00:00 Welcome Back + Big Church Growth Announcement

05:55 Listener Q&A: Were the Disciples (and Judas) Baptized?

10:49 Today’s Bible Reading: Numbers 8–10 & Mark 5

15:36 Numbers 9: Passover Provision for the Unclean

21:48 Mark 5: The Gerasene Demoniac—One or Two? Harmonizing the Accounts

26:16 Closing Prayer, Farewell, and Podcast Outro

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Hey folks, welcome to Monday's

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Happy Monday.

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Happy Monday.

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And if you weren't at church

yesterday, where were you?

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But if you weren't at church yesterday,

you may have missed an announcement

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because you weren't there to hear it.

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And so we had a pretty sizable

announcement that we're excited about,

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and we talked yesterday even about the

parable of the mustard seed and how

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the church is called to grow just like

the kingdom of God is called to grow.

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And we are growing here at Compass Bible

Church and we are so grateful for that.

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We're thankful for that.

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God has been bringing visitors,

he's bringing new people

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to our church and we're.

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Thrilled to have them join us and

be a part of what we are doing

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here with Compass Bible Church.

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So as such we're realizing that that

space is getting tight on Sundays.

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And so starting Easter Sunday, that's

gonna be April 5th, we're going on a diet.

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Yes.

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All of us are gonna lose 50 pounds.

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That'll make a lot more space for us.

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Yes.

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And it'll be great.

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Yeah.

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Like David and the mo bites, we're

gonna have everybody lay down.

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We're gonna count off every six people.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Uh, No, no.

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We are, we are actually, we're

talking about killing people again.

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No, now they're frogs.

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We're we, were burning the frogs.

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We're eating the frogs.

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Now we're gonna kill people.

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Your dad, just the other day was

like, take 'em out back and shoot 'em.

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It must be genetic, I guess

so it must be genetic guys.

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We're not, we're violent.

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We're not going to kill anybody.

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Good.

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Let's clear that up.

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I don't want an e on our podcast

and we're moving to two services.

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That's what we're announcing.

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Wow.

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We're going to two services,

nine o'clock and 11 o'clock.

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And this is a big thing.

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This is a win for our church.

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This is us growing.

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We started in that portable,

and we had about 50 of us there

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on a good Sunday night when we

first started with our pre-launch

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Bible study, and then we launched.

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And God has continued to grow our

body, and now we're at a place where

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we're saying, okay, it's good for

us to move to a second service.

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So start thinking about it now, praying

about it, what service you'll be a

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part of nine o'clock, the 11 o'clock.

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What we'd love to see have happen is

for you to attend one and serve one.

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That's the other benefit to this

being not just can we grow more as

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a church, but also those that are

part of our church now have the

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opportunity to serve and then to attend.

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In each, in every Sunday, so they're

not having to choose one over the other.

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Yeah, there's lots of places to serve.

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Our setup and tear down teams

are always looking for help.

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So if you have some muscles, even

if they're small ones if you can

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push a cart, you can do that.

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You can set up a chair, we can help

you, you can have us with that.

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Now, we also are always

looking for skilled musicians.

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If you're good at some kind of

musical instrument or if you can sing

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really well, would love to put you.

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In touch with our worship pastor.

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Who is that, by the way?

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I forget.

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Also, Pastor Pge needs a break

every now and then, so if you wanna

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preach male or female, whoever

you are, you just let us know.

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We will put you in the queue.

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But really though, we do need people to

serve and we would love to have you guys

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really get excited about that with us.

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We'd love to put you to work

in all the best ways possible.

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So if you wanna do that.

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You can go to our website.

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There's a link there.

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Just type in the word

serve in our search bar.

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I'm sure you'll find one of our links that

gives you opportunity to set up for those.

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But let me ask you a couple

questions about this move, pastor pj.

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Okay.

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Why now?

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Why now?

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This is a situation where we feel

like, again, we've been growing.

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So there's a general rule of thumb

that says once you hit about 70 to 80%

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capacity in a room, somebody walking

in is gonna feel like, I don't know

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if there's enough room for me there.

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And we've been hitting that number.

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We've been bumping up against that

number pretty consistently now.

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So we feel like this is a good.

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Move just numbers wise for us to make.

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It also helps us to capitalize on

this push that we're making this year.

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I talked about it with our

church early on this year.

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I talked about it with our leaders,

but that idea of we wanna take next

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steps and one of the big things we

would love to see all of our people

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take next steps in is inviting people

to come and be part of our church

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family here at Compass Bible Church,

inviting people to come join our church.

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Sharing the gospel with people.

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We'd love for you to do that.

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That's a huge way we sure we would love

to see people come be a part of our church

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that are already believers, but I'd love

us to start filling up the baptism tanks

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with people that are getting saved.

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And so we wanna have room for

people to be able to come and be

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a part of what we're doing here.

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And it makes sense as well for

us to say, look, we've had our

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ministry volunteers and others

that for a long time have served.

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And again, like I was saying earlier,

they're not a part of the main worship

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service because they're serving.

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And so this is a good time for

us to say, okay, thank you guys.

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You guys have done such a great job.

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Don't stop, but hey, we

wanna do this for you.

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So now that you can be served in the

worship service as well some people

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might feel uncomfortable by this.

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You know, I like the

way it feels right now.

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I can see everybody every week.

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I'm afraid that when we move I'm

gonna be at one service and my best

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friends, they're gonna be at the other

service, and I'm just not gonna see the

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people that I'm always used to seeing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that is something that is always

a part of any sort of change.

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But again, if we understand what crisis

called us to as the church, which is

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the great commission, that we wanna be a

growing organism because healthy organisms

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grow, this is part of the growing pains.

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And so.

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If you've got people that you love and

you wanna say, Hey, I wanna be at the

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same service to them, maybe that's a

text message right now to say, Hey, which

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service are you planning on attending?

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'cause we would love to sync up together,

but I think for the majority of our

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people, one of the key points of emphasis

that we make every week is we want you to

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attend and then we want you to connect.

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And that connection point looks

like your community group.

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And so those are the relationships

that you will have still

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intact week in and week out.

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And we hope that you will be able

to attend your community group and

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you're gonna still discuss the same

sermon whether you are at the nine.

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O'clock or the 11 o'clock, it's

still gonna be the same sermon

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there, and you'll have those

connection points during the week.

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We think it'll be the same sermon.

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We think that's our expectation and

our eager anticipation and our prayer.

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This is a good thing.

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It is a good thing.

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This change is always hard because you're

comfortable with the way things are,

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but change is always the way things.

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Are.

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Yeah.

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Now, if there's anything consistent about

life is that things are always changing.

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The one thing that doesn't change

is that everything changes.

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So this is a good thing for us.

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It's a great way to change.

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It's a good move for the church.

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And so we're excited about it.

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We hope that you'll be excited with

us and that you'll pray for the

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transition as we all make these changes.

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Yes, it's gonna cost us initially a lot of

energy up front before we get settled and

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used to it, and then we enjoy it for the

next year or two, and then we add another

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service and we start changing again.

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And who knows what's gonna happen.

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Or maybe God will gift us a building.

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Wouldn't that be great?

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That would be amazing.

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God, just like, here's a building.

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All the parking.

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You need lots of space to expand,

but we're getting ahead of

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ourselves, so please pray for us.

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We're excited about this and

we trust that you are too.

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Yep.

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Amen.

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Well, we had a another question written

in from one of our devoted listeners.

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It's a stretch to call it a question.

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I think that's that's fair.

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Here's what one listener.

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I dunno, should I just

read this whole thing?

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Okay.

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Here's the question.

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Did any of Jesus disciples get baptized?

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I can't recall any record of it.

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Not even for Paul, which seemed like it

would've been simple to record since

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his entire conversion is recorded.

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Following up to that was it a big

deal for Jesus to be baptized and

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did the apostles get baptized?

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Do you think the apostles

were baptized by Jesus?

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Would there have been any issue

with Judas being baptized?

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So it's a lot of questions about baptism.

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Talk about baptism.

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Who's baptized?

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When did they get baptized?

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Why did they get baptized?

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Is there a difference between John's

baptism versus the baptism that we

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experienced today in the church?

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Did Jesus baptize anybody?

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Yeah.

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Lemme start the last part there with

John's baptism in the baptism of

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the church, there is a difference.

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In fact, we know that because

in the Book of Acts, there's a

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situation where there's a group that.

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Paul encounters on his missionary

journeys that have received the

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baptism of John, but they've not

yet received the baptism of faith.

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They've not been baptized as believers.

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So there is a baptism there.

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One of the questions was, was it a big

deal for Jesus to be baptized as a rabbi?

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Well, we have to remember when Jesus

was baptized, he really wasn't.

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At the status of being a rabbi.

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Yet this was the very beginning, the

very outset of his earthly ministry.

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And so he was still largely unknown.

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John the Baptist knew who he was,

but for the rest of the people, they

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really didn't know who Jesus was.

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He hadn't been on the Temple Mount holding

court and teaching, and he hadn't called

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the disciples yet to be his followers.

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So Jesus is really not yet

in the public eye as a rabbi

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being baptized by John here.

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Now as far as the evidence for the

apostles or the disciples there's

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really not much as far as evidence

that the 12 or, the 11 apostles

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after Judas and, then Paul's added

later on whether they were baptized.

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We don't have anything documented

specifically that says, yes,

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they were baptized here.

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If they were baptized during their

earthly ministry of Christ, it

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would've been with the baptism of John.

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It wouldn't have been with the

baptism of the church the way

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that we think about it today.

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Was that sufficient because

of that dispensation?

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Did that carry over as something

and that I don't know.

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Again, I'm gonna point to those in

the book of Acts that we have the

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baptism of John, but we haven't yet been

baptized as believers and say that it

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doesn't appear that it would've been.

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And so why don't we have it recorded?

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I'm not entirely sure.

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Now.

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We talked about it on Sunday, baptism.

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As the act, the water baptism,

baptism does not save us.

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Peter, when he says baptism, which

corresponds to this now saves

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you, he goes on to say not as a

removal of dirt from the body.

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So it's not water baptism

that he's talking about there.

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Spiritual baptism saves us being

placed into Christ, and that takes

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place at the moment of conversion.

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So I'm gonna answer it this way, and then

Pastor, I'd love to get your thoughts.

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My gut says yes.

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At some point they were

baptized as believers.

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Even though we don't have it

recorded, my gut says, I think

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it had to have taken place.

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Did Jesus do this?

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I don't know.

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It's possible.

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During his post-resurrection appearances,

that was something that he had done.

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He certainly at some point had to instruct

them as to what Christian baptism was.

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He commissions them in Matthew

28, so they had to have known.

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Why is this different from the baptism

of John that had to be conveyed

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to them at some point, maybe it

was then that they got baptized.

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My gut says they were baptized.

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I don't know why it's silent as

to when or how that took place.

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I'd say for sure they're baptized.

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I think for sure it wasn't

Jesus and I think for sure.

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I'm for sure.

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I don't know.

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That's my position.

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I think for sure they're baptized.

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I don't know that it would be Jesus only

because that sense of like, I was baptized

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by Jesus, I'm of Paul, I'm of Apollo.

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That same kind of Divis of spirit

I think was early in the church.

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In fact, that's, I'm getting it

from the book of Corinthians where

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Paul is saying, look guys, you're

making a big deal outta nothing.

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You know, who you're baptized by

is not important as much as you're

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baptized into the spirit of God.

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And the father and the son.

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I think yes, they had to have been

absolutely for sure they had to have

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been, 'cause this was Jesus' command.

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But whether it was Jesus who

did it, I think I would almost,

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if I were a betting man, I bet

money, it wasn't Jesus who did it.

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I think he would've had someone else do

it just like he had John baptize him.

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Oh, sorry.

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Let me, I'm getting my wires crossed.

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Just like Paul said to the church, like,

I'm glad I only baptized a few of you.

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Yeah.

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But these other guys, I

think it's a similar thing.

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Yeah.

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And again, hitting all these

different threads of the questions.

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The question about Judas, well, Judas

wouldn't have received Christian baptism

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because it wasn't in action at that point.

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So if Judas was baptized,

it was the baptism of John.

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It wasn't the baptism in the church.

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Right.

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I would agree with you.

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Judas would not have been baptized.

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Yeah.

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Not as a Christian.

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That is, you're right.

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Right.

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So anyways.

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If you've got follow up to those questions

to those answers, I guess I should say,

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if you wanna be baptized, let us know.

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Se sign up?

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Yes, go to compass north Texas ntx.org.

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Org slash baptisms, I guess.

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Yeah, that's my guess.

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Yeah, baptisms, that's another thing

that'll look different with two

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services, so we're working out some of

the shifts and the transitions here.

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But yeah, definitely something

we're still gonna do.

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All right, well, let's jump

into our DBR for today.

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We've got numbers, chapters eight

through 10, and mark chapter five.

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So numbers, chapter eight opens

with reference to the lamps.

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And again, the lamps were there to

provide light within the tabernacle.

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There God is God of light.

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And then we get the instructions,

how to separate the Levites, to

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cleanse the Levites, and that's

the word that's used in verse 14.

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Thus, you shall set.

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The Levites from among the people of

Israel and the Levites shall be mine.

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Just again, the idea of consecration.

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This is something that is hitting

home for me over and over again as I'm

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reading about the tabernacle and these

laws that God cares about his people

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being set apart for him, for his use.

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Now, this was the Levites.

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They were unique.

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But as Christians, we are.

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Consecrated, we are called to be

set apart for use by the Lord.

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And so in that sense, all of

us need to be ready for that.

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Now, our cleansing doesn't come

from the blood of bulls and goats.

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Our cleansing comes from Christ.

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Our cleansing comes from the sacrifice,

the once for all sacrifice, even as

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we talked about this past weekend

on Sunday, that has defeated sin

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and death for us and, and made us

part of the, the kingdom of God.

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And now we are set apart to be

useful to the Lord, to serve him.

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Much in the same way that the

Levites have been set apart to be

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useful to God and to serve him.

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Now, he talks about Moses

does here from the Lord.

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The instructions for the retirement

of the Levites, the Levites

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were to serve from 25 till 50.

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As a Christian, there's no retirement

from Christianity, and so you're

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not gonna reach an age where we're

gonna say, Hey, you know what?

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You've done enough for the church,

you've done enough for the Lord.

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We don't need you to

serve the Lord anymore.

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You can just kind of kick back and

ride it out until the Lord calls

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you home and that's one of the

beautiful things about the church.

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We talked about it different

yesterday, all the various differences

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and gifts that are in the church.

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The older saints that are among

us have so much to offer us.

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And so this is something that's

beautiful for us as Christians to know.

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We never get sidelined and

it's time to retire from you

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being a part of the church.

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Yeah.

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If you're a careful reader of the

Bible, you might notice that there's

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a different number here than what

was read just a few days ago.

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In numbers chapter four here, Moses says,

or rather the Lord spoke to Moses and

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saying they're gonna be between 25 and 50.

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And yet, a few days ago, what we read

was that they would be 30 years old

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up till 50 in numbers chapter four.

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So what gives, and the

short answer is, huh?

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I don't know.

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Yeah.

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The ESV study Bible suggests that maybe

there's a five year apprenticeship and

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I think Okay, that's, that sounds good.

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There's nothing that tells us this.

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And this is one of those things

again, that women at the 10 entrance

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of the tabernacle, this could be

another one of those, like everybody

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knew what was going on here.

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But we're reading it

saying, why does this say 25?

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In fact, if you want to throw

some more wood on the fire here one

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Chronicles says that the Levites

were counted 30 years old and upward.

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That one, that one's consistent

with numbers four, and their

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total was X number of people.

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But in one Chronicles 2324, it says

that the sons of Levi, by their

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father's houses, yada, yada, yada,

they were counted from 20 years old

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and upward, who were to do the work for

the service of the house of the Lord.

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So that in first Chronicles

23, 24 says it'll be 20.

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So we have different numbers.

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20, 25 and 30.

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I don't know how to put them

together except to say that clearly

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they understood what that meant.

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They had a sense of like, oh

yeah, this makes perfect sense.

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We all know it's what's happening here.

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Well, we don't.

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Best thing we could say is maybe

there's an apprenticeship, maybe

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there's a five years before the

apprenticeship, and then maybe

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between 25 and 30 you're a journeyman.

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And then from 30 years to 50 years,

you're actually on the field by yourself.

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I don't know.

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There's just so many questions I have, I

don't know how to answer them succinctly.

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So how does that then, for

you, not cause your faith to

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be shaken when you have that?

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No, I, and I just explained the

way that I rationalize, that I

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assume there's information here

that I don't have access to.

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Okay.

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And the fact that this isn't

a letter to me, numbers is

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written what 3500 years ago.

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So there's a lot of distance between

when the original audience got this

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and when I get it I can get a text, I

can be in a text thread and, and look

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back at texts that were sent a week

ago and be like, what is happening?

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Who's saying what?

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Yeah, I can be confused

at something a week old.

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Something 3,500 years old, I can have a

lot more confusion and be okay with that.

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Because it doesn't threaten my faith.

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It doesn't change the essential component

here, which is that the God gave a Levites

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a certain timeframe where they could work.

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It was the prime.

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Years of their lives.

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In fact, their, their age range

was probably shorter than ours.

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So it was basically the duration of their

lives that said, I don't struggle with

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it because it doesn't have anything to

do with the primary aspects of my faith.

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And I can easily look at this

and say there's something there

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that I don't see that they saw.

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And everyone understood that.

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And I wonder, I haven't looked

through my books on logos.

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To look at all the options here,

but maybe someone else has put

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together a really good answer to

this that would make it make sense.

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I trust that the answers are out there.

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I'm not the first person

to ask it and not the last.

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And because of that, so many

Christians have already answered

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things like this before.

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And give me a confidence that

I'm not doing this alone.

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It's helpful.

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Your turn?

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Yeah.

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Chapter nine.

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Oh, you're not gonna answer.

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You're not gonna do,

you're not gonna do yours.

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I think you answered it.

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The way I would answer it.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah, same, the, the, the

way I said it, you would say

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verbatim exactly the same way.

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Verbatim.

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Yes.

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That's what I thought, man.

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Word for word plenary.

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Exactly.

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Chapter nine, these are instructions

for the keeping of the Passover.

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Notice we are in year two now

after the Exodus, and so that's

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an interesting time marker.

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Because Exodus, it seems like it

was a long time ago for us, but

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we're just year two here in 1445.

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Chapter nine.

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Yeah.

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DC so that would've been 1443.

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Right.

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4 14, 43 44.

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Yeah.

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Depending on somewhere, thereabouts.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So this is the beginning

of year two BC bc, not CD d.

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And not b, CE, either true not BCE.

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Before Christ.

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Before Christ.

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Right.

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Thank you very much.

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And so these instructions are given

and yet some people have some questions

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and this is God condescending to the

nation because he shows some patience

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here in Acquiesces a little bit

because there's a question about, well,

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what if I'm unclean when it's time to

celebrate the Passover and then God.

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Provides and says, you know what?

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I'm gonna make provision for you.

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You can still celebrate.

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You're gonna celebrate it a month later.

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You're still gonna go through everything

else, but this is gonna be a month later

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so that you can still observe this.

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God doesn't cut his people off from

among them if they're unclean during

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the observance of the Passover.

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He doesn't say, well, you

just miss it completely.

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He allows them to say, okay, yeah,

you can celebrate it a month later.

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That's okay.

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And that shows there's some

flexibility in these things.

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We don't have to be locked tight

and rigid on the day, and even the

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writer of Colossians talks about

and warns us about that, about.

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Stressing a day or a specific event

as higher than others and emphasizing

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that to a legalistic standard there.

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Yeah, it sounds like Romans 14 as well.

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One person esteems one day as more

significant than another, while another

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right esteems all days alike let each

one be fully convinced in his own mind.

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What I find fascinating about this,

again, when God talks about this, he

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says it forcefully and authoritatively

like this is the way it is.

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And yet what we see here is God

saying, well, there's a little bit

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of wiggle room here for good reason.

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Yeah.

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For reasons.

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That makes sense.

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This is not like, oh, I've got a cough.

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I can't do this.

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There's other times where God

says things like, on these

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days you're gonna celebrate.

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Yep.

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If you're morning, you have to

celebrate this because this is worth it.

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Here.

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I love the varied nature of God, the

way that he interacts with his people.

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This is a living God.

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Again, he's not cookie cutter.

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He's not the kind of God that

you put in a box and say, this is

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exactly how he works all the time.

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He's compassionate.

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He's flexible like a father would be.

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He's not undisciplined.

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He's just, he's treating

his people like people.

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Yeah.

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And he's honoring the differences.

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And he says, look, I'm gonna let you honor

me by being part of the Passover, and

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I'm gonna let you do it a month later.

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Well, what's interesting

though, he said, it is a month.

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Why not a week?

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You know, why not eight days later?

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Yeah.

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He says A month, I'm gonna give

you a month to sort your situation

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and then do it the second month.

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Fascinating.

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Yeah.

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In the rest of chapter nine and then

into chapter 10, we get the preparation

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for Israel to depart Sinai, and then

they're actually gonna leave Sinai.

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So the initial preparation we get

is the GPS, the God positioning

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system, that the cloud is gonna be

there by day and the fire by night.

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Did you work on that?

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I just, I came reading it.

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I wrote in the margin of my Bible.

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Oh, you wrote, okay, so you wrote

it in the margin, your Bible.

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'cause I wanted to say it.

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You were so pleased with yourself.

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I was like, and this is gonna be good.

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This is I could tell you, you

worked up to that the God position.

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I, I saw that in your face.

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Anyways.

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So that's the rest of chapter nine , the

cloud and the fire's gonna move.

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And again, I think this is part of

God's condescension to his people.

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To allow them to see a visual

representation of his presence

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would've been a comfort to them.

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And so, rather than just an invisible,

okay, just trust that I'm here and I

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talk to this Moses guy, every once in a

while, the common Israelite is able to

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look and see there's the cloud, there's

the pillar, and have the presence.

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And have the comfort

to know God is with us.

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And so God is preparing them for that.

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And then the silver Trumpets, which

is going to be part of the process

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of the organization of the key.

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When it's time to leave, when it's

time to settle, when it's time to

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go to war the direction, the order

that we've been talking about.

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And then finally in chapter 10, in

the second year, the second month,

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the 20th day, the cloud lifted

and they set out from Sinai.

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So this is at this point, them getting

ready to head towards the promised land.

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Now we know that's gonna take some

roundabout ways to get there for

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purposes of God's discipline over the

generation that grumbled against him.

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But they're at least beginning

to move towards that end

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of saying it's time to go.

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But they've been at some.

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And I, since the giving of the 10

Commandments back into Exodus chapter 20.

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So it seems like a lot of time has

passed, but they're now getting ready to

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go and head towards the promised land.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that's cool in

addition to God positioning system.

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The GPS that you talked about here.

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I notice here in verse 19 it was God

himself who controlled their pace.

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I think that'll preach for a lot of us.

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Sometimes we're ahead of the

Lord, sometimes we're behind him.

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What he wants to do is control

our pace, and that often means

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just being patient, letting him

tell us when to go, when to stop.

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All those things.

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So I saw that, that was cool.

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They kept the charge of the Lord at

the command of the Lord by Moses.

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This is at the end of

chapter nine, verse 23.

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I thought that was significant because

they're often, again, not that they're

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not doing that, but this is one of

their highlights among many low lights.

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Another thing that the silver trumpets

here that the reason that the trumpets.

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Or sounded among, among a few

of them, they're offered here.

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He says you're doing this, that

they shall sound an alarm with

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the trumpets, that you may be

remembered before the Lord your God.

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So this is a way for them to

arouse their God, so to speak.

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Interesting because you

don't see this a lot.

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It's say like, Hey, play the

guitar so that you can have

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the Lord remember who you are.

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It's not like that.

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This is a way for them to

connect with their Lord.

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And of course, this is a

kind of worship to the Lord.

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So I think that's really

cool and interesting.

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That's, it's unusual.

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Mm-hmm.

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I don't read that in a lot of other

places in the Bible, and I found that.

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Wording fascinating.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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He says, they shall be a reminder

of you before the Lord your God.

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I am the Lord your God.

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So, really cool.

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Yeah.

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And hoba, the guide in the end

of chapter 10 there, who knows the

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land really well, and Moses says,

Hey, why don't you stick around?

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Why don't you stick around?

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You can help guide us as we go

through here, which is an interesting

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component as well, is, okay,

so here's something else with that.

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I remember reading and someone

using hoba as an indication that

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Christians believers in general, 'cause

obviously these are not Christians.

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Believers in general should make use

of resources outside of scripture

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because God does not intend to give us

everything that we need from scripture

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as it pertains to life and godliness.

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Yes.

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Second Peter one, three.

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But as it pertains to almost everything

else in the world in terms of like

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operating in the way that God has

designed it God was leading them.

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Right.

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And yet he said, Hey

man, do you stay here?

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We can use you now.

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I would think if I'm God, well hold on

a second here , I was doing this right.

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What are we doing?

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A GPS thing.

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Pastor Pian made a joke about

it and yet he asked hoax.

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So I think this tells

me, see, this is complex.

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I love this.

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There is a deep trust in the

Lord, but you still go to the

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doctor and get the checkup.

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Yeah.

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There's a deep trust in the Lord, but

you still get your GPS on your car.

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Yeah.

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There's a deep trust in the Lord.

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And yet you still ask Hoba to

lead you through the wilderness.

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Yeah.

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I think this is phenomenal.

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It's a great point.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Mark Chapter five, new Testament

reading Warren verses one through 20.

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It's really one account here and

it's one that we've encountered

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before in Matthew, and this is

the healing of the Garrison Democ.

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Now in some accounts there's one,

in other accounts there's two,

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and here we find one we find.

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This man singular.

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In other accounts, does Matthew have two?

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I can't recall if Matthew

has two or Luke does.

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I think it's Matthew.

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Yeah, I think, and so we have to

again say, and this is appropriate.

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We talked about textual

criticism yesterday.

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What do we do with this?

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There's one here, there's two in that one.

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Peter doesn't, or this is

Peter's account through Mark.

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By the way, mark doesn't record

for us that there was only one

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and one only, and there wasn't two.

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And don't even suggest that there's two.

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And if you say that

there's two, you're wrong.

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Mark simply highlights

one that we see here.

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Matthew Records, there's two.

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Mark is saying, Hey, there's one here.

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And this may have been the

one that was the spokesman.

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If there were two, and we can believe that

there were, because Matthew said there

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were, then this appears to be the one

that this is the spokesman and this is the

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one that Mark's gonna choose to record.

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This is the one if Peter is

the one helping Mark do this

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and Marcus Peter's biography.

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This is the one Peter remembered.

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And so Mark sit down to record

these things in these events.

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I think it's fascinating.

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Hear that the demon.

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Doesn't, the demon submits to Christ,

and yet I found it uncomfortable when

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the demon says, I adjure you by God.

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Do not torment me.

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The demon doesn't have authority

to aju Christ to do anything.

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And so this is the rebelliousness of the

evil spirit here that we see in verse.

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Seven as he's responding to Jesus,

telling the demon, come out of

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the man and the the demon says,

Iju you by God, don't torment me.

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That's an interesting interaction.

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This is so much fun to

think about and here's why.

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I've thought about this a lot, only

because what they say really bothers me.

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Actually what is said in verse eight?

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Did you notice this?

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Verse eight?

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For, he was saying for, he was saying,

well, we talked about this before.

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Yeah.

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Jesus said it more than once.

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At least that's the

way I interpret that.

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Jesus was saying more than once,

come out, come out of him, come

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outta the man, you unclean spirit.

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So we find out that there's

more than one spirit there.

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So it's very possible that

maybe one was leading.

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Who he was talking to, departed.

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And because Allegion can be thousands,

maybe there is lots of demons in this guy,

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which would explain his unusual strength,

his cutting symbolizing kind of a

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distress, a horror, and he was sleepless,

which means he also had some kind of a

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supernatural energy that carried him.

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And on top of that, the strength as well.

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So all this this whole scenario,

I'm reading a book right now

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about the first century cultural

aspects of the New Testament.

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And I wonder if they're aduring

him by God saying, look, I

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appeal to you on God's authority.

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A joy I know is I'm

putting you under oath.

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Essentially, if it's an honor, shame

thing where they're saying, look, on

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the honor of God, he has prescribed

our day, and that day's not yet.

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So because of that day not being

yet, and you're here, please

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don't dispose of us in that way.

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So I appeal to the honor of God,

which I know you're tight with.

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Don't treat us the way that he

says he's going to later right now.

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Does that make sense?

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Yeah.

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I could see that being a situation here.

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The whole thing is fascinating.

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Yeah.

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He's in gentile territory, which is more

because that's where you get the pigs

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and this whole dynamic is just endlessly.

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I'm like, what's going on?

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Tell me more.

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And to your point, there's 2000 pigs.

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That rush over the cliff now.

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Right.

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Did the 2000, were there 2000

demons or did the other pigs just

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get caught up in the stampede?

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Yeah.

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We don't know, but 2000 of 'em

rush over the edge of the cliff.

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That's something that, that

that totally something.

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In fact, that's the whole reason

they don't want 'em to stay.

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Right.

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They were so concerned with

their financial loss mm-hmm.

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That they didn't want Jesus,

the son of God, the son of man

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who just healed these two guys.

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Right.

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I mean, and, and everyone saw it.

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In fact, if you wanna have, do

something fun, circle the word begged.

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Begged happens three times

here and everyone's begging.

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But not everyone's begging

for the right thing right now.

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Jesus does tell these guys to go and

make it known what he's done for them.

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And I think because this is Gentile

territory, I think that's why.

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Hmm.

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Because this is a different situation.

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They're gonna go throughout the de

capitalis, that's gentile regions

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to tell other people about Jesus.

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And so this isn't Jewish territory.

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This is Gentile territory.

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Right.

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And he tells the Gentiles,

yeah, go tell others.

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Go tell other gentiles

what God has done for you.

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Right.

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This whole scene is so beautiful because

these, again, these are gentiles.

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This is Jesus showing his

power among the Gentiles.

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This is the beginning of his outreach

efforts to the Gentile territory.

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To this point, I don't think we have

any other gentile interactions in Mark.

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So Jesus is primarily an

Israelite Messiah.

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But here we begin to see glimpses that

Jesus is more than just a tribal God.

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He's the God of all creation

and of all peoples, including

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the people from the Gris.

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Yeah.

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Well, hey, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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Lord, we thank you that you are the

God of all, that you are the God of us.

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If we have repented from our sins

and put our faith in Jesus Christ,

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you're not only our God, but

also our savior through Christ.

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And so we just pray, Lord, that you

would help us to live faithful to you

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and we want to be obedient to you.

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We want to follow what you have.

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For us, especially as believers, we

want to devote ourselves even as we were

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talking about the Levites earlier, we want

to devote ourselves to service to you with

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our entire lives, with our entire being.

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So help us be faithful followers of

Christ for praying Jesus' name, amen.

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