00:00 Welcome and Intro

00:26 Casual Coffee Chat

01:02 Birthday Chat

01:48 New Office Excitement

02:33 Discussion on Exodus 33

04:49 Moses and God's Glory

07:53 Renewal of the Covenant

10:39 Tabernacle Construction

12:10 Concluding Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody, welcome back to another

edition of the daily bible podcast.

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Yes, indeed.

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Of our, like our new office.

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I'm excited about that.

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I'm excited about that too.

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I can't wait to have some more space.

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I was just sitting in my office

today and just, I hit the wall when I

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I hope that I was thinking about

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in, they had those weird, like wooden

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I think they were.

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Yep.

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For sure.

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Hey X is 33, 34, 35.

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All right.

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So we're, we're, we're leaving Sana here.

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As the ESV superscript what's

above it's at a super sub.

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So yeah.

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Superscript title.

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Title, section, header, yeah,

those are better than superscript.

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But this is a cool chapter in

chapter 33, coming off of chapter

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32, which is low point chapter 33.

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Just a cool chapter.

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So showing some of the, just the intimacy

that Moses shared with God it says in this

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chapter that God used to speak to him face

to face as a man speaks to his friend.

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That's incredible.

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In fact, we just talked about that

yesterday at church that, that.

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There's that desire that we

have to say, that would be cool.

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I wish that God would speak to me face to

face as, as a man speaks with his friend.

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And as I said in the sermon yesterday,

just to harken back to that, I

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think what that reveals to us is

that when we have that desire,

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when we read this and say, man.

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That would be cool.

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I think it reveals a deficiency in

our understanding of the nature of the

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spirit's work and the nature of scripture.

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I think Moses would look at us holding

the Bible in our hands and say, man,

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how great would that be to have God's

revealed word in written form and be

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able to just carry it with you wherever

you go and you've got it there and

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you have the access to the mind of God

in the pages of scripture and beyond

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that, you've got the spirit dwelling

within you permanently as Christians

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to help you understand these things.

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Just.

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But my son Joshua was asking me on

Saturday, he asked me the question.

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He said, when did Moses

write all of these things?

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Insightful question.

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Good question to ask because we

believe Moses wrote the first

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five books of the Pentateuch.

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And I don't think he sat down and

wrote it all in one fell swoop.

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But I'm thinking that as he went in

in these times to meet with God face

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to face, that these were some of the

times that God was unpacking for him and

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revealing to him all that he had done.

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When you consider all of Joseph's

life and, and, you know, from

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the very beginning, Adam and Eve

creation, everything else like that.

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When did Moses learn all that?

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I think it's in these

times, like we see in.

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Chapter 33 and other times where he's

having these conversations with God,

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where I think God is revealing to him,

that's going to be what he's going to use

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to produce the first five books there.

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Absolutely.

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And on top of that, he probably

had some editorial help.

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Certainly he had help at the end of his

five books when he records his death.

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Yeah, he didn't write that

pretty sure about that.

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So even with him writing it and being

the primary author behind it, we would

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still be able to say there's room for

editorial help that doesn't compromise

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The the authorial intent of God.

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Hey, quick question here.

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It talks about Moses meeting God

face to face and yet in verse 20 God

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says you can't see my face and live.

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So how do we put those

two pieces together?

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Clearly moses is contradicting himself.

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The bible's not real

christianity's not true.

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Let's just throw the whole thing out get

rid of it Yeah, I had a note on that too.

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It's clearly it's metaphorical and I

think I think sometimes we assume that

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we are far more advanced than people in

the olden days, if I can put it that way,

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were the Israelites understood metaphor.

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They understood when he said,

yeah, face to face that, that,

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that wasn't literally face to face.

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So when we read that and then we

see verse 20, this is scripture

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helping us interpret scripture.

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And so that means, okay, this was just

the, the closeness that Moses felt

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with God that he's stressing there,

the intimacy that he felt with God that

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he's stressing there, not literally,

I'm seeing God's face, especially

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John four, got a spirit, doesn't

have a face, doesn't have a face.

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No.

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And so even if it were to be in the

physical presence, in that sense,

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he wouldn't behold a physical

face, which makes it interesting.

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Cause Moses says, Lord,

I want to see your glory.

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And that's where we get in here.

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And then in chapter 34, where God.

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Answers that prayer and says I'm going

to reveal myself to you, but I'm going

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to show you the backside of my glory What

what does that mean because he doesn't

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have a backside because he's spirit the

the eminence the presence that the the

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I think we see some of it in ezekiel

whereas ezekiel's describing the throne

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and some of the colors and brilliance

and everything like that, I think that's

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as close as we might be able to get as

far as a parallel of of How he could

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have conceived of a person Physical

emanation or physical presence of God.

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Yeah.

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I think there's probably the

difference between mitigated and

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unmitigated displays of his glory.

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Moses is asking, show me your

unmitigated, unfiltered, full throttle,

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eight K 16 K, whatever the number

is, give me all of your glory that.

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That you have let me see that And

god's like bro, you don't know

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what you're asking for step back.

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You couldn't handle it And so god says

look I will give you not unmitigated

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display of my glory, but i'll give you

a mitigated I'm gonna give you a taste

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of it a costco size sampler so that you

understand some of it But you will never

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be able to see it at least this side of

eternity Which I think this is one of the

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hopes of the christian life is that we

will get to see his face to face We will

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get to experience his glory Unmitigated

because we will be prepared by the spirit

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glorified such that we can receive it,

enjoy it and respond to it appropriately.

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And I look forward to that day

probably more than anything else.

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That's I'm excited to see what that is.

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If it would destroy us in our

flesh and it would encourage us

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and enlighten us in our, I don't

know, our renewed bodies, then that

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sounds pretty, pretty excited to me.

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Yeah.

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And I think a lot of it is, is.

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At least in my mind I often think about

light when it comes to his glory and

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that's connected to the scriptures

the concept of shekinah is the glory

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the the brilliance of light or even

in eternity where John says I saw no

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temple In or I saw no there was no sun.

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That's what there's no sun because

the The glory of God is there.

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And so the emanation of light coming

from God himself is part of what is, is

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wrapped up in the glory of God, because

it is a unique concept to think about.

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Okay.

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What is the glory of God look like?

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And I think blinding light is, is a

part of that, you know, even Jesus,

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when he's transfigured on the Mount

of Transfiguration, it says that his

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clothes became so white as, as no

fuller, no bleacher, no launderer on

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earth could ever bleach them, just the

brilliance of his purity displayed there.

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But it is going to be amazing

to behold that in whatever

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capacity that we can behold that.

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It's exciting.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 34 also contains the covenant

being renewed or reconfirmed.

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Yahweh brings Moses up on the

mountain again and rewrites

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the law on two new tablets.

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Cause we didn't mention that, but

Moses smashed the previous ones.

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In fact, God, God calls him out for that.

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He's like the tablets that you

broke Moses, seriously, did

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you not see why I broke them?

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But yeah, this is the

tablets that you broke.

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And so he replaces those he proclaims

his promise to bring the people again

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into the land, to exchange their

faithfulness to his laws and their

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devotion in their worship frame.

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So again, the, the mosaic covenant is a.

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A bilateral covenant.

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It's not unilateral the way

the Abrahamic covenant was.

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The Mosaic covenant is you

do this, I will do this.

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And so the land promise of the Abrahamic

covenant is now, as far as temporarily,

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at least connected to contingencies.

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And I say temporarily because God

is going to fulfill the Abrahamic

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covenant, no matter what the

question is when, and so it's.

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Temporally contingent upon Israel's

faithfulness in the Mosaic covenant.

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And so it's the Mosaic covenant,

as we were talking about earlier

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is nestled within the promises

of the Abrahamic covenant.

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And it's, it's the question becomes

whether or not Israel is going to

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realize the blessings of the Abrahamic

covenant through the obedience

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to the Mosaic covenant right now.

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Talk about easy Exodus

34 verses six and seven.

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The Lord passed before him and proclaim

the Lord, the Lord of God, merciful and

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gracious, slow to anger and abounding

and steadfast love and faithfulness.

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We love that part.

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Verse seven, keeping

steadfast love for thousands.

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We also like that forgiving

iniquity and transgression.

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And sin, but who will by no means

clear the guilty, visiting the

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iniquity of the fathers on the children

and the children's children to the

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third and to the fourth generation.

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How do we understand that in light

of the fact that God says that he

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doesn't, he, he doesn't visit the

sins of the fathers on the children.

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I think of chapters like, like that.

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Oh, man.

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Just losing my mind here.

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Ezekiel 18, I think it is where he

says that he's not going to do that.

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So how do we put these

two things together?

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Yeah, I think that the responsibility

of the heads of the household, the

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responsibility of the leaders of

the household, when sins can become

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generational sins, because in the

family it's, it's witnessed, it's

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observed, it's seen, and it's passed

on in that sense from one to another.

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It's a pattern, right?

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It's and what's, what's.

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Learned is not only what's

taught, but also what's caught.

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And so as, as our kids see sin patterns

in our life, how many times have we

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looked at our kids, especially as

they grow older and we see something

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in them and we're like, Oh man.

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I got that for me.

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Yeah, they got that for

me and I wish they hadn't.

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Yeah, I think that's what's on in in

view Here is when we're rebellious man,

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the consequences are more than just

our relationship with God But it's also

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the impact on on our families and the

future and what they're seeing from

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us I mean, we're gonna get into the

law and not too long and Deuteronomy

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6 where he's gonna say Here's what

you need to be doing You need to be

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teaching them and teaching your kids the

commandments and the laws and everything

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else like that if you don't If you do,

it's going to have positive impacts.

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If you don't, it's going

to have negative impacts.

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And I think that's what's in view here.

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That's helpful.

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Chapter 35.

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Then we get into the materials for

the construction of the tabernacle.

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And these are collected from the people.

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And again, this chapter emphasizes the

free will nature of these offerings.

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Everyone whose heart moved them,

everyone who desired to give did so.

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And so in chapter 35, we kind of get

the inventory of what the Israelites

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brought to contribute to the construction.

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The building of the tabernacle

itself, which we're going to

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get into in tomorrow's episode.

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Yeah.

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And there's going to be a lot of

repetition here just to heads up again,

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when you read these things, it's meant to

showcase Israel's doing the right thing.

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This is what God commanded them to do.

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This is what they built obeying the words

of Moses, obeying the words of the Lord.

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So even though it's a bit repetitive,

I think it'd be worth you at least

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marking your Bible Oh, God said this in

Exodus chapter 27 and here they fulfill

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it in this particular chapter here.

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So be prepared for some repetition,

but just know it's okay.

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This is what God intended for

us to see and he wants to show

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Israel doing the right thing here.

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Yeah.

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In fact, I was thinking about that.

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I think yesterday, well, yesterday

as we record this Friday morning, Dr.

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Mueller's episode of the briefing.

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There was a question from somebody

who wrote and said, what do we do

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with some of the more as they turn

them boring parts of the, the old

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Testament law, the repetitive parts.

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And Mueller's point was similar.

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He said, you know, this is God's,

he's doing this on purpose.

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He wants us to pay

attention to his detail.

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He's not like the other nations, the

other nations, you know, people sat

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there and said, well, let's figure

out how we want to worship God.

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The gods that we're creating

of our own, of our own mind.

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God saying, I'm not going to

let you sit back and think about

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how you want to worship me.

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I'm going to tell you how

you're going to worship me.

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And so that's part of the prescriptions

here in the laws and the descriptions

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and God saying, this is the

tabernacle I want to be worshiped in.

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And this is how I want it to look.

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And so this is what it's going to be

because I'm a holy God and you will

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love me and you will serve me that way.

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I'm into that.

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All right, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for another another

episode of this podcast, being able

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to do that and do this for our church.

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We're grateful for that.

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We are thankful that we get to worship

you with a little bit more freedom in,

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in a different context than they did

because we're on the backside of the cross

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because we know Christ is our savior.

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And so we are grateful Lord, certainly

for that future that we are anticipating

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and praying for when we will be in your

presence and see your, your full glory and

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whatever that is going to be like for us.

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What an amazing reality

that is even revelation 21.

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one, that the first time ever that it

will be said that God, the dwelling

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place of God is with man permanently

will be there on the new earth.

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And so we are longing for that

day and praying for that day.

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In the meantime, help us to be

found faithful as I often pray.

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We ask this in Jesus name, amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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