing the loss

like their lives depend upon it.

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And that's built upon the idea that

Christ sends us out on mission, father,

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I'm sending them out as you sent me.

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And so we've got a

mission to do as a church.

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And so part of our application of that

yesterday was we've got an open door.

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This It's Easter season that people

expect us as Christians to be

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talking about Jesus, inviting people

to church, inviting people to,

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we've got extravaganza coming up.

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So my challenge to our church was

I want everybody in our church to

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invite five different family units.

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So not just one family with five

people in it, but five different

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families or individuals, coworkers,

whatever, to at least one.

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Of our Easter events

that we've got going on.

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So we've got extravaganza

going on Saturday.

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We've got right before

that we've got Good Friday.

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And then of course we've got our

Easter Sunday service as well.

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So you may have different people in your

life that might not, maybe one of the

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unbelievers that you know is not fully

ready to jump in on Sunday morning.

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But maybe the on ramp is

you're going to invite them to

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extravaganza with their family,

which is why we do stuff like that.

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Totally.

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Or maybe you got somebody who maybe

you got somebody like a Mormon who

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is a mom at your school and you have

been getting to know them and hanging

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out with their kids and everything.

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But maybe good Friday would be a great

place to invite her to because she's

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going to hear about Christ all sufficient

substitutionary atoning sacrifice there.

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And so we want you to be inviting

people who are in your life who

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don't know Christ to be a part

of one of those three services.

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So that's the high five for five.

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And the reason it's high five is if you

come up to me at church at some point

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this weekend, say, or in the coming

weeks and say, Hey, Pastor PJ, high five.

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I'm going to know what you're doing there.

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And we're going to give

each other a high five.

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It's super nerdy, super dorky, but

it hopefully will stick in your

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memory as you go about your life.

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As you were workshopping this, you

were asking about the hip bump and

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I discourage you from doing that.

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So that was the better of the two options.

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I think that's going to work.

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Yeah, I agree, man.

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I agree.

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Maybe I'm waiting for somebody

that's up like high 10.

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I got 10 people.

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What if they do more than 10?

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We'll just, we'll keep going.

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Take off your shoes

and start going for it.

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Oh man.

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I would love to see that.

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Please let me in on that.

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But high five each other to church.

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I'd love to look around the church

and just randomly see a bunch of

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high fives and all of our visitors

would be like, what is this place?

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Where did I come to?

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They might confuse that

just for general enthusiasm.

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Hey and love for each other.

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Hey, if he catches on, awesome.

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Kill two birds with one stone.

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That'd be cool.

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It would be cool.

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And the hip bump you, are you

gonna introduce that at some point?

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Probably not.

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Is that the next sermon?

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No, probably not.

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Yeah.

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Holiness hip bump.

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Yeah.

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If you're growing in holiness hip

bump the neighbor next to you.

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Oh, the hip check.

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Hip check for Jesus hip.

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Check the devil outta your life.

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Anyways, hey, let's get into the text

'cause we have four chapters today.

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17, 18, 19, and 20 do

you know what I mean?

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Chapter 17, this chapter covers issues

of justice and what to do with someone

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caught breaking God's covenant to

win from that all the way to when to

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take a matter to the priests, just

for more simple and basic judgment.

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The chapter concludes with God's

instructions for the future

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Kings who would reign in Israel.

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And that's interesting because

As to this point theory of

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theocracy, God is the king.

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And yet God is saying when you ask

for Kings, okay, I'll give you a King.

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And so that's going to be fascinating

because the way that Israel goes

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about asking for a King doesn't

bring God pleasure down the road.

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And we'll get there eventually

in Samuel, but here God is

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saying it's going to happen.

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And this is the type of King to look for.

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I'll provide a King, but

here's my warnings to him.

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And the warnings don't amass

horses, don't amass wives and

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make a personal copy of the law.

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And this is interesting.

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Do your daily Bible

reading in the law, King.

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In order to learn the fear

of the Lord and to obey him.

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And that stood out to me this time reading

through it is just that personal copy that

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the King was supposed to make for himself.

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Then he's supposed to read it

daily that he might learn to

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fear the Lord and to obey him.

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And so God is prescribing the

DBR to the Kings of Israel even

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before King sits on the throne.

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Yeah, that's really cool.

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And I think that's so important

because we are Kings and priests

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and Queens and I suppose, and I

don't think that has ever gone.

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Oh, wait, granted, we're not the Kings.

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We're not the priests.

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We're not the Levites, all of those

qualifiers that you're used to.

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But man, to be in your Bible every day,

sometimes we get resistance on this.

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People can be like it's just too much.

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I need some more breaks.

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I can't do it every day.

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I'm just too busy or this or that.

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I just, it's so wise.

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It's so good.

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It's so good for you.

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If you're too busy to eat.

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You might say to somebody, Oh man,

I need today because I was too busy.

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And he goes, Oh man, you must've been

really busy because you make time

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for the things that you need to do.

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Jesus will later say, quoting

Deuteronomy, man doesn't live by

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bread alone, but by every word

that comes from the mouth of God.

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And I think that means just as

much as you need daily bread,

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you need daily scripture.

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And you have such a great

privilege in having this.

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I would even love for people

to say, you know what, I'm

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going to write my own Bible.

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Not actually write your

own Bible, but copy it.

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Hold on.

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Cut that.

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Copy your own Bible.

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Did you guys hear that Leasterega

left you a couple of days ago?

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No one brought it up.

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No one brought it up.

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Anyway.

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Okay.

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It's at the end of the podcast.

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As I was saying.

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You should have your own copy and granted,

probably most of us aren't going to do

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that, but to have a good copy of the

Bible, reading it every day, ingesting

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it regularly, even multiple times a

day, what a great thing that would be.

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It would be a great thing.

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And we just talked about it on Sunday.

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Jesus himself prays,

sanctify them in your truth.

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Your word is truth.

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And so if we want to be more like Christ,

Jesus is right there saying the means that

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to make us more like Christ is the word.

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And the, or the medium rather is

the word that means is the spirit.

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And so the spirit is going to use

the word to make us more like Jesus.

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And so that's why we need to be in

every single day because we have more

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and more to grow in christlikeness

and the spirit Uses the word.

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Okay, really quick though.

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Yeah, the pharisees the scribes they

were experts in the scriptures and they

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got it wrong Where did they go wrong?

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Because you're saying that

being in the Bible, right?

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Being in the Bible produces godliness.

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That was clearly not true for them.

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Two things.

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Number one, they didn't

have the spirit, right?

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As Christians, we have the spirit reading

about that in the upper room discourse.

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The spirit does so much for us and

causing us to understand the scripture

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and apply it accurately and rightly.

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And then number two the.

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Pharisees were looking at the word of

God, not as a means of Christ likeness,

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but as a means of self righteousness.

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And that's a massive thing.

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And so if we're going to the Bible

because we think it's going to make

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us more righteous and more acceptable

to God, that we're acceptable in

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Christ, we're righteous in Christ.

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But if we're going to the word of God

saying it's going to make us more like

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Jesus, then we're on the right track.

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That's a good word.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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And write your own Bible.

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You heard it from Pastor Ron.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Write a copy of your own Bible is

really what I was trying to say.

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No, but there, there was this this

person on on Facebook who was posting

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on all the, the custom Bible sites that

I followed and things cause I'm a nerd.

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She took the interleaf Bible

like you have, and she wrote out

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word for word the ESV text on the

interleaves as she went through.

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So she ended up writing the whole

thing, every word of the word of God.

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She wrote it through it.

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She went through and did it all.

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That's cool.

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That's a lot.

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That's a big undertaking.

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That's commitment.

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It is.

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Yep.

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A worthy commitment.

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I might add.

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It is just don't write your own Bible.

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You'll write your own unless you're

translating from the Greek and the Hebrew.

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Maybe you should There's plenty out there.

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Yeah Or don't with the

translation committee Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, Deuteronomy 18 the chapter

here opens with instructions

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for providing for the Levites.

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So again we've seen this before, but it

moves on to the forbidding for forbidding

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the practices of the abominations

of the people who were in the land.

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So hey, provide for the Levites

and also, and this is the nature

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of this part of Deuteronomy.

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It's a little scattershot, but remember

Moses is trying to prepare a new

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generation to enter in the promised land.

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So it's scattershot, but he's

being purposeful with all of this.

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He's trying to help us understand

or help the new generation

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understand what God expects of them.

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And Hey, this is what

to do for the Levites.

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Remember they don't have inheritance,

so you're going to provide for them.

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And then he moves on and he says,

and by the way, you're going into

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a place and they're doing a lot

of things that the Lord hates.

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Don't do these things that the

Lord hates, because if you do,

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it's going to go bad for you just

like it has gone bad for them.

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And then finally in this chapter,

it ends with a messianic promise

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about a coming prophet who was

going to be just like Moses.

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I will raise up a prophet

like you from among them.

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And so he's pointing to Christ coming.

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And it's fascinating.

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What stood out to me this time

would probably be just because

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we've been spending so much time

in John, but Deuteronomy 18, 18,

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I will raise up for them a prophet

like you from among their brothers.

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I will put my words in his mouth and

just think back to how many times

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Jesus has said in John's gospel,

I don't speak on my own accord.

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I speak the things that

he gives me to say.

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I say the things that he wants me to say.

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And so this There's an illusion

there that Jesus is making back

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here to Deuteronomy 18, 18 saying,

I am indeed the prophet to come.

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I'm the one that is like Moses,

although better than Moses that God

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was foretelling here in Deuteronomy 18.

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And that's the kind of thing

that you can only get after a

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careful reading of scripture.

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I find that the more familiar I am with

the text, the more connections I can see.

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And that is such a cool experience.

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Just like what you noted right here,

that is such a cool connection.

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And I think most people wouldn't even

think twice about that because they're

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not studying the gospel of John.

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Or if they have studied it,

they've forgotten some of

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those careful connections.

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I've noticed them so many

times and I love seeing those.

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And if you see things like

that, A, you should check it.

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Make sure that your intuition is right.

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You might be mistaken, but two, you

should be encouraged because that means

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you're getting the words of scripture.

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So down deep that you're

able to make connections that

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maybe others might not see.

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And that's part of what happens when

you get really familiar with the

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scriptures and more power to you.

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Yeah.

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I've got a book recommendation

on that note for everybody.

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It's a one that is on Kindle unlimited.

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So if you have Kindle unlimited,

it's free for you, but it's a

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book by a guy named Andy Naselli.

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And the book is called how to read a book.

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Advice for Christian readers.

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I've heard good things about that.

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Yeah, you like it.

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I do so far It's been great and Mortimer

Adler is the og on how to read a book

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He wrote a book a long time ago called

how to read a book And so this is a

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modern adaptation of that specifically

written for Christians out there I

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don't believe was a Christian himself

and so necessarily takes some of the

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principles, but he puts it He modernizes

it for us and it's super helpful.

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He talks about three

different levels of reading.

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He talks about the survey level, how

to take a book and pick up a book and

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spend half an hour with it and walk

away feeling okay, I have the general

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tenor of what that book's about.

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Then he talks about macro reading.

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Macro reading is where

you're reading a book.

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You're reading every word of that

book, but you know what, at the end

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of the day you're not really stopping

down or rereading anything or making

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notes or underlining or anything.

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You're just getting the gist.

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He compares it to listening to a book

on audible at the macro level there.

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And then he gets down a micro.

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And that is when you've got your pen out,

you're making notes, you're interacting

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with the content of the book itself,

you're really doing a deep dive in there.

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And so that's, it's a

great book, super helpful.

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By the way, if you are somebody

that struggles to read quickly be

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encouraged because as he pointed

out in this, I didn't know this

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before reading this book from the

Sally, but John Piper is that way.

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John Piper cannot read speed read.

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He's about a book a month.

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He says, yeah.

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And so he spends a lot

of time with each book.

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And and so Naselly is

really great on that.

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When you talked about reading the Bible

carefully, he, that's what he says is that

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is exegesis is what he says is reading

carefully, reading the text carefully.

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And so caused me to think about

that good book, pick it up.

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It's free on Kindle unlimited, by the

way, if you have Kindle unlimited or

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it's nine bucks, if you don't have

Kindle unlimited, or it's closer to 20

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bucks, if you want to buy a paper copy,

which I know you're really fond of.

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In fact, I'm really surprised

that you have Kindle unlimited.

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Because of some books to his

point, I'm able to read it.

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And man, if that, if this is really a

life changing book that I'm like, I want

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to have the physical copy, then I'll buy

the physical copy and put it on my shelf.

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Now, books like this easy for me to

read digitally books like a systematic

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theology or like a heavier tome,

something that's, Thicker, more involved.

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Yeah.

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I want the hard copy on that.

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Interesting.

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Interesting.

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One quick highlight that I made

years ago that freed me in my

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reading that I use all the time.

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I remember it almost monthly, I'd say.

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And I read it in Douglas Wilson's

book called A Wordsmithy.

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Now I know a lot of us have mixed

feelings about him, but here's what

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he said that I think is so helpful.

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He says, read like someone who can

afford to forget most of what you read.

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It does not matter because you are

still going to be shaped by it.

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You read to be shaped.

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Not necessarily reading to memorize

that's not the case with the Bible.

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You do want to read to be shaped

and you want to memorize it.

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But for most everything else

you can afford to forget it.

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I think that freed me.

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I felt so good about that because

I'm like, I read so many books.

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I can't remember anything.

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Yeah, that's helpful.

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In fact, in the Sally quotes

him and my wife is, has

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referenced this before as well.

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But Piper says something

very similar to that.

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He says where is it?

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Sorry.

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I can just.

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Here we go.

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Piper says, what I've learned, I

believe this, but yeah, from 20 years

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in serious reading is this, it is

sentences that changed my life, not books.

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What changes my life is some new glimpse

of truth, some powerful challenge, some

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resolution to a longstanding dilemma.

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And these really come in a

concentrated in a sentence or two.

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I do not remember 99

percent of what I read.

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But if the 1 percent of each book

or article that I do remember

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is a life changing insight,

then I don't begrudge the 99%.

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Totally had that experience multiple

times where I can walk away saying

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the whole book is worth it for that

paragraph or that sentence or that idea.

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I've had that even this

week where I'm like, Oh man.

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And that's what gives me pause when

I want to give up a book halfway.

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Cause I'm thinking, man, this isn't really

serving my needs, but I want to persist

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because maybe they say something that.

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Just that one thing where I'm like,

okay, this is worth it for that thing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Thanks for coming on that sidebar

with us, but let's jump back in.

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No, it's great.

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I think it's super helpful for everybody.

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Do you want me 19?

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Or if it's not tough In Durham

at 19, these are more laws

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concerning matters of justice.

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A lot of it is.

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And then the first section here

dealing with cities of refuge for the

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manslayer we've covered that before,

but here it is again for new generation.

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And then the next section dealing with

moving boundaries don't move boundaries.

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Don't move your neighbor's fence line.

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And the final section dealing

here with bearing false witness.

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And so remember, we might think we

just read this, but this is during

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the time of they're carving stone.

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To record things.

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They're not writing things down on paper.

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There's no printing press.

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There's no Torah scroll that

they're carrying around in

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each family tent at this time.

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And so that's why it was necessary.

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Number one, for parents to

pass on this information from

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generation to generation orally.

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And they were an oral culture and they

were probably way better at remembering

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and memorizing things than we are today.

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But that's why Moses needed to teach you

these things again in such repetition

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is because this was a new generation and

it's not like they could pull out their

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book of Leviticus and follow along with

Moses as he's repeating these things.

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This was fresh for a lot of them because

that older generation had died off

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and here was the younger generation

being ready to enter into the land.

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Chapter 20 then contains instructions

for the battles that Israel was

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going to have to fight against the

inhabitants of the promised land.

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And once again, the Lord clearly calls

for complete destruction of the cities and

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all who live in them, lest they be kept

alive and they would lead Israel into sin.

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So we've hit on this

recently a couple of times.

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It's worth bearing again.

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This is justice.

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Justice is What God does to these

foreign nations and these pagan nations.

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What's shocking to us is only

shocking because we have a

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misappropriation of justice.

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We think justice is God's mercy

being applied to everyone.

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No that's not mercy.

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Mercy is not getting what we deserve.

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And so by very understanding and

definition of that, what we deserve

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is what We see here and what Israel

is going to do to these nations.

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When Israel goes in and takes out

the Amalekites and the Ammonites and

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all of the other Hittites and the

Jebusites, that's what we deserve.

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And but for the grace of God, but for the

mercy of God, we don't experience that.

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And so let's not point the accusatory

finger at God and say, God, how dare you?

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Let's point the palms at the Lord

and say, Lord, Thank you so much.

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And let me praise you because of

your mercy and your grace in my life.

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I have one book

recommendation for you guys.

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And it is another Paul Copin or Copan.

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I'm not sure how to say his last

name, but the book title is, did

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God really command genocide coming

to terms with the justice of God?

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So it communicates something that you and

I have said before, which is God is just.

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And so even if he does do what we think

he's doing, commanding these things it's

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righteous of God to do those things.

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We call this idea there's a technical name

for it, but the idea is if God commands

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something it is by definition good.

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We can't say it's not good because I

wouldn't do it that way, or it's not good

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because then you would be appealing to

some standard outside of God for goodness.

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And we don't do that as Christians who

think that God himself is a definition

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of love and goodness and all things good.

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We're going to appeal to him and

say, if he says it, it's good.

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And we're going to land there at the end

of the day, but this book does a really

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good job of drawing out some of the ideas

that when we're reading these things,

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that it could be ancient near Eastern

war rhetoric that in a similar fashion,

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when you're on the hockey field or you're

on the football field or the baseball

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field, it's all, we crushed those guys.

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We destroyed them.

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We annihilated that team.

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Everybody understands that

conventionally, you're not saying

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that you literally murdered everybody.

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Or killed them, but that what you mean

to say is that it was decisive victory

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and Paul Copin and with his co author

here Matthew Flanagan They both argue

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that what they think is happening is

that God is using ancient war rhetoric to

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describe Israel's decisive victory And it

doesn't mean I guess how to describe it.

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It doesn't mean total

annihilation like we often think.

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And part of the reason why is

because later on in the book of

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top of my head here, I forget.

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But I'll bring it up.

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Maybe the next one that we talk about

this scripture says that the very same

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people that are called annihilated,

destroyed, leave nothing that breathes

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later on are shown to be alive still.

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There's still a thorn in Israel's side.

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And part of it is because

they didn't do their job.

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But the other part of it is perhaps

maybe when God does say those things

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that he's not intending to communicate

something that we typically understand.

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And again, that's convention of the time.

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That would be it's not deceptive.

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This is just the way they talked.

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This would be a natural

way to understand this.

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So all that to say, that's a

book recommendation for you guys.

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I appreciate it.

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I enjoy it.

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I'm not sure I buy it.

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I'm not sure I buy it, but I think it's

a helpful approach and considering some

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of these things that we're reading.

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Yeah, it's fascinating.

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I haven't heard that argument before.

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I guess I, I see.

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It is a, as a possibility,

I guess I'm with you.

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I probably go so far as

to say I don't buy it.

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And part of the reason is with Saul and

the Amalekites when Saul's ordered to

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kill everyone and he spares Agag and

not only spares Agag, but he spares

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the sheep and everything else as well.

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And so it's not just that he didn't

execute the king because maybe

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the response would be the king

was certainly should have died.

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If anybody should have died,

the king should have died.

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And that's what the problem was.

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However Samuel's also upset and angry

with Saul that he didn't destroy

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the sheep and the oxen and the

other peripheral elements there too.

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So it's not just that he's mad

about Agag not being destroyed.

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He's also mad that the animals

were left alive too when everything

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was to be devoted to destruction.

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So I'm sure yeah I'm sure that there

are answers to that from Copan.

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Copan's a smart guy.

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He's a friend of us.

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He's a believer and I'm sure

he's thought through those.

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We're his friends.

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I don't know.

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He would be our friend.

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Yeah, fair.

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He would call us a friend.

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He doesn't know who we are.

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Who's Pastor PJ and Rock?

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No.

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Yeah, so I guess I struggle

with it for that reason.

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I think it's more of their

disobedience than it is anything else.

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But yeah.

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Yeah, there's more to that argument.

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I just gave you the bare bones of it.

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But again, I find value in it.

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It's worth your consideration.

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My intention is to show that faithful

Bible readers can look at this

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and say, okay, is this what we?

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Is this what we think?

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We bring a lens to the scripture and

I think that's one of the hardest

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things to figure out is okay.

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Am I understanding this the right way?

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Am I understanding it the way

they would have understood it?

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And that's a good question.

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It's a great question.

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We should not take things for

granted, but we should do our

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careful study of the word.

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Yeah.

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One more note.

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I want to bring this to you guys because I

don't know if we've mentioned it recently,

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but all of our podcasts have timestamps.

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So if we have a conversation that you

don't want to be part of, usually if

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you go to the show notes, if you're

looking at a podcast player, you'll

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see our show notes and you'll see

timestamps where you can skip around

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and go to the content that you desire.

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So if you don't want to hear

a googly, you can skip it.

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Just want to remind you guys

that's available or positively.

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If we hit on something, you're

like, man, that was really good.

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I want to get back to that

and play it for somebody else.

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You can do it.

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And you have the timestamp

there to be able to do that.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let me pray and then we'll be done.

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Got things for another episode.

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Thanks for your word.

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I got to give us wisdom even as just

that last conversation We were just

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having we confess the finitude of our

understanding about things guard us from

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drawing incorrect conclusions one way

or the other we want to be Open handed

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with things we should be open handed

with and we want to not be malleable in

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the sense of not having any conviction

But we want to be humble about our

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approach to the Word of God And so always

keep us learning more and keep us As

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humble students, we pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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