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Welcome to the Love and Context podcast, engaging in unscripted conversations with your hosts,

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Ben and Spencer.

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Whether you're tuning in from your car, your office, your home, or anywhere in between,

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we are so happy to have you join us today.

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Our mission is simple, to explore the Bible through a powerful lens of love.

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Together we'll uncover fresh insights and gain deeper understandings of how we can love

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God and love the people in our everyday lives.

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So buckle up and join us on the spiritual journey as we discover timeless wisdom that

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is just as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

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Without further ado, let's dive right in.

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Welcome to the Love and Context podcast with Ben and Spencer.

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I am Spencer.

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I'm Ben.

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And we are going through Deuteronomy.

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We're on our second week, right?

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We are on our second week of Deuteronomy.

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And in case anybody is wondering who's watching the videos, I actually do have shirts that

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aren't Batman.

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Oh, I do.

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I do.

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Like two or three of them.

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Yeah.

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There's a Captain America.

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I have a Superman.

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Oh, so you're Marvel and DC.

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Oh, yeah.

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No, I'm an equal opportunity superhero.

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I don't know if that's allowed.

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It's allowed.

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Oh, OK.

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You know, as long as I buy that and they get the royalty, they're fine with it.

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Yeah, they're completely fine with it as long as I spend the money.

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So this week, on this week's episode, we are going to be in Deuteronomy.

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We're going to be pulling two concepts out of chapter five and out of chapter six.

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So if you have not read those, go on to your Bible app or open your Bible and read Deuteronomy

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five and six before we have this conversation, because it's going to hinge on you actually

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having heard this before.

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Yeah.

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So here in these chapters, we have a recounting of the Ten Commandments or the Ten Words.

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And if you actually if you want to go back, we actually have the episode on the Ten Words.

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There's some things we talked about.

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We'll link that in the show notes as well.

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If you are just coming to us as a new listener and haven't heard that before, because we're

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going to reference back to some ideas we had back there too.

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And we want to just reiterate again, this is a retelling.

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Moses is telling this from his perspective.

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And so there are some things if you're reading the account in Deuteronomy versus the account

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in Exodus, you might be like, oh, these seem a little different.

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And we'll talk a little bit about that.

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We have a few other ideas as well.

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We just want to mention that.

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So one of the things we talked about when we did this back in Exodus is this idea of

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a ketubah.

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This this statement in a wedding and a Jewish wedding ceremony of this is who I am and this

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is who I expect you to be.

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This is this is how we will interact in the salmon.

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After you, this is how you're going to act with other people.

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And we read the Ten Words as a wedding ceremony.

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Which is completely appropriate.

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This is this is God's wedding gift to the Israelites.

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They consider the law their wedding gifts and the Ten Commandments is encompassing that

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interesting idea that we came across.

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And I kind of want to discuss a little bit.

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I'm going to give like once again credit to Rabbi David Foreman at Aleph Beta.

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But I kind of want to talk about something he was talking about with the Ten Commandments

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and and kind of just get into this.

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So there's ten but there's two tablets.

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Now one of the things that I always find interesting about that is God doesn't have to give them

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two tablets.

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He could have just written in a smaller font.

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Just put that down into ten and then single space.

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You know.

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So there's a reason why they're on two tablets and not one.

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Now one of the things we've talked about is that there is this is who I'm going to be.

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This is who you're going to be.

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But the first tablet is largely dealing with vertical relationships.

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In other words like what is going on with God and like how do you interact with God.

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And then the other ones are dealing with the horizontal relationships five through ten.

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The the only places that doesn't work is there's this command number five honor your father

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and mother.

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To honor your father and mother that it may go well with you in life.

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They're not God.

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Parents you are not God.

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Hopefully I'm not shocking or breaking any paradigms there.

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So one of the things that Foreman says the way that you kind of interact with that is

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the reason that parents fits on the left tablet instead of the right tablet is because you

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actually are coming.

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You are created from your parents.

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You're never like and maybe you see what you think about this but I'm never going to be

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peers with my parents.

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I always came from them.

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There are things that we are peers on but I'm always going to be their child.

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You know I'm a piece that they created.

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So like on a very broad level like how do I interact with people vertically from me as

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opposed to like an aunt and uncle like I might be peers with my aunt and uncle but I'm not

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ever going to be with my parents.

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And as you get older you become more and more peer like.

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I would argue that.

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Yeah exactly.

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But I mean example like when my dad came out to visit this last summer I didn't pay for

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a single thing.

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Like there's just no way.

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Like I mean I'd never asked him to pay for anything.

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I'm a grown adult.

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I can pay for my own bills.

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I can pay for stuff.

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But he was like oh yeah no I'll fill your truck up with gas.

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Oh no I got groceries.

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Oh no I'll do this.

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That's such a parent thing.

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And I was like OK dad like if that's what you want to do great.

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Like you know I'm not going to not going to stop him from doing that because he wants

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to bless in that way.

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I know he listens to this.

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He's going to have some.

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He's he's going to be like well actually I've been itemizing those.

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Well but I mean like early on in our marriage Tara and I we were having this conversation

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because whenever her dad would come to visit he'd want to take her out to dinner and he

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wanted he'd want to pay for this.

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You want to pay for that.

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And her dad is he's a very money conscious person and he just he doesn't spend a lot

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of money on himself.

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He spends a ton of money on his kids.

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But she's like well dad you know I have a job I have a career I'm married I have a house

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you know all these different things.

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And that's the Tara.

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Your dad is expressing how he feels about you by doing these things.

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You need to let him.

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And spoiler alert a lot of guys are not good at expressing how they feel.

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That's true.

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I'm not.

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That's not everyone.

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It's not everyone.

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That's not a blanket rule.

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Not saying every guy.

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I'm saying a lot of guys.

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So they might express that by like hey let me bless you by buying this or doing this

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or taking you out to dinner or what.

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This is this is neither here nor there because this is not really having to do with what

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we're talking about today.

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But I did hear a pastor and I thought it was a really good thing.

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He's like I have these guys come in and they're like pastor I love my wife but I'm not emotional.

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He's like I don't know.

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I've seen you at a football game.

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You're pretty emotional.

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Why you.

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He's like now you you know how to express anger and lament.

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He's like so now it seems like you just got to get in tune with your other emotions.

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And I thought that was really funny.

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So like to your point though is like you become more of a peer to your parents but your dad's

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your dad.

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Your mom's your mom.

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My aunt and uncle like those like I kind of feel like eventually you get to this point

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where you're kind of just like uneven filing with them even though it's your uncle your

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aunt you appreciate them all those things they could be peers with parents it just doesn't

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ever feel like that's going to be the case.

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You know so it's a vertical relationship as opposed to horizontal.

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So relationship to creators is what I'm going to call them like both your creator of like

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you and then also like your parents.

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And those are vertically connected and then those vertically around you who are your peers

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like so you would be my peer and like you know my wife is my peer and like all everybody

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else that I'm interacting with.

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So the first tablet is how do you interact with those people vertically.

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And the second is how do you interact with them horizontally.

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Now the interesting thing about that is forming them postulates what if there aren't 10 laws

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but there's five laws that are expressed two different ways and that these five laws actually

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connect to each other in a very profound way both vertical and horizontal.

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So why would that matter.

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Now there is a story of a very famous rabbi by the name of Hillel.

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You've heard of him right.

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So in the time of Jesus there's like two really popular schools of rabbinical Judaism.

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There is the school of Shemai and there's a school of Hillel.

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Hillel is usually the one who a lot of his his ideology is the ones that Jesus is also

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affirming from the Torah.

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But there's a story about a guy who comes up and he asks both rabbis but I'm just going

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to give you her LL's answer.

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He comes up to her and he says teach me all of Torah while I stand on one foot.

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You know the idea being that you have to be able to explain it quickly.

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And Hillel makes a statement I'm going to read it directly says that which you hate.

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Don't do that to your fellow.

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The rest is commentary that which you hate.

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Don't do that to your fellow.

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The rest is commentary.

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Now later in Judaism a rabbi Akiva is going to take this and he's going to say you need

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to love your neighbor as yourself.

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He's going to take that idea from Leviticus.

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So when you're hearing that you say well why might Hillel say it this way.

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And I want you to just put a pin in that for idea as we kind of go along.

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So I want to go back and take a look at this idea of 10 and 5.

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So if there are 10 and 5 let's start taking a look at these laws and see what might be

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the connecting ideas between them.

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So the first command I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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You shall have no other gods before me.

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Right.

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The sixth command is do not murder.

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Do not murder.

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So what is it about not recognizing God as God that has to do with not murdering.

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So little thought experiment for you here.

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What is murder exactly like so if I'm if I'm laying in bed one night and I'm just like

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you know what.

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The world doesn't need Spencer.

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It's funny that he says that because that would happen.

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The world would be without Ben because my wife would be coming after.

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Yes.

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Yes he would.

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But like so if I'm sitting there I said how do I if I'm sitting there I say OK well the

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world doesn't need Spencer.

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In fact I just wish Spencer was not here.

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The only way to actually remove you is to objectively remove you.

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Right.

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Because otherwise you're still going to be in the world.

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Like so murder is actually objectively actually removing you from this world.

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Now you could say of course he's killing.

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But now I'm actually doing with intent to actually deprive you of life and actually

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remove you from society.

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When you think about I'm the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt don't

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have any other gods before me.

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When you actually in place God and you start to ignore him as the authority figure in your

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life you are now effectively because you can't murder God.

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Right.

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Can't kill God.

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But what you can do is you can live your life pretending like he doesn't exist.

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Right.

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Which is a subjective way to live.

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Whereas murdering somebody is an objective thing that you can do.

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Right.

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And so you have this objective and subjective way that you can either interact with God

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or interact with others which you might say that the concept there is don't do away with

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others.

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Yeah.

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Is this connecting concept between these two laws.

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Now at this point in the podcast there are people who are listening to me and going Ben

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has off his rocker.

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Bear with us.

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You might be right but we're going to keep going.

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Well to add to that real quick.

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Yeah.

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To say I am the Lord your God put no other gods before me.

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Yeah.

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OK.

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And I say do not murder.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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The other way that I'm looking at it is got the value that God puts on you.

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Look at that.

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The value of the love he puts on you he puts on your neighbor.

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Oh yeah.

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So then when you go and murder your neighbor you are devaluing the value of God.

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You're actually putting the value of something else in front of what God values which is

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other people.

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Yep.

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Which is putting God before God.

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That's actually going to play really well into what I have coming up.

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So thank you for that.

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Thank you.

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So then the second law is this.

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You shall have no other gods before me but then you're not supposed to make any idols.

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Right.

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Makes sense.

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You're not supposed to have any gods.

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Probably don't keep pictures or you know of other gods which actually coordinates with

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the seventh law which is do not commit adultery.

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And you say well how do these two ideas work.

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You're not betraying the you're not like betraying your relationship by mixing in something that

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doesn't belong.

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So you're taking two people who are married and they are committed they're together and

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you typically mix in a third party that doesn't belong or fourth party that doesn't belong

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depending on like spoiler.

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It usually doesn't usually does not end well.

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It doesn't end well with that.

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Oh sure.

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Either.

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There's like a whole Old Testament talks about it.

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And so what you're doing is you're mixing in something that doesn't belong.

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Once again if the Lord your God is you're not having any other guys before him.

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You're mixing in something that doesn't belong.

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Asher pulls right or temples to take on right.

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Like these things that don't belong and are actually betraying the relationship.

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So then you have don't do it with others.

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And then this one is don't betray relationships.

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Right.

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So hopefully you're starting to see this like you probably there's people listening that

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their mind is getting exploding right now.

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Right.

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I mean so between two and seven.

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Yeah.

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Like think of it this way.

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This is this is at least it's coming to my mind.

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So our relationship with Christ is supposed to symbolize marriage.

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Right.

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And if we bring something and put that before Christ we're essentially cheating.

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OK.

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Yeah.

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And so don't commit adultery.

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Same thing like you have a marriage relationship.

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You have someone else into that.

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You're cheating on that and they tie together.

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The two concepts tie together beautifully.

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Right.

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Because if your marriage is supposed to represent the church marriage with Christ then why would

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you bring something into impede that.

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100 percent.

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So then the third one is do not take the Lord's name in vain.

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Right.

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So the eighth command is to not steal.

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And you hear that and you're like OK but how are those the same idea.

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Well it turns out in the Hebrew steal doesn't necessarily mean steal.

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It means to pick up and take away.

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OK.

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In fact they have actually connected to the idea of kidnapping.

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Right.

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Like you you take in you and you take for yourself.

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Right.

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What do we talk about with the Lord's name is like it's not taking the name in vain it's

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actually do you bear up lift up pick up the name incorrectly and bear it incorrectly.

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Right.

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Like don't pick up the name and then use it for what it's not meant for.

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Hopefully you see how those ideas might be related.

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You know you have this idea of kidnapping or lifting up and stealing and talked about

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how you're supposed to bear up the name incorrectly violating someone in their abstract.

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Right.

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Their name as opposed to violating somebody with their body picking up and kidnapping

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their stuff or them.

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Right.

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And how you go how you go about living your life.

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Right.

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If you're bearing the name of the Lord correctly.

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Yeah.

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Your life's going to look a certain way.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Now you tie that to tie that to eight.

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Having kids is a good thing.

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Yeah.

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How you go about getting kids.

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I love that.

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That's the place you went.

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Uh huh.

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Well I mean let's be real.

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My daughter the other day this is a couple of months ago.

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She was like I want a brother and I was like oh OK well I was like I was like well you

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have to go talk to your mom about that and then her follow up statement was can we go

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to Walmart and get a brother.

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Yeah just.

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And I was like no no we can't do that.

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Oh man.

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That's how that works.

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Right.

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Like having kids is a beautiful thing.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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But there is a process you go through to get kids.

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Well and I think with the one thing is that if you were the kind of person who bore up

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God's name incorrectly or.

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Yeah.

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If you were the kind of person who bore up God's name correctly you wouldn't be the

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kind of person who takes things from other people.

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Yeah.

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And if you are the kind of person who would bear the name incorrectly you're absolutely

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if you would abscond with God's name you're absolutely abscond with people's things.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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Which by the way Christians I'm looking at you.

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You know whose name are you bearing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Because that's that's going to tell us a lot about what you're going to do in reality.

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Yeah.

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And put yourself in the other person's shoes too for a moment because if you're not bearing

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up the name of God is correctly people are going to notice that.

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Yeah.

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OK.

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I'm going to go back to the kidnapping because my brain I mean it's it's it's hilarious.

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I mean OK.

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Let me specify kidnapping is not hilarious.

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The way you brought it up is very funny.

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Yeah.

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Don't kidnap.

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OK.

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I don't I would hope that anybody who's listening to us isn't thinking about kidnapping.

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Yeah.

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So if you're if you're not going to lie OK I'm not going to lie to you that's probably

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the best three minutes of podcasts that we've had.

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Yeah.

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Like that was great.

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Yeah.

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So if you're bearing up the name of God incorrectly people are going to notice that.

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Yeah.

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They're going to notice that.

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OK.

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Just like if you kidnap a child they're going to notice that you are not their parent.

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Right.

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Well and so like the the connecting concept is don't violate the abstract like somebody's

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name and or the concrete like the body of another.

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Yeah.

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Like don't violate the abstract or the concrete of another person.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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That's the connecting thing here.

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So the next one is honor the Sabbath day and keep it holy.

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Right.

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Starting with don't bear false witness.

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Now I want to tell you something that's interesting.

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If these concepts are connected I wonder like I've thought about the fact that the church

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really struggles with both of these.

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A lot of churches who struggle to recognize the need for a Sabbath tend to be the same

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kind of people who tend to tell interesting stories about their neighbor.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Bearing false witness.

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Now this idea is that Sabbath observance when when the Sabbath day so God on the seventh

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day he makes it holy.

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It's a testament when we celebrate it to us understanding whose image we're made in.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And it's also a testament to what God has done in the other six days.

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Right.

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So it is our trust and it is our is our trust in God's story in that he says the story is

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good and we're trusting in that now that he's the one who's going to bring Exodus not us.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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So when you bear false testimony you actually testify falsehood.

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Yeah.

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You bring incorrect you start to assassinate somebody's character.

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Now Sabbath observance is about acknowledging the story that God's work is good that we

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are made in his image trusting in a story safeguarding or being witness to the truth

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by way that we live our life.

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False testimony is the exact opposite of that.

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So these ideas are very clearly linked.

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Yeah.

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Like one is the way that you interact with God.

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Are you putting on display the testimony that yes God I trust you and the way that I interact

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with other people the truth that I tell the ability that I have to actually look people

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in the eye and tell the truth and to correctly assess their character says whether or not

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I trust this story.

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Yeah.

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Right.

480
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Yeah.

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It's not surprising to me that a lot of like now I'm actually having it in my head like

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people that I've struggled with who tend to misrepresent people's character they struggle

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with trusting that the story is good.

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Yeah.

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It's not an accident that those ideas are linked.

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So often find that people who struggle trusting that the story is good are all too consumed

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with their reputation and how they're going to be perceived.

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The reality though is if we're trusting that God's story is good we don't need to be concerned

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about that.

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Right.

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And to the point of what we talked about last episode like your mistakes and being able

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to lay them out in front of people can enable other people to live into truth.

493
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Right.

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Being like helping people avoid the pitfalls.

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That's like that's what Moses is trying to do in Deuteronomy.

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Right.

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Like hey these are some mistakes we made try not to do the exact same thing now they're

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all responsible for what they do.

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Yeah.

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But Moses is doing his best at this point to try to make sure that they don't fall in

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the same pitfalls.

502
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Yeah.

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All right.

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So that that concept would be safeguard the truth or the story.

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Right.

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This linking concept between the two of them.

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And so then the last two would be to honor your father and mother and to not covet do

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not covet.

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Now the interesting thing that the former points out about this he says do not covet

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actually gets really specific is like do not cover it.

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Cover your neighbor's wife do not cover it his oxen do not cover his house do not cover

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his field do not cover like he lists a bunch of things.

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And one of the things that I found particularly interesting about this is he talked about

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the idea of coveting.

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And so let's say that you have like a 60 inch TV that I love.

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Right.

517
00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,360
So I come over to your house and I'm like man I wish I had Spencer's 60 inch TV.

518
00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:39,360
It's really funny because I have an old piece of junk TV.

519
00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:40,360
Yeah.

520
00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:42,120
Well let's just imagine that you have a 60 inch TV.

521
00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:43,120
OK.

522
00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:45,560
So I see this TV and I'm like Spencer can I buy this TV from you.

523
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:46,560
You're like no.

524
00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:47,560
I was like well will you give it to me.

525
00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:48,560
No.

526
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:49,560
And I'm just like I'm freaking out.

527
00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,560
I'm like man I just really want this TV.

528
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,920
I want this TV like this TV would complete my life.

529
00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,240
Now if I was meeting with my therapist and I'm talking about how much I want this TV

530
00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,600
and and and eventually the therapist is going to be like why don't you just go buy the TV.

531
00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:03,600
Right.

532
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,480
Now my question then and the question I found really particularly interesting when you brought

533
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:07,520
it out was this.

534
00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,400
If I go and buy that TV does that actually deal with my coveting.

535
00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,000
No.

536
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,440
No.

537
00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:19,440
Because something something is wrong internally that I actually in some capacity want to be

538
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:20,440
you.

539
00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:24,280
I believe that what I have isn't enough and that what you have would fulfill me and in

540
00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,680
some capacity I want to be Spencer.

541
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:27,680
Right.

542
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,880
I'm honored by the way.

543
00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,400
Well and you know when you're when you're coveting somebody's wife you're like oh if

544
00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,680
I had that relationship if I had that house if I had that job if I had and you're not

545
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,080
content with who you are you're not content with the gift of who you are.

546
00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,080
Right.

547
00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,440
Now once again honor your father and mother.

548
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,120
There are plenty of parents that are not honorable.

549
00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:47,520
Yeah.

550
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,140
But they did give you a gift called your life.

551
00:20:51,140 --> 00:20:54,040
And so when you honor your father and mother you're not necessarily honoring the way they

552
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,040
treated you.

553
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,880
You're honoring the gift that they gave you which is your life.

554
00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:02,240
You're honoring that which you recognize that has been given to you as a result of yes God

555
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,200
speaking life through them.

556
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,200
Right.

557
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,360
But your parents gave you life at the very bare minimum.

558
00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:10,320
The life that you have is good.

559
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:11,320
Yeah.

560
00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:12,320
And they gave it to you.

561
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,320
I'm laughing that you chose me as the example of coveting over.

562
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,320
Yeah.

563
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,960
Because I mean I mean a lot of listeners probably don't know this fancy cars big TV.

564
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:27,720
So like Rolls Royce Rolexes you know like for those who don't know it will just provide

565
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:28,960
a little context.

566
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:33,960
Ben likes his things nice newer and really good working order.

567
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,840
I like my stuff functional.

568
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,200
It's like I it works.

569
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,320
It'll last a little while until it breaks and then we'll fix it up to is somewhat working

570
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:43,320
again.

571
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:44,800
So to give you guys kind of an idea.

572
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:45,800
Yeah.

573
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,480
Just give you just just a little bit of an idea.

574
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:48,480
OK.

575
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,240
Ben's got a nicer newer Toyota car.

576
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,240
OK.

577
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,000
My biggest car that I bought I bought out of impound auction.

578
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,000
Yeah.

579
00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,320
It was a rusted out piece of crap that I put some work into it like now it's drivable.

580
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,680
So the fact that Ben was like oh I'm coveting over Spencer stuff.

581
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,520
I'm like I don't think there's a single item in my house that you're like I really want

582
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:07,520
that.

583
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:08,520
Oh man.

584
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:16,000
No I mean it's it's funny like but it also like plays into the absurdity of it.

585
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,320
I like like so this idea of both honoring your father and mother and not coveting is

586
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,080
recognizing yourself.

587
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,080
Yeah.

588
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,800
Recognizing your value and what you have.

589
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:25,800
Right.

590
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,160
Now parents give you life they recognize and honor the gift that they've given you.

591
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,880
Don't covet and try to be someone else.

592
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:32,320
Be who you're supposed to be.

593
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:33,320
Yeah.

594
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,400
By the way this is a reoccurring story in the Bible.

595
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:36,880
Like stop trying to be somebody else.

596
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,320
Be who you're supposed to be.

597
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:39,320
Right.

598
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:43,640
So now the interesting now this is about to get just a little bit a little bit more more

599
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:44,640
interesting.

600
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:45,840
OK so let's go over these again really quick.

601
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,840
So there's this idea of don't do away with others.

602
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,400
Don't betray relationships.

603
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,040
Don't violate violate the abstract or the concrete of another person.

604
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:58,080
Remember to safeguard the truth the story and recognize yourself and what you have.

605
00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,080
Yeah.

606
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:00,080
Right.

607
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,040
Now let's take a look at these five things and think about how they might relate to each

608
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,040
other.

609
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:10,920
So if you take one in five don't do away with others and also maybe don't do away with yourself.

610
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,640
Recognize the value of what you have.

611
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:13,640
Right.

612
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:19,440
And then you take a look at concept two and four and you say don't betray your relationships

613
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:24,640
and safeguard truth which would make the center of it is don't violate the name or body of

614
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,260
another person.

615
00:23:26,260 --> 00:23:31,080
Now I don't know if you're feeling the chiasmus going on here but it's almost like there's

616
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,560
some central points going on in these stories.

617
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:34,560
So how about this.

618
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,800
The first four it says don't violate.

619
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:41,240
So if you're thinking about you as a person it says don't violate your body.

620
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,080
Don't violate your relationships.

621
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,840
Don't violate your possessions.

622
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,160
Don't violate your reputation.

623
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,600
And you're hearing this and you're like OK well I need to treat these things with respect

624
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,520
and I need to make sure that I'm not violating these things and I like body relationship

625
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,200
possessions reputation of other people.

626
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,640
Now these are things of other people and of God.

627
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,740
So after that what do I think about next.

628
00:24:00,740 --> 00:24:01,740
What about me.

629
00:24:01,740 --> 00:24:05,600
And these laws tell me don't violate me.

630
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,920
Recognize that I'm created for a purpose.

631
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:14,920
By the way there are people who are so stuck on Genesis 3 that they can't hear that.

632
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,520
We're created for a purpose in Christ and in God.

633
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:24,160
And don't don't look at your don't look at how valuable you think you are.

634
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,560
Look at how valuable Christ thinks you are.

635
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:27,560
Right.

636
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:32,440
So we have the idea of love your neighbor as yourself and says no love your neighbor

637
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,440
just as I have loved you.

638
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:35,440
Right.

639
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:36,440
Right.

640
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,440
And we talk in church all the time about the depth of Christ's love.

641
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:40,440
Right.

642
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,160
How there's nothing that can compare.

643
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,160
Right.

644
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,160
Right.

645
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,920
And so now Jesus is saying hey you see how value how much value I put on you.

646
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,480
Put that on your neighbor.

647
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,480
Right.

648
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,680
It ties directly into what we're talking about here with these 10 words.

649
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,680
A hundred percent and actually I want to come back to that because I want to connect from

650
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,200
where we have a few a little bit further to go with in Deuteronomy and I actually think

651
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,360
it's going to connect really clearly to what Jesus is talking about.

652
00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:09,480
So I want to come back to this idea of hello.

653
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,520
This this idea of that which you hate.

654
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,160
Don't do that to your fellow.

655
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:16,160
Right.

656
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,280
Like because he gets this idea from the Ten Commandments.

657
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:19,280
Don't do this.

658
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:20,280
Don't do this.

659
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,780
That which you hate the things that you would hate to have done.

660
00:25:23,780 --> 00:25:24,780
Don't do that to your fellow.

661
00:25:24,780 --> 00:25:27,000
The best is commentary on how to do that.

662
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,040
Now the thing is you don't treat people the way that you don't want to be treated.

663
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,240
But non violation is not the same as love.

664
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:40,040
And I'm going to say that again because I think we need to understand that as a church

665
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:44,240
non violation is not the same as love.

666
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:49,640
And I have to pause here because I've been part of like way too many ministry teams where

667
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,840
they're like well we love you and you don't even respect me.

668
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,280
You can't love somebody if you don't respect them in some capacity in the image God and

669
00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,800
so in some capacity.

670
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:00,800
Right.

671
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:05,040
Respecting somebody actually gives you the ability to love somebody and love is not possible

672
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,320
without respect.

673
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:07,600
Right.

674
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,400
And so what the Ten Commandments were hello grabs us from as he says he says these are

675
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:17,200
actually going to teach you to respect God and to respect all those people around you

676
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:22,440
so that you're now able to walk into this place of love.

677
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:23,440
Yeah.

678
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:30,640
Which brings us to Deuteronomy 6 because now Moses comes to them and he says to all of

679
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:36,440
them here oh Israel the Lord is God the Lord is one.

680
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:37,440
Yeah.

681
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,760
So you will love the Lord your God with all of your heart with all of your soul with all

682
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,040
of your might.

683
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,000
This is the thing that they would say when they rise and when they would go to bed in

684
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,360
the evening and actually want to go there in the text I'm read this directly hero Israel

685
00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:55,640
the Lord our God the Lord is one love the Lord your God with all your heart and with

686
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,360
all your soul and with all your strength.

687
00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:02,120
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts impress them on your

688
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:06,400
children talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road when you

689
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:11,320
lie down and when you get up tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads

690
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,840
write them on your door frames of your house and on your gates when the Lord your God brings

691
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,360
you into the lamb he swore to your fathers to Abraham Isaac and Jacob to give you a land

692
00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:23,920
with large flourishing cities you did not build houses filled with all kinds of things

693
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,120
that you did not provide wells you did not dig and vineyards and olive groves you did

694
00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:34,880
not plant then when you eat and are satisfied be careful that you do not forget the Lord

695
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,720
who brought you out of Egypt out of the land of slavery.

696
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,080
And that is profound because he's just talked about this idea of like these 10 commandments

697
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,440
going to teach you to respect God and respect others.

698
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,600
Now you need to hear this Israel.

699
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:53,040
So listen doesn't actually just mean listen it's the word Shema which actually means to

700
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,840
obey hear and implement.

701
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,920
In other words when you hear something you actually put it into practice.

702
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:05,880
Now Jesus will make a statement those who have ears shall hear let them hear right.

703
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,800
And what he's saying is if you got ears put this into practice like if you heard it put

704
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,560
it into practice you're not and I and that's very at odds with the way that we talk about

705
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,100
hearing and understanding.

706
00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:16,520
We're like oh I have faith in Jesus.

707
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:21,000
So you have faith in Jesus if you put it on display which we've talked about the book

708
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,320
of James and how people widely misunderstand this idea of faith.

709
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:26,320
Right.

710
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:31,000
Like faith is absolutely a identification and a free gift to Jesus.

711
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,300
Right when you have faith in Jesus salvation comes.

712
00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:38,440
But it is demonstrated by how you are transformed.

713
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,440
Yeah.

714
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:40,440
Right.

715
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:46,200
Yeah and James is a great example of that because James is writing to the 12 tribes

716
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,480
of Israel scatters amongst the nations.

717
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:54,000
So if you're if you're reading James you're like man this is such an easy book to understand.

718
00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:00,480
It's not you're probably misinterpreting it because 99 percent of what James says directly

719
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,960
correlates right back to Torah.

720
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,260
Yeah.

721
00:29:04,260 --> 00:29:08,400
Which after that we finish this Torah series you may we may do a mini series in James because

722
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,400
it's fun.

723
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,400
Yeah.

724
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,920
So this idea of love love the Lord your God this is Ahava is the Hebrew.

725
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:14,920
Right.

726
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,840
This is the love that a man and woman have on their wedding day.

727
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:18,840
Yeah.

728
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:19,840
Right.

729
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:20,840
Now we're like oh you mean it's puppy dog love.

730
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,000
No no no it's committed love.

731
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,800
It's the one that says I am putting my name down on this piece of paper to be in our case

732
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:32,560
a piece of paper to be committed to you to commingle my identity with you.

733
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:33,560
Right.

734
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,120
So you're going to be have a committed kind of love to God.

735
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:42,560
This is the love that you're going to have for God with all of your heart.

736
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:49,560
So the heart is going to be the love of God is a Hebrew for that and heart is the place

737
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,960
where like it's a seeding place of your decisions.

738
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:57,160
Now in ancient Israel they don't realize that all the decisions that we make are actually

739
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,720
made in our brain.

740
00:29:58,720 --> 00:29:59,720
Right.

741
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,960
And God doesn't really feel the particular need to correct them because he wants them

742
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,240
to understand like from where you make your decisions which they believe was the heart

743
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,800
which makes sense because if your heart stops working you stop working.

744
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:10,800
Right.

745
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,200
So in your heart if you make decisions in your heart wherever your seated position of

746
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:18,200
decision making like the thing that where that is your decisions these things are geared

747
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,720
toward love for God.

748
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:20,920
Yeah.

749
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,280
The Nausicaa is the soul.

750
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,280
Right.

751
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,600
This with all of your soul the Nausicaa.

752
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:32,440
This is the entire essence of what makes you you love God with every all that.

753
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,280
And then the last word is actually really interesting one is called Meodecha.

754
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,740
It's translated as might.

755
00:30:38,740 --> 00:30:43,740
It's actually your your very is the word is very Meodecha.

756
00:30:43,740 --> 00:30:47,720
And so it's a love Lord God with all your heart with all your soul with all your very

757
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,880
and you're like wait what.

758
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,160
Very what.

759
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,160
Very everything.

760
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,160
Everything.

761
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,600
Everything that you could love God with you love God with.

762
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,760
So it's more encompassing than just being like oh heart soul mind.

763
00:30:58,760 --> 00:30:59,760
Nailed it.

764
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,220
Now in the gospel I believe it's of Luke and they actually put a fourth one in there.

765
00:31:03,220 --> 00:31:07,520
But Luke is also writing to a Greek audience who's going to need that explanation of that

766
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,720
and they separate the very out because it's a Hebrew concept the Meodecha.

767
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,680
And so it might actually be Mark.

768
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,820
But in one of those gospels they actually list four.

769
00:31:16,820 --> 00:31:18,080
It's actually three.

770
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,680
But the last two are split up because the Greek audience wouldn't know how to understand

771
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:23,680
very.

772
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:24,680
Yeah.

773
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,480
They want to know how to understand very but they would know how to understand strengths.

774
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:29,480
Right.

775
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:30,480
Yeah.

776
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:31,480
Right.

777
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:32,480
This is exactly why they put it in that way.

778
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:33,480
Yeah.

779
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,080
So if you're if you're ever wondering that writing to a Greek audience with your heart

780
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,080
soul mind and strength.

781
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:39,080
Yeah.

782
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:40,880
The Lord your God was with all of that.

783
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:41,880
Right.

784
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:42,880
Yeah.

785
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:43,880
Greeks would understand strengths very well.

786
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,080
So they would understand that like OK.

787
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:46,480
They're like oh strength that makes sense.

788
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:47,560
Like that makes sense.

789
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,160
Love God with like everything I got.

790
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,320
Yeah.

791
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,000
And so this Shema this thing that they say and I love this thing by the way he says you

792
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,720
know you're going to write it on your doorpost.

793
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,880
You put it on your head put it on your arms write it on your doorpost.

794
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,720
Tell your kids when you when you rise and when you lay down now that's why they say

795
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,120
the prayer in the morning and evening.

796
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:10,120
They say Shema Israel Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad Ve'ahavta Adonai Elohecha B'chol Avavka

797
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,800
Uvvokon Nausha Ka Evadah Me'adeh Echa.

798
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:14,800
Right.

799
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,040
This is this is the prayer that they say every day.

800
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,160
I was just waiting for you to say can you repeat that back to me.

801
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:19,160
Yeah.

802
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,000
I mean it's I probably could say with a little less phlegm.

803
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,720
But like this is the prayer that they say every morning and every evening and you know

804
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:29,200
and and at times when I'm struggling with I don't know what to say before God sometimes

805
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,480
I repeat it.

806
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,680
Right because I'm reminding myself of the central tenet that I'm here to obey God and

807
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,720
to love him with everything I have and then I'm going to listen to what Jesus tells me

808
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,760
in the New Testament which is that the second is like it.

809
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,480
Love my neighbor as myself which we had a whole episode on.

810
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:47,480
Yeah.

811
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,680
Like so these things I'm reminding myself of on a regular basis.

812
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:56,120
When is the last time as a church we just reminded ourselves.

813
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:57,120
Yeah.

814
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,160
Listen church obey.

815
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:09,920
Love God with everything you got all of your heart all of your soul all of your might and

816
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:17,000
then with that same fervor love your neighbor the same way that you love yourself.

817
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,440
I just speculate that if we remembered this then we wouldn't live in vineyards that we

818
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:27,040
didn't plant and forget who gave them to us and we wouldn't have plenty and forget where

819
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:31,820
it came from and that we wouldn't have blessing and then just look for more blessing without

820
00:33:31,820 --> 00:33:34,160
finding ways to bless others.

821
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,160
Yeah.

822
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,140
It feels like most of the time the church struggles.

823
00:33:39,140 --> 00:33:41,440
It's because we forget where we come from.

824
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:42,720
Amen.

825
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:49,240
To quote a book that is a favorite of one of our friends in the book of Revelation and

826
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:56,200
God comes to one of the churches and he says you have forgotten your first love.

827
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,720
Amen.

828
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:04,480
If only you burned now like you burned then when you forget where you come from you forget

829
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,000
the mission that you're serving.

830
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,320
This is fundamental for the next generation.

831
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,440
Are you going to get this right?

832
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:17,020
This is I mean probably this section right here is my favorite section of Deuteronomy.

833
00:34:17,020 --> 00:34:18,400
It's just so powerful.

834
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,400
Yeah.

835
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:24,480
And when you love with that fervor that we're talking about the people around you are going

836
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,000
to be like what is that idiot doing?

837
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,360
Can we just be real on that?

838
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,360
Yeah.

839
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,440
They're going to be like what is that fool doing?

840
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:39,440
Like an example the other night the Jehovah's Witness have found our street.

841
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,640
And I'm the last house.

842
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,240
So they always will go knock on all the other doors and they're all like yeah go away and

843
00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:48,680
then they come knock on my door and then like I'll talk to them for five six minutes or

844
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,040
so and then they'll go away.

845
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,400
But it's but I have my neighbors who are like why do you keep talking to them?

846
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,000
I'm like because I'm nice.

847
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,520
Yeah because because like Jesus loves it.

848
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:00,520
Yeah right.

849
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,360
Do I get annoyed that they come to my house?

850
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:07,320
Yeah sometimes but like people are rarely convenient.

851
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:08,360
Yeah.

852
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:09,400
But they are important.

853
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,160
I was thinking about like I remember there's this once I was walking somewhere in school

854
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,680
and this girl had like just tons of papers and they went flying everywhere just like

855
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,080
we expect in a movie right?

856
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:19,080
Right.

857
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,080
Yeah.

858
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:25,800
And I was like I was going to be late but it was still the right thing to stop and help

859
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:26,800
her pick those up.

860
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:27,800
Yeah.

861
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:28,800
Right.

862
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,760
Like loving people is rarely convenient.

863
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,880
If you're looking for something convenient don't follow God.

864
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,880
It's horribly inconvenient.

865
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:37,880
It's horribly inconvenient.

866
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,520
It's not just it's not just not convenient.

867
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,360
It's like out of your way actively inconvenient.

868
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:46,360
But it is fulfilling.

869
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,360
It is 100 percent.

870
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:48,360
And it is a blessing.

871
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,360
Yeah.

872
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,400
And it is like I mean it's I've been trying to explain to people they're like they're

873
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,960
like you know it just seems like being a Christian is incredibly difficult.

874
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:55,960
I was like it is.

875
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,480
Then why do you do it because it's awesome.

876
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:58,480
Yeah.

877
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,680
You know I mean that's kind of like I had this guy he's like he's like ah you know I

878
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,480
would get married but you know I really enjoy you know dating blah blah blah.

879
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:06,480
He's like why did you get married?

880
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,880
I was like because I found a great woman and marriage is way cooler than dating a bunch

881
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:10,880
of people.

882
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:11,880
Mm-hmm.

883
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,840
Like I don't care what you say there is nothing in dating a bunch of people that compares

884
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,840
with marriage.

885
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:17,840
Yeah.

886
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,240
It's way harder than dating a bunch of people.

887
00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:21,240
Way harder.

888
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:22,240
It is way harder.

889
00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:23,240
Yeah.

890
00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:24,960
Single people out there like it's not going to get easier when you get married.

891
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:25,960
Yeah.

892
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:26,960
In marriage you have to work through your issues.

893
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:27,960
Yeah.

894
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,000
When you're just dating around you start to have issues you're like all right bye.

895
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,000
Hmm.

896
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,000
See you later.

897
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,440
Man imagine if people when they had issues with the church actually worked through dealing

898
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:36,960
with them instead of just bailing.

899
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:37,960
Yeah.

900
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:38,960
Imagine if.

901
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:39,960
Yeah.

902
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,080
Now I want to caveat that because sometimes like you can try to work through things and

903
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,920
you just got to move in on it anyways.

904
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,480
But most of us don't even try.

905
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,400
Ben and I have both been in spots where we've just had to move on from church.

906
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:52,400
Yeah.

907
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:53,400
From a church.

908
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,040
So there is a time and place for that.

909
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,320
But that's never my go to.

910
00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,400
I don't know about you but never been my go to to be like all right it's hard I'm just

911
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:01,400
going to bail.

912
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:06,080
I'm just going to throw something out here for our listeners and just ask you this question

913
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:10,400
because we talk a lot about these ideas from Torah.

914
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,040
What is written on your doorpost?

915
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,160
And I'm not mean literally I mean figuratively.

916
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,320
What is bound to your forehead?

917
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,120
What are the things that you say when you rise and when you when you lay down?

918
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,560
What are the things that you teach your children year after year after year?

919
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,560
Yeah.

920
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:27,560
Generation to generation.

921
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:28,560
Yeah.

922
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:35,360
And I would I would just postulate that perhaps that's going to tell you a lot about who you're

923
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,960
actually following.

924
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,320
And listen if it's not who you're following like Jesus is not who you're following that's

925
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,240
an easy correction.

926
00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:47,280
Like Lord knows we've had to make that correct and a lot of times in our life.

927
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:48,280
Yeah.

928
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,200
We're like oh this part is not lined up with who Jesus wants me to be.

929
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:59,520
Your point and I want to close with this idea is Jesus at the height of his power in John.

930
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,940
He's at the at the ceremony he's been given all his power and he recognizes that everything

931
00:38:03,940 --> 00:38:06,500
is under his authority.

932
00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:11,640
He takes off his robe puts it around his waist gets down and he washes his disciples feet

933
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:17,200
and then he makes a statement a little later he says in the same way that I have loved

934
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,280
you so you should love one another.

935
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:22,280
Yeah.

936
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:27,400
Now I don't think it's it's going out of my way to say that of the two in this relationship

937
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:28,760
the disciples and Jesus.

938
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,120
Jesus was the one with the power.

939
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:31,120
Yeah.

940
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:32,280
He was the one with the authority.

941
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,480
He was the one with the right answers and he was the one who knew what was going on

942
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,840
and yet he thought it was worth getting down on his knees to wash the feet of his disciples

943
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,400
and he was the one who was forever faithful.

944
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:44,720
Correct.

945
00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:50,160
I think that is really paramount for us as followers of Christ to go and do the same.

946
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,160
Yeah.

947
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,560
To find ways that even when we're the one in the right even when we're the one with

948
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:59,840
the power maybe it's time for us to get down on our knees and wash the feet.

949
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:07,000
I gave a talk a while back on the Lord's Supper and John 13 in particular and I was and I

950
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:12,440
compared it to an awkward family dinner because I mean like let's just run through this.

951
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,000
He has a rabbi who's not supposed to wash feet who washes feet and then they get and

952
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,800
he's like oh by the way one of you is going to kill me.

953
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:22,600
He's going to be responsible for killing me and then and this is already working in Judas'

954
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,400
heart and so they're going around the table like is it me?

955
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:26,400
Is it me?

956
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:27,400
And the Judas is like is it me?

957
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,800
And Jesus is like yeah bro it's you and then yeah bro it's you and this is the Spencer

958
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,160
translation and then they're like all right now we're gonna go about our meal.

959
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:36,320
Right.

960
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,760
Like there's a tension in this room.

961
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:39,760
Right.

962
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,600
There's broken relationships that are starting to happen in this room.

963
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,680
There's the calling out of like hey you're the one who's going to be responsible for

964
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:51,680
my death and then there's Peter saying no if you can't just wash my feet you have to

965
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:52,680
wash all of me.

966
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:53,680
Right.

967
00:39:53,680 --> 00:40:00,200
You have this multi-layer tensioned meal going on and the one who's faithful to it all is

968
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,200
Jesus.

969
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,200
Yeah.

970
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:03,200
Right.

971
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,520
So as soon as Jesus is arrested most of the disciples scatter.

972
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:07,520
Peter denies him.

973
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:08,520
Yeah.

974
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:15,320
But the idea being that Jesus at the height of who he is says I'm gonna humble myself

975
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:20,840
and I'm gonna take and I'm gonna take the position of being the faithful servant leader

976
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:27,580
so that when the time comes you all being the apostles can elevate who he is.

977
00:40:27,580 --> 00:40:31,240
I have one more thought here and it was just it was just getting late on me and so like

978
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:34,840
we'll just I'll speak this and hopefully connects with somebody out there.

979
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,800
I was thinking about Judas and he betrays Jesus and recognizes that what happens is happening

980
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,120
he's very has tons of remorse.

981
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,760
Peter does the same and betrays Jesus three times.

982
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,760
The difference between Peter and Judas wasn't that they betrayed Jesus.

983
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:50,760
Yeah.

984
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,680
It's that one of them came back to Jesus.

985
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,120
If Judas had come back I 100% believe that Christ would have absolutely welcomed him

986
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,440
right back in with open arms.

987
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,240
But you gotta come back.

988
00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:06,520
In the story of the prodigal son he can't forgive his son until he comes home.

989
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,360
He's got to come home.

990
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,320
And he will run out to meet you.

991
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:16,160
But until you come home he's not not willing to leave you out there you know.

992
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:17,160
Yeah.

993
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:18,160
Yeah.

994
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,160
All right.

995
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:20,300
Well that is it for this week.

996
00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:22,920
Next week we're going to be getting into a few more of the laws and things going on in

997
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,640
Deuteronomy continuing our walkthrough.

998
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,440
Once again if you have people you'd like to see on the podcast chatting with us and have

999
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,840
a lot of guests through Deuteronomy and so we would love to hear your suggestions of

1000
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,120
who you might like to see with us.

1001
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,120
Yeah.

1002
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,120
Also we do have the merch store up.

1003
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:40,280
We're going to have different products going on there as soon as I can figure out how to

1004
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,000
fix some of the designs.

1005
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,080
But yeah there's some I think a couple of hats and t-shirts.

1006
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,880
The desert is hot is still on there.

1007
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:52,240
I am actually getting Tara to work on this the brat and mango thing that says I have

1008
00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:54,320
no self-control with the comic of you.

1009
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,720
So that might be up there at some point.

1010
00:41:56,720 --> 00:42:00,000
I'm definitely going to get it for you and have you wear it for the video at some point.

1011
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,120
So sounds good.

1012
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:06,720
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1013
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Instagram tick tock YouTube.

1014
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Those are all places that I mean obviously if you're watching this on YouTube you probably

1015
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know you can see us on YouTube.

1016
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Speaking of brats.

1017
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Yeah.

1018
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We decided to cook brats over the fire last night.

1019
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And so I cooked like eight of them up for my family.

1020
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And then you ate all eight.

1021
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No.

1022
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My wife was like I'm not that hungry and then my daughter took like two bites of her of

1023
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one and I was like OK so they weren't that hungry.

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And then I went to put the brats away and I was like there's three left.

1025
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So you had five.

1026
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So you had five.

1027
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That's so great.

1028
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I was like oh that just happened.

1029
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Oh man that's so great.

1030
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All right we'll see you guys next time.

1031
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That's a wrap for today's episode.

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1043
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Welcome.

1044
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I was that was just for Ben.

1045
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That was just so I have to edit these things out you know.

1046
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Sorry actually can we do that one more time.

1047
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:35,880
I got to tell you what I was thinking about in my head.

1048
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I was like wouldn't be really cool if like a I we could just upload like two speakers

1049
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and then it would just create a cartoon of two people talking.

1050
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I would post that on YouTube all day.

1051
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That's common.

1052
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Yeah I know.

1053
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I was pretty sure that was Ben's brain just thinking about things that aren't related

1054
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to what we're doing.