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Understanding Jesus’ Prayer in John 17 and the Daily Sacrifices in Numbers

In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss the transition in Jesus' prayer from the third person to the first person in John 17, unpacking its theological and devotional implications. They then take a deep dive into Numbers 28-30, focusing on the significance of the routine sacrificial offerings for New Testament believers and the binding nature of vows, especially concerning male leadership and decision-making within the family unit. The episode emphasizes maintaining a genuine and relational approach to daily Bible reading and prayer rather than treating them as mere rituals.


00:00 Welcome and Introduction

00:08 Sound Dampening and New Recording Setup

00:44 Question on John 17: Jesus' Prayer

03:26 Discussion on Daily Sacrifices in Numbers

04:51 The Importance of Regular Sacrifice

07:59 Vows and Male Leadership in Numbers 30

11:02 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

11:56 Outro and Podcast Information

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Speaker:

Hey everybody, welcome back to a brand

new edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hey, it is Friday.

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Happy Friday, everybody.

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What's up Friday, Friday.

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Glad you made it.

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We are recording again from our new digs.

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I've got some sound dampening panels

up on my wall in the office here.

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So I did not even notice

that until you mentioned it.

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I'm hoping that it.

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Deadens the sound a little bit.

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I can still hear the echo, but you guys

likely can't because once we run it

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through our processing software You really

don't hear a lot of difference, right?

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But there's big walls Also, the ceiling

here is not a fake ceiling So I think in

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our old place the drop ceiling those foam

ceiling tiles helped to absorb some of

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the sound Oh did not even pay attention,

but this is just a regular old ceiling.

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Okay, so We're in a box all that

to say it's a nice box and a

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much bigger box and great box.

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Yes.

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Yeah, so good.

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So good Yeah, so hey, we had a question

written in actually not about the podcast

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but about the sermon Yeah from John 17

and this person asked she said hey why?

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It does Jesus switch from the

third person, which he begins

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his prayer into the first person?

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That's a good question.

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And I don't know that there's

a ton of significance there

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in the actual transition.

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What I'll say is this, I think in

the opening of his prayer, he's

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emphasizing his relationship and

his unique relationship to God as

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his father and his role as the son.

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Jesus as the son of God has a lot of

obvious messianic implications to it.

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There's a lot of weightiness to that.

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The access to the father, this

is the high priestly prayer.

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He's stressing his intimacy

between him and God.

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So I think that would

have a lot to do with it.

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And then as the prayer goes along,

he shifts into the first person

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as he continues to pray about

specifics for the disciples.

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So that's my take on it.

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I don't know that there's Significant

church doctrine to be founded

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upon such a transition, but it

is a good point and I appreciate

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your attention to detail on that.

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That would be my take.

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PR your thoughts.

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I think that there's, okay,

and this is just a speculation.

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I'll just offer that because I haven't

studied John the way that you have.

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But I wonder if what's happening here is

that Jesus is starting from the, I don't

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know, the outer perimeter of prayer, so

to speak, as he draws near to the father,

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he starts with that third person approach

where he's speaking reverentially.

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I, I don't know.

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I've done this on occasion where I'm

talking to the Lord and I'm saying, Lord,

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please help your servant do your will.

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I'm talking about myself, but I'm

doing so in third person, I guess

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not too different from what Jesus is

doing here, perhaps by his example.

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And as I progress in the prayer,

it's almost like I'm moving

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closer and closer to him.

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And suddenly I'm now using first person

pronouns and I'm talking to him almost

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as you're making your like your way,

making your way through the tabernacle,

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you start from the holy place and

then you move into the holy of holies

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and now you're face to face with God.

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So that would be, I know it's maybe that's

a stretch, but that's my thinking here.

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He's starting with the reverential,

not that he's acting in any way.

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It's not just piety for piety sake,

but he's starting with reverence and he

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moves closer and closer to the father as

he begins to change his subject matter.

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And now he's talking about his

disciples and he cares about them.

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It's like his heart begins to open more

and more now, granted, these are words

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that are hard to describe for the second

person of the Trinity because he's God.

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He knows the father knows him.

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So it's hard to say that there's greater

self disclosure in Christ because he's

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fully known to the father and vice versa.

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But from the human standpoint,

I wonder if maybe there's

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something like that happening.

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But again, I'm speculating, just

reading the sense of the prayer,

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trying to wrap my mind around it.

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That would be my two cents.

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Yes.

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But take that for what you will.

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Yeah.

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Again, remember, this is a prayer

that is both for the son and the

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father, but it's also didactic.

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It's Jesus's teaching through this.

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And so I'm sure there are layers

there in which he is teaching the

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disciples or emphasizing something

with the disciples, even as he uses

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these terms and titles, but good job.

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Good attention to detail,

paying attention there.

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I appreciate the question coming in too.

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Let's jump into today's podcast.

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We are in numbers 28, 29 and 30.

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And this is a section of numbers that

again can get somewhat tedious for us.

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And it's not just this it's a couple of

chapters coming up in front of us too.

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It's a, it can get repetitive,

it can get redundant.

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Hello, just got stopped right

there by the Holy Spirit.

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I will edit that out for you.

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Thanks man, I appreciate that.

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Anyways Yeah, it can get repetitive and

yet it's important for us to continue

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to lean in here and in chapters 28 and

29, these are basically reminders on the

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offerings and the celebrations as Israel

was prepared to enter the promised land.

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So you've got a brand new generation there

and and Moses is going back over these

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things, making sure that they understand

what's coming and what's expected of them.

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28, nine through 10 introduces some

new offerings to be given each Sabbath.

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And the section as a whole focuses on

the number of sacrifices required, lays

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out the kind of number required the

minimum from the priests and the people

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every year, not including any offerings

initiated there by the people themselves.

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Yeah it's massive numbers and Gordon,

when he comments and he says the sheer

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numbers of these sacrifices in these

chapters reminds us in the people of God's

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promises to bless them in a fruitful land.

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And so the numbers required is a

reminder that, Hey, God is going to

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provide the animals necessary for that.

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That's part of the blessings

that they're going to inherit as

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they step into the promised land.

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So there's something.

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Anticipatory, even as we read through

all of these different things.

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Pierre your thoughts on

some of these offerings and

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sacrificial instructions here?

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Yeah.

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Nothing entirely brand new.

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We've talked about this before, but

I think there's something really

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important for us to see as New

Testament believers by the fact

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that these are daily offerings.

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Some of them are sabbatical offerings.

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They're monthly offerings, but they're

regular routine nature of these things.

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Think point to us the significance

that we are to be regularly

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sacrificing something to the Lord.

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It's the idea that we never want to come

to the Lord empty handed and not that

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you could ever truly do that because

everything that we have is from him

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through him and to him Romans chapter 11.

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But I think there's something about.

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This, that is helpful for us in that

day by day, perhaps even hour by hour,

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there should be something that we're

saying, Lord, I want to give to you

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at least the sacrifice of my praise.

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The Romans chapter 12 Paul talks about

us, our lives being a sacrifice to

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him that is pleasing and acceptable.

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And I think this is a really

good example of how God.

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Designed them to see that we no

longer offer bulls and goats,

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but we do offer ourselves.

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And there's something

really special about this.

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We should offer ourselves

in a variety of ways.

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Maybe you haven't thought of worshiping

the Lord in the middle of the day.

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Put on some of your favorite worship songs

and just sing it to the Lord and letting

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that be a time of communion with God.

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Maybe going to your room in the middle

of the day, if you have opportunity

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to do that and singing songs as you

pray to the Lord and seek his face.

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Or even after you've read your Bible,

maybe there's a way for you to give

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yourself to him in a different way.

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That's fresh and that's sacrificial.

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That's a good thing.

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I think the regularness of

this teaches us something.

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Yeah.

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A hundred percent.

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And we were talking actually with our

community group this week about that

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idea of what we're doing when we're

spending time with the Lord in our

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daily Bible reading and to piggyback

on what you're saying here, I think

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we can sterilize it so much and we

can sterilize our time just like the.

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Israelites could have been guilty of just

going through the motions with some of

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these sacrifices and not remembering that

this is an extension of an expression

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of our relationship with the Lord you're

talking about it's hard to describe

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with the second member of the Trinity

how he can Progress or deepen or draw

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closer in his prayer with the Lord there.

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And I think sometimes it's hard for us

to define, but I think it's important for

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us to remember that our relationship with

Christ is just that it's a relationship.

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It's is dynamic.

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It's active.

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There's, there is something there to the

old phraseology of your quiet time, right?

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Or spending time with the Lord.

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And we call it DBR.

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And I think it's helpful.

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It's certainly plain and clear in

our terminology for it, but it can

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also run the risk of being something

that sterilizes the process.

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of daily Bible reading.

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It's did you brush your teeth?

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Your daily brushing of your teeth?

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It's, it can fall into that trap

instead of realizing it as, no,

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I'm spending time with Jesus.

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When I'm reading this word, I'm

spending time with God and that's

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that presenting myself to him.

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That's that relational, that's that what's

going to drive us to go and worship him,

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during the day or to put on worship music.

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When you're driving around in your car

during the day It's a relationship.

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It's not just the sterile kind of

going through the motions that we

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can fall prey to if it's merely an

intellectual pursuit, which I think

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speaks to the nature of a relationship.

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It's built on honesty.

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And the honesty that we have to bring

before him is that we we're not worthy.

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We need change.

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We need to be we need to be remade and

renewed into his image, which again,

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it goes back to Romans chapter 12.

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We are being transformed into his image.

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From one degree of glory to

another is actually not Romans

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12, but you get the idea.

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I'm trying to help us understand

here that sacrifice is still

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appropriate for the Christian today.

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It just looks different.

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Doesn't we're not bringing bulls

and goats, but we still sacrifice.

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And that's an important feature of

the new Testament Christian life.

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Yeah.

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In Romans 12, we are transforming

ourselves by the renewal of our minds.

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I was conflating that one

with Paul second Corinthians.

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Yeah.

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Yeah then chapter 30, we get

into this chapter on vows.

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And again, here, we've got another

situation like we've talked

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about recently, where you have

something that might make some

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people uncomfortable for men.

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Men are just supposed to do what

they say they're going to do.

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But for ladies, they're given a couple

of exceptions, a couple of outs here.

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And if the husband said, Hey, no,

I don't want you to vow this vow.

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I don't want you to do this.

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Then The woman could get out of

having vowed that vow same with

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daughters in some situations there.

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And there, there is a, there's a an escape

clause that is provided for the ladies.

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Whereas the men there, there really

is no escape clause for the men.

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What they say is what

is supposed to happen.

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They are bound.

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Yeah.

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And what you might think here, fathers

be good to your daughters because

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daughters will love like you do.

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That's a song.

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I'm singing it in my head.

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Girls become lovers who turn into mothers.

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Don't listen to this song.

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I don't even know what he's saying.

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I love this song.

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I couldn't help but think of it.

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Okay.

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You've gotten us off track.

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Please continue.

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I've gotten us off track.

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Yeah.

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for admitting it.

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I think this is this is an

example of male hatchet.

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of male leadership.

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This is God's design for the husband

or the father to cover the wife or

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the daughter in these circumstances

and to help them make wise decisions.

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And so rather than seeing this as

something demeaning to women, I

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think this is something that's a

challenge to men to make sure that

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we're leading our families well.

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Yes.

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And and that's wise and that's good.

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And that's right.

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And that's our job and

we need to be doing that.

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And that's what God wanted from

these men in Israel as well.

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Yeah.

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So what you see here in the New Testament,

then as husbands are called to lead

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their wives, Ephesians chapter five,

you see this all the way back into the

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earliest part of the Pentateuch, the

book of numbers, you saw this before,

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actually back in the beginning of

creation, Genesis chapters one, two,

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and three, Adam failed in his call to

lead her into love her and consequently

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catapulted all of the human race into sin.

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Thank you guys.

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But here it's reiterated and it's

just highlighted the patriarchy

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as it's often called today.

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Okay.

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Is looked down upon and sneered

at as being something inherently

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evil, but that's not the case.

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God designed the patriarchy and its

fullest and best representation to be

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a protective life giving covering for

the people that were underneath it,

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which of course included the young men.

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It doesn't say anything here about

young men, but I would suspect they

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would also be under a similar covering

under their father's leadership unless

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and until they came to a certain

age where they were considered men.

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And I know it's a different

conversation, but they're not mentioned.

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I think that would still

apply to them as well.

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Yeah.

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And notice too, that men were to

make these decisions with conviction.

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There was a time limit on these things.

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It wasn't like the man was free

to go let me think about whether

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or not this is going to be wise.

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And let me give me a couple of weeks

and then I'll make my decision that

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they need to make the decision in

the shadow of the vow being made.

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They needed to be ready to lead

and ready to guide on this.

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And so there was a, on the day,

verse 12 says, yeah, decisiveness.

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So men, next time you're getting in

the car to go out on a date and your

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wife says, Hey, where should we go?

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Pastor PJ's house.

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Yeah.

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No, I'm guilty of that.

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My wife's probably listening to

this right now going, wait a minute.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Preach to yourself.

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That's the danger of recording a

podcast that our wives listen to.

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Dude, that's a danger

of preaching God's word.

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Period.

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Yeah.

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You teach them the word of God.

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You're going to be pointing fingers

at yourself a lot of the time.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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And that happens a lot

of the time in the study.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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All right, men and ladies and

everybody listening to this children

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don't know where it was for a second.

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All people forgot all

creatures of our God and King.

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Not aliens though.

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Not the UF.

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Depends on what you mean by aliens.

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Illegal, legal.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Christians.

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Hey let me pray for us and

we'll be done with this episode.

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God, help us to be as I've so

often prayed a church of strong

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male leadership and a headship.

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We want that.

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It's so important to the

health of our church.

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But as we were talking about earlier,

for all of us, God, we want to be

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those that have a genuine relationship

with you, not just a sterile going

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through the motions, a relationship.

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That's the danger of the

sacrificial system for Israel.

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That's what.

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It's going to happen.

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God is going to condemn them eventually

saying, this people honors me with their

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lips, but their heart is far from me.

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He's going to say, I

detest your sacrifices.

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I hate your feasts because they

have put their faith and trust

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in a relationship with him in

these things that they're doing.

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And so God help us to guard against that,

whether it be reading our Bible every

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day or praying a rope prayer that, that

we pray over and over again, God, we

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want a genuine, Relationship with you.

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We want to spend time with you as we seek

your face every single day And so give

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us that humility that drive that desire.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen Amen, keep reading bibles

tune in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the daily bible podcast.

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We will see you then.

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Bye y'all

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