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Chapters

00:00 Welcome

00:09 Men's Bible Study and Retreat

04:53 Joshua 4

12:29 Joshua 5

19:10 Joshua 6

20:18 Luke 2:1-24

25:36 Closing Prayer

26:24 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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Hello, hello.

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Happy Men's Bible Study Saturday.

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Wow.

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It's a holiday.

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Pastor Rod, why don't you give us

just a brief snapshot of what you're

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talking about with our men today.

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Here's why you should be there.

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We're gonna look at Elijah, who's one of

the coolest prophets of the Old Testament.

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Elijah and Moses are kind of the

two peaks of the Old Testament.

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I don't know the Old Testament

mountain range, and they're some of the

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coolest figures for so many reasons.

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But we're gonna look at Elijah at

one of the lowest points of his life.

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And interestingly enough, it's as

he's preparing to finish his ministry,

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he's ready to throw in the towel.

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And so this morning we're gonna

look at how to endure through

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difficult times in our faith.

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We should all expect that

they're gonna happen.

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It's just a matter of how we

deal with them and honestly.

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Though I want Elijah to be a largely

positive example in your mind.

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We're gonna look at a part

where he didn't do so well.

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And I think there's a lot to

be gleaned from that example.

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And I think you'll find that what

we talk about is gonna be supremely

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helpful for you as you prepare

for these inevitable inevitable.

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Inevitable.

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Finally, got it.

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Dark times, difficult times.

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They're coming.

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Are you ready for them?

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And if our men are showing up and

they're like, man, I love being here.

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I love being around my brothers in Christ.

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I love hearing Pastor Rob preach to me.

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Oh, well thank you.

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Is there yes.

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Another opportunity where my,

maybe they would spend more than

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just 24 hours with each other.

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Oh man.

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And they would maybe if

only we had something.

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Have I got something for you?

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Okay, good.

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And you?

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Good.

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And you who are listening now,

men's Retreat is coming in April.

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And this is gonna be such

a good and valuable time.

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Now here's my pitch.

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I know that we've talked

about it several times.

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It's maybe barely over 24 hours.

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Yeah.

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This is 20.

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It's 26 hours, I think,

and we want you there.

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In fact, we want you there from

the very beginning to the very end.

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It starts at three o'clock, which

I know means that some of you're

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gonna have to leave work early, and

then there's that Dallas traffic.

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You're gonna have to

work the, we get that.

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But this is worth it.

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We're not doing two nights.

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We can't afford to do that right

now because we are all needed at

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church for setup and tear down and

preaching and things like that.

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But for the 26 hours that we're together,

we want you there for the whole time.

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We'd love for you to plan on being

there at three o'clock and staying

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with us until after dinner, when

we clean up and then depart.

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But we trust that this will

be well worth your time.

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You're gonna build relationships with

men who want to run hard after the Lord.

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This is a great self-selection bias.

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You wanna be around

people that love the Lord.

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This is it.

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Show up to this thing because

these are the people that come.

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They're the people that want to

build relationships and want to be

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encouraged and want to encourage others.

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These are the quality men

that you wanna be around.

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So don't delay.

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Sign up, let us know that you're coming.

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We have to send the camp a

number and help them to plan

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for us, and so you can help us.

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And helping them by signing up early

letting us know that you want to come.

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We want you there.

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We'd be thrilled to have you, and we

promise we're gonna go out of our way

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to make it a valuable 26 hours for you.

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Yeah.

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And listen, I know that

you're probably sitting there.

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You've got your reasons, you've got this

schedule, you've got the baseball game.

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That's this weekend.

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You've got a late night with work.

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You've got, listen, the enemy is

gonna give you reasons why maybe you

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shouldn't go, but we want you to know.

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Overcome those.

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Fight through those, get back to Okay.

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Does God want me there?

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And I, we can tell you 100%, we

as your pastor, we want you there

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and it's gonna be a great time.

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We've gone, we've, this is our third

time back at this retreat center.

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Yeah.

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And every single one of the

previous two have been awesome.

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In fact, I find myself as we

leave going, I wish it was longer.

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Yeah.

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Because it was, and I think

that's the general tenor of

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all the men that are there.

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So this is gonna be well worth your time.

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This is worth it to get out

of your comfort zone maybe.

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And to spend time with other

guys and just to come and.

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Get away from everything else.

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It really does feel like a retreat.

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It's only an hour away.

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That's the other thing too.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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It's not, you're not driving

six hours to get to any place.

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You're, it's an hour and yet it

feels like, man, I'm getting away.

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I'm able to focus on Christ.

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I'm able to focus on my walk with him.

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I'm able to build these

other relationships.

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It's so good.

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We want you there.

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You will not regret it, I promise you.

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In fact, if you show up.

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And you regret it.

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And you regret it and you don't

have a great time and you walk away

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going I wish I hadn't shown up.

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Come talk to me and I will gladly see

that we refund your money for the retreat.

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I'm happy to do that.

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I'll take a step further.

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We'll give you Pastor PJ's car.

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I was just gonna say Okay.

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And wrap it.

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Wrap it with the church name.

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That's the stipulation.

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It's gotta be wrapped before we give

it to you, but we will get pink.

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Slip it all.

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On that note, I saw.

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There's this big church out in

Grapevine Fellowship Church.

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It's yeah, and you know about

it because they have a car.

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They have a car that's wrapped, that's

wrapped, so here's what they're doing.

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And you're now ready to wrap your own car.

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Oh, they are.

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The Lord is moving.

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They're this Halleh weekend

for all of their attendees.

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They're.

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Stenciling Easter invites on

the back windshield of all

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the cars that are showing up.

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That's cool.

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Easter.

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And then it's got their website

address on it and stuff like that.

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Do the people have a choice

or are they just doing it?

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I don't, it's just during service.

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During service.

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They're like, guess what,

everybody when you go out.

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Yeah.

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That's cool.

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I would not commend anything

else from them though.

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They're not doing good things.

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They're health, wealth, and prosperity.

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But I did see that pop up on a reel and

I was like, oh, that, that's interesting.

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That's creative.

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Yeah.

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I'll give them points for

what's that innovation?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Well, hey, let's get into our vibrating

today, Joshua four through six.

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So in chapter four, we have this

weird scene where they cross over

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and God tells them, Hey, grab some

stones and set up these stones.

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And he does so.

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In order to prompt questions in

the future, specifically from

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the future generations that

are gonna see these stones.

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So Pastor Mark, do you wanna talk about

the importance since you being our kids

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men pastor this is a big thing that you

do with your team and with the volunteers

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and then you, yourself, as you teach our

kids too, how this set Israel up to make

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sure that they were going to be teaching

the younger generations and the ones to

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come about the significance of what God

has already done in the life of Israel.

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Well, I think one thing

that's really helpful to begin

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with is that the geographic.

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Location is not that far away.

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I think we could easily think of

this as something that's, like in New

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York City or in Anchorage, Alaska.

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This is actually something

they're gonna come across.

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Sure.

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This is not something that is so far

removed from them that they're just

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will never come across it and it's there

physically there to say, what is this?

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I guarantee you there's

stuff in your house that.

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Your kids pull out, or maybe it's on the

shelf and they're like, mom, dad, what?

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What is this weird thing?

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Right?

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And then it's probably there because it

has some sort of significance to you.

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It has some sort of importance to you

going back in your family's history.

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In our house there's a pencil

sharpener in right by the front door.

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It's this old one and it comes

from the LA County school

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districts back in like long ago.

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And it comes from my grandfather.

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The my kids' great-grandfather when he

taught there, and they have an opportunity

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to say like, why is that there?

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Right?

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Mm-hmm.

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And I get to tell them, and

I get to tell them about him.

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And that's a privilege.

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That's a good thing.

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And that's what God's doing here

is saying, here is a physical thing

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that's gonna prompt your kids to go.

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Like why exactly Are

there 12 stones set up?

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That's kind of weird.

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And why is that there?

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But we do, we should do

things like that in our lives.

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We try to do that in our own family.

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Shirley is named after.

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My mom's mom, and she is in many

ways that she's not the only kind

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of person who brought faith down

from generation through generation.

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That's cool.

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But for me specifically, she really

was the one who has that continuity of

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faith going back multiple generations.

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And so obviously I love my grandmother

but, and so it's good to name Shirley.

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Shirley for that reason,

just kind of by itself.

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But we wanted to do that

partly because she represents.

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That continuity of that faith,

and I'm hoping to be able to

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teach her someday about her.

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Right.

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And say, this is something

that was done for you, right?

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You heard about the gospel because of

people who came even before mom and dad.

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Anyways, that's my kind of.

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2026 example of how this might be done.

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But I think this is a valuable

thing that is being done by

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God for the people of Israel.

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Amen, bro.

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Yeah.

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Memorializing what God has done in

your family's life and even in our

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church's life, is a good thing.

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We want people to ask.

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We want to invite that

kind of conversation.

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Having pictures in your home or.

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Art that showcases the things

that you trust and love.

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Those are small things,

but they're so meaningful.

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And as a guy, that's not my mo,

I'm not a big fan of decoration.

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I'm not, I don't care about putting

pictures up, but the older I get,

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I hope, hopefully the wiser I get,

the more I value things like this.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because it shows God's

faithfulness over the years and

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the centuries names and photos.

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And just events in our lives

where we can look back and say,

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God was good and faithful there.

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So find a way to do that.

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I think whatever it is that

you do, just do something.

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Yeah.

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Nothing is not an option.

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I think you have to do something and

even if it's fellows, if your wife

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is good at this, let her go at it.

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Just give her the checking account.

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Say, Hey, spend only $10,000 please,

but make sure that her home testifies

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to the faithfulness of the Lord.

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You can do it for less than $10,000.

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Really, I'm sure.

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I didn't know I was just

throwing out a number.

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Yeah.

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My dad, a while back gave me a frame

photo of one of the first generation

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of burners that came over from Germany.

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Wow.

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And it was a picture of the patriarch and

, there was a quote on the back of it that

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talked about how the neighbors remember

seeing him sitting around with his.

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His kids and reading from the

family Bible every single day.

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That's awesome.

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That's great.

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So it's things like that you look

back on and you go, man, that, that's

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really cool to have those moments.

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Alright, I have a question

about this chapter here.

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The stones aren't still there,

if that's your question.

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Okay.

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Well see That's then They

didn't do a good job then.

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No, I It is about the stones though.

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It is About the stones.

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I had to write this down because

I didn't wanna forget it.

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Okay.

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Verse nine.

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Says that Joshua set up the 12

stones in the midst of the Jordan.

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Okay.

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That's the first location that we get

for the 12 stones, but yet in verse 20 it

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says, and those 12 stones, which they took

outta the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.

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So are they in the Jordan

or are they at Gilgal?

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Where are they?

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Why are they, when are they,

what dimension are they?

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I've wondered the same thing.

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This is an unprepared thought, but my best

explanation is reverse change over time.

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The precise location of them changes.

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Oh, and even the bins and the

interesting and everything right.

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Fluctuate as the soil has moved.

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That's my best guess.

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That's a good guess at

answering the question.

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I like that one.

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That's a good guess.

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PPJ, do you wanna chime in on

this or do you want me just to

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talk before you throw in yours?

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No, I.

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Maybe there, there were two,

two piles that he set up.

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Maybe there was one there in the middle

or there was one there in the middle.

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Even as they're passing over.

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'cause I wonder how long

it took them to pass over.

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There's quite a lot of

people to pass over.

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So if the 12 one went first,

they're setting up the 12

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there stones in the process of.

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Everybody crossing over the Jordan

and perhaps kind of the last ones

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out, Hey, everybody, last 12,

grab a stone on your way out.

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Or there were two piles.

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I, yeah, I don't know.

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Yeah, it's strange.

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I would side with that one.

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I think that one in my mind says they

set it up during the crossing perhaps,

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and maybe they left it there for a

season and then they went back later

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and said, we're gonna take these stones.

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Actually, we want these and we're

gonna put them over here in Gilgal.

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So, I don't know, but I just

thought that was interesting enough

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to bring it to your attention.

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Yeah.

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How about when it says in verse 14, on

that day, the Lord exalted Joshua in

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the set of all Israel, and they stood

in awe of him just as they stood in

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awe of Moses all the days of his life.

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This is something that is not condemned,

but it isn't right for us in any ways to

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be in awe of a human leader in any way.

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Are you asking us to be in awe of you?

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Nope.

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That's not my, that's not my intention,

but I'm just curious because it's

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interesting because we shy away.

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This kind of builds on the whole,

I'm proud of you conversation

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that we had a while back.

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Okay.

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This is a human being that the

Israelites are in awe of just

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as they were in awe of Moses.

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And it's held up at least

in, in a positive light here.

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I have nothing against that.

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I think it's perfectly natural to have

certain people who just capture your

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imagination and your wonder and your

awe because they, they possess the

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gifts, the calling of God in ways that

you think are clearly exceptional.

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Now, we just mentioned John

MacArthur not too long ago.

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I think he's someone that, even though

he was such a humble, normal guy, I still

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had a sense of awe being around him.

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Yeah.

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This guy's just phenomenal.

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He's just opening a Bible

and teaching, and yet.

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I'm strangely captivated.

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How is he doing this?

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What is he doing that is so, and

people have studied things like that.

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Like how is he doing what he's doing?

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It doesn't make sense from an

earthly perspective, right?

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And so you have to say, this is God's hand

upon this person, and I wanna honor that.

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And there's nothing wrong with that.

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In fact, I would say Paul

even encourages us to do that.

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He wants us to follow

him as he follows Christ.

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Mm-hmm.

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He wants us to view him as an example.

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He encourages that.

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He says, look to your leaders.

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They're the ones who has, who set

up an example for you to follow.

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Hebrews chapter 13.

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They, that they model or they highlight

the leadership of the people and say

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it's right that you look toward them.

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So I think it's a good thing.

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Now granted, I think here.

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Joshua is being compared to Moses

because of what he just does.

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Right.

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It's clearly meant to harken back to

Moses, and so that makes sense to me

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from an earthly perspective, but I do

think this kind of mentality can and

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perhaps should carry on even today.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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Yeah.

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Chapter five we get a situation

where the sign of the covenant

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circumcision has to be applied here

to a new group, a new generation.

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And so that's what's happening

here when it says that they

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were circumcised a second time.

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It doesn't mean the same group

were circumcised for a second

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time, but there's a new generation.

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We find that out.

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Later on when it says that this was

the offspring, it says in verse five.

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Though all the people who came out of

Egypt had been circumcised, yet all the

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people who were born on the way in the

wilderness after they had come out of

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Egypt, had not yet been circumcised.

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So this is the sign of the Covenant,

and God is having Joshua carry

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this out with the people there

before they're going to continue in

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progression into the Promised Land.

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Pastor Mark, your favorite subject.

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We have a Christoph here, I believe,

unless you're gonna argue that it's

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not a Christoph, but I have, I'm

going to fight you on that if you are.

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So, the commander of the Lord's

Army, end of chapter five.

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Christoph, yay or Na.

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So my bigger concern is with

Christoph's functionally, period.

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But what in the Old Testament.

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But what about here?

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Well, if you tell me why you think

it's a Christoph, here's why I think

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it's a Christoph, because of what?

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What happens here?

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He says, I'm the commander

of the army of the Lord.

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Now I have come.

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And Joshua fell on his face to the

earth and worshiped and said to him,

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what does my Lord say to his servant?

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And the commander of the

Lord's army said to Joshua.

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Take off your sandals from your feet for

the place where you are standing is holy.

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And Joshua did.

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So.

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I don't think this can be anything other

than God, because we never see another

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angelic interaction where the angel

says you need to take off your sandals.

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Number one, for the ground in

which we were standing is holy.

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That would've been a callback to the

burning bush incident with Moses.

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And then number two, he

receives worship from Joshua.

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He doesn't.

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Stop Joshua from worshiping him.

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So an angelic being.

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Again, we think of revelation,

we think of other situations.

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The angelic beings, their

response is do not fear.

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Or even in the Book of Revelation,

when John falls before an angel to

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worship him, the angel says, stop that.

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Don't do that.

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Get up.

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You don't worship me.

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I'm not to be worshiped here.

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Whereas I think this being does

receive the worship and the

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comment about the holy ground.

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So I think the commander of

the Lord's army here is a

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pre-incarnate Christ showing up.

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To encourage Joshua before the

conquest begins, I think it goes to

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a bigger conversation of what exactly

a pre-incarnate Christ would be.

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Right.

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That's where I struggle with this across

all of the Old Testament, is what does

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it actually mean to be pre-incarnate?

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Right?

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What would that even technically mean?

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And so I think we have plenty of evidence

of angelic beings having physical.

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Manifestations or true

manifestations of a physical nature.

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I think that's something

that we can see consistently.

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But for Jesus to be somehow physically

manifested, pre incarnation, I

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have a hard time and there's more

thoughts to it than that, but I have

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a hard time having that hold water.

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Now, your argument about the

worship, I think is the most

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compelling argument for Christoph.

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He, because Jesus is

worthy of worship and.

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Humans are not worthy of worship.

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However, my contention against that or

my response to that would be that this is

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clearly, if it is not a Christoph, he is

clearly a direct representative of God.

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And there are times when it's

appropriate to say, I'm worshiping

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not the person standing in front of

me, but the representation of God.

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I'm worshiping God Yes, by.

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Worshiping the representation

of God's immediate messenger.

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Does that make sense?

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I think so.

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Can you clarify though why go

Christophe as opposed to Theophany?

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I understand Pastor Mark's

point here, he is saying that ha

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having a pre-incarnate Christ.

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Why him?

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Why can't you just make it a, a theophany?

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And by the way, just in case

you're listening and wondering,

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Christoph Jesus showing up in

physical form before he's physical

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is what Pastor Mark's pushback is.

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Theophany is the same idea.

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It's a.

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Messenger, an angel, an angelic

messenger that we believe is some

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form of God and represented himself.

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Mm-hmm.

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Representing himself in a physical form.

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Mm-hmm.

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Why not a, the often why that?

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Mostly because of our

understanding of the Trinity.

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The second member of the Trinity is

the only one that ever does take on

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any sort of physical form for us.

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We know John four got his spirit.

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And so with Christ being sent in some

form of physical form, I think it makes

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sense to look at the second member

of the Trinity acting in concert with

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what he does in the New Testament

when he does take on flesh which

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is why I would convey that this is.

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The second member rather than the

first member being the father.

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I'm okay with this not being a human body.

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I'm okay with it being an angelic

appearance, but I can't get to the

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place that this is anything but God.

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And so if we wanna argue

theophany, that's okay.

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Christophe is where I land, but I again,

the worship anytime a human being tries to

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worship an angel elsewhere in scripture.

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They're confronted and they're corrected.

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Can I ask a question then?

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Yeah.

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'cause that is the thrust of your point.

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My Bible has a little four

next to the word worship.

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Mm-hmm.

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And it says here, or, and paid homage

so it could be understood as the word

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worship and the word in the Hebrew does.

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It is used that way.

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Right, right.

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But it also is used to say, bowed

himself, bowed prostrated, or paid

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homage, which are all acts of worship,

which is why it's not always used

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that way though, summarized that way.

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It isn't.

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Yes, that's true.

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Yeah.

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It is also an act of worship, but

it is not only an act of worship's

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also used as an act of respect.

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That's where the statement about

holy ground after that, I don't think

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an angel's making that statement.

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Again, I'm gonna point to the absence of,

it's an argument from absence of evidence,

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which is still not the strongest, but

there's no other indication where we have

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in scripture and Angel says, take off your

sandals because the place where you're

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standing because I'm here is holy ground.

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I think there's everything here to say

this is an the presence of God coming to

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Joshua to encourage Joshua before he goes

into the conquest of the promised Land.

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And so for the listener who's

saying, why does this even matter?

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I'm sure there's people who are

like, well, I don't I, okay.

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Who cares?

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Like what is it, how, what does this

other do with the price of tea in Texas?

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What would you say?

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I think it's important

that we ponder who God is.

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I like that.

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And we need to do it with theological

acuteness and accuracy and per precision.

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We're gonna make mistakes.

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We're gonna get things wrong, but we

need to be in pursuit of the truth

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and it's, it is an act of worship.

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I think to consider these things

to love the Lord with their mind.

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Yeah, and even if we don't have

an immediate application of some

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of these things to our day-to-day

life, I think often those

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applications are found later on.

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And I also think that even if the only

application is our worship of God and

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are awe of who he is, that would be

grounds enough to consider these things.

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I like that last point you just told

us to be the theologically cute.

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I said acute.

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I heard theologically.

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Cute.

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Fine.

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Cute.

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Be cute.

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Awesome.

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Be cute.

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Okay.

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You heard it here first folks.

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Men's Bible study Saturday.

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Be theologically cute.

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Cuties.

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Alright, chapter six is a

familiar chapter for us.

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This is the Fall of Jericho.

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Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho.

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The instructions are given such that

I think what God is doing here is

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making sure, again, coming off of.

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Th this interaction with the

commander of the Lord's army for at

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minimum, we can all agree on that.

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Is goddess saying, I'm the

one doing the fighting here?

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'cause it's not gonna be a

traditional battle that takes place.

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Joshua's not going over there and

launching seed ramps and conquering

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the city the way that human armies

had conquered city in his day.

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Instead, this is gonna be God clearly

reminding Joshua and the people.

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I'm doing this.

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When I tell you I'm giving

them over into your hand.

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I am giving them over into your hand.

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And so this is a unique way that

Jericho is sacked and Rahab has spared

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because of the promise given to her.

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And God does take care of Rahab here

through this process, but familiar story.

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And yet it's a good for us to be reminded

that God is the one doing the fighting

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here because they're gonna march around.

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If you march around, whatever

your enemy's house, Kroger.

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Seven times and then h gb,

you start yelling at it.

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It's not gonna fall down.

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I promise you it's not gonna fall down.

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It might go outta business then

maybe, or call the cops and have you

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arrested, but it's not gonna fall down.

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It wouldn't have back here either.

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This is a sign that God is

doing the one that's fighting.

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Alright, Luke chapter two

verses one through 24.

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Luke, chapter two, one through 24.

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John the Baptist's cousin,

is gonna be born in this one.

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I mean, big deal.

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'cause John's cousin shows up now.

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If it's his cousin, all we

know is it's a relative.

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I think Pastor Rod, you mentioned cousin.

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I think that's probably right.

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I think Mary and Elizabeth were most

likely sisters, but this time it's

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Mary's turn to give birth and Luke.

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Known for his detail.

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And this is the most detailed

account that we have as far

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as the timeframe he's listing.

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Who is the acting Caesar, who's

the governor in the region of Syria

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here and what's happening as far

as why they end up in Bethlehem?

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Because a census had been given and

Joseph is from the lineage of David

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significant, their massive significance

to the lineage of David because

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Jesus had to be of the line of David

to be qualified to be the Messiah.

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So he ends up in Bethlehem.

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And this is where he's gonna be born.

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In the meantime, there's a group

of angels that show up to shepherds

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in a field and they announce to

these shepherds the birth of Jesus.

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And these shepherds really become

the first evangelists for Jesus.

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'cause when they see it, they make

known the saying that had been

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told to them concerning the child.

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And so they're telling everyone they

can what they have heard, and they're

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gonna go and they're going to, greet

Mary, and they're going to tell her as

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well, and she's gonna treasure these

things up in her heart as she does with

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all of these events surrounding her son.

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But this is a, the Christmas

story as we're reading it here

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in Luke chapter two, amazing.

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That part of this is a declaration of

peace among those with whom he is pleased.

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It's amazing that God would be pleased

with anybody and it's doubly amazing

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that God would declare peace with them.

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Don't miss that right.

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Maybe something that you're

familiar with from Christmas and

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may just skip by, but be astounded.

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God would reconcile with us in

such a manner to bring peace to us.

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That's such a great point.

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And in fact, one of my questions

comes from this very text because in

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the common vernacular it did not say

what it currently says in our ESV.

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So I would love for you to quickly just

touch on why we see it differently here.

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It used to say in the King James version,

glory to God, in the highest and on

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Earth, peace, goodwill toward man.

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Or men.

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Here it says something different.

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It's slightly different, but it's

different enough to change the meaning.

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It says, glory to God in the highest

verse 14, and on earth, peace among

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those with whom he is pleased.

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That's a different thing.

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So why is it different and what

should we do with this passage

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because of that difference?

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Part of it's manuscript evidence.

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The manuscripts that have what

you just said there the piece in

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goodwill among men, and there's other

manuscripts that have what we read here.

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And so in part it's an editorial

decision by the editors of the ESV

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on which manuscripts they're gonna

prefer on this, as well as the other

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translations that have a similar one.

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It's also a hermeneutical decision.

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It's an interpretive decision.

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What does it mean?

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Peace among those on earth, in

goodwill, towards, is that all mankind?

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And we would have to say

at the end of the day, no.

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In one sense, yes, in that

the gospel is for all mankind.

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Anyone can hear it.

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It's to be, the general call of

salvation is to be issued to all mankind.

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And yet he's not pleased with all

mankind because he's not pleased with

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those that are in rebellion against him.

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And so it's only gonna be those that.

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Jesus ends up being the source of peace,

which is through the gospel that God

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is ultimately gonna be pleased with.

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And so I think that's why the

Hermeneutical decision, the

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interpretive decision, was made

here by the ESV to translate it

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this way rather than the other way.

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I agree.

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Right on.

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Me too.

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I think one of the really cool

things here is Jesus had to perfectly

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obey the law to be qualified.

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And at Patrick Mark What I'm, go ahead.

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I'm curious if we're

on the same wavelength.

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I think we're on the same WaveG.

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Okay.

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We, you were gonna talk

about verse 21, right?

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Well, 22.

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Yeah.

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I was gonna talk about 22.

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Well, I get Yeah.

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20.

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Yeah.

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21.

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No, I was gonna talk about 21.

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Well, hey, we're verse 21 and 22.

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Yeah.

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So it says here that on the eighth

day he was circumcised, and so

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that was part of keeping the law.

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Right.

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Now, in an a day old, whether

it's the son of God or not, can't

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take care of that by themselves.

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Right.

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Do we know that for a fact?

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Well, I'm just saying,

I think the kenosis.

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Of Philippians chapter two would tell us

that in his humanity, Jesus wasn't gonna

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be able to, that's a low view of God, bro.

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Get himself to be the temple.

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And so it's really cool that God uses

his parents to, yeah, keep the law on his

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behalf so that he would be the qualified,

perfect substitute for us on the cross.

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Yeah, I think that's awesome.

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Yeah.

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And also you see, we in

just our reading now, right?

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That the people of Israel failed to

do that and they had to have that done

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as they entered the promised land.

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But Jesus perfectly fulfills the law.

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And what's so fascinating, a

among the other things that we're

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talking about here is that Jesus

was not born to a rich family.

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We see that in verse 24.

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They're to offer a sacrifice according

to what the law of the Lord said.

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And in this case, there's a pair of

turtle doves or two young pigeons.

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Now this is a concession.

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This is not the originally prescribed.

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Sacrifice because the other

ones were an expensive one.

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And so his mom and dad were

clearly not a people of means.

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And this shows us, again, Jesus is humble.

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He's willing to pour himself out, not only

to say, I'm gonna, I'm gonna become a man,

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but I'm gonna be the most powerful man.

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I'm gonna go to the family with

the mansion and all the horses

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and the donkeys and whatnot.

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He goes to a lowly family, albeit

a very, a holy one, A family

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that has their wits about them.

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They're consecrated, but they're a.

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They're not a well to do family,

and I think that's so special.

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That's so insightful because it

shows us the depths to which the

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Lord, the Son of God went to save us.

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He wasn't content just to be a man.

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He went to be a lowly man.

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I love that.

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Well, let's pray and they'll be done with

this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, you are so good to

condescend in the incarnation.

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So good to send Christ the son of God for

us so that we might have peace with you.

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That he became the prince of peace

for us that have come to know

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you through faith and repentance.

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And so God, we are grateful as we read

this, even to see his qualification that

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you preserved as Mary Joseph took this

baby, their newborn their firstborn sons

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of the temple to have him circumcised,

to have him dedicated before you to

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offer the things that needed to be

offered in accordance with the law.

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We see that you're even at work towards

our salvation, our redemption through

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these early days in the life of Jesus.

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And so we're so grateful for that

and humbled by that and pray that we

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would live faithfully in response to

the good news of the gospel, that we

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have peace with you because of Christ.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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We'll keep your new Bibles and

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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