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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Less Googley

00:41 Listener Question: Wedding Rings

09:52 Joshua 14

13:57 Joshua 15

16:35 Luke 4:33-44

23:38 Closing Prayer

24:13 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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What's up?

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We're back on Wednesday.

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So middle of the week, which is always

crazy 'cause we record this on Tuesday,

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which is our really kind of our first

full day in the office as a staff.

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So anytime I say it's Wednesday,

it just feels different.

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It feels like it's Wednesday already, but

I guess it is as you're listening to this.

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It's Wednesday.

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So happy Wednesday everybody.

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We're here to be your entertainment.

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Is that what we're here for?

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In part, I think a little

bit of entertainment.

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A little bit of entertainment, a

lot of bible, a lot of instruction.

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Yeah.

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That'd be a good tagline for the

podcast now with less googly Diet.

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DBR.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, we had a question written in that was

fun that we thought we would kick around.

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We were doing a little bit be, but

Pastor Rod, do you wanna set it up

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for us or do you want me to, or.

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Oh sure.

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This question has to

do with wedding rings.

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Dun dun.

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Okay, so this questioner wants

to remain anonymous, so we're

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gonna call this one Pastor Mark.

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Pastor Mark writes in, I wonder

and says, I've noticed couples both

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believing and unbelieving couples

consistently not wear their wedding rings.

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So this seems to be a pattern.

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Since God values marriage and the

wedding band, which symbolizes marriage,

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it seems to others, if you're not

wearing it, that you're not married.

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And that's a bad thing if you are married.

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So, three questions and I'll just

throw them at you and we'll try

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to tackle them as we get them.

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Here they go.

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Is it sinful to not wear your a

wedding ring or is it dishonoring to

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the Lord and your spouse when you don.

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Let's start with that one.

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I think the first thing that

we have to recognize right is

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the wedding band is cultural.

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It is something that is

a cultural norm here.

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And when you see a wedding band,

you know what it represents.

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You know what it stands for.

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You know that it represents somebody

who is taken, somebody who's married.

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And so in that sense, I

think it's a wise thing.

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I think we can all agree on that.

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It's a wise thing for you to show

those that are in the world around

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you, that you are off the market.

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That's a good thing for you to do.

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And so in that sense

it's wisdom to wear it.

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Is it sin to not wear it?

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Pastor Marks got the

answer for us on that one.

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I don't think that we can make

the argument that it is sin to

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not do the act of wearing a.

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Wedding band, wedding ring.

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Unreal says the guy with a

wedding ring on right now.

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Yes, I do think that second

question is really helpful though.

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Is it dishonoring now?

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I think that gets to the heart.

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And what is your motivation

behind wearing your wedding ring?

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And if you're not wearing it because

you treat marriage flippantly,

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or even perhaps because you want

people to think you're unmarried

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or for a variety of other reasons.

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That may be something that you're

thinking or feeling in your heart

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that could be indeed dishonoring.

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There are exceptions to that though

that I think would be totally fair,

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that are an example of a heart that

is not in sin, which perhaps, maybe

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you're, and I think this is, maybe

I'm jumping ahead to one of the other

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questions, but if you're a mechanic, they

can actually be dangerous in certain.

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Certain work fields to

wear a wedding ring, right?

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But what's the motivation

behind why you wear it or not?

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And when you choose to wear it and

when you choose not to wear it.

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That's, I think, what matters.

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So since you brought that up, I'll let

you answer this one too, pastor pj.

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But let me just add the second layer

since you already alluded to it.

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The second part of the question

is if Christian should, if you

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would encourage them to do that.

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If there are occupations or situations

like mechanics, electricians and of the

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sort, those are the, like, should they

aim to wear something like a silicone

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ring to still symbolize their mirror dry?

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I've even seen some people get

tattoos on their fingers 'cause

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they forget they lose the rings.

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So tattoos, silicone rings, what say.

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Yeah, I have no problem

with either of those things.

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I know we've got some guys in law

enforcement in our church that wear

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silicone rings because of the nature

of their job and what they're doing

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on a regular basis, and I don't

think there's any problem with that.

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Again, that's why I started by

saying this is a cultural thing.

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You're not gonna find

anywhere in scripture that.

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The wedding band is commanded the

loyalty, the fidelity to the relationship.

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Yes, a hundred percent.

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But the wedding band is something

that is, I don't know where it came

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from or where it originated, but it's

something that is extra biblical.

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When we think about what makes a

couple married, it isn't the bands

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on their hands, but we as a culture

in society have looked at those and

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said that's what the agreed upon

symbol of somebody being married is.

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So whether that's silicone or

whether that's a tattoo around

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the finger or whether that's.

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White gold, yellow gold,

whatever it is, platinum.

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I don't think the

material matters as much.

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And I know some of you probably got

married where the pastor was like that

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this is precious material and your

marriage is precious in the eyes of God.

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And so your wedding

band should be precious.

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Yeah.

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Okay, fine.

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But not everybody can for the

reasons that we've stated.

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And so I have no problem with other

materials or even a tattoo if that's

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the route somebody chooses to go.

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Yeah, and I have no problem with

other materials too, though.

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But get something that's nice.

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Again, not to contradict what

you're saying, but get the nicest

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thing that makes sense for you.

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Do you know, don't waste your money

on something twine extravagant.

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Do something that shows that you

honor the marriage to the best of your

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ability in your given circumstance.

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That's fair.

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So to those friends then who are believers

who don't wear their ring for whatever

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reason, would you advise anybody to

bring this up with them or ask them

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why they're not wearing their ring?

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Or would you just chalk this up

as this is a matter of conscience

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and I'm gonna let them do what

they're doing before the Lord?

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Yeah, I, if you've got that relationship

with them or you're building that,

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I think it's a valid question.

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If I had a friend who I knew was

married but wasn't wearing a ring,

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I would probably say, Hey, I noticed

you don't wear a wedding band.

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But I wouldn't necessarily confront

that as like, Hey, you're in sin 'cause

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you don't have your wedding band on.

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But maybe more of like a, can

you help me understand why?

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Maybe they're an undercover DEA agent

and they have to embed themselves deep

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within the narcotic gangs and they

don't wanna let people know that they're

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married so they don't wear a ring.

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Maybe that's why.

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That could be it.

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Or maybe they've got another

reason why, who knows.

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But I think there's, it's fair to have

the question asked of that person.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Alright I'll just add one text here

and I'm going to tell you ahead of

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time, this was a little bit of a

stretch, but I work with me here

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and see if this fits you for size.

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When Paul, no pun intended.

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When Paul writes to.

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In church at Corinth in chapter 11,

he says, A man ought not to cover

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his head since he is the image and

glory of God, but the woman should.

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In verse eight, he says, for man was

not made from woman, but woman from man.

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And neither was man.

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Created for woman, but woman for man.

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Okay, so this is all stuff

you might already know.

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The woman is called to wear

a head covering and the man

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isn't called to do that.

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But notice the.

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The rationale that Paul offers in

verse 10, he says, this is why.

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That's why a why fought to have

a symbol of authority on her

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head because of the angels.

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Now, what he means by the angelic

host, watching and observing, I,

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okay, you can, there's room for debate

there about what he exactly means,

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but I just wanna point out here I.

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He says it's good for the wife to wear

a symbol of authority on her head,

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symbol of authority and that headscarf

that she wore on her head was a way

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for her to communicate to others,

including the angels who are watching the

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church with interest about her status.

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And I think that's important enough for

me to say our culture doesn't use any

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headgear to represent our marital status.

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We use rings and that's what we've

chosen to do, and that's fine.

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There's nothing inherently

righteous or unrighteous about

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it, but that's what we do.

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And so I would say based on one

Corinthians 11 verse 10, I think there's

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room for us to prescribe adopting the

symbols of authority that our culture

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recognizes as being fit for marriage.

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And with that said, I think it would

be worth talking to your friends and

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say, Hey tell me about your marriage.

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How are things going?

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Why don't you wear a red wing?

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I would meddle.

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I know part of my job is to meddle.

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That's what God has told me to

do as a pastor, but as a friend.

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If I had a friend who came to me and

said, Hey, I noticed that you don't

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wear your red, your wedding, man,

this is, say that 10 times fast.

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If they came to me and said that

I probably, for whatever reason,

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if I wasn't I should address that.

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It's an important thing.

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So I think it's important enough.

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What would you guys say to first

Corinthians 11 in my use of that?

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I know that's kind, again,

kind of left field, but I, the

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connection in my mind makes sense.

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Would you guys push back on that at all?

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My only question would

be then is the ring.

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Would you argue for the necessity

of the ring for the woman, but

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not for the man, based on that?

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No.

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No.

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Well, again, because of the cultural

expectations, the woman was under

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obligation to wear it, not him.

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Right?

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And Paul says, I support that.

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The man doesn't do this because

of his con connection with God,

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his role, and the woman does.

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But in our culture, the

authority extends both ways.

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The authority of, well, the ring the

symbolic value of the ring, I should say.

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Yeah.

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Not the authority.

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The symbolic value of

the ring works both ways.

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If it was true that only

a woman wore a ring.

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And to show her connection to marriages.

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And I would say, okay, yeah.

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Then that's the case.

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But in our culture, the male and

the female wear the ring such that

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anyone who sees it on your hand knows

this is the status of the person.

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Well, and even on the authority part,

I went to, in, in my mind, at least

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in one Corinthians seven, when the

Apostle Paul talks about the husband's

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body doesn't belong to himself.

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Oh, that's a good one in the wife's

body doesn't belong to herself.

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That's, but they belong

for the other person.

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Wedding band is a symbol

to society at large.

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My body even is the property

of my wife, of my spouse.

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Right.

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And vice versa.

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So in that sense, it is a symbol

of authority, I think both ways.

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Even for the sexual

intimacy of a relationship.

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That's a good point, good connection.

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I think we should use non-verbal

things to communicate to the people

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around us, the things we hold dearly

and the things we hold important.

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Yeah.

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And I think in our moment, that may

mean a wedding band and I think.

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That application of this passage,

although I do think it's, you haven't

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thought about it in that way before.

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I do think you're onto something

there because what Paul is calling

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them to do is to communicate with

nonverbal things about truths that

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they hold to be very important to

them and that reflect biblical truth.

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And so I do think we should pursue

the ways that we can do that.

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In 2026 in a similar way.

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Yeah.

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Good question.

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Yep.

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Anonymous person?

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Yep.

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Pastor Mark.

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Pastor Mark.

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Good question.

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Did we answer it sufficiently for you?

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C minus.

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Okay.

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C minus.

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Yikes.

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That's a hard, it's a hard standard.

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I also answered it, so I

guess I'm including myself.

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That's true.

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That's true.

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Alright, let's jump into our

DBR today, Joshua 14 and 15, and

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Luke chapter 4, 33 through 44.

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So Joshua 14.

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In these verses, we begin to get

into, here's the allotment of the

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promised land in 14, one through

five, it summarizes how the promised

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land was to be divided amongst the

rest of the nine and a half tribes.

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Why nine and a half?

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Because two and a half were

in possession of land over on

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the other side of the Jordan.

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And so this is the allotment

of the remainder of the

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promised land territory here.

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Verses six through 15, we get a zoomed

in vignette here of Caleb, 'cause

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Caleb comes forward to ask for the

land that he was promised by Moses.

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Moses told Caleb, you will get your

own share because of his faithfulness

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and because he was not one of the

spies that denied God's initial

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entre to take the promised land.

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And so Caleb comes to, to claim

his inheritance and it says there

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that he was 80 years old there and

it says he was as strong as he was

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when he went to go spy out the land.

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So either he was a pretty frail

40-year-old, or he's a pretty

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robust 80-year-old, which I lean

more towards that one for sure.

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I think one thing we cannot miss here

is that very last verse, and in fact the

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very last sentence of chapter 14, which

says, and the land had rest for war.

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I think what we're seeing here

with Caleb and is that he's doing

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what was supposed to be done.

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Right.

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He was obedient to God and he received

his inheritance and received peace, right?

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He received the kind of fullness of what

had been promised, and we're not gonna

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quite see that necessarily play out to be

the case with the other land allotments.

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Yeah.

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It's really cool that at 85 years old,

this man is still vigorously pursuing

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the Lord's will and the Lord's promises.

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And again, I'm encouraged

by this and I'm not 85 yet.

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But I, I hope to be at some

point older than I am now,

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and I don't want to slow down.

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I don't want to grow lazy or complacent.

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I don't want to grow faithless.

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I've noticed that for people

that get older, sometimes it

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feels like people check out.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I'm afraid of that.

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Mm-hmm.

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I'm afraid of checking out and

saying, well, I've done my time.

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I'm going to coast, or I'm

gonna cruise because I've put

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in all that I should put in.

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I've done my fair share and I think.

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Caleb gives me a motivation and an

example to follow that says, look

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I want to clock out when the Lord

clocks me out, and I don't wanna stop

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running, even if I'm running slower

than I used to, than I was at 40.

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I wanna make sure that I'm still running

when the Lord calls my number, so you

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can, you're not gonna retire someday.

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Retirement's off the table for you.

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Honestly, I've thought about that.

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I wouldn't want to.

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I'm doing my dream job.

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So I guess what would have to happen

is the pastors that I'm working with

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would have to say, Hey, bro, for

the good of everybody, please stop.

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Well, I do think there comes a

point when that may be the case.

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Yes.

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And I don't think, I think you

should be looking for that.

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And other people, that's bold.

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You just told.

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You just answered.

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That may come.

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He was just like, the pastor's

gonna have to tell me.

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You need to stop, get

everybody else jumps in.

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Pastor Rod, we have need to

tell you that time is coming.

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It's going to come, it's going.

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No, no, no.

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For everybody though, as we get older,

there's gonna come a point where you.

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Aren't as helpful.

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Right.

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I remember growing up, my grandmother

used to drive us around and help my mom.

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Yeah.

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With getting us to this

event and that event.

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Well, she started running into things.

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Right.

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And because she couldn't see, she

couldn't operate the car as well.

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And so there came a point when it wasn't

helpful anymore just because of her

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age, just because of her mental acuity.

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And my parents had to say, okay,

we're not gonna, you're not

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gonna drive the car anymore.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right.

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You're not gonna take the kids around.

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And I do think that's the

case, even despite every.

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Every wish we may have.

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Yeah.

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Our brains are going to

stop working as well.

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Bodies are gonna stop working as well, and

there may become a point when I think it's

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very much the case for many people when

we do need to retire in some sense, yes.

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But I think the American.

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Idealized retirement where

you, go collecting seashells.

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Yeah, playing shuffleboard.

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That's, I don't think that's

a biblical perspective on what

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retirement ought to look like.

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Tesla's gonna gimme a way to

get around, even when I'm 85.

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That's true.

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If I live that long, the Lord's gonna

let me have a Tesla so I can get around

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to all my obligations without having to

run into anything or anyone God willing.

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One.

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Chapter 15, we get Judah's

inheritance laid out here, and so

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there's a lot of geographic regions.

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We recommended a couple of atlases,

Bible atlases a couple of weeks ago.

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You can use those in concert with

looking at this inheritance and where

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the territory and where the tribal

lats are and even drawing on there.

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But you'll notice in the midst of

the tribe of Judah in the ju Judean

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territory here the chapter ends

with a reference to the Jebe sites,

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again, the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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They're still there.

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The people did not drive them out.

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They're gonna be there all the

way into the time of King David.

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So they're still here.

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This is one of the failures of the.

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The Israelites as they're

coming into the promised land.

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We're gonna read a lot here.

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But they didn't drive this group out.

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They didn't drive this group out.

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They didn't drive this group out.

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And the JE sites, which

Jerusalem, they're one of them.

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Yeah.

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And I think, and I know I just said it,

but that's the contrast I think that

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we're supposed to see when we hear the

inheritance that was given to Caleb

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and it says the land had rest for more.

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But here right, we see the very

specific call out that they did

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not do as they were supposed to do.

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They did not.

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Obey the Lord.

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They did not drive out the dey.

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And the hint here is that

this is gonna cause trouble.

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This is one of those things

where I find this encouraging.

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This isn't this, despite the

fact that this is a discouraging

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pattern that we're seeing.

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It tells me that God makes promises

that he wants us to fight to receive.

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I think that is so cool, and I'm excited

because then that tells me a lot of the

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things that are in the New Testament.

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The promise is that

God gives us for peace.

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For instance, Philippians four the

God of peace will, protect your

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mind and your heart in Christ Jesus.

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Those are conditional promises

that God wants us to pursue.

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They come in part by our salvation,

but it's almost like salvation gives us

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access into the mansion, but you still

have to walk to the room and open the

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door and sit on the bed or whatever else.

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I'm stretching this metaphor in ways

that aren't unhelpful, but I think

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it's important for Christians to see

that and join the blessings that God

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gives us often means we fight for them.

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Would you guys agree with that?

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Am I off base here?

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Okay.

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That's a long pause.

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No, we're gonna cut all that out.

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No, I'm trying to think.

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I think there's, yes, because there's

friction towards those things, right?

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There's friction even from our flesh

in wanting things that aren't part

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of the blessings that God has for us.

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And so I think to lay hold of some of the

blessings that God has for us involves

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even a fighting of our sinful nature.

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Battling of the sinful nature, right?

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So there's inherently going

to be a battle there to.

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Obtain the blessings that he has for us.

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That's right.

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And I don't think that changes

under the new covenant.

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In fact, if anything it broadens and

it becomes dipper deeper and richer.

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Or dipper, if you want to cut the

words, then put them together that deep.

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Yeah.

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Dipper too.

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They become dipper and more

exciting because the blessings

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that are promised to us are greater

than that of the old covenant.

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They're getting land, but

we've got so much more.

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We have a promised land and a

future land to enjoy with Christ.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's jump over to the New

Testament and we're gonna be in Luke

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chapter four, verses 33 through 44.

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And I mentioned, I think in yesterday's

episode we were in Mark chapter one,

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and a little bit is, but this is

really where Mark opens his gospel.

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So Luke, were four chapters in here

because we've got the birth account.

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But this is what's going on.

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Jesus is going to initially be in

Capernaum here, which again, if you

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go there today, you've heard me say

it before, there's a big sign on

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the gate at Capernaum, even today.

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This is Jesus town because this was

home base for Jesus during his earthly

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ministry, and we see that right here.

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He's gonna launch from here.

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In fact, he's gonna reference

Simon's mother-in-law.

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He's gonna enter into

Simon's mother-in-law.

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House Simon's mother-in-law, which

implies by the way, that Simon Peter,

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the first Pope, according to the Catholic

church, had a wife who was married.

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And yet apparently the rest of the

popes and priests, they don't get to

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have that privilege, but Peter did.

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So Jesus is gonna stay there.

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And a lot of people think this was

where Jesus lived during his time

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in Galilee, in that region, was

he stayed in a spare room there.

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In Simon's house he's

gonna do some healing.

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He's casting out demons.

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He's causing people to be in awe of him.

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And I think that's the big takeaway

from this section of Luke is Jesus

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is hitting the ground running and

people are immediately just caught

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up in their their attention by

who he is and what he's doing.

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And not just who he is and what he's

doing, but what he's preaching to.

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He's preaching in a way that

they've never heard before.

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They're amazed, they're astonished,

they're odd, and he's got the

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acts to back it up as well.

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I have a comment and a question.

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I'll start with a comment 'cause it would

be weird to start with the question.

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'cause then I'd be like, hold on

guys, I wanna add a comment first.

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Okay.

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My first comment is simply that in

verse 39, when Peter's mother-in-law

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is healed, she immediately

rose and began to serve them.

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And I think that's really fun to

look at because it tells me that.

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By and large, the way that

God works is that he saves us

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in order for us to serve him.

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He does things for us in

order for us to use us.

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Very things that he gives us and

service to him and to the people around.

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And so as soon as she's healed,

she gets up and gets to work.

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And I grant you, there is a

different expectation of the

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women at this point in time.

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This was completely within the

bounds of what was expected.

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But on the other hand.

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And Jesus saving her or relieving

her from her illness, postures her to

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say, great, thank you for doing that.

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Not so I can rest and go lay

down in my room and hang out.

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I'm gonna get to work and use the gifts

that God has given to serve others.

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And I think that's something that

we can still learn from and God

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saves us so that we can serve him.

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How are you doing that today?

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Secondly a question.

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Oh, I thought that was your question.

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No.

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Yeah.

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Guys, you're trying to get rid of me.

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Pastor Mark.

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How are you serving him today?

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No, the question is, why does it

seem in the New Testament when you

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read, there's demons on every page?

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There's demonic hoards

all over the places.

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Demon demons being sent into

pigs and thrown off a cliffs.

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There's demons here.

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As Jesus is preaching, they come

out of nowhere it seems like.

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And yet today when you go around to

people's houses and you, visit them

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for pastoral counseling or they come

into the office, I don't think that

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most of them are demon possessed.

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Could be wrong.

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Why don't we see as much demon

possession and demon interaction today

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than what we used to see in Jesus Day?

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I think the enemy has a

different tactic for us today.

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I think that the pride and the arrogance

of the post-enlightenment society and

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culture being driven by intellect and

being driven by the left side of our

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brains more often than anything else,

has put us in a position where he's

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caused us to overcome the concept

of faith through our minds and our

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intellect, and in rational arguments

and reasonable arguments as the world

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would call them, rather than mm-hmm.

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Opposition through demonic

oppression and possession.

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And I would say there's probably just

as much demonic influence in those

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things as there was back here in this.

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I think there's demonic

influence in atheism and in

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the false religions of our day.

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And it may not be the possession of the

man being thrown down on the ground and

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convulsing in front of us, but I think we

do encounter demonic presence more often

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than we realize that we do in our society.

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I think that's exactly right.

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The other thing I would add

is that Jesus is on the scene

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though, and this is something new.

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This is something new for all of

humanity, but it's also something

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new for the demonic forces.

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Mm-hmm.

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And for Satan, this is the incarnate

Christ who is on the scene literally.

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And I think that may attribute

to some of the reasons why we

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see some of this stuff going on.

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Yeah.

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Even in our passage today, right.

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The demons also came out.

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Of many crying, you are the son of God.

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So they know.

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It's not that they don't know, it's not

that this surprises them necessarily,

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but there is, I think, heightened.

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Activity.

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That's a, that's too simplistic

of a word, but heightened activity

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because of what Jesus means.

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So the idea of all hell breaking

loose when Jesus shows up.

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Yeah.

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I wouldn't use that term, but Sure.

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Why not?

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Well, I mean it, it's appropriate here.

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I'm cussing.

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No, no, no, no.

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I'm just, I'm saying I wouldn't

have thought to use that term.

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Oh, okay.

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This isn't gonna go on

my review some sense.

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I think that's true.

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Yeah.

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That you're talking about

trying to get rid of me during

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the podcast you were cussing?

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No.

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Okay.

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So that's helpful insight.

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Pastor Pja, you said you still think

it's prevalent in a different form.

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Yeah.

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Do you think then that there's any.

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Role or opportunity for things

like deliverance ministries

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to still exist in some form.

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In other words, if they are active

normally today we don't say I in the

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name of Jesus Christ, I cast you out.

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Mm-hmm.

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There are people who do that still.

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Mm-hmm.

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And they go to haunted houses

or houses where there's some

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kind of demonic activity and

they do stuff like that still.

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Should we engage in anything like that?

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Or if there is anything that we're, we

think maybe there is someone that is

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demon possessed or we're concerned that

maybe the bump in the night is more

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than just the creaking of an old house.

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What do you suggest we do with that?

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I think prayer is our biggest weapon and

whether it's a formalized ministry or

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not, I think my concern with formalized

ministry we begin to look for demons

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under every rock in every corner.

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I think when we encounter things that are.

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Inexplicable are things that we have

at least the genuine concern over.

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I think there's reason to say with

James, let 'em call for the elders.

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Let 'em pray for them.

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And I think there's room for us to

do those things, to pray for those

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in the church that might either be

oppressed if they're a believer.

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'cause we don't believe believers

are gonna be possessed, but

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oppressed could be possible.

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Be it the environment or something

else is happening or whatever.

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I think there's room for

that a hundred percent.

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I think when we do evangelism with

somebody who is lost if you're talking

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and witnessing to a Hindu or to a Muslim,

you could argue in some ways that you're

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talking to somebody who is possessed

by the demon of that religion, and so

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you are doing battle, even demonically

there against spiritual forces trying

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to get them and call them outta that

darkness into the light of the gospel.

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I think one of the challenges we face

is that because of the prevalence of

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very strong narcotics and drugs that

are available, I think sometimes it's

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hard to distinguish between what is

the effect of natural substances.

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And what is demonic?

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And I'm actually gonna suggest

that's probably part of the reason

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why Satan chooses to not do as much

demon possession today because it's

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already kind of occurring without

even his direct intervention.

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Fascinating.

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Thank you gentlemen.

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Those are acceptable answers.

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Better than a C minus.

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What would you give us?

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What would you give us?

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That was a good B minus.

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Getting better as the podcast goes on.

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Alright, well we're gonna wrap up the

podcast with prayer and then we will

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we'll catch you guys again tomorrow.

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Let's pray.

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Lord, give us wisdom even as we've

been talking through some of these

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issues in this episode, there's

things that we need discernment.

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We need the ability to know what

is biblical and what is a biblical.

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Implication or something that we

should take from the scriptures

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and apply it in different ways, and

so we pray that we would do that.

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Well, we thank you for your word that

guides us towards that end in the spirit

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that dwells within us to help us as well.

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We pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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