1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,120 Welcome to the Love and Context podcast, engaging in unscripted conversations with your hosts, 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:07,360 Ben and Spencer. 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,480 Whether you're tuning in from your car, your office, your home, or anywhere in between, 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,200 we are so happy to have you join us today. 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:21,120 Our mission is simple, to explore the Bible through a powerful lens of love. 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:26,260 Together we'll uncover fresh insights and gain deeper understandings of how we can love 7 00:00:26,260 --> 00:00:29,640 God and love the people in our everyday lives. 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:34,880 So buckle up and join us on this spiritual journey as we discover timeless wisdom that 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,560 is just as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago. 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,360 Without further ado, let's dive right in. 11 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,860 Welcome back to the Love and Context podcast. 12 00:00:44,860 --> 00:00:47,680 We are continuing on on Leviticus. 13 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:48,680 Yes we are. 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,580 Yeah, and today we're actually going to talk about something that happens in the back half 15 00:00:51,580 --> 00:00:52,580 of Leviticus. 16 00:00:52,580 --> 00:00:57,000 We just got through this episode on the weird ones, some of the weirder or interpreted laws, 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,480 and I think by the end we discovered they're not as weird as we think. 18 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,320 Yes, but this part God actually goes through when he tells his people, his priesthood, 19 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,840 he's told them like, hey, this is how you're going to act with the world, this is how you're 20 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,720 going to put me on display, these are some things that are going to make you different 21 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:09,720 than everybody else. 22 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,600 And then he says, all right, I'm going to give you a list of parties that you got to 23 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:14,600 have. 24 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:15,600 Yeah, every year. 25 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:16,600 Yeah. 26 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:17,600 Uh huh. 27 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:18,600 Which kind of feels out of place. 28 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:19,600 Yes. 29 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,840 Like in a very broad sense, it just feels out of place. 30 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,240 So in chapter 23, God says that you're going to have these sacred assemblies. 31 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:26,240 Okay. 32 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,840 So if we look at what these sacred assemblies are, there's two different things that I think 33 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,760 we struggle with as a church that God addresses in Leviticus 23. 34 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,760 First thing is we don't know how to party. 35 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:38,760 You're correct. 36 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:44,000 We as believers in the context of a Christian church today, we have a hard time with this 37 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,760 idea of celebration. 38 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:50,420 And what I mean by that is I've seen people come to know Jesus, and then after they say 39 00:01:50,420 --> 00:01:54,640 yes to Jesus, fellow believers like, okay, here's all the things you got to get rid of 40 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:55,640 now. 41 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,400 These things got changed right away. 42 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:02,040 And it's like, can we take a moment and just celebrate the fact that they said they decided 43 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,520 to give their life to Jesus? 44 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:04,520 Right. 45 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,640 Can we just take a moment and be like, Hey, they are making a life altering decision, 46 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:13,520 biggest decision of their lives, and they are coming to Jesus and they are now eternity 47 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:14,840 is secure in them. 48 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,960 And what we're going to do is be like, okay, now here's all the junk they got to get rid 49 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:18,960 of. 50 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,720 And it's especially weird because you know, as well as I do, the discipleship is a process. 51 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,720 Yes. 52 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:24,720 God does that with everybody. 53 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,360 He took his disciples, they took with him for three years and they still didn't recognize 54 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:28,560 who he was when he was crucified. 55 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,480 They recognize afterwards when he comes back from the life, they're like, Oh, I got you 56 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,480 here. 57 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:34,480 Yep. 58 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:35,480 Yeah. 59 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:36,480 But like they struggle with it. 60 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:37,800 And like, it's going to be it's an ongoing process. 61 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,760 Like discipleship is different than trying to get people to say a prayer. 62 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:42,880 Yes. 63 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,200 And I think it's telling that in Matthew 28, Jesus tells us to go and make disciples. 64 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,200 Huh? 65 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,880 But to your point, they say, yes, I want to be a disciple of Jesus. 66 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,320 And we're like, cool, here's the drudgery. 67 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,000 Uh huh. 68 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,920 And I don't want to pretend like there isn't any, like there is there's part of developing 69 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,040 discipline is actually being disciplined. 70 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,040 Yeah. 71 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,680 But developing discipline takes time and that that happens. 72 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,560 That doesn't happen overnight. 73 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:09,760 Can you imagine? 74 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,280 And maybe there are some people who are listening from a different country. 75 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:13,880 And so maybe your schools are like this. 76 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:19,160 Can you imagine your four year old, five year old, they go to school and all they do is 77 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:23,200 sit in a chair and listen all day and they never have recess. 78 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,040 That would be horrible for my five year old. 79 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:27,040 Horrible. 80 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,840 Also, does it not just stunt them? 81 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:29,840 Yeah. 82 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,480 Now I have some issues with the way that our education system is set up. 83 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:33,880 That's not anything against teachers. 84 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,520 I think teachers are great. 85 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:36,760 I think teachers are wonderful. 86 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:41,200 I have some issues that it doesn't necessarily meet children where they're at. 87 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:42,200 Yeah, I agree. 88 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:43,200 Yeah. 89 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,920 But we have this idea in the church where we're like, oh, we're going to, we're going 90 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:47,920 to, we're going to disciple you. 91 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,840 So we're going to sit you down and have you look. 92 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,960 But discipleship is really like, you come and follow me. 93 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,040 You do life with me and together we're going to figure it out. 94 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,640 And so celebration is a natural part of that. 95 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:04,360 I remember when I was in grade school and recess came and I was like the first one out 96 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,680 the door going, woo, kickball, right? 97 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,600 Dodgeball, whatever it was we were going to play. 98 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,040 That's jubilation. 99 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,720 And the church struggles with that a lot. 100 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,200 And I think that sometimes we're so focused on, we're like, oh, the evil in the world 101 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,320 and all these different things. 102 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,480 We forget to taste and see that the Lord is good. 103 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:23,480 Yeah. 104 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,800 Here in Leviticus 23, God laying out these festivals. 105 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,260 Now one thing that's really important to note is these are festivals. 106 00:04:31,260 --> 00:04:33,180 These are times of celebration. 107 00:04:33,180 --> 00:04:34,480 There are times of remembrance. 108 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:39,040 There are times of lament tied into some of these, but majority of the bulk of it is to 109 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:44,240 celebrate what the Lord has done to celebrate that the Lord is good, to celebrate that he's 110 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,600 delivered to remember your history. 111 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:47,600 Yeah. 112 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:48,600 Right. 113 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,360 To remember who you were and who you are now and the change that has happened because of 114 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:52,360 the Lord. 115 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:57,240 There's a tendency to look at these festivals of Israel and forget that they're also for 116 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:58,240 us. 117 00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:59,240 Yes. 118 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:00,240 Yes. 119 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,400 That's not to say we go and we follow them religiously because I think that there is 120 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,680 a lot to say in Galatians when we talked about mix out a tour versus the moral law. 121 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:13,320 There's a lot to say about what Gentiles are supposed to do inside of the kingdom. 122 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:14,560 Yeah. 123 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,480 But there's also an invitation to live into the promise of these festivals. 124 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:19,800 Let's just do an overview here. 125 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:25,440 So the first thing I love in chapter 23, God starts talking about the Sabbath. 126 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,060 One day every week. 127 00:05:27,060 --> 00:05:31,000 So there's one day a week that you have to stop and remember that your identity doesn't 128 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 come from your work. 129 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Yes. 130 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,040 And that's such a good reminder for America. 131 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,880 I had a conversation with a friend of mine in town who he's not a follower of Jesus and 132 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,840 a younger guy, but it was just like, I was like, yeah, I don't know what I want to do 133 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:44,840 with my life. 134 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:47,760 And then he was asking me, how do you decide what you want to do with your life? 135 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,440 And I was like, honestly, I don't care what my day job is. 136 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:55,880 I was like, I'd rather my focus be my family and being able to be a good husband, being 137 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,920 able to be a good father, being able to raise my kid up. 138 00:05:58,920 --> 00:05:59,920 Right. 139 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,440 And as far as earning a living, there's a thousand different ways I could do that. 140 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:03,440 Correct. 141 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:04,440 Right. 142 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,840 And so sometimes we often get our focus twisted on this. 143 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,520 And this is where this idea of Sabbath comes in. 144 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:14,960 Sometimes we often get our focus so caught up on what can we do for work for achievement, 145 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,880 which I'm not saying that's bad, but oftentimes we're looking at it in the wrong lens. 146 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:23,880 If I have to choose over a career or my family, the career will change. 147 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:24,880 Correct. 148 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:25,880 Yeah. 149 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:26,880 Yeah. 150 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,760 I've heard it said, so Henry Blackby did the Experiments of God series. 151 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,880 One of the things he said in there that I just loved when he was talking about setting 152 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:37,720 your mind up to actually hear from God, he says that oftentimes we're like, don't just 153 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,080 stand there, do something. 154 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:40,080 Uh-huh. 155 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:44,080 And God is instead saying to us, don't just do something, stand there. 156 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:45,080 Yep. 157 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:46,920 Because until you actually hear from God, you shouldn't be going anywhere. 158 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:47,920 Yeah. 159 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,120 Right off the bat, before God gets into anything about the festival, he says, remember, we 160 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:51,520 got a date night once a week. 161 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:52,520 Yep. 162 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,120 We're going to make sure that you understand where your story comes from. 163 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,120 Yes. 164 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,440 And this is the foundation for everything, guys. 165 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,720 So we're going to beat this drum until it breaks. 166 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:00,720 Yep. 167 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,560 Because understanding your identity comes from a rested place of security in Christ 168 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,840 inside of the God of the universe, inside of Yahweh. 169 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:07,840 Yeah. 170 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:09,520 And that's going to be crucial to everything that comes out of that. 171 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,560 Because if you don't live from that, you end up with some theology that's really damaging 172 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:13,840 to other people. 173 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,680 And I would say that's probably where a lot of the damaging theology of the day comes 174 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:17,680 from. 175 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,440 And we're not going to sit here and tell you how to Sabbath. 176 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:20,440 Correct. 177 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:21,440 That's not our goal. 178 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,800 What we are going to say is if you don't have a time of rest built into your schedule, you 179 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,080 should look at that. 180 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,080 Yeah. 181 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,800 Like just spend some time with God one day a week and ask him how he wants you to set 182 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:31,800 up beside that day. 183 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:32,800 Yeah. 184 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:33,800 That's super helpful. 185 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,800 So we're talking about jubilation, right? 186 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:36,800 Okay. 187 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,200 So how's the celebration once a week you're celebrating? 188 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,200 In fact, one of the things that I do with James, when we've talked about this on the 189 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,440 podcast before, is that the night before Sabbath, or really the day before Sabbath, because 190 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,600 technically Sabbath starts at night, I said, what's tomorrow? 191 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:50,600 He says it's Sabbath. 192 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:51,600 I said, what do we do on Sabbath? 193 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,280 He says, we rest, we play, we remember that God loves us. 194 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,880 I want to raise my son with this mentality that one day a week our identity doesn't come 195 00:07:58,880 --> 00:07:59,880 from what we do. 196 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:00,880 Yeah. 197 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,000 So there is the Sabbath and then they celebrate the Passover and the Feast of the Son and 198 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,080 the Loved and Bred. 199 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,520 First you find your identity with God and then the Passover is celebrating their freedom 200 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,120 that they find in the Exodus. 201 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,320 This just happened for them. 202 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,480 You have your date night with God and then you experience deliverance. 203 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:18,480 Yeah. 204 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,940 That totally makes sense. 205 00:08:19,940 --> 00:08:23,280 And if you're wondering, is there a reason that these are listed in order? 206 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:24,680 There actually is. 207 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:25,680 Yeah. 208 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:29,680 So funny you say that is that the next one, it's offering of the first fruits. 209 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,440 So where's my identity? 210 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,240 Now I have freedom. 211 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,840 Now I produce from a place of identity and freedom and the first of my production I give 212 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:39,840 to God. 213 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:40,840 Yep. 214 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,840 The Bible said this way for a reason. 215 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,720 The celebration of first roots is celebrating what you receive from the harvest. 216 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,860 You're giving back to God and appreciation because we recognize that no matter how much 217 00:08:51,860 --> 00:08:55,840 effort we put into anything, all life is sustained by God. 218 00:08:55,840 --> 00:09:00,240 That whether I produce a lot or a little, it's all contingent on the blessing of God 219 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,840 and His ability to hold the world together. 220 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:07,560 In fact, we're going to talk about this in Deuteronomy, but Moses is going to talk about 221 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:08,560 this. 222 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:11,480 He says, you're going to go live in buildings you didn't build and reap from fields that 223 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,040 you didn't plant. 224 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,440 And in that moment, you will be tempted to forget the Lord your God. 225 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:17,440 Yeah. 226 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,600 But you got to remember where your production comes from. 227 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,800 It comes from the blessing of God in your life. 228 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:26,300 Yeah. 229 00:09:26,300 --> 00:09:27,300 So good. 230 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:28,300 Yeah. 231 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:35,440 So just to recap so far, you have Sabbath, you have deliverance, you have giving from 232 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,920 a place of rest and deliverance of God, giving your first roots. 233 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,720 And then you have the festival of the first harvest or the festival of wheat. 234 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:43,720 Yes. 235 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,660 And festival of weeks in Hebrew is Shavuot. 236 00:09:46,660 --> 00:09:49,320 We actually have another word for it in the English. 237 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,340 We call it Pentecost because of what happens in Acts 2. 238 00:09:53,340 --> 00:09:54,780 That happens on Shavuot. 239 00:09:54,780 --> 00:09:57,880 By the way, sometime we'll touch on that, but we're not going to touch on it today. 240 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,280 And it happens on Shavuot. 241 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,200 It's the celebration of the harvest. 242 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:07,760 And it also commemorates when they are at Sinai and Moses receives the Ten Commandments 243 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:08,760 from God. 244 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:09,760 Yeah. 245 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:13,120 So this is the point where they find themselves actually betrothed as a nation to God and 246 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:18,080 they are receiving from him who he is and who he expects them to be. 247 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,400 They're actually receiving their identity from him on those days because the law is 248 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,680 meant to actually change something about you so you become something else. 249 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:25,680 Yeah. 250 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:26,680 Yeah. 251 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:31,920 So you pass the festival weeks and you get to the festival of trumpets. 252 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:33,480 Because everybody needs a good trumpet. 253 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:34,960 Everybody needs a good trumpet. 254 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:36,760 Let's just break this down a little bit more. 255 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:41,440 You have encountering God, being delivered, giving of your first fruits, the provision 256 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:46,280 of God and celebration so far and celebrating all of that. 257 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:47,280 Yeah. 258 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,000 And then you have the festival of trumpets, which if you actually read this, by the way, 259 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,680 if you're following along, we're in verse 23 of chapter 23. 260 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:57,080 The Lord said to Moses, say to the Israelites on the first day of the seventh month, you 261 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:01,680 are to have a day of Sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. 262 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:04,600 Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the Lord. 263 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,000 Did we just come back to Sabbath again? 264 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Yep. 265 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Interesting. 266 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Yep. 267 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,040 So it's almost like when we recognize our identity, our calling, everything that's going 268 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,320 on in us, we actually are invited back into this place where we recognize once again. 269 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,320 And when we give from our identity in Christ and the calling he's put on our lives, we're 270 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,040 invited back into a place of rest with God. 271 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:24,040 Yeah. 272 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:25,040 Yeah. 273 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:30,560 So one of the things that I have long maintained and we've talked about with sin and all these 274 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:32,280 different things that we don't actually change people. 275 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,320 God changes people, right? 276 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:39,080 Encountering God actually brings a knowledge of brokenness, which is why I find it interesting 277 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,920 that the next festival he actually talks about is a day of atonement. 278 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:42,920 Yes. 279 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:49,120 Where one day a year they offer this lamb for the entire nation and God says, you're 280 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:50,540 fine with me. 281 00:11:50,540 --> 00:11:52,640 Let's get back to work. 282 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,200 Because you're guilty conscious when encountering God and remembering your identity sits with 283 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:57,740 him and that you're giving thanks. 284 00:11:57,740 --> 00:12:01,800 And then you're once again remembering everything that God is and you were countered by his 285 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:02,800 holiness. 286 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,480 Now, if you're in a fallen nature, you're going to immediately be like, I don't belong 287 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,560 here. 288 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:11,260 And God says, you do. 289 00:12:11,260 --> 00:12:13,480 Let's make it right for the entire nation. 290 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,440 We are, we are good. 291 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,840 Let's go do the work. 292 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,400 That's a powerful word. 293 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:20,400 It is. 294 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:21,400 Yeah. 295 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,160 And let's just jump back to sacrificial systems of the day. 296 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:30,400 There was no other culture that had that, that had a God that was like, once a year 297 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:36,280 this is going to happen and everybody's going to be made good and right with me. 298 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:37,880 That was not a thing. 299 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,440 And here you have God saying once a year this is going to happen and everyone's going 300 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:42,440 to be made right with me. 301 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:46,040 And this is actually, if you haven't caught this yet, this is a foreshadowing to Christ 302 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,960 coming as Passover lamb, which Christ as a Passover lamb doesn't make sense. 303 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:55,720 If this context hasn't been set up, the New Testament authors are assuming you understand 304 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,520 the sacrificial system when you step into it. 305 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,440 If you are unfamiliar with that, we do have an episode talking about the sacrificial system. 306 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,380 I'd go back and listen to that. 307 00:13:03,380 --> 00:13:06,420 And also, once again, I recommend that book from D Thomas Limecaster. 308 00:13:06,420 --> 00:13:07,420 What about the sacrifices? 309 00:13:07,420 --> 00:13:11,600 I think it's fantastic in helping you get some handholds to understand this. 310 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:13,720 The last one that's mentioned here is actually Sukkot. 311 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:17,720 It's the festival of tabernacles and it's specifically commemorating their first day 312 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:23,720 when they were out of Egypt, they're in the desert and they build these little shanties 313 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,040 called Sukkots, right? 314 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:31,000 That they go and they live in and the cloud of God actually covers them. 315 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,640 And it's the first day out of freedom. 316 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:34,180 They don't know where they're going. 317 00:13:34,180 --> 00:13:36,280 They don't know where their food is coming from. 318 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,500 They don't know where their provision comes from. 319 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:41,160 And so it's an act of faith and where they stepped out. 320 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,000 And God's actually going to talk about this later. 321 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,040 He's going to say, I led you like a bride in the wilderness. 322 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:47,040 Yeah. 323 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:52,520 And God is like the time where they actually gave something to him, which is their trust. 324 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:57,220 And it touches the heart of God and all of these festivals, like they're set up for us 325 00:13:57,220 --> 00:14:00,720 to remember what God has done for us. 326 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:06,040 And so if you wanted to bullet point these in and understand these in a simple context 327 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,680 is you have, hey, I'm going to have an encounter with God through Sabbath. 328 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:10,640 I'm going to be delivered. 329 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:15,760 I'm going to give from a place of rest and deliverance, watch abundance happen through 330 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:20,960 a harvest, come back to it, which will lead me back into a place of rest, which will lead 331 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:26,120 to a place where everybody around me is transformed because of the work of Christ that's being 332 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:33,600 done in my life, which will then lead to a place to where we are trusting and fully reliant 333 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,040 on God for the provision of everything we need. 334 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,720 Or maybe finding our original first love. 335 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:39,720 Right? 336 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:40,720 Yeah. 337 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,200 Do you hear some remnants of that in Revelation? 338 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:43,200 Yeah. 339 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:44,200 Right. 340 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,440 So if you break down these festivals, like a lot of times we look at these like, oh, 341 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:48,440 these are chores. 342 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,040 I was like, you break down what these are. 343 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:55,920 This is God setting up a multiple times of celebration to remember who he is, what he's 344 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,200 done and how much he loves you. 345 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:00,600 These are celebrations to your point. 346 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:01,600 Yeah. 347 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:02,600 Right. 348 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:03,600 They're celebrations. 349 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:04,600 And I think about, so AA, right? 350 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:05,600 Adonaholics Anonymous. 351 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:06,600 Yeah. 352 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:07,600 They have these chips that you hold. 353 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:08,600 Yeah. 354 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:09,600 Right. 355 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,440 And when people go, there's one day chip and people rejoice over that. 356 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:13,440 Yeah. 357 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,480 And then one week, one month, you can tell I haven't been in AA because I don't actually 358 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:17,480 know like the intervals. 359 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:18,480 Uh huh. 360 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,520 But then there's one year, five year, 10 year, 15 year, like all these different years. 361 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,400 And every time somebody gets one, everybody in the group rejoices. 362 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:26,400 Yeah. 363 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,460 Like it is a cause for celebration. 364 00:15:28,460 --> 00:15:31,680 They came from a place of brokenness, but they're actually having a cause for celebration 365 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,240 because of these things that they're remembering. 366 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:38,640 The commemoration is only important because they remember where they came from. 367 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:39,640 Yes. 368 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:44,280 So we were talking about the 10 words of God and we said, first one, I am the Lord your 369 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,260 God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, have no other gods before me. 370 00:15:47,260 --> 00:15:48,600 And why is it important? 371 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,160 It's important because God is reiterating who he is. 372 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,640 He is Lord. 373 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,000 He is the Lord your God. 374 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,340 He is not a genie in the sky. 375 00:15:57,340 --> 00:16:01,320 He's not a God simply over the land or simply over the water or simply over day or simply 376 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:02,320 overnight. 377 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,480 He is the Lord your God. 378 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:05,960 From a definitive point. 379 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:06,960 Yeah. 380 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:07,960 Of reference. 381 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:09,720 From a definitive point where God did something specific. 382 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:10,720 Yep. 383 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,920 The Exodus and they reference the Exodus over and over. 384 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:17,920 And in fact, we reference it quickly, but the Passover, when you do a Seder dinner, 385 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:19,680 they actually tell the story. 386 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:20,800 Yeah. 387 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:25,200 And one of the things that I think we can take from a lot of these festivals is one, 388 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,240 remembering the story that we're a part of and celebrating the different portions. 389 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,240 Yeah. 390 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:35,320 I would love to spend more time in like just all the festivals, but we just can't. 391 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,320 Maybe that'll be a series of episodes in the future, but we're just skimming a stone across. 392 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:44,080 So that's the side of jubilation and remembering to know how to party. 393 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,440 And God says it's really important because in Leviticus, he uses some of that language 394 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,560 we've talked about where it's very specific. 395 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:50,840 Like you really need to do this. 396 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,320 And he says, if you don't party, I'm going to kill you. 397 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,120 Now we read that in modern English and we're like, oh, that's really harsh. 398 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:57,840 But what it means is it's very serious. 399 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,200 This is life and death. 400 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,680 Knowing how to celebrate is a matter of life and death. 401 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:04,640 Yeah, completely. 402 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:10,320 And so we move into a place from a celebration to a place of lament in our conversation. 403 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,000 And here's something else that I think the church in general, there are churches who 404 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,120 know how to lament well with others, but in generally speaking, we don't know how to lament 405 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:19,120 well with others. 406 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:20,120 It's true. 407 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:21,560 And here's what I mean by that. 408 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:26,240 I've encountered so many people, at least in my life, where when there's an issue of 409 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,320 despair or depravity or something in my life, where someone steps into that context, they 410 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:31,760 don't try to lament with me. 411 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,080 They try to fix me. 412 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:34,240 Right. 413 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,040 And I walk away more broken than I started. 414 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:38,040 Right. 415 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:42,760 And then I realized, and what I realized in those times is, okay, I was more of an object 416 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,200 than an actual person. 417 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,040 And that's hurtful, right? 418 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:48,040 It doesn't help. 419 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,520 Actually, what it's done in my life is it has caused me to close up more doors that 420 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,400 are then harder to reopen when the time comes. 421 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:57,900 Yeah. 422 00:17:57,900 --> 00:18:01,880 I think it's very difficult when people try to be friends at you. 423 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:02,880 Yes. 424 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:04,680 It's harder than with you. 425 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:09,640 There's one friend of mine who, when I was a younger man and I was having some struggles 426 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,680 in my life, what he was really good at was just being like, hey, I'm just going to show 427 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:14,680 up. 428 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:18,880 He would show up with coffee and be like, hey, you want to hang out? 429 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:19,880 Sure. 430 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:24,520 So then we would go for hikes or just go hang out and go do whatever. 431 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,700 He never forced the issues to come up. 432 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:28,960 He was like, I'm just going to be there for you. 433 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,680 And there's actually a biblical concept. 434 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,160 There's actually biblical grounds for this behind that, which is the idea of sitting 435 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,080 shiva, which is just the idea of that. 436 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:41,840 You are just going to show up and sit with someone in their lament, in their pain, in 437 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,000 their agony. 438 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 You're going to wail with them. 439 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,920 You're going to cry with them. 440 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,200 And this actually shows up in the Bible quite a few times. 441 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:49,200 So it's a Jewish practice. 442 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:54,200 So you're not necessarily going to see them say, sit shiva in the Bible, but you are going 443 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,220 to see in the time of Jesus when the daughter dies, right? 444 00:18:58,220 --> 00:18:59,760 And there are people who are crying. 445 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:00,760 They're wailing. 446 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:01,800 Jesus says, stop wailing. 447 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:02,800 She's not dead. 448 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:03,800 And they laugh at him. 449 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,080 These people are there and they're lamenting with the parent who's lost a child. 450 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,840 If you think about when Lazarus dies and the disciples are like, if he's sleeping, we'll 451 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,840 just go wake him up. 452 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:12,840 Duh, duh, Jesus. 453 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,040 If he's sleeping, we'll just wake him up. 454 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:16,440 And he's no, Lazarus is dead. 455 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:21,120 And they say, well, let us go so that we may die with him. 456 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:23,600 That's because they're going to go and lament with the family. 457 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,520 You go and you actually just, you dwell with them. 458 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:27,520 You're just there. 459 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,480 You don't try to fix anything. 460 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,880 You just are present. 461 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:32,880 Just show up. 462 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaking of just show up, there's actually a great book called just show up. 463 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,240 I forget the name of the author. 464 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,240 It's going to be in the show notes, but it's talking about learning how to sit with people 465 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:40,240 in their chaos. 466 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:41,240 Yeah. 467 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,460 And it's not just, it's not just when somebody dies. 468 00:19:43,460 --> 00:19:46,040 Like sometimes there's just chaos. 469 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,400 Like somebody's marriage comes to an end. 470 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:49,400 Yeah. 471 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,280 And God's end result for marriage is not divorce. 472 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,280 We need to understand that. 473 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:58,360 One of the things marriage is designed to do is to show an image of the relationship 474 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:00,280 of the church to Christ. 475 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:01,920 That's what marriage is designed to do. 476 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,720 And I want to be really clear too on this. 477 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:10,680 Sometimes people are in a really bad, abusive relationships in their marriage. 478 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,640 And if you are listening and you're in that, I encourage you to figure out a way to get 479 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:15,640 out of that. 480 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:16,640 Correct. 481 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,680 I don't want you to hear that marriage isn't designed to be and then divorce and then know 482 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,360 that you're in physical danger. 483 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:24,360 And not just that. 484 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:28,760 You have a spouse that is just with every single person. 485 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:29,760 Yeah. 486 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:30,760 Like marriage is also about fidelity. 487 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:32,360 Both people have to be involved in it. 488 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:33,360 Yes. 489 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:36,320 So like, yeah, there is always nuance to every conversation. 490 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:37,320 Yes. 491 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:42,840 There is some harmful theology out there where we were so anti-divorce that we're okay with 492 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,160 letting people stay in other types of sin. 493 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:46,160 Yes. 494 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,160 And that's bad. 495 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:48,240 And that's bad too. 496 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,600 Like our heart would never be for anybody to divorce, but for reconciliation and redemption 497 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:52,600 to happen. 498 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,280 The problem is you have to have two parties for reconciliation. 499 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,360 And so just hear our hearts on that. 500 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:01,280 I thought that probably wasn't expressed perfectly, but just hear our hearts on that, that we 501 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:06,240 do hold to like marriage is not designed to end in divorce, but we also recognize that 502 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,120 it's a two way street. 503 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:09,120 Yeah. 504 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:11,780 Also, let's just throw one more caveat on there. 505 00:21:11,780 --> 00:21:13,800 God is not angry at you if you've been divorced. 506 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,880 No, he is not. 507 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:21,200 He wants to work through you for redemptive purposes, regardless of your past. 508 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:22,200 Absolutely. 509 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:27,920 If you've been letting that hang over your head, don't let it go. 510 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,400 Jesus loves you. 511 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,720 Spirit is more than capable of working through you to the same extent he can work through 512 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:33,720 us. 513 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:34,720 Yes, absolutely. 514 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:35,720 Absolutely. 515 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,480 So we got to learn how to sit with people in these chaos places. 516 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:39,480 Yes. 517 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:44,920 There is a death, there is a divorce, there is sometimes just like rift in a family. 518 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,880 There's a job loss or you just lost your house. 519 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,440 Something about people in especially like storm areas where they come through and they 520 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,800 lost everything. 521 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,240 And yes, we need to do something for them. 522 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,920 But the first thing we need to do is show up. 523 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:01,920 Show up. 524 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:08,320 A little caveat I like to put on just showing up is you don't have to do it perfectly. 525 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:09,320 Most likely you won't. 526 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:10,320 You won't. 527 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:11,320 But don't be concerned. 528 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:12,320 I don't know what I have to offer. 529 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,780 You have yourself. 530 00:22:13,780 --> 00:22:15,840 Get your butt over there and show up. 531 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:16,840 You're a believer in Christ. 532 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,840 You carry the spirit inside of you. 533 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:19,840 That is more than enough. 534 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:20,840 Yeah. 535 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,840 You don't have to do it like you're going to mess up. 536 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,280 You're probably going to say something as a person is going to look at you and be like 537 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:27,920 what? 538 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,260 But just be there for them. 539 00:22:30,260 --> 00:22:31,520 Just be there for them. 540 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:32,520 Yeah. 541 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,720 And that is going to mean the world to them. 542 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:44,800 There is a story that I've told from the platform about worship before about a family at a church 543 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,520 that we used to go to. 544 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,960 And they came in on a Sunday. 545 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:54,600 It was like two Sundays after their 17, 18-year-old had died in a car crash. 546 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,400 And they finally worked up and were able to come back to church. 547 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,320 And it was a fairly large church and people knew them. 548 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:03,080 They were really prominent in our church and people loved them. 549 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,760 And they're there on Sunday morning. 550 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,820 It's not that they don't want to be among God's people, but it's also incredibly difficult 551 00:23:09,820 --> 00:23:14,160 because you have to relive it over and over again with people who love you. 552 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,640 During the worship time, we were singing the song, the Chris Tomlinson great song, How 553 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:18,880 Great Is Our God. 554 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,740 Those people absolutely believe that God is great. 555 00:23:22,740 --> 00:23:28,520 But in the moment, it's really hard to feel it. 556 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,560 Yes. 557 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,640 And it becomes really important that we understand that we're a family. 558 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:39,640 And so sometimes what we do is when people cannot sing, we sing on their behalf because 559 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,280 sometimes it's going to be us and we're not going to be able to sing and we need our family 560 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,280 to sing on our behalf. 561 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:44,280 Yeah. 562 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:49,280 They just need us to be there and walk with them through the valley. 563 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,760 Yeah. 564 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,780 That is one of the greatest things you can do as a Christian is learn how to walk with 565 00:23:54,780 --> 00:23:56,240 people through their chaos. 566 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:57,240 Don't try to fix them. 567 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,240 Nope. 568 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:03,040 Give them Jesus and He's the one who can fix things. 569 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,040 Yep. 570 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:05,180 Absolutely. 571 00:24:05,180 --> 00:24:08,920 So we have these two things happen today. 572 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,960 We have this idea of celebration. 573 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,000 Let's learn how to party. 574 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:18,080 And we have this idea of let's learn how to be with each other in our pain. 575 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:19,080 Right. 576 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:24,280 The reason that I think it's important to bring these two things up is because generally 577 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,680 speaking, church in the US has not done a good job. 578 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:28,680 Correct. 579 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:29,880 With these things, with both of these things. 580 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:35,080 We've spent so much time trying to fix the issues that we see that we forget that we 581 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,760 are dealing with sons and daughters of God. 582 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:39,760 Yeah. 583 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:44,920 We see people who've just come to be in relationship with Jesus and then we start correcting them 584 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,160 on every turn being like, you shouldn't do this. 585 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,160 When reality, that's the Holy Spirit's job. 586 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,560 Our job is to be there for them. 587 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:51,560 Correct. 588 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:52,560 And walk with them. 589 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,200 And then we see people hurting. 590 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,780 And then we're like, well, if you would have just done this or this, you might be right 591 00:24:56,780 --> 00:24:58,080 on that. 592 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,480 But I guarantee you it's probably not helpful in that moment. 593 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:07,140 What would be more helpful is if you just show up, just be there for. 594 00:25:07,140 --> 00:25:10,480 It's interesting how often you can actually be correct and completely wrong. 595 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,280 Yeah, absolutely. 596 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,680 It doesn't matter if you technically say what's right. 597 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,480 In fact, I think John has something to say about that in first John. 598 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,680 He says, if you speak the truth, but don't have love, it's not truth. 599 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,800 Now I'm loosely saying that, so please go and read the actual quote. 600 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:24,800 Yeah. 601 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,320 But the truth isn't in you if you can't say it in love. 602 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,040 It's why understanding when we talked about Ephesians and understanding speaking truth 603 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:35,960 and love has to do with being in a place of unity, not uniformity, caring about each other 604 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,600 deeply and then being able to speak truth and love into each other. 605 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:40,600 Yeah. 606 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,880 Let's just jump over that first John passage real quick because it is a really good one. 607 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,580 But I'm just going to hit on a couple of verses. 608 00:25:46,580 --> 00:25:50,920 This is first John four seven where it says, dear friends, let us continue to love one 609 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,160 another for love comes from God. 610 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,600 Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God, but anyone who does not love does not 611 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,120 know God for God is love. 612 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:04,240 And then he goes into this big explanation of who God is, was how much God has shown 613 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,640 us his love to Christ on the cross. 614 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,040 And then you get down to these are the verses Ben was talking about. 615 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:14,560 And this is verse 20, John, first John four 20, where it says, if someone says I love 616 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:20,320 God, but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar for if we don't love people, we 617 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,760 can see how can we love a God who we cannot see? 618 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:24,760 Hmm. 619 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:25,760 Yeah. 620 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,880 It's actually even harsher than what I said. 621 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:28,880 Yeah. 622 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:29,880 Yeah. 623 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:36,440 And then 21, he closes a chapter with this says, and he has given us this command. 624 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:42,480 Those who love God also must also love their fellow believers. 625 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:43,680 Yeah. 626 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:49,720 And it's, it's one of those things is that I struggle with too, is because I have, um, 627 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,360 I've heard the same pastor's turn around and they say, if I love you, then that's means 628 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:54,360 blah, blah, blah. 629 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,880 And people make this dissertation about what it means to actually love people. 630 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,120 As the problem is we can't define love by our own terms. 631 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:01,760 We actually have to define love as how God loved us. 632 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:02,760 Yes. 633 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,880 And to the point of in the old Testament, all throughout scripture, we see God speaking 634 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,960 in Leviticus, speaking truth into something that they're doing. 635 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,920 That's going to cause them to be something different. 636 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:12,920 Right. 637 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,080 And then walking with them in their chaos, finding ways to redeem them over and over 638 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,320 again, teaching them to put the story on display. 639 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:19,320 Yeah. 640 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,440 And through the work of Christ, we see him bridging the gap of everything that was broken, 641 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,480 bringing the voice, reconnecting it back to us. 642 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,120 And just because you're extending love to someone does not necessarily mean they're 643 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:32,160 going to accept that and receive that love. 644 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,160 That's correct. 645 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,160 Yeah. 646 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,120 I have heard, I've heard a lot of people though, talk about how they love their, love their 647 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:45,960 enemies and I was like, it does not look anything like Jesus, which is the definition of love. 648 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:46,960 Yeah. 649 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,120 Like how God loves us. 650 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:52,120 And I was like, now to be fair, Jesus had harsh words. 651 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,400 Sometimes love has harsh words. 652 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,240 Sometimes at the time love is inviting you to a deeper walk. 653 00:27:58,240 --> 00:27:59,240 Yes. 654 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,440 I'm actually just thinking about this because I'm looking at your bookshelf over here. 655 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,000 There's a book we're going to throw out for recommendation because I think it's really 656 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,220 good about practical ways to actually live a life of love. 657 00:28:09,220 --> 00:28:11,680 And it's Bob Goff, Love Does. 658 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,360 I think it's just, I love Bob's personality. 659 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:16,400 I love his perspective. 660 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,520 Like I'm just going to find ways to love people. 661 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,520 Yeah. 662 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,120 At this point, some listeners are going to be like, you've quoted Rabbi David Foreman 663 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:25,240 and now you're saying go read Bob Goff. 664 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,720 We're like, yes we are. 665 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:27,720 Yeah. 666 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,600 I was like, I wouldn't necessarily build all of my theological concepts from Bob Goff, 667 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:37,400 but from an experientially loving people perspective, Bob has a great personality for it. 668 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,760 If we could learn to love like Bob, we would look a lot more like Jesus. 669 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:41,760 Yeah. 670 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:42,760 Yeah. 671 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,600 I know there's a couple of people in my life where I just tell people, I was like, yeah, 672 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:51,080 when you meet this person, I will give you a hundred dollars if you can hate them. 673 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,160 And the thing is because there's so flipping good at just like being loving and sharing 674 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,840 the love of Christ with people where I'm like, I will pay you if you hate them. 675 00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,840 All right. 676 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,440 We got to stop talking about love because next week is actually about loving neighbor 677 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:04,440 as yourselves. 678 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,000 So we're going to definitely hit some of this content again. 679 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,000 Yeah. 680 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,840 So coming back to this idea, festivals, why are they important? 681 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,600 Because you got to have a rhythm in your life where you remember what God has done. 682 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,080 And for a good reason, we're dumb and we forget. 683 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:18,080 Yeah. 684 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,440 That's just the reality. 685 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,760 And that shows in the story of Israel. 686 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:22,760 Yeah. 687 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:27,240 They are delivered from Egypt and it's not very long after they're in front of a gold 688 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,240 calf. 689 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:29,240 Correct. 690 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,240 Yeah. 691 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:31,240 We forget. 692 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:32,240 We forget. 693 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,760 When you think about, I'm just going to pull a few stories from Israel's history. 694 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,720 You think about in the time of Josiah King, they found the law. 695 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:41,720 Yeah. 696 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,000 And they're like, oh, hey, we found this book. 697 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,120 And he's like, okay, let's read it. 698 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,360 And they're like, oh, I didn't realize you're supposed to be doing those things. 699 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,000 And oh, he cleans house. 700 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,000 Yeah. 701 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,440 Because he doesn't realize that they're supposed to be doing something because the king isn't 702 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,600 doing what he's supposed to do. 703 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,680 There's very specific instructions given to a king so that the law doesn't ever depart 704 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,560 from them because you're supposed to be bringing this. 705 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,640 If you're a king, you got to actually implement it in society. 706 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:02,880 That's your responsibility. 707 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,120 You are the chief priest. 708 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,120 Yeah. 709 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:06,320 In a lot of ways. 710 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:07,840 So Josiah is a really interesting one. 711 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,960 And then in Nehemiah, they actually find the book of the law. 712 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,200 Some people talk about whether or not that's Deuteronomy or whether or not that's Torah. 713 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,040 There's a good argument for just Deuteronomy, but I actually like the argument of Torah 714 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,600 better because it connects you to the voice of God, right? 715 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,400 To the story of God. 716 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,740 And in Nehemiah, they go out and they read it. 717 00:30:26,740 --> 00:30:29,320 And I love speaking of Rabbi David for what he talks about because it's the celebration 718 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,880 of Rosh Hashanah, right? 719 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,120 Which is the day of judgment. 720 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,760 And the people start weeping. 721 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,360 And Nehemiah is like, hey guys, stop crying. 722 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,460 This is actually a good day. 723 00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:44,160 And he's like, personally, if I'm giving a message and people respond with weeping, that's 724 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,640 like a Rabbi's dream, right? 725 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:50,880 And like any pastor's dream is like you preach and like people are drawn to tears and repentance 726 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:51,880 that's conviction. 727 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:52,880 Yeah. 728 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,720 Oh, the spirit was moving heavy today. 729 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:55,720 Oof. 730 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,040 Which I mean, yeah, it is even like in the time of Jonathan Edwards with sinners in the 731 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,160 hand of your God, they talk about people groaning under the weight of sin and stuff like that. 732 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,520 So like that's a pastor's dream. 733 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:08,800 But Nehemiah is like, no, judgment is not about you being wrong, but recognizing that 734 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,880 Christ or God Yahweh is actually your God. 735 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:12,880 He's delivered you. 736 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,320 And you respond in worship and Thanksgiving. 737 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,320 Uh huh. 738 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:17,320 Yeah. 739 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:18,320 So good. 740 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:19,320 It's so good. 741 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,320 There is a place for lament over your sin and all these things, but God actually wants to 742 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,640 bring you into a place of jubilation and settled. 743 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:27,960 Yeah. 744 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,920 I think a lot of the issues that we run into is a lot of Christians aren't settled. 745 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:36,720 No, we're incredibly unsettled and a lot of Christian teachers and I would include myself 746 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,600 in this sometimes. 747 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:43,360 I try to make people unsettled so that they move and it's the wrong thing to do. 748 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,560 I think we misunderstand the idea of settled. 749 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:46,560 Correct. 750 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:51,240 Oftentimes we think of the idea of settled as in like knowing our theology and I'm like, 751 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,440 no, like God's going to work that out. 752 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,440 Correct. 753 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:55,440 He's going to work that out. 754 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,760 I want to be settled in the fact that I'm actually sitting with the Lord and spending 755 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:00,760 time with him. 756 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,040 He'll sort everything else out. 757 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,400 The most important thing we do as believers is learn to hear the voice of God. 758 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:07,400 Yeah. 759 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:08,400 Learn to hear the voice of God. 760 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,120 We need to understand our theology, all of our study, all of our context. 761 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,120 If it doesn't drive you to be able to hear the voice of God Yes, and respond and see 762 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,200 what he is doing and join him in the work. 763 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,560 It is all for not. 764 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:19,820 Yeah. 765 00:32:19,820 --> 00:32:23,560 It is worthless time spent if it does not connect you to the creator. 766 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:28,060 Yeah, I had this conversation a while back, this couple years ago, there was a friend 767 00:32:28,060 --> 00:32:32,160 of mine where I was like, yeah, I was like, maybe we just need to lean more into, are 768 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,200 we hearing maybe we just need to start asking questions more along the line of what has 769 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,040 God been speaking to you lately. 770 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,040 Yeah. 771 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:45,200 And he, like, I come from a little more Pentecostal, charismatic background, and he did not. 772 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,120 And he was like, not all of us connect that way. 773 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:51,080 And I was like, some of us just need to know what the Bible says and the information of 774 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:52,920 what's theologically true and what's not. 775 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:58,680 I was like, but isn't it theologically true that the Lord speaks to us? 776 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,600 Yeah. 777 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:01,600 Isn't that found in scripture? 778 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:06,000 I was like, I'm not even going to point out a specific spot because it's found all through 779 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,000 out. 780 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,240 But isn't that true? 781 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,040 So maybe we, maybe instead of focusing on maybe, oh man, I messed up because I fell 782 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,760 into this trap of sin or I did this. 783 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,320 Maybe we should focus more on like, hey, what's the Lord been teaching us? 784 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,200 Because the more we get to know who God is and spend time in fellowship with him, the 785 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:26,120 less we're going to even want those things that sin tempts us with, that the enemy tempts 786 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,780 us with. 787 00:33:27,780 --> 00:33:30,800 And you might be tempted to hear us saying, oh, well, you just need to listen to God and 788 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:31,800 not read your Bible. 789 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,640 No, that's not what we're saying. 790 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,280 I'm saying by reading your Bible, you recognize when God is speaking. 791 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,280 Yes, absolutely. 792 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,880 Because we have the word of God that is transmitting the thoughts and heart and attitudes of God 793 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,920 to written page so that when you go out in the world and you hear those whispers, you 794 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:53,160 hear those inclinations, you hear those movements of God happening, you go, oh, I see what God 795 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,160 is doing. 796 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,160 Yeah. 797 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,640 I was having this conversation with another worship leader because you guys know that 798 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,720 I lead a lot of music at our church. 799 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:00,720 And I was having this conversation. 800 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,200 I say sometimes I just feel like there's some things that need to be said during Sunday 801 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,200 morning service. 802 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,480 I was like, yeah, what do you mean you feel? 803 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,440 They're like, I just have this reoccurring thought and thing. 804 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,000 I was like, yeah, God is speaking to you in the moment. 805 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,480 And I was like, now you have to figure out a way to do that. 806 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,960 That is not like, oh, thus saith the Lord. 807 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:18,960 Yes. 808 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,860 Because you're not making a declarative statement. 809 00:34:20,860 --> 00:34:22,560 But I'll give an example from today. 810 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:23,800 We were doing music. 811 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,600 And one of the things that I was being impressed in my heart, like through all of our set, 812 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,280 is that God was dealing with people who are struggling with powers and dominions above 813 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,280 them, right? 814 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,400 That they are feeling shackled by specific things. 815 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:40,240 And so what I felt in my heart and in my mind and in my heart as I'm doing this music and 816 00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:44,600 I feel God speaking is you need to bring this up and have people pray for each other right 817 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,200 now. 818 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:50,600 And I fought it because that is a very human thing to do. 819 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,600 And God was blessing what was going on, 100%. 820 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,800 But we finally got to this point and God was moving so strong, I had to stop. 821 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,960 And I'm like, okay, we're going to deal with this right now. 822 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:03,080 And it was an awkward transition, but it was a beautiful moment where God did something 823 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,240 good. 824 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:09,000 Now the crazy thing was right after that, the person who was getting up to speak, this 825 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,920 was like the first thing in their notes was talking about how the powers and dominions 826 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,860 over them had been moving and how God was doing some shifting some things in their testimonial 827 00:35:16,860 --> 00:35:20,440 work. 828 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,180 Turns out God knows what he's doing. 829 00:35:22,180 --> 00:35:24,360 And that I need to actually respond to those. 830 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:29,440 Part of knowing the word of God and internalizing the word of God and understanding the story 831 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:35,960 of God is that when these things happen, we now have a framework to put it inside. 832 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:41,460 The word of the Lord is set up to draw us closer into relationship with him. 833 00:35:41,460 --> 00:35:46,240 It's not just set up as a informational textbook, which oftentimes, oftentimes we can treat 834 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:48,960 it that way under the guise of I just want to make sure I have good theology. 835 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:49,960 Yeah. 836 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,400 And it's okay, I was like, I okay, I love that journey for you, but we also want to 837 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,040 make sure we're in relationship with God. 838 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,760 Yeah, but we want that's the whole point of this. 839 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:00,760 Yeah. 840 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,040 So let's bring this back because I think this is actually going to make a lot of sense practically. 841 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,040 Yeah. 842 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,560 So let's talk about why are festivals important? 843 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:08,560 Yes. 844 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:13,000 Because you remember the story of what God did in your life and it causes you to live 845 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,560 from a place of Thanksgiving rather than obligation. 846 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:17,560 Yes. 847 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:22,880 And what causes you to live in a place of settled in Sabbath than a place of hurry and 848 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:23,880 creating. 849 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:24,880 Yes. 850 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,480 Living in these festivals where God is reminding us like, Hey, this is the story that you're 851 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:29,480 a part of. 852 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:30,480 This is my character. 853 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,440 We talked about throughout Leviticus, if you come to Leviticus and you assume that God 854 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:38,000 is mad with you, because you started the Bible in Genesis three and not Genesis one, then 855 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,700 you're going to read Leviticus completely different. 856 00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:41,000 You're going to read the festivals different. 857 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,240 You're going to interpret God differently. 858 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:47,540 So good theology is important because it's going to help you interpret God correctly, 859 00:36:47,540 --> 00:36:49,760 the way his heart is actually put on display. 860 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:50,760 Yeah. 861 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,240 Because if you're always looking for God to be angry with the people around you, you're 862 00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:58,520 going to be sorely disappointed or you're going to come up with some really warped theology 863 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,400 that damages a lot of people. 864 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:01,400 Yeah. 865 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,240 But if you understand that God's passion is actually to redeem the lost and bring the 866 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:10,460 lost kids home, both those inside of the church and out, then you're going to approach life 867 00:37:10,460 --> 00:37:11,800 completely differently. 868 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:12,880 Yes. 869 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,620 It's going to cause you to actually seek God. 870 00:37:15,620 --> 00:37:17,260 What are you doing in this person? 871 00:37:17,260 --> 00:37:20,960 And it's going to be able to enable you to forgive a lot of wrongs. 872 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:21,960 Yeah. 873 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:22,960 Yeah. 874 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,040 It's so true. 875 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:29,200 It's almost like it's going to enable you to love your neighbor as yourself, which we 876 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,900 will talk about next week. 877 00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:35,240 So that concludes this week's episode and join us next week for sure. 878 00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:38,040 Well, you're going to be having a Q and a in a few weeks. 879 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,040 So send us your questions. 880 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:41,040 Okay. 881 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,040 We're going to be talking preferably about theological topics. 882 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,700 If there's other questions in there too, we probably want to address those, but we have 883 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:47,840 actually received a few. 884 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:48,840 We have. 885 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:49,840 Yeah. 886 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:50,840 So send us your questions. 887 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,560 We do want to address any of those specifically if it's something we've been talking about. 888 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,360 We want to address that. 889 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:04,160 You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, the Tickety Talk, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Amazon. 890 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:05,800 Those are the 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