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Welcome to the Love in Context podcast of Unscripted Conversation with Ben and Spencer.

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So glad that you could join us today, whether that's from your car, office, home, church,

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or wherever you're at.

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If you want to contact us, you can email us at lovingcontext at gmail.com.

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Welcome to the Love in Context podcast, a conversation with Ben and Spencer that may

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or may not have a script involved.

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As we've said before, we either don't have a script or we don't stick to it.

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That's definitely true.

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Yeah, it's very true.

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Last week, if you were with us, we shanghaied Pastor Clint, and once he got comfortable,

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man, that guy can go on a roll.

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Yeah.

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He's got good stuff.

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I had a lot more I was wanting to say during that episode, and then I was like, nah, Clint's

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doing great.

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I know, his stuff is so good.

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So it's like, we're not going to interrupt.

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No, I was like, I'm not going to interrupt him.

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He's knocking this out of the park.

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I did notice, so it's funny in our episodes, we frequently talk about how you're going

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to edit, except I edited the last six episodes.

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You did.

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Incidentally, if you think the quality of editing has gone down, now you know who to

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blame.

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Yeah, I know my schedule's just gotten a little crazier.

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But it's interesting.

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There's a feature that lets you go in and take out every time that you say, uh, or um.

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And on the other episodes, it's like 240 times that we said it or something like that.

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In the episodes where we had Pastor Nick and Pastor Clinton, it was like 870 times.

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It was so many times.

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That's so great.

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Yeah.

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I was like, well, this is crazy.

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So anyways.

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That's so great.

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Well today we are going to be diving into the 10 commandments.

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Yes.

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A little past that as well.

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So if you do not have your Bible open, you can pause the podcast.

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Unless you're driving, like don't pause it.

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Just listen while you're driving, go back and reread and don't like try to read your

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Bible while you're driving.

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Just don't do that.

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But you can turn to Exodus 20 and that's kind of going to be where we're starting today.

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So just a reminder, last week we talked about Jethro who had come up to Moses and he says,

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Moses, why are you literally trying to adjudicate everything?

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Why are you trying to do everything yourself?

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And we look at that and we go, yeah, that's us.

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Trying to do everything ourselves.

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Uh huh.

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Trying to do develop systems in order to be able to adjudicate for everybody because

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there's going to be a lot of disputes.

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There's going to be a lot of disputes.

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Jethro was very wise in talking to Moses and being like, hey, you got great people around

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Yeah, exactly.

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You got great people around you.

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Let them use their gifts and be the best that they can be.

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So a little piece before we get started into the 10 commandments, which we're actually

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going to call the 10 words because the word commandment actually isn't in there.

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The 10 words is actually words of God speaking to his people.

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We were talking about in first Chronicles, a little piece that we found that connected

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to Egypt that we thought was really cool and the Exodus.

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Pharaoh's daughter is named in there.

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So she's part of the genealogy as part of what's actually going on in Chronicles.

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That's first Chronicles chapter four, believers 18 or 19.

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I think it's 18.

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So take a look there.

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That's a fun little connection.

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It's really cool to see when God honors what people do as part of his story.

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And to take someone who's also, I mean, there's two really interesting things there.

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You take someone who's a foreigner and you put it in a genealogy that's meant for a specific

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So that's one thing.

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That's the welcoming of a foreigner.

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raised Moses.

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Like that's just awesome.

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Yeah, it is really cool.

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So Jethro comes and meets up with Moses and has this conversation and Moses, it says,

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listens to what Jethro says, which is a good call.

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Yeah, it's good advice.

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And then they are on their way to Sinai.

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And as they get to Sinai, smoke billows up around the mountain and it's hanging out there.

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And there's a sound of the trumpet and Moses spoke and the vice of God answers him and

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God tells him to come up on the top of this mountain.

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Now, one of the things we're not going to talk about today, but I always find hilarious

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in this story is God's like, Moses, come up here.

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All right, go look and see what they're doing.

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All right, now come back up here.

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Okay, go look and see what they're doing.

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And I'm like, how many times like, because Moses is 80 some years old.

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How many times do I want to climb this mountain?

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You know, right.

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I know.

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And, and yeah, and we're not talking just like Mount Sinai, like compared to other mountains

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in the world isn't huge, but still hike.

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It's not just a simple like, oh, cool.

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I'm just going to walk up this.

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Like you're winded.

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You want a snack.

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You want some water at the end of that.

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And we've talked about how the desert's also hot.

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So even if it's not as hard of a mountain as other places, it's really hard to hike

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in the desert.

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It's just really hot.

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So we're going to jump into the 10 words and I want to set a precedent kind of what's going

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on here.

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It's very clear from the way that this is put together in both rabbinic and Jewish history

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that this is not so much a list of commands as it is an early form of a ketubah.

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Now a ketubah is a marriage certificate of sorts when Hebrew people get married and like

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the first little bit is about who the husband says that they're going to be.

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And then also who they expect the other person to be.

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Like it's kind of because you got to remember in Middle Eastern marriages, they're not going

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to necessarily know each other well before they get married.

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So in a typical marriage or marriage scenario, you meet, you start texting, you go on dates,

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then you propose marriage, then you get married and then other things occur and then babies

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show up afterwards.

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And there's in a Jewish setting, a lot of times your families are going to be arranging

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your marriage.

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And it's more about whether your parents like the person.

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And less about whether you like the person.

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And so when you're talking about this marriage situation, I mean, there typically may or

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may not have been dowries involved.

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But and there's also lots of times where the groom didn't really meet the bride until wedding

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I think that our friend Marty over on the Baymaw podcast does a really good job when he talks

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about the wedding ceremony at Sinai.

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He does a really good job of telling a story to help you understand throughout history

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how Sinai has been used to talk about a wedding ceremony in real Jewish culture.

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So what we want to kind of show you in this story and talk about is that this is no longer,

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it's not commands in the way that you and I think about commands.

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Commands are like, do this or else.

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And that's not really what God's doing here.

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He's saying, I want you to understand who I am, which makes a ton of sense because where

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have they been for 400 years?

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They've been apart from him.

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Like they don't really know him.

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And we know that the Hebrew midwives are courageous and like they have all this gumption and they're

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going to fear God.

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But on a real level, it doesn't seem like people particularly understand who Yahweh

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And you have to, this echoes back to Genesis one where you have those two passages of time.

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Like, and so really you're talking six to 800 years where 6,800 years every time, man,

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you have six to 800 years where God's essentially silent.

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Like we don't have any record of him speaking now.

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It doesn't mean he didn't speak, but we just don't have any record of it.

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So with that idea, let's actually jump into the first of the 10 words because this podcast,

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I really, we really want to talk about these 10 words and the significance of what they

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actually mean for the Christian life today.

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So if I was to ask you, Spencer, the other guy in the room, that's not me.

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If I was to ask you, what is the first command?

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Or if I asked the church in general, what's the first command in Exodus 20?

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What do you think the answer would be?

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If you were to ask me or the church.

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So let's go with the church.

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The church usually jumps straight to you must not have any other gods before me.

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What's the problem with that?

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If you actually look at it, the first here is I am the Lord your God who rescued you

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from the land of Egypt and the place of slavery.

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Then he goes into, you must not put any other gods before me.

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We want to jump in and say immediately jump into you shall have no other gods before me.

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And in fact, if you look across the courthouses in America, they have the commandments that's

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actually listed as the first commandment.

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They leave off the part where it says, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt,

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out of the land of slavery.

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You shall have no other gods before me.

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Now, the problem with that is what happens when people forget their history?

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When people forget their history, they tend to make stupid decisions.

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I mean, that sounds a little blunt, but let's be real.

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When you forget who you are, where you came from, you tend to become an idiot.

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Well a few episodes ago, Pharaoh forgot about Joseph and he enslaved all the Israeli people,

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which by the way, didn't end well for Egypt.

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If you haven't caught that from the podcast, that didn't end well for Egypt.

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So when you forget your history, you tend to repeat it is what happens.

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And you see that and it's not just in Israel and Egypt's conflict here, what's going on.

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It's actually all throughout the history of the world.

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Like nations who forget where they come from, they actually will go and repeat the stupid

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decisions.

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It might have a little different color, a little different flair to it, but they'll

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go and they'll repeat the same stupid decisions and then realize, oh, that didn't work.

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And they're like, oh, I wonder why that didn't work.

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And then someone will be like, well, actually, historically, it didn't work here either.

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And so that's just something that happens when you don't actually look at where you

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I think there is a very clear connection also to the way that we live in the modern era

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of Christianity.

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When you forget that the reason you're at Sinai is because God brought you out of Egypt.

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And obviously I'm speaking metaphorically here because we weren't literally brought

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out of Egypt.

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But you and I, when we forget what Christ did to bring us out of our Egypt, there is

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this temptation to actually build other gods.

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We've talked about like you trust in your healthcare and you trust in your job and you

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trust in your spouse, but you don't actually find your trust and your certainty in who

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God is.

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Because you forgot who actually brought you to where you are.

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Right?

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This is why it's important that you understand where you come from because moving forward,

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that way you can see where you were and be like, man, look at what's behind me and look

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where I'm headed.

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One of the analogies I hate the most, and you hear this in the corporate world, but

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is the idea of climbing the ladder.

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The reason I hate this analogy, and we use it just in life in general, but you don't

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know where people are starting on that ladder.

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Right.

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You're climbing the ladder, but you start three quarters of the way up and someone who

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starts at the bottom climbs halfway up and the person three quarters of the way up takes

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two steps up, who's actually progressed further.

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Right.

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Right?

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Like, and so what we do is we tend to judge people by their circumstances and then we

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realize that they may have come a long ways.

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And so that's important to know is because when we're doing that, a lot of times what

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people are doing is they're recognizing where they came from.

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Mm hmm.

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Being like, I'm not going to be a part of that.

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I'm going to set that aside and I'm going to move in a different path.

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Well, and I know you don't like the analogy, but carrying with that analogy, our goal generationally

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is to have the next generation further up the ladder.

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Yeah.

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We're not looking for the other generation to climb what we've already climbed.

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We want them to stand on our shoulders and go further.

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Also, one of the things that I think is really key with that is people tend to look at the

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ladder as something to be accomplished rather than something to be engaged generationally.

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Mm hmm.

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Yeah.

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You don't climb all the mountain all in one life.

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You do it through generations.

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Mm hmm.

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I think I think what we've done, you know, so like your point is somebody they climb

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half the ladder because they started with that at the bottom.

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Mm hmm.

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That's awesome.

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Now, those who come after you, where do they start?

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Yeah, they start halfway up.

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We start making a bigger change.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Mm hmm.

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A couple of episodes ago, we talked about World War Two and we talked about Cory Ten

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Boone.

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Yeah.

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If you're a German, you probably shouldn't forget your history.

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Mm hmm.

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Because those who forget their history are doing to repeat it.

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Mm hmm.

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And as a nation, you made some very poor choices in World War Two.

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Mm hmm.

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If you are part of Rwanda, you should never forget what happened.

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If you were in Rwanda during the massive upheaval that happened, you shouldn't forget your history

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because you don't want that to ever happen again.

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And having your finger on history is going to make sure that your future points away

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from that.

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Yeah.

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And you could, I mean, you could even say if you're American, you shouldn't forget your

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history.

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Oh, 100 percent.

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Right.

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Issues that we had around slavery and things like that.

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We had Native Americans, right?

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Yeah.

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We should definitely not forget our history.

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Never forget your history.

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Right.

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Because if you do, you're going to make the same mistakes again.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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The takeaway is like whether your history is good, whether your history is bad, remember

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where you come out of.

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Mm hmm.

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And especially when you're a Christian and you're following God, remember that Christ

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is the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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Yeah.

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Metaphorically, right?

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He is the one who brings you out of the land of Egypt.

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And because of that, we don't have any other gods in front of him.

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Mm hmm.

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And that's why God starts this section off with the 10 words of saying, hey, I am the

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Lord your God who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery.

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This reminds me a lot also of in the New Testament when Paul says in Ephesians, you were dead

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in your transgressions and sin.

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Mm hmm.

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While you were still dead.

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Mm hmm.

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Christ died for you.

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Yeah.

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This is the same God, past, present, future.

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Mm hmm.

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Right?

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The God who was, the God who is, the God who will be.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So then you start moving through these words and then you jump down to verse three and

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then this is where God says, you must not have any other gods before me.

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Mm hmm.

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Right?

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Now he doesn't say this first.

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He says this after I am the Lord your God.

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Right.

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Right?

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Because the reality is, is if we jump to this word before as the first one, we have no context

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of who God is.

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Or what's just happened.

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Yeah.

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Right?

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If we're just saying, okay, you must not have any other gods before me.

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Okay.

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Any other gods before what God?

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Right.

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Exactly.

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Before who?

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And not to mention there was the judgment of Egypt's gods when he brought them out in

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the excess.

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Yes.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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He says, hey, you saw what I just did.

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Mm hmm.

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Don't have any other gods before me.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And we're talking about day and age where having multiple gods is normal.

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Right.

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It's commonplace to have the God of the sun, the God of the moon, the God of the rivers,

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the God of the land, so on and so forth.

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And they're going to struggle with this specifically in the realm of fertility.

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Mm hmm.

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For the rest of the Old Testament.

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Yeah.

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Right?

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This is going to be a struggle.

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And I don't want to be too hard on the Hebrews.

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Mm hmm.

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Because we trust in other gods too.

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Right?

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Some of you right now are sitting here and being like, I don't trust in another god.

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It's like, listen.

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Money?

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Yeah.

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Money.

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Thank you.

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So good.

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Right?

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Coffee.

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Coffee.

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Hey now.

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He says this.

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We're literally sitting here drinking coffee while talking.

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So I mean, money, coffee, your fame.

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Right?

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There's a lot of things that we trust in over a god.

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A lot of times like, you know, we trust in our job.

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We trust.

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Oh, that's about to get controversial.

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Your government.

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Right?

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Your political ideals.

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Mm hmm.

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I've run into a lot of people who trust in America a lot more than they trust in Christ.

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Yeah.

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And that really, really just, I'm like, I don't know the exact statistic, but as far

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as Christians globally, I think the American church makes up six or 7%.

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Yeah.

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It's not much.

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No.

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Like, like if I had a hundred dollars and seven dollars went away, I'd be like, okay.

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Yeah.

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Not a big deal.

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So like it to the American church, I'm sorry if this sounds blunt, but you're not all that.

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Yeah.

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Like we are part of a global body, many of whom are being persecuted, who are being tortured,

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who are being beaten on a daily basis because of their belief in Christ.

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And maybe we should take a note from their playbook and be like, Hey, what I have is

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way bigger than whether I vote red or blue.

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Oh, isn't that the truth?

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What we're not saying is that the American church is unimportant.

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No, we're not saying that.

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I think that God has poured blessing into America so that, so that all nations.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And that's the opportunity to partner with God in that.

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Yeah.

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Because he is the God who brought us out of the land of Egypt.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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He is the God who walked both ends of the covenant through death, burial and resurrection.

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Yeah.

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So it is like not having any other gods is a big deal, right?

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This is, I mean, this is the number one commandment for a reason, right?

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It's the number one word.

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Like he is going to be it.

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Yeah.

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You're going to find everything in him.

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This is going to be a very strange thing for them because all the nations around them and

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Egypt, including is a polytheistic nation.

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It's very strange that they only have one God.

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Yeah.

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In fact, there's actually a, like kind of a really funny clip in the chosen.

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Have you seen that show?

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Where this guy comes up and he talks to Jacob as he's digging in the well and he says, he

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says, well, which God do you serve?

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And he says, oh, I serve a God that you cannot see.

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He's like, he's like, well, that seems kind of silly.

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Like why would you serve a God that you cannot see?

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And he's like, it's, it'll be fine.

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And it's, I just love the, the interaction with him because you know, Jacob's seen some

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stuff.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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But like this, this is going to, he's going to ask them to be completely different than

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anybody else they've seen and it's, it's going to be really weird.

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And so as, so here you have God saying, Hey, I want to move you from this polytheistic

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view to this monotheistic view to where it's like, Hey, there's just me.

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Yeah.

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Just the one God.

461
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Yeah.

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I'm going to take care of everything you need.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And then the next piece of that is going to be, I'm actually going to read it straight

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from the text here.

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It says, you shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above

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or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

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Okay.

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That makes sense.

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Like anywhere on the earth, you shall not bow down to them and worship them for I, the

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Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents to

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the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations

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of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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Okay.

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That's the full one.

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So we touched on this in Genesis.

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This one is really interesting because it starts off kind of like, Oh yeah, no problem.

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Right.

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Starts off with like, okay, don't make any idle image of anything that may or may or

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not look like God from in heaven's earth or seat.

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You're like, Oh, okay.

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Great.

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Right.

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And then here you have, God goes on and he says, you must not bow down to them or worship

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them for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate the affection of

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other gods.

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Now we look at that and like oftentimes we think of like, okay, great.

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I don't go sing praises to other gods.

490
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Yeah.

491
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But we hinted on this earlier in the podcast.

492
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What about money?

493
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What about your fame?

494
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What about your image?

495
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What about your reputation?

496
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That's a big one.

497
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And what about, what about what car you drive?

498
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Right.

499
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And then you look at the images that you fill in the blank.

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Like, like you look at all these things and when you are elevating those above God, who's

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the God who's brought us out of everything, who's going to provide everything we need.

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Like please don't look at this and think of this as a standalone command or standalone

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word.

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This builds off the previous.

505
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Right.

506
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And when we look at these, we do this all the time on our day to day walk.

507
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Yeah.

508
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Right.

509
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I watched the Instagram reel the other day, whereas a guy was like, yeah, you could, you

510
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could have a coffee drinker read an article that says drinking coffee in the morning is

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the worst thing you could do.

512
00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,640
And they're still going to be doing it while they're drinking their second cup of coffee.

513
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:54,720
Right.

514
00:20:54,720 --> 00:21:00,100
Like they could be, you can know the information that's in scripture and still be putting other

515
00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:01,800
things in front of God.

516
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:02,800
Right.

517
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:03,800
That's absolutely true.

518
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:09,160
And so when we're doing that in our day to day lives, it becomes a danger and God's saying,

519
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,760
Hey, I'm a jealous God.

520
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:12,760
Don't do that.

521
00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:13,760
Yeah.

522
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,920
And there's a big difference between knowledge and wisdom.

523
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:17,920
Yeah.

524
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:18,920
Right.

525
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,520
One of my favorite sayings is knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

526
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,040
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit smoothie.

527
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:25,040
Yeah.

528
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,040
So that would be gross.

529
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,320
Definitely not in a fruit salad, but it's very frequent.

530
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,360
Like you can know things, but unless they actually change who you are now, which is

531
00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:37,600
actually a really important point, because one of the things that I've maintained all

532
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,220
throughout Torah is that Jesus comes and he's Torah made flesh.

533
00:21:41,220 --> 00:21:44,920
He walked out what the Torah was always supposed to look like in Jewish communities that were

534
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,120
observant of Torah, right?

535
00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:49,120
They were supposed to look like the incarnate Messiah.

536
00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:50,120
Yeah.

537
00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:52,680
Like that's how Torah is applied when you look at community.

538
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,560
And so God says, Hey, listen, I brought you out to the land of Egypt.

539
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,400
You're not going to have any other gods before me.

540
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,580
And you're not going to make stuff that looks like me.

541
00:21:59,580 --> 00:22:06,520
Because if you remember Genesis one, I took man and woman and I made you in my image.

542
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,720
So if you go and make things that look like me, you're really just making pictures of

543
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:15,400
yourself because you humanity are made in the image of God.

544
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,480
And if you're viewing this in the context of a re covenant or the remaking of a covenant,

545
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,440
which you should be viewing this passage in that context.

546
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,960
If you're looking at in that context, God removed man and woman from the garden.

547
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,120
And in one sense, he's starting to invite them back in.

548
00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:33,800
Yeah, I'll be like, this is who I am.

549
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:40,240
Don't don't take things and elevate them to above me or beyond who I am.

550
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,400
Like I should be the first one that you think of on a daily basis.

551
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,480
The first thing that comes to your mind, I should be the one you're meditating on.

552
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:49,480
One.

553
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,920
And the whole thing about being made in the image, this complete plays completely into

554
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:59,480
this whole idea that Jesus comes and walks, says you need to love God and love other people.

555
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:00,480
Yeah.

556
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:01,480
Right.

557
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:02,480
Because people are made in the image of God.

558
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:03,480
Yep.

559
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:04,480
Right.

560
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,800
So if you want to show God that you love him, love people.

561
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:07,800
Exactly.

562
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,520
Like, OK, so if you're worshiping a God, let's just take Dagon, right?

563
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,960
The fish God, because he's he's got a fun name.

564
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:18,880
If you're worshiping Dagon, you would go to the idol and you would give it affection of

565
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:19,880
some sort.

566
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:20,880
Right.

567
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:21,880
Yeah.

568
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,680
How do you show God that you love him?

569
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,080
By how you treat your neighbor?

570
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,400
Paul is going to say all of the law hangs on this.

571
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,080
Love your neighbor as you love yourself.

572
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,080
Right.

573
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:34,080
All the law and prophets.

574
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,120
Now, don't get weird and don't start treating people like their physical idols.

575
00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:39,120
Right.

576
00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:40,280
That's not what I'm talking about.

577
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:45,720
What I'm saying is that mankind made in the image of God, the way that you treat people

578
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,360
matters because it shows whether or not you love God.

579
00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:52,440
Yeah, absolutely.

580
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:58,680
Now, on the back half of this command, I always think it's interesting how often we focus

581
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,840
on punishing to the third and fourth generation.

582
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:01,840
Yeah.

583
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,080
I mean, I just ignore the fact that he's like, I'm going to show love to a thousand generations.

584
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,080
Right.

585
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:10,320
You get to a point where it says, but I'm going to lavish unfailing love for a thousand

586
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,040
generations on those who love and obey my commands.

587
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,880
Like I'm not amazing at math.

588
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:15,880
I'm pretty good.

589
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,000
Uh huh.

590
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000
But correct me if I'm wrong.

591
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,640
A thousand is a lot bigger than three.

592
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:20,640
Yeah.

593
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,640
Yeah.

594
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:22,640
A thousand is a lot bigger than three.

595
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,720
If you said, hey, I owe you three bucks or I owe you a thousand bucks.

596
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,880
Those are vastly different numbers.

597
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,080
Let's just do a little little mathematic equation.

598
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,080
All right.

599
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,080
20 times a thousand.

600
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:33,080
20,000.

601
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,360
So that's roughly the time span of a thousand generations.

602
00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:39,240
Like if you were to put a literal number to it, right?

603
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,760
Because if every 20 years you had a kid, right?

604
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:42,760
Right.

605
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:47,520
A thousand generations would come out to 20,000 years.

606
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,000
Which we don't have 20,000 years of recorded history.

607
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:57,640
We don't essentially scripture saying like, I will throw this unfailing love on the people

608
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:04,560
who love and obey me for the entirety of the world.

609
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:05,560
Ben's laughing right now.

610
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,960
My daughter is joining us for this podcast right now.

611
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,320
So she's sitting next to me playing with me.

612
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,760
And so like my focus ability has been a little less today.

613
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:19,040
But yeah, if you're, if you're wondering why he says more heretical things than normal,

614
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:23,400
yeah, he's being influenced by a five year old.

615
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,180
So first off you have, I'm Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

616
00:25:27,180 --> 00:25:30,040
You're not going to have any other gods before me because you've seen what they can do.

617
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,440
And you're also not going to make things in my image that you're going to worship because

618
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,560
I've made mankind in my image and you're meant to love them.

619
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:38,560
Yeah.

620
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,160
Like the way that you love your neighbor is going to show me how you love me.

621
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:43,160
And then he makes a statement.

622
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,560
And I love this, this next one.

623
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:45,560
It's the next word.

624
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,720
It says, you shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God for the Lord will not hold

625
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:54,200
anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

626
00:25:54,200 --> 00:26:01,040
Now how often in the church have we talked about this as a swear word specifically?

627
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,240
Like almost exclusively, almost exclusively, except that's not what that word means.

628
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:13,400
No, the word that we translate as misuse is actually to bear up or to put on.

629
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:18,160
And so like this, this would actually more accurately be translated.

630
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:26,680
You shall not put on the name of God and then misrepresent me.

631
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:27,680
Yeah.

632
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,360
Essentially God is saying, please don't represent me poorly.

633
00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:35,360
And if you do, it's going to end badly.

634
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:36,360
Yeah.

635
00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:40,960
Which by the way, can we just talk about the modern church?

636
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:48,640
Like when you don't look like Jesus, you're bearing up the blame incorrectly when you

637
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,520
don't show compassion, you're bearing up the name incorrectly.

638
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:58,760
When you don't love well you're bearing the name incorrectly when you don't forgive

639
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,160
endingly.

640
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:07,040
You're bearing up the name incorrectly When you don't love on that lightning, you're

641
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:08,320
name

642
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,680
Incorrectly when blessing is just for you. Yeah, you bear the name incorrectly. Mm-hmm

643
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:18,440
Actually, I had a conversation with someone who follows Jesus and they were like, yeah

644
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:23,440
Well, my my grace is running short and I was like God's isn't yeah

645
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,200
Right, and if he's in you

646
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,240
You're shouldn't either. Yeah

647
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,880
Yeah, I'm like a real level your friend I feel him, you know

648
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:39,360
I was like because I get it and that's why I'm glad that God says my grace is sufficient for you

649
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,360
Yeah, because my grace ain't sufficient for a lot of people. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah

650
00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:49,080
I have frequently seen people in the name of Jesus do horrific things

651
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:57,040
Yeah, I think we talked about this a few weeks ago, but Nazis claim to follow Jesus. Mm-hmm and exterminated Jews

652
00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:02,840
King Richard conquered nations in the name of Jesus. Mm-hmm, right?

653
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,960
And he did the whole like follow Jesus or I'm gonna kill you. Mm-hmm, right?

654
00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:10,360
Spanish conquistadors

655
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,680
Did that in South America and Brazil?

656
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:20,480
Can we just mention the Salem witch trials? Mm-hmm. It's not uncommon. I mean even in today's I have seen in my life

657
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,640
people who bear the name of Christ

658
00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,120
stand outside of clinics and

659
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,720
Hurl accusations and hatred and people who are going into those clinics

660
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:37,200
Mm-hmm, and I understand not agreeing with behavior and being vehemently opposed to it

661
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,280
But Jesus went to a cross and was crucified for those same people. Yeah

662
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,280
And so we got to figure out a way to love even when we're angry

663
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,120
Yeah, and we also have to step back and recognize that

664
00:28:53,120 --> 00:29:00,200
Everybody has different things going on in their lives. Mm-hmm. And if we're called to be gracious individuals

665
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,360
We need to take time to understand where they're coming from

666
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:10,280
We need to take time to understand their hurt. So in the book of Revelation, mm-hmm

667
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:16,800
There is a church that is written a letter to and it talks about how their white robes are stained with blood

668
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,400
Yeah, right

669
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,760
The church that they're actually referencing there. There is actually a celebration every year of during ancient times

670
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:29,440
Where there was a offering that was given to a goddess in that?

671
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:38,560
City there was some goddess worship that will happen and and the biggest form of goddess worship that you could have which was a blessing

672
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,520
Was that at this festival you would actually be castrated. Mm-hmm

673
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:49,960
The next best thing was if you were with somebody who did get castrated and their blood got onto your white robes

674
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:57,840
You would receive the blessing too. Mm-hmm. Here is the crazy thing that we found out through archaeology study of the church site

675
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,720
Do you know what was right next to the place where they set up this?

676
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:09,280
Sacrifice where the people would actually go in and be castrated males would be castrated wasn't the temple there was a church

677
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:15,120
That served as a hospital. Hmm and met people right after their pagan worship

678
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,920
And put them back together

679
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:20,960
Now you tell me

680
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:26,160
That that church wasn't impacting for the gospel. Mm-hmm

681
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:31,040
Right smack dab in the middle of evil, right?

682
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:36,560
Not approving of it, but standing right in the middle in steadfast in their love. Yeah

683
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,320
Just because you disagree with somebody doesn't mean you can't love them. Mm-hmm

684
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:46,320
And if it does mean that then you're probably not being Christ. Mm-hmm. Yeah

685
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,720
100 300 500 8000 percent

686
00:30:54,880 --> 00:31:01,680
So right here you have right here you have a word that kind of links two parts of this two parts of this story

687
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:06,960
So the first part you have who god is what to do with his name so on so forth

688
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,240
And then you have this word where he says remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy

689
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:15,200
You have six days each week for you for your work

690
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:21,040
But the seventh day is the Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God

691
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,520
Now, why is this one different?

692
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,480
Because it includes both you and God

693
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:33,520
Something you're doing together, right? Right? Like like the idea of Sabbath isn't just I think we've kind of twisted this in the church a little bit

694
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,200
We've taken the idea of Sabbath and said okay. It's a day for you just to rest

695
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,000
Well, yes, but it's a day for you to rest with God, right?

696
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:47,200
It's not a day for you to rest apart from God. Correct when I uh,

697
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,960
Talked with my son and I actually learned this from Marty and I just stole it

698
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,760
So just to be honest, I'm not a fan of the Sabbath day

699
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,960
I actually learned this from Marty and I just stole it. So just fyi

700
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:02,240
I've been raising James on Friday night. We observe Sabbath on Saturday because I work Monday through Friday

701
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,560
And a lot of times i've done stuff on Sunday with the church

702
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,760
But on Friday night getting ready to go into Sabbath. I don't do any work on Saturday

703
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,200
We only do things that bring life to our family. Yeah

704
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:19,040
So the night I say James what is tomorrow? He says it's Sabbath and I said what do we do on Sabbath? He says we rest

705
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,040
We play

706
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,760
And we remember that God loves us. Mm-hmm

707
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:30,000
And I started to add this piece. I said we remember that God loves us and that teaches us how to love other people

708
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000
Well, yeah

709
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,760
Because once a week it's about community and communion with God

710
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,920
Yeah, and so in this in this word it goes on to say

711
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,440
On that day, no one in your household may do any work

712
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:50,100
This includes you your son your daughters your male female servants your livestock

713
00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:55,460
And the foreigners living among you for in six days the Lord made the heavens the earth the sea

714
00:32:56,260 --> 00:33:01,540
And everything and then but on the seventh day he rested call back to Genesis in case you missed that

715
00:33:02,340 --> 00:33:04,980
That's why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day

716
00:33:05,620 --> 00:33:09,940
As set apart and holy now, it's really interesting. You're not just saying just you

717
00:33:10,660 --> 00:33:13,380
Right, right. He's saying your whole household. Yeah

718
00:33:13,940 --> 00:33:17,780
Right and back in this day like so in America context our household, you know

719
00:33:17,780 --> 00:33:21,460
In like my context like myself my wife my daughter

720
00:33:21,940 --> 00:33:28,340
Mm-hmm, right in your context yourself your wife your two kids, right? Right in this context that they're talking about like

721
00:33:29,060 --> 00:33:34,020
Usually if your grandparents are still alive, you're still living at least close to them

722
00:33:34,580 --> 00:33:36,580
Like they were still part of the household

723
00:33:36,820 --> 00:33:43,380
Right. They're talking about the servants. They're talking about livestock. Yeah, like they don't let your animals plow the field, right?

724
00:33:44,020 --> 00:33:46,420
Right. Don't let your animals fetch the water

725
00:33:46,420 --> 00:33:48,420
He's saying let everything rest

726
00:33:49,220 --> 00:33:55,540
Because and we often miss this but what happens when we rest particularly take a day and just rest in what the Lord has for us

727
00:33:55,540 --> 00:33:57,540
And who he is

728
00:33:57,460 --> 00:33:59,460
We become so alive

729
00:33:59,860 --> 00:34:07,060
Right and we stop becoming about production. Yeah, we actually become about whose image we're made in. Yeah, right

730
00:34:07,540 --> 00:34:13,700
Yeah, and this this idea of rest is so rejuvenating is resting on the Lord that

731
00:34:13,700 --> 00:34:16,900
We just become so alive that when we go back to work

732
00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:20,020
It's crazy

733
00:34:20,020 --> 00:34:21,380
So do you think it's strange?

734
00:34:21,380 --> 00:34:26,980
This is the longest commandment in exodus and yet this is the one that the church struggles to follow the most

735
00:34:28,020 --> 00:34:34,020
So much so that i've actually heard this legitimately from people that say christians don't have to observe the sabbath

736
00:34:34,740 --> 00:34:36,740
Mm-hmm now on a real level. That's true

737
00:34:36,740 --> 00:34:39,700
Like religiously you should you don't need to observe the sabbath

738
00:34:39,700 --> 00:34:45,220
Like there's some things that are going on with Gentiles, but relationally you absolutely should observe the sabbath

739
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:49,620
But God's just not going to hold you accountable for it

740
00:34:49,620 --> 00:34:53,460
Yeah, and and I think a good way to think of it is like what?

741
00:34:54,100 --> 00:35:00,020
What habits do you have in your life that set a time set aside time for just you and God?

742
00:35:00,740 --> 00:35:02,740
Yeah, or you God in your family

743
00:35:02,740 --> 00:35:06,980
I think I think the problem is we look at the sabbath as an obligation and not a blessing

744
00:35:06,980 --> 00:35:10,500
Right think of something you love dearly. Okay. So for me

745
00:35:11,460 --> 00:35:17,860
A bonfire with some nice brats that can be roasted over the bonfire if you're like, hey

746
00:35:17,860 --> 00:35:21,700
We're doing that every night for dinner. I would become so fat and I would love it

747
00:35:22,420 --> 00:35:28,980
Right, like like like sitting around a fire in the evening is one of my favorite things roasting a hot dog over the fire

748
00:35:28,980 --> 00:35:31,460
It's like one of my absolute favorite things in life

749
00:35:31,460 --> 00:35:37,220
Right now if you invited me over I'm shifting my schedule around to be there now

750
00:35:37,220 --> 00:35:42,180
What would be what would be uncarrot stick of me to do is to be like no, I don't want that

751
00:35:42,660 --> 00:35:47,860
It's too much of a burden too much of a burden for me to come over and do something. I love I I have been made for freedom

752
00:35:47,860 --> 00:35:49,860
I don't need to make eat brats. Yeah

753
00:35:50,340 --> 00:35:53,060
This is gonna call forward into Jesus in the New Testament

754
00:35:53,060 --> 00:35:56,900
He says sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath

755
00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:59,140
You should actually be able to do that. I think it's a good thing

756
00:35:59,140 --> 00:36:02,820
I think it's a good thing that you're not a man man for the sabbath

757
00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:07,540
You should actually see that in most of these laws. Mm-hmm. These commands these words

758
00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:11,300
They're not actually meant to be a burden for you. They're actually meant to bring freedom. Mm-hmm

759
00:36:11,780 --> 00:36:15,300
And yeah, I think John Ortberg says it in one of his books really well

760
00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:19,140
He's like sometimes the most holy thing you can do is go take a nap. Hmm. Go take rest

761
00:36:19,140 --> 00:36:22,580
Let the Lord rejuvenate you right? That's the whole idea of Sabbath

762
00:36:22,580 --> 00:36:29,540
Only because I think in a future episode we may actually unpack Sabbath a lot. Yeah, we're gonna talk about a lot because one of the things

763
00:36:29,540 --> 00:36:31,700
I think we have an issue with in the church

764
00:36:31,780 --> 00:36:36,780
This comes back to the ruthless elimination of hurry by John Mark Comer book that we've referenced before

765
00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:43,380
One of the issues that I think that we have in a church more than most is that we don't know how to stop

766
00:36:44,020 --> 00:36:47,480
Mm-hmm and rest in our identity before God. Mm-hmm. Yeah

767
00:36:48,580 --> 00:36:50,580
Yeah, absolutely

768
00:36:50,580 --> 00:36:55,460
So with that being said the words are meant to actually bring life and so

769
00:36:55,940 --> 00:37:01,860
God shifts here. He's given four words about himself a hinge word where he's now talking about us together now

770
00:37:01,860 --> 00:37:05,620
He's going to talk about how do we love each other? Well, right and he continues

771
00:37:05,620 --> 00:37:12,020
He says honor your father and your mother that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you

772
00:37:12,340 --> 00:37:15,060
It's really interesting because this whole honor your father

773
00:37:15,860 --> 00:37:18,740
so in this in the shift he starts off with

774
00:37:18,740 --> 00:37:20,740
family

775
00:37:20,740 --> 00:37:25,060
Right, right. He goes from okay. This is who I am. This is us doing something together

776
00:37:25,060 --> 00:37:29,220
All right. Now, let's talk about your family, right now in this culture

777
00:37:29,220 --> 00:37:32,980
Like a lot of times we look at this and the reason I say that is because a lot of times we look at this room

778
00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:39,780
Simply the view of like, okay healthy families with a father and mother type thing and it's like, okay

779
00:37:39,780 --> 00:37:45,540
But really what he's getting at is your family because the name of your father and the name of your mother

780
00:37:45,540 --> 00:37:49,860
Were important. Mm-hmm. Like they said something about who you were back in that day

781
00:37:50,340 --> 00:37:55,460
So when you're reading this honor your father and mother, it's really saying okay

782
00:37:56,020 --> 00:37:58,020
Honor who your family is

783
00:37:58,580 --> 00:38:05,060
Right. There's two pieces that we need to cover here because if you're listening to this and you've heard this command before this word before

784
00:38:05,860 --> 00:38:10,340
There there are two types of people there and I want to address both of them. The first is this

785
00:38:12,420 --> 00:38:13,940
Your

786
00:38:13,940 --> 00:38:15,940
Your parents

787
00:38:16,660 --> 00:38:18,660
Were not good. Mm-hmm

788
00:38:18,980 --> 00:38:22,580
Maybe you come from an abusive home. You have a drug addicted home

789
00:38:23,060 --> 00:38:27,460
Maybe why maybe it was just verbally abusive or any of those things that are out there

790
00:38:29,380 --> 00:38:35,220
Honoring doesn't mean that you have to put up with bad behavior. Mm-hmm

791
00:38:36,660 --> 00:38:40,660
I want I want to stress that honoring does not mean you need to stay in a bad situation

792
00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:45,700
Yeah, you can still be honoring of them and leave the situation behind correct

793
00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:49,700
So I never want because this has been misused

794
00:38:50,420 --> 00:38:56,420
To try to keep people in bad situations. Mm-hmm. That is not honoring to what's actually being said here. Yeah

795
00:38:57,380 --> 00:38:59,940
On the other side of that that same thought

796
00:39:02,660 --> 00:39:08,980
You can't always honor somebody if they're not willing to receive honor or they're not the kind of person that can receive honor

797
00:39:08,980 --> 00:39:13,380
I think there's a difference between honoring a person and honoring the heritage correct

798
00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:17,220
So you like because sometimes a person is not honorable

799
00:39:17,620 --> 00:39:23,460
Exactly, you have parents who you've had to just get out of their lives because they're abusive drug addicted

800
00:39:24,260 --> 00:39:30,420
Whatever, right? They're full of neglect or whatever that might be right and you had to just get out of that situation

801
00:39:30,980 --> 00:39:33,460
That's okay. Yeah, that's good actually

802
00:39:34,660 --> 00:39:36,660
You can still honor the heritage

803
00:39:36,660 --> 00:39:39,140
That your family brought for beyond that right?

804
00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:43,700
There's there's gonna be some good some good legacy there somewhere

805
00:39:44,580 --> 00:39:47,140
And you can honor that but doesn't mean you need to stay in that

806
00:39:48,020 --> 00:39:53,780
Correct and also I think there's there's also this promise throughout scripture that god is the god of the fatherless

807
00:39:54,580 --> 00:39:59,300
Of the orphan. Yeah, right. And so if there is nothing honorable about your family

808
00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:03,460
Yeah, god's also gonna step in and fill that role. Yeah, you are not alone

809
00:40:03,460 --> 00:40:08,180
And on a very real level we've all been adopted in yeah, right

810
00:40:08,820 --> 00:40:13,940
Like on the supernatural level we've been adopted in and there's there's a tie in here with what?

811
00:40:14,340 --> 00:40:19,700
Jesus says too when there's a story in the new testament where jesus actually his family comes

812
00:40:20,580 --> 00:40:23,940
To see him and they're like, hey your family's outside

813
00:40:24,740 --> 00:40:26,740
And he says no my family's right here

814
00:40:27,140 --> 00:40:30,900
Correct, right like your immediate family is right here

815
00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:35,700
Right, right like your immediate family might be complete trash

816
00:40:36,580 --> 00:40:41,060
Right. Okay, but you may have surrounded yourself with people who have built you up

817
00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:46,660
Yeah, you can live into that legacy and honor them too. Yeah, that's pulling this out of context a little bit

818
00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:49,380
I recognize that I love an out of context

819
00:40:50,180 --> 00:40:52,740
I recognize i'm pulling that out of context a little bit

820
00:40:53,380 --> 00:40:58,820
But understand that like if there are good people in your life who are building you up honor them, right?

821
00:40:58,820 --> 00:41:04,900
So it says here so that you may live long in the land. So who is this commandment actually about?

822
00:41:05,780 --> 00:41:06,980
It's about you

823
00:41:06,980 --> 00:41:12,900
You honoring your past honoring what came before you actually enables you to live long in the land

824
00:41:13,540 --> 00:41:14,340
Right

825
00:41:14,340 --> 00:41:19,300
That's really important for that. You understand. It's not about your family. It's actually about you

826
00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:21,220
Mm-hmm

827
00:41:21,220 --> 00:41:22,660
Yeah

828
00:41:22,660 --> 00:41:25,780
So moving on a few of these should be fairly obvious

829
00:41:25,780 --> 00:41:29,940
So he's giving a he's given an idea here. He says you shall not murder. Okay

830
00:41:30,740 --> 00:41:32,260
That makes sense

831
00:41:32,260 --> 00:41:35,940
Right. You're speaking to an entire society. What do I expect you to be?

832
00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:38,500
Don't don't hurt yourself

833
00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:44,100
Yeah, and part of you might be wondering like why would that even be in there seems like common sense

834
00:41:44,420 --> 00:41:48,420
Well, we are talking we are talking in day and age where things like child sacrifice were common

835
00:41:49,940 --> 00:41:52,340
You just rewind a little further in Exodus

836
00:41:52,340 --> 00:41:55,780
Pharaoh says hey Israelite baby boy

837
00:41:56,420 --> 00:42:01,620
Feeding in the water. Yeah, right. So like the idea of do not murder might not seem

838
00:42:02,260 --> 00:42:07,220
Might seem simple from my westernized point of view, but actually is something that I would have been like

839
00:42:07,220 --> 00:42:09,540
Oh, you don't want us to child sacrifice

840
00:42:10,260 --> 00:42:15,380
You don't want us to do those things right? Right. We're gonna get into that a lot in Leviticus

841
00:42:15,380 --> 00:42:20,260
Yeah, Leviticus is a very misunderstood book because we try to compare it to our current penal law

842
00:42:20,260 --> 00:42:23,540
Rather than understanding that it is a liberating law of its time

843
00:42:24,100 --> 00:42:30,180
Meant to actually bring life and moral direction into their life so that they can put a story on display

844
00:42:30,340 --> 00:42:33,060
Of the redemption of God for the entire nation

845
00:42:33,780 --> 00:42:38,020
And so we hear you're not going to murder. You're not going to commit adultery. You're not going to steal

846
00:42:38,020 --> 00:42:40,340
You're not going to give false testimony against your neighbor

847
00:42:40,740 --> 00:42:44,740
Like these are ways that you're going to live in peace with the people around you

848
00:42:44,740 --> 00:42:48,660
You actually have to live in this community so don't kill them

849
00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:52,900
Don't cheat on them. Don't steal from them and don't lie about them

850
00:42:54,980 --> 00:42:55,780
And

851
00:42:55,780 --> 00:43:00,740
If you really want to understand these words well go understand ancient

852
00:43:01,220 --> 00:43:03,220
Egyptian context, correct

853
00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:10,820
The do not commit adultery go go like do a little research on what like the common sexual practices were in ancient Egypt

854
00:43:10,820 --> 00:43:17,620
Right, you're going to find that like oh the do not commit adultery might be more revolutionary than you think correct

855
00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:21,220
Same with the do not steal then the last one here is

856
00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:23,940
Do not covet your your neighbor's house

857
00:43:23,940 --> 00:43:29,140
You shall not cover your neighbor's wife or his male or female servants his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor

858
00:43:29,140 --> 00:43:32,820
So the basic gist of it is be okay with what you have

859
00:43:33,540 --> 00:43:37,860
And don't want what everybody else has which I don't want to be a victim of

860
00:43:37,860 --> 00:43:40,980
And don't want what everybody else has which I don't know

861
00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:47,220
On this list that might be one of the more relevant ones for america. Yeah, right because we we look at everybody else and we're like

862
00:43:47,300 --> 00:43:49,300
Ah, I want that

863
00:43:49,540 --> 00:43:52,020
Yeah, take take cars for example. Yeah, right

864
00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:55,860
It always comes down to cars with you. Well, you've seen my cars

865
00:43:56,900 --> 00:43:58,580
There's four types of car owners on the world

866
00:43:58,580 --> 00:44:03,060
There's people who are like i'm gonna buy the brand new car drive it for 40 50 000 miles turn it in get the next brand

867
00:44:03,060 --> 00:44:08,900
New thing then you have people like i'll buy that 50 60 000 mile car i'll drive it till 120 130 then turn it in

868
00:44:09,140 --> 00:44:14,740
Then you got the people who are like i'll buy that 130 000 mile car drive it till just the verge of death

869
00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:19,860
Okay, and then i'm gonna sell it sell it to somebody and then you have the fourth

870
00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:25,300
I'm in the fourth group of agnologist who are like i'm gonna buy that car on the verge of death put some money into it

871
00:44:25,620 --> 00:44:27,620
And then drive it till it completely dies

872
00:44:28,340 --> 00:44:31,380
Yeah, right. There's this idea of contentment, right?

873
00:44:31,380 --> 00:44:36,820
It's really easy when you don't have a nice car to see people driving the brand new car that you want down the road

874
00:44:36,820 --> 00:44:38,820
I'd be like man. I want that

875
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:41,300
but at the end of the day

876
00:44:41,460 --> 00:44:43,460
Both the cars do the exact same thing

877
00:44:43,700 --> 00:44:47,940
Paul makes a statement and he says I have learned the secret to contentment

878
00:44:48,020 --> 00:44:54,500
Then he goes and lists a bunch of things that are not great. Mm-hmm, right? Yeah, I can do all things through christ

879
00:44:54,580 --> 00:44:56,420
Who strengthens me?

880
00:44:56,420 --> 00:44:57,620
Yeah

881
00:44:57,620 --> 00:45:04,740
The secret to contentment is knowing that your contentment doesn't rely in your circumstances. It relies on god. Yeah, it relies on christ

882
00:45:05,220 --> 00:45:12,580
Yeah, that's the secret of contentment in all things. So I guess one of the things that I would wonder is if you're sitting there on content

883
00:45:14,020 --> 00:45:16,020
It doesn't have anything to do with your situation guys

884
00:45:16,100 --> 00:45:20,500
No, it doesn't if you're sitting there and saying if only I had if only I could

885
00:45:20,980 --> 00:45:22,980
Like that has that is a heart issue

886
00:45:22,980 --> 00:45:28,340
And a contentment issue. Yeah. Yeah, so I wanted to do one thing here, which I think is kind of fun

887
00:45:28,580 --> 00:45:32,500
Um because we're gonna do this and then we're gonna kind of wrap up the the 10 words

888
00:45:33,860 --> 00:45:37,460
I explained to you guys that this is a ketubah. This is very similar to like a wedding ceremony

889
00:45:37,780 --> 00:45:42,740
And so I want to read these commands these words again, but as if they were

890
00:45:43,460 --> 00:45:46,260
Vows that god is making to israel on sinai

891
00:45:48,260 --> 00:45:50,340
So god says this

892
00:45:50,340 --> 00:45:55,700
I am your lover. Mm-hmm who brought you out of a bad situation

893
00:45:56,740 --> 00:45:58,740
Don't have any other lovers except for me

894
00:45:59,860 --> 00:46:05,940
In fact, don't even make images of the lovers or keep old pictures of them on your phone

895
00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:13,780
Don't keep their email address to send at them at random times like just don't have any of that stuff

896
00:46:13,780 --> 00:46:19,380
And when you go out and you represent me remember that you're representing my family and everything I represent

897
00:46:21,460 --> 00:46:28,500
Once a week, let's make sure that we have time together to live into our relationship to be together

898
00:46:30,900 --> 00:46:33,060
Remember where you come from

899
00:46:34,420 --> 00:46:36,660
It's gonna serve you well as you move forward

900
00:46:37,620 --> 00:46:39,620
Don't hurt yourself

901
00:46:39,620 --> 00:46:41,620
Don't cheat on yourself

902
00:46:41,620 --> 00:46:43,060
Don't

903
00:46:43,060 --> 00:46:45,060
Don't steal

904
00:46:47,060 --> 00:46:50,100
Live with an open hand don't lie

905
00:46:52,260 --> 00:46:56,260
And don't look at what somebody else has be content with what i'm giving you

906
00:46:58,820 --> 00:47:02,820
When you hear it in that context you understand that these aren't commands these are

907
00:47:03,620 --> 00:47:08,100
Words that god is speaking over his nation now because he's about to get into some commands

908
00:47:08,100 --> 00:47:13,460
Mm-hmm, right some things that are actually like instructional things these words are meant to be guidance

909
00:47:13,940 --> 00:47:16,020
In how you live your life before god. Yeah

910
00:47:16,820 --> 00:47:19,780
Who he is and who he expects us to be? Yeah

911
00:47:21,380 --> 00:47:25,060
So if you're if you're coming to this wedding ceremony as a bride

912
00:47:26,100 --> 00:47:28,100
Right. You have a groom

913
00:47:28,580 --> 00:47:31,060
Who's saying i'm going to give you everything you need

914
00:47:32,740 --> 00:47:33,620
Right

915
00:47:33,620 --> 00:47:35,620
Essentially how I would sum this

916
00:47:35,620 --> 00:47:38,180
Up is i'm going to give you everything you need

917
00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:40,340
Okay

918
00:47:40,340 --> 00:47:42,340
So don't sell yourself short

919
00:47:42,660 --> 00:47:44,100
Yeah

920
00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:46,420
Because in me you're going to get everything that you need

921
00:47:47,780 --> 00:47:48,660
Yeah

922
00:47:48,660 --> 00:47:52,580
That's what god's saying to israel and honestly, that's what he's saying to you right now

923
00:47:53,220 --> 00:47:56,900
This idea of covening also throws me back to the garden once again

924
00:47:57,540 --> 00:48:01,700
When eith looks up and she says I see it's desirable for eating and for gaining

925
00:48:02,420 --> 00:48:03,860
wisdom

926
00:48:03,860 --> 00:48:06,820
Because in her head god's holding out on me

927
00:48:07,380 --> 00:48:10,740
Once again god's saying here i'm not holding out on you. No

928
00:48:11,300 --> 00:48:13,300
This is what it looks like to live in my world

929
00:48:13,540 --> 00:48:15,540
Would you like to come and live with me?

930
00:48:17,860 --> 00:48:22,600
All throughout the the back half of exodus is this story of recreation

931
00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:26,340
There's going to be a lot of themes that actually echo the creation story

932
00:48:26,340 --> 00:48:33,380
I do think it's interesting that in the original story of creation god creates a space and he asks mankind to fill it

933
00:48:34,340 --> 00:48:37,620
In this story where he's now telling a recreation story

934
00:48:38,580 --> 00:48:41,300
God says now you create a space and i'm going to fill it. Yeah

935
00:48:42,660 --> 00:48:44,660
And i'm going to dwell with you

936
00:48:44,980 --> 00:48:48,020
And then I I think it's even crazier that in the new testament

937
00:48:48,980 --> 00:48:51,140
God says, okay now i'm going to make you that space

938
00:48:51,860 --> 00:48:53,860
And i'm going to fill it. Yeah

939
00:48:53,860 --> 00:48:58,340
There's a lot of symmetry going on with what god is doing in his people. Mm-hmm. Yeah

940
00:48:59,380 --> 00:49:02,900
It's interesting because so moses receives the commands from god and he comes down

941
00:49:02,980 --> 00:49:06,500
he has him on the tablet and he brings it down to the to the israelites

942
00:49:07,220 --> 00:49:12,420
And they're really kind of terrified of the thunder on the mountain and when god speaks and they're like, oh

943
00:49:13,700 --> 00:49:15,700
Like god's voice is terrifying

944
00:49:17,140 --> 00:49:19,140
Moses you go

945
00:49:19,140 --> 00:49:24,660
Okay, spoil alert that doesn't end well, we're going to talk about that next week

946
00:49:25,540 --> 00:49:31,220
Because even in the golden calf incident, we want to talk about the grace of god in the midst of chaos. Yeah

947
00:49:32,180 --> 00:49:35,780
So if you have not read the golden calf next week, guess what? We're going to be talking about it

948
00:49:36,020 --> 00:49:39,140
Yeah, and we're going to be talking about what is god doing in the middle of this?

949
00:49:40,820 --> 00:49:43,540
Yeah, that's gonna be so good. So what are our big takeaways today?

950
00:49:44,740 --> 00:49:46,980
There's two takeaways that i'm thinking of right now

951
00:49:46,980 --> 00:49:48,980
so one

952
00:49:48,980 --> 00:49:51,700
In the ten commandments is god is saying

953
00:49:52,340 --> 00:49:58,020
Look, you don't need anything else. You don't need anyone else. You just need me

954
00:49:59,460 --> 00:50:06,020
I've heard it said before by a pastor that I really like where he's like, yeah, you hear this phrase fear god

955
00:50:06,820 --> 00:50:09,940
Then that's usually followed by you don't need to fear anything else

956
00:50:11,300 --> 00:50:13,300
meaning that

957
00:50:13,300 --> 00:50:17,460
Meaning that when you have a fear and an awe and a reverence of the lord

958
00:50:18,420 --> 00:50:20,100
the fear

959
00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:26,100
Of everything else just fades away. Yeah, because nothing else matters. So that's one takeaway for me. It's just that like

960
00:50:27,620 --> 00:50:31,140
God is the only one that we need right? Right?

961
00:50:32,180 --> 00:50:34,660
The the second takeaway for me is that

962
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The second half of these ten commandments god saying hey don't sell yourself short

963
00:50:39,060 --> 00:50:42,260
Right like you're loved you're valued. Mm-hmm

964
00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:44,900
Right live into what I have for you

965
00:50:44,900 --> 00:50:51,380
Don't sell yourself short and often what we can do because we often start the story in genesis three is we can be like

966
00:50:51,380 --> 00:50:54,580
Whoa is me. I'm a crap person

967
00:50:55,780 --> 00:50:59,060
And god's saying no you're not

968
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I

969
00:51:02,340 --> 00:51:05,940
Think a couple of my takeaways is one that we have to look at these

970
00:51:05,940 --> 00:51:08,500
Laws and commands and words in context

971
00:51:09,060 --> 00:51:12,980
Because if you look at them, like I said by the modern laws, you're going to misunderstand them

972
00:51:12,980 --> 00:51:18,260
Yeah, you have to understand what was going on in the day and what is god speaking into because he does the same thing for us today

973
00:51:18,260 --> 00:51:22,180
Mm-hmm, which is why prophetic word is so important and here in the voice of god, right?

974
00:51:22,740 --> 00:51:26,420
Because we actually need to understand like what is god speaking into our situation today?

975
00:51:26,420 --> 00:51:31,060
Yeah, and how does that line up with the biblical precedent of who he is? Yeah, right?

976
00:51:31,700 --> 00:51:34,100
Because god's not going to have words in the bible about cars

977
00:51:34,100 --> 00:51:39,140
Like you hear me like cars aren't in the bible. I know that they say that all the disciples were in one accord

978
00:51:39,460 --> 00:51:44,180
That's not the kind of accord they were talking about right? Sorry. I had to work on that cheesy joke somewhere

979
00:51:45,140 --> 00:51:49,380
The other takeaway I have is this if you don't remember that god is the one who brought you out of egypt

980
00:51:49,380 --> 00:51:53,060
You're gonna find yourself serving other gods. You're gonna find yourself

981
00:51:53,620 --> 00:51:58,260
Creating images that are not him and you're gonna find yourself bearing up the name incorrectly. Yeah

982
00:51:59,380 --> 00:52:01,380
All of those things play into each other

983
00:52:01,380 --> 00:52:07,620
So we need to remember who god is and what he's done for us in view of god's mercy

984
00:52:08,340 --> 00:52:11,780
We're going to offer ourselves as living sacrifices

985
00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:14,420
holy and pleasing to the lord

986
00:52:15,380 --> 00:52:18,900
Where did we get the idea that holy sacrifices go and attack people?

987
00:52:19,940 --> 00:52:21,940
Our job is to burn with fire

988
00:52:22,500 --> 00:52:24,500
So that people can see god

989
00:52:25,060 --> 00:52:27,460
And the beautiful thing about being a living sacrifice

990
00:52:27,460 --> 00:52:30,980
Is if you roll off the altar you can get back on. Yeah

991
00:52:32,020 --> 00:52:34,020
Yeah, that's so good

992
00:52:34,580 --> 00:52:39,700
I just had this picture of a pig rolling off which doesn't even make sense in jewish culture like a pig, right?

993
00:52:40,580 --> 00:52:44,180
Yeah, uh, you know, it's interesting actually if you think about a living sacrifice, right?

994
00:52:44,820 --> 00:52:46,980
Like is holy and pleasing to the lord, right?

995
00:52:48,260 --> 00:52:53,220
The image of that would almost be like a sacrifice that is on fire but doesn't burn like the burning bush

996
00:52:53,220 --> 00:52:57,380
Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, just throwing out there. Yeah

997
00:52:57,940 --> 00:53:01,220
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1020
00:54:30,500 --> 00:54:32,500
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1021
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1022
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1025
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1026
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You

1027
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:13,200
Worship them for I the Lord in a jealous God and God will and jealous God the blah

1028
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:18,400
For I it's your ability to speak that impresses me the most. I know it's so bad tonight

1029
00:55:21,240 --> 00:55:27,820
Do you think it's strange that this is the longest commandment that's in Exodus, right? I don't think it's strange

1030
00:55:27,820 --> 00:55:29,820
No, no, very intentional. Oh

1031
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That wasn't the end of that sentence