00:00 Welcome Back + Today’s Listener Question on Bible Discrepancies

00:31 Textual Criticism 101: What “Variants” Are (and How Many Exist)

01:26 Why We Can Trust the Text: Manuscripts, Dating, and Consistency

02:45 Old Testament Manuscripts & the Dead Sea Scrolls Reliability Boost

04:17 Big-Passage Variants: John 8 and the Ending of Mark

05:20 Helpful Resources + Interpreting Scholarship Carefully

06:20 “No Brute Facts”: Worldviews, Interpretation, and Knowing Reality

10:22 Today’s Reading Begins: Numbers 7 and the Tabernacle Dedication

11:29 Hearing God’s Voice: Awe, Spiritual Warfare, and Counterfeits

13:21 Gifts Distributed by God: Levites, Unequal Portions, and the Church Body

15:56 Mark 4 Parables: Lamps, Seeds, and the Mustard-Seed Kingdom Growth

18:29 Calming the Storm + Final Takeaway and Prayer

20:49 Closing, Subscribe, and Ministry Outro

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hey folks.

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Welcome to Sunday's edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up?

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We're glad you're back with us.

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And we are back in numbers and Mark, but

we, we did have a couple of questions

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written in, so we'll tackle one today and,

and we will get to the other one tomorrow.

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Alright.

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The first one is this.

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Yep.

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If there is such a thing as a

discrepancy or critique in the

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Bible, how often does that happen?

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It's a good question.

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And how can we know that some of

the bigger things haven't been

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altered by different authors

since they were first established?

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Yeah, so it's a, a great question.

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This is building on what we were

talking about a couple episodes ago,

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I believe, with textual criticism.

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That's right.

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And textual criticism, as we mentioned,

is not something that we need to

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fear or something that we need to be.

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Skeptical of or, or to

make us doubt our text.

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In fact, it's, it's quite the opposite.

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We're not exactly sure how

many variants there are.

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A variant is what we're talking

about, a discrepancy in the text.

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And so a variant could be anything.

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That could be something with word order.

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It could be spelling.

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It could be an emission here or there.

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It could be an.

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Addition, in the text there's anywhere,

for example, in the New Testament,

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between 300 and 400,000 variants.

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That number sounds like, oh, man, can

we trust anything until you realize

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that so many of those are very small and

we're dealing with a lot of manuscripts,

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and that's one of the reasons why

we have so many different variants.

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Some of the other texts that

you're gonna find out there,

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historical texts or literary

texts, don't have nearly as number.

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As many variants because they don't

have nearly as many manuscript copies.

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When we talk about the New Testament

we're dealing with, we have

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somewhere around 5,500 to 6,000 Greek

manuscripts of the New Testament.

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That should give us a great deal of

certainty about the Bible that we

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have because we have those manuscripts

stretching of our vast period of time.

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I think the earliest editions of the

gospels that we have, we have fragments

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that are from the first century ad

of, I believe, the gospel of John.

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And so we can look at at at elements

that go all the way back there.

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And all the way forward and we

can compare these manuscripts that

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stretch the, the timeframe here.

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So the question is how do we know

something hasn't been altered?

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And, and that's one of the answers, is

because you have things that some of these

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manuscripts written within 50, 60 years of

the eyewitnesses of the autographs, when

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the autographs would've been written, the

autographs being the original documents.

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We don't have original documents on

any of the Bible books, but we have

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copies that are very near to those.

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And you have things that were

written within the time that

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these eyewitnesses that heard the

originals that were there to witness

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these things, were still living.

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And then we can see that they're

consistent across the board, across

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thousands of years now of church history,

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So especially with the New Testament,

we have such a strong, I believe it's

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a 98 to 99% degree of certainty that

what we have in our, english standard

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version that we're reading though it's

a translation is what was originally

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written by the authors of the Bible.

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In the Old Testament, it's a little

bit different, a little bit trickier

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because we're dealing with a lot of

material that was written on papyrus

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early on, and so that was an organic

material that naturally decayed.

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And so we don't have as many

manuscript copies of the Old Testament.

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However, the oldest manuscript that we had

for a long time before we found the Dead

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Sea Scrolls was about a thousand years.

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Newer than the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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Well, when the Dead Sea Scrolls

were found, which contained the Old

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Testament, there was a, a match.

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There was a a, an agreement between that

previously oldest manuscript that was a

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thousand year gap in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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So.

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We have an an immense degree of, of

reliability and trustworthiness in

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our Bibles, and we can read it and

we can look back and say, okay, there

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haven't been massive alterations.

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And you can guarantee there's enough

enemies of Christianity out there that

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if there were any massive discrepancies

in manuscripts to be able to hold up to

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say, look, this, this manuscript said

Jesus didn't die, or this manuscript said

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that Jesus didn't ever claim to be God.

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The enemies of the church

would immediately be.

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Putting it front and center

and saying, look at this.

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The reality is we have manuscripts that

agree, there's a lot of differences.

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Word order, spelling, vari variations

here and there, but nothing

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that undermines the substance of

what it means to be a believer.

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So that is the process

of textual criticism.

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That's what we were talking about

the last time this came up and.

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What we're saying here is that

really the fact that we have so

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many manuscripts is the reason we

have so many of these variations.

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But that's actually the very reason

we're confident that what we have is

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close to the original, close enough

where we could say we have confidence.

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We have the original information there.

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There's questions in some larger passages

like we mentioned John nine and the, the

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woman caught in adultery, and then the end

of Mark 16, the ending of, of Mark, where

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the last, what, 15 verses or so mm-hmm.

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Are disputed.

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In fact, those are probably certainly

not part of the gospel of Mark.

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All that said, though, what we do have,

we have great confidence in, because there

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are so many copies, it would be impossible

to add something to the scriptures or take

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it away without somebody noticing people.

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Copy these things by hand.

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We're not photocopying, you're not

copying and pasting into a text

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thread because it was copied by hand.

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All there were so many proliferations of

these copies that it was just impossible

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to add or take away from the times that

we do have some of these, again, the

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John nine and then mark 16 or because

of later editions where someone's like,

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I don't know where this piece fits.

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I'm just gonna put it in

here anyway, just to be safe.

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I'd rather put something in

there than take something away.

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And so now we have some

debatable passages.

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But other than those two pieces,

everything else in our New

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Testament, inner Old Testament,

we feel largely confident about.

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Yeah, yeah.

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John eight, the woman caught

adultery, and it's not always John

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eight, it's, it's a portion of

John eight portion, whole thing.

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Yeah, so the scriptures

are absolutely reliable.

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If you've got questions about

any of those specifics, we'd

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love to to answer those too.

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So if there's something that's stripping

you up, feel free to write in on that.

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There's a lot of good resources

out there for you to get some,

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some good answers on that.

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The book by Frank Turk, I don't

have enough faith to be an atheist,

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gets into some of this and, and the

New Testament reliability, that's

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a pretty accessible book that's.

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That deals with some entry

level textual criticism, things.

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That's a good resource for you

if you are curious about more and

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want to know more about this.

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But man, textual criticism is

our friend in, in a lot of ways.

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That doesn't mean all textual critics

are our friend, but the process is, yeah.

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Is friendly to us because it gives

us an even greater confidence

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in the Bibles that we have.

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That's true.

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You gotta be careful in that, that arena.

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It's.

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Laden with scholarship that, you know,

they don't have a commitment to our Bible.

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They don't have a commitment to

our faith or any of those things.

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And so it's not that we, we.

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Have any issue with the information

out there, it's just that

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information can be skewed Yeah.

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And distorted to say things that

it doesn't always say everything we

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interpret from the world around us.

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It is, well, lemme say it this

way, facts are interpreted.

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Yep.

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Um, there are no such thing in

my estimation of as brute facts.

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We're all interpreting through the lens

of something and Christians interpret

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all of creation and everything God has

put in our creation through the lens

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of what does God tell us about this?

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How does God want us to

understand these things?

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So if you're gonna look up anything

on YouTube about this, I do know Wes

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Huff has a video or two out there.

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Some of your normal apologetic

guys or put stuff out there?

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Sean McDowell.

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Mm-hmm.

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I think Cocal has some things.

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Who's the other guy you just mentioned?

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Frank Turk.

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Frank Turk.

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I think he has some stuff out there.

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Those are fine and reputable.

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We'd encourage you to

take a look at those guys.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There's no such thing as brew facts.

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I would say there, yeah, I,

I'm, I'm, I don't know if this

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is a Van Tillian thought Okay.

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That I got from, I, I, I think

that's, I think it's Van Till.

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Yeah.

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But yes, I would say there's

no such thing as brute facts.

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You have to interpret those

facts into a system of meaning.

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Okay.

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So two plus two is four.

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Well in, in, in your understanding of

how create, well, that's disputed today.

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So there you go.

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That's disputed.

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That's not, it's, it's,

that's white mathematics now.

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So I, I, I would say that as a

Christian, I interpret that through

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the lens of God has created an

organized system where math is a thing.

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In the first place.

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Math comes from God, right.

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Scientific exploration and empiricism.

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That, that's, that's because

it's in God's organized system.

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Mm-hmm.

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So everything that I see and

understand has to fit within

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a framework of worldview.

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So I'm gonna say there's, there's

not a brute fact that we can

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say, we both agree on this.

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We we're both interpreting

it from different.

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Worldviews, ultimately natural laws,

gravity there's a god of the gravity.

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And so I would say that makes

perfect sense in my worldview

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because God defines gravity, right?

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He's, he made that right.

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We can agree that it exists, but

all the information surrounding

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it would say, well, you understand

it differently than I do.

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In fact, in fact.

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An evolutionist will look at

gravity and say, well, look

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at what evolution has done.

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Sure.

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This is fantastic.

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Yeah, no, I, I'm with you on that.

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I think the way we inter Yeah, for sure.

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But the evolutionist is gonna agree.

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Gravity exists, right?

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So there's, there's a base fact.

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'cause if you take the evolutionist,

the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Muslim, and

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the Christian to the top of a building,

and all of them step off the building,

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the brute fact is they're all falling.

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Yes, I would say that the difference

though is that every fact has to fit

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within a framework of understanding.

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So a fact doesn't exist in isolation.

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It exists among a network and a web

of other facts, and it's only in

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that network that it makes sense.

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I'm probably saying it in a way that

you would, you, you would, you're not

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taking issue with it, but I'm saying

it in a way that's different than what

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you've heard it before, but I'm pretty

sure I feel, I feel largely confident.

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I'll, I'll just check right now as

soon as we wrap up this section.

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I think it's Van Till.

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Yeah.

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And this is something that is,

is there in present in, even

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in the, the world of English.

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I know my wife was writing her thesis

in college and in dealing with this idea

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of the, the author even being the first

interpreter that can you really know?

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What the author's intent is, and

there's, there's this question of the

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author's writing things that the author's

interpreting as the author's writing

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things down, and so they're interpreting

what they're actually writing there.

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Well, the more philosophical

you get about the study of

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knowledge epistemology, right?

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The more doubt enters your mind of what

do we actually know about anything?

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Can I trust my senses?

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And that's why today one of the

prevailing theories about reality

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is that this is all a simulation

because how can you know otherwise?

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And it would make perfect sense that we're

in a simulation if there's design, right?

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If there seems to be a beginning

and an end that we can discern from

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the way that astronomy works and

the way that we have Redshift and

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all these things, it makes perfect

sense that we'd be in a simulation.

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Or alternative theory, the

Bible's right and has been telling

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us the truth this whole time.

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God has designed us.

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He made us, we're in a story, it's

not a simulation, but it is God's

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story and we are players in his story.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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There is a designer.

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Yep.

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It is Van Till.

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Okay.

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Van Till argues forcefully against

the concept of brute facts, viewing

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them as fundamental philosophical

error that undermines sound.

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Apologetics.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Well I'll have to look into more.

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Yeah.

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So Norman Geister writes about this.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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Yeah, I wasn't, I wasn't taking

issue with you necessarily.

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Just threatening that out.

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'cause that's a statement that

I think some people would hear

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and be like, wait a minute.

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Well, I, I haven't, yeah, I, I

haven't looked at it recently.

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So it's one of those things that

stuck in the crevice of your brain.

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It's like, oh, I'm just

gonna pull this out now.

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One of those things, you know?

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Well, let's get into our

daily Bible reading today.

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We're in numbers chapter seven

in Mark chapter four, numbers

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chapter seven timeframe.

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We're about a month prior to where

we've been because we're looking back

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to the point at which the Tabernacle

has been completed and the dedication

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ceremonies are taking place because that's

really what Chapter seven is all about.

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It's all these different tribes and

notice, it's, it's each tribe is

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bringing their offerings and the

offerings are gonna be the same.

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And for each of them, they're,

they're all bringing these things

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as they've been instructed by Moses

to the Tabernacle, to the Levites

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to be able to be offered so that the

tabernacle would be appropriately.

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Dedicated, and, and this was, I

think nobody would be able to sit,

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sit there and think, oh, this is no

big deal what we're doing right now.

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Th this was evidence that this is

a massive, a massive shift in the

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worship of Israel, in the process of

what's going on here that this is a

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new chapter in the life of Israel,

that now the tabernacle is created.

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And here we have all of these offerings,

all of these animals losing their lives,

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being slaughtered, being sacrificed,

being offered for this process of,

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of consecrating the tabernacle.

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Then at the very end it says, Moses

went into speak with the Lord and

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heard the voice speaking to him

from the above the mercy seat.

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I, I know we've, we've talked about Moses

hearing the voice of God for whatever

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reason this time right now, it's, it's

just striking me of what that must have

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been like to listen to the voice of God,

the audible voice of God speaking to you.

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That must have been unbelievable.

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To sit there and realize this is the,

the one we were just talking about.

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The God who has designed

everything is communicating with

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Moses is audibly communicating.

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Speaking to Moses, that's something that

we read and I think gloss over 'cause

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we take it for granted as Christians,

but it's a pretty amazing thing to, to

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consider that the God of the universe

broke into time to speak to us.

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And, and he still does to us

through the, the word of God today.

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Well, this.

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In my mind, it two, it

does two things for me.

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It does, it does gimme a sense

of, wow, this is amazing.

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And, uh, I, I don't even

know how this works.

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It's a, he's a, he's speaking

as a disembodied voice.

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Yeah.

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He's violating the laws of human physics.

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There's no vocal chords.

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There's no sound waves to,

to vibrate from a voice box.

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Right.

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This is God making a voice

appear out of nothing.

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And I think that all by itself is just.

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I don't know mind blowing about how that

would work, but that also interestingly

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gives me a sense of, okay, maybe when

these people are hearing voices in their

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attic and they're, you know, they're in

these h haunted houses, air quotes here,

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maybe they are hearing disembodied voices.

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'cause it is perfectly consistent

with the, with the devil's.

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Ploy in his, his strategy to take

the real and to counterfeit it.

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Mm-hmm.

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So now I'm, I'm wondering now if that

gives me, in my mind, at least room to

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say, okay, maybe there's room for voices,

disembodied voices apart from the Lords

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that are trying to deceive and to distort.

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That makes sense to me.

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We're talking about spiritual

warfare today at church, by the way.

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Oh, are we, are we talking

about disembodied voices?

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I don't know about that.

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Maybe, but we are talking about the

reality of spiritual warfare and

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Christ's victory over the enemy.

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So, okay, well throw, throw

in some disembodied voices.

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Talk about that.

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Yeah.

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So this whole chapter is interesting to

me for, for so many, so many reasons.

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One of the things I learned here at

the beginning of the chapter, verse

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five, he says, accept these gifts

from all the tribes that they may be

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used in the service of the attentive

meeting, and give them to the Levites.

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Well, that's kind of cool.

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I mean, so the Levites are

getting all the, they're the

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recipients of these things.

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Obviously it's for the tent

or the tabernacle, rather.

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But he says here and give it to

each man according to his service.

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And I think that's really cool because

that shows me that God is not a God

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who's just, he's not a communist.

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He's not just saying everyone

gets their fair share and, and,

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and it's the same amount he is

distributing according to his, his.

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Judgment, what he deems is right

and fitting for the task at hand.

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And this per this fits perfectly with

the way that he's designed us as people.

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He's given all of us different

capacities and different abilities

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according to his pleasure.

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And we fulfill our, our function, our job.

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I, I even think about the

parable of the, of the soils.

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You know, you get a 30, 60 and a hundred

fold return on some of these guys.

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You have parable of the talents.

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You have a one talent person,

a two talent person, and a five

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talent person all of them, but

the single talent guy doubles it.

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So I see the beauty of God in Diversely

spreading his gifts according to his

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judgment, and those are not equal.

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I think that's kind of cool.

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That is cool.

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That is cool.

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And Paul kind of picks up on

that in the church too and says,

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this is the way the church works.

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This is the way the church works

well together when we all use our

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varied giftedness to come together

and serve together the, I can't

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say to the hand, I don't need you.

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We all need each other.

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Even those that don't

produce as much as the others.

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Yeah, they're still important and

necessary to what the church is about.

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Yeah, and you bring up a good point too,

because even in the first century church,

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there was a cer this, this concern that,

oh, I'm not getting as much honor as

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this guy because he's a, he's an I, you

know, I'm just a lowly toe, you know?

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And, and Paul's like, well, sometimes

you give greater honor to the parts that

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are less visible, for obvious reasons.

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I think he's making a point there about.

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Parts of the body that are more honorable,

but they just, they're just different.

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They're not the kind that

you show to everybody.

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Right.

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It's, it's fascinating to me because

we live in a culture where equity

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and inclusion is one of our cultural

values increasingly so, and I think

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there's something healthy in that.

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I wouldn't say all of it is good,

but I wouldn't say all of it's

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bad either equity and inclusion.

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I think God is unequal.

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God is not fair.

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The way that we defined it, and

I've said this before and it's

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provocative, but I think it's true,

God is okay with not being fair.

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He divides and he gives things as he

sees fit and it's based on his judgment

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to what he thinks makes the most sense,

and we ought to be okay with that.

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Yeah.

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You know, when we give our kids gifts,

sometimes we, you know, we we're

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trying to be equal and not cause

in fighting and Oh, you're clear to

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the favorites and Dad doesn't like

you, Josh, and all those things.

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But God is not that.

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I think this is the wisdom of God.

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He's not a copy and paste God.

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He's not a cookie cutter God.

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Yeah.

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He treats us individually and I love that

we see this in numbers chapter seven.

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Yeah.

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That's great.

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That's great.

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Well, let's turn over

to Mark chapter four.

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Mark chapter four.

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As we continue, Jesus is continuing

to teach these parables, and

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again, he's making a point.

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A parable is a story with a point or.

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Story with a moral, you

could put it that way even.

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But he's trying to use these illustrative

stories to make a a point to the

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people that are listening to him.

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So he starts with this idea of a lamp.

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That the lamp is there to give light.

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Nothing is hidden, he says, except

to be made manifest, nor is anything

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secret, except to come to light.

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Everything's gonna be revealed.

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He with ears to hear, let him hear.

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That's gonna impact the

way that we live our lives.

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Aware of the fact that everything is going

to be re revealed, laid, bare, exposed.

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He talks about the, the

parable of the seed.

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The, the kingdom is like a man that

goes out and scatters seed on the ground

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and he sleeps and rises and listen.

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The what happens overnight?

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The seed grows.

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How does the seed grow?

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Well, it's not the man who scattered it.

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The man who scatters it, he's asleep.

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The seed is gonna grow and it's going

to sprout and it's gonna come up.

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And he does not know how.

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This reminds me of what the Apostle

Paul says in one Corinthians when he

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says, look Paul May plant an apostles

may water, or vice versa, but God is

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the one that's gonna cause the growth.

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And so here we get Jesus

making a very similar point.

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He is going to cause the growth.

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And then we go out and we harvest

what God is making ready when

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we share the gospel, when we.

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Go out and, and spread the word of

God, and, and people respond in faith.

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That is because God has, has made

it ready, God has prepared it, and

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we get to bring in the harvest there

that he has already made ready.

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You get the mustard seed.

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This idea that the kingdom

of God is intended to grow.

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And that's something that's important

for us to think about too as we think

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about even our church, that our church

should be growing if we're doing

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the, the work of the gospel, if we're

doing the work that God has called the

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church to do, the church should grow.

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A church that has no plans to

grow is a church that has left

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on the table, one of the massive.

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Purposes of why we're still here, which

is the great commission, and so we should

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be a church that's looking to grow,

that's looking to become a larger body.

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And I know a lot of times you'll

hear people say, well, I like our

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church because I like the size of it.

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And I, I understand that, but every

time I hear that, I think to myself,

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man, I, I hope they're gonna be like

a frog in a boiling pot of water

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because we want to grow, we wanna kill.

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Yes, yes.

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That's it.

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No, we want to grow, but we just

hope that that as we grow, you're

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not sitting there uncomfortable.

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We hope that you're sitting there

and as we grow, you still feel all

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the things that you'd love about

a smaller church where you get the

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connections and the relationships

and stuff that those stay intact.

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But maybe you'll look up one day

and be like, oh man, we're two

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services, three services, whatever.

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And.

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It's been growing because that's

what the church is called to do

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because that's what God wants to do.

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The the kingdom is like that mustard seed.

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That mustard seed is gonna grow into

one of the biggest trees known to

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Earth, and we're a part of that growth

as we take the gospel to the lost.

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Chapter four then continues on

with the calming of the storm,

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which is, for the rest of the

chapter that is today's reading.

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So we, we finished chapter four

today with the calming of the storm.

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And again, this is I think I've said

this before, just a scene that I

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wish I had been there because the

storm, the sea goes from wavy

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and choppy and tossing every.

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Thing around it and crashing into the

boat to completely placid and calm.

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And that would've been an amazing sight.

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So much so that the disciples are afraid

and they are filled with great fear.

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Not of the storm anymore,

but now of Jesus.

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And they say, who is this?

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That even the wind and sea obey him

would've been fascinating to be there and

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to experience that, I think I would've

been just as terrified as, as they were.

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I would've been totally

fine, like totally expected.

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Jesus, you'd been diving in the

water, being like, oh man, finally.

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My takeaway from chapter four today is in

verse 24, he said to them, pay attention

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to what you hear with a measure you use.

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It will be measured to you and

still more will be added to you for

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the one who has more will be given

and from the one who has not even

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what he has will be taken away.

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If you want more revelation from God, I

think what this is telling us is respond

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right, and you'll get more light if

you take what God has given you through

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the word, from what you understand,

and some of us, you know, we're still

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learning from what the Bible says and

we're elementary in our understanding.

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That's okay.

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If you want to be exposed to more

of what God has to show you.

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I think our job is to respond to

what we do have and if we respond

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positively to what he gives us, I

think he's saying, I'll give you more.

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He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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And if you're, if you, what

you do hear, you respond to.

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Positively too.

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I think he's saying I, I'll

give you more to work with.

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I'll give you, I'll entrust you with more

information, more light if you respond.

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Right.

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Well, hey, let's pray for our church

and our, the rest of our day and

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we will be done with this episode.

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Lord, we thank you for whatever.

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You have in store for us this day.

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We thank you for church.

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We thank you for being able to

gather together as the body of

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Christ and and to worship you.

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We pray for a great day

as a church family today.

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We've got a lot going on, a

lot of exciting things going on

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at church today and, and even

just in the, the coming weeks.

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We're, we're looking forward to

all that you're going to do even

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as we approach the Easter season.

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But Lord, keep us in your word.

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I pray that we would be in your word,

not just on Sundays, not just when we

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show up to church or even on Wednesday

nights for our students with our student

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ministry or adventure club, but that we

would daily, individually as your people.

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Be in your word, even as Pastor Rod was

just saying that we would desire more and

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that you would give us more as we give

ourselves over to the study of your word.

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So I pray this all in Jesus name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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