In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss the new intro music and upcoming church events such as Easter services, evangelism efforts, and community gatherings. They explore key themes from Deuteronomy chapters 11-13, focusing on God's provision of land, the importance of centralized worship, and the demand for total devotion. They emphasize the need for scripture memorization and the serious nature of maintaining loyalty to God above all else, including family. The episode closes with a prayer for dedication and a reminder of the blessings of religious freedom.

00:00 Welcome and New Intro Music

01:11 Upcoming Events and Announcements

02:45 Discussion on Deuteronomy 11-13

04:06 Memorizing Scripture and Creative Ideas

07:14 Puritan Names and Their Meanings

10:01 Centralized Worship in Deuteronomy 12

11:11 Devotion and Allegiance in Deuteronomy 13

13:40 The Cost of Discipleship

16:18 Preparing for Persecution

17:58 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

**Pastor PJ does not endorse Marilyn Manson.** 😂

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Dude, have you heard our new intro music?

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I have heard it.

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It is so energetic and so fun.

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It slaps as the young

ones say it does slap.

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It is rock.

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I feel like this is what our podcast

does for people rocks their world.

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It rocks.

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It rocks.

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I like it.

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It's fun.

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I'll just full disclosure.

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I chose it.

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I didn't ask you.

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No, I did ask you actually, as you get

back, I did bring it up to your attention.

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I said, did you like this song?

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And now we use it all the time.

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So hopefully you guys enjoy that.

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We don't have outro music yet.

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I was thinking about

what I might add there.

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And I was thinking maybe

something light and poppy fits

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your personality a little bit.

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Totally fits my personality.

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Yeah.

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But I hope you guys like that music.

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Hopefully it's not too loud.

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I put it really low, so

basically you can barely hear it.

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But hopefully it's a, it's an

addition and not a subtraction.

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Marilyn Manson was a bold choice,

but it's not Marilyn Manson.

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His music is much heavier,

much darker than that.

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I just knew that he was like the

devil incarnate when I was growing up.

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I was not supposed to

interact with Marilyn Manson.

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There was a lot of rumors

going around about his.

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Yeah.

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And it was, the rumors alone

weren't enough to be like, you

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know what, not going to go in

that part of the neighborhood.

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Yeah.

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Pass.

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Yeah.

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For sure.

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For sure.

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Yeah, it's Saturday.

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We are in between men's Bible

study, women's Bible study.

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We don't have anything going on today,

but we do have Easter season coming

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up and just about a month out a little

bit more than a month out now from from

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Easter month in a week to be precise.

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And this is a perfect season to be.

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And so we're going to be talking

about how to get into work, inviting

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people to church and getting

people invites to our extravaganza.

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In fact if you're with us tomorrow

morning at church, that's going to be

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some of the direct application from

the sermon is going to be talking

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about getting invites out there.

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Our evangelism team met recently.

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We're going to have some some

neighborhood blitzes going on.

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I think we've got three or four days that

we're planning to get out and cover a

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lot of different homes in the community.

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I can't remember exactly how many

they've got mapped, but they've

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got maps and they've got strategies

and they're ready to do this.

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And so we're.

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We're going to be doing

that starting in April.

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We've got our our compass camp

out coming up in April too.

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So if you're aware of that and

haven't registered for that yet,

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we would love for you to do that.

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I think it's only five bucks a family,

which is a great deal to to show up

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or maybe it's five bucks a person.

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I can't remember either way.

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Great deal to show up and spend

time with your compass family

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over in Irwin is Irwin park.

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I think it's Irwin park.

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Erwindale is the location not

erwindale, that's not a thing.

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Yeah.

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But that's over in McKinney, so

that, that'll be a great time too.

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There's just a lot going on here.

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Extravaganza Easter Services.

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We've got a Good Friday service,

we've got a normal Easter service.

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And then before we know it, VBS

is coming up around the corner.

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Registration for, that's

gonna be opening up soon.

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There's just a ton going on, which

is something that we're thankful for.

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We talked yesterday about the fact that

we wanna do more, not slowing down.

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Yeah.

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We're ratcheting this thing up,

saying, Hey let's go full speed ahead.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Let's jump in.

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Let's talk about our passage is 11, 12,

and 13 for today, Deuteronomy 13 chapter

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11, a longer chapter, but it really

boils down to dealing with the land

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that the Lord, your God has given you.

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That refrain shows up time and time again.

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So not only is it referencing the

land, but it's specific how many

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times he talks about the land and then

says, which the Lord, your God has

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given you or some variation of that.

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And it's a reminder of what we

talked about yesterday, that God is

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the provider of this, but it's also

hearkening back and pointing back to

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the Abrahamic covenant saying this is

part of the Abrahamic covenant blessing.

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The part of the fulfillment

of the Abrahamic covenant.

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And so the land is the repeated

focus of Moses's words.

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Throughout chapter 11, there's

reminders about the blessings that

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will come from obedience and the

curses, which will flow from rebellion.

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And as you're reading, there'll be some

familiar sections of this specifically,

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if you'll note versus 18 through 21,

you've got a lot of the Shema or the

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Deuteronomy six passage repeated here.

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And it's almost word for word.

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In fact.

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Part of it is here where he's encouraging

them to remember the words of the

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covenant, to teach them to their

children, to write them on the doorpost

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of their house, to talk about them

throughout their day, to be saturated

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with the word of God, the Torah, so

that the nation of Israel and the future

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generations would know them and walk

in obedience while they're in the land.

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Otherwise the land would.

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Vomit them out would spit them out.

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They would forfeit the Abrahamic

covenant blessing of the land there.

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Yeah.

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I think this is a really good

reminder that scripture is

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best served from the heart.

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We should put it in our heart and we

should seek to let it flow from our heart.

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This is a good reminder that

memorization, I, it's a, it's an

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often overlooked discipline and we

talk about it from time to time, but

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man, this is just such a good thing.

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God constantly says this to them.

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Put this, I like the way he says it here.

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You shall therefore lay up these words

of mine in your heart and in your soul.

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In other words, I don't want it just

to be superficially stuck up in there.

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I want it to have deep

penetrating influence on the

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way that you live your life.

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And that's why he says Hey, bind

it on your hand and put it between

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your eyes and put it everywhere.

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The reason that he wants you to do

that is not because they possess

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some kind of mystical magical power

on your wall or on some decor, but

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because they're going to be reminders

for you to meditate upon the word.

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And when we get to Psalm chapter one,

that'll be a good reminder as well.

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But think about Psalm 119 verses 11.

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I have stored up your words in my

heart that I may not sin against you.

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I don't want to sin against you.

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And the corollary to that is I have

to have a lot of God's word in my

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heart so that they don't do that.

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Christian please store up the

word of God in your heart.

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You will never regret

spending time doing that.

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Maybe this is the season for you

to start picking this up today.

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Yeah.

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We kicked around the idea at just a

tease, something to the church out there

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of of doing, secrets are being told of

doing like a year long kind of format.

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Community group competition.

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Point system where petition community

groups are battling it out for supremacy

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of the best community group in the church.

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Yep Yeah, we should talk about this

Maybe what we should do is throw some

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scripture memory in there They're coming

for sure that memorizes the most scripture

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is gonna get more points added to it.

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But just get creative even parents with

your kids if you guys set a family goal

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to memorize this passage or this portion

of scripture and then celebrate When you

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do it, go out and get Brahms ice cream.

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Brahms is super cheap and

really good ice cream too.

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So that's why I throw that out there.

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It's cheap.

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Yes.

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It's great ice cream too.

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It's really cheap for sure.

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Don't go do that.

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Whatever.

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Go to Hutchins then.

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Pastor Rob's family will go to Hutchins.

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They'll take your family to Hutchins too.

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Is that right?

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No, but do something to celebrate or

as a community group, pick a passage,

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memorize it together as a community

group, and then celebrate together and

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invite us to come enjoy the food when

you do celebrate but make this fun

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and hold a reward system where there's

positive connections with doing this.

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And that's a great way for your kids.

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That is not just, Hey, do this

because you're supposed to do it.

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That's one of the reasons why like

adventure club or a wanna there's

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rewards associated with that.

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It's because this is a good thing to

teach them that there's a reward for

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committing yourself to memorize scripture

beyond just going there's eternal reward.

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Yeah.

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But read the book of Proverbs.

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How much of it is talking

about, man, there's blessings

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in this present life, right?

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To keeping the word of God and

obeying the word of God for sure.

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Yeah.

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So it's good.

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It's good to treasure it up.

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Get creative.

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Allow your creativeness to come out, your

creativeness, creativity to come out as

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you're thinking through these things.

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Like maybe each kid, you put a tattoo

on them with just a part of the verse

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so that you'll always remember it

when you see them or name them a part

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of a verse and have a lot of them.

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Name one of them.

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Shema.

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If you've got two kids.

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Jesus wept.

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There you go.

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Which one gets to be Jesus?

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I don't know.

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We should pull out some Puritan names

for their encouragement and edification.

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Yes Some of the best Puritan names you've

ever heard like prudence is one of them.

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Yes Some of these guys though, they

had such long names I was thinking, how

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did people really say their whole name

before they, did they get nicknamed?

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You keep talking, I'm gonna pull

up a couple for their edification.

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And maybe that's where pronouns

first started to happen.

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They're like we could say the whole

name or we could just call him.

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That's probably just say, Hey, you sir.

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Prudence, good fellow, obedience,

is furiously typing away, trying to

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come up with some puritan names here.

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You've got it.

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I see it.

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I see the look in your eye.

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This is okay.

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So there's a boy named humiliation.

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Okay.

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That one's a good one.

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If you're looking for

a new name, here we go.

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Oh boy.

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I don't know if I'm going

to be able to do this.

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Dan sell Dow Fibo, Mark

Anthony gallery Caesar.

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What does that mean?

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That was his name.

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Here's another one.

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Praise God.

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Praise dash God.

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That was his name.

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Okay.

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His full name was praise dash God.

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Last name barebone.

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So praise God barebone.

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What's your name?

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One of your kids?

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Praise God.

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I don't think God burner.

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I don't think I would.

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Here's another one.

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If I guess this is a bare bones

brother, this one is fear.

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God, fear dash God.

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Praise God and fear God.

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Every time you call them, I love that.

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Praise God.

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Are you celebrating the Lord?

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Are you calling me?

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Which one is it?

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I don't know.

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But what if they're doing something wrong?

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It's praise God, you're in trouble.

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Job rates.

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Oh, Joe breaked out of the ashes.

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That's a name.

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That's a first.

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That's a name.

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Here's another one.

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It has descendants.

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Wrestling.

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Fight the good fight of faith.

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Fight the good fight of faith.

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Now we're just literally just

taking the good fight of faith.

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Kim.

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I see it.

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I feel it.

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Kim.

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Kim.

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Hey, Abram and Lillian.

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We're not calling you out

except we've got a name.

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I added the last name.

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Oh there's another one.

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Fly dash fornication.

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So I'm guessing flee from

fornication, but that's your name.

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That's your first name.

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That is the worst.

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That's a, that's it.

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Here's another one.

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Let me do just a couple more.

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What God will.

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There's another one for you.

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Joy and sorrow.

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Experience.

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Oh, here's another one.

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Abuse.

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Not.

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Ooh, this one might be my favorite.

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Die.

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Die.

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Die.

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That's my favorite.

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I like that one.

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Die.

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There's so many more,

but anyway, there you go.

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Ideas for your future namings.

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It's not totally out of keeping

with the pattern of the scriptures.

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Look at low on my people and not my

people, my sorrow and yeah, all of it.

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Yeah.

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So it's just done in our

language to your point.

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Maybe we ought to bring this back.

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You guys need to get pregnant.

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And use one of these names to

help get the domino kicked off.

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I don't know.

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English just seems a little

bit verbose for that.

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Like low on me versus not my people.

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Yeah.

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Son of my sorrow.

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Yeah.

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Anyways.

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All right.

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Let's do Deuteronomy chapter 12.

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This chapter here lays out the

plans for a centralized place

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of worship in the promised land.

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So no longer would sacrifices and

offerings be permitted anywhere, but

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the Israelites were going to bring their

offerings to the Lord at a place he was

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going to designate for such offerings.

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So there was going to be a provision

for people that couldn't get there.

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They were going to have their own

way of being able to still bring

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their offerings and sacrifices.

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By and large, the people were

going to be commanded, Hey,

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come here and worship here.

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Because this is where the Lord

is going to set his place.

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And it's a precursor to

ultimately the Mount of God.

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This is not going to be Jerusalem

when they get into the promised land.

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Initially, eventually it will be,

it's going to be mountain Zion.

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It's going to be where the temple

is going to be, and that's going to.

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Continue even today.

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That, that is the place of God.

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That is God's city.

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The city of God is still Jerusalem though.

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His presence is not there.

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The temple is not there.

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But again, Christ is coming back and when

he comes back, he's coming back there.

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He's coming back.

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His feet are going to descend and land

on the Mount of Olives and then he's

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going to walk into the city of Jerusalem

there and the millennial kingdom will be

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in Jerusalem and then the new Jerusalem

is going to descend from heaven.

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This centralized place of

worship is something that is.

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Instituted here, but it's going to

continue into the millennial kingdom.

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And then eventually it's going to be

still part of our eternal state too.

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Chapter 13 then devotion is the word

that comes to mind here, and this is

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the word that sums up this chapter, I

think, because in chapter 13, Moses is

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concerned that the people show devotion

to the Lord and not be led astray by

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false prophets or even by loved ones who

may try to entice them to worship idols.

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And the stakes are high here.

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If you read the chapter, read the

punishments for the false prophet.

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Read the punishment for the family

member or the loved one who tries to

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entice you away from the Lord that God

was serious about their devotion to him.

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And this is something that carries

forward in the new Testament.

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Jesus is going to say, I didn't come to

bring peace, but I came to divide a man

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against his family and and create that.

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If you're going to choose your family

over God, then that's a problem.

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God wants your total allegiance

and your total devotion.

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And that is something that we see here in

Deuteronomy 13 with the people of Israel.

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Yeah, that's exactly

where I was going to go.

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Jesus says, whoever loves father or

mother more than me is not worthy of me.

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That kind of language tells us that

most Christians do not understand

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what it means to follow Christ.

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His language is demanding.

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And again, we see that even though

some people artificially divide the Old

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Testament God and the New Testament God.

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We see a very tight unification here.

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Jesus and the father are on the same

page just because he says it differently.

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On occasion doesn't change the fact

that God is very jealous and a good way.

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We talked about the word jealousy a

couple of podcasts ago, but he's rightly

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jealous for his glory and his honor.

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And to be a Christian means total

full and first allegiance to Jesus.

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Allah the father.

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This is what is.

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The Old Testament says is what the

New Testament says here, though.

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The only difference is the death penalty.

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Now, my question for you then is why don't

Christians put people to death today?

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Yeah, it's we're in a different society

and again, a different situation where

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we are not a theocracy can contrast

it to what some are arguing for here

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with the return of theonomy, which

is the law of God to rule the nation.

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We are not that we have a nation

where we are ruled by men and God

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has, as we've talked recently, even

given us the governing authorities.

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For our good and not for our harm

as Paul talks about in Romans and

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we are to respect them and even

fear the, their judgment and fear

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their discipline for the government

does not bear the sword in vain.

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So we are not a theocracy, we are

not the nation of Israel and that's

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not what we, what our call is.

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And at this point in time, we're not

under the call to take a false prophet

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out back and stone them to death.

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And it, Yeah I'll leave it there

before I get myself into any trouble

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talking about anything more than that.

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We'll just leave it there.

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Okay.

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Can you also clarify then Jesus says

something, this is a parallel passage,

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but in Luke chapter 14, Jesus talks

about hating father and mother.

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He says this, if anyone comes after me and

does not hate his own father and mother

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and wife and children and brothers and

sisters, yes, hate even his own life.

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He cannot be my disciple.

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Can you help us understand

what he means by that?

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Put that together with this one

here where it talks about not

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putting any family member above him.

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Yeah.

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I think that's the idea here is

similar to what we find when Jesus

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talks about the cost of discipleship.

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If anyone does not deny himself renounce

all that he has and come follow me,

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he's not worthy of being my disciple.

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He's not.

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Literally calling you to divest

yourself of every single ounce of

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your possessions to come follow him.

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But he's calling you to

say, that's your mentality.

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Your mindset is I'm willing to

give anything that I need to

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give in order to follow Jesus.

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And so relationally, I think that's

what's in view here in Luke's passage

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is Jesus saying you need to be willing

to surrender any relationship that

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would rival your relationship with me.

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Anything that would compete with your

affections for me, any relationship that

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you have that you can't legitimately

say, I love this person to the glory of

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God is a relationship that needs to end.

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And so if there's a competition

there between family members and

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God or your spouse and God, man,

you need to even be willing to say,

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and you've talked about this before.

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I can't remember who the author is that

said, Lord, kill me before I, I, bring

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shame upon your name, Carson, right?

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That's, I think, a great

expression of what it means to

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even hate yourself, your own life.

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For the sake of the glory of God.

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So our love for him is such that it's

so consuming that it makes any other

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relationship pale in comparison to him.

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And we're willing to divest

ourselves of any other

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relationship in order to have him.

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Which in a rightly ordered relationship,

if God is first, you will love them well.

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You'll love other, you'll love

your husband, your wife, your

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son, your daughter really well.

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If Christ is first place in your life.

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So we want to be clear that when scripture

says this, we're not telling you to

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hate your spouse in a literal sense.

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We're not telling you to hate your kids.

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We're telling you what scripture

is telling you, which is

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that Jesus must be first.

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The Lord must be first in your life.

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And if that's happening, you're

going to be one of the best.

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Most loving people that person knows

because you'll be loving them the

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way that God designed you to do.

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So sacrificially selflessly Consistently

all of those things scriptures making a

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point Jesus must be first and for most

Christians We haven't wrestled with that

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well enough All of us when we become

Christians we write the blank check to

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God and say take it do with it as you

will And for some of us, I don't think we

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honestly think through what that suggests.

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We're willing to say

anything, any place, any time.

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And that might include even the very

painful circumstance of having to say

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goodbye to a family member because

they no longer want anything to do with

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you because of your love for Christ.

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Now, let that sit on your chest.

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That's heavy.

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Yeah, it is heavy.

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We're talking about that a little

bit tomorrow in church too, with this

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idea of Jesus says, I've given them

your word and the world hates them.

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And I was thinking about that this week

and prepping for this message going,

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I don't think we've experienced that.

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I don't think we really know

what that means as much here.

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And you contrast that to what's

going on in Syria right now with

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the Christians that saw Charlie Kirk

said that their numbers have dropped

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by close to well over 700, 000.

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Thousand Christians since this

regime change has taken place there.

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Wow.

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That have been slaughtered.

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And you look at them and you go,

okay, they know what it means.

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I've given them your word

and the world has hated them.

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Yeah.

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And I think we need the same

the, our struggle is, our battle

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is we need to have that same

mentality that they have right now.

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Waking up, not knowing if the,

they're gonna be targeted tomorrow.

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We need to discipline ourselves and

fight for that ality here right now.

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We need to love Jesus to that much

love His word to that level and

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have be cultivating the heart that's

ready should that ever come here,

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that we would be willing to say.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I'll lay down my life.

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I'll hate my life for the cause of

the gospel rather than denying Christ.

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I'll give up a relationship with

somebody who's going to, turn their back

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on Christ rather than forfeit Christ.

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Yeah.

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We've been so blessed to have that

totally least recently, but that doesn't

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mean things can't change pretty quickly.

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We ought to be ready.

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And our church has to.

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Take that seriously.

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We have to be willing to say, look,

I'm going to suffer in little ways

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now so that I can be more prepared

to suffer in greater ways later.

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Should the Lord require it.

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And you might be saying,

how do we do that?

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And the answer is John 15,

abide in Christ, right?

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That's going to be, your lifeline

is going to be through abiding in

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Christ, staying connected to him,

scripture, prayer, fellowship, time

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of the word time with other believers

championing, promoting, prioritizing.

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Those things is going to be the best way

for you to be ready should that day come.

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That's right.

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All right, let's pray.

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God, make us a church ready.

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And even though we're not there right

now, God, I pray that rather than

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saying we will praise God for that.

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Not in the puritanical name way

but honestly, in worshiping you, I,

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rather than having that mentality,

God, I pray that we would think to

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ourselves, man, I want to use this time.

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I want to steward the

freedoms that we have.

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I wanted to not take these things lightly

and to think about those That have not had

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these same things and would, what would

they think to say, man, I wish I had that.

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I wish I could have what you guys have

now to be able to give myself over

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to the study of the word and prayer

and not have to fear with doing that.

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And we just take it for granted.

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And so God, we thank

you for those blessings.

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We don't want to feel guilty for having

these things, but we do want to take

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advantage of them and be wise stewards.

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So make us a faithful

church in that regard.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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I was not supposed to interact

with Marilyn Manson, but we

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would love for you to do that.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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