Shownotes
Balancing Faith and Humor: Daily Bible Study and Improv
In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss the importance of being quick on your feet and adding humor to their Bible podcast, inspired by one host's background in improvisational comedy. They delve into the significance of baseball's opening day and the controversial choice of playing the first games of the season in Japan. The core of the episode addresses the challenges of reading seemingly tedious Bible passages and offers practical tips to find relevance and maintain engagement. The hosts emphasize the importance of all scripture, discussing its proportional relevance to Christians today. They conclude with insights into the allotment of land in Joshua 16-18 and its deeper theological implications.
00:00 Welcome to the Daily Bible Podcast
00:08 Improv Comedy and Podcasting
00:54 Baseball Season and Opening Day
03:06 Serious Bible Questions
03:25 Understanding Difficult Bible Passages
07:47 The Relevance of All Scripture
10:13 Land Inheritance in Joshua
14:55 Closing Thoughts and Prayer
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Transcripts
hey, everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:What's up, y'all?
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:Does that satisfy you that's better?
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:That, because now I can say it's Thursday.
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:Okay.
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:You need to be able to
think on your feet, buddy.
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:I, you do that.
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:I know that a good, here's the thing.
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:I in high school, I did com not comedy
sports, but improvisational comedy.
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:So much fun.
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:I think you and I should practice more of
that because then it'll make you sharper.
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:You'll be able to think on your feet
a little more quickly and add some
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:funny syllogisms here and there.
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:It'll be wonderful.
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:People will love it.
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:They will eat it up.
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:I think they would like it.
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:Yeah.
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:So what we'll do then is we'll
practice some improv games before
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:we podcast and we'll see if it
makes any difference on the show.
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:Yeah.
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:Morgan Young, I join us there.
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:Go.
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:I know for a fact he'd, before
that he was an acting major.
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:That's right.
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:He was.
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:Yeah.
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:Can't you tell I No, you can't
tell because he's that good.
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:He's that good.
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:Hopefully he's not acting like
with the major parts though
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:that he has in his life.
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:Just the minor roles.
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:Just the minor stuff.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Anyways.
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:Yeah, Thursday, it's it's
Ranger's opening day.
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:This is a national holiday.
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:Yay.
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:Yeah, whatever.
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:Go away, man.
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:This is a good day.
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:Baseball's back games actually count.
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:I know the Dodgers played in Japan,
but those games didn't really count.
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:Because it was like, I didn't
know they played Japan.
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:Yeah, they did.
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:They went over there and they played,
I can't even remember who they played.
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:That's how thrilling the games were.
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:But they played in, but that's
where we got Shhe from, right?
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:Yeah.
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:They played the Cubs.
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:That's who it was.
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:But baseball is America's pastime
and the fact that they have the first
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:games of the season in Japan is.
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:It's wrong.
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:It's morally wrong.
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:Unless you're trying to expand the
influence and the impact of baseball.
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:In which case then it seems right.
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:Play games over there.
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:That's fine.
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:Don't play opening weekend over there.
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:Opening weekend belongs here.
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:It's America's pastime.
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:This is our game.
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:Wait, do those games count?
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:They do.
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:They do count.
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:They do count.
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:No way.
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:Yes, they do count.
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:Oh, that's just a slap
in the face then, right?
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:See, now you're on the same page with me.
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:No, I'm not opposed to them
playing games in Japan, but.
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:Start the season in America.
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:Wait, so if that team beat them,
that would count on their score.
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:They didn't play a Japanese team.
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:They played the Chicago Cubs.
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:What?
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:Yes.
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:Yes.
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:Now you see, you're kidding.
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:Nope.
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:This is egregious.
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:It is egregious.
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:Thank you.
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:I am livid.
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:You know what?
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:I can see you're, here's
what I'm gonna do.
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:I'm not even gonna watch
opening day baseball.
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:This is a huge sacrifice.
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:A huge sacrifice.
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:I can't believe you're willing to make it.
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:I'm not gonna go to any games this season.
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:You silver.
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:No.
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:You'll go to one, you'll go to June 13th.
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:We going, that's the exception.
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:Yeah.
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:Every other game.
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:I'm not gonna even watch it.
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:Yeah.
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:I won't even entertain the idea.
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:Alright.
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:Alright.
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:I, that's a bold man.
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:I feel so bad.
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:My heart breaks for you.
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:'cause I know how much you love
watching Baseball Nation fills my soul.
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:I can tell.
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:I can tell.
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:Anyways.
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:Yeah, no.
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:June 13th, we're going as a church
to watch the Texas Rangers play
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:the Chicago White Sox, and so
hopefully you will join us for that.
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:We did that last year.
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:No, the White Sox?
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:No.
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:So they have a chance of winning then?
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:They should, yeah.
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:Okay.
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:That's exciting, man.
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:I'm.
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:I don't knock on wood or anything
else like that, so I'm hesitant
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:to even say anything like this.
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:But the, I think this
is the particle board.
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:I don't think this is wood.
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:There you go.
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:The people the people that know
about what they're talking about
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:they're saying the Rangers should
have a pretty good year this year.
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:So I'm excited.
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:How dare you say that out loud.
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:I'm excited.
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:You might as well just
curse every they have.
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:I did.
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:I did.
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:Yeah.
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:You've offended everybody's sensibilities.
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:Yep.
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:Yep.
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:That's okay.
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:That's okay.
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:Alright.
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:Enough of baseball.
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:We have some serious Bible questions here.
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:Let's talk about Bible.
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:Alright, so I've been talking to
people and people have been begging me.
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:Everybody's been asking to ask you
some really important questions, okay?
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:And they're pretty open
and they're transparent.
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:So I'm just gonna throw this out there,
and if you're offended by the question,
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:hopefully you feel the heart behind it.
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:We're trying to get down to
the bottom of some things.
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:Yep.
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:So question number one.
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:Sometimes when you read through the Bible,
you can, you talked about this yesterday.
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:You read the proverbs and you're
like, oh, this is so good.
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:I needed to hear that.
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:Yeah.
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:That reaches my soul.
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:I'm touched, I'm changed.
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:I understand how this works completely.
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:And then you read some parts of Joshua.
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:Yep.
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:And you're finding yourself
saying is, man, it just seems
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:like that was not really helpful.
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:And dare I say, even boring.
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:I'm bored by what the Bible's
having me read here, and it
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:seems to play no role in my life.
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:So please talk to the Christian
who just read their Bible this
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:morning and said, this is boring.
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:Yeah.
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:I don't know what to do with that.
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:Are they not a Christian anymore?
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:Completely.
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:Yep.
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:Yep.
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:You're gone.
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:Sorry.
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:You're out.
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:Yikes.
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:If you've ever been bored
by the Bible, yikes.
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:No, I sympathize with that.
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:There are difficult sections to read.
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:You read through this and it's
the border went from here.
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:It went to there, it went from here,
it went to there, and this tribe
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:took this, and this tribe took that.
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:It's if, yeah, if we're gonna
be frank, if we're gonna be
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:honest with each other or pj.
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:Don't be frank, or if
I'm gonna be pastor pj.
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:Yeah.
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:There's portions of scripture that we come
to and we read and we're like, this is
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:it's struggling to maintain my attention.
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:I and if you do your daily
Bible reading in the evening,
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:your eyelids are getting heavy.
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:They're drooping you're
nodding off to sleep.
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:It's not.
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:Capturing your, it's not
stirring your affections.
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:You're just reading these geographic
place names going, okay, Lord,
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:what am I supposed to do with this?
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:And this just, it's hard to get through
because I lose, especially since we're
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:not familiar with these things, right?
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:These are areas of land
that we don't know.
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:So a couple suggestions.
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:Number one, if you can read
through these sections with.
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:A Bible atlas with a a.
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:We, I think we recommended a couple last
year, but even the ESV study Bible has
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:got some maps that will show you the
promised land and you can read and look
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:visually at where these locations are
and go, okay, these are real places.
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:This really matters.
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:So that's one thing.
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:Number two I think it's if
you've ever been around somebody
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:else's family and they're looking
through old family pictures.
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:And you're sitting there going,
oh, I'm glad you guys are remem
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:reliving all your memories, but
I'm bored as watching paint dry.
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:Listening to you guys talk about how
great that vacation was with all of
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:you and how cute Timmy used to be.
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:And the reason being, 'cause
you're not a part of that family.
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:If you're a part of that family,
you love those memories and you
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:love looking back at those photos
because they're part of who you are.
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:They're part of your lineage,
they're part of your history, your
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:tradition and everything else.
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:I think we need that mindset when we come
to reading these sections of scripture.
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:If we can read saying, okay,
God, this is part of your people.
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:And there are people that are involved
in this who I will spend eternity with.
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:I'm not Israel and I'm not an
Israelite, but there are believers,
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:there are those that are part of
the Abrahamic blessing here, that
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:are, I'm gonna spend eternity with.
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:I'm gonna be on the
new Earth with someday.
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:And this is part of their history.
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:Their hi.
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:Their lineage, their background.
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:Not to mention this is dealing with
the land that you've set out to be
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:your land, your promised land, the
land that you chose to set your seal
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:upon, so to speak and the land that
contains Jerusalem and where Christ will
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:reign during the millennial kingdom.
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:I, if we can remind ourselves of
some of the bigger picture items
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:that's gonna help us get through
some of the weeds, so to speak, that
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:can at times come across as boring.
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:I want to add one quick thing into that.
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:The more you know, the more you see.
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:If you think about professional
let's say announcers on it,
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:we're talking about baseball.
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:You hear the baseball guys
talking baseball on the radio,
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:and they're describing everything
that's happening in the play.
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:I could be sitting there right behind
the dugout and I can be watching the
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:same thing, and I will see you one.
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:I don't know, 100th of what
a sports announcer can see.
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:He sees everything.
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:He sees the intricacies, he sees
the guy that's leading off a second,
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:he sees the, the curve of the ball.
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:He see, he's just seeing all
these pieces and they fit together
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:marvelously for the novice.
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:I see.
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:I see things, but even what I see is
confusing and it's I didn't see that.
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:I didn't see who he's, who's
leading off, where is that?
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:What does that number mean?
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:What does that stat mean?
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:Everything's confusing, and that,
that might be where you are at.
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:The more you know, the more you can
see and what you have to do with texts
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:like these is just be patient that
you're putting into the repository
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:of your soul information and data
that will help you see much more of
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:scripture as you study it and read it.
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:So stay the course and recognize
this is part of the learning process.
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:The more you know, the more you can see.
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:Right now, you might not see a whole lot,
but if you're a careful reader of the
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:scriptures, there's a lot to see here.
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:There's cues and subtleties in
it that you just, you learn to
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:see over the course of time.
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:So be patient with the
process and enjoy the process.
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:But I have one more
follow-up question for you.
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:PPJI heard someone say once and this is
a controversial statement, I'm just gonna
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:tell you now, so if you get triggered
easily, I just want you to know this,
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:you might get triggered on this one.
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:Here's the question.
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:Is it true that all scripture is inspired?
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:All scripture is equally inspired, but
not all Scripture is equally relevant.
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:What?
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:How dare they?
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:I'm so triggered right now.
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:I could tell the vein in your
forehead is just throbbing.
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:I leaned back so that it
didn't come across so loudly.
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:I did though.
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:Man, I.
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:Huh?
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:Proportionately, I would say yes.
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:Yeah.
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:Gasp, shock.
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:Case in point, right?
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:Jeremiah 29 11, how dare you.
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:Let's take that one.
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:I'm still mad, Jeremiah 29 11
for, I know the planes I have for
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:you, declares the Lord, planes
to prosper you for your welfare.
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:That nest, nothing should
harm you, so forth and so on.
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:People get that painted above their
kitchen doors and, stencil above their
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:beds and everything else like that.
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:That is a verse for Israel.
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:That's not a verse for the church.
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:And so that's why I say it's.
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:Proportionately more relevant for the
Israelite reading that verse as it
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:was originally written, than it is for
you and I reading that verse today.
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:That doesn't apply to the church today.
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:There is, there, is there
still some relevance to us?
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:Yeah, there's still some relevance to us.
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:It, it has a, an impact on how we read
Israel into what God's doing currently
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:with the world's plan and program.
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:It has a, a.
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:Impact on our understanding of God's
character, that God is a God of grace
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:and mercy, and compassion and love and
he does things that people don't deserve.
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:And we can read that into that.
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:But is that as relevant to
us as some of Paul's writings
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:to the church in Ephesians?
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:I would say Ephesians one is far
more significant for you as if you're
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:looking for hope in a sure future.
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:Ephesians one is far more relevant for you
than Jeremiah 29 11 is relevant for you.
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:Both are equally
authoritative as scripture.
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:Both are fully inspired by God.
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:Jeremiah 29 11 is not less Bible than
Ephesians one is, but based on who we are
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:in our period of time in our dispensation,
they're gonna have a different degree
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:of relevance for us, one over the other.
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:So as imaginary Christian will say, that's
why I only read the New Testament 'cause
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:the Old Testament is irrelevant for me.
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:And I didn't say that I didn't
say it's devoid of relevance.
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:I said there, it's proportionately, right?
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:And so if you completely unhitch
yourself from the Old Testament and
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:don't spend time in the Old Testament,
you're robbing yourself of a fully
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:orbed understanding of who God is.
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:God reveals himself in the Old
Testament as much as he reveals
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:himself in the New Testament.
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:And so as good berean and students and
those that love the Lord, we need a
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:fully informed, a fully, a fully orbed
picture of who God is and you can't
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:get that if you don't have the Old
Testament and the New Testament together.
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:That's a great response.
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:Thank you very much, Joshua 16 through 18.
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:Then as we get into this Yeah,
read it carefully and the more
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:you know the more you'll notice I.
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:And and so in Joshua 16 and 17
we've got land for Eum and Manas.
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:And so in John six, Joshua 16,
four you've got Joseph named here.
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:And Joseph is named as, these
were his sons whom Jacob adopted.
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:So he is dealing with Eum
and Manas and we've gotta go
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:back to our time in Genesis.
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:Joseph had his two sons, ere and Manas.
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:Adopted by Jacob.
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:And so that's why they're
here getting tribal land.
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:They were part of then Jacob's
inheritance or they benefited from
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:the inheritance of Jacob there.
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:That's Joshua 16 four Joseph
shows up there Joshua 17, 12.
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:The people here are unable to
take possession of some of the
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:cities and that's worth note.
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:When they were strong enough, they
didn't drive them out, but made
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:them their servants and that's.
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:Because of their disobedience
to God's command here.
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:This is not because God failed.
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:This is a failure of the people there.
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:And so in, in chapter 16 and 17, we're
taking land for Ephraim and Manas.
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:I take special notice of the fact that
they gave a reason, a really good reason
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:for why they chose not to obey God.
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:They say here in verse
16, the Hill countries.
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:Enough is not enough for us yet.
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:All the Canaanites who dwell on the
plane have chariots of iron, and Joshua
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:basically says, Hey, good excuse, but
not really, because he says in verse
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:18, you shall drive out the Canaanites.
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:Though they have chariots of iron
and though they are strong, I want
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:you to notice a couple things here.
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:Number one.
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:All sin has really good excuses behind
it, especially the sins that that
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:they're particularly compelling to
you for one reason or another to obey
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:God or disobey God or rather to not
do something that God told you to do.
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:There's always gonna be
a good justification.
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:I can, God, this is too hard.
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:This is too, this is requires
too much, or whatever it is.
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:We might be a lot like Ephrem and say
this is too hard for these good reasons.
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:There's good reasons here.
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:And God still says no, even
though you have good reasons
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:through the lips of Joshua.
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:He says you're still going to,
you're gonna drive them out and
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:you're gonna do it even though
they have superior weaponry.
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:And even though they
have superior strength.
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:Always recognize that God
might put you in a situation
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:where the odds are against you.
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:And the reason why is because he's
doing all things for his glory.
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:He doesn't want you to come out the
other end and say, man, I'm amazing.
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:Can't believe how smart I am.
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:Can't believe how strong I am, or how
skillful my tactics are, and God intended
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:for them to go against a superior foe.
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:In order to show that he's a
superior God, keep that in mind
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:when you face the next temptation
or trial that comes to you today,
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:tomorrow, or in the next 10 minutes.
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:Yeah that's great.
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:That's, we're talking about that a little
bit on, on Sunday because in John 18,
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:11 10 and 11 Peter pulls out a sword
and attacks the servant on the high
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:priest, and Jesus heals the servant.
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:And I think one of the things that God
is showing in that whole interaction
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:is, Hey, I don't need your help.
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:Right now, like you need to be in a
situation of trusting me of depending on
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:me and not depending on yourself here.
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:And sometimes, yeah.
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:We're put in situations where we're
like, we can't see our way out of this.
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:We wanna try.
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:And a lot of times when we try, just
like Peter, we end up screwing things up
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:rather than helping God out in helping
us get out of a particular situation.
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:Because he wants the glory.
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:That's right.
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:That's not a let go, let
God mentality, by the way.
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:We'll talk about that.
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:Too different.
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:Yeah, different.
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:Alright.
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:Joshua 18, then the rest of the
land verses two through three.
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:Joshua confronts the seven remaining
tribes for not taking possession
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:of the land that God had given him.
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:He's saying, Hey, what?
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:What are you doing?
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:It's time we're here.
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:Let's go let's get settled.
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:Verses four through 10.
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:Then Joshua has men go to record
what the land was like describing
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:the cities and the towns.
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:And then Joshua casts lots for these
people and divides them these towns
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:rather, and divides them amongst
the people that are remaining
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:there versus then 11 through 28.
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:We find Benjamin's inheritance given
for us towards the end of the chapter,
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:but again, this is a lot of this
boundary, this territory, this city.
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:If nothing else, I, I think a
good starting place is, oh, read
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:it with your Bible atlas open.
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:Look at where these town names
are when you can find them.
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:If you've got logos,
that's a great resource.
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:You can even look 'em up on a fact book.
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:Say, do I know anything in the fact book?
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:Do I have any resources about this town?
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:Or about this tribe?
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:Even if you wanna find out more
information about one of these
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:tribes who was Asher, I want to
find out more about Asher and you
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:can do some research there on it.
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:Super helpful resource for you.
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:Yeah.
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:I guess one quick tidbit here
is that you'll notice that the
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:people of Israel are now moving
their religious center to Shiloh.
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:Shiloh is gonna be one of the places
that they operate from, and that's
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:where the Tabernas gonna be erected.
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:This is gonna play a large role after
we make our way through the prophets.
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:Shiloh is gonna be one of those
places that is there for a season.
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:I think it actually goes away
in one Samuel after who was it?
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:I'm forgetting his name right now,
but anyhow, Shiloh's gonna be one
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:of those locations that is one of
Israel's spiritual hubs, so that
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:might be worth keeping in mind.
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:You're gonna see it again soon.
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:Yep.
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:Alright let's pray and we'll
be done with another episode
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:of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:God, thanks for your word and for these
reminders, even as we walk through.
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:Portions that are more difficult,
admittedly, so that your word is still
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:just as relevant to us as it as it
ever has been, as it ever will be.
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:And that it's not as, it's not less
impactful for us, just simply because
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:it's more difficult for us to get through.
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:And so help us to pull something away,
whether it's something about who you are
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:or one of these towns or one of these
names to learn more about you so that
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:we might be more like you in the end.
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:And so we thank you for your
word and pray that would be
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:the result of our time in it.
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:In Jesus name, amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep reading your Bibles.
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:Tuning again tomorrow for another
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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471
:you against tomorrow for another
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
